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Drive on!

by iluvmysephia1 on Fri Sep 26 12:43:52 PDT 2008

cdnpinhead, I just noticed you're another one of us Arizona Edmunds members. I'm heading up there towards your area from Willcox on Monday, to get my '08 Lancer GTS detailed with an 'Auto Butler' paint protectant treatment. I get it every 6 months from the dealer I bought the Lancer from, Avondale Mitsubishi in Avondale, AZ. But what I wanted to comment on was your statement on driving and how much you like it. Drive on, because driving is not illegal, there's an oil company around that wants your ghastly dollar and a service station that wants your ghastly dollar, too. But driving is fun and a form of entertainment for a lot of us automotive enthusiasts. And whether we drive a rig with an ICE, hybrid, or all-electric, I believe it is important to be able to feel free to do just that. Drive our rigs with glee...I love driving around Arizona and New Mexico seeing new places and learning about the people of that land. Around here are the Chiricahua National Monument(the "land of standing rocks" the native Indians called them) with their enchanting rock spire formations, that are truly fascinating to see. Only about 37 miles south of Willcox, too. There is Fort Bowie, where Geronimo was held by the U.S. Army, after finally catching the great Apache warrior, back in 1886. Fort Bowie's ruins are available for viewing and they are only 25 miles SE of my home. More interesting rock formations are found in Texas Canyon with the Dragoon Mountain range and their rocks resting on top of other rocks and abnormalities are great to visit. I-10 actually runs right between the formations. Cochise Stronghold is about 45 miles west of me here in Willcox, and that is the proud Chief Cochise's old hiding place from the Cavalry and anyone else he didn't want to find him. We drove up to see a Foghat concert in October of '07 near Wickenburg, AZ, about 60 miles or so NW of Phoenix. The next day we left our motel and drove up to the Grand Canyon. I have never seen anything like that place and heartily await our next visit. When my son ran up to the edge on the SE area of the South Rim, he just stopped in his tracks and stared in amazement. "Dad, you're not gonna believe this!" He's right, I couldn't believe the beauty I was staring at. Incredible, awe-inspiring natural beauty that just went on and on. Point is, fact is, this country has benefited greatly from the automobile and it's availability to people. It's given us freedom and mobility that can't be rivalled by the horses and the carriages. Agreed? If we still have a rig with a ICE, and most of us do, I am for driving as much as we can afford to drive and for as long and far as we want. Restricting that idea is bad for business, bad for the economy and bad for our emotional health collectively. But it's an individual thing that varies according to the person, agreed. The environmentalists will never be satisfied, whatever propels our automobiles. You realize that, don't y'all? And if you love a manual-trannied rig way more than an automatic-trannied rig, ya know what, you've got that right. Once again, it's an individual thing. I think that with the advent of hybrid and all-electric propulsion technology you're gonna have to be ready to abandon your stickshift vehicle, however. Reading up on the subject points me to things like automatic push-button starts for new world order rigs like this. And after starting the rigs, I am reading of the implementation of simple levers for putting the power to the wheels, like "forward" and "reverse" buttons. Does that doom the manual tranny? I don't think so. Especially if you've got some awesome backyard mechanical skills, gentlemen. I am starting to see the end of the manual transmission. But that's just my view, my car-nut buddies. Think I'll go exploring in the Lancer GTS. And I'll feel good about doing just that, too. :shades:

Re: Folks? [circlew]

by bristol2 on Thu Apr 24 06:31:42 PDT 2008

Nice re-direct! Here goes: Napa/ Sonoma Valley- 1961 Chevy Apache pick-up truck. Classic, farm vehicle, gets the retro-organic-refit witth bio-diesel nod. Manhattan- Is there really anything other than a black MB S-Class? Paris- Citroen DS 21. With a Gitane in hand. London- Aston Martin DBS. Absolutely. English Gourmet Country pub- Land Rover Defender, diesel. Barcelona- Jose's 335D! (I know you're not in Barca Jose, it's just the only part of Spain I have actually eaten in) And that about sums them up for me.

Re: Anyone else get weird errors today? [xed]

by doctorlove on Wed Mar 12 15:45:42 PDT 2008

Order Processing Error Command failed: [] HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 219 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:45:08 GMT Connection: keep-alive 200 command OK, output follows... The following transaction was made on your account on 2008/03/12 22:45:02 GMT: ACRL B1000@58.66 Affected holdings: : 1946567.11 (-58660.00) ACRL: 13001.0000 (+1000.0000)

