Recommend a Deerfoot commuter car

[Hallowed_point]

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Same way I got the lancer. Rental guy said "what do you drive", I replied "2011 BMW 535" and he said "oh, a BMW guy, I know the perfect car, great handling rally car..." I was seriously like WTF but it was that or a minivan. I drove the lancer for two days until the could swap it out for a CTS. And that was in 2015 and I remember thinking the lancer was crap and felt like a really old car to drive. And I think they are still basically the same car.

lmao we must have had the same rental guy. Was it through Intact? Enterprise I think.. he tried to say a lancer is a midsize car.
Pretty sure that's a compact sedan.

[NissanFanBoy]

Dodge Darts haha, I still remember this dumb chick a couple summers ago in what looked like a brand new top of line one trying to pull on me in my stock G37x sedan, boy was she frustrated. I wasn't even going very fast either, this was going up the hill on Sarcee in the north.

Went home and looked up the specs on those things and laughed my ass off. Guess they're every bit as shitty as the original Dodge Dart.

[NissanFanBoy]

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Same way I got the lancer. Rental guy said "what do you drive", I replied "2011 BMW 535" and he said "oh, a BMW guy, I know the perfect car, great handling rally car..." I was seriously like WTF but it was that or a minivan. I drove the lancer for two days until the could swap it out for a CTS. And that was in 2015 and I remember thinking the lancer was crap and felt like a really old car to drive. And I think they are still basically the same car.

Rented a car in Florida a couple years ago...guy tried so hard to sell me on the Altima Coupe with "way more power". Because I'm a Nissan fan boy I took it. They gave me a 2.5 litre with the CVT I suppose it was better than the Kia Rio I had reserved though...

[jwslam]

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guy tried so hard to sell me on the Altima Coupe with "way more power". Because I'm a Nissan fan boy I took it.

Username does not disappoint

[Xtrema]

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Why are we recommending such crap cars? Lancers & Darts?

Because OP wants good mileage and AWD beater that's relatively cheap to maintain?

[Neil4Speed]

I would highly recommend the boring old TLX V6 SH-AWD for this purpose. Cheap to maintain, quiet, comfortable, all the features you are looking for and ridiculously good gas mileage. On the highway I generally get 6.5L/100km, sometimes lower. The SH-AWD is great in the winter.