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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Karnak on February 05, 2001, 06:16:00 PM
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On Sunday I bought a 2001 Toyota Tundra SR5 Access Cab (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif), V8 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) (all my previous vehicles have been 4 cylinders), 4 wheel drive (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif).
I know this makes me an ugly American consumer type (something that my motorcycle riding co-workers have been reminding me of as I contemplated this purchase) but its my money and (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/tongue.gif) to those that have a problem with it.
I've been keeping my mom and siblings in a house and I think that it is fair that I treat myself to the vehicle that I want.
The Toyota is NICE. I am very happy with its workmanship and its performanc so far.
I just wanted to share my enthusiasm. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother
Sisu
-Karnak
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Cool karnak!
Cars are el cheapo in the US, and gas too. one reason to move there (that and the 200 dollar bills)
I just fixed the flat tyre on my bike.
Then a snowstorm came in, tire froze to the ground and I popped it trying to get it moving (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif).
I own you (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
"It's the man, not the machine"
<saddles up on karnak>
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Baron Claus "StSanta" Von Ribbentroppen
9./JG 54 "Grünherz"
(http://store4.yimg.com/I/demotivators_1619_3845234)
"I don't necessarily agree with everything I think." - A. Eldritch
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LOL StSanta. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Because it uses more fuel I'm going to be driving to the ferry landing in Marin (the county where I live, north of SF) and then taking the ferry in to San Francisco. I'll bike from the ferry building in SF to work.
I want to do that at least 2 or 3 times a week. I told my insurance company that I'd do it twice a week.
I need the exercise anyway. I haven't been in anything like the shape I was in when I used a bicycle for transportation since I got a car. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif)
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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother
Sisu
-Karnak
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Congratulations. Enjoy your new car (and the capitalism), as you said it is your money (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Congrats Karnack
It's one of those things that only happens a couple of times in your life. Enjoy!
Eagler
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Nice one Karnak.
I'm about to buy my first car (2nd hand though).
Fiat Bravo S 1.4
Used cars are dirt cheap in the UK at the moment. Which is a good thing. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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I am driving a 1988 Toyota pickup I bought new. You will not be disappointed with your Toyota. They produce an excellent product (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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My sister and her husband have a 2000 Tundra. They love it! No problems whatsoever! Plus it is a good looking truck!
Good Luck with it!
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I have a 1993 Toy. I bought it used in 1995 with 40,000 miles on it. It has over 140,000 now and it still runs just as good as the day I bought it. I have a friend that has a 1988 Toy (It's like a Land Cruiser but cheeper) and it must have a minimum of 250,000 miles on the engine. I think he's replaced a water pump or two and an alternator on it is all. It's starting to get a little ragged but it's still running. I think there was a clutch in there too.
[This message has been edited by Jimdandy (edited 02-06-2001).]
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Hey Karnak, with a nice tax refund from a certain Republican president, you can purchase a very nice sound system for you new vehicle soon! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) Enjoy!
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New car, new car smell, open road, Spring day!
It's a fine feeling, isn't it?
Congrats Karnak! Enjoy!
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Just one thing, don't add up all your monthly payments .. it'll make you sick what it really cost you (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Eagler
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Originally posted by Eagler:
Just one thing, don't add up all your monthly payments .. it'll make you sick what it really cost you (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Eagler
In the past, I've taken out loans against my Investment plan, then when I pay interest, it's rolled back into my own investment plan, takes the middle man out to say the least!
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Thanks guys.
Eagler, my monthly payments are less than $100.00, insurance drives that up to about $200.00 though. I don't want to think of what I put down on it though. OUCH!!! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
One thing guys (not to turn this political, but I want you guys to know where I stand), I know you know that I'm a professed Liberal, and I am, but I DO believe in capitalism. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) Liberals are not a uniform block of people, we all have our personal set of beliefs. I, for example, am not anti-gun, I am a fiscal conservative and a social and environmental liberal.
Thanks for the encouragement about my purchase. I'm glad that some people don't have a problem with it. You guys make me feel less guilty over the indulgence. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) Kiitos.
