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ok well im looking to buy my first car now, looking mainly at an eclipse wish i could get a 3000gt but the insurance is killer on that ****. so i found a pretty bare stock 00 eclipse gs. basically im just wondering if you guys would recommend this car as a first car. its automatic and the guy said it was tiptronic but ive never heard of an eclipse having tiptronic do some of them come with it? i dunno also hows the trunk space on this car? i got a nice sized sub im gonna pop in there if i wind up getting it. here is a pic of it i havent gone to check it out yet but hopefully will this weekend.

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well its not the fastest car you could be buying and i know that my buddy had problems with his, but i think that his was just defective, LOL, how many miles and how much are they asking. Also if you are looking to get into cars you might want to get a standard. This would be a good car to learn on. Also i don't see how the insurance on a 3000gt is going to be alot higher than an 00 eclipse because they are older, true they are more rare but i don't see the insurance being that high. Are you just going on what you think or what your heard.

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actually i checked it out, 3000gt would cost me 3600 a year on insurance cuz my mom is making me get the "recommended" amount and i gotta pay it, all my buddys have minimum and there insurance is like 1200-1500 but i guess its better in the sense that i have way more coverage. the eclipse is like 2600, the reason for the 3000gt being higher is cause its way faster Fast car + new driver= high insurance. but whatever. i actually went to go check out that car this afternoon and its been in an accdent and considering that the guy is asking too much he wanted over blue book it had 72k miles but he wanted 8500. i found another one though this ones black and its also a gs v4 has 82k miles but they only want 6995 and well that seems more resonable so i will see. i just kind of like the body style of this eclipse. i think it has a smoothness to it especially for the price. plus enough trunk space for my sub and amp. i need my bump lol.

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depends if you're looking for looks or performance.....or reliability

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I think any car that runs and is mechanically sound is a good first car for anyone. My first one was an 89 Honda Civic station wagon.

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Im just curious on what your gonna try to "learn on" with this car? If you wanna put money into the car, and "learn on" working on it to get a fast car, then I wouldnt suggest it, because your gonna have to stick 2 much money into it to make it fast... Its more practical if your looking for something with just the looks/insurance and don't care 2 much about the performance... So please explain what you mean by "learning on"...

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Ok I have to say the GS is and I4 not a V4;) but that aside it is a great first car and they are very reliable other than mine which was just beat to death from day one.

Tearstone sells turbo kits for them for $4500 or something around that and it will get you 300ish WHP and will be a pretty fast car considering. Id say go for the GS for your first car because a fast car for a new driver most of the times means bad things.

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I wouldn't recommend the 00 for a first car but I do aggree with TheAdvocate, what exactly do you mean by learning on, one oof my friends had one and he didn't like it... i drove it once and I didn't like it either but is all a question of reliability..... so i would use you beas tjudgement...

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Haha...oh man...without any accidents or tickets on my record, if I was on my own for insurance, getting my 3000GT SL insured would be on average $3,500 for 6 months. I did my research before buying my car.

Yay for family insurance plan! We pay $100 a month for three cars lol.

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something is wrong with that picture. my EVO cost me 3600 a year in FL. prob half that in Mass. I am 21 with 1 ticket at 17 years old and one at 20 no accidents

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I dunno, bro...just spittin' back numbers I got, for ya.

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True Dat!

My first car was a 93 Del Sol.

I grew up in a town where all the little richy kids got BMW's and Lexus' and Porshe's as first cars and I got a dinky little honda. But looking back i'm happy. I learned to drive stick on that car, i learned how to handle a car, learned how to correct my stupid driving with that car, and i learned how to work on it. I haven't had a single accident yet ::knock on wood:: while i know many a kid who crashed his bmw, a chick who blew her boxter's engine twice, etc etc etc. sure, it isn't the ffaaassstest car, but that will work out for your advange in teh future. get a slower car to start with and then, after you get 100% comfortable driving, get all of your "stupid-new-driver-drifts-spins-etc" out of the way, upgrade and get a fast car. My kids are going to HATE me. LOL

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I feel the same way... My first car was a 86 4runner that was rotting threw the floor but it was awsome lol. I was such a stupid driver when I got my lisence I didnt grow out of it untill I was about 19 lol.. I used to do donuts roll backs burn outs almost crashed my 4runner like 100 times being stupid driving in the woods with out the 4wd on and spinning out almost wrapping around trees and stuff. then in 2001 I got my eclipse and thought the 4G64 was so fast...I was such a stupid ricer I bet I got laughed at:eek:

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hahaha ya, know the feeling.

Honda with stock steelies with Intake and exhaust. can anyone say ricer? I was so close to getting underglow. thank god i didn't LOL

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I wanted Vynls at one point on my GS when I first bought it:eek:

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i actually never wanted those. wanted tinting though

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ya but tint is taiste full. well again I had ricer tint Mirror fade lol just look at it with the ugly tails the third brake light chromed out and the nice painted interior:eek: at least after I got the rims and lowered it the car looked good to me
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ah the memories of that and the tiburon...haha. Those were the days

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Ya John check out my dads F150 in the backroud and the LHS thats how you know it was a long time ago

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that's not to bad. i like the 3gs. wish they had Turbos stock though.


OH The Good Ol' Days. When reaching 110 horsepower was exciting

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I did notice the LHS i forgot all about that car. haha just cuz i only really remeber the sebring. But i remeber when they first got it and we sat in the back sitting up and being like "yaaaa were on a roller coaster" haha. Or how about test driving a 3g spyder and desperatly trying to get it to chirp, haha.

Poot i think that would have been a pretty cool car to drive being young. The one thing i like about those cars is the top down!!

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ya the top down was pretty sweet. plus the back window rolled down. now that was engineering at it's best. i will admit that i did love that car, jsut wish it had enough get up to get up to actually get up to freeway speeds w/o having to rev 2nd and 3rd gear to 5 rpms. [:o]
Oh well. I kinda miss her though, i could park anywhere and got around 34 mpg adverage!! i reaaaally miss that the most.

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yea now you are lucky if you get 23 mpg. haha but you can at least make it up those highway ramps

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ya, and there's this area on our Highway 5 called the grapevine. It's BIG hills, ups and downs. now i can do it in 5th gear no problem. before i had to shift down to 3rd once in a while. lol