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new 2009 vibe owner here

Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 4:14 am
by bondo123
hello everybody, nice forum with a wealth of info, i just registered yesterday after running into the website a week ago, got my 1.8 base vibe on 7-30 trading in my beat up but beloved previa with the cash for clunker deal, so far 600 care free very enjoyable miles, i am going to baby it putting as little miles as possible on it, see it's such a good safe car i want to leave it to my girl who will be driving age 5 years from nowmine is a plain vanilla base with no power window, wife wanted to spend $6k more on an absolutely gorgeous white loaded GT, i opted to get the base as i am a cheapo and could not rationalize paying 60% more for luxury goodies, see if it were only me who drove it i would buy a 5 speed no air conditioning LOL to save even more, though i must admit i would crave for the GT if i got the dough, it's not like there were a lot of selection though all the 1.8L inventories were wiped out the first week of the clunker deal because there was a $4500 rebate vs. $3500 for the 2.4L, i had to drive 150 miles inland to get the deal, good news for GM is after the clunker deal and recent GM/EBAY promotion there are no more vibes left within 100 miles where we livefinally kudos to folks who build such a good car at NUMMI , they are only 20 miles from us, it's really sad to see them close down, good jobs like those are pretty hard to come by, best luck to them

Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 7:11 am
by Kincaid
Welcome to the site! I don't know how you could resist a white GT so you have my respect!What color?

Re: (Kincaid)

Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 7:30 am
by bondo123
thank you kincaid, mine is navy blue, how you like that color? i think mystic blue is more attractive though i haven't seen in person just photos, BTW yes that white GT is absolutely stunning, they had both a red and white GT, the red has been sold last week, i personally would choose white as red is too flashy for me, beautiful nonetheless, reminds me of the fiery red on the pontiac fiero, on the contrary i 've seen the 09 matrix GT equivalent just looking plain weird maybe even ugly

Re: (bondo123)

Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 7:43 am
by panchess
They quit making the Mystic Blue in late 2008, though it is a phemonenal color. One of the people at work has it. I like our steel blue one a lot, though.

Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 7:46 am
by Kincaid
Navy blue was my favorite color - second was silver, which I got. I do love white though. My Civic and Accord are white (though I like it less when they are dirty).I'm not sure I've ever seen the mystic blue in person.

Re: new 2009 vibe owner here (bondo123)

Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 8:38 am
by TONY TAT2
Hi !

Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:17 am
by ramenboy...
hey hey hey... welcome to the family! you're right this is a great site with great people. and alot of good infopost pics of the vibe when you can

Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:19 am
by lovemyraffe
Congrats & welcome!

Re: new 2009 vibe owner here (bondo123)

Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 11:49 am
by BlueCrush
Yet another C4C Vibe!!! Welcome to GenVibe!

Re: new 2009 vibe owner here (BlueCrush)

Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:31 am
by bondo123
hey bluecrush did you get your through C4C too ? since you are in snow country, are the vibes mostly AWD, or will FWD do, i am trying to drive to snow Nevada in winter , just wondering if my FWD will do, reviews i read say even the FWD will do because it has a very good tracking system, thanks