Top Ten CARS 2006
Jul 20th 2006, 8:48 pm
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Re: Top Ten CARS 2006
Originally Posted by gruffbrown
Nope a Pinto, she still laughs about it.
There's no practical reason some white collar guy needs a gas-guzzling vehicle other than to compensation for his shrivelled, impotent doolally.
Jul 20th 2006, 8:49 pm
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Re: Top Ten CARS 2006
Originally Posted by Tolos
I understand using a truck for its designated purpose. So F-150s loaded with equipment, tools, etc makes perfect sense. I'm talking about the 20 something urban punks you see cruising around with waxed shining F-350s and a completely bare trunk. It's machismo.
There's no practical reason some white collar guy needs a gas-guzzling vehicle other than to compensation for his shrivelled, impotent doolally.
There's no practical reason some white collar guy needs a gas-guzzling vehicle other than to compensation for his shrivelled, impotent doolally.
Jul 20th 2006, 8:50 pm
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Re: Top Ten CARS 2006
Originally Posted by Tolos
There's no practical reason some white collar guy needs a gas-guzzling vehicle other than to compensation for his shrivelled, impotent doolally.
Jul 20th 2006, 8:51 pm
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Re: Top Ten CARS 2006
Originally Posted by Ray
And you are where??? drive what??
Jul 20th 2006, 8:54 pm
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Re: Top Ten CARS 2006
Originally Posted by Ray
There you go Gruff ..that why we drive a truck ...its manly ... sod all to do with crap we have to carry around...
Jul 20th 2006, 8:55 pm
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Re: Top Ten CARS 2006
Originally Posted by Rockgurl
Why are Hondas so popular over here? In England the only people who drove Hondas were little old Indian men or big Nigerian women with 15 children all driving at 20 miles an hour. Pieces of shit, those cars.
Jul 20th 2006, 8:56 pm
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Re: Top Ten CARS 2006
Originally Posted by Tolos
Currently in TX, and I don't drive a truck. You see these things everywhere, with none so much as a rusty nail in the truck's bed.
Jul 20th 2006, 8:58 pm
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Re: Top Ten CARS 2006
Originally Posted by Ray
and you drive a ????????
Right now I have an Infiniti, but I'm not please with it. I've also been down the 1999 Honda Civic route (great little runner) and a 2002 Ford Focus. Still searching for the pefect car. Civic is winning so far.
Jul 20th 2006, 8:58 pm
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Re: Top Ten CARS 2006
Originally Posted by Kate2112
I have a lovely Civic Hybrid , what it lacks in style it makes up on fuel economy 
Love the flashy speedometer on the dash...sigh...I know easily pleased. I would have bought a US hybrid but frankly they didnt come close to mine in reliability.
Love the flashy speedometer on the dash...sigh...I know easily pleased. I would have bought a US hybrid but frankly they didnt come close to mine in reliability.I have one of the Toyota hybrids, like you say, can't beat the fuel economy.
Jul 20th 2006, 8:59 pm
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Re: Top Ten CARS 2006
Originally Posted by dinosaur
Agreed (at least in the US)...although I guess Aston Martins are technically Fords, so if some one gave me one I guess I'd have to drive it
Jul 20th 2006, 9:01 pm
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Re: Top Ten CARS 2006
Originally Posted by Tolos
...lot of people nuts.
Right now I have an Infiniti, but I'm not please with it. I've also been down the 1999 Honda Civic route (great little runner) and a 2002 Ford Focus. Still searching for the pefect car. Civic is winning so far.
Right now I have an Infiniti, but I'm not please with it. I've also been down the 1999 Honda Civic route (great little runner) and a 2002 Ford Focus. Still searching for the pefect car. Civic is winning so far.
Jul 20th 2006, 9:04 pm
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Re: Top Ten CARS 2006
Originally Posted by Ray
So you are knocking something you never tried ...sheesh !!!!!!!
Jul 20th 2006, 9:05 pm
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Re: Top Ten CARS 2006
Originally Posted by Tolos
Trucks just go hand in hnd with most American men (particularly those under 40) having something seriously to prove about their masculinity and testosterone. It's MANLY to drive a big truck rather than a standard car. Same way most under40s males here are obsessed with girls, football and beer. Try talking opera or art to a 25yr old American and see where it gets you.
Jul 20th 2006, 9:06 pm
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Re: Top Ten CARS 2006
Originally Posted by Partystar
I have a truck, I bought it to make up for my lack in the penis area, as I don't have one!!!
Jul 20th 2006, 9:07 pm
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Re: Top Ten CARS 2006
Originally Posted by Tolos
I understand using a truck for its designated purpose. So F-150s loaded with equipment, tools, etc makes perfect sense. I'm talking about the 20 something urban punks you see cruising around with waxed shining F-350s and a completely bare trunk. It's machismo.
There's no practical reason some white collar guy needs a gas-guzzling vehicle other than to compensation for his shrivelled, impotent doolally.
There's no practical reason some white collar guy needs a gas-guzzling vehicle other than to compensation for his shrivelled, impotent doolally.