Bought the car used from a local in house financing car dealer (yeh, 20+%interest lol). Car looks to have once been in an accident, fitment wasnt exact on on any drivers side body parts, but not off by far at all. engine sounded a little tinny, but dunno if that's normal.
The only problems that have been noticed thus far is occasionally the check engine light will come on for no reason (with no loss in performance or anything) - so I just bought me an OBD code reader and tomorrow I hope to find out why.
The major problem I have is keeping the front wheels firmly planted. The car just has WAY too much low end - I would have given some of that up (I don't plan on drag raciong anytime soon) for a better top end. seems that near 4000 rpm is a bit high to be at when only doing 85 mph (comparing it to my old protege that barely broke 3000 at 90).
A really comfortable car, performance is off the wall with this baby. Handles extremely well. good look, distinctive and unique without being stand-outish.Installing aftermarket speakers looks like a painful process, no real play in the rear speaker wires (haven't pulled them yet to upgrade from their 20 watts to something a bit better that will compliment my 2200 watt system :) )
I would have liked a BIT more insulation in the doors and such to make the interor a bit quieter at freeway speeds.
Trunk space is really surprising for a car of this size. Seems that opening the trunk on it is opening the trunk on a 1966 Cadillac :).
Great gas mileage.
"capable of blowing off Hondas all day at the light."
Dear Sir Or Madam: You are dreaming, of course.
Normal people don't pull away from the lights at full throttle all the time, for the obvious reason that tyres and fuel economy suffer and it's hard on the car's drivetrain.
You will even "beat" a Porsche or Ferrari if the other guy isn't trying!
Grow up!
Let's see... you are beating on a car that you are financing at 20% interest, the manufacturer is out of business, and the value of your car is already next to nothing.
Have you ever heard the term "upside down"? (It means you owe more than the vehicle is worth)
I'm afraid you are not only upside down, but you're inside out too. I'd stop "racing" the car, you need for it to last
at least until you've paid off the loan.
I posted the original review the above comments are directed at... I raced off the line "blowing off hondas" when the hondas initiated the race the light before. Only once did I instigate a race, and that was against one of my co-workers with his 1985 z28. 4 times in a row, dead stop redlight to redlight I blew his doors off by at least 5 car lengths. the daewoo is soooo easy to get holeshots off of. I left him 4 times out of 4 smoking off his tires :) and "grow up" comments? I did grow up, I Didn't grow old. growing up doesn't mean putting away having fuin, it means accepting responsibility for your actions which I do. Finally in closing, I stoill use the car as a daily driver, 2112 miles + a month. only major repair was replacing the transmission after wearing the heck out of the main bearings in it hehe. I still race occasionally with it, and drive consistantly 80-90 mph to and from work and once a week I make a 3 hour trip to a friends place in the desert where I break the 120 mark a few times. my worst gas mileage was 24 and my beat was 42.
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