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Built like a Mercedes 3690 On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:08:25 -0000, "Huw" Costs Few U.S. drivers realize that, including fuel, maintenance, insurance, depreciation, and finance charges... Built like a Mercedes 3691 On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:36:27 -0500, clare at snyder.on.ca Which is clearly a liberals attempt to sway people to believe that cars should be outlawed. Near me is an intersection... Built like a Mercedes 3692 On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 19:04:54 -0000, "Huw" now that is a hoot. a person from the... Built like a Mercedes 3693 Cummins lists this figure as 1800-1950RPM. It'll run up to 3000RPM if manually shifted. The narrow RPM band has not been a problem, and seems ideally suited to the gearing (3.55 rear axle ratio... Built like a Mercedes 3694 Tossing an educated guess, I'd put myself about mid range. A quarter the pickups in this town do get babied to one degree or another, another 25-40% get used to capacity, and the remainder... Built like a Mercedes 3695 grunt grunt guffaw! now my nose is cleared, bull poo! 1-4-1-2 ton pickups in town regularly move... Built like a Mercedes 3696 Max Dodge That is at variance to what I hear on the mainly right wing American posters on alt.autos.toyota where there is only one decenting voice to the overwhelming majority who believe both... Built like a Mercedes 3697 On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:35:27 -0000, "Huw" Remember the FORDS of the same vintage?? A friend's 3 year old Montego had the... Built like a Mercedes 3698 clare at snyder.on.ca Huge amounts of salt being spread on British roads as well. I think it was the high price of steel at that time that made it attractive to recycle scrap iron... Built like a Mercedes 3699 Max Dodge Fiat is owned by the Agnelli family and it is almost bigger than the Italian state. It owns many mutinational brands like CaseNewHolland CNH which have a... Built like a Mercedes 3700 My point remains, and is substanciated by your statement. Your examples are poor representation of free market philosophy. Well, once again, you've missed the... Built like a Mercedes 3701 False. In fact, labor unions (which are a 1920-30 phenomenom) are a reason for the high cost of cars today... Built like a Mercedes 3702 Dori A Schmetterling I can't see why their reliability is not as good as any. Rust resistance is OK and... Built like a Mercedes 3703 Hit the post button too quickly on the last one. Actually my logic is sound. Let me explain. First off, the majority of posters on Usenet DO... Just what we need Truckdrivers with multiple sclerosis Trucker pleads no contest in traffic-stop rest Saturday, January 28, 2006 THE buttOCIATED PRESS ALLEGAN -- A truck driver who hid his progressive multiple sclerosis to keep his... How Did I Miss This One It's a long article, but it has a lot of interesting stuff - some of which I actually agree with. Like the author, I see the future of traffic... How Did I Miss This One 3706 On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:10:05 -0800, Scott en Aztlán The Coaster runs along I-5, the Sprinter runs along CA-78 with at-grade crossings, and stations every mile or two. It's a result... How Did I Miss This One 3707 Then the solution is obvious. ;) Remember, this is sunny SoCal - you should be able to bike most of the time, and then ride the train or drive the rest. I used to... How Did I Miss This One 3708 On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:30:15 -0800, Scott en Aztlán My issue is more with the billions of dollars spent on inefficient mbutt transit for some areas, combined... How Did I Miss This One 3709 Cars and trucks frequently travel I-15 at 65(+) mph 5'-10'-15' apart. Nobody is interested in saving time, their goal is to drive faster and... How Did I Miss This One 3710 The problem is not people buyng the technology, people are already buying similar technology when it is offered on cars. The problems is Luddite... How Did I Miss This One 3711 I'll be honest with you: if every car were equipped with some sort of guidance system that would GUARANTEE that the car would move... How Did I Miss This One 3712 Brent P) In what way is that cheaper? The testing and administrative costs alone are staggering. We'll need an order of magnitude more... How Did I Miss This One 3713 Brent P) The sensors and actuators already exist - they are installed in a bunch of Buicks that drive up... How Did I Miss This One 3714 On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:08:14 -0800, Scott en Aztlán Other than the right-of-way... How Did I Miss This One 3715 On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 