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> "Laura Bush murdered her boy friend" > wrote
> > I think an automatic tranny is truly useful but power steering, brakes, > and windows are a joke. Same with tinted glass and fancy paint jobs > and a million other doodads like the warning light for the windshield > washer fluid and turn signals emebedded in the side mirrors. No > question to me but that it's a conspiracy. They add all these gadgets > and make a 30% profit on each one. And more money when the damn things > go bad . > > Most americans are not loonybirds who fall in love with cars. We jsut > want a vehicle that gets us from A to B and there is no reason why a > perfectly functional brand new car should cost over $5,000. Troll. |
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Jay Maynard wrote:
> On 2005-01-30, Bill the second > wrote: >>I'm waiting for a hybrid that burns an renewable fuel (that's actually >>renewable, not one that takes more energy to refine than it contains) > I'm trying to figure out how you can have such a thing and not violate the > second law of thermodynamics. Then again, I don't claim to be a chemist or > physicist. I'll be the first in line to get a patent on the perpetual motion machine |
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"Jay Maynard" > wrote in message . .. > On 2005-01-30, Bill the second > wrote: >> I'm waiting for a hybrid that burns an renewable fuel (that's actually >> renewable, not one that takes more energy to refine than it contains) > > I'm trying to figure out how you can have such a thing and not violate the > second law of thermodynamics. Then again, I don't claim to be a chemist or > physicist. I don't mean a perpetual motion machine. More energy is put into processing alcohol than is avalible in the end product for use in an automobile. I'm not counting energy the original plant captured. |
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"Laura Bush murdered her boy friend" > wrote in message oups.com... >Bill the second Jan 29, 10:02 am >>Fool, at highway speeds (even 55MPH) the increased hit to fu*el >>economy from >>wind resistance from rolled down windows is higher than the *increased >>hit to fuel economy driving with AC. >Oh bs. That's just propaganda that the auto makers paid the media to >spread so people would pay an extra $1000 to get that AC option. Why >don't you think for yourself for a change.? Are those like the commercials that show people with new "tars" not running into things propaganda from the tar companies getting people to spend money on a set of tars rather than pumping tar-in-a-can into their bald retreads? |
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Garth Almgren wrote:
> Around 1/29/2005 4:39 PM, Comrade Mister Yamamoto wrote: > >> me wrote: >> >>> I'm sure a big wheel is even too much for the OP to handle ;^) >>> >>> >> Get a Horse! > > > If Judy treated a horse the way he alleges to treat his cars, the horse > would be dead in a week. > > Poor horsie -- Comrade Mister "Charlton Heston is *MY* President!" Yamamoto http://mryamamoto.50megs.com/ "I'm looking for the joke with a microscope" |
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"Paul D. DeRocco" > wrote in message nk.net... >> "Laura Bush murdered her boy friend" > wrote >> >> I think an automatic tranny is truly useful but power steering, brakes, >> and windows are a joke. Same with tinted glass and fancy paint jobs >> and a million other doodads like the warning light for the windshield >> washer fluid and turn signals emebedded in the side mirrors. No >> question to me but that it's a conspiracy. They add all these gadgets >> and make a 30% profit on each one. And more money when the damn things >> go bad . >> >> Most americans are not loonybirds who fall in love with cars. We jsut >> want a vehicle that gets us from A to B and there is no reason why a >> perfectly functional brand new car should cost over $5,000. > > Troll. You think? |
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in article , Dave C. at wrote
on 1/29/05 5:35 AM: > > >> The US auto industry has been sucking wind for decades because the >> management at the car companies had a lack of foresight and poor long term >> strategies (GM and Ford falling behind Toyota and Honda on hybrid >> technology, for instance, being the latest example). >> >> Actually, the Japanese are building cars in the US because labor in the >> US >> can be cheaper than in Japan. >> > > That's the reason? I thought it was to avoid the import tariffs and freight > charges to move two-ton SUVs halfway around the world. Silly me. -Dave They make SUVs that only weigh two tons? I thought that 3.5 was the minimum. |
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"Samuel Nella" > wrote in message ... > Hybrids are way too complex abominations. > Not really. All it's doing is combining computer technology with a car. > Wait until these things hit the used market and start needing repairs. > Then mechanics will start learning how to fix them. In some ways, they are simpler than a regular car. The brakes will wear less often, as well. > What happened to the CRX and Geo which got this mileage without all the > nonsense? They don't get the kind of fuel efficiency that a hybrid does. A Toyota Corolla gets about 35mpg and makes about 6 lbs of CO2. A Toyota Prius gets about 55mpg and makes about 3 1/2 lbs of CO2. And a Prius is more like a midsize car, whereas the Corolla is slightly smaller. |
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Jay Maynard wrote:
> On 2005-01-29, Nate Nagel > wrote: > >> I think an automatic tranny is truly useful > > for you, maybe. It's the one frill that really annoys me. > > The one feature my RX300 has that I wish it didn't is an > automatic transmission. The only vehicle in that class that > is offered with a manual is the BMW X5, and I didn't want to > pay more for a heavier vehicle with the same engine specs. You can usually convert an auto to manual for under $2000. If you're buying that class of car then I guess 2K is small change to you. It might even increase the car's resale value, if there are other shoppers like yourself.. |
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