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Makes You Want To Watch "who Killed The Electric Car?" Again.gm Dropped The Ball Then Too,now They Have To Play Catch-up With The Ready For Sale Electric/hydrogen/hybrid Vehicle Makers.they Were Riding The Wave For Sometime Selling' Keep Up With The Jones' Suv/trucks And Laughed All The Way To The Bank.while It Probably Costs $5k More To Make An Suv Than A Car,the Profit Margin Is Huge On A 40 To Mid 50k Road Monster.it Is A Shame The Auto Workers Have To Pay For The Lack Of Foresight.i Expect The Jobs Will Come Back,but The Gap For R+d And Re-tooling Is Going To Be A While.
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Really sorry to hear that! IMO people should be able to drive whatever they want. With the price of gas and diesel, the more they pay for fuel, the more money goes to fixing the roads.
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Makes You Want To Watch "who Killed The Electric Car?" Again.gm Dropped The Ball Then Too,now They Have To Play Catch-up With The Ready For Sale Electric/hydrogen/hybrid Vehicle Makers.they Were Riding The Wave For Sometime Selling' Keep Up With The Jones' Suv/trucks And Laughed All The Way To The Bank.while It Probably Costs $5k More To Make An Suv Than A Car,the Profit Margin Is Huge On A 40 To Mid 50k Road Monster.it Is A Shame The Auto Workers Have To Pay For The Lack Of Foresight.i Expect The Jobs Will Come Back,but The Gap For R+d And Re-tooling Is Going To Be A While.
-D
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It still show that with a little ingenuity and smart thinking, size really doesn't matter. Now we just need the video pitting the smart car vs the Big Dummy/Xtracycle.
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Now if they would only make a steampunk version of a smartcar I would buy one
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About 40 years ago, I had a chance to ride in a Tucker. Ghod, what a car that would have been had it actually come out in 1948 as planned. There's 53 of them in existence, all pre-production prototypes.
I look at the Aptera and all I can see is a Tucker.
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Sadly, there are still companies out there marketing to the power-hungry, gas-guzzler, to-rich-to-care crowd. I saw one commercial the other day for a car where the city's power grid dipped as the car revved up. Sick imagery for these times.
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No, I apparently got busted by yanking a photo from this page:
https://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/lumber.asp
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No, I apparently got busted by yanking a photo from this page:
https://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/lumber.asp
https://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/lumber.asp
Edit to add: If snopes is concerned about copyright and so forth, they should be aware that Mr Yuk is a registered trademark of the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh...
Oh, I see it's been fixed. Never mind...
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So yes, cute video. But otherwise worthless.
Some better comparisons would have been:
1. I saved so much money in gas with the smart car I could afford to rent a pickup truck for the day...
2. I saved so much money in gas with the smart car I could afford in home delivery...
Or what I would love to see
A comparison of crash safety between the two. Frankly the main concerns that "I" see with people is that they don't feel the tiny cars would be safe enough on the roads.
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I'd add a #3, I saved so much money in gas with the Smart car I could afford to not buy the floor model.
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Then again, both of those options would be defeating the purpose of the Smart car. Renting a pickup truck means guzzling gas, and having home delivery (which is what I thought he was going to do) just sends another gas guzzler out there.
I'd add a #3, I saved so much money in gas with the Smart car I could afford to not buy the floor model.
I'd add a #3, I saved so much money in gas with the Smart car I could afford to not buy the floor model.
2. Busses and other mass transit are gas guzzlers. But they make it up by moving more people. Similarily getting delivery is still better than picking it up yourself in many cases. That delivery truck will lilkely make a bunch of deliveries in one run. One truck making say, 10 deliveries is gonna be better than 10 people coming individually to pick up their stuff.
But i never said those were great options either. Just a better comparison than what was shown in the video
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From one of the major car boards (edmunds.com), here's a real good, rational, honest look at what's going on with Hummer:
https://www.autoobserver.com/2008/06/...etly.html#more
https://www.autoobserver.com/2008/06/...etly.html#more
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This is America. They still have the right to drive what they want - as long as they can pay for it.
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Bike ≠ Car ≠ Ped.
If they order via mail order, they could skip the drive to the store entirely, of course.
But yeah, they certainly skewed the video to favored the Smart. They didn't try bringing home furniture from a garage sale, either.
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I think AM General was surprised that the Hummer could be sold as a civilian passenger vehicle. It is such a piggy car - an embarrassing testament to the Bush years of the USA's slathering over-indulgence. It was the equivelant of driving your kids to soccer in a military tank. Why? It made absolutely no sense at all other than complete vanity.
I don't know that the end of the Hummer is as surprising as the fact that it enjoyed any success in the consumer marketplace to begin with.
I don't know that the end of the Hummer is as surprising as the fact that it enjoyed any success in the consumer marketplace to begin with.
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No, I apparently got busted by yanking a photo from this page:
https://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/lumber.asp
https://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/lumber.asp
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Which one would you rather have under your butt at 30mph?"_krazygluon