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Old 02-05-2008, 12:58 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Some humour for us gas savers



This is what happens when you drive a car with a W16 (16 piston engine arranged like this, each \ is a piston -----> \\_//) that runs out of fuel in 12 minutes at a top speed of 250mph.

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Old 02-05-2008, 03:47 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Ha ha, I googled "suv cartoon" and found this one :

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Old 02-05-2008, 08:37 PM   #3 (permalink)
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LOL, that was a good chuckle, I'll be passing that on to my dad who drives an Infinity QX-56 (the big honkin thing built off of the Nissan Armada). I think he said on a good day he gets 18mpg...ouch.
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