Since no one really hangs around here much anymore, I am probably just posting to hear myself post, but so be it... On May 3, I will take delivery of a 2024 Chevrolet Trax RS in Nitro Yellow Metallica. The Sonic had 18 payments left, but had 84,000 miles on the odometer and I was heading for the dreaded 1.4L blues... coolant diverter, thermostat housing, turbo and turbo oil cooler line failures were on the horizon. I went through all that shit with my '12 Cruze. The car was still fun to drive, ran well and still felt solid, but i am just ambivalent about the whole thing, so I saw the Trax while getting the oil changed and said fuck it. Why not?

it's an automatic which is blah, but trying to get a manual shift car was turning into an ordeal. Nuts and bolts- it's a 1.2L 3-cylinder, direct-injection turbo hooked to a tried n true actual 6speed automatic. None of this CVT kife. 137hp and some ridiculous torque figure. Somewhere, the ghost of the Geo Metro is laughing its ass off. But, hey if Toyota can get over 240hp out of a huffy-puffy turbo 3, why not GM? Yeah, I know...

Anyways... this is pretty much what it looks like.

Metallica is the new cool way to describe mustard?

Posted by RescueMe1060 Metallica is the new cool way to describe mustard?

it's been a long few days... i've never had so much anxiety buying a fucking car in all my life.

Should have just bought a Toyota!

Posted by gambino Should have just bought a Toyota!

G, have you tried to buy a new car lately? It's a frustrating affair. Ironically, two weeks after I bought the Trax, a Mazda dealer from Queensbury NY called me- they had gotten in a Mazda3 sport with a manual transmission.

the Trax is fine. to smack it out of the park would've been a manual transmission option.

post a real picture man

Posted by RescueMe1060 post a real picture man

it's too fucking hard to upload pics to fucking flickr...

lazy AF!!!

hahahah

I hate not knowing how large a car actually is now, since everything is a crossover. If you hadn't mentioned the Trax name I would've guessed something much larger.

Posted by RescueMe1060 lazy AF!!! hahahah

it's been kind of a long week with not a lot of sleep... my father passed away wednesday.

sorry.
[Personal] Trax_at_school(5-8-2023)(c) by Samurai Harris, on Flickr

[Personal] Trax_on_dock-morning(6-19-2023)(a) by Samurai Harris, on Flickr

[Personal] Trax_on_dock-morning(6-19-2023)(b) by Samurai Harris, on Flickr

[Personal] Trax-RS_in_village_at_night_5-27-2023(b) by Samurai Harris, on Flickr

[Personal] Trax-2015_2022_2024(6-6-2023)(c) by Samurai Harris, on Flickr

you own all 3 ?

I can safely say that I have not seen a Trax out here in the Bay Area they seem rare....yet again we are dominated by techies driving Tesla's

Posted by RescueMe1060 you own all 3 ? I can safely say that I have not seen a Trax out here in the Bay Area they seem rare....yet again we are dominated by techies driving Tesla's

the red 2015 is my mother's, the black 2022 is my oldest nephews and the 2024 is mine.

I am sorry for your loss brother,

Your ride looks good though, I know the wait times are crazy for Toyota vehicles. The used prices are crazy also.

Posted by gambino I am sorry for your loss brother, Your ride looks good though, I know the wait times are crazy for Toyota vehicles. The used prices are crazy also.

thanks, G. He died in his sleep. We think from a heart attack. It was a good thing, as fucked as that is to say, but the cancer shit show was about to really kick off. He was 72, would've been 73 in october.

as for the car, Toyota dealers were very hard to deal with and the three that I called were just, well, assholes over the phone, especially when I mentioned that I wanted a manual shift Corolla. They were adamant THAT I WOULD LOVE THE CVT! (eyeroll) Yeah, they were that pushy over the phone.

the Chevy experience was easy, my salesman a friend and from a dealer that I practically live at as is. Anyways, this is way more info than was needed, wanted or give a shitsky about. Sorry.

My past three Toyotas have been total disappointments. I think I'm over the brand (and even the parts staff at the dealers are arrogant pinecones). Unless I find a super clean '91-'94 Tercel coupe.



Sorry to hear about your dad, dude. That really sucks.

Posted by bandi My past three Toyotas have been total disappointments. I think I'm over the brand (and even the parts staff at the dealers are arrogant pinecones). Unless I find a super clean '91-'94 Tercel coupe. Sorry to hear about your dad, dude. That really sucks.

Thanks, Bandi. I appreciate that. I do miss him a bunch. That's for sure. And yes, toyota parts people are total douchecanoes. Your assessment of arrogant pinecone is too generous.


Back to the Trax, I found out some shit about the engine that has me less than fucking thrilled. It's a timing belt engine and is a wet belt, like that piece of kife Ford Ecoboost in the EcoSport. I didn't really want a timing belt engine... I just assumed that is was in the Ecotec family that it was yet another timing chain.

well, shit.

Posted by Samurai it's been kind of a long week with not a lot of sleep... my father passed away wednesday.

sorry for your loss, lost my mom in april so i feel for you.

as for your trax its a nice looking car, but after my experience with a chevy optra i wont be touching a daewoo for a while!

I like that color!

the mother in the new Barbie movie, I think, also drives this car. lol

Posted by RescueMe1060 the mother in the new Barbie movie, I think, also drives this car. lol

general motors is the unfortunate master of product placement...