wait till you get to feel the force of being hit by a 5,500
suv in one of those asian cracker jak boxes....RIP.....

Another dorkmobile? Hey tree hugger, before you jump on your eco
badwagon you should check the facts on those rip off hybrid autos.
It's a proven fact that you will never save in dollars spent on gas for
the additional premium they charge for those cars. Secondly the
maintenence factor is the BIG unknown that the sellers of these cars
won't talk about. Ask the dealer what it would cost to replace the
electric motors and more importantly the batteries. Battery
replacement alone could top $3,000! For once you dummy do some
research before you lay out the money. Don't make the same mistakes
you made on your boat, your home theater and your wife with a history.

Another dorkmobile? Hey tree hugger, before you jump on your eco
badwagon you should check the facts on those rip off hybrid autos.
It's a proven fact that you will never save in dollars spent on gas for

the additional premium they charge for those cars.


Since we don't keep cars more than 4 years, how could any of this mean
anything? The cost of the Prius is just 26K with the same interior
volume of a Camry. So where's the "premium cost?" It's a cheap car,
much less than our Tribeca or FXT which is faster than your car and a
wagon! If we TRADE our new FXT directly for it we'll save since it's
already paid for.
I suggest you read owner reviews before repeating what you read in some
silly article...like on anchors and tugboats!

RB
35s5
NY

3 grand for batteries seems cheap next to replacing the plastic intake
manifold and crankshaft in any of those cheap vehicles that blow up at
10,000 miles. GM will pay 1.2 billion for this fiasco, Ford will too,
you watch.

3Gs is also cheaper than a new tranny in a conventional ic vehicle like
my old Taurus, with it's tranny designed to fail and force you to buy a
new car every 10 years. Wheelmotor vehicles are more durable, and need
non of that heavy crap like trannys and diff gears, don't need all the
weight of regular brakes, while their internal combustion battery
chargers run at max efficiency and constant rpm, let alone that if
charged at home, fuel costs are effectively eliminated, despite
whatever else you may think. Nuclear electricity is cheaper than oil
fired juice, and the nuclear waste can be put back down the mines it
came out of, sealed in silica glass.

Most cars cruise at about 20 hp. It only for accelleration that we pay
for an extra 150 horses in the engine in our town car commuters, which
weight we then have to drag around to satisfy our testicular urges to
burn rubber at stoplights with our throbbing penis mobiles. One would
hope that a mature person could live without megawatt stereos and
equally stupid overpowered cars and urban tanks which should be taxed
and regulated out of existance for the sake of the environment.

With electric wheelmotor / brakes, we get more internal space, and
batteries can be tucked away under floors and seats, etc. Smaller cars
cause less wind and rolling resistance, resulting in a compounding
cascade of energy efficiency, which will help with fuel damand and
prices. Of course, the oil energy industry would freak out if they
started to lose market share.

Everyone has history.

Terry K

3Gs is also cheaper than a new tranny in a conventional ic vehicle
like
my old Taurus,

Your inflating the numbers here to serve your own agenda. I'm pretty
familiar with the costs of replacing Ford Taurus transmissions since we
had quite a few of them as company cars at my last job. The bill for
replacing a transmission in these cars never exceeded $2200 and that
was at a Ford dealer. If you really paid more than $3,000 for a new
Taurus transmission you were ripped off big time and are a lousy
shopper.

The bill for
replacing a transmission in these cars never exceeded $2200 and that
was at a Ford dealer.


Every taurus I ever met needed a new tranny at some point. My buddy's
Sable needed TWO tranny's in 130K miles! How is that every Subaru I
know of is eventually traded away with an intact engine and tranny with
200K miles or more?
There's a reason why Ford, Chrysler and GM are in trouble. The American
cars simply suck.

RB
35s5
NY

"Capt. Rob" wrote
There's a reason why Ford, Chrysler and GM are in trouble. The American
cars simply suck.

That - and safety - is why Americans buy trucks and SUVs.