If you were a car....

[Royd]

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Christine or Edsel?

 

[Desert Rooster]

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Love that movie

 

[Desert Rooster]

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Christine or Edsel?

thats actually a 1958 Plymouth Fury from the movie "Christine"

 

[anderson8505]

I used to wonder about the strange appearance of cars like the Honda Element. It's like it was a test to see if people wanted to save the environment bad enough that they'd be willing to drive an extraordinarly ugly vehicle.

The Element is NOT an environmentally "friendly" car. It gets the same gas mileage as a CR-V and has no green-ness advertised about it at all. And, besides, I love my toaster, don't diss it.... LOL

It has some amazing elbow and head room for tall guys like my husband. Sorry, I'm not lazy enough to write "DH" who thought of that??

On the subject of cars, it is required that all Lexus drivers drive like jerks??

 

[Desert Rooster]

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that and drivers of Mercedes, BWM's

 

[HLAC]

My name is Christine, not Fury... but people who know me might say that one fits as good as the other.

The Element isn't a green car? Just ugly?!

I get 14 mpg highway on a good day, so most vehicles are green compared to mine. Heck, I'd drive a prius if'n it would haul and tow what I need. But it wouldn't so I drive my old truck.

I don't know that all Lexus drivers are jerks.... but look out for oriental women driving a Lexus. Yikes!! heh heh heh.

(my mom is from Japan and drives a Lexus so I think I can say this w/out the PC crowd coming down on me..)

 

[JD4570]

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14 mpg! My old 90 model Dodge 4x4 single wheel 1 ton gets 15.1 mpg while pulling 14,000 lbs. , of course it's equipped with a Cummins turbo-diesel. Unloaded it gets 21 mpg. I could burn straight vegetable oil and then it would be a "green" vehicle.

 

[HLAC]

Yeah, my old IH scouts got better mpg and they were like rolling hunks of steel. I get about 11 mpg pulling the pontoon boat. At least when I'm hauling several hundred pounds of squash and eggs up to Chicagoland, the mpg stays the same at 14. It also seems to stay the same whether I'm going 55 mph or 75 mph.

Driving in the city is the worst, if I do much of that I get about 9 mpg. (insert horrified smiley here) This is why I roll through stop signs..... I'm trying to be green and conserve gas.

 

[StupidBird]

Don't know about driving the smart car slow. We're in Atlanta, if it's not moving between 70 and 80 mph, it's becoming some soccer mom's hood ornament. But I never worry that anyone is driving the car too SLOW. I think the only reason no one's gotten a speeding ticket in that thing is because the cops can't believe it was that car really going that fast, or they're laughing too hard to call it in.

Yes, it's ugly and weird and rides like a go-cart. Seems to think the 43 mpg even the way he drives is justification enough. Me, I prefer driving my 17 mpg pick up truck, unless I'm parking downtown. Some day, I'm really gonna see if his car fits in the back of mine.

 

[bakerjw]

I sometimes delay traffic on long grades. My cars name is Schwinn and it has 1 Johnpower.