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230 miles per gallon?
What a joke. It only goes 260 miles on gas alone. How in the world can they say it gets 230 mpg, when it can't go more then 300 miles with electric and gas combined?
Talk about selling a lemon and false advertising.
Buy Toyota, help put me back to work.
Most mileage ratings are qualified by "your mileage may vary."
I'd be willing to bet we'd save a lot more gas by slowing down to the speed limit and avoiding fast acceleration and sudden stops than by promoting expensive new technology before it's really competitive with old, proven technology.
I have mad Toyota <3. We bought two junkers two years apart. $500 each. Put 150k on one and 200k on the other. Long live Toyota!!
P.S.: I swear that engine will keep running even after all the doors fall off.
I love my 96 Toyota Camry. Sure it's not exactly 'cool' for a 20 year old to be driving such a car, but it's most certainly 'cool' to save the cash when compared the other college students with their soupped up dodges, gm's and fords... All of my cars/trucks will be Honda or Toyota.
Everything about beaters makes sense, IMO. No having depreciation the minute you drive off the lot. No car payments, lower insurance, tabs cost less. Wins all the way around, if you get a good one.
I was born in '58, so I got nothing. I have read bits and pieces about what happened.
What happened to Studebaker, Nash, and DeSoto is that they lost out to better competitors, and went under. Probably the same happened to Stutz Bearcat as well. The difference is that the taxpayers didn't try to bail them out, then borrow a few tons of money from China to pay the tab.
Oddly enough Buick is the #2 car brand in China.
What's with the paper things in the place of wipers?This just in: GM (Government Motors) has just unveiled a new model:
What's with the paper things in the place of wipers?
Or are those mirrors?
What happened to Studebaker, Nash, and DeSoto is that they lost out to better competitors, and went under. Probably the same happened to Stutz Bearcat as well. The difference is that the taxpayers didn't try to bail them out, then borrow a few tons of money from China to pay the tab.
What's with the paper things in the place of wipers?
Or are those mirrors?
FYI, DeSoto was a Chrysler brand that they got rid of just like Pontiac and now Mercury. It was not a seperate company.
Back in the early days there were alot of car companies, but they had to thin the heard.
When it was down to the BIG THREE, they always thought it would be that way and it is so engrained in the american whatever, I don't think people can just let them go that easily.
By the way, Nash was bought by Rambler which was bought by American Motors, or turned into that, which was bought by Chrysler so actually even though the name is not still on the street the company is.
and now Chrystler has been bought by Fiat.
The point is, when the company is no longer competitive, it should be allowed to go bankrupt or be absorbed by other, more efficient companies.
Would it be better for GM to be owned by the government, or by another company, say Toyota for example?
and now Chrystler has been bought by Fiat.
The point is, when the company is no longer competitive, it should be allowed to go bankrupt or be absorbed by other, more efficient companies.
Would it be better for GM to be owned by the government, or by another company, say Toyota for example?
The free market would have let GM and Chrysler fail.Is the only alternative to the US going from the "big three" to the big one government ownership of the industry? Surely, capitalism can do better than that, can't it?
The free market would have let GM and Chrysler fail.
The Obama got in the way of that, and should be cursed for it.
You mean on the day that ammunition becomes the only valid currency?Yes, the Obama and Congress. I wonder how much money they'll be able to borrow and print before the whole house of cards simply collapses?
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