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Cars in 2010
| Edgy DC Feb 04 2010 08:08 AM |
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The Prius
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 04 2010 08:11 AM Re: Cars in 2010 |
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Hybrid cars are a sham anyway. I read somewhere the most environmentally friendly thing you can do with regard to a car purchase is to buy a used vehicle and save on the energy it takes to keep on building these things.
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| Edgy DC Feb 04 2010 08:17 AM Re: Cars in 2010 |
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Sham? Sure, and I think that's why I made the crack about the president's marketplace fate sufffering from a related image/substance defecit. Hard times. Though I guess the most envioronmentally friendly thing you can do is buy a used bike and emulate No-Impact Man.
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| metirish Feb 04 2010 08:23 AM Re: Cars in 2010 |
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I guess the Prius was looking good only a few weeks ago.....I laugh when I see the big Chevy Tahoe's with the "Hybrid" badge on them, I guess they might be great and all but I doubt.
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| batmagadanleadoff Feb 04 2010 10:41 AM Re: Cars in 2010 |
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In 2010, there will be flying cars.
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| Swan Swan H Feb 04 2010 10:46 AM Re: Cars in 2010 |
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| Farmer Ted Feb 04 2010 05:30 PM Re: Cars in 2010 |
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I'm down with the JCL recycling method. A bumper car feels safer than a Prius. The motor pool has me down for a Taurus and nothing else.
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| dgwphotography Feb 05 2010 09:17 AM Re: Cars in 2010 |
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I saw a Smart Car on the road today. It looked like it should have a Little Tykes logo on it...
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| Kong76 Feb 05 2010 01:43 PM Re: Cars in 2010 |
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I brought my 2007 CRV into Honda Monday evening and left with a 2010 in a matter of hours. They paid off my remaining bank car loan, gave me a Honda car loan with a lower interest rate and monthly payment with no out of pocket expense. Got better warranty coverage and if the car is totaled in a legal accident (no dwi's, etc.) I have loan forgiveness coverage to boot. The used car market is so sizzling they're happy to take my 65,000 mile car and give me one with 2 miles on it (and get a new sale of course) so they can flip it is basically what the salesdude boiled it down to.
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| Kong76 Feb 05 2010 01:59 PM Re: Cars in 2010 |
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Oh, and I forgot ... they're installing a $600 roof rack tomorrow for free ... I know it's not worth $600 but I like to hold out until I can something out of the bastids for nothing.
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| themetfairy Feb 05 2010 02:11 PM Re: Cars in 2010 |
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Nice deal!
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| Farmer Ted Feb 05 2010 03:37 PM Re: Cars in 2010 |
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I saw a smart car at the supermarket last night. I was wondering where the lawn mower blade was.
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| Valadius Feb 05 2010 03:43 PM Re: Cars in 2010 |
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Yeah, apparently Honda and Hyundai are rising while Toyota is totally imploding - not to mention Ford's steady success.
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| Edgy DC Feb 05 2010 04:48 PM Re: Cars in 2010 |
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Listen to you bullies beat up on the SmartCar. Cars don't really say anything about your penises, guys.
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| metsmarathon Feb 05 2010 05:45 PM Re: Cars in 2010 |
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| Nymr83 Feb 05 2010 09:08 PM Re: Cars in 2010 |
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[quote="Edgy DC":hab8oeaq]Listen to you bullies beat up on the SmartCar. Cars don't really say anything about your penises, guys.[/quote:hab8oeaq] You don't need bullies to beat up the SmartCar, falling twigs will bang it up.
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| Benjamin Grimm Feb 06 2010 09:37 AM Re: Cars in 2010 |
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[quote="Edgy DC":1f31m24j]Listen to you bullies beat up on the SmartCar. Cars don't really say anything about your penises, guys.[/quote:1f31m24j] I hope not. Mine is full of bottle caps and dog hair.
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As recently maybe as six months ago, the hybrid image of this car was so satisfying to the consumer that Toyota and other automakers were designing even non-hybrid car bodies to look like the it. Now it's looking like the lemoniest lemon in decades, and Ford, of all manufacturers, is looking like the way-shower for the industry.
Such surprising turnabouts. Maybe it's fate is somehow linked to Obama's.
