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Yes! I am keeping my Toyota FOREVER! Awesome!
I want a Toyota! All I have is a Hyundai.
*owns a toyota scion tc*
You need to get one, Rando.
For real, dude.
Uh, can I borrow $20,000?
Best car my wife and I ever had…’93 Geo Prizm. What’s that, you say? A GEO? Ah, but you see, Geo had bought the old plans for the Toyota Corolla once Toyota changed up the model, so the ’93 Geo Prizm was very much a Toyota Corolla in Geo’s clothing. Right down to the Toyota logo on the engine. That car was awesome until some retard hit me head on in 2001. :-\
Geo didn’t buy old plans – the Prizm was simply the same car rebadged (not the previous model), both built in the joint-venture GM/Toyota factory in California. Before the Prizm, it was the same deal with the Corolla and the last Chevy Nova, and after the Prizm they did the same thing with the Toyota Matrix/Pontiac Vibe.
Another Toyota driver here – ’01 Echo.
Is that what is was? Okay, I didn’t know that part. I just knew it was a Corolla with a Geo logo slapped on it for a much reduced price. Absolutely a great car. I thought those Vibes were neat too. I had one for a rental car once. Fun little car.
Our ’98 Prizm has over 189K miles. The engine rattles a bit which bothers me, but the guy we take it to to be serviced said his brother in law had a Prizm that went for 300K before it went kaput. I am shooting for that goal. It beats making payments!
Not even toyotas brakes stop toyotas!
I love my Toyota too! I drive a Rav-4.
Me too! I drive a Prius because I’m an unbearable latte-drinking, tree-hugging liberal.
I’d buy a Prius if I could afford it, and I’m a rotten ebil selfish conservative.
Ironically, aside from the safety reasons I cited, I drive a Continental because I don’t have much $. I picked the ’02 up for $7000.
I’d buy a Prius if I could, but only because Jeff Dunham made them funny.
Or Family Guy.
“I thought only he without sin could cast the first Prius.”
Or The Office. Classic!
“If he keeps it below 5 mph he’s on electricity, and is silent.”
South Park? The Pius owners created a cloud of smug. That was great. Plus the people in San Francisco sniffing their own farts in wine glasses.
OMG, I forgot about that episode! Classic South Park!
Yeah, the cloud of smug from George Clooney’s acceptance speech was going to collide with San Francisco’s and South Park’s smug clouds and create the perfect storm of self-satisfaction.
I almost bought a Prius, but I was a latte-drinking, tree-hugging li… er, well conservativish type who also happened to be a broke college student at the time. So I got a used Corolla for about a forth of the price even though it was only 2 years old.
They’re nice efficient cars. I’d buy one if I could afford one. As it is, I drive a 1995 Saab 900 that is a veritable tank of a car. Steel body FTW!
I had a ’91 Toyota 4Runner, I loved that truck. It was basically stolen due to some .. Legal mumbo jumbo.
I now have a Honda Civic. Don’t hate me!
Honda is another car I’d like to own. I’d love to have a Civic for a second car. Or a Corolla.
It’s a good car. Fo sho. We had the 4Runner and an ’83 Beemer but after too many times of them BOTH not working at the SAME TIME and me having to miss work, I decided I had to do something. So I got rid of the Beemer and got the Civic. So far, so good.
I had an 89 Civic that I bought when my El Camino quit working. One day I stopped to eat lunch and when I came back out the thing wouldn’t turn over at all. I lifted the hood to check the battery connection and everything looked fine. I finally realized it had something to do with pushing the brake in when I tried to start it or something. I went back out to close the hood, forgetting that it had a stick holding it up instead of the hinge on the El Camino, and bent the hood in half. I was so mad at myself for doing that, I just held the hood up and punched it back into shape. The funny thing is there was one little dimple on the hood from that. Otherwise you never would have known that I doubled the hood over within the first week of ownership.
Ugh, I hate Dodge. Hate hate hate. Never had a good experience with Dodge.
I had a good Dodge once. It was a ’78 Colt, ugly as sin. My dad bought it new, and I got it after he died; it was still good for a few more years of hard driving then! I guess I got it in ’91, and it was a couple of years after that before the engine finally gave out at around 200k.
I had an 04 Corolla that was great but I traded it in for a used Jeep when I was trying to get through a rough time and couldn’t afford a car payment. I wish I had that car back. I had to get rid of the Jeep a year later because the Dodge transmission they use was going out on it.
Yeah, I hardly ever hear anything good about Dodge transmissions. When we had a Caravan, the transmission went out on it way too soon for our tastes. What a money pit that thing was.
almost everyone I know who has a minivan, a truck, or an suv with a Dodge transmission has had problems with them after 100k miles. Usually right after.
I have a 2003 Dodge Caravan with 103k miles on it. Not a problem one. Y’all who say that Dodges are crap…. poo on y’all.
I think ours might be the exceptions that prove the rule, collegekitteh! Chrysler’s not had a great reliability rep over the past 20 years or so, sadly. Hope your Caravan keeps being an exception!
All I can say is the first time you feel the gear slip when you are driving you better drive straight to a dealership and hope they don’t notice. I don’t hate Dodges. I still have an 88 D100 that was my grandfathers, but they do have a lot of problems with transmissions. My brother-in-law worked as a mechanic for a Dodge Dealership and he said they were constantly replacing transmissions in the Caravans and Durangos.
