Author Topic: Must be getting old but... (Read 1017 times)

lazs2 · « **on:** June 08, 2004, 11:41:38 AM »

The new chrysler 300c appeals to me..

pretty much a mercedes 300 with a chrysler hemi in it.

I have been thinking for years that a merc with a big block in it would be a pretty neat car... This thing is pretty much what I woulda built and I don't think I could do it for as cheap.

Gonna be lots of cheap speed equipment for that hemi soon... they are gonna have a 4 wheel drive version...

Only bad thing is that there is no stick shift version but it is at least a 5 speed auto.

lazs

AKIron · « **Reply #1 on:** June 08, 2004, 11:43:20 AM »

With gas at almost $2/gal here, I'm finding more interest in the hybrids.

TheDudeDVant · « **Reply #2 on:** June 08, 2004, 11:59:46 AM »

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Originally posted by AKIron
With gas at almost $2/gal here, I'm finding more interest in the hybrids.

I'm sure you have a lot of interest in Honda's version of the hybrid.. 8)

lazs2 · « **Reply #3 on:** June 08, 2004, 12:04:01 PM »

the 300 has a solenoid controlled valve mechanism that opens 8 valves to let the car run on 4 cyl. when not needed. It is supossed to tale like .4 milisec to switch and is torque demand controlled. Can't tell by the sound or throttle feel supossedly... thing gets 17 mpg city and 25 highway.

lazs

AKIron · « **Reply #4 on:** June 08, 2004, 12:08:33 PM »

Honda is claiming 51mpg for their Civic Hybrid. Would be nice to save about $100/month. That's about 5 trips to the firing range.

lazs2 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 08, 2004, 12:18:28 PM »

I have my fuel for worlk supplied by the city and so I don't put 100 bucks a month into gas even at 10 mpg in my El Camino.

if I drive 10000 miles a year and get 25 mpg out of the 300c hemi and 51 out of the honda thingie... I would only save about 800 dollars a year. you ain't gettin me to spend that much time in a honda for $800 a year.

lazs

SOB · « **Reply #6 on:** June 08, 2004, 01:20:21 PM »

You ain't getting old Lazs...well, yeah you are

, but the car definitely has something.

lazs2 · « **Reply #7 on:** June 08, 2004, 01:47:28 PM »

but I look good eh sob?

lazs

Boroda · « **Reply #8 on:** June 08, 2004, 01:48:00 PM »

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Originally posted by AKIron
With gas at almost $2/gal here, I'm finding more interest in the hybrids.

Interesting. Here people pay 13 rubles for a litre, it will be over $1.5/gal, and you Americans can't afford "almost $2/gal"?! Average income is maybe 10 times smaller in Russia then in the US!

mosgood · « **Reply #9 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:05:23 PM »

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Originally posted by Boroda
Interesting. Here people pay 13 rubles for a litre, it will be over $1.5/gal, and you Americans can't afford "almost $2/gal"?! Average income is maybe 10 times smaller in Russia then in the US!

Cool.... that means I could have a blast in the russian stripclubs!!!

xrtoronto · « **Reply #10 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:08:54 PM »

I like the car allot too....

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:13:26 PM »

Man who whacked that car with the ugly stick.

lazs2 · « **Reply #12 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:23:20 PM »

funked... they weren't aiming at your generation with it... to us old farts it brings back the old 300 series chryslers... It has oldie stuff like analog guages that look like SW ones and knobs for controls... leather. chopped top and real friggin chrome door handles. HEMI... Sure... It don't look like some plastic mdel that got melted in the oven but us old guys are pretty conventional.

plus... I am being lectured about ugly by a.... subaru owner?

lazs

xrtoronto · « **Reply #13 on:** June 08, 2004, 02:31:34 PM »

funked, you might change your mind when you see one of those on the road...it's a classy looking sedan

Toad · « **Reply #14 on:** June 08, 2004, 03:43:24 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
plus... I am being lectured about ugly by a.... subaru owner?

lazs

OoooooOOOOOOOOoooooooooooOooo ooooooooh! That's gotta sting!