Re: Anyone else get weird errors today? [doctorlove]

by doctorlove on Wed Mar 12 14:11:14 PDT 2008

Order Processing Error Command failed: [] HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 2947 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:10:09 GMT Connection: keep-alive 200 command OK, output follows... The following transaction was made on your account on 2008/03/12 21:10:09 GMT: CRLA B710@45.02 Affected holdings: : 3581232.38 (+39035.80) ~CRLA: 29290.0000 (-710.0000) The following transaction was made on your account on 2008/03/12 21:10:09 GMT: CRLA B2000@45.64 Affected holdings: : 3689952.38 (+108720.00) ~CRLA: 27290.0000 (-2000.0000) The following transaction was made on your account on 2008/03/12 21:10:09 GMT: CRLA B2000@46.26 Affected holdings: : 3797432.38 (+107480.00) ~CRLA: 25290.0000 (-2000.0000) The following transaction was made on your account on 2008/03/12 21:10:09 GMT: CRLA B2000@46.88 Affected holdings: : 3903672.38 (+106240.00) ~CRLA: 23290.0000 (-2000.0000) The following transaction was made on your account on 2008/03/12 21:10:09 GMT: CRLA B2000@47.50 Affected holdings: : 4008672.38 (+105000.00) ~CRLA: 21290.0000 (-2000.0000) The following transaction was made on your account on 2008/03/12 21:10:09 GMT: CRLA B2000@48.13 Affected holdings: : 4112412.38 (+103740.00) ~CRLA: 19290.0000 (-2000.0000) The following transaction was made on your account on 2008/03/12 21:10:09 GMT: CRLA B2000@48.75 Affected holdings: : 4214912.38 (+102500.00) ~CRLA: 17290.0000 (-2000.0000) The following transaction was made on your account on 2008/03/12 21:10:09 GMT: CRLA B2000@49.38 Affected holdings: : 4316152.38 (+101240.00) ~CRLA: 15290.0000 (-2000.0000) The following transaction was made on your account on 2008/03/12 21:10:09 GMT: CRLA B2000@50.00 Affected holdings: : 4416152.38 (+100000.00) ~CRLA: 13290.0000 (-2000.0000) The following transaction was made on your account on 2008/03/12 21:10:09 GMT: CRLA B2000@50.62 Affected holdings: : 4514912.38 (+98760.00) ~CRLA: 11290.0000 (-2000.0000) The following transaction was made on your account on 2008/03/12 21:10:09 GMT: CRLA B2000@51.25 Affected holdings: : 4612412.38 (+97500.00) ~CRLA: 9290.0000 (-2000.0000) The following transaction was made on your account on 2008/03/12 21:10:09 GMT: CRLA B2000@51.87 Affected holdings: : 4708672.38 (+96260.00) ~CRLA: 7290.0000 (-2000.0000) The following transaction was made on your account on 2008/03/12 21:10:09 GMT: CRLA B2000@52.50 Affected holdings: : 4803672.38 (+95000.00) ~CRLA: 5290.0000 (-2000.0000) The following transaction was made on your account on 2008/03/12 21:10:09 GMT: CRLA B2000@53.12 Affected holdings: : 4897432.38 (+93760.00) ~CRLA: 3290.0000 (-2000.0000) The following transaction was made on your account on 2008/03/12 21:10:09 GMT: CRLA B2000@53.74 Affected holdings: : 4989952.38 (+92520.00) ~CRLA: 1290.0000 (-2000.0000) The following transaction was made on your account on 2008/03/12 21:10:09 GMT: CRLA B1290@54.36 Affected holdings: : 5048827.98 (+58875.60) ~CRLA: 0.0000 (-1290.0000)

All Things TOP GEAR

by akboss on Thu Feb 14 13:40:28 PST 2008

If you love cars and you haven't seen BBC's Top Gear, you're missing out on what is quite possibly the best car show ever created. It has made me laugh and cry for five seasons, with comparison tests ranging from an Apache gunship trying to get missile lock on a Lotus Exige, crossing Africa in 2-wheel-drive cars costing under $2000, and racing across Europe in a Bugatti Veyron. Apparently they are making a version for the U.S. and speculated hosts are Jerry Seinfeld or Jay Leno. Anybody have any info on the new U.S. program, or any memorable moments from the BBC program's history? My faves so far: - driving the Peel P-50 through the BBC office building - the lightweight supercars driving through the tunnel in Italy - planting crop of bio-diesel with enormous tractors - the road-trip from Miami to New Orleans in sub-$1000 cars - motorhome bumper cars

gagrice...

by iluvmysephia1 on Thu Jan 24 22:46:12 PST 2008

what house are ya talkin' about, the Hawaii one or the SD one? If the SD moving "up" the hill must be a whopping 550 feet, eh? I will escape that nasty coastal flooding here in the SE Arizona desert as well, we are sitting at 4,167 feet up. Hiking up the hill to old Fort Bowie the other day almost did me in. I was at around 5,000 feet elevation when I finally got to the old Cavalry outpost. They mentioned that once Geronimo was captured and the Apache's were no longer a threat the Fort remained open 8 more years! We're talking about 1886 here, the fort remained open for another 8 years? Suddenly the lack of attack threats caused an abundance of tennis time and beer swilling. The Fort got an icemaker and could keep their perishables cold finally. Not to mention the advent of ice cream and now really cold beer. Point is it took the U.S. government until 1894 to realize there weren't going to be any more Apache attacks on the Fort or the Butterfield Stage run. Is that a simile to the folly of the great Titanic? Twas a fun hike and it was cold, no global warming going on up there. And the air was clear.