Last two cars have been Toyotas. I LOVE my Solara! Would have loved to get a Prius but I couldn’t wait for it.
I waited 9 months for mine! But that was back when they first came out, five years ago. I just paid it off last month. It’s a fantastic car, great safety ratings, roomy, and can hold an 7″ Christmas tree…inside
Nine months!!! You totally “birthed” that Prius! I couldn’t wait, as much as I wanted to. My Camry got totalled and I needed a new car. Next car will be a Prius (or whatever new cool technology Toyota puts out).
The new Prius is pretty sweet – even better mileage and some cool new features.
And can go from 0-15 in 2.2 minutes!!! Here in DC in the HOV it’s usually a Prius slowing everyone down, including the buses.
Must be slow drivers, the Prius has some good get-up-and-go, more than my manual Honda Civic anyway
The new Prius has a 0-60 of about 10 seconds, and gets 50 mph. Pretty sweet.
If it only gets 50 mph, how does it go 0-60?
Ooops
I meant mpg!
A 7 inch Christmas tree?
I can give you better than that….
Heeee right, 7′ I mean
The symbol looks more like Opel or Nissan. Not Toyota at all.
quiet you, enjoy teh funneh
I was thinking Nissan, too. If it were an Opel it probably wouldn’t work even it it hadn’t been hit by…uh…whatever hit this car.
I’m thinking maybe Mazda actually. It’s hard to tell since the logo has been pretty much destroyed too.
it’s a porshe, you just can’t tell ‘cuz of the dirt
who me? i … probably am
Yeah. Not a Toyota. While my ’91 Corolla can sure kick some serious ass, this car isn’t even a cousin.
THANK YOU!!!!! Why did no one else catch that?
Not according to my insurance company.
Because they’re some of the most popular cars with thieves.
True! But what I was thinking of when I posted that is the time my daughter’s Camry got rear-ended at a light and although the damage left it quite driveable and just in need of some body work and taillights, they totaled it.
With Frankencar still out of commission, I’ll happily take this one. I’ve always wanted a convertible.
And it’s customized. You can’t find good custom faded paint like that anymore. This is a steal.
they did a bang up job, that’s for sure
that is cor-wrecked
Getting the booster seats in the backseat might be an issue, though.
Once the kids figure out the buckles, you are going to have a hard time keeping them in the back seat!
Duct tape. Works every time.
And you can tape the kids to the roof of the car if they get to acting really bad.
Froo, are we related? Cause I think we learned child care and safety from the same person.
Can you use foil-reenforced tape when they get to teen-hood?
True story:
My son was a baby, my daughter was a toddler and I was sleep deprived. We had been at a church picnic and I was leaving with the kids. I put my son in his car seat on the roof of the car while I got my daughter strapped into her seat. I then got into my seat, started that car and put it in gear. I couldn’t figure out why my husband was shouting and waving his arms and running toward the car with a horrified look on his face. I thought maybe he had forgotten to tell me something.
My son never laughs when I tell this story.
“My son never laughs when I tell this story”
OMG! But we’re laughing! That’s hysterical, LG! I needed a really good laugh this morning.
I’m guessing your daughter, on the other hand, thinks it’s VERY funny! I laughed, too.
I can totally see that happening, having had infants and toddlers myself.
There was a father who did that…and got onto Route 128 (3 to 4 lanes in each direction for most of the highway). Car seat fell off of the car, but the kid was totally fine–GOOD carseat. Very tired and very upset father. Not to mention the driver behind him, who was borderline hysterical.
My kids have the buckles figured out. There’s just no way in hell they’re sitting in the front seat. Or leaving those boosters until they’re 10. We don’t fvck around with car safety.
I have a Lincoln Continental.
What? It’s an extremely safe car. My live-in girlfriend has osteoporosis, and she matters more to me than gas mileage.
You make me one of those minicars that can take being T-boned (by some idiot kid in a Honda, no less) like my last Lincoln did, and then we’ll talk about fuel efficiency.
She lives in the car? Thats one big ride!
It is pretty frickin’ huge, actually. I can’t fit it in the tiny garage of my little house.
(But at least I can still make the mortgage payments on the little house.)
I’ve never understood the purpose of having a large house. Unless you can afford a maid, it’s just more to clean. I live for the day when I can find a one bedroom house. They don’t seem to make those around here.
After renting this house for 3 years, I long for the days of apartment living.
I hate apartments. Why do they call them apartments when they are all stuck together?
I can put up with all the annoyances of having your neighbors stuck to you as long as I don’t have to do all the crap that comes with being in a house. Especially one with a ginormous backyard and a creek behind it. Blah.
That’s why I have a husband.
Oh..
Yeah. Mr. Fix-It I’m not. And my landlord takes forever to actually get anything done. The floor in my daughter’s old room (now it’s storage) was literally rotting away right through the floor for a year before he replaced the floor and the carpet. And by replaced the floor, I mean put a new floor right on top of the the rotting one. That doesn’t include A/C, furnace, stove, plumbing, and water heater problems that he’s tried to dodge. Now, when he finally gets things fixed, he usually does it well. It just takes so much extra time.
Get a home warranty.
If I have to pay for it, I don’t want it. I’ve already got renter’s insurance. That’ll do. LOL Which I almost had to use after that one hurricane that hit Texas last fall made a 90 degree right turn and made a beeline for St. Louis. It was the first tropical depression I’d ever experienced. And it turned my entire backyard into a raging river. I thought the propane tank was gonna float away. It’s a miracle the lawn tractor still runs.
