Actually the tax on diesel is higher than the tax on regular gasonline. Diesel is cheaper because it doesn't cost anything to make, it's basically a byproduct of the normal refining process.
I drive my car less than 10 miles a day. That doesn't mean I drive 10 miles everyday. I drive 0 miles quite a few days a week. It's all about the average.
I applaud you! sometimes an SUV is necessary. Like when you need to tow something. But you also understand that just because you need to tow something a few times a month or less does not mean that you need to commute by yourself in your tahoe.
Volkswagen Passat Wagon:
Front Head Room: 37.8 in.
Front Shoulder Room: 55.8 in.
Rear Head Room: 37.9 in.
Rear Shoulder Room: 54.6 in.
Front Leg Room: 41.5 in.
Rear Leg Room: 35.3 in.
Luggage Capacity: 36 cu. ft.
Maximum Cargo Capacity: 55 cu. ft.
Maximum Seating: 5
apparantly you have a shady insurance company. Insurance does cost me more than gas. But Geico seems to realize that me being one person can not possibly drive two cars at one time. Therefore the insurance on the second car would be much much lower. Besides in a two car scenerio you would be stupid to be making payments on both cars at one time. If all you use your SUV for is to tow a boat, you can find a used truck or suburban with a diesel engine that will do the task just fine and cost next to nothing.
I think the main problem with the CVT's is we haven't seen a well implemented one. I tested an audi a4 with the CVT, and it allowed you to shift gears. I asked the dealer about it because it made no sense to me. his reply was that Audi found people perfered the artificial gears rather than using the CVT to keep the engine at the same RPM constantly.
Hopefully americans will learn to love the CVT. With a CVT it is possible to build an engine that has a fuel economy sweet spot, and always keep it there. Of course all the companies that have tried this built in fake gear ratios into the CVT's because americans like the sound of 'rowing' through the gears.
Just curious. Do you drive this behemoth when you're not towing your trailer? SUV's do have their place, I'll be the first to admit. But that place is not driving 80mph on the interstate with one person in the car.
To bad audi doesn't sell any of their diesels here. I would kill for a A3 diesel. Then I could run the thing off of biodiesel and really feel good about myself.
People modding the hell out of their cars, dropping in NOs systems and turbos, drag racing, and then blowing up engines does not mean the car is unreliable. Do the same thing to any car and it's going to cringe.
Geos are funny... even though they are now chevy's, they were never made by GM. Geo Prism = Toyota Corolla, Geo Storm = Isuzu Impulse, Geo Tracker = Suzuki Sidekick, Geo Metro = Suzuki (I forget).
My 2001 A4 has it... you can set the computer to show real miles per gallon or an average. I've also ridden in a mid 90's Jeep Grand Cheerokee with the same feature. I've never found it very useful. When you accellerate from a stop light you're mileage dips near to zero. When you're going 90 on the highway and take your foot off the gas the mileage jumps up to the 100s of mpg. I tend to just leave mine on average, and reset it on each fill up.
The most interesting thing I found out about my car is that it took the computer several thousand miles to get adjusted to being driven at sea level in seattle versus in dallas. When we moved here my mileage would conisitently be in the 20mpg range versus the 26 or so I got in dallas. But now it's back up to 26.
I wouldn't blame pirates... I'd blame the kind of music you're selling. Independent record stores have been doing great buisness by selling things the big guys don't (indie music, hard to find music, imports, vinyl, etc) and selling/buying used CD's. There was an article in the recent rolling stone about this fact.
Are you sure GM can do that under the Magnuson-Moss act? If so, can you point me to appropriate references?
Unless the act forbids them from doing it, they can.
If one purchases a car to chop it, where is the stolen property? Or does "stolen property" in this case refer to patent infringement, using the entertainment industry's "infringement == theft" rhetoric?
I'm not completly sure. I don't want to be the one to find out though when GM sues me. Besides, when chopping a car, I imagine it is very hard to get enough parts out of it in good enough condition to actually resell to generate a profit.
