Rant: the big lie

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If a person was truly interested in improving the environment they would simply recycle their old car. New engine, trans, seats, axels, tires, drums, body panels, dash, steering wheel, rotors, springs, steering and suspension linkages, whatever it may need, and you have done more for the environment than if you had spent your entire life picking up cans on the side of the road.
 
magnumdart said:
If a person was truly interested in improving the environment they would simply recycle their old car. New engine, trans, seats, axels, tires, drums, body panels, dash, steering wheel, rotors, springs, steering and suspension linkages, whatever it may need, and you have done more for the environment than if you had spent your entire life picking up cans on the side of the road.
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How about doing what we are doing? Keep that old car going. That enviromental footprint associated with manufacturing and recycling will not repeat as long as you keep your car on the road. Go ahead, rebuild that moredoor Dart and enjoy. They were terrific cars in their day and still will earn their keep as a daily driver.
 
ive actualy noticed prius drivers driving slow around here, in fact they are usualy in my way. but anyway how long do you think it is before those batteries go bad? sounds like it would be an expensive replacement.
 
I regularly knocked down 33mpg (steady cruse at 65-70) with my 88 M3. This was with a normally aspirated engine that was making 1.4hp per cubic inch, stock.

The pic below is my old car. That is not a body kit or aftermarket wing. It's was 100% stock including the factory BBS wheels.



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I don't know about y'all, but I want to live in "commercial land"!!! You know the place, where nobody is fat, all the girls are good looking, and you can skirt the facts using "catch" words like "could" and "may" instead of "can" and "will". When I see a commercial for anything, I turn on the crap-o-matic 3000 and weed out all the filler and bull, and guess what??? No truth to any of it!! I agree with Gryzynx, do your part by keeping the older cars alive and not buying a new vehicle every 2 years cause "leases are cheap" or some other gov't driven lie!!! E85 don't work, hybrids are a tremendous waste, Viagra don't get you laid more, and no amount of fiber and Special K is gonna slim down Bertha!!! Got it??? Nuff said!!! Geof
 
I hate the new hybrid, and any vehicle that has E85 on it... Every one I see on the road, I want to shoot it with an RPG...With the driver still in the car...
 
Nothing makes me smile more than sitting stopped in traffic beside a Prius in my Dart, throwing it in neutral and revving the 340 until the light changes. You should see the looks I get from the drivers of these little POS's.
 
Whenever someone brags to me about getting good mileage in their Prius, I tell them about how I hypermile in my 1990 Protege (which is probably worth a grand if you're being generous) and have gotten 50 MPG on a tank of gas before.
 
Hate those tree savers who drive smart cars. My granny knows a lady who bought one. Even she thinks there stupid. ESPECIALLY in PG. Winters hit -35 C. Also we've got logging trucks that regularly run through town.Your smart car isn't gonna look so smart when you POS car is plastered to the front end of a Mack truck. I just hate how everbody in buying into that MPG craze. Look at Chevy, advertising how they get an extra 1mpg or 2. Everybody knows you rarely get actual number of MPG advertised. Driving style is probably gonna have a bigger affect on fuel economy than an extra 2 or 3MPG.
 
I had a older man in a Prius pull up next to me at a stop light. I was in my Roadrunner with the top down just enjoying the day. He starts ragging on me about all the polution my car is putting out. I just smiled and said he was just jellious that my car was worth more than his house and drove away.
 
jaws said:
I had a older man in a Prius pull up next to me at a stop light. I was in my Roadrunner with the top down just enjoying the day. He starts ragging on me about all the polution my car is putting out. I just smiled and said he was just jellious that my car was worth more than his house and drove away.
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Next time say "Hey buddy, my car is a hybrid...it burns rubber, and gas." :cheers::snakeman::cheers::bootysha::thebirdm::munky2:
 
cudaspaz said:
Next time say "Hey buddy, my car is a hybrid...it burns rubber, and gas." :cheers::snakeman::cheers::bootysha::thebirdm::munky2:
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If that doesn't elicit at least a smile, then there is no hope. May he or she die of global warming.
 
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