Well, your landlord could get one. If he plays his cards right you can get all sorts of new stuff.
Just don’t get HWA. I don’t want you to get mad at me when I reject your claim and post nasty things about me on FB
You could try like my cousins. She loves yardwork, and her husband likes air conditioning. So in the summer, he does house-husband stuff.
Who me? Post nasty things on FB? I would NEVER do such a thing. I’ve never blasted my boss, pharmacies, Fox, or anything else I’ve had issues with on FB. *whistles innocently*
Your boss deserves it though.
I think the boss deserves worse. Can we find a way to post him into a lol? Maybe with those hateful ‘Christian’ protesters?
I’m going to have to call in tomorrow AND Friday most likely too. I’m SO not going to be answering any of his pissy phone calls or text messages. Why we all started using text messages to communicate at work I don’t know. It gives him a unique opportunity to berate me at home without me being able to stop him.
Just start sending him messages in the middle of the night, he might get the picture.
They should call them “togetherments.”
Flats.
That’s what they are…
What about tenements?
Too many negative connotations. I picture millions of roaches scurrying every time the light is turned on.
*grabs beers & hands one to charro*
Mexican prison you say? Reallyyyy….
*cracks beer and puts up feet*
Yes.. I knew this guy once, he got arrested in Mexico. They held him in the police station, then shipped him to prison, no bail. I don’t even know if they have that concept in Mexico. We were very close, and I had some money, so I hired a lawyer for him.
Well, being a whitey in a Mexican prison is tough, especially when you speak little Spanish. So, I pretended to be his wife (I forged a marriage certificate) so I could visit him and bring him stuff. I stayed with a very nice Mexican family who had children that screamed a lot. I paid them rent, they left me alone aside from feeding me. The family also had someone in the same prison, we would go to visit together on visiting days.
Pretending to be his wife had a benefit, they allowed “conjugal visits”, if you bribed the guards enough. So, every week, I would go to the prison and spend the night.
There were LOTS of roaches, EVERYWHERE. They crawled all over everything and things were filthy and disgusting. They crammed 6 OR MORE people into cells designed to hold 3 prisoners. There was a section of the prison where there were upwards of 15 people in these cells, people who were not allowed to leave the cells. They had no bowls, plates, silverware or anything (any amenities ANYONE had inside came from the outside, if you bribe the guards enough to allow it in of course; I brought my friend an air conditioner). Keep in mind this is the Sonoran Desert, and during the summer the heat is oppressive. I saw one man get wheeled out, dead, in a wheelbarrow. It was a depressing and very scary time. Prisoners were barely fed, if your family did not bring you food you got a cup of beans and a cup of water once a day to survive on.
Fortunately, many bribes and court dates later, my friend was released (after 6 months).
That’s my story. *drinks deeply of the beer* Thanks, Hel.
*brings Charro a case of beer* Hoo-doggy, that is one scary story!
That sounds so unbelievably horrible. I’m so sorry. *hugs* Your friend was very lucky to have you there.
What was I thinking giving you a beer?? *hands over b0ng and bottle of St0li*
*gets really hammered*
Now let me tell you about when I went cow tipping.. *slurs and falls asleep, drooling*
But they’re not all flat…
But individual flats only have one floor. See?
Ah, got it. I’d happily take a nice 2-bedroom flat/apartment over this dump at this point. But moving is expensive.
Gods it sure is. I live in a 1 bedroom hellhole in the ghetto with a Doosh for a landlord.. But it’s $500/month. And the electric bill is like $50. And that’s all I pay.
Why are you paying so much for electric? That seems too high for our state.
Um, I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not. When I lived in my sister’s house the bull was like $200.
Er.. So was the bil..
ACHK!!!! *headdeskheaddeskheaddeskheaddeskheaddesk*
B I L L
Ah, got it. I wasn’t being sarcastic. I’ve got a really huge place and my electric bill is usually less than $40/month (and that’s will all kinds of vampire appliances that I forget to turn off consistently). That’s why I was asking.
Now I feel like I’m being ripped off. Curse you.. Whoever the electric company is!! ComEd. That’s it. Curse you ComEd!!!
Maybe Charro’s heat/hot water is electric? Although if you lived in my state, I doubt you would get away with $50 a month for electric in the winter, even if your heat/hot water were gas!
I have “budget billing” here in the STL where they make you pay the average of your electrical bills over a 12 month period and my electric bill is $120 every month. If we didn’t do that, we’d be facing AT LEAST $200 bills during the summer. I’ve never had a $40 electricity bill.
Heat and hot water are paid for by the landlord. I have a separate electric for my portion of the house. I can only guess why it’s that high. I have a lot of electronics, but I don’t really know how electricity works anyway.
I have no idea why it’s so low. Cause heat is natural gas? But even in super hot summers I’ve never paid more than $60 to $80.
A pox on you people and your low electricity bills! I haven’t had one lower than three digits since I moved out of my parents’ house!
Although in May of this year we had a particularly nice stretch of weather, and since I’m a total Nazi about turning off the air when we’re not in the house, we had one that was $120.
The sad part is, I’m paying less for electricity in the house we’re in now than I did in the apartment we used to live in. Old second-level apartment coupled with bad insulation and crappy landlords who wouldn’t install double paned windows or replace door seals make for high costs.