21:22:29 -0800, Scott en Aztlán Sure there are. Some are even older. The question is whether there's any nearly 150 years old around Chicago... How Did I Miss This One 3716 Brent P) A nation filled with 100 million Buicks? That's a scary throught... I think I'll wait until they have a control module for Corvettes. ;) And how many 60-ton rail cars roll over them... How Did I Miss This One 3717 They won't behave like trains. Trains have tracks and are tied together. Their condition is also doesn't range from perfection to Judy's beater... How Did I Miss This One 3718 Brent P) I gotcha so far. My real point was that if that keeps you from taking a job with me, great. I don't interview people in the way that's ideal to... How Did I Miss This One 3719 On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:45:00 +1100, Greg Sutherland Real engineers get their knickers in a twist over stuff like someone using a comma where... How Did I Miss This One 3720 Brent P) Although I believe it's "involvement" that you meant to type, I think we agree. Though remember, there's... How Did I Miss This One 3721 On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:51:54 GMT, SD Dave Running a train across foreign territory to link two parts of the same country shouldn't be a problem, Canadian National ran Montreal to... Built like a Mercedes 3722 Nomen Nescio Mercedes build a range of very light cars under the Smart brand. They also build a small car that bis averagely light... Darwin's Been Busy Lately 3724 I never blamed the car. I characterized it as crappy because it was. It squeaked and rattled, it was... I Wish I'd Thought of This! 3725 On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:33:32 -0500, necromancer Agreed. :-) Nah, I'm moving up the coast. I'm at Merrit Island, near Cape Canaveral, although I start to move westward within the next 16 hours... I Wish I'd Thought of This! 3726 On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:45:12 -0500, necromancer Well, so far my corporate journeys have been restricted to northern California, and southern & south-eastern Florida... I Wish I'd Thought of This! 3727 On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:52:05 -0500, necromancer Just did my piece in Daytona Saturday... I Wish I'd Thought of This! 3728 On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:10:20 -0500, Ted 'defend me and be a criminal the following... Speed Limit Possibility This is already being done in a small part of Switzerland. Instead of posting the speed limit with a permanent sign - an LED electronic sign is used... Speed Limit Possibility Hi! Nate Nagel They're not exactly a new feature on some German Autobahns. It's not completely unnecessary, but actually really quite helpful, because it goes much further than that... OT: dissolution of auto industry Just thinking out loud here... with all the threads on the impending failure of various US auto mfgrs. it prompts the question, is there really a future in the automotive market? Really... OT: dissolution of auto industry American car manufacturers would LOVE to produce and sell fewer vehicles, but they cannot. You see, their workers have... Carmakers Offer Car Insurance Interesting idea I read in today's Oakland Press editorial section; www.theoaklandpress.com By David Kniffen 1-31-06 Carmakers Should Offer Low-Cost Insurance General Motors, Ford and Daimler-Chrysler are facing declining sales year after year... Why no rearengine RWD cars anymore The biggest reason is packaging. You could build a rear-engined car with perfect handling (and no, Ferrari is not doing that; the cars you are think of are mid-engined) but when you put... COOL IDEA FOR MAKING SOME CASH TURN $6 INTO $15,000 IN ONLY 30 DAYS...HERES HOW! STORMPAY VERIFIES THAT THIS $6 INVESTMENT SCHEME IS 100... Brent's going to love this... 3737 Yeah....... kinda what I was thinking after posting today's responses. I've got people crawling all down my throat citing things that weren't even mentioned in the article. My favorite is how a license... Brent's going to love this... 3741 That, reportedly, 20% of the cars on the road up there are doing the same thing... The 2nd amendment says he ought to be able to... Brent's going to love this... 3742 The founders clearly did not intend to limit arms to be limited by government order, nor for... Brent's going to love this... 3743 DTJ No; let me clarify that. I am a lawyer who believes no lawyer is superior to you "common folk". In fact... Brent's going to love this... 3744 No, it comes from the post where you threatened to plonk me due to my comments about lawyers. See, when I... Brent's going to love this... 3745 I am saying that is the logic you present. Since we cannot stand up to the US military, we might as well have our ability to own weapons limited or even severely limited. That's not... Brent's going to love this... 3746 Well, yeah, especially when its legal! Funny, I don't remember the consbreastution saying, "... