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(I am thus including just about everyone in that case ;-)Here's the perfect car for you. It may even get you up a hill with a stiff breeze behind you. And it will only cost $15,000 here in Bermuda by the time gummint puts in duty and the blood sucking local car dealers jack up the price.
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Canadian of Dutch descent (and it was the Dutch who taught the Scots how to save money) I would have to agree with my esteemed colleague from Scotland. Two cars and a bike - minimum!
And now, back to stretching a penny to see how much 28AWG copper wire I can make.
jac - desperaudio
...'cause all it will do is clog up the major traffic arteries.
NT.
I'd hate to be in the rightmost lanes of a highway when one of these tries to merge into fast traffic. It's a rear-ender waiting to happen.
in that over here in the UK, it is routinely the slower traffic that uses the "inside lane" anyway, and faster traffic requiring to cross into these lanes to leave the motorway are expected to reduce their speed where necessary...Similarly the "lead-in" lanes to motorways are usually of sufficient length for traffic previously travelling at lower "town" speeds (perhaps 40mph) to comfortably accelerate to 60-65mph to join the motorway when a gap in traffic allows... They can then easily increase their speed to the official limit of 70mph (though probably more normally 80mph) as and when any gap appears in the middle or outside lanes that they may safely move into...
When a trunking lorry or another vehicle flashes to invite you into a developing gap it is usual to acknowledge the consideration given, and also usual to feel motivated to return the favour to other drivers...
Does the same generally polite flavour to driving not exist in the US?...
Bill.
Sad to say, it's a bit different here. Here, all the power available is sometimes enough. The "merge lanes" do exist, true, but very, very few people will make any effort to make it easy for the merging traffic. Generally, one has to look for an opening and mash the throttle in order to match the speed and slip into said opening.That's assuming that some dickhead in the center lane doesn't take it upon themselves to slip into the opening themselves.
But, this may only be a phenomena here in the greater NYC metro area. I wish we had a more civil driving environment but here it ain't about to be. When I drive in the Bahamas and Barbados I do notice a more civil attitude and respond accordingly.
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No need to discard your 1970s rear-engined Skoda yet, surely?...Those spark-plugs you purchased in 1998 have probably got a few more years in them yet!...
Bill.
I guess they're OK for those "streets", but not in the U.S. It would be nothing more than a ready-made coffin on our highways and main state routes. India has very few modern expressways and even the commercial vehicles are small. I think I could punch my way out if I had to.
;-)!??????prollya 3 door hatch/city car.
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
I understand that in past times complete Italian families were somehow shoe-horned into a Fiat 500 (Now that WAS small!)....No doubt the French occasionally attempted much the same in their Citroen 2CV/Dyane cars, though with the benefit of rather better suspension when coping with "indifferent" road surfaces...
Bill.
And it was able to take three kids plus Dad to Sydney, VERY slowly!;-)!!
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
got out to push when you came to a hill?...
it didn't look like the one in all those 60's Eyetie fillums, and this was when Dad was still not yet in hospital/dying slowly, which began in 1956 (or early '57) IIRC.So, far too early out here for the Nuovo 500 / Quinquecento and I've confirmed it WAS a Topolino by looking up Fiat 500 - for the 30's version.
Weird looking thing, too!
The one in the main photo on the page below, is a dead spit for Dad's, down to colour!?!?
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
$2500 in current dollars? I paid $1595 for a new car, 4 cylinder, stick, no ac, 40 mpg, in 1970, in 1970 dollars. That's $8,760 today, and I can't imagine something cheaper.
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"Occasionally we list eccentrically, all sense of balance gone."
when Ford workers earned $5.00 a dayGrins
in something like that. Heck, I can't even imagine cruising the streets of Chambersburg in one of those.I have seen a couple of vehicles that are quite similar running around town lately, but I thought someone was modifying golf carts or something.
The speed limit is 30mph and one is rarely in one's car for more than 20 minutes at a time, so something like this could be the answer to Dr. Brown's desire to reduce traffic here.
Neither can I, so don't do it!... Work from home, starting tomorrow...No commuting travel means a "low carbon footprint", after all...
IMO, the fact that your risk of heart attacks and strokes, ignoring possible accident injury, would be reduced should also be considered... Your employer should reasonably expect that you work conscientiously for the agreed conditioned hours, but not expect you to be willing to take on work under conditions that wear you out prematurely...
Bill.
Commuting is bad for your health. Half the people on my block work at home. Some, like me, never leave home except for recreation. Some come and go to see clients or go to court. Especially now with the internet we don't need to burn so much gas driving back and forth.
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"Occasionally we list eccentrically, all sense of balance gone."
Sometimes it is difficult. I've been preparing for audits, taxes, major changes in marketing plans and stuff like that lately. When things are routine I can almost blow off trips to the office altogether. It's the only way to go.
"I cannot possibly imagine cruising a SoCal freeway in something like that."That's 'cuz everyone there will make fun of you.
"Heck, I can't even imagine cruising the streets of Chambersburg in one of those."
And that's 'cuz everyone there will want one!
Ergo grex, ergo sum.
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