Posted on 04/14/2005 2:25:36 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
And here I was thinking of getting something smaller for my commute into work. After seeing what even just a motorcycle can do to one of these mini-cars, I think I'll keep my Durango.
That's hard hitting and true.
I love it when they take their frameless, lightweight compact car and say "With airbag". (sarcasm)
In Europe there are so so many of these communist cars. They all seem to have them. They are the new Trabants and Ladas of the semi socialist Europe where big government thinks for the people by eliminating freedom through taxation (But technically, it's not illegal- you just can’t afford it as a normal person). I’d feel guilty if I stuck my wife and daughter in such a car on the Autobahn or Highway.
I have a friend in Fairbanks who hit a Moose on the Main Highway between Eielson AFB and Ft. Wainwright. He threw the Moose 40 feet (He was speeding a bit) and that animal was HUGE! He had the biggest Ford SUV built (Excursion?) and it was totaled. NO ONE in the car was hurt.
Red6
Buy both. A Duramax V8 diesel Hummer H1 is a great utility vehicle for the special occassions. A gas-sipping Prius is great for a daily driver.
My lesbian friend drives a Matrix. I think the point might hold up ;P
Need more data samples I guess...
If the electric portion of the hybrid is flexible enough to completely control the engine RPM by controlling the load, you could even use the dual-fuel diesel. Which, the book said 50 years ago, might be the most efficient practical thermodynamic cycle.It consists of a diesel engine with a lean carburator, which requires a pilot charge of diesel to ignite the main charge of gas. Runs smoother than the diesel, but can't be throttled and must be controlled by main force through its torque loading.
While Rush defends SUV's and those who buy them, I don't believe he has told his listeners to go buy the biggest SUV.
The irony is that the SUV caze was driven by the liberals and their attack on cars with, in their opinion, poor gas mileage.
If they would have left it alone people would be driving cars getting better mileage that the SUV's. In classic overreach they got laws passed requiring cars to get better mileage (smaller cars) but the people didn't want to buy smaller cars, so they bought much larger SUV's that were classified as trucks and were not required to meet their mileage requirements.
In my opinion, the Hummer has replaced the Corvette as the #1 small penis car. Everyone who owns has to tells us how big and powerful it is and how it drive over small cars. I wonder what Freud would say?
In the interest of full disclosure I drive the following:
2000 Honda CBR 600 F4 Motorcycle - Track / Group ride toy
2001 Honda S2000 – It’s my weekend / track car. It has about 1000 track miles on it (@ Summit Point.) You’d have to gather about 500 SUVs to equal that in off road miles.
2005 Honda Civic Si – My Daily driver. My last tank yielded 28+mpg
I'm confused. She buys it for around $20k and is selling it for $15k. According to my elementary school arithmatic, she is selling the car for LESS than she paid for it, not more.
To me if Saudi Arabia is given a card blanch to build thousands of mosques and preach hate against us in our own country, and we are forbidden from building even one single church in that country, you tell me who is the bitch in this relationship.
Fours years old with 19K, does she live in Pasadena?
That's fine. Too bad your side impact stats on the Prius suck.
You replaced the differential in the S2000 yet? ;)
Honda has a much better idea on hybrids. It must be a usable car first, a hybrid second. The Civic and Accord hybrids are actual cars, and you can't tell them apart from their conventional siblings if you take the sticker off.
The Insight has the same problem - it's a hybrid first and a car second. Honda has remedied this with the Civic and Accord hybrids.
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Same here. The Accord Hybrid will be my....er...I mean, my wife's next car. I get the hand-me-downs.
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