OK I'll bite, Walt baby ;-)
It might not be so bad using a fossil-fuel-sucker if they looked half-
decent. But none of the beasts that your fellow-countrymen make look
very good. And if they do look OK on the outside, they are plagued
inside with cheap and nasty switchgear and buttons.
Is that the sort of rant you were looking for?
Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
www.threeshoes.co.uk
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On 11 Dec 2005, at 16:24, Walt Wayman wrote:
> I'm toying with the notion of a new pretty-weather gear hauler.
> No, the 4WD 1997 OM-4Runner is not losing its job. After all, with
> just over 60,000 mi. on the odometer, it's barely broken in and
> will continue to be the main camera transporter. But if I do get
> the new toy, are y'all going to work overtime to make me feel
> guilty about feeding precious fossil fuel to a 6-liter, 400HP V-8?
> Vrooom, vrooom! And, of course, it'll be red.
>
> http://www.chevrolet.com/ssr/photogallery/
>
> OM content: Check out the trunk/boot/bed. Room for lotsa stuff
> outta sight.
>
> Walt, who thinks nothing sounds better than a big V-8 exhaling
> through glass-pack mufflers
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: AG Schnozz <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Chris ranted:
>>> And then the plonkers who earn loads of dosh playing the
>>> completely wuss game of footy buy the horrid Hummers and
>>> Navigators from Over There ...
>>
>> The monster trucks for hauling around your little monster kids
>> *almost* make sense "Over There". We used to have a Chevy
>> Surburban. Absolutely loved it for a lot of reasons. Filling
>> the 39 gallon gas tank was not one of them. The roads over here
>> (especially in flyover country) are wide, relatively empty, and
>> supportive of these fossil-fuel wasting hulks. However, we also
>> "grow" our own fuel here too, so that does help offset to a tiny
>> degree. Or at least that's how I justify feeding the Jeep Grand
>> Cherokee.
>>
>>
>>> And as for 4ltr Beemers ... well! ;-)
>>
>> It's all relative, isn't it?
>>
>> AG (Three 4wd vehicles) Schnozz
>>
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