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Honda Insight Hybrid [American Drivers Get Ready]
Sunday Times (London) ^
| May 17, '09
| Jeremy Clarkson
Posted on 05/23/2009 1:04:17 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
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Obama, de facto CEO of GM and Chrysler, and his Congress have mandated that CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) requirements reach 39 mpg in a few years. Never mind that such vehicles will be totally inimical to most American lifestyles that involve transporting familes and belongings long distances, car-pooling five or six people to and from work, or even an individual who has to load up his vehicle with work or leisure supplies. And forget the fact that injuries and fatalities from accidents will skyrocket. This is what inevitably lies before us because we'll be FORCED to drive what Rush calls "glorified golf carts."
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posted on
05/23/2009 1:04:17 PM PDT
by
T.L.Sink
To: T.L.Sink
The bottom line:
I ain’t dying because of for for Obama.
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posted on
05/23/2009 1:08:23 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: T.L.Sink
So here it comes. It's terrible. Biblically terrible. It doesn't work. Acceleration is poor. And the sound is worse. So you're sitting there with the engine screaming its head off, and your ears bleeding, and you're doing only 23 mph and you're thinking things can't get any worse,... I thought this was about vehicles not presidential directives....
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posted on
05/23/2009 1:08:50 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, Question everyone else)
To: T.L.Sink
Hell, I’ll run over one of these environazi death traps in my Suburban and think it’s a speed bump. HEY, maybe there is a use for them afterall!
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posted on
05/23/2009 1:08:56 PM PDT
by
AUH2O Repub
(Palin/Sanford 2012)
To: T.L.Sink
After the accident death rate goes out out sight, we will be forced into a “national speed limit”....say, 45mph should do it. Can’t be killing off those greenies, can we?
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posted on
05/23/2009 1:10:06 PM PDT
by
ab01
To: T.L.Sink
Government-mandated automobiles - "The People's Car" - have happened in Socialist nations before...
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posted on
05/23/2009 1:10:08 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(There is no god)
To: T.L.Sink
Just out of curiosity....I wonder what the insurance premiums are going to be on these death traps?
A lady in my church bought one of those blasted ‘Smart Cars’. It looks like an encased roller skate. The driver’s head is just more than a foot from the back. NO trunk. Unbelievable.
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posted on
05/23/2009 1:12:45 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
To: T.L.Sink
"This is what inevitably lies before us because we'll be FORCED to drive what Rush calls "glorified golf carts." Depends on how much money you are willin g to spend. You can buy a "Tesla", for around $200,000,(and wait ten years for delivery) which gets a claimed 240 Km per charge, or shell out even more for some Europeon made all electric cars, with top speeds into the 340km range with 700hp electric motors.
Then there's a 2 cylinder "Nina" made in India for $2,500.00, which is what the CRAP GM, Crysler and Ford makes should sell for.
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
"A lady in my church bought one of those blasted Smart Cars. It looks like an encased roller skate. The drivers head is just more than a foot from the back. NO trunk. Unbelievable." What's even more unbelievable is the price they want for 1/2 a car. $20,000 with a heater.
To: Old Sarge
Yep. The good ol’ ‘Folk’s Wagon’.
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posted on
05/23/2009 1:15:26 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
To: T.L.Sink
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posted on
05/23/2009 1:16:22 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
To: T.L.Sink
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posted on
05/23/2009 1:16:50 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Big Tent Is A Big Mistake)
To: Old Sarge
Yep - but the Volkswagen wasn’t all that bad.
These new things? Bah! Humbug!
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posted on
05/23/2009 1:18:22 PM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
To: T.L.Sink
Why did auto manufacturers decide every car had to look alike ... or at least like 1st cousins?
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posted on
05/23/2009 1:20:42 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: mylife
A couple of years ago I was at a gas station filling my car up and thought I heard what sounded like a lawn mower going down the street. Next thing I know “the sound” pulls up in a bay next to me to fill up also. It was a Yugo. To say it was a piece of crap is being charitable.
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posted on
05/23/2009 1:21:17 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: R. Scott
"Yep - but the Volkswagen wasnt all that bad. These new things? Bah! Humbug!" I was just watching highlights from the international auto show.
They do make some pretty good electrics and MPG cars, BUT, the prices are off the planet.
It's pretty clear that only the elite are going to be able to drive in the near future, which isn't suprizing. Why do you think rich holliwiedo's are all telling you to be "green" and conserve while they jet set and party?
It's so they can have more.
To: T.L.Sink
We are about to be introduced to a lot of junk like this.
I am told the Volt which is Chevy’s new hybrid needs a push to get over a hill. It isnt near ready for prodction, has to be plugged in, costs about $35,000 which is a tad more than most people want to spend o a vehicle that isnt proven when they can get a Prius for less and Toyota is probably way ahead on their second generation Prius.
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posted on
05/23/2009 1:23:15 PM PDT
by
Venturer
To: T.L.Sink
Why is everybody being so mean?
That is one hellava golf cart if you ask me.
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posted on
05/23/2009 1:23:39 PM PDT
by
ChetNavVet
(Build It, and they won't come!)
To: Venturer
"I am told the Volt which is Chevys new hybrid needs a push to get over a hill. It isnt near ready for prodction, has to be plugged in, costs about $35,000 which is a tad more than most people want to spend o a vehicle...
The volt is in production. And just wait till you get a load of it's little brother, the SPARK! HAHAHA! what a joke. It's in production as well, but only available in Europe this year.
To: T.L.Sink
The New 2010 CrapMobile
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posted on
05/23/2009 1:27:20 PM PDT
by
Zakeet
(Obama: Always wrong, never in doubt.)
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