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- jevad0
sorry kinetic...didn't mean to JDYT there...really thought I would favour an SUV in my instance simply because I do a lot of driving in teh mountains - on and off road - and the winters here are major...I also have a dog and 2 bikes to get around...so an SUV is more suited to teh job...
- Gorbie0
Mimio - they're not even on the same charts as gas powered vehicles.
it's funny when you stop at a light, and the car shuts down. complete silence. you have to be careful when driving in parking lots. people have no idea that you are driving behind them.
- jevad0
Runs that quiet huh?
- BonSeff0
i drive an suv in the city bitches.
i have a 90lb german shepard i drag around. + i like the space.
i haul a trailer with bikes and friends to the mx track.
little cars suck, i drove em in college.the hybrid is nice though.
- Gorbie0
silent.
the gas engine shuts off when stopped and kicks back in at about 15-20 mph.
all you can hear is the tires rubbing the ground.
- kinetic0
my mom has an SUV...a jimmy...bit of a gas guzzler...but she loves it
any time she gets in a jam she just throws the 4x4 on and she can get out no problem. we live in the sticks so the snow can get really crazy.
- Mimio0
I'm just saying that most hybrids have Gas internal combustion engines. They just emit less.
- jevad0
"i haul a trailer with bikes and friends to the mx track. "
that's another ok reason for having an suv
- Gorbie0
yes, i know. the important fact is that the gas engine doesn't run when you're idle - which is when emissions are the worst.
i get better mileage in stop & go traffic than i do at 65 mph. it's totally backwards.
- Soler0
they emit less, it's hydrogen powered cars that have zero (h20) emissions.
AND, 35mpg is not all that impressive. for an SUV, sure, but a honda'll get that any day. If you had a front wheel drive honda you'd do fine in the snow. But, for offroading (do you really do that?) it wouldn't work
- Mimio0
I'm sure 98% of the people that own SUVs have reasons.
- Kids
- Sports
- Pets
- BoatsThe other 2% is for those Hummer owners who just have small dicks.
- Mimio0
That's awesome Gorbie I want one.
- jevad0
SOler -
"35mpg is not all that impressive. for an SUV, sure"
I meant for an SUV really...and I don't go offroading but our place in teh mountains is 'off the beaten track' as they say.....
- Soler0
where in the mountains jevad
- Soler0
maybe this would work a little better than an Escape:
- nomis0
I'm quite late to this but it amuses me you americans seem impressed with 35mpg! I'd be fairly pissed off if my little 1.2 litr e polo went above that on my rush hour trips to the city..
Its a joke, hydrogen cars are ready, work perfectly, but we can't have them cause the petroleum companies won't develop/install hydrogen pumps at stations because they've still a lot of oil to rip people off on.. fucking joke..
- one2meny0
Mimio, shut up. Go hug a tree if you want to drive something the size of needle's tip. If Jevad wants to drive a SUV it's his privelege if he can afford it. The thing gets 35 mpg, what more do you want? Most sedans can't even boast those numbers. Until you move out to europe and start driving a SMART, shut your trap!
BTW, the Smart car rocks, they should be standard issue in NYC.
Jevad, I'm with you on the environmental and cost appeal on a hybrid SUV, but it is still a ford, and well, it's a ford...
- Soler0
not to mention there is no economical way to produce hydrogen...
and it is also very unstable and blows up easily. Although, Bush has a plan to get Nuclear energy making hydrogen
- BonSeff0
i read somewhere that the big 4 car mfg's own a lot of stock in oil refineries and vice versa. so completely dropping gas guzzlers wouldn't happen.
- Gorbie0
it amuses me that europeans still find diesel acceptable.
and hydrogen is not the answer.
hydrogen - like oil - must be refined. that process produces nothin but carbon dioxide. oil refineries would have to be replaced by hydrogen refineries, and that is pointless.