Do you have central air? I have window units which are much more cost effective. I think my bill went up about $3 in the summer vs. winter. But I don’t need it super cold, I’m from AZ so I’m sued to keeping the a/c around 70-80.. Anything lower than that, with central air, in AZ means $440+ bills..
*wipes off pox*
It’s not OUR fault you live in TX..
Oh yeah, those are things I miss about apartment living. Didn’t have to pay for trash, sewer, gas. Ugh. I have to pay $700 or more every time the propane tank needs to be filled. I can’t do monthly payments on that.
I do have central air, but I keep it around 80º pretty much all the time. The reason it was so high the last month or so is because I’ve been home all the time and suffering from major hot flashes. I hope I can keep it off a little more, especially since we’re finally supposed to be getting some cold weather down here.
I want to get window units, but my snob of a husband and mother gang up on me and make fun of how they look.
Godsdamnit. I meant 79 to 80 degrees.
Even in an apartment in the NE, you would be paying for heat/hot water most of the time. Only exception would be if you had a small apartment in your landlord’s huge Victorian. And even then, they would have probably installed a separate meter. Heat for an apartment in the winter runs 200 a month and up, depending on how well insulated it is. Electricity is separate. Probably ran my roommate and I 50 dollars a month…pre-internet and flatscreen TV, however. Pre-internet, the computer got turned off when the work was done!
Oh yes. Lord knows that aesthetics are MUCH more important than say.. Saving money..
I do live in a two flat, Dooshy lives downstairs. I think the house is actually owned free and clear, so that’s probably why there is not a separate system for heaters.
I’m trying to talk him into a window unit for the back of the house for the window into our bedroom. That way at least we can be comfortable……….Leia’s room stays pretty nice even in the summer with just a fan on.
My electric, natural gas (furnace, stove, hot water heater) water, garbage collection, and sewer are all on one bill. We have (at this point) basically a 3 bedroom house of probably about 1400 square feet heated/cooled. There’s a large fourth bedroom and bath on the back but we’ve not managed to get it finished, so I’m not counting that as we’re not doing anything back there. Anyway, I’d say my total utilities average a hair over $200 a month; more in the very cold and hot months but never less than about $125 or so. I’ve got August’s bill sitting here for some reason and it was about $20 for gas, $110 electric, $6 water, $2.50 sewer, $20 garbage (ripoff!) 0.75 “mosquito and rodent control fee” which also seems like a ripoff as we still have mosquitos and rodents galore in my neighborhood, and a $3.65 storm water fee, which I hope doesn’t mean they are charging me for rain, although I wouldn’t put it past them.
Wait…$6 for water? Dude, I’m totally getting ripped off for utilities here.
Well, it’s just showers, laundry, and cooking/dishwashing for 3 people. I don’t have a dishwasher, so that’s just filling the sink; and I’ve got a very efficient front-loader washing machine. We don’t have a pool or a hottub or water the lawn, really. Oh, and my son’s not a big fan of personal hygiene yet so he’s in and out of the shower VERY quickly, lol.
My water bills are low (mos[[tly me except on alternate weekends, and I’m not extravagant), and except for summer/garden watering season, they run $20 a month.
My city utility bill is $338 this month, and that is not even the biggest one, by far. But keep in mind I have 5 kids. And the youngest is Autistic, and is not aware of bowel movements until it’s too late, so we wash a lot, and have extra showers.
Insert Seinfeld punchline slap bass music.
You should read up on car safety, those old heavy cars aren’t as safe as you might think.
Protective systems have come a long way since 1970.
He didn’t say it was old….they DID make the Continental through the 2002 model year. (Although to be fair, he didn’t say it wasn’t old, either.)
My current Continental is an ’02.
My previous was was a ’99.
They are virtually identical, except the ’02 has a few more cool toys (like the 6-CD changer and heated seats).
It was the ’99 that survived the aforementioned T-boning (insert crude joke here). It was totaled, but the passenger (on the side that was struck) escaped with only minor whiplash.
The driver of the other car was a teenager, on her cellphone, with a little yapdog running loose in the car.
The impressive reliability of Toyota’s can’t be denied, as is shown in this picture.
However, I think Japanese cars don’t have a lot of soul and as a car fanatic I don’t like them.
People should stop thinking that Priuses save the planet, because they have already killed more trees than most other vehicles before they have driven even one mile. The complex engineering of hybrid drive requires lots of rare materials that have to be transported to the factories from all over the world. This is done by ship. Big, stinky, oil consuming, polluting ships.
That actually reminds me of another ecological conundrum:
The mercury issues involved with the use of those “green” compact fluorescent lightbulbs.
Wow, that’s interesting. I also heard that those green lightbulbs produce less heat and so you use your heater more in the winter than you would if you used the old kind, not sure how true that is though.
That effect exists but is rather minimal.
Personally, I don’t use my lightbulbs as a heater anyway.
I like to break my lightbulbs and smoke meth with them. That saves on the heating bill too, you’re too tweaked out to realise you’re freezing.
Well, those halogen bulbs put off a LOT of heat, but I think you’d be better off running the furnace.
My house has such poor insulation (and hardwood floors, yikes) that we’ve gotta have the furnace churning all winter no matter what. And it’s propane. Ugh. I hate this house.
My flat doesn’t have central heating -it has those weird filament heaters that smell of burning dust…. And set off the fire alarm. (Well, only once, but still…)
We have some weird jury rigged oil contraption my landlord made. The tstat is in the basement, and he controls it. Consequently the temp stays at about 50 degrees all winter so I have a portable electric heater, a heated bed pad, two kitties and a hubby for warmth.
