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Thanks! I get comments often asking me to drive the speed limit in a video. I despise driving the speed limit because it uses more fuel and I don't like going that fast but for this one time on Christmas I made a video for you guys going faster. :-) Also 27 miles per gallon in a humongous SUV is pretty good. I don't quite understand why someone would get such a large SUV in the first place. Something like a station wagon would be better. Or a Subaru impreza. They get significantly better gas mileage. And are safer to others like bikers and people on foot. If they SUV hits somebody it's a lot worse than if a car hits somebody.

The main question is, does America really need small cars? I say, Yes! But the sales don't reflect it, sadly. Like, the Honda Fit, it is in my opinion the best overall small hatchback, seats fold flat, you can also fold them up so you can roll a bike into the back seat area upright, very good space on the inside, people say the Mirage needs more power, well, the Fit had more power too, and even a 130 HP 6 speed manual option.. And it still didn't sell good... Even with the Honda badge with absurd reliability and MPG! /;

You have a good point about the Versa. My worries with the Versa is the reliability, being it's a cheap car, it has cheap parts, and all those extra features which are cheap parts means more to break. Also the fact the CVT is the exact same between the cars, the less heavy less powerful Mitsubishi puts less stress on that very expensive part. MPG also, it gets 50+ MPG. The turning circle is tighter than a Mazda Miata. I recommend the hatchback over the sedan though, as the hatchback you can fit an absurd amount in it. The bottom trim level Mirage is $18,110, out the door after tax it was $19,951. So let's say $20,000. My mom bought the bottom trim Ford Maverick XL Hybrid, it was $27,000 out the door. That's a whole $7,000 more, for a worse turning circle, it's broke down 2 times, and broke 4 times so far, in 1/4 the miles the Mitsubishi has been around. It gets worse MPG too. It doesn't even have electric mirrors. The thing is, every car, you look at the price, and go "well, that one is only X amount more, I might as well get that one instead". And end up looking at cars like 3x the price of the one you started off looking at. The SE Mirage does come with quite a few of the features the SR Versa has though, it has auto high beams, auto wipers, remote start, push button start, leather seats which are heated, alloy wheels, lane keep monitoring, front crash mitigation too, but it also keeps it simple, it's a true, honest car. The Ford Maverick shows messages on the gauge cluster for quite a while once you turn the car on, if I want to see 1 screen, like tire pressure while pumping the tires up, it will cover the whole screen telling me the door is open, so I have to press "OK", to get rid of the screen, but then you close, and reopen the door, and that warning comes back. What really makes me annoyed is the fact it TELLS you when YOU buckled in! If you're buckled in, you know it! You don't need to tell me that I am! Yes, sure, tell me when I am not buckled in, I fully understand... But if I'm buckled in, don't cover the whole fricking dash telling me that! LOL. Maybe I just don't like all the tech, lots of people do. I drove the Ford 7,000 miles total, it was alright. It didn't get blown around as easy, only got 46 MPG on the highway at 60 MPH, VS the 60 MPG I get in the Mitsubishi at 55 MPH. It was more quiet, which I didn't care for, it turns out I need sound to make the drive more fun rather than feel like I'm playing a video game with the sound off. It just feels odd.

Another thing, according to some websites, the Mitsubishi Mirage is rated just as reliable as the Toyota Corolla, scoring a 4.5/5 on the Repair Pal website. And adding the fact it has a 100,000 mile warranty, it makes it even better. So: Less annoying features, turns easier, better MPG, more engaging ride, more reliable(?), cheaper, maybe easier to work on(?) it looks like it at least. Plus a slightly cheaper price tag. But it does miss some features the Versa has, but they aren't things you need either.

I do highly agree! People call me dangerous and a road hazard and annoying and a road rage inducer, ETC, for going 55, even 65 people get mad.. When I do the limit, people seem to get mad too it seems. 55 Is the best for MPG by far. (:

Nope. That was in the Ford maverick. But the video driving to Northern Nevada was in the Mitsubishi mirage.

Here is a 2500 Mile Road Trip in the Mitsubishi Mirage going to Northern nevada. th-cam.com/video/m8yfkZYa43k/w-d-xo.htmlsi=S1r_gaBuqUmMr5aO

@ Hey, thanks 👍

Test driving is good. I have no idea where the low power worries come from. I've drove it 35,000 miles, and very rarely floor it. I stay around 2,500 RPM when merging on the freeway, and 2,000 or less in town.

I drove it up and down mountains, all the way up to 10,500 feet above sea level. It did a great job! It's much faster than a semi truck. Just don't pull out right in front of fast moving cars. Wait till it's safe to turn onto a road, and that's all you need. Merging on the freeway is fine, it can go 70 MPH at only 2,300 RPM if you wanted to go that fast.

Thanks! 😊

Yup!

