Sorry to hear about the loss of a liked car. Glad to know you are ok. And shocked to hear one of those made it to that many miles!

That is repairable, you just have to have the money and right repair shop. Very glad to know that neither of you were hurt. Let your insurance company 'discuss' things with her company. "What do you want?" "I want it back like it was before she plowed into me." "Uh-huh, how about a replacement car, same year, same model (but its Mary Kay pink,. watch out for that.)

The Titanic, in it's current condition, could be repaired.. technically speaking. The amount of money needed to do that would far exceed the cost of building 60 new ones though. This car is the same way. Sure, it could be patched for a few thousand but it would be far from right. For the same money I can buy an unwrecked one with far fewer miles. The electrical system is basically ruined as all of the fuse boxes for body and engine management are scrambled up in the mass of crushed metal. The front end is shoved over two inches at least which means the passenger side fender is overlapping the door and the driver's side rear quarter panel is about half an inch away from the rear bumper. That means the unibody frame is bent like a banana if looked at from above. Repairable, yes. Affordably so? Likely not. I'm a mechanic by trade so, yeah.

Sad you are not closer there is one just like that one here for sale around the corner...its white though....

That's gotta be the saddest thing I ever saw.

OHHHHHHNOOOOOOOOooooooooooo...

*hugssssss...

V.

My most favorite car I've ever owned. Fast, comfortable, solidly built and still got 20mpg driving 80 all day long.

crap - I have a 4 cylinder mini-van and that's all I get for mileage...

V.

Gasoline has only so much energy. A 4,000lbs vehicle requires x amount of energy to move it at 70 mpg no matter what size engine, a smaller engine is more efficient getting it to 70 mpg at the expense of acceleration so basically a V8 driven like it was a 4 cylinder will get about the same gas mileage. Cutting the weight of the vehicle gains a much better mpg for either engine but the weight of the v8 becomes a factor so a smaller 4 cylinder makes sense and can have the same performance as the v8 with better efficiency at the expense of size and interior room. Unfortunately, people designing vehicles will stick a smaller engine in a heavy vehicle thinking it will get better gas mileage but you will end up flooring the throttle just to keep up with traffic and use nearly the same amount of fuel. They started putting V6 supercharged engines in heavy vehicles again thinking it would improve mph but in reality it gets the same gas mileage as a v8. Putting a 3.8L v6 with a supercharger with 8 psi boost is basically using the same air and fuel as a 5L v8 so it gets the same mileage with a bit of weight savings but has more things to go wrong.

I owned (way way back when) a 1970 Ford Maverick. It was the best and most simple care ever having a straight 6 160 Cubic Inch engine with a three on the column standard transmission. Even back then I was getting 27.5 mpg AT 75 mph. The only thing they have really improved is engine reliability. Back then you had to do a tune up every 8000 miles or so. I tell the kids at work driving the supercharged rice burners at work about things like that and they laugh.

V.

(raises a glass)

Hold on...you were still able to drive it home?

Wow...

Pity it's a write off now...

Aww Geeze. Yeah. I'm glad no one was hurt in the mishap.