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What do you base your purchases on...utility or design? Is function more important or eye appeal/style? Why?

Assuming you can't get both in one thing of course. If you can you do if you can't you can't.

Posted - December 20, 2018

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  • 17036
    Yep. Holden Colorado motor, designed for whatever SUV GM was building at the time. I have only owned a vehicle with a Holden motor once - a Corona with the above-mentioned Misfire power plant. Gave it back to the car yard after a week, got most of my money back.
    I did own a Holden Apollo but that is actually a Toyota Camry with a Holden badge on it. That was quite a good car until my daughter allowed a friend of hers a jump-start - and said friend reversed the polarity. The battery caught fire.
      December 22, 2018 10:12 PM MST
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  • 14795
    Why do they keep banging them out if they know they have serious design problems....why ruin your good name for just one peice of crap....? 
      December 22, 2018 10:17 PM MST
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  • 17036
    They aren't anymore, there are no production vehicles or engines currently being built in Australia. The last one built, a Commodore VF, rolled off the assembly line in Elizabeth, South Australia in October 2017. End of an era, General Motors Holden was an Australian icon and a major employer here.
      December 22, 2018 10:22 PM MST
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  • 17036
    Utility and price. If the cheap thing can't do what I need it to, I don't buy it. If the pretty, more expensive thing performs precisely the same function as the less appealing but cheaper thing, I get the cheaper one. If they're the same price - then and only then does what it looks like matter.
      December 22, 2018 8:10 PM MST
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  • 14795
    Fit for use is the most important thing I think...simple to use and ease of use ,plus reliability is a must before looks and aesthetic's....more so with any tools or functional things including cars... 
      December 22, 2018 8:50 PM MST
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  • 17036
    I take it that shoes don't count? (Lol)
      December 22, 2018 10:05 PM MST
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  • 14795
    They do when they are in Feet.....   I've tried counting mine.....I have far in access of four hundred pairs and any thing over twenty digits and I have to stop counting....:( 
      December 22, 2018 10:11 PM MST
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