Roof rack on a coupe?

I have a 94 Chevrolet K1500 and I'm used to just throwing my mountain bike and whatever else in the back of the truck. Now I'm tired of getting 13 mpg and I'm thinking about getting a Honda (ouch) or Acura. I've been looking at some Acura RSX's and they are coupes. I've seen some bike racks for the roof that are suppose to fit but I wanted to see if any of you have experience with carrying a bike on that car or one like it.

A friend had an Integra with a Yakima rack, not problems, but it will knock the gas mileage down a bit. I had a POS K1500, gald its gone, my Titan SMOKES it and its 17 to 18 hwy.....but we usually use the wifes Odyssey at 27mpg. Once you go Honda, you'll never look at another Chebby.

My truck has averaged 20 mpg on a trip before and has been a really good truck. If gas wasn't over $3/gal I wouldn't even think about selling it. I just know it's not going to come back down. I might hold out to $3.75 or $4.

You've had MUCH better luck than I or my friends wth the Chevy then, Mine maxed out at 15mpg, usually 13 hwy. and after a couple of trannys, alternator of the month club, several starters, TB problems, the AC was out again, rear end was making noise, extended cab lower section was starting to rust, not to mention the interior fall off, and was a dog on power......and everyone I know has had those types of problems with the 92-98s. I guess we just got a bunch of bad ones in the midwest. And Matts was bought back under the lemon law 6 months after be bought it.

I didn't have an RSX, but I had an Integra, 36mpg, damn fast, rock solid reliable. At the time it was just my wife and I so we used a truck rack, now wtih the kids, we haul 4 bikes and a cargo cart everywhere so we use a hitch mount rack or the bed of the truck, with the shell, they are nicely protected.

Mine is a 94. Sorry you had so many problems with yours! I haven't looked at Integras but I think I will check them out.

Acura now calls the Integra the RSX and TSX...coupe and sedan respectively. Still great cars. A friend bought an 07 Altima, very nice car, good perfomance, and he's getting 38 to 41 hwy, and its a decent size car. And I know what you mean by gas prices, its $3.15 here. But as a contractor, I need a truck that can pull and haul and a car just won't cut it. If I'm on a site that I can leave tools on, sometimes use the motorcycle to go back and fourth, 52mpg at 95mph. 44mpg in the city with a few wheelies thrown in for fun. Before the kids, and back when gas was under a dollar, I had a trailer for the motorcycle with bike anchors. We would load them up and ride to St Louis or Ill to ride bikes.

I understand. If my truck made me money I'd keep it. My first vehicle was a truck and that's just what I've always had. Gas wasn't too much over $1/gal when I first started driving though. It's a different world now. I can't just drive around in a truck to look cool like some rich rednecks do. I wonder if a roof rack will fit on a new honda civic.

I believe Yakima and Thule both make roof racks for Civics and Accords......very popular cars, if you keep cars, get Hondas equiped the way you want because you'll have it forever. I've usually had over 200k on them when I sold them and they were still running great, I know one was well over 300K after I sold it and still going strong. I've got a 95 Accord that has 160K right now, asside from recharging the AC, no repairs, still has the original tranny fluid. I change oil at 7500 miles per manufactures guidelines and it isn't low after that mileage......and its still getting over 30mpg hwy.

You drive a motorcycle at 95 mph??

Thats just cruising speed, if I have wide open road, 130. I maxed a friends bike at 174. The Integra would do 141....not with the bikes on it though. Highest I've hit on the Fuji is 56. I need to try a bigger hill.

You're as much of a ******* blowhard as I've ever seen on these forums. Brag, brag, brag, as everything seems to be a contest to you. Maybe you and JTE83 should meet and become friends. With all the **** measuring between you two, I'm sure a reach around would be imminent.

What's next? Why don't you tell us again about racing your mighty Nissan Titan around on city streets with your children in the backseat? It's all fun and games until you get in a wreck and die. Or worse yet, when someone else dies.

Seriously though, if you want to live your life like a nimwitted daredevil, I can't do anything about it. But I can and will complain every time you mention it on these forums.

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First off, bite me. And compared to most of the guys I know, I'm tame. And it was a comment on gas mileage, you have to have a point of reference to judge gas mileage. Travel across MO on I70, almost half are running 85to90. I'd rather die that way than scared of my shadow. Go crawl in a dark locked room, something could get you.

Yeah ScottyDog he was just trying to help. People do way more ridiculous stuff than that.

Hell, on the 75 corridor through GA, if your not doing 90 you'll get run over. Its insane from Macon to northern FL. So Trekhead, anywhere near Leesburg? A friends daughter teaches law down there.

I'm in Albany. Right next to Leesburg. They've almost grown together.