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Originally Posted by phinsup' post='903684' date='Jul 5 2008, 04:56 PM
yea unfortunately i dont need the headaches of that ****, i need a car with a warranty so the wife can get to work.
we'd take a smaller car, even as small as the smartcar, however it falls short of being worth the money, smart car only gets 39 mpg city.
we'd take a smaller car, even as small as the smartcar, however it falls short of being worth the money, smart car only gets 39 mpg city.
smart car is the most amazing waste of time ever. it's super small and yet still gets "average" mileage. hell its SO small they say you can barely fit a duffel bag behind the seats....how is that thing not getting 70mpg? i still say you just go buy a honda insight and average 60mpg with highway rates of 70-ish. if you want it to look half decent take off the rear half wheel covers and lose like a few mpg.
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Originally Posted by teknics' post='903701' date='Jul 5 2008, 06:18 PM
smart car is the most amazing waste of time ever. it's super small and yet still gets "average" mileage. hell its SO small they say you can barely fit a duffel bag behind the seats....how is that thing not getting 70mpg? i still say you just go buy a honda insight and average 60mpg with highway rates of 70-ish. if you want it to look half decent take off the rear half wheel covers and lose like a few mpg.
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it gets worse gas milage then the Geo Metro, i dont ******* get it.
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Originally Posted by phinsup' post='903710' date='Jul 5 2008, 06:36 PM
it gets worse gas milage then the Geo Metro, i dont ******* get it.
It's almost as if someone from "the oil companies" learned of the plan to sell this so-called "smart" car in the U.S. and paid a visit to the manufacturer and said "We know that you can make this car get 75 mpg, but if you do, we're gonna break both yer frickin' kneecaps, and then we're gonna stop being nice." Then they put a gun to the design engineer's head and made him implement an extremely inefficient transmission that would allow the car to get half the fuel economy that one would expect from such a diminutive piece of ****. Then they all had a round of beers and laughed about it.
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Originally Posted by defprun' post='903725' date='Jul 6 2008, 12:11 PM
Blah blah warrantee you dont need one of those if it explodes buy another one.
Yea and everyday amy doesn't make it to work I'm out $350 or better.... , now if I could save a few bucks whilst still driving reliable transportation, that would be a win.
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Originally Posted by phinsup' post='903729' date='Jul 6 2008, 01:25 PM
Yea and everyday amy doesn't make it to work I'm out $350 or better.... , now if I could save a few bucks whilst still driving reliable transportation, that would be a win.
yea the old metro's definitely were a step in the right direction, then gm said "ehh **** geo, we can handle this ourselves" and promptly ran all those cars into the ground.
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Originally Posted by teknics' post='903737' date='Jul 6 2008, 02:47 PM
yea the old metro's definitely were a step in the right direction, then gm said "ehh **** geo, we can handle this ourselves" and promptly ran all those cars into the ground.
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hell amy had an old rabbit diesel that got over 60, the rabbit diesel gets 35 lol
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Originally Posted by phinsup' post='903729' date='Jul 6 2008, 10:25 AM
Yea and everyday amy doesn't make it to work I'm out $350 or better.... , now if I could save a few bucks whilst still driving reliable transportation, that would be a win.
Honda's arent reliable?