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I (heart) Huckebees (as well as my Camry Hybrid)
by Acidus at 6:33 pm EST, Jan 29, 2008 |
 However, it is possible to compare a Toyota Camry Hybrid to a "regular Camry." The Camry Hybrid is powered by a 4-cylinder engine, but for comparison purposes, Toyota spokesman John McCandless claims that, "if you take into account the equipment level of the Camry Hybrid -- and that it has the performance of a V-6 -- the best apples-to-apples comparison is to compare the hybrid to a V-6 Camry LE. Those base prices are less than $2,000 apart -- $23,640 for the Camry V6 LE, vs. $25,000 for the Hybrid." Toyota reports that the Camry Hybrid's fuel economy rating is 33 mpg city/34 mpg highway. Meanwhile, the Camry V6 gets 21/31 mpg, city/hwy. For purposes of comparison, McCandless used a combined fuel economy rating, splitting the difference between highway and city mileage. "So if you drive 15,000 miles a year, and you buy the Hybrid version, you'll be using about 454 gallons a year," says McCandless. "Meanwhile, if you get the V6 LE, you'll be burning 635 gallons a year. At $3.20 a gallon, that's a fuel-cost saving of about $547 a year. So it should take you three or four years to recoup the up-front premium you paid to buy the Hybrid. Plus, you get the satisfaction that you are easing the emission imprint on the planet."
I purchased a 2008 Camry hybrid in December and I love it. Metallic blue paint, leather, alloy wheels, navigation system, voice commands, Bluetooth phone connection, killer sound system, and awesome gas mileage. I'm averaging about 35 miles a gallon and getting around 475 miles to the tank! It has the same footprint as a normal Camry, though the truck is about 2/3's the size because thats where the batteries are located. The car is alot more responsive than a Prius is, and all of the controls are not driven by the touch screen. I didn't go out looking for a hybrid either. Having a sexy wife with a masters in Mechanical Engineering changes you car buying experience thats for sure. She could throw down on gearing ratios and torque with the best of them! First I looked for any cars with the highest safety ratings from the government and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Next I looked for cars that got greater than 30 MPG. That weeded the field down a bunch. After that, I looked for something that wasn't hideous, and had options that I wanted (leather seats, good sound system, and a navigation system). The Camry Hybrid was one of the only cars that fit that bill! All and all I am extremely happy with my Camry and would recommend it to anyone who is looking for a new car. |
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RE: I (heart) Huckebees (as well as my Camry Hybrid)
by Eliot at 8:29 pm EST, Jan 29, 2008 |
ME eh? Have her convert it to a plug-in. |
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RE: I (heart) Huckebees (as well as my Camry Hybrid)
by Acidus at 11:10 pm EST, Jan 29, 2008 |
Eliot wrote:
ME eh? Have her convert it to a plug-in.
... ... my brain first parsed this as "convert Jill into a plug-in." |
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RE: I (heart) Huckebees (as well as my Camry Hybrid)
by Worthersee at 2:45 pm EST, Jan 30, 2008 |
If you love it so much why don't you just marry it. |
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RE: I (heart) Huckebees (as well as my Camry Hybrid)
by Decius at 2:15 pm EDT, May 20, 2008 |
Worthersee wrote:
If you love it so much why don't you just marry it.
Why bother with Carma Sutra when you can get into some real freaky shit. |
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Crash: A Novel
by Worthersee at 9:51 pm EDT, May 20, 2008 |
Decius wrote: Worthersee wrote:
If you love it so much why don't you just marry it.
Why bother with Carma Sutra when you can get into some real freaky shit.
J. G. Ballard's graphic, violent novel is controversial wherever it is read, even on Amazon.com's own Web page! The book's characters are obsessed with automobile accidents and are determined to narrate the horrors of the car crash as luridly as possible. In the words of the novel's protagonist, the wounds caused by automobile collisions are "the keys to a new sexuality born from a perverse technology."
That sounds exactly like something I would be into. |
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RE: Crash: A Novel
by ubernoir at 9:06 am EDT, May 21, 2008 |
Worthersee wrote: Decius wrote: Worthersee wrote:
If you love it so much why don't you just marry it.
Why bother with Carma Sutra when you can get into some real freaky shit.
J. G. Ballard's graphic, violent novel is controversial wherever it is read, even on Amazon.com's own Web page! The book's characters are obsessed with automobile accidents and are determined to narrate the horrors of the car crash as luridly as possible. In the words of the novel's protagonist, the wounds caused by automobile collisions are "the keys to a new sexuality born from a perverse technology."
That sounds exactly like something I would be into.
it's a cool book plus there's a movie of it
but then J G Ballard writes freaky stuff -- also try J G Ballard's The Unlimited Dream Company
the blurb From the moment Blake crashes his stolen aircraft into the Thames, the unlimited dream company takes over and the town of Shepperton is transformed into an apocalytic kingdom of desire and stunning imagination ruled over by Blake's messanic figure. Tropical flora and fauna appear; pan-sexual celebrations occur regularly; and in a final liberation, the townspeople learn to fly
also and a book that deeply freaked me out is Stanislaw Lem's The Futurological Congress the blurb If the worst must happen to Earth's beleaguered planet, comonaut Ijon Tichy always hopes he will have taken off for the stars. No such luck. Something in the water at the luxurious 116-floor Costa Rica Hilton blows the century's last Futurological Congress and Tichy's mind. Drugged to the eyeballs, shot by death squad, flashfrozen in time and at last revivified in the year 2039, Tichy awakens to a psychemised world - society's final solution to the problem of overpopulation that had defeated the futurologists. But this was beyond his wildest dreams. Steadfastly refusing the staggering choice of psychotopic delights and horrors offered by the psychodelicatessens and almost everyone he encounters, Tichy is determined to run to earth the chemocrats who exert such absolute control over reality. But no sooner has Stanislaw Lem's stupendously illstarred cosmonaut stripped away another layer of linguistic delusion than his own grip on it is that much weaker
from the writer of Solaris |
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