@charro – Are you renting from my former landlord??
Is your former landlord named Branko?!?!
Nope, but he could be using an alias. Cause that “heating” situation sounds way too familiar (and illegal, btw).
Yeah, I was going to say…that sounds very illegal.
you want bitter troll smash puny landlord?
Oh I’m sure it is. I keep hoping it will explode and I can cash in my renter’s policy. Though, at the same time, I don’t want to harm my little ones (two cats and a dog).
If I turn him in, I might lose my cheap place! Oh, the conundrums we live with..
Yeah, I know that feeling. With all the things wrong with this house, I wish I could just turn him in. I mean, the floors have serious mold issues. But if it’s between spending tons of money getting the house up to snuff or selling the place, he’d sell the place. I know that much.
One of the houses I lived in in Tucson was right next door to a condemned house.
About 8 years later, me and that same roommate moved back into that house, and the condemned one had been bought and was now being rented.
I got in a fight with the landlord of that house once about the driveway (it was between our two houses and the property line ran right down the middle) where he told me his family had owned that house for YEARS and I said, very matter-of-factly “You have not. 8 years ago that house was CONDEMNED and a homeless man lived in it who stole my friend’s cat. You sir, are a liar.”
He became very red-faced and huffy, and walked away.
Hah!!! He probably walked away because he was afraid you would inquire into how serious the repairs were that he made to un-condemn the house!
Oh, that one makes me so pissed off, especially since the EU has passed a law making regular lightbulbs illegal to sell. (In this particular country we have too much power (the clean kind) but laws against the useage of mercury, and now we have to … use mercury low-energy bulbs. Bad stuff. :p)
Yeah…I said it was a conundrum, didn’t I? I seriously tried to use those for a while at my house until I read the whole warning about how you’re supposed to dispose of them as toxic waste and what to do if you accidentally break one in your house….I’ve still got some, but it did freak me out a little! (Especially since I’d already broken a couple before I found out. Hey, I’m a klutz, what can I say?)
Great, thanks for posting this the day AFTER I bought some energy efficient bulbs and threw away the receipt.
I just hate changing fvcking light bulbs, that’s why I like them. I’ve got maybe 3 in my whole house, but one of them gives of this weird blue/white light that my kids HATE from their bedroom lamp. However, since they insist on having that lamp on all night every night, an energy efficient bulb made sense. But I didn’t know about the mercury thing, thanks for pointing that out. I’ll have to be way careful with those from now on.
And my wife hates it when I buy them. “You paid $3 for one fvcking light bulb????”
You can get the energy efficient ones in the “soft white” color now so that they don’t cast that weird bluish light. They still suck though. They’re really terrible when used in a device with a dimmer.
On the ones we’ve found is even says on the package they are not to be used in devices with a dimmer. :p
I got ones for a dimmer and they still suck.
They seem to be in permanent dimmed mode.
I have one in a “touch” lamp, and it won’t turn off. I have to unplug the lamp.
I hate that the light is supposed to be “comparable” to a 60-watt. It’s so much dimmer, and it seems to take a second or two to turn on sometimes. Very odd. I’ve got a couple of the soft white ones. I got the bluish one on clearance. LOL I’ve also got some halogen track lighting in the kitchen. Those bulbs are $5 a pop. I don’t buy those until I’m down to one light still not burned out. LOL
The problem is it isn’t even a conundrum for us, as we can’t buy the proper bulbs anymore.
Read that there was a run on old-time lightbulbs all over the EU; people are hoarding them. Hmmm…I think I smell a business opportunity. Say, Danbala, how much are you willing to pay for a case of “proper” bulbs?? 8)
We hoarded a little. ;p
And yes, I bet there will be some smuggling starting now. :p
*looks around suspiciously*
Hey, hey you. I’ve got 60 watts over here…need any 60 watts? 100 watts?! Where were you last week??
Yeah, environmentalists always seem to do that. They create a bigger problem trying to solve a problem that wasn’t really there to begin with. I remember in the late nineties when I lived in California we had to use gasoline with MTBE that was supposed to be more environmentally friendly. It ended up being highly corrosive and tore up a lot of engines as well as water contamination and health problems. It also cost a lot more because California was the only state using that additive.
Lol @H3nQ. Did you know Aston Martin claim their cars are more environmentally friendly than the Prius
Here is how it works. There are over 1 million Prius (Prii? What’s the plural?) in the world. A Prius emits 104g/km, assuming the average person drives 30,000km per year that equals 3,120 metric tonnes of CO2 emissions times 1 million cars = 3.12 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions per year!
Aston Martin (with its lovely 6.0 litre V12 and suave, sexy looks) emits 388g/km which is 11,640 metric tonnes per year however the factory can only make a maximum of 2,500 cars each year this equals 29.1 million tonnes of CO2 emissions from Aston Martins. (Apologies for the metric)
So if you want to buy a car that saves the planet from CO2 emmissions buy an Aston Martin instead of a Prius
Also Astons don’t make you want to bleach your eyes everytime you see one 
Dude, your figures are out by a factor of 1000. A Prius would emit 3120 kg or 3.12 metric tonnes a year. Pro rata for the Aston.. Anyway, the Aston is probably also more friendly because they last forever and a Prius will need replacing after 10 years.
