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Is it worth it?
The dilemma at hand is a 98 Plymouth Neon. I'm wondering if it's worth it to soak any sort of dough into it's future. To some this may be funny. Cause they say "Come on, it's a neon." But when I hear that, I just look at some of the cars on Pimp my ride, I think there are far worse cars I could put money into. And besides, I want to be a little different from those in the Asian Rice rocket crowd. I kind of want to pull up to them one day and just blow them away.=p But for the meantime I'll tell you were I am at with the car.Right now it has about 110,000 miles on it and is actually running better than when I inherited it from my Mom. The new plugs, wires, high mileage oil, Pep boys futura tires, struts, alignment and a recently purchased Suspension techniques sway bar seem to have already made some improvements to the car as a whole. Seeing as it's had this much work and money into it already, I'm debating it's potential gains for the costs over say the purchase of a newer neon with less miles. I've read that the second generation has a more refined engine, a longer wheel base and smoother ride and I''ve read the first generation has sharper handling. Are the engines really that much different internally? I think I want to keep the Neon I got and upgrade it if the engines aren't so different. That and I think it would be fun to make heads turn at the sound, look and capabilities this little car can do. I've seen it on Speed channel with the second generation. I figure why not do it with the first. Whoever reads this, let me know if you think I'm just a bumbling idiot or if I've got something going here...
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02-15-2005, 02:35 PM