But, chopping up a car for it's part is not an off-brand part. GM can void the warranty of a GM car for using a GM part that they did not certify for repairs. That would be the case if you are using a chopped engine in your car. Now if the car is reported as totalled and the parts are then sold as used that's ok because the VIN on the parts will show up in the database of OK used parts. But a chopped car won't thus allowing GM to voide the warranty, punish you (for reciving stolen property), and punish the garage for using the parts.
Because every single part of a car has a VIN on it. Legitimate parts have to come from legitimate sources. The car company would easily catch on to people chopping cars that they bought. They would then void warranties of cars using these grey market parts. Then they people would have to start selling their parts for less money because there is a lower demand. That's what happens with stolen parts now. The garage doing the repair work isn't willing to pay $450 for a stolen headlight assembly when a new one from the factory is $500. Now if you start selling them for $100 you've got a deal. Thus making it impractical to buy cars and chop them for parts. Also keep in mind that most cars stolen and chopped for parts are older cars that are no longer manufactured. Making it impossible to buy a new car to chop.
If you don't believe me here is a link: Aftermarket Parts. If you're too lazy to read it I'll sum it up. A $23,000 1999 Toyota Camry would cost over $100,000 to build from parts.
Except that the car chopped for it's parts hurts the automaker. You see that stolen toyota camry means that there is one less engine, transmission, head lamp assembly, hood, windshield, etc. that toyota can sell. Car companies make obscene amounts of profit selling parts to cars. Some time just for grin find the cost of buying parts for your car, and start adding them up. You'll quickly come up to a sum much greater than what you paid for the car.
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Actually the tax on diesel is higher than the tax on regular gasonline. Diesel is cheaper because it doesn't cost anything to make, it's basically a byproduct of the normal refining process.
Plus any diesel car can run on BioDiesel
I drive my car less than 10 miles a day. That doesn't mean I drive 10 miles everyday. I drive 0 miles quite a few days a week. It's all about the average.
or better yet go to Grassolean and find out how you can run on vegetable oil with no modifications!
I applaud you! sometimes an SUV is necessary. Like when you need to tow something. But you also understand that just because you need to tow something a few times a month or less does not mean that you need to commute by yourself in your tahoe.
If you live in LA the partial zero emissions may actually spit out cleaner air than it takes in :)
And best of all you can use bio-diesel! Great stuff... if Audi doesn't bring over a diesel car, my next car will be a golf with the TDI.
what does an SUV give you that a wagon doesn't?
Volkswagen Passat Wagon:
Front Head Room: 37.8 in.
Front Shoulder Room: 55.8 in.
Rear Head Room: 37.9 in.
Rear Shoulder Room: 54.6 in.
Front Leg Room: 41.5 in.
Rear Leg Room: 35.3 in.
Luggage Capacity: 36 cu. ft.
Maximum Cargo Capacity: 55 cu. ft.
Maximum Seating: 5
What more do you need?
the s10 blazer is a SUV. It's built off of the S10 pickup chasis, but is sold as a midsize SUV.
apparantly you have a shady insurance company. Insurance does cost me more than gas. But Geico seems to realize that me being one person can not possibly drive two cars at one time. Therefore the insurance on the second car would be much much lower. Besides in a two car scenerio you would be stupid to be making payments on both cars at one time. If all you use your SUV for is to tow a boat, you can find a used truck or suburban with a diesel engine that will do the task just fine and cost next to nothing.
And best of all you can use BioDiesel!
I think the main problem with the CVT's is we haven't seen a well implemented one. I tested an audi a4 with the CVT, and it allowed you to shift gears. I asked the dealer about it because it made no sense to me. his reply was that Audi found people perfered the artificial gears rather than using the CVT to keep the engine at the same RPM constantly.
Hopefully americans will learn to love the CVT. With a CVT it is possible to build an engine that has a fuel economy sweet spot, and always keep it there. Of course all the companies that have tried this built in fake gear ratios into the CVT's because americans like the sound of 'rowing' through the gears.
