DBWI: What car(s) do you own?

For the ultimate "haters gonna hate"mobile, try the Peel P250 electric. $110.00 new, and less than $0.01 to the mile in electricity. Three wheel mounted 100hp electric engines, top speed regulated at 90mph, three wheel drive, three wheel steering, light enough to carry, charging breaks, lithium batteries. Big enough for one dude.
 
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By the way, it should be noted that the 1.0-liter I-3 engine of that Ford/Honda joint venture found on my Honda Beat uses a Ford-designed block and offset-balance flywheel, but the cylinder head with direct fuel injection system is a Honda design, as is the Advanced VTEC continuous variable-timing valvetrain. It's an engine that surprisingly smoothly revs to 7500 rpm limit. :D Driven reasonably, I've seen over 42 miles per US gallon driving at 65 mph on the Interstate.
 
Looking at new bikes from Indian. Saw one that looked really fun. Three inline wheels, huge charging breaks. Two wheel streering, and three Electric, Propane V12/Gasoline V12/ Engines, one to a wheel. The 2013 Indian Special 3.
 
By the way, my stepdad just took delivery of a 2013 Chevrolet Zafira "tall wagon." Assembled at the completely refurbished production line at Spring Hill, TN, it's powered by a brand new 2.2-liter CTDi turbodiesel engine (US legal without needing urea gas injection in the exhaust stream) rated at 177 bhp with a new seven-speed automatic. I've seen around 40 mpg on the Interstate even with six people aboard, and acceleration is not an issue with the enormous torque peak of this engine. :D
 
Hey, question.

Friend of mine needs a dirt cheap but reliable car. I would recomment one of the newer Trabants except for the fact that Sachsenring seems to be going the way of the dinosaur. So any recommendation as to what would be a good dirt cheapccar to buy? She doesn't mind if it's a gas guzzler.


Studebaker Avanti. Preferably something from the 1970s, when the car shared the big inline six with the brand's intermediate commercial line-up. Lots of push. Towing won't be an issue.

Edit: Unless she wants something new? I wasn't sure. If new, then, the Ford Pinto is a sporty and well-proven design.
 
Studebaker Avanti. Preferably something from the 1970s, when the car shared the big inline six with the brand's intermediate commercial line-up. Lots of push. Towing won't be an issue.

Edit: Unless she wants something new? I wasn't sure. If new, then, the Ford Pinto is a sporty and well-proven design.
Unless your talking the Pinto Atom. That was both extremly expensive and extremly dangerous. It's the car B-movies shot at to get mushroom clouds right. One of those bastards killed Ed Wood.


Makes you wonder what they will think of next, Hesperium (otl plutonium) fuelled cars?????

Ford tried that back in the 70s with the Nucleon and the Pinto Atom. Both where disasters. At least they wheren't as bad as the east bloc Atomic cars though.
 
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Unless your talking the Pinto Atom. That was both extremly expensive and extremly dangerous. It's the car B-movies shot at to get mushroom clouds right. One of those bastards killed Ed Wood.


My gracious, no.

You understand I'm talking about the "gray market" model that's made and sold in Brazil and Argentina, yes? I've seen a few of those running around our neck of the woods. At least one broker online is offering them freshly shipped for very reasonable prices.
 
My gracious, no.

You understand I'm talking about the "gray market" model that's made and sold in Brazil and Argentina, yes? I've seen a few of those running around our neck of the woods. At least one broker online is offering them freshly shipped for very reasonable prices.
That's good. Any nuclear car is asking for trouble.
 

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Edit: Unless she wants something new? I wasn't sure. If new, then, the Ford Pinto is a sporty and well-proven design.

They stopped selling the Pinto outside Latin America in the 90's. I'm sure they'd want something newer than that.

The Current Pinto Atom they sell in South America is just a crappier Ford Ka, with less sound-proofing,and a crappier drivetrain, but it does have a much more powerful, dehumidifying AC system than the Ka.

It's better than the Fiesta-based Pinto Sedan/Station Wagon and Pinto 4 (OOC:OTL's Fusion/EcoSport), but not something I'd ever want to import stateside. Even to California, Florida, or the other CARB-FES (CARB Fuel Economy Standards) states (which usually also have size and displacement based vehicle taxes, although Florida's are the most severe.)

Also, just as a reminder, California, Florida and Nevada are the only states that allow the operation of self-driving cars in the US.
(OOC: This is true IRL as well, with California being the third state to do so.)
Honda and Google Labs will be leasing a few hundred self-driving CR-Zs for two years in those states for two years of large scale testing starting in 2013.
Volkswagen Commercial might join in with a few hundred leased Transporters, Caddies and Deliveries.

We might see about getting a self-driving Delivery 8.200 for work, since it's a possible low risk option, and would be an improvement over the shitty Isuzu Elf twins (Class 5/6 trucks) we have now (The F-series we have OTOH can stay, although it's getting a bit long in the tooth) but it'd still be much more compact than the F-650s and Topkicks that we'd normally consider.
 
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