I can relate. I have a Dodge Caravan on a trailer in my driveway about to go to the scrap yard. My daughter ran it into the back end of a brand new pickup truck.
Even worse, the pickup truck was stopped at a light! :-( The van was totaled but I was able to salvage some parts off of it. Fortunately she walked away from it. >>Well, but my Civic Hybrid DOES beat your Metro MPG, in REAL USE by ME! It has a CVT with a computer-controlled "start clutch", no torque converter! << Ok.. I'll give you that one. Dave On 5/2/2013 12:33 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > Gregg Eshelman wrote: > >> >> A Geo Metro could easily match those numbers 20+ years ago. Could do almost >> that good with an automatic transmission. >> >> > Ah, yes, but then my daughter ran my old one through a power pole, not > just the residential size but the kind with a dual 45 KV feeder on it, and > sheared the pole completely in half. Powered down our entire town > for an evening. She walked away from the wreck without a scratch. > My guess is that a Geo Metro would have left her in pieces. Sometimes > all that extra weight modern cars carry has its uses. > >> When a new car can beat the old Metro for MPG in real world use, then >> that'll be something for its manufacturer to crow about. >> >> > Well, but my Civic Hybrid DOES beat your Metro MPG, in REAL USE by ME! > It has a CVT with a computer-controlled "start clutch", no torque converter! > > Jon > > Jon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET > Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. > Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with<2% overhead > Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
