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#1 2003-04-16 7:21 pm
What kind of car do you have?
Simple question. Give whatever specs you want. Post an image of your car (well, not YOURS unless you want to, but something from a manufacturer's site).
Me: 2000 Honda Insight Gas-Electric Hybrid in Silver.
2 seats, 3 doors. Manual 5-speed trans.
67 HP 995cc inline 3, plus a 10KW electric motor
Gets about 75-80 MPG, 0-60 in 10.6 sec.
picture:
Let's see those cars, people!
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#2 2003-04-16 7:26 pm
- Tallgeese
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Re: What kind of car do you have?
Me: 1981 Buick Regal, 4.4L V8
mine's a different color
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#3 2003-04-16 7:39 pm
Re: What kind of car do you have?
Simple question. Give whatever specs you want. Post an image of your car (well, not YOURS unless you want to, but something from a manufacturer's site).
Me: 2000 Honda Insight Gas-Electric Hybrid in Silver.
2 seats, 3 doors. Manual 5-speed trans.
67 HP 3-cyl gas engine and 10 KW electric motor.
Gets about 75-80 MPG, 0-60 in 10.6 sec.
If I had a car, it would be yours (or close).
Where's the "I got rid of my cars" option?
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#4 2003-04-16 7:40 pm
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Re: What kind of car do you have?
My dad's car is a Saab 9-5 Aero:
2.3 liter dynamically turbocharged engine with 250 h.p.
5-speed Manual Transmission
27 mpg highway when carrying four people, a trunk full of luggage, and a car-top carrier with ski equipment.
This body style.
This Color.
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#5 2003-04-16 9:06 pm
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Re: What kind of car do you have?
Um, didn't we do this last week.
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#7 2003-04-16 9:09 pm
- Tallgeese
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Re: What kind of car do you have?
Um, didn't we do this last week.
we didn't do the pics
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#8 2003-04-16 9:17 pm
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Re: What kind of car do you have?
I want to get an old VW bus and soup it up with either an old truck engine or an old Porche engine. And bigger tyres 
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#9 2003-04-16 9:27 pm
- goandeatsomestuff
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Re: What kind of car do you have?
i have a mere aston martin to tide myself over for the time
its powered by a timid V12 at a simple 5935cc, itll do for a few weeks
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#10 2003-04-16 9:40 pm
Re: What kind of car do you have?
Har Har.
No, earlier it was "what was your first car?" ('91 dodge minivan - well, the first i drove anyway)
Now, it's "What is your current car?"
Not "what is your dream car?" (lotus exige, btw)
also the pictures.
Meh. I'll take you on an a distance race any day! Me in a little 995cc (61 cu.in.) gas-electric and you in a massive DB7. I'll beat everyone here....can't beat 800+ miles on a tank of gas unless you have a 50 gallon tank.
Anyway....
No one else with an insight? Or even a honda? Any cool technologies like a GPS system?
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#11 2003-04-16 9:44 pm
- goandeatsomestuff
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Re: What kind of car do you have?
Me in a little 995cc (61 cu.in.) gas-electric and you in a massive DB7.
Anyway....
No one else with an insight? Or even a honda? Any cool technologies like a GPS system?
bah! its a vanquish not a puny DB7 
nah, my first car is gonna be a 91 accord sedan, but its in excellent condition - plus its got trunk space for lotsa subs
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#12 2003-04-16 10:00 pm
Re: What kind of car do you have?
oops, right. The DB7 is a Vantage i believe?
Crap. All these british car manufacturers naming their cars alliterally.
Lotus: Elan, Exige, Europa, Elise, Et cetera.
Grr.
No, I love the Insight. One kick-ass car - it almost has sports car handling, and it's faster (MaxS ~ 120MPH) than most of my friends' cars (of course, they're 96 saturns and such).
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#13 2003-04-16 10:32 pm
Re: What kind of car do you have?
How the hell did you afford a 2000 Insight anyway?
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#14 2003-04-16 11:08 pm
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Re: What kind of car do you have?
i have a mere aston martin to tide myself over for the time
its powered by a timid V12 at a simple 5935cc, itll do for a few weeks
It looks like a model.
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#15 2003-04-16 11:36 pm
Re: What kind of car do you have?
Jeep, and it sucks down gas like no other.
what kinda jeep you got? i showed my jeep in another thread something like this, but here ya go...
http://home.hawaii.rr.com/ilihia
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#16 2003-04-16 11:50 pm
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Re: What kind of car do you have?
My Car
sigh...
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#17 2003-04-16 11:59 pm
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Re: What kind of car do you have?
for THIISSS long :holds fingers touching eachother: I was almost going to have a '83 or '68 Ford E-150 van with a towing package...
Pretty lil' thing...
Cept it wasn't little!
I never got to :drive: it.... (being only 14 at the time anyway... and being as how mom didn't even drive it once before ridding herself of it...)
I wanted to fix it up and have a HUGE van for taking along some friends on Major Haul LIberation Trips...
Gee... I used to notl ike the older ford body style... but now I want a pre-93 ford van so that I can have that style
I have wanted one of the VW "hippy vans" for awhile though
Being only 15 now I guess I don't need to worry about it for a few months
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#18 2003-04-17 12:08 am
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Re: What kind of car do you have?
I don't have a car, although iWant a Holden of some sort....Holdens are kewl.
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#20 2003-04-17 3:50 pm
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Re: What kind of car do you have?
hehehe...
Holden - not quite a tank... but lasts forever...
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#21 2003-04-17 5:42 pm
Re: What kind of car do you have?
Man, another car thread? Well, I gots pictures of it at my website. Here's a link to the photo album of it (one of them...)
http://homepage.mac.com/unix_geek/PhotoAlbum10.html
Here's a pic of it.. it's a work in progress.
Oh. Almost forgot, it's a 1974 Plymouth Roadrunner.
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#22 2003-04-17 5:47 pm
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Re: What kind of car do you have?
Nice.
I've always admired classics but wouldn't want one for myself. btu then again i don't have anything
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#23 2003-04-17 7:26 pm
Re: What kind of car do you have?
I dunno...I never had anything for the 'classic' cars. I like new and fancy rather than old and nostalgic. Much rather have a Lotus Elise than a 1967 Corvette.
but the Insight is goooood...
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#24 2003-04-17 8:56 pm
- Lauren Lehtinen
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Re: What kind of car do you have?
i have a mere aston martin to tide myself over for the time
its powered by a timid V12 at a simple 5935cc, itll do for a few weeks
Adam (W'rk) and I saw 3 Aston Martins at Neiman Marcus last month. He got very excited. I didn't really care, but if they had been Hybrid Civics, I would have been drooling.
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#25 2003-04-17 9:06 pm
Re: What kind of car do you have?
Why hybrid civics? My friend has one and really it's not that different from a normal civic. The engine is a little quieter, it has the auto-stop at stoplights, and there's a green "hybrid" logo on the back. Also the instrument panel is different.
The Insight is MUCH cooler, believe you me....
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