So as much of you know, I've been trying to convince my fiancee to get a less "boaty" car.

After finding that the Avalon needed about 3k in maintenance/repairs, she finally decided to cut her losses. It served us well, and we had only put 80k on it.

Now onto the new car. She fell in love with the new CR-V after a test drive, but the local dealerships didn't have the color/trim we wanted, so we drove a couple hours away and got a great deal. 2k off MSRP, plus 500 for being a recent graduate, so we basically paid invoice for the car.

It drives great, and the CVT is actually a lot better than expected. we picked it up last week, and we've put 400 miles on it already. I do wish I could have gotten her into the EX-L for leather, dual zone HVAC, and XM, but she's happy, and that's all that matters.

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Don't mind the neighbors shitty looking house

 

Congrats
Nice one

The rear chrome reminds me of Texas long horns

I like the Ford F-150

Looks like you bought it from our vicinity

 

yea, her uncle in Thousand Oaks had a buddy at Galpin, so we decided to go that route. Great experience. The car was already detailed prior to our arrival. Paperwork took minimal time..it was all very painless. The only thing that took some time was getting them to come up on the Avalon.

 

Awesome

I took my uncle shopping for crv
He liked mission hills as they were cheapest

But yesterday after looking around he got a Prius v instead. Msrp 29700, paid 23100. Frontier

 

A buddy of mine bought a CRV a few months ago. He and his wife love it. I don't think you can go wrong in any way with one of these for a family vehicle. Congrats!

 

Dayum. He got a great deal @2012

 

I contacted 13 local dealers . This had the best. The car I was drooling over in their lot (only one they had, $78,000 white land cruiser)... Some day ....

Do you know if the crv have the oil burning issues the tsx does ?

 

The dealership in a Santa Maria has a gorgeous white Land Cruiser in the back. They said it was a special order..

as far as oil burning issues, I haven't heard of any issues.the only issue we have is a vibration issue when stopped at a light. I guess it's a common issue, but it doesn't bother us. I guess Honda is already looking into a fix.

 

nice job on the CRV but I can't believe you needed $3K to repair a car with 80K on the odometer, I didn't put that kind of money into my 530xiT until it had over 140K on it.

 

It needed a new power steering rack, tires, windshield, and a few other maintenance items. The rack itself was 1500. We had just gotten the brakes done too.

 

Did you guys buy Avalon new or was it a family hand me down ? Reason I ask is you or the wifey don't seem in avalons 65 + demographic

 

It was her grandma's car. Her grandma stopped driving, so it was given to us in 2011 with only 14k

 

Love the new CR-V. Congrats!

 

Makes perfect sense that's usually the story of any young person driving an Avalon

 

Except for a buddy of mine, be bought an 08 for his wife. He said he feels like a businessman whenever he drives it.

Except his wife is Asian, and she's done her share of damage to that poor car

 

Interesting

I feel most of us Asians who want the big car has a Lexus LS.


None of us consider the Avalon that I know

 

It was a great highway cruiser car.. hell, we got 33mpg on the way to Vegas, but it's just boring.

When my fiancée told me that she wanted to look at the new style Avalons, I damn near lost it

for the price of a new loaded Avalon, I'd spend a little more and get a Lexus GS

 

Nice pick up Bryan, like I said the other day.

The CVT isn't that bad...

 

Very nice. Can't go wrong with a CR-V. Great cars. All the best luck with it!

 

Nice choice. Love Honda's LaneWatch feature. It makes parallel parking so much easier.

Enjoy.

 

Nice.

It looks better than RDX!!

 

That does look better than RDX.

Congrats man!

Love how the START button is red on that thing too.

 

Congrats!

 

It's that type of thrill.. Oh wait, wrong brand

Thanks all for the complements. I like it a lot more than I thought I would. It may see it's first road trip at the end of the month. We may go to Disneyland for that 24hour thing they have going on.

 

Oh yeah!? Make some time to get kbbq together man.

 

I'm in. I love KBBQ

 

Nice CRV in white. Congrats

I don't know how many AZ members have bought a CRV, this is mine:

 

Most az members naturally seem to own Rdx or mdx

Though I think the new hrv with manual transmission is fantastic

 

^no fog lights MSZ?

 

This is the Canadian SE model, a model below EX, so no fog lights, sunroof, leather steering wheel and blindspot camera.

 

Ah, I just noticed you were in Toronto.

 

Hit 1k miles today. Averaged 32.5mpg after a 155 mile drive. Not too bad.

 

A bit late...

Congrats, dude!

 

Congratulations!

 

crazyasianTL...congrats on the fiancee's new CR-V! I really like the cosmetic refinement they have done of this MY, especially the front treatment! I can't say enough good thing about the choice for the exterior color....If she has as good taste in men as in her car colors, then you are a GREAT man *lol*

So congrats on your CR-V and your 'getting married' part....

 

Nice..
CVT

 

Those damn unreliable toyotas...glad you bought something better.

 

 

thank you sir.

It's not that bad...it actually has more pep than the '14, but they did add more torque

it was one of the most reliable cars we've had. All we did up to this point was oil changes, tires, filters, and front brakes. Since it needed everything at once, we jumped on the opportunity to get something while it was still worth something.

My old 89 Yota had 230k.. all I ever did to it was replace tires and the clutch. It was the perfect truck. I wish I still had it.

 

When Bryan starts making the big monies. He will have the CR-V, Accord sport 6MT and a Tacoma..



I was wondering the same thing when that was posted about Toyota's not being reliable.