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Varn 12-26-2010 01:59 PM

New sport economy car introduced
 
Hybrid Cars | 2012 GTxi SSRT Sport Edition

Just think how much better our future will be :rolleyes:

Ryland 12-26-2010 05:11 PM

I don't get it.

Varn 12-26-2010 06:16 PM

It is about control. Get it?
Quote:

Originally Posted by Ryland (Post 211332)
I don't get it.


MadisonMPG 12-26-2010 06:20 PM

V3 = somebody's trolling.

Ryland 12-26-2010 08:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Varn (Post 211339)
It is about control. Get it?

Ah, I thought it was about being ill informed because the examples in that video are exactly that.
Add to that, that alot of the poor changes in American cars is mostly due to auto magazines and their poor opinion of anything that does the job without frills, vehicles that are labeled "death traps" tend to have great crash test ratings but what the auto magazines like are the vehicles that are "fun" and have 40 cup holders.

mnmarcus 12-26-2010 08:49 PM

I like how the "announcer" gets the name wrong at first, calls it a "...GTxi SS/R1".

Rokeby 12-26-2010 09:25 PM

What a novel idea: political commentary thinly masked by
sophomoric humor based on the automobile.

You simply cannot imagine my excitement in finding this kind
of juvenile, knee-jerk ignorance at ecomodder.

In keeping with the central theme of this forum, YMMV. :D

jcp123 01-08-2011 04:35 AM

Love it :)

wdb 01-08-2011 10:41 AM

He said "ninety nine cents" but the real number was ninety five!

http://i710.photobucket.com/albums/w...elson-haha.gif

ai_vin 01-08-2011 11:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ryland (Post 211332)
I don't get it.

It's simple, the real joke here is that the Republicans HAVE to resort to strawman attacks on the Democrats while the truth about their own ridiculous policies is funny enough.

jamesqf 01-08-2011 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by ai_vin (Post 213886)
It's simple, the real joke here is that the Republicans HAVE to resort to strawman attacks on the Democrats while the truth about their own ridiculous policies is funny enough.

The sad part is that you can exchange Republican and Democrat in that sentence, and - at least to us unbiased, nonpartisan types - leave its truth value completely unchanged.

dremd 01-13-2011 08:55 PM

I spy a troll.

Varn 01-13-2011 09:46 PM

When I was a kid in the 60s we drove around town on the "circuit" Averaging 19 mph but going as fast as we could between stop lights.

The cars all had a lope in the idle, either from a cam or from mal adjusted stock carbs. Gas was about 4 gallons per dollar so who cared about fuel economy.

Now that India and China are burning fuel faster than we could ever imagine, price of fuel is out of sight, over 3 bux for one gallon.

I haven't driven my big vans for a while and am driving my vw diesel jetta. Still hoping that I can afford an older turag v10 diesel before I retire.

I hate what this country has become. We've become dependent on chinese loans and have politicians that can not spend their tax dollar incomes fast enough. I read that the leader of Illinois gave his executives a 23% increase in pay and now wants a 66% in income tax. I am tired of bending over for insertion of another injection of tax. Glad that I am a citizen of Missouri.

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Originally Posted by Old Tele man (Post 215025)
...isn't it "funny" that HUMOR and RUMOR have so MUCH in common?

...what do they have in common you ask?

...Answer: a 'grain-of-truth'

...and, what red-blooded American teenager ain't gonna love the built-in 'protection' of that dash-mounted condom dispenser!


wyatt 01-13-2011 11:42 PM

Wow, apparently only democrats want a car that gets good MPGs, and only democrats listen to NPR. Therefore, I guess I am a democrat.

jamesqf 01-14-2011 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by wyatt (Post 215038)
Wow, apparently only democrats want a car that gets good MPGs, and only democrats listen to NPR. Therefore, I guess I am a democrat.

Nope. I drive a car that gets good mpg (Honda Insight), and I used to listen to the local NPR station back in the days when it mostly played classical music, but I sure as h*ll ain't no Democrat. Nor Republican neither :-)

PS: And you'd be amazed at the number of Escalade-sized SUVs with Obama bumperstickers that're running around this area.

Nevyn 01-14-2011 01:15 PM

I love NPR, and I'm NOT a democrat for sure. Also not republican. We have a Prius in my hometown with McCain/Palin, NRA, and Obama-bashing stickers on it too. :)

menaus2 01-16-2011 02:57 PM

Hey, I lol'd... even though I'd consider myself a moderate progressive.

Varn 02-01-2011 10:30 PM

I surly don't want to get into politics either. I have lived here 31 years and never have seen this much cold or snow. My cars sit outside and are buried in drifts.

BTW progressives are left of communists. NPR is left of progressives.

Last week I heard one of my patients tell me that they were going to Australia next year for vacation. They are on public aid and their medical care was paid for by you workers. Glad you guys are willing to support their vacation. It was not an isolated comment. PM me and I have 20 more.

euromodder 02-02-2011 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Varn (Post 218212)
Last week I heard one of my patients tell me that they were going to Australia next year for vacation. They are on public aid and their medical care was paid for by you workers. Glad you guys are willing to support their vacation. It was not an isolated comment.

(What should be called The People's Kingdom of)
Belgium even has a gov't scheme to sent social cases on a subsidized holiday !


Affordable health care, fine.
Some social protection when you lose your job, fine.
But this social security thing has gone way off track.

Varn 02-02-2011 06:46 PM

Here they call their welfare check a "paycheck" as in "I get my paycheck next week".

So as with most full time jobs they should be entitled to a vacation so that they can unwind, free from the stresses of watching daytime TV.

As far as losing their job many never work. Their parents never worked and their children will never work. They are fine living on the margins of society.

Look for civil war when society figures out that there is no money for non workers.

I don't know much about Belgium except that I have a Cobra low racer bicycle made there.

Quote:

Originally Posted by euromodder (Post 218336)
(What should be called The People's Kingdom of)
Belgium even has a gov't scheme to sent social cases on a subsidized holiday !


Affordable health care, fine.
Some social protection when you lose your job, fine.
But this social security thing has gone way off track.


Arragonis 02-03-2011 08:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by euromodder (Post 218336)
But this social security thing has gone way off track.

Agreed, and I'm a leftie :D. You guys sorted out a Government yet ?

euromodder 02-03-2011 05:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arragonis (Post 218418)
You guys sorted out a Government yet ?

No, and it doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon either.
I'm convinced we WILL break the world record currently held by Iraq.
Yes, we CAN ! :)

No problem, things seem to actually go better without an active government than with one :)
The outgoing government is just doing some housekeeping - which is actually what it should always do.
We only need to convince the financial markets of that little fact.

We've already got laws aplenty anyway, so we don't really need any more of them.

Arragonis 02-04-2011 04:49 AM

Stability looks like being the key. That Gapminder website included a neat lecture on why although we think that free, democratic societies tend to be the ones with the best economic development its actually the ones that are the most stable for the longest period of time.

I'm still waiting for our new government to do anything it said it would before being elected, other than supposedly deep spending cuts which actually only slow down the increase in spending and not reduce it.

Anyway this is not a political thread...:D


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