D’oh! I bow to your superior math skills
Don’t forget the nickel that’s used in the NiMH hybrid traction battery for the electric motor and all the environmental damage caused by nickel mining. At least Astons only use a lead acid battery (the Prius has one of these too though)
Being an European I understand your metric values perfectly
Indeed Astons look a lot prettier than a Prius, and because they aren’t used so often I think their high emission rates shouldn’t be regarded as a problem. The emission of unnecessary large every day use cars should be dealt with instead.
Hee! Heated seats reminds me of this other true story:
My wealthy aunt decided to buy a new car and got one with all the latest bells and whistles, most of which she had no clue how to operate. She had been driving her car for a few weeks and was beginning to think she was having menopause all over again because she would get very hot. By some accident, she figured out she had heated seats and that they were turned up all the way.
I tried not to laugh too loudly at this because I hope I’m in the will.
That’s funny. My grandma likes to keep her house warm to “save money.” One day in the middle of the summer I had lunch with her and I was breaking a sweat. I checked the thermostat and she actually had the heat turned on in the middle of August!
The lady that takes care of my mom has a Lincoln Town Car. That thing is awesome, it’s like a tank.
My grandparents have always driven those massive Continentals too. Gas mileage sucks, but they are AWESOME on long trips.
Not to mention when you get into a head on collision, the accident happened so far in front of you, as the driver, you’re really only peripherally involved
Sounds like the 1970 plymouth fury I learned to drive in!
I hereby give you tree-hugging liberal permission to drive a (ick) Hummer if need be. But in the absence of continentals, you might look into Volvos for your next safe car.
I’ve probably posted before about my lack of import karma (every time I buy a foreign car I get the only lemon they made!) but when I had my Volvo, I said once that I’d figured out why they were so safe — it’s hard to get hurt when you can’t leave your driveway.
That’s kind of an oddity there. Can I look at your Volvo? *snort*
Lol…
It really was a horrible little car, though, and nobody else I know who’s had a Volvo has had anything similar! It used to leak transmission fluid from the cooling element; fix one leak and another would start…It would NOT hold its timing. It went through 2 universal joints in less than 3 years. And the entire wiring harness went up in flames once. Those are the highlights. Oh, and there was a short somewhere that drained the battery if you didn’t disconnect the battery cable when you parked it.
Wow. Just wow.
That is the worst car karma I have EVER heard!
I second that.
Except maybe my dad’s Jeep. Though a lot of it was self-inflicted.
He’s popped the clutch more times than I can count, the ignition was broken because it got stranded in the mountains (that was my sister’s GENIUS boyfriends idea), he sank it, tipped it, rolled it, broke an axle hitting a ditch, replaced the tranny 3 times, the transfer case multiple times… I can’t remember anything else.
When he broke the axle I had to go rescue him in my Pontiac.. LOL.
Your dad’s Jeep had 3 transsexuals in it? That’s odd.
It was very odd, I agree. I never could figure out how he got them to shift gears so well.
Seriously, the volvo I had in college was a tank, and I’m not exaggerating. A suburban blew threw a redlight on a highway in front of me, and I collided with it’s rear end. After the suburban did a 360 degree counter clockwise spin, having it back end completely ripped off to the back axle, I got out of my volvo, reattached the front license plant mount and was good to go. Nothing but scratches to the paint job.
I feel for you diss, in that you had a bad volvo… I think the previous owner did something to it on purpose to make it perform like that.
Yeah, that thing was just cursed. Your Volvo story reminds me of the car I had after that one, which was a mid-70s Buick Estate Wagon made of steel with a big old V-8. I once got into a wreck with that car when a woman pulled out right in front of me on the highway (with a semi on my left — nothing to do but slam on the brakes!). Spun her little car around and removed the rear bumper completely, I suspect it bent the frame, too. I had a minor dent in the right front quarter-panel, and my son slept through the accident in his carseat.
My first ever major wreck was in a 1972 Chevrolet step side pick-up truck. The one with the long wheel base. I t-boned a Ford F250 that pulled out in front of me. The front clip of my truck was a little bent and the radiator and the fan had to be replaced. The Ford was completely totaled. I will never forget the look on the Ford passenger’s face as this behemoth of a truck slammed into his side of the truck……it’s funny now because no one was hurt
That old ’72 (three on the tree, baby!!!) is still running today. *has a tear because I don’t drive it anymore*
I don’t know. The change in momentum an older car would see in a wreck might be a whole lot worse on her bones than a newer car designed to crumple. Unless it’s a newer Lincoln, maybe. That I don’t know about.
Take THAT, Ford!
A cliff comes to mind. The end result would STILL not destroy the car; the two inside not so much.
bet my citroen wouldnt get by after looking like this
the logo kinda looks like a mazda to me…
I had an 81 Datsun 210 that was like that. And I still want to kick myself for selling it. It was pushing high 30′s in the MPG, and was one of the rare ones with AC. 0-60 in 4.3 days, but hey, we all need to slow down a little.
THis reminds me of the comcast commercial with Mr. and Mrs. Slowsky where he is on the carriage saying something about slowing down because it’s going too fast. It’s not moving.
Has anyone else seen that?
-raises his bitter hand- bitter troll has
I’m sure bitter troll has. *cuddles her bitter troll*
-snuggles and bites charro- mmm bitter missed his charro
lets roll real slow!
It’s hard to roll real slow on E. You basically just go with the flow.
I missed you too bitter love.
From personal experience, a front-end collision at 35 mph will certainly stop one.
