"Art" <begunaNOSPAMPLEASE@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> You want the optional airbags.
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Actually, I want a Lexus
:-)
Natalie[color=blue]
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> "Wickeddoll®" <wickeddoll1958DIEspammersDIE@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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"Wickeddoll®" <wickeddoll1958DIEspammersDIE@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Art" <begunaNOSPAMPLEASE@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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>> You want the optional airbags.
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> Actually, I want a Lexus
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> :-)
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> Natalie[/color]
"Wickeddoll®" <wickeddoll1958DIEspammersDIE@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> Two years will fly by fast. You'll have a hybrid before too long.
>> mark_[/color]
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> Hybrid? Me? Not bloody likely
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> Natalie
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If you don't buy a hybrid you'll be impressing only like minded people.
Generally backwards and uninformed. Red Neck comes to mind.
mark_
Actually, I should have laughed - my neck is soooo far from red...
Anyway, I thought it was out of character for you to troll me, so I just
wondered. I haven't totally ruled out hybrids forever, but so far I don't
see any real benefit in getting one right now, with a) The ridiculous cost
of such a small car (Yeah, gas prices suck, but still), b) There still seem
to be some significant bugs with them. I just don't see that all being
fixed in 2 years (When my youngest leaves home)
It is a real shame that Congress doesn't raise the fleet mileage standards
dramatically lumping cars and SUV's into single fleets for calculation
purposes. Car manufacturers would have to lower the price of hybrids to
make them standard if they wanted to sell any big SUV's.
"Art" <begunaNOSPAMPLEASE@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> It is a real shame that Congress doesn't raise the fleet mileage
> standards dramatically lumping cars and SUV's into single fleets for
> calculation purposes. Car manufacturers would have to lower the price of
> hybrids to make them standard if they wanted to sell any big SUV's.
>[/color]
Well, we can't avoid a chance at screwing the consumers, now can we?
Perhaps not. Although, it does seem that SUV's aren't really being
used as "light trucks" circa 1975 (was that about when CAFE came into
being?). They seem to have taken the place of the station wagon. I
wonder what the average horsepower of a "light truck" is today compared
to 1975. I doubt it is lower than '75, and light-trucks didn't seem
all that limited back then.
What if.... to be classified a "light-truck" rather than a passenger
car, a vehicle had to have at least 50% of its length dedicated solely
and exclusively to the carriage of cargo, with no provision for that to
be converted to carry people? That would seem to keep the pickup
trucks and cargo vans of farmers and tradesmen "light trucks" while
classifying SUV's as the passenger cars they seem to have become.
"Wickeddoll®" <wickeddoll1958DIEspammersDIE@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Anyway, I thought it was out of character for you to troll me, so I just
> wondered. I haven't totally ruled out hybrids forever, but so far I don't
> see any real benefit in getting one right now, with a) The ridiculous cost
> of such a small car (Yeah, gas prices suck, but still), b) There still
> seem to be some significant bugs with them. I just don't see that all
> being fixed in 2 years (When my youngest leaves home)
>
> :-)
>
> Natalie
>[/color]
Someone was sitting inside their 2006 Prius sorting thru some paperwork and
I happened to walk by. I've never had a chance to talk to someone in person
about the newer ones so I took a chance and the guy obliged. I learned he
travels a lot between western MA and the Cape, likes to drive fast and hard
(72 mph came up quite often), gets 45 mpg, and had nice looking side door
strips added to protect from dings. He showed me the camera's monitor (I
thought that was pretty cool).
His wife drives a Lexus. He drives a Prius.
I thought of you Natalie for some strange reason.
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