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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother
Sisu
-Karnak
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I know that i shouldn't be asking this, but how much did your tundra cost? :-)
btw, im driving 1981 WV Jetta, which i got from my neighbour. Not too bad ride, but burns oil as much as gas...
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Originally posted by StSanta:
Cool karnak!
Cars are el cheapo in the US, and gas too. one reason to move there (that and the 200 dollar bills)
ha...HA!!!! _Cheap_ gas, now that's a good one Santa. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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hmmmmm.......let's see:
1. lives in the bay area
2. can afford a new car
you are a drug dealer karnak!
(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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..."and a social and environmental liberal."
So shouldn't you be riding a bicycle? Add hipocrit to your list... (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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Hehe - we bought a Z3 for my gf just after Xmas. It was a 99-registered with 6,000 miles on the clock. She's still going out "just to look at it" and washes it at least once a week. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Congrats on your new toy! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
[This message has been edited by -lynx- (edited 02-06-2001).]
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Originally posted by Frosty1:
ha...HA!!!! _Cheap_ gas, now that's a good one Santa. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Beat that : 3.5$ the gallon in France (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif)
if in dont mess in the convertion it's 6.20 Francs per liter...
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With all due respect, Santa, Straffo, the U.S. doesn't have the extremely high taxes associated with fuel prices of Europe...(you're also closer to the source)..I should say, we don't have the high taxes associated with it YET...
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Originally posted by Frosty1:
ha...HA!!!! _Cheap_ gas, now that's a good one Santa. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
LOL! Gas-guzzling Chevy Tahoe here. I'm happy to pay $1.45 for Unleaded Plus locally. Well, not happy exactly, but happier than paying European gas prices. Lesse...I've got a 30 gallon tank. At the $3.50/gal that Straffo mentioned, that'd only be $105 a fill-up! Yikes!
To stay on topic, this is my first vehicle with a V8 too...all the rest have been 4-banger pickups. Ain't it nice to hit the pedal and actually go somewhere? (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
SOB
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MORA,
It cost about 1,100 months of Aces High.
Ripsnort,
Kinda, but I'm not a vegan radical envionmental liberal, and:
Originally posted by Karnak:
Because it uses more fuel I'm going to be driving to the ferry landing in Marin (the county where I live, north of SF) and then taking the ferry in to San Francisco. I'll bike from the ferry building in SF to work.
I want to do that at least 2 or 3 times a week.
So I will be using a bicycle some of the time. The new truck's emissions are also lower than my '95 Nissan pickup's, even though it has worse milage and twice as many cylinders. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/tongue.gif)
SOB,
Yes it is, yes it is. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
22 Imperial Gallon tank on the Tundra, I think that's a 26.4 gallon US tank. I haven't had to fill it yet. I'm not looking forward to that shock.
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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother
Sisu
-Karnak
[This message has been edited by Karnak (edited 02-06-2001).]
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"Ripsnort,Kinda, but I'm not a vegan radical envionmental libera.."
Well, this may shock you, but most moderate republicans (the majority of Repubs) are also environmentally aware...thus I believe you are a Republican in Dem clothing so to speak...its just 'fashionable' in your part of the country to be a liberal and peer pressure would put you outside the circle of most of your co-workers/Friends. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
[This message has been edited by Ripsnort (edited 02-06-2001).]
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Ripsnort,
I've been told that before.
What really pushes me away from the Republican party is the social agenda that they push. Its just too Christian for an agnostic like me. I also don't like how the Republicans nominated to run seem to never share the moderate envionmental views of their voters. My Republican friends are also moderate enivironmentalists (a bit more moderate than I am, but still environmentalists) and I know that the lack of concern or note of this issue by those higher up in the party irks them as well.
Odd that we have to start with a totaly unrelated subject to have a reasoned discussion on these things. Or maybe it was just common ground.. I do enjoy reasoned discourse on these things because it makes one think. Yelling at each other doesn't do that, it just makes one more resolute in ones position.
<S> Ripsnort.
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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother
Sisu
-Karnak
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The Christian right is as small of faction (but well heard) as the left wing Animal rights liberals are to the left (also well heard)...hardly seems an arguement to not be involved with that particular party...it would be like me saying I stay away from the left because the Gay majority votes there....however, I vote the issues, independantly, and my voting reflects one of lesser of two evils IMO.