Mirage has already been discontinued, otherwise there would be a 2025 Mirage on the showroom. As for new entry level model, I really doubt it. Cheap entry level models make little profit for carmakers so they don't like to make it. Mitsubishi will be releasing new electric vehicles over the next 10 years but they will be much more expensive than a Mirage

@@johnkonde1975 I really hope there is an $18,000 electric car, maybe making 80 or 100 HP, right around there, with a solid ~180 miles of range, like the Bolt, but maybe smaller.

Dot forget a Corolla

I also recommend looking into a Toyota Yaris or Toyota echo. They are quite small as well and awesome. Why do you choose to drive something so large? At least in my mind it's kind of a waste in terms of money and also it can't fit in as many places. I live in Anaheim california. But I guess I have some sort of speech impediment of some sort I was in speech therapy for many years. I am a lot easier to understand now. :-)

@@extralock1045I love your accent. No problem understanding at all. I guess I never really considered it an accent, just a manner of speaking. 🙂

@@mattcatlover333 absolutely 👍🏾

@@extralock1045 oh wow! Thank you for sharing something so personal!

Yes! English is confusing! lol

@extralock1045 yes it really is, truly the hardest language to learn!

@@lone-wolf1248 I don't think it's the hardest. I think mainly it's just me struggling to word things together. Aren't there any languages much harder? Mandarin maybe

@extralock1045 well people from other countries always say our language is harder, so idk, i wouldn't know! LOL, I can barely speak too!

I've been considering getting that car, but I have a big mountain to climb over too, I'm surprised the cop didn't pull you over for going too slow! I guess it makes sense to go slow so the engine doesn't overheat, but either way it's working hard I would think.... Idk, sad that of course America always wants to get rid of items that are true good quality, everything is throw-away now, it's all about money!

Thank you! I tried to give as many details about the car as I can possibly give. I learned something new today when I reviewed a hatchback SE trim level. Apparently the center mirror on The roof actually can be automatic. I didn't know that. All the mirrors were manual dimming.

Thanks! I don't see many people showing what the SE trim level is. So I'm making sure to show what it is.

Thanks!

PS Rockauto sells them dirt cheap.

My car since about 2015 has had a horrible idle, it seems to idle too low, and it shakes the whole car violently, it makes my nose itch and I sneeze from it.. But it only happens in drive at a stop light. If I'm in park or neutral, it's nice and smooth. It's weird. Thanks for letting me know! ;p

Awesome!

I agree! Forest fires are a worry up there but that's about it. Do you like so much greenery?

@@extralock1045 I love greenery. I'd have a hard time living in the desert or in the rocky parts of the West.

Oops. Was the thing on the bottom right in the way?

@ I don't think so. Just kinda dark, and I was outside in bright sunlight

I replaced my oxygen sensor so I know it's not that one. But this is supposed to also clean the oxygen sensor from what I heard. Although I replaced the wrong oxygen sensor it seems. I replace the upstream when not the downstream one. So that's a fail on my part.

I don't see any reason why it's not allowed. It's the same thing as cataclean.

That is awesome! I'll look into it.

I enjoy making random videos. But I also make a not random videos at the same time. I'm almost making 14 videos a week between 3 channels. It's a lot.

That is awesome! What MPG do you get?

@extralock1045 between 35 to 48 on hwy

I don't know. I just heard it's something some people try so I gave it a try to see if it would get rid of the code. It didn't for me. I heard of this from another TH-cam channel called Scotty kilmer. It might work for some but it didn't work for me.

That's horrible! Is he doing okay?

@ Well, that was some years ago that he ran the ambulance in the mountains. Now he runs it in Atlanta. More gunshot victims than bad accidents. But not very many of either. Mostly things like strokes and heart attacks.

I agree with you agreeing to agree with me or something. Yes!

@ 😆

A transmission cooler is very handy on transmissions that get hot. Also changing the fluid every roughly 30,000 miles is also a great thing to do. Lots of people don't ever service them.

But then again the prices of other cars are quite a bit more. This is still by far the cheapest car on the market. There is the Nissan versa which is similar in price except they usually have markups. And they might be less reliable as well. I still think it's a good price for this car. I've had it for a year now and have 34,000 miles on it.

@ I’ve heard of people paying 18,000 bucks. Thats territory of nicer economy car’s. With discounts, a Versa is $15,000. A Sentra under $19,000. A little more and one is in a Corolla L.

@@djkenny1202 The Versa and this are quite nice! But there is the whole thing of, where do you stop going up in price? Corolla is 23,000, why not get the Camry for a bit more? Why not get the hybrid? It keeps going and going. The Versa is solid, so is the Mirage. I feel the reliability of the Mirage will be better.

@ the new Versa is even better, and I can’t say the prior was bad. I’d avoid a CVT in either car. The cost of Versa is 15k, a Corolla commonly $20,000. A Sentra, 19k sometimes less.

@@djkenny1202 The Sentra is alright, but it has the downside of being quite literally the maximum weight and HP that the CVT is meant to handle, so it's always pushed to the limit. 120 HP. It gets worse MPG too.

