What kind of car do you drive?

[kovidgoyal]

'03 Mustang

[phenomshel]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

'03 Mustang

That's probably the only car I'd say "I'm jealous" about.

[griffonwing]

I have a 2000 2-dr Cavalier. I get abt 27-30 mpg.

Although I'd much rather have a 65 Volvo 122s Amazon.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by phenomshel

That's probably the only car I'd say "I'm jealous" about.

Yeah, I first drove one as a rental (the rental company was out of sensible ones, so they gave me a 'stang for the same price) and fell in love

[griffonwing]

Originally Posted by shefs600

i dont know hw to drive a car......

youre not alone. neither do 90% of those behind the wheel...

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

I have a car related question for our European friends.

Here in Quebec, during winter time, they sprinkle salts over the roads to melt snow and ice. Do you have the same kind of road maintenance in your regions?
This... proccess does incredible damage to cars, so much that most all vehicles must be discarded soon in the vicinity of their tenth year due to corrosion unless one has the means to wash vehicles after each use. Heh! Try that at -35C!

They salt the roads here. But generally, it's only a few times each winter. We generally take our car to a carwash after a longer cold spell (when they had to salt a few days after each other). But mostly the bottom of the car. But the car doesn't suffer too much, it's the window cleaner liquid that must be filled every other day!

Originally Posted by shefs600

i dont know hw to drive a car......

Who says I do? I do own one and I do drive it (we car pool, so not every day)...

[Andybaby]

these are my rides

[Peverel]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

What's the head/leg room like in that? (as in could someone who's 6'7" drive one?) (The yeti's already planning what our next car will be )

Blimey I will have a check today when I go to work and report. I am about a foot shorter than that so it will be an estimate only lol

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

I have a car related question for our European friends.

Here in Quebec, during winter time, they sprinkle salts over the roads to melt snow and ice. Do you have the same kind of road maintenance in your regions?

In the UK, yes, absolutely. They spray a mixture of salt and sand onto the major roads overnight whenever it's below zero.

This... proccess does incredible damage to cars, so much that most all vehicles must be discarded soon in the vicinity of their tenth year due to corrosion unless one has the means to wash vehicles after each use. Heh!

Most modern cars sold in the UK have extremely good anti-corrosion coatings which withstand it pretty well. In the "old days", before such coatings were developed, it used to be a major problem.

Try that at -35C!

There's absolutely no point in putting salt on the roads at -35C . The reason they do it is that a mixture of salt and water has a much lower freezing point than water alone, so it stops ice forming, but it only lowers the freezing point down to about -15C, so if it's colder than that (which it almost never is in the UK) it doesn't work.

[Maggie May]

I drive an 05 Ford Fiesta.
But WHEN I win the Lotto, I won't buy a car. I'll treat myself to a Harley Davidson....Yeah. Hey I can dream can't I?

Slan
Mag.

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by Maggie May

I drive an 05 Ford Fiesta.
But WHEN I win the Lotto, I won't buy a car. I'll treat myself to a Harley Davidson....Yeah. Hey I can dream can't I?

Slan
Mag.

I'd get a new car... Again a Toyota, but the Auris. A bit larger than our current car but not too large. I've no use for a big car.

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Most modern cars sold in the UK have extremely good anti-corrosion coatings which withstand it pretty well. In the "old days", before such coatings were developed, it used to be a major problem.

Here it still is a problem and we have to get additional corrosion treatment. The usually reliable undercarriage parts like brake lines, fuel lines, gas tanks suffer and last fewer than than 10 years.
Most people forego rust prevention treatments because they never plan on using their vehicles more than 5 years. That creates serious failure danger from older vehicles on the roads.

Originally Posted by HarryT

There's absolutely no point in putting salt on the roads at -35C . The reason they do it is that a mixture of salt and water has a much lower freezing point than water alone, so it stops ice forming, but it only lowers the freezing point down to about -15C, so if it's colder than that (which it almost never is in the UK) it doesn't work.

I agree. City engineers here don't bother with thermometers. Spread, spread, spread!
When I was a kid, there was no salt spreading, they used coarse sands. but not any more.

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

I drive a 2000 Hyundai Tiburon, a nice, sporty 28-30+ MPG hatchback. For years, my car was a motorcycle, a better commuting vehicle as far as I was concerned. But when I started taking the train to work, I sold the bike (which, having a very polluting power plant as most bikes do, Harleys included, did not bother me too much).

Right now the 10-year-old shark is running great, so I'm hoping I can get it to last long enough to see the real next generation of cars on the roads (IOW, beyond the "first-gen electric-assisted gas engine" barely-hybrids of today and into full electrics, next-gen hybrids, new configurations like the Persu, etc).

[mtravellerh]

Driving a Volvo here

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

I drive a 2000 Hyundai Tiburon, a nice, sporty 28-30+ MPG hatchback. For years, my car was a motorcycle, a better commuting vehicle as far as I was concerned. But when I started taking the train to work, I sold the bike (which, having a very polluting power plant as most bikes do, Harleys included, did not bother me too much).

Right now the 10-year-old shark is running great, so I'm hoping I can get it to last long enough to see the real next generation of cars on the roads (IOW, beyond the "first-gen electric-assisted gas engine" barely-hybrids of today and into full electrics, next-gen hybrids, new configurations like the Persu, etc).

Our Starlet should be able to survive another 20 years!