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kleinbl00  ·  3442 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Elon Musk’s sleight of hand

One of my heartbreaking moments of auto enthusiasm was discovering that not only can I not work the clutch in a Lotus Esprit because my legs are too long, but that the act of getting into and out of an Elise gives me a charley horse. I've loved that damn Esprit since frickin' For Your Eyes Only. So I feel ya. Now that you mention it, my attempts to get into a Fiat 500 were similarly comical.

Friend has a Prius V. She loves it. They seem to be great beasties. Priuses, of course, are like belly buttons around here; everybody has one. I wouldn't worry too much about a rate hike. The Fed are a bunch of pussies and in the past week they slinked back from "mmmaybe 12 basis points" to "mmmmaybe early 2016."

as far as your numbers...

    The Department of Transportation also reported that the average fuel efficiency of trade-ins was 15.8 mpg (miles per gallon), compared to 24.9 mpg for the new cars purchased to replace them, translating to a 58% fuel efficiency improvement.

mk - where on the map is "a slightly less esoteric dialect of markup?"





user-inactivated  ·  3442 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I already know when they are going to raise rates. The week before my adjustable mortgage is recalculated in 2016. Because that is how luck works out.

Funny story saying that. I got an adjustable rate 15 year loan when I refinanced for 3.75%. Going with an adjustable, the Credit Union ate the filing fees and saved me about $2000 in costs. If the rates jump the max they are allowed to, over the life of the loan, I break even off a fixed rate loan.

The Prius V is looking like the winner. The only bad thing I hear about them is that if you load them full of gear and/or people they are hogs without a lot of power to spare. Then again I heard the same thing about the original Prius as well. I'm at that age where all I want a car to do is to go from A to B and save me money on insurance and gas. If I get the urge to drive something more exciting, I can rend something and go get it out of my system. I've never been in an Elise, but I have driven a Mazda RX8. I squeezed into the thing and about 20 minutes later realized I was doing 100MPH on a windy back-road, and if I got used to this I'd have to pay a few dozen speeding tickets a year.

kleinbl00  ·  3442 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Pretty much anything without a V8 is going to suffer under overloading and pretty much anything with a V8 is gonna get shitty gas mileage.

I hope to never be "at that age." My daily driver is a dodge stealth in ticket-me red, and has been for... shit. 12 years now.

user-inactivated  ·  3441 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I hope to never be "at that age." My daily driver is a dodge stealth in ticket-me red, and has been for... shit. 12 years now.

Oh neat. I have a PC that is worth more than most people's car. I also have optical gear worth more than most people's car come to think of it. I was never a car guy; I can appreciate the tech involved but never got into them for some reason.