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#466 of 491 safety by kneisl1 Jun 22, 2009 (4:26 pm)
I think we need to be driving smaller cars. Im all in favor of cars the size of the Smart Car. I ride a motorcycle so driving a small car, even a Smart, doesnt scare me. Theres a risk (pretty small for me because I dont drive much) but I think its worse to feed economys like the Venezulans, Russians, and Saudis etc who hate us.
#467 of 491 Re: It's amusing [priggly] by gregg_vw Jun 22, 2009 (4:36 pm)
Replying to: priggly (Jun 22, 2009 3:26 pm) It's also amusing watching you, priggly, come back like the Energizer bunny, popping up on a forum of a car you hate, and blathering on about how unsafe it is to people who have chosen to purchase the car and love it. I do hope you are spending at least as much time on the Ranger forums telling those poor saps how much more unsafe their trucks are than even a lowly smart deathtrap. And all those Harley riders you gotta reach! Saving lives, one inane post at a time. Replies to this message: priggly (Jun 23, 2009 6:56 pm)
#468 of 491 Re: Yaris [kneisl1] by snakeweasel Jun 22, 2009 (5:00 pm)
Replying to: kneisl1 (Jun 22, 2009 10:43 am) In what universe does the Yaris get the same gas mileage as the Smart? Last time I checked the Smart got better gas mileage. Even considering the extra costs of premium gas the Smart will get you further on a dollars worth of gas.
#469 of 491 Yaris vs Smart by kneisl1 Jun 22, 2009 (6:02 pm)
Smart 33 mpg in town. My Yaris is getting between 35 and 36 mpg in town albeit i have driven only about 800 miles so far. The official numbers for the Yaris is 29 mpg. Maybe i would also do better than 33 if I drove the Smart. Whats premium now 40 cents more/gallon? Regular is $2.50 in NJ.
#470 of 491 Re: It's amusing [gregg_vw] by priggly Jun 23, 2009 (6:56 pm)
Replying to: gregg_vw (Jun 22, 2009 4:36 pm) Close your trap. Who made you the board censor, anyway?
#471 of 491 bickering by sbonhartwell Jun 23, 2009 (7:03 pm)
Looks like some folks can not take it when expressions of others differ from theirs. This whole forum is quite informative if one just takes it for its purpose and not be so serious in making or intrepreting statements.
#472 of 491 Easy by pf_flyer HOST Jun 24, 2009 (1:51 am)
Let's back off the personal stuff please
#473 of 491 mileage by kneisl1 Jun 24, 2009 (9:12 am)
I di a little figuring on the added cost of running premium in a car as opposed to regular. Its not as bad as I thought. In two cars getting the same mileage but one running on premium and one running on regular, the car requiring premium will cost about 7.5 per cent more for fuel. In the case of a car getting 33 mpg thats the equivalent of 2.3 miles per gallon. Or looking at in another way the car running on regular will cost $75 per thousand miles of driving, whereas the premium based car will cost $81. Thats $600 over 100k miles. (at $2.5 0per gallon for regular, $2.70 for premium)
#474 of 491 "People buy small cars even though they can be deadly" by priggly Jun 24, 2009 (10:29 pm)
"Americans are buying more small cars to cut fuel costs, and that might kill them.   As a group, occupants of small cars are more likely to die in crashes than those in bigger, heavier vehicles are, according to data from the government, the insurance industry and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)."   http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2007-08-19-small-cars_N.htm Replies to this message: gregg_vw (Jun 25, 2009 8:46 am)
#475 of 491 small by kneisl1 Jun 25, 2009 (3:44 am)
But drivers of oversized cars are subsidising countries who sponsor terrorism and wasting our irreplacable natural resources. What price do you put on that? Besides wed be a lot safer if everyone drove a small car. Replies to this message: stout7735 (Jun 25, 2009 3:56 am) priggly (Jun 25, 2009 9:03 pm) gregg_vw (Jun 26, 2009 6:48 pm)

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