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed except in a vehicle." Show... Brent's going to love this... 3747 The government as of yet is having a difficult time just taking firearms away from the people. So they are making so many laws and such that mistakes send people to prison. This is to... Brent's going to love this... 3748 P) Yes, that seems to be what they're up to. The black complain about that like they own the issue - the "brothers" are supposedly being targeted... Brent's going to love this... 3749 On that much I agree with you. But I used to live in the area until shortly after this incident happened. There were new plates and old plates and some of them (including all the... Brent's going to love this... 3750 hey jaybird jackbutt, how about this one you pile of poo. rest TO COPS The only good pig is a DEAD pig harbutt me one... Brent's going to love this... 3751 what do you think about this jaybird? shock and surprise, I'll bet you think the pig did nothing wrong so, when will the pig be... Brent's going to love this... 3752 I haven't been following this, or I forgot the point. However, Jaybird, you need to stop and listen to what... Brent's going to love this... 3753 Not quite. While I agree with your limited statement, it goes further than that. If a cop sees a vehicle that contains a person who has been known in the past to traffic... Brent's going to love this... 3754 No it's not. See: Whren vs. U.S., and especially when you see someone with a history of criminal activity. I don't... opening door into traffic accident Vehicle Code, Chapter 37, Section 3705 has wording very similar to California's, and IMHO aligned with plain old good sense: Of course, lawyers can dine out quite well over the definition of "reasonable" in... We made the paper Was reading the Jacksonville paper this AM and got to Mark Woods' column in the local section about the accident in Union County last week and about how... Gears and speed No. Top speed is limited by available horsepower, which doesn't change with what gear you are in. Gearing allows you to keep the engine close... Canada testing GPSenforced speed limits Keerist - All of this would be unecessary if we just started thowing these deadly speeders in prison. As long as they're "punished" with fines, these psychos will continue... Canada testing GPSenforced speed limits 3760 laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE It wont happen anytime soon. Govs all over the world keep threatening to do this... Canada testing GPSenforced speed limits 3761 A motorcycle rider in Melbourne, Australia was fined by a speed camera while he was in the middle of taking evasive action to avoid hitting a car that had pulled out in front of... How Easy Is It To Hack An Odometer Has it only had one owner? Ask the seller for more information about why the car has so few miles. I purchased a 1987 in 2003 that only had about... And the stupidest cop police force award goes to I used to think state cops were smarter than normal cops. I mean, the state cops in Illinois have to have a bachelors... Hate crimes was Trucker had little sleep before wreck that end 7 kids Larry Harvilla eh, maybe. The cities I've lived in recently, I've been a minority in some neighborhoods (lived in a mostly Lebanese neighborhood when I lived near Detroit, and... having a gun with you in the car 3766 the the kill Apples and oranges. The result of Luby's was that a young woman named Susanna Hupp had to lay on the floor and watch her parents be liquidateed because she obeyed Texas... having a gun with you in the car 3767 need worked Texan happened were Wait a second. The cops didn't have enough firepower to take down... having a gun with you in the car 3768 9mm handguns had replaced .38 Specials in most department long before the North Hollywood incident, especially in LA. 9mm's aren't much more than high speed, lighter weight .38s... having a gun with you in the car 3769 Manatee which happens to the one county that had that happen. It was a fast growing county in late 70s to late 90s and the writed attributes that... having a gun with you in the car 3770 On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:18:04 GMT, Bama Brian If you plan to carry a handgun in your car (legally or otherwise), a good handgun safe is absolutely essential. The... having a gun with you in the car 3771 Brent P) OK, Brent, let's put this discussion on a reality basis. No device made by man is impenetrable. Hell...

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