Posted on 01/20/2006 10:58:08 AM PST by RWR8189
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My mother bought the Honda. That car has some impressive pick-up.
Jetta TDI wagon... You get your box for stuff, great fuel mileage, and, just in case some punk in a riced-up civic shows up, it's got enough guts to leave the civic in a cloud of dust, er, diesel fumes....
And, it looks better than a Scion ;-)
The factory stereo in mine sounds even better since I hooked up a MP3 player DIRECTLY into the back of the CD head unit with an adapter from Crutchfield. Can definitely tell a difference in clarity and stereo imaging vs. playing CDs.
Quiet diesels suck.
Agreed. It's what annoys me about my truck's exhaust is that it is much too quiet for 300hp.
The technology to convert coal to diesel has existed since WWII. It's called coal gasification.
Nazi Germany ran their war machine on that diesel. And South Africa used to do the same.
And since America has some of the world's largest supplies of coal, what do we do?
Ignore it and buy $68 a barrel oil (which is a good deal higher than the break even profitability point for coal gasification).
Get a diesel VW Golf.
It's a hatch like the Scion xB, but with a lot more style, safety features, and interior fit and finish.
Plus a really, really, really great MPG... which you'll actually get in real world driving.
My '86 Honda Civic hatchback is running strong and well...I get 34 mpg and it was built in Ohio.
And it's been paid for since '91.
I would NEVER buy a supposedly-American piece-of-you-know-what!
No, No, No. The diesel VW Golf!
The Jetta wagon is just a Golf wanna-be.
:-)
No, Cicero...a FEDERAL tax is NOT the answer...
As to raising the price of gas...Iran will take care of that for us....
My concern would be: what happens when the batteries wear out? Guess one should trade it in after a couple of years.
We just need a few more nuke plants; problem solved.
mark
We're still riding the wave from WWII when huge investments in technology were made. New alloys, jet aircraft, rockets, atomic power, computers, so many things were invented for WWII. It's a shame it takes a war, the threat of our nation being destroyed, before we'll cut socialism and make huge leaps into the future. We're past due for a new wave.
Using biotechnology it may be possible to create a self-replicating organism that eats coal still in the ground and produces a hydrocarbon liquid or gas. There already is a microorganism that eats oil slicks. We have our starting point. A good thing about this approach is we have several hundred years worth of coal in North America. But it will probably require a war with China to spur us on. In 50 years the Arabs will be buying their oil from us.
Not a Golf wanna-be, it's the Golf stretched version! (In the original post, he mentioned being married and needing the room, so the 'stretched' version seemed more appropriate...) In the meantime, I still can't buy a new one in the Empire of New York... So the miles continue to add up on my '97....
Yeah...if you don't have a freakin' Excursion in front of you!!!
I don't question the right of an American to own one of those behemoths...I just champion my right to think they're jerks.
The reason they are now quiet is becuase they went to overhead cams.
The older V8 diesels in the GM and Fords rattled the same. The problem with V8s is that if you let them idle for a extended period they tend to mess with the intake manifold because they tend to cool and things like that. Then the torque on a V8 isnt good. I mean they get torque, but it takes two extra cylinders to get it.
I'll take an inline over a V8 any day...gas or diesel.
How much does it cost to replace the batteries? What price would you pay for a used hybrid knowing that you soon had to replace its batteries?
Hybrids were designed to be eco friendly, not fuel efficient.
When these things were on the Drawing board AllieGore was vp and the price of oil was under 25 bucks.
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