MJinZ
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Can't see the pic, but there is no reason your wife or husband should ever drive your car. Just own a garage with 2 spaces and voila. Separate cars.
Tragic.
I made my last few GF's learn manual. hah
Can't see the pic, but there is no reason your wife or husband should ever drive your car. Just own a garage with 2 spaces and voila. Separate cars.
Strange, pics.bbzzdd.com. Anyways, that's about the message it conveys.
It's like, do you let other people use your shoes? Underwear?
If not, the same applies to the car. :awe:
I'd go for it and get a manual too. One of my biggest regrets in life was buying an automatic pony car. The only thing the back seats are good for are little kids? My 4th gen has baby seat mounting brackets on it.
The Camaro is winner, no doubt. I agree with the others in that now is the time to buy one, or else you'll be waiting until your kids are in college. Also, I don't think the 2-door/small backseat will be an issue until your kids are out of car-seats, which would be how many years from now? Since you're not even expecting, at least 4 years? Even then, their legs are skinny enough I don't think it'd be a problem for awhile.
Also, I don't think the 2-door/small backseat will be an issue until your kids are out of car-seats, which would be how many years from now? Since you're not even expecting, at least 4 years? Even then, their legs are skinny enough I don't think it'd be a problem for awhile.
It's pretty much just the opposite - kids that climb in and out of the car on their own are fairly easy to get in and out of the car. Getting a bulky child seat in and out with a kid in it is when it's a pain in the ass.
Lol, I think you're a bit over the top, don't you think. Obviously it's not a family vehicle by any means, but if you can have a car seat in that stays in, and you're only using it on those rare occasions that the regular family vehicle isn't available for whatever reason, I think it's do-able. My bro-in-law has young ones with a Ford Probe and used the vehicle in just that fashion. Was it as easy as a mini-van? No. Did the kids suffer irrepairable brain damage? Umm... no.You *obviously* have not used any modern forward facing car seats/infant carriers. These things are HUGE. Your kid is going to be in one of them for the first 9-12 months. These things are over 2'x2' by almost another 1.5'...and have a handle that gets in the way. Trying to shoehorn that out of a backseat of a normal sedan can be a challenge some days. Doing it in a cramped coupe would be a punishment.
And then when the kid is big enough to go forward facing you are trying to get a 15-30 pound lump of dead weight that is 2.5 to 3.5 feet tall under the roof but then up and over the edge of the seat without trying to either give them irreperable brain damage by banging their head against the roof or without rupturing a disk in your back hunching down and twisting to get them in there. You'll be doing this until they are 80 pounds..or able to crawl back there and buckle themselves in...whichever comes first.
Again...that's hard enough to do with a normal four door sedan/SUV. A coupe would misery.
Why would you be bringing the childseats in and out? I guess I'm assuming you're not going to keep pulling it out and putting it back in everytime to buckle your kids in.
I'm talking about a rear facing infant carrier. Lots of people have the ones with interchangeable bases where you can switch it in and out of cars without hooking it up each and every time. Plus they work as..well...an infant carrier and also snap into a stroller (which is also about the size of giant golf bag). Those come out (or usually) come out every time you pull the kiddo out of the car.
As for the other seats, the newer ones are pretty freaking big with arms/cup holders, ect and car roofs are getting more and more raked for the sake of looks (rather than function). Trying to manuver a three foot tall wriggling midget under the roof and over the sides of the seat can be very awkard with a normal opening door. Trying to add the complexity of doing that with it being a row behind you would be an even bigger pain.
I have no doubts that it can be done. I just would have no desire to do it on a semi-regular basis.
1. That's how these child seats work - you put the kid in the seat and then the seat in the car. It's also worth noting that the bulk of rear-facing child seats may barely even work.
The only carseats I've dealt with (nieces and nephew), the child was the only thing coming out of the car, so that's what I'm thinking of. Arms? Cupholders? If that's what your dealing with, I see where you're coming from
My MIL recently bought a silver V6 auto 2010 camero, and I've gone for a ride in a few times. It does get the looks...but from a practicality standpoint it makes no sense. It didn't seem slow to me (I'm the wrong guy to ask though). A few things left me scratching my head, like the need for the seats to move back for you to get out, and the automatic windows that roll down slightly when the door is open to make for the bad seal that happens on those frameless windows. That said, it has a cockpit like a spacecraft with ass hugging seats and the styling in nice, like a match of speed and tank like toughness.
I have other considerations when buying something like that up here, our roads are terrible and it snows all the time making that kind of car impractical beyond its limited passenger capacity, cop attracting nature and likely more expensive parts.
I don't know your situation, but I'd never buy that thing if I was planning on having a baby soon.
Get the V8 with the manual, even if the wife disagrees, make her agree. It's just one of those things you have to man up for.
I am not sure what to do. I really like the car.
I am thinking of just pulling the trigger (my wife wants to start trying for kids this December...) and the consequences be damned.