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- leftcoastfunk, on 01/31/2008, -2/+203"...top speed of 65 km/h (40 mph)". Cool, it's electric AND faster than a stock Geo Metro. Dugg.
- mwomorris, on 01/31/2008, -0/+125Where does one find a "donor forklift"?
- DiscoLando, on 01/31/2008, -0/+63Come on, Ned. Move this thing!
I CAN'T! IT'S A GEO! - inactive, on 01/31/2008, -20/+76Unfortunately, the politicians have put so many rules and regs into place that American cars have to be very expensive. This article
http://www.scragged.com/articles/why-cant-we-have- ...
points out that India will be selling a car for $2,500, about 1/8 the price of the cheapest car the US government lets us buy. This article
http://www.scragged.com/articles/cynicism-and-teh- ...
explains that government not only doesn't create value, there is no limit to the amount of money the bureaucracy can spend. As bureaucracy grows, it becomes more and more difficult to get anything done. When government gets too big, the society collapses. Government not only destroys value, it destroys society over time. THAT's why we aren't permitted to buy a cheap car. - petebot, on 01/31/2008, -2/+56Unfortunately, the two canadian friends and their car has disappeared. Police are investigating a puddle of oil found at the scene...
- Manhigh, on 01/31/2008, -0/+35Rod: Go faster Dad!
Ned: I CAN'T, IT'S A GEO! - mwomorris, on 01/31/2008, -2/+33$400 doesn't sound like a donation at all...
- MetroMPG, on 01/31/2008, -4/+30@ mwomorris ...
There's a company that sells & services forklifts in our city. I just called them up and asked if they had any used ones for sale - they had several at the time. The technician who showed it to us said they actually scrapped half a dozen old but working forklifts a month before we bought ours. The one we got was about 25 years old and had leaky hydraulics, which is why they put it out to pasture. - corners, on 01/31/2008, -1/+26canadianwebhosting.com killed the electric car!!!
- raceit, on 01/31/2008, -0/+25That and a lack of airbags. Take all the safety equipment out of a car and it gets real cheap real quick.
- _skin_, on 01/31/2008, -0/+22Mine fell off of a truck. ;)
- TomO1, on 01/31/2008, -0/+22Truly inspiring. I'm very tempted to make my own EV conversion now especially having access to many used golf cart parts.
- BarrettAnderson, on 01/31/2008, -4/+26"looks like your getting a better deal then them!!!"
you're, than.
I usually don't respond to stuff like this, but you spelled both of them wrong in the same sentence.
-Just trying to help - greenlight2001, on 01/31/2008, -1/+18It was a fun project *****. It has a range of 15 miles... they weren't expecting mircles.
- lukeduke, on 01/31/2008, -2/+18And its a chick magnet to boot!!!
- slvrbullet87, on 01/31/2008, -1/+17You kick the crap out of the guy driving it and take it. Better put him down for quite a while tho, most forklifts have a top speed of about 13 mph
- mercury187, on 01/31/2008, -2/+18the one in the article was a 500$ "donor" forklift, looks like your getting a better deal then them!!!
- frostbyt, on 01/31/2008, -2/+17In other news Two Canadian Friends found dead with notes from oil company stapled to their heads.
- debuggercll, on 01/31/2008, -0/+15To lift forks.
- starkruzr, on 01/31/2008, -5/+19Yes, we should all be able to buy cars that would impale us in a 30 mph collision.
Pull your head out of your libertarian ass for a moment and consider that not *everything* is solvable by the market. - orlyfactor, on 01/31/2008, -2/+15Why on earth do you travel that far to work? Some people do that here and I know that housing prices are expensive, but come on...that's like 3-4 hours of your day spent just sitting in your car. I commuted about an hour/hour and a half each way for about 2 years, then gave up and moved 5 miles away from work. I absolutely love it.
- SpectralSounds, on 01/31/2008, -0/+13I actually just bought a 92' Geo Metro 5 speed for $500 because I commute 80 miles to work each way. I figure it will save me a couple grand a year in gas over my other car. First day I got the Geo Metro I pegged it at 90mph without much trouble at all. It takes a little while to get up there though.
After a few tanks of gas, I added up the gas mileage and I'm getting an average of 46 mpg with the car. So, I'm happy. If I didnt have to go over mountains, Im sure the gas mileage would be even better. - AndrewJC, on 01/31/2008, -0/+13Do you really think that the cheapest new car sold in the US is $20,000? Jeez, I got a brand new Hyundai Elantra in 2003 for just over half that.
- noahw, on 01/31/2008, -0/+12Mirror of the car images:
http://echopic.com/dad/full
http://echopic.com/dae/full
http://echopic.com/daf/full - ninsei, on 01/31/2008, -1/+13there's a reply feature.
