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Replying to: corvette (Nov 03, 2009 7:29 pm)  And why would someone not live in Florida?--Beats me. Nice all round warm weather. No gloomy days .No freezing winters and cold. Like Texas weather, but here in Texas winters can get quite cold though there is no snow-maybe once a year,that`s it. But Florida weather in winter is simply fantastic ! I would certainly trade my TX weather and definitely Northeast weather for FL weather. I admire Northeast folks and people in cold places a lot..-To get through those biting ,chilly and frosty winters-- takes a lot of effort.  TX guys need some weather like that I guess-- they probably would stop barbecuing everyday and then as they cant fit in cars-they go and buy these huge SUV`s and PU`s and then complain when gas prices shoot up !! 
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Nov 03, 2009 12:45 pm) Richard |
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Replying to: fezo (Nov 03, 2009 5:49 pm) I used to be adverse to going to an out of state dealer to buy a car. There's a few dealers around me I really like. However, the delta between local dealer pricing and some of these dealers out of my general area is becoming hard to ignore. I always prefer to do business locally. I also understand that there's always the desire to hold onto a car that they believe will bring more money. That said, I'm a quick and easy deal.....invest 15 minutes of time, move a unit quickly and take a skinny deal? Or, wait and see if someone else will come in the door with the hopes that they can make more margin.
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Replying to: verdugo (Nov 03, 2009 11:11 am) Amtrak would be fairly profitable if they only offered service to the Northeast and a couple other dense metro areas but like the post office they have a mandate to offer wider nationwide service. Acela Express trains are the only true high-speed trainsets in the United States; the highest speed they attain (only briefly) is 150 mph (240 km/h), though they average less than half of that. Acela has become fairly popular with business travelers and by some reckoning has captured over half of the market share of air or train travelers between Washington and New York.[2] In fiscal year 2006, a total of 2,668,174 passengers rode Acela, an 8.8% year-over-year increase.[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acela_Express I would love more highspeed rail but like you said it only makes sense in a few places. You need a fairly dense population, like europe, or at least some dense metro areas that aren't spaced out too much. The Acela can do 150 plus miles per hour but averages less then 90 mph because they northeast corridor is so dense and the tracks aren't idea for high speed service. For real 150 plus mph train service you need dedicated rails that are very straight and fairly flat with no roads crossing the tracks. That is very expensive to do but I can see it working in Florida with maybe a spur heading up to Atlanta. Florida is nice and flat and you have an aging population that would probably welcome better rail service and less driving. Parts of Texas would be good and most of California. Get those three areas up and running and fix the tracks in the northeast and you could really do pretty well with high speed service. Its a 10.5 hour drive from Miami to Atlanta and probably a two hour flight plus the two hours to get through security so about four hours. What if you could take a train and get their in five hours or less with one or two stops? That would be worth it for me.
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Replying to: graphicguy (Nov 04, 2009 7:52 am) I used to be like that myself until Son #1 showed me that a 2 hour westerly drive out the PA pike into OH was not that bad to save a bunch of bucks on the Genny. Son #1 went to northern VA to get a used ‘03 Altima in ’04 because it was the exact car he wanted, color, mileage, and all that stuff. Then he found the exact car that his younger brother wanted (‘05 Mazda 6 in ’06) was in Columbus and the drive wouldn’t hurt him. I guess, for us, it’s a family thing now. You oughta try it. jmonroe
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Replying to: fezo (Nov 03, 2009 7:53 pm) We've been spending some time in the Tampa-St. Petersberg area as we have use of a relatives condo. Nice place but sooooo flat. Perfect spot for my Eclipse to show off it's straight line speed without having to worry about it's so-so handling. I guess down there I could run some sticky summer tires all year and improve things a bit. A ton of new and used car places. All with banners and wirrlygigs that would never be allowed here in NY because of the zoning regs. I was kind of scared to go in to any of them because of all the horror stories I've heard here. 
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Replying to: graphicguy (Nov 04, 2009 7:52 am) Do you have any idea why that is? I see the same thing in my area. The Albany metro area is slightly more affluent but not substantially more so than surrounding areas. Still prices are $1-2K higher than in nearby areas. Hard to figure. 
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Replying to: british_rover (Nov 04, 2009 8:16 am) That would be worth it for me. Same here. And don't forget the fact that most (all?) train stations are already in town. You don't have to spend time getting into town. |
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Nov 03, 2009 8:42 am) "When I push down the break peddle the car shutters so hard that the bumber raddles."
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Replying to: roadburner (Nov 04, 2009 11:57 am) I've noticed that in some of the H-body GM forums I frequent. The Cobalt forum is really bad. Then there R 1s who use text symbols and code abrv. 2 talk online. I have no problems with people who have problems in spelling or grammar. Usually I know what they mean. It's the few who hop onto a leSabre forum using the text message type and hip talk to try to be cool asking how big the rims are they can put on their Park Avenue and other things about ruining a perfectly good car making it unsafe, in my opinion, to drive. Around the urban area here we see a few BMWs and MBs with silly, dangerous tires pimped out as drug dealer cars. I saw a relatively new MB in a hot burnt red (pretty) with silly wheels crossing a tiny driveway rise into a Speedway station at 1 mph because his tires were about 2 inches thick and the wheels were a color spoke to match car I've never seen on a Mercedes and they were _huge_. |
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