Awesome! Did you find any fire ants? What do fire ants feel like when they get mad? Have you ever experienced it? I've never got to feel one. I'm kind of happy about that.

@ I think every Georgian has experienced fire ants. They both bite and sting so you get a double whammy with each ant, and if not careful you can get covered quickly with dozens or even hundreds. Yea, I found about 5 mounds but it’s winter. In summer I’ve found up to 2 dozen. I feed them poison bait.

It is silent. But it also seems weird having a silent letter. I don't want to miss out on any of the letters so I try to say them all even if it sounds weird sometimes. But other times I forget about it. English is confusing sometimes.

@ 😆 You’re hilarious! We do that occasionally for fun.

Yes 💯

I think it should be a more popular thing to have brakes act differently when you're panic breaking. It seems like a good idea. :-)

I heard good things about that. I've heard of that and seafoam.

I agree! On flat surface, it's amazing, up hills, it's not that good.

That is neat how we can lose, and re-find the same car without even trying. (: Good night!

That's awesome! Does she notice any more wind noise or less MPG doing that?

@@extralock1045 I don’t think so. I’ll ask. I don’t think she monitors her mpg.

Yes!

Yes! ;o

Nick ( Big bear weather and more ) also makes long videos like I do. Lol.

I have made 1 video, it was shorter, I don't remember which it is, but I did drive the speed limit, 70 MPH. I got 43 MPG and quickly slowed back down because I didn't want to hurt the MPG a lot. The car can go 70 MPH, it sits at around 2,300 RPM, and up hills around 3,500 to 4,000 RPM.

I won't drive above the speed limit though, it's there for a reason. It doesn't make sense to speed, or even go that fast, it puts a lot more stress on a vehicle going that fast, and uses a ton more fuel, even in our V8 F150, going 55 MPH I get 26 MPG, going 70 MPH I get about 16 MPG. That adds up quick.

Not that I know of? If you want, you can get a speeding ticket even in Texas with a speed limit of 80 MPH, or a speeding ticket in the 85 MPH toll road, or go fast enough to get arrested if I'm not mistaking that's 15 over, the car can go 105 MPH, so that's 20 over.

We didn't?

@ skipped right over

@@carhoarder602 Weird!

Wow! That is awesome!

Thanks! I am not sure what I am doing wrong, I don't know why it is doing that, maybe I need a different camera setting? I use my Samsung J7 for the dash camera, then my Samsung A71 for the gauge cluster. It probably should be the J7 for the gauge cluster, and A71 for the dash camera, since the A71 is more fancy.

I started the stop watch at Camp Rock Road turning left onto CA-18, not the Mitsubishi plant. The 18 is very steep, I am only able to make it to about 15 MPH in the steepest parts, sometimes 20, it's very steep! When it gets more flat with the area where people can pass, I get up to around 45 or 50 MPH. Then going back up hill again towards the top it's closer to 25 to 30 MPH.

You are correct! Highway 38 seems the safest, just be carful down before, and slightly after Angeles oaks, those corners catch me off guard sometimes, I go to fast down the hill! LOL The 18 from the back side is nice, but it's a real struggle up the hill, it's what, a 12% grade? It's absurd! 330 Is the fastest though, then the 18 is the 2nd fastest. The 18 is quite neat how it has so many passing lanes on the way up.

Thanks! My channel "lock dot 2" actually is monetized, I make a whopping $12 from 50,000 views a month. Lol. Not much. I made shorts, I should have made 16x9 videos instead. It's okay! ;p Anything is a bonus over nothing. I do this for fun, it's fun reading the comments.

Alright, from my understanding, let's say you play the song Hotel California, it will be demonetized. But you can play it for like 3, or 5 seconds and it's fine. The best thing to do is to not use copyright music, which TH-cam actually has a library of 1,000's of copyright free music. How I play the music in the background is from a 2 hour video I posted it's a time lapse driving 2,500 miles to northern Nevada, and to Mammoth as well. It works good but it sadly has ads so I keep having to skip the ads on my video.. It's annoying. 2,500 Mile video: th-cam.com/video/m8yfkZYa43k/w-d-xo.html Copy right free music from TH-cam: th-cam.com/users/audiolibrary

Dual recording! ;o I think that would be a fun thing to try some day. I like long videos, but I don't like long videos with ads in the middle.. This channel isn't monetized, but my other 2 are. When I'm monetized I can turn off mid-roll ads, but how it is now, TH-cam just randomly ads them and I don't even get paid for them. I want none of them so the video is even better in the background! Someday maybe it will let me turn them off. ;p

I thought it was the I-10 to the 330? I think that's what I did. I think the 210 also meets the 330, right?

I mentioned you in the video comments saying to go check your channel out, as I can't make nearly as quick updates up there as you can, being I have a full time job, and a part time job (TH-cam), and have doctors and other things and live 100+ miles away. That would be awesome if we could meet up! Highway 330 is a mysterious highway to me. I try to avoid it. Crowds aren't for me, busy roads aren't either. But it is a nice scenic road!

I am doing great today! How are you?