Truth
Oh VNV…
Good luck finding fuel for the flux capacitor during the Mesozoic era.
Doc Brown went back in time to discover that dinosaurs were actually the most advanced species to ever walk the earth. They had mastered clean, renewable fuel for their biodegradable vehicles, which greatly reduced their carbon footprint on the world. Their society bordered on utopia. But Doc Brown went back and gave them all H1N1 and they all died within a week. Sad, really.
So I went online to look for a possible pic of Doc Brown and a dinosaur. Instead I found this. I felt like it was funny enough to share, and sort of applicable.
Ok… so I was still being pesistant and I thought I could fine one, maybe from the Universal ride, and then I saw what appears to be a age from a coloring book. Hereit is. The text is what blew my mind on this one.
Wow. That’s…wow.
Lol…yeah, I’ve seen that before; I believe the discussion of it at the time ended up determining that it had been done as a joke. Pretty funny, though!
Not that I have a problem with anyone beliefs, and I certainly don’t want to preach. But I was a little shocked. I knew the concept existed, but I had no idea that it had been produced into actual art and coloring books. The things google will show you on image finder…
Oh, well….I almost feel bad about showing you this, then. Yes, it’s Chick Tracts. They’re a bit…..over the top.
Yeah…. wow again…..
Yeah, apparently we’re ALL going straight to hell, I guess with the very limited exception of the people handing these out! Some of the descriptions are painfully priceless, though, to the point where you’d think it was parody. But it’s not. “Duke thought Jesus was a sissy, until a trucker explained to him the horrible price Jesus paid so his sins could be forgiven. Then Duke saw that Jesus had more guts than anyone who ever lived. Great for truckers and bikers!”
*ninjas in and points to newest lol*
>.>
DW VANISH!!!
*poofs*
Gah. That lol reminds me of real people. >:(
Um…
” >:( ” was at the people… not you….
I miss you.
Get a better scope, I didn’t miss you. *bites*
Hmm, that did not sound right… :/
Yeah it didn’t. I has a sad now..
*is bit* Ooh..
*bites and molests* Better?
On a side note, I am inking the prop Necronomicon for Mikey’s Ash costume. Arthritis sucks…
Much better *sighs*
“Prop Necronomicon”? Why not a real one?
Well he is five and I am not up to date on my archaeology to find one. Besides, I get to ink the words so I get to ink some lolz.
I LOL’ed.
The joy of meme’s brought to you.
See this video from Top Gear where they tried to destroy a Toyota pickup. This is only the last bit. Previously they left it on the beach to get covered by the tide, then they set fire to it… this is just awesome.
Ignore the advert at the beginning..
that was certainly the first thing that came to my mind, too.
)
(meaning that even though i agree with the folx who think the car in the pic might be a Mazda, i’m still glad Toyota got invoked b’c that sparked a TG moment. mmmmm, Top Gear…
lol, the wind shield is molten . . . wtfff
Nothing stops a toyota. Well, except for huge numbers of recalls. Yeah, I guess that’ll do it.
It’s also hard to get one going. How many Toyota drivers really love driving? How many feel it’s more like a chore, or just something routine like brushing teeth or making toast?
I drive a Toyota and love driving. But that might be because I learned to drive in a Chevy Silverado. Oh, the things I put that truck through…
*whistful smile*
After driving a Hyundai for a while, it got in an accident and went in the shop. We got a Camry for a rental. That was the most fun I’d had driving in years. So much fun I got a speeding ticket. :-X
I some how managed to drive that truck through TWO brick walls and it still wasn’t totaled. It was awesome!
You guys are going to make me upload a pic of the 76 3/4 ton GMC pickup I got for my 13 and 14 year olds sons to repair, then use as their first vehicle. Because that is the very reason I chose it for them. I figure they will scrape 2-3 Prius’s and Mini Coopers out of the grill every week. And Smart cars are small enough to get sucked in the 4 barrel carb, and not even alter the idle.
I got a reckless driving charge once cause I didn’t realize I was going 30 miles over the speed limit in my Camry. What?? It was a REALLY smooth ride.
Yeh a Ford wouldn’t last that long.
-rubs his temples- why is it when ever fox news has trouble broadcasting in my area everyone calls in to report a liberal plot? its not comeing in cause someone drove a car into a pole…its not a liberal plot…please make them stop calling the center
Dude, are you serious?!
Wait, what?
when ever fox news is disrupted, everyone calls comcast and demands to know if its a liberal plot or if obama bribed us or something…i have gotten 9 calls like that…really some guy driveing drunk smashed the local node and we are working to repair it
No, it’s a liberal plot alright. See, the president had one of his secret service guys drive into the pole thingy and disrupt the broadcast. It’s the same agent who stole my dictionary. After this assignment he’s going to steal candy from a kid. That’ll be on Halloween since it’s his holiday ’cause Halloween’s evil and all that.
I think maybe the sinus meds haven’t worn off yet.
And Yay! Charro’s back!
Awww.. I was missed!!! Hi Mina!
bitter troll missed you most of all-hugs tight-
*squeeze* I missed you too my bitter one.
-pops charro like a balloon in his bitter hug-
AHHHH NOOOO!!!!!!!
*lays in puddle of charro* Curse you bitter troll…
*starts mermaid regeneration spell*
Have you any idea how much that stings?!
bitter troll go get aloe for charro then-nods and dashes off-
You make me nervous when you morph into Grimmiekins bitter love.
