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Old 09-25-2005, 09:52 PM
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Talking Re: 2OO4 Pontiac Grand Prix

Hey that is the car that I have . I just bought mine used with 48,000 miles on it. The 04<+ have a engine timer on them and taking the mileage dividing by the time on the eingine the average speed was 49 mph... So i knew that the dealer was not lying to me when he said highway miles Good thing to check! BUt as far as the car goes do a search on my posts and you will see all I had to say about the 04 GTPs. The dislikes and likes. The car is really fun to drive! the TAP shifter works REALLY well. I have read that car magizines really like this one as opposed to other manufactures in that it actually shifts when you tell it to! I use it alot where I live. There is many hills here and I use it to down shift unstead of riding my brakes. It really works great for this. I find straight out runs it is better to let the auto do its thing, but winding roads are really fun with the TAP. The car really handles well,, and if you do push it too much the comp G traction control takes over quite well... I ALMOST rear ended a fool that was at a complete stop over a hilly turn and cut the wheel soooooo hard with max brake that if I was not in this car I know the rear would have broke and I would have slid out into him! THe traction control display came on and it took over the braking to prevent this! Also this traction control will allow wheel spin in a standing WOT start without taking over too soon, which I like, but if you are in a turn doing this it will take over sooner. I bought the extended warrentee on mine and LATER found out that on average they break even at about $800 per warrentee. I paid the 1700! Try to get that down if you can. Unless your credit is just terrible you should be able to get the GMAC 4.9% like I did.... Good luck!
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