Just curious. Do you drive this behemoth when you're not towing your trailer? SUV's do have their place, I'll be the first to admit. But that place is not driving 80mph on the interstate with one person in the car.
We may whine, but people driving SUV's and pickups are the one's with the higher death rates.
To bad audi doesn't sell any of their diesels here. I would kill for a A3 diesel. Then I could run the thing off of biodiesel and really feel good about myself.
People modding the hell out of their cars, dropping in NOs systems and turbos, drag racing, and then blowing up engines does not mean the car is unreliable. Do the same thing to any car and it's going to cringe.
Geos are funny... even though they are now chevy's, they were never made by GM. Geo Prism = Toyota Corolla, Geo Storm = Isuzu Impulse, Geo Tracker = Suzuki Sidekick, Geo Metro = Suzuki (I forget).
My 2001 A4 has it... you can set the computer to show real miles per gallon or an average. I've also ridden in a mid 90's Jeep Grand Cheerokee with the same feature. I've never found it very useful. When you accellerate from a stop light you're mileage dips near to zero. When you're going 90 on the highway and take your foot off the gas the mileage jumps up to the 100s of mpg. I tend to just leave mine on average, and reset it on each fill up.
The most interesting thing I found out about my car is that it took the computer several thousand miles to get adjusted to being driven at sea level in seattle versus in dallas. When we moved here my mileage would conisitently be in the 20mpg range versus the 26 or so I got in dallas. But now it's back up to 26.
Nothing wrong with alu gobi paneer and a nice kingfisher!
I was a fan of mod's... especially the ones put out by future crew :)
All games consoles, including handhelds are sold at a loss
Not necessairly true. Sony is making a profit on all the PS1's they sell now, and I believe they are also now making a profit on the PS2's.
I wouldn't blame pirates... I'd blame the kind of music you're selling. Independent record stores have been doing great buisness by selling things the big guys don't (indie music, hard to find music, imports, vinyl, etc) and selling/buying used CD's. There was an article in the recent rolling stone about this fact.
Are you sure GM can do that under the Magnuson-Moss act? If so, can you point me to appropriate references?
Unless the act forbids them from doing it, they can.
If one purchases a car to chop it, where is the stolen property? Or does "stolen property" in this case refer to patent infringement, using the entertainment industry's "infringement == theft" rhetoric?
I'm not completly sure. I don't want to be the one to find out though when GM sues me. Besides, when chopping a car, I imagine it is very hard to get enough parts out of it in good enough condition to actually resell to generate a profit.
But, chopping up a car for it's part is not an off-brand part. GM can void the warranty of a GM car for using a GM part that they did not certify for repairs. That would be the case if you are using a chopped engine in your car. Now if the car is reported as totalled and the parts are then sold as used that's ok because the VIN on the parts will show up in the database of OK used parts. But a chopped car won't thus allowing GM to voide the warranty, punish you (for reciving stolen property), and punish the garage for using the parts.
Because every single part of a car has a VIN on it. Legitimate parts have to come from legitimate sources. The car company would easily catch on to people chopping cars that they bought. They would then void warranties of cars using these grey market parts. Then they people would have to start selling their parts for less money because there is a lower demand. That's what happens with stolen parts now. The garage doing the repair work isn't willing to pay $450 for a stolen headlight assembly when a new one from the factory is $500. Now if you start selling them for $100 you've got a deal. Thus making it impractical to buy cars and chop them for parts. Also keep in mind that most cars stolen and chopped for parts are older cars that are no longer manufactured. Making it impossible to buy a new car to chop.
If you don't believe me here is a link: Aftermarket Parts. If you're too lazy to read it I'll sum it up. A $23,000 1999 Toyota Camry would cost over $100,000 to build from parts.
Except that the car chopped for it's parts hurts the automaker. You see that stolen toyota camry means that there is one less engine, transmission, head lamp assembly, hood, windshield, etc. that toyota can sell. Car companies make obscene amounts of profit selling parts to cars. Some time just for grin find the cost of buying parts for your car, and start adding them up. You'll quickly come up to a sum much greater than what you paid for the car.