- Motocompo, on 01/31/2008, -0/+11GEO METRO FTW!
- midbc, on 01/31/2008, -3/+14you see they don't want the US looking like India or Hong Kong or where ever with people driving around garbage cans with 3 wheels goin meep meep beep beep beep
- mckirkus, on 01/31/2008, -0/+10Had a geo in high school. They're actually pretty quick off the line because they're so light. Even with 3 cylinders and 50 hp. It could do 90MPH like the other guy says. I think I hit 100 once down a big hill.
The problem is that they drift around like a sail boat because of their weight and skinny tires. Over 85MPH it would shudder so hard that it felt like it was about to disintegrate. - dawheelo, on 01/31/2008, -2/+12Pussy magnet optional
- borninda818, on 01/31/2008, -2/+12I got one in my shop. The battery doesn't hold charge very long, but other than that it's a perfectly good forklift. I'll give it to you for 400 ;)
- Fordi, on 01/31/2008, -0/+9A few things:
1) No; you can use lithium-ion packs to pretty good effect; PbH+ batteries are much too low energy density.
2) Ideally, you'd have a smart circuit on your car; headlights minus running engine = 30 second delayed shutoff.
3) Also ideally, you'd replace any light-producing part in your car with LEDs, and not have such an efficiency issue as draining your batteries through a tiny lamp
4) At night, you'd likely be charging your batteries anyway. - PleaseJustDie, on 01/31/2008, -0/+910,000 miles isn't that much...
- DreKor, on 01/31/2008, -6/+15Ron Paul won't be president. So I guess we're even.
- djk1076, on 01/31/2008, -1/+10mirror:
http://www.2solitudes.com/headlines-actualites/85/ ... - MetroMPG, on 01/31/2008, -4/+13Haha!! :D Thanks for the laugh! And the Digg. - Darin.
- sladek, on 01/31/2008, -1/+10well what else are you going to digg that comment for!?
- AlanLivingston, on 01/31/2008, -0/+8@Slizzo,
I'm not sure present perfect is correct in this case. Present perfect is used only for actions that occurred in an unspecified time period in the past. Although his sentence doesn't specify the time, he's clearly referring to the comment left by mercury187. I think the reference to merc's comment implies a SPECIFIC time, that being the time he entered the comment.
PP just doesn't feel right to me, here. I think we should appeal to a bigger grammar Nazi. - mwomorris, on 01/31/2008, -1/+10Ah, I was hoping for something a little more sinister (late-night raid of a WalMart or something).
- absolutzombie, on 01/31/2008, -0/+8That's because it *was* about to disintegrate.
- signal15, on 01/31/2008, -2/+9Do you remember those gory accident photos posted a couple of weeks ago? This is why we aren't "permitted" to buy cheap cars.
- altgeeky1, on 01/31/2008, -0/+7Please do not invoke "free market" rhetoric if you do not know what it means.
This argument is usually coached in terms of "property rights" - you have the right to drive what you want.
Wrong - at least in a free society, you do not have the right to infringe on OTHER people's rights.
When you are on a public road, these "pesky regulations" like pollution and stability standards serve to protect OTHER people's property -- not yours. So you can forget the crybaby "government nanny laws" argument, because it doesn't wash.
Statistically, these "MY right to drive an unsafe vehicle" rhetoric speakers are the LEAST LIKELY to actually drive one of these vehicles... - garrettnb, on 01/31/2008, -0/+7that car in the gory accident photos was a volkswagen tourag. It was crash tested to be one of the safest cars vehicles in its market.
- martinherrera, on 01/31/2008, -3/+10note to self: don't use canadianwebhosting.com
- starkruzr, on 01/31/2008, -1/+8Probably because he gets paid a lot.
- pcpimpster, on 01/31/2008, -0/+7that was funny
- thecha, on 01/31/2008, -0/+7Dugg because it's the best thing to ever come out of Brockville...
(Native Kingstonian) - juliandunbar11, on 01/31/2008, -0/+7sorry to nit-pick, but I do believe Rod says: "Faster Daddy, he's gaining on us!"
- starkruzr, on 01/31/2008, -3/+10Holy Jesus. Will you listen to yourself? "If a business refuses it, sells cheap cars, and they break down and kill people, then the seller will soon be out of business"
Yeah. And in the meantime, PEOPLE ARE DEAD.
Cars and computers are both machines. One of them, however, is quite prone to killing people. This is why regulation is needed in cars and not in computers. - Fordi, on 01/31/2008, -0/+7So, a 67% decrease in costs isn't worth it, eh?
- cawpin, on 01/31/2008, -0/+7I drove a 1996 Geo Metro (55hp 3 cylinder) for about 3 years. It's top speed was 97 mph with, literally, a tail wind and going slightly downhill.
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