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So...if I were inclined to finally go get my driver's license, what kind of car would I prefer to drive above all others?
Probably a Smart ForTwo or a Prius if I could possibly afford such a beast. Unless something closer to ecologically sound with similar or better performance levels were to hit the market by the time I was able to decide upon the subject.
Shoe leather and buses and the occasional train still manage to meet most of my travel support needs, though.
fajrdrako for this: she succumbed to the LJ Writers Block meme, after all.So...if I were inclined to finally go get my driver's license, what kind of car would I prefer to drive above all others?
Probably a Smart ForTwo or a Prius if I could possibly afford such a beast. Unless something closer to ecologically sound with similar or better performance levels were to hit the market by the time I was able to decide upon the subject.
Shoe leather and buses and the occasional train still manage to meet most of my travel support needs, though.
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Date: 2010-01-03 07:32 pm (UTC)Go for the Gusto!
Date: 2010-01-03 10:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-04 01:45 am (UTC)See the following Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_electric_vehicle) for more details.
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Date: 2010-01-04 01:46 am (UTC)Re: Go for the Gusto!
Date: 2010-01-04 01:53 am (UTC)Re: Go for the Gusto!
Date: 2010-01-04 01:58 am (UTC)For the price of it, I just cannot see you in a SmartForTwo. It's too inflexible a car, designed to fit two people and some groceries and not much else. You seem far more practical than that.
Travel Needs
Date: 2010-01-04 02:02 am (UTC)Re: Travel Needs
Date: 2010-01-04 02:10 am (UTC)It did say your dream car, after all.
Maybe one of these?
Re: Travel Needs
Date: 2010-01-04 02:13 am (UTC)*blinks* Looks like something that would've been on the roads of the 1950's and '60's...?
Re: Travel Needs
Date: 2010-01-04 02:14 am (UTC)Re: Travel Needs
Date: 2010-01-04 02:17 am (UTC)IIRC, I last saw a vehicle like that when I went down with a "friend" to a convention at Pittsburgh in 1990. Hint: it was designed to seat more than your average large family. :-)
Re: Travel Needs
Date: 2010-01-04 02:19 am (UTC)Re: Travel Needs
Date: 2010-01-04 02:21 am (UTC)I think they would have been quite ahead of their time in terms of aerodynamics, and far more interesting to look at than those ghastly GM 'New Look' fishbowl buses that were so ubiquitous at OC Transpo.
Doesn't this beat a Smart Car?
Re: Go for the Gusto!
Date: 2010-01-04 02:22 am (UTC)Re: Travel Needs
Date: 2010-01-04 02:26 am (UTC)Wikipedia also has a page about Flxible buses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flxible).
Re: Go for the Gusto!
Date: 2010-01-04 02:26 am (UTC)Hell, I'd take a 'Stang over any Mazda.
Re: Go for the Gusto!
Date: 2010-01-04 02:32 am (UTC)Re: Go for the Gusto!
Date: 2010-01-04 02:50 am (UTC)If I wanted a 'rotary' style engine, I'd bypass that damn Wankel and head straight into turbine territory.