The Vent and Rant Thread

[harakiri]

Juliette, you are from Italy and you talk about getting a french car

www.fiat500.com

Bella machina!

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Juliette

Cool! But it's still not on sale in Italy (and there's the problem of the EURO pollution classification- or in Lombardy you're stuck on your feet most of the year!) so I was thinking more of a Citroen C1 or a C3, which cost more but are more easy to manage as re:repairs (even if a car is virtually sound, she'll be wanting to be at a minimal range from the repair shop, which we are...). They do have reductions on used cars, and the reduction is a bit more than the car is worth Plus one wouldn't pray the car won't break every time she goes out!

Yeah, I know, they say three years before it's available here....that's too bad, because I think I'd buy one for my daily commute.


I just don't understand, with the oil/gas/environment "crisis" why they aren't already building cars like this in the U.S.A.!!!

[Sweetpea]

I want the new-to-come-on-the-market Auris from Toyota... Full Hybrid Drive in a much better looking car and a lot smaller than the prius.

But we've bought a kitchen...

[Juliette]

Originally Posted by harakiri

Juliette, you are from Italy and you talk about getting a french car

www.fiat500.com

Bella machina!

Like they'd say: ma manco morta! (over my dead body). Fiat cars aren't much prized here, and pour cause! (The only car that we got and lasted, like, one year and half before reselling was the poor Panda- the earliest model; the inner roof just couldn't stay there .) So, a Citroen or a Ford. I loved the Fiesta.

Originally Posted by kennyc

Yeah, I know, they say three years before it's available here....that's too bad, because I think I'd buy one for my daily commute.


I just don't understand, with the oil/gas/environment "crisis" why they aren't already building cars like this in the U.S.A.!!!

I feel your pain... and also, in a city smaller cars are way easier to manage, i.e. finding parking space, and so on. I'd go crazy going back to my beloved 1st gen SW Astra.

[Juliette]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

I want the new-to-come-on-the-market Auris from Toyota... Full Hybrid Drive in a much better looking car and a lot smaller than the prius.

But we've bought a kitchen...

Neat. Impressive!

(But kitchen is vital )

[harakiri]

Like they'd say: ma manco morta! (over my dead body). Fiat cars aren't much prized here, and pour cause! (The only car that we got and lasted, like, one year and half before reselling was the poor Panda- the earliest model; the inner roof just couldn't stay there .) So, a Citroen or a Ford. I loved the Fiesta.

Interesting, here in Germany the Cinquecento is in high demand. You have to wait for getting one, I believe.

The Fiesta is known as a rusty bucket here :-)

[Juliette]

Originally Posted by harakiri

Interesting, here in Germany the Cinquecento is in high demand. You have to wait for getting one, I believe.

The Fiesta is known as a rusty bucket here :-)

Here too. One of my best friends did buy a Cinquecento, and she had to waaait (and us with her).

But that's the fascination! Rusty, but still reliable. And fast. MMMMhm. Maybe I should pass her the Meriva and get an used Ford. (No, I can't do that to my Meriva! :P)

[Jabby]

Originally Posted by pshrynk

Ummm... I don't like peaches that aren't ripe when you buy them at the store?

Neither me! And that goes for the damn boat that brung 'em and all their ilk.

Better now - John

[Juliette]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

The brakes have been replaced earlier this year. And I'm absolutely not heavy on the breaks. They're most likely simply a bit mis-aligned... But it still costs money! (otherwise, I'll call warranty!)

Dang! at least it's well spent, brakes are vital. (The newest mess on my mother's car is that the paint is mysteriously falling off the bonnet- but not any other side of the car!- and that's, well, costly. Only it's not vital to drive safely; on the other hand bare metal does rust...)

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

I want the new-to-come-on-the-market Auris from Toyota... Full Hybrid Drive in a much better looking car and a lot smaller than the prius.

But we've bought a kitchen...

Hmmm, I'll check it out. I've been thinking of a Ford Fusion Hybrid....

Hmmmm Arius doesn't seem to be available in U.S. either...

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

I want the new-to-come-on-the-market Auris from Toyota... Full Hybrid Drive in a much better looking car and a lot smaller than the prius.

Made in the UK ....

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Am I the only one who doesn't mind her