Odd that we have to start with a totaly unrelated subject to have a reasoned discussion on these things
I like to compare it to putting a mirror in someones face to show them their relection. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
<S> Karnak!
[This message has been edited by Ripsnort (edited 02-06-2001).]
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I too vote on the issues. It seems that we have slightly differing views on some issues (I have no problems with gay rights because it won't have any effect on me, I say "let it be their personal business" I frankly don't want to think about it) and we put different weights on some issues.
I suspect that you might vote for a Democrat who isn't pandering to the left fringe just as I may vote for a Republican who isn't pandering to the right fringe.
Unfortunately, they mostly seem to love to pander themselves, regardless of their political leanings.
Hey, at least we vote. Thats something that half of all eligible Americans don't do. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif)
Above that, it seems that we both pay attention and think about why we are voting the way that we do rather than punching the party line.
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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother
Sisu
-Karnak
[This message has been edited by Karnak (edited 02-06-2001).]
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Let's stop posting, Karnak, I think I may be beginning to like you...(No! Not in THAT way!) ..hehehehe!
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If I got a tundra the first thing I would do it drive through water that was halfway up to the doord, why? BECAUSE I COULD! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Ive got a 95 nissan 4x4 with a 4.0 "high output" straight six and a jeep cherokee automatic trans. on that rather small truck its rather fast but i get horrid gas milage. I would LOVE a Tundra. they are PPPUURRRTTYY.
CONGRATS! now go run something over! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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Rip, I got no problem paying for something that pollutes. but there HAS to be LIMITS!
Here, there are taxes on the TAXES on gas.
Hope it doesn't turn out that bad in the US, right now, you got el cheapo gas compared to the rest of the western world.
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Baron Claus "StSanta" Von Ribbentroppen
9./JG 54 "Grünherz"
"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up space"
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Get a real car get a VW beetle (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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I remember gas wars and $.16/gallon gas (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
My dad,rest his soul, used to say"let's go for a car ride,gas will never be this cheap again". Needless to say he just loved to drive around and go just about anywhere on a whim (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Trucks are fast... LOL!
An environmental liberal... using a 4000lb+ V8 for single person commuting... LOL!
#1 Vehicle seen upside down on the median around here during snowstorms: 4x4 Suburban Useless Vehicle... LOL!
:P
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actually the Tundra doesent drink gas that bad, i bet it gets better milage than mine, and mine is a straight 6.
EDIT: the tundra 4x4 SR5 is rated at 16-18 city, and 20-23 highway. that is about even with me, and I have half the weight, and only 4.0 litres (tundra has 4.7litre)
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Originally posted by Ripsnort:
With all due respect, Santa, Straffo, the U.S. doesn't have the extremely high taxes associated with fuel prices of Europe...(you're also closer to the source)..I should say, we don't have the high taxes associated with it YET...
That's why our car have a lower consomation than the average US car (as far as I know) and why it's the 3rd factor in buying a car (after security and confort)
As StSanta said we have the pleasure to have tax on tax for 80% of the 3.5$/gallon.
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Wobble you have a 2250 lb pickup? LOL!!!
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Funked,
I use it to carpool, not single person commute. Further I will be riding a bicycle 3 days a week. All in all I will be using significantly less fuel than I did with my 4 cylinder '95 Nissan pickup. Even if I used it every day I would still have lower emissions than I did with the old truck. The V8 Tundra qualifies as a "Low Emission Vehicle".
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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother
Sisu
-Karnak
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Karnak, I'm glad you are carpooling.
Despite LEV status it is still a huge, gas slurping, road sloth. If you were REALLY serious about the environment you could find something a bit more efficient in which to carry your carpool. I think we should downgrade you from an environmental liberal to an environmental moderate. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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Funked,
OK, I can live with that.
I'm a Fiscal Conservative, Environmental Moderate and a Social Liberal. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
I did look at the Toyota Prius and my responsible side argued for it, but it can't carry enough and had a 6 month waiting list. My "I wanna have fun!" side won out this time.
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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother
Sisu
-Karnak
[This message has been edited by Karnak (edited 02-08-2001).]