All this off road stuff must be a West of the Mississippi thing. My favorite is a Mazda RX 7 Convertible.
1. Room for 2 Open Class Planes, Trunk holds: Battery, Winch, Turnaround, Transmitter and a change of clothes and 1spare wingrod. No Passengers. 2. Fast & Comfortable 3, 22 MPG 4. We Water Ski in the South. No Mountain Passes (Hill Passes instead) 5. Very Good Driving Dynamics. 6. 2 Wheel drive and little ground clearance gets me to slope site. (2 empty lots between luxury homes) 7. NOT a Minivan I no longer get to drive it to the field. Since I now have to take the retriever and it's battery I just can't quite squeeze it all in. Now I have to use the GMC Sierra Pickup. There are as many favorites as there are people and they are all correct. Isn't life grand!!! Bruce Lewis Birmingham, AL At 12:36 PM 5/2/2005 -0500, Steve Meyer wrote: >My favourite choice: >Company Car (minivan). Free Gas. Free miles. > >(130 miles and 170 miles round trip to club fields. (209 and 274 kilometers >respectively.)) > >Steven Meyer >SOAR > >At 12:22 PM 5/2/2005, Jim Laurel wrote: >>So, the discussion about the suitability of Corvettes for hauling >>sailplanes got me to thinking more about my next choice of vehicle. It >>should have the following attributes: >> >>1) Space to haul 2 unlimited planes and a 2 meter plane + winch, toolbox, >>1 Optima battery, turnaround, radio cases + at least 1, preferably 2 passengers >>2) Fast and comfortable for those long hauls to away contests >>3) Reasonable fuel economy (20-21mpg highway minimum) >>4) All wheel drive, since here in Washington the passes are often a mess, >>roads are often wet, and I like to ski after work in the winter. >>5) Decent driving dynamics >>6) Enough clearance to travel forest service roads to slope sites >>7) NOT a minivan >> >>Here's my short list: >>--Volvo XC70 >>--Audi A6 Avant >>--Audi S4 Avant (not sure if long enough) >>--Dodge (Mercedes) short wheelbase Sprinter (no AWD yet, but likely for >>2007 model year) >>--Subaru whatchamacallit wagon >> RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