-swats at grimmie- go away jerk! she MINE
*giggles*
That’s funny. I got a cartoon yesterday of an old man with trick or treaters at his door and he says “Look how much candy you have! I’m going to take half and give it to the kids who are too lazy to go trick or treating for themselves.” One of the kids has a thought bubble: Oh crap, a Democrat.
Its like the one I saw where the ornery old rich guy had a huge vat of candy at the door and when the kids came trick or treating he yelled that he didn’t believe in handouts and if they wanted some candy they could get a job. I suppose he was a Republican.
I heard that the White House pretty much declared war on Fox News, but this is ridiculous.
That is SO FUKCING STUPID.
GAHHHH i got a supervisor call, this lady is angry we didnt give her a new phone with her phone service…
I get all kinds of stupid supervisor calls. From people who say things are “ridiculous” and “unacceptable”. I hate people.
this makes bitter troll laugh
)http://www.asylum.com/2009/10/08/sarah-palin-signature-may-add-value-to-your-electronics/(
oh and this too
)http://www.asylum.com/2009/09/03/levi-tells-all-about-baby-huntin-duty-shirkin-palin/(
personally bitter troll not put stock into what boy says, since he clearly wants to make money.
capitalist swine
Sarah Palin’s handwriting is perfect even down to 65 nanometeres.
yes let us Masterbate to her handwriting
Well, wait, though — isn’t the rest of their cable out, too?
That’s not the point! They can’t watch Fox News so it’s a liberal conspiracy!!!1!eleventy!!!!
There are some older people who never turn off Fox News. I watch it, but I am not glued to it constantly. My grandma is though. She would freak out if it wasn’t working.
Sounds like my Uncle. I’m pretty sure he thinks Rush is God or something. I love to walk in there wearing a t-shirt that says something supportive of Obama while wearing my pentagram. Next time I’ll add a rainbow accessory and see if his head explodes! LOL
You should film that explosion. Instant UTube fame!
I can’t understand the fascination with keeping ANY news network on 24/7. There isn’t that much news. My grandpa used to have Headline News running all the time.
They cry like Silent Bob watching Pretty in Pink?
Ha! I love that movie!
“You masturbate more than anyone else in the world.”
“Everyone knows that. Tell me something nobody knows.”
“When you do it, you’re thinking of guys.”
That isn’t a Toyota.
I am quite sure it IS a Toyota. It’s supposed to look like this:
http://www.autotrader.co.nz/DisplayImage.aspx?id=163086593&size=Preview
For all of the confusion on the make/model of this car:
This is without question an early-mid 90′s corolla, base model(DX). The symbol is confusing you because this is specifically a JDM(Japanese market) model. In Japan, Toyota markets different cars that are well known(the crown and corolla are two examples) as their own brands and, to give these models some identity, creates new badges for them. That is not a mazda, nissan or subaru badge-its a corolla badge.
Japanese used cars, ESPECIALLY(in fact, primarily) toyotas are commonly found in developing nations, especially in African, the middle east and the caribbean. Some of them find their way to Australia and new Zealand to due to their value-that is why you see this car so far from home. The corolla is a VERY commonly imported model.
Here is the car intact, label very clearly visible.
http://www.tradecarview.com/used_car/japan%20car/toyota/corolla+wagon/977389/
It’s actually true!!!
Look up the top gear special about the unbeatable toyota hilux That thing survived a buildinbg being blown up underneath it!!!
Not even brakes can stop a speeding (30 mph) Toyota! Too bad I had to switch it for this wheel chair… Well, at least the brakes work.
‘I heard from a doctor that if a train hits a Toyota from the side at the front wheels, it will stop after rolling over a couple of times’
(=[ Huh, you don’t say?
it looks like anissan
Too bad it’s a picture of a Subaru.
Ok, so there are too many threads complaining about this to comment on them all, so I’m just posting it down here. Several people are commenting on the fact that some of the environmentally friendly vehicles are not in fact environmentally friendly. Yes, this is true. Here’s an idea. Since all motorized vehicles harm the environment in some way, shape, or form, then you should do the “greenest” thing possible- walk.
Let me know how it works the first time you have to leave town.
I take the train, usually. ;p
The train is a functional concept in Europe and Canada. Not so useful in most of the US–in the town where I went to college, it only stopped at 3am.
There’s no train out here. There are a couple buses that come out this way, but I’d have to drive a couple miles just to get to the bus stop. Kinda defeats the purpose.
I have a 1990 Toyota corolla and its still going after 330000 miles
It’s true–nothing stops a Toyota, especially when it’s a Mazda. Which is the case here.
Someone posted a link to a Toyota that this one looks like it’s at least supposed to be, so I think the captioner may be right after all.
Reminds me of the scene in “Top Secret” where the Nazis are chasing the heroes, using an old town car (the generic term, not a lincoln), and the car goes off the road – giving a tap about like pushing a doorbell to the rear bumper of a 72 Pinto. The Pinto blows up, killing the Germans, then the heroes run out, climb into the Mercedes, and state something to the effect that you gotta love how mercedes last…
2003 Taco owner here, love my yoda, when I get to drive it! My wife is always taking it. Need to get her a Toyota too.
Well…it’s true…nothing stops a Toyota…..not even the breaks.
Nope nothing stops a toyota pirus. if so the terrorist should by them. not only are they unstopable. but also there eco friendly
Nothing stops a toyota.
not even it’s brakes