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Hybrid/Electric Vehicles: Should I Buy?
nissin writes "I'm ready to buy my first vehicle, and would like to hear your experiences with either hybrid or electric vehicles. Are they a good alternative to conventional vehicles, or just a geek toy? Do they perform well in the city? How about on long road trips? I am also interested in hearing about other alternative, yet practical, forms of transportation that I may have missed."
They're teeny tiny little pieces of crap. If you get into an accident you're dead.
When they make a hybrid SUV I'll be willing to listen.
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personally, I like to stick to my Lexus LX470 Luxury SUV.. it makes people driving those pathetic little hybrids pretty pissed off when I zoom by them and cut them off..
I used to have a "Are you fit for a Lexus?" quiz on my personal page.
Typical question: do you smile when babies cry?
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The arguments made in this thread against hybrids are pretty silly, and admittedly, I have the same view about most sports cars.
Sports cars are ugly. They're usually smaller than the people who drive them, and overly bumpy. They enjoy adding curves to the car kind of the same way in cartoons they add muscles to people where there aren't any in real life. They sound horrible, as if someone fired a tommy gun into the engine block and/or muffler. The mileage is awful. They only fit two people. If you get into any crash over 30 mph, you're dead. They can't hold anything. The gas mileage STILL sucks somehow.
Now I look at a hybrid. It takes less gas. It doesn't have tons of money poured into performance over 100 mph (money completely wasted). They have frames that can take much more of an impact. They can hold a lot more cargo AND people. IMHO they are better looking the same way a full bodied woman looks better than an anorexic. Oh and obviously they cost far less, go much farther, and repair much cheaper.
If you have a small penis, absolutely, get a sports car. If OTOH you have a brain, get whatever suits your needs, certainly do not submit to peer pressure or buy a car to impress someone. It's way too important for that crap.
Funny, I think the same thing when I zoom by a huge, hulking mass of an SUV like it's standing still. But then I've got a high-performance car...
Have fun back at the stoplight, loser!
Screw that, all you limey bastids drive on the wrong side of the road!
I agreee 100%. A few pennies here and there on saved gas isn't worth it to me to buy a car that costs more, looks like shit, doesn't perform, and is expensive to fix. The only people who should buy these cars are tree-huggers.
Loud and slow. Who needs that?
And while they can be fun, I wouldn't want to use one as daily transportation. One jackass fucks up and it's bye-bye for you...
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WTF is it with the British and their screwed up measurements? A gallon is not the same as in the U.S., a billion not 1,000,000,000, a pint is probably even different than a U.S. pint. The whole system is screwed up. Someone should invent some kind of universally accepted system of measurement so we don't have such confusing things to worry about. I suggest cubic inches per football field as the new unit of measurement for volume.
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In cold climes, the batteries don't work and you need the heat from a big engine to warm the interior of the car. In tropical climes, you need to run the A/C all the time to keep cool, so a battery assist thing won't work well there either.
You are confusing natural gas with propane. Natural Gas is just scrubbed methane. Methane is produced from innumerable sources, and is absolutely renewable; while it is often found in the same pockets as oil reserves, there is no reason at all that natural gas has to be obtained by mining; any decaying plant or animal waste will produce ample quantities of methane.
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