http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4633344Oh my.
OutspokenLiberal (319 posts) Thu Dec-11-08 07:14 PM
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if you were to purchase a car tomorrow
We're having all this talk about the auto industry. Hypothetical situation. You win a sweepstakes, and the prize is a new car of your choice. Money is not an issue.
What would you choose, and why?
It's a big bonfire, the primitives fantasizing.
GrizzlyMan (1000+ posts) Fri Dec-12-08 05:46 AM
Response to Reply #6
114. You guys are so full of shit
Any car in the world and you choose a Malibu? Give me a ****ing break. It REALLY is getting thick around here.
It's always thick in a sewer.
Mike 03 (853 posts) Thu Dec-11-08 07:19 PM
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10. I feel so much pressure now to say it is an American Car.
My fantasy dream car is to purchase a 1977 black Trans Am.
Second: an AMC Pacer.
Now, I would pick either the car I drive now, a RAV 4, or a black Porsche, and I have no idea who makes Porsche or if it is a foreign car.
I think sometimes people give us car buyers more credit than we deserve. I know what I like, but I don't always know who makes it.
Sorry to disappoint so many people.
franksolich liked AMC Pacers too; they looked like pregnant eggs.
leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-11-08 07:23 PM
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17. M1A1 Abrams main battle tank.
I could really use that when they come to take away my house.
Someone's gearing up for when 0bama redistributes their wealth.
DiktatrW (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-11-08 07:24 PM
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19. Used police cruiser.
High Quality components designed to be maintained by the owner.
Weld the hood closed, paint it, and drive.
franksolich when a teenager owned a used police car, but it had to be repainted so as to not misrepresent.
It was okay, but it used a lot of gasoline.
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haruka3_2000 (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-11-08 09:52 PM
Response to Reply #38
82. I used to have a Toyota Echo
They're a total piece of shit, if you need to drive anywhere a snow flake may fall or the wind might blow.
There's a reason they stopped making the echo. Consumer Reports also gave them a horrible rating.
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haruka3_2000 (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-11-08 10:30 PM
Response to Reply #85
87. I live in a hilly area that often isn't plowed that great -- the car was USELESS in the snow
I've had at various points a Dodge Caravan, a Mercury Sable (sucked in many ways, but was decent in snow), Grand Cherokee and now a Saab 9-3. They were all a thousand times better in the snow, and I never needed snow tires or 300lbs of shit in the trunk.
Sorry, I think Echos suck. Don't get so touchy about your car. It's just a car.
BTW, an article from 2004 and a link that leads to a deleted article don't exactly prove your point. If the Echos were so great, why did Toyota replace them with the Scion and the Yaris after just a couple years?
tabasco (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-11-08 10:40 PM
Response to Reply #87
89. LOL. Then let's see YOUR links!
I live on top of a mountain in West Virginia.
Drive 22 miles to work each day, come rain, snow, or ice.
You're full of crap.
edit: Toyota stopped selling Echos because the gas crunch had not hit and they were not selling.
When gas went up, they brought it back as the Yaris, which is what the Echo was called in Europe for a long time.
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The pollen primitive from Louisiana, who doesn't like small-town folks:
RGBolen (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-11-08 09:02 PM
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62. Whichever one I could sell for the most money.
The 60-something sparkling husband primitive, wanting to be a kid again:
Husb2Sparkly (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-11-08 09:25 PM
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70. Probably a Corvette
Most of the primitive responses involve hyper-expensive motor vehicles, which again loudly betrays the blatant base hypocrisy of the primitives, who wear their "virtue" on their sleeves.
Starving people are eating cattle manure in the Sudan, to survive.
The primitives allege to be superior to we decent and civilized people; to be "socially conscious," "socially sensitive," to the needs of others, sharing, non-selfish, caring primitives, the primitives.
I'm starting to get this idea the primitives think their automobiles are more important than that others are having to dine on animal waste, merely to live.
