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Re: dealership advice [iwantone]

by jhinsc on Mon Aug 25 10:38:04 PDT 2008

I live near Myrtle Beach, SC, and East Coast Honda is the only game in town unless I go to Charleston, Florence, or Wilmington, NC. I've always had great sevice and sales experience at East Coast. So I would try your local dealership, then shop the competition in other cities if you think you're not getting your best deal.

Re: The new BMW M3 [tagman]

by anthonyp on Sat Mar 15 19:30:56 PDT 2008

I have always been amazed at how much horsepower it takes to improve just a little bit....The wife`s 535 with the six cylinder (I think 255 or therabouts) Is a relatively quick car, but also get imo good gas milage...With the congestion here on the East coast, and the police out --improving their budget--I really can`t imagine the use for a big high horsepower fuel comsuming car...I think a new era is approaching, with efficient engines and higher quality interiors for high end cars and very light small cars with improved batteries etc. for the majority of cars...I further do not understand how our gov. officials etc. have let our country get in such perilous times.....I swear on occasion I think how it must have been with Nero and Rome burning.....Tony

Re: Azera 2008 in California.. [beatles2727]

by ratledge on Sat Jan 26 03:48:37 PST 2008

Don't know, but seems like it shouldn't be long. The reason the '08s sat at the port until New Years' Day was that there were too many SE and GLS models around. The '08 went on sale in mid-September in Canada. They did the same thing last year, "staging" them in different districts (i.e. Southeast, etc.) about a month apart. We have plenty here on the east coast - I can find them at just about any dealer I look at though most have only two cars in stock. With no SE in the '08 lineup, there should be cars everywhere in a couple of weeks I would think. Two weeks into mine I'm a happy camper: new (H11b) low beams provide much better coverage, if you don't like them you can always yank them and put in H9 bulbs and sockets. The H7 high beams have a good replacement from OSRAM called a "Ralleye +50" that has 2100 candlepower vice the normal H7's that have 1400 candlepower (which is what I have put in mine - I do a LOT of night driving). Handling and suspension is greatly improved (my aunt owns an '06) and the radio is the bomb (605 watt Logic7 head unit with 12 Infinity speakers all around) except in Limited model. Not certain if that's available in the GLS, but it certainly seems like it should be. It is kind of confounding right now trying to price one because all the major sites still have no pricing information, although I've noticed MSN has the packages (this year 4 = Navi; 5 = Ultimate; 6 = Both) but I didn't really look at the GLS options.

Re: EPA estimates [stalnaker]

by wvgasguy on Thu Jan 17 09:31:13 PST 2008

Where in WV do you live? I live in Jane Lew. I have several normal trips I take and they are of various lengths. I do garage my car, not heated but probably stays 40F to 50F in the winter depending on how cold it is outside. I don't have to use the car for work. From my house into Weston on 2 lane Rt 19 is about 4 miles. I do this one often. It is pretty level and I have no problems getting 40+ with a cold car. From my house to my church in Lost Creek is about 13 to 15 miles. If I go up Rt 19 and the back way (2 lane / 45 mph) I can get 47 in summer and 39+ in winter on that trip. If I get on the interstate at Jane Lew and get off at Lost Creek (driving a little under the limit) I get 38 to 40 and it doesn't seem to vary much due to the cold. Snow and rain / wind does hurt hard. Driving from Weston to Hurricane on I79 (hilly) and I64 (relatively flat) I have gotten as much as 42 and as little as 35. The 35mpg trip was done at about 80 mph with little reguard to economy. The 42 mpg trip was allowing the car to slow on steep grades and on steep downhills I did not brake and exceeded the limit significantly (this thing rolls easy). Driving to Buckhannon is an experience. It is 4 lane but there is a steep grade going east. Going to Buckhannon (about 12 - 15 miles) I will get between 36 to 37, but by the time I do my return trip I'm back at 39 overall. You can pretty much coast half the way back to Weston. My most frequent trip is to Clarksburg (50 miles round trip). Depending on driving style I get no lower than 35 (fast old style driving), seldom lower than 36 (cold or rain) and 90% of the time better than 37 (with just a little thought about what I'm doing). With a little thought and effort I can always get 38 to 39 round trip. I experimented once on the backroads and made a couple of laps around the Weston-jackson Mill_Jane Lew Loop and drove almost 50 miles and had 48mpg. Remember thought that this is a 25 / 35 /45 mph road loop. In Nags Head (all flat) I drove 300 miles at 45 mpg in mild to heavy traffic However I know that somone new to the hybrid will do differently. My son took the car to Charleston and got 32 mpg. Thought he had done something great and was surprised when I chewed him out ;o) One time for an experiment I drove up Rt 19 to jane Lew, took the back road past Davis Station to Lost Creek and went up Mt Clair Road to Clarksburg. With no traffic and doing really stupid slow driving I got 57 mpg. Just had to see what it was capable of. I have found that the sweet spot for my car is driving on rolling slopes at about 50 mph. The engine running keeps the battery charged and for every up there is a down. The rolling resistance on this is incredible and it appears if you're going fast enough to use the momentum uphill that the battery boost helps significantly if you don't push it hard, yet going down the small slopes the gage drops to 60 and the overall is excellent. I know my driving style and the effort I give is not for everyone. However I enjoy the challenge and find it entertaining to see just how I can do. I don't think I lose much time by driving just under the limit. I find that driving under the limit keeps me from getting packed up with clusters of cars, which is why I normally drove fast. Now instead of catching up with them and slowing down, I simply let them pass. On a trip to Charleston it probably only cost me 10 minutes. I still find myself sitting behind the folks that passed me on the exit ramps. DISCLAIMER: My wife averages about 2 mpg lower than me. Overall FE after 39,000 miles is 37.6 and that includes several trips to Charleston and Ohio by her. Even then she would get 36 to 37 mpg. But her long milage trips add a lot of weight to the overall FE numbers. I keep a lot of records to track this including calculating a corrected FE based on odometer error and computer error. My lifetime average based on the computer is about 38.2 My lifetime calculation based on manual calculations (miles and gallons) is just over 37. If you use your computer to track FE you're probably not doing as well as you think and if you crank it out long hand you actually doing better than you think. Spent a lot of time and blogging on GreenHybrid to develop this. Not sure why oter than I wanted to see if I could come close to driving this for free after all the tax credits. By the way I hope you took the $3750 WV tax credit last year (it ran out though on June 1, 2006 which is why I insisted my dealer give me the first one). My total tax credit is $6350 and on top of that my dealer gives me free tires ;o)

Re: Glory...Glory... [hpowders]

by anthonyp on Sat Aug 11 13:11:08 PDT 2007

Hi H Many years ago, the policy for the east coast of Florida way there were no ticket if you were going South, but brother watch out when you were going North....I was young and got four of them going home...They cost ten dollars apiece and never got sent to the other state....Ten dollars was alot back then ---particularly going home....Today I still drive a little slower when heading North....Tony

Re: BMW Diesels [hpowders]

by anthonyp on Sun Jun 24 17:59:48 PDT 2007

Howard I certainly agree on the need for an energy revolution from several points--curtail the flow of money to the middle east. our health, climate etc. Unfortunately I`l believe it when I see it...This has happened in the past, with no sticking power...Remember the time we had to drive at fifty five on the interstate---man that was fun---Just think of how something like that would effect the productivity...Well you sure have been right on your short of TM, as you were back then to try and buy TM.... I think Churchill said something like `Don`t think of what we have lost in the past, but what we have to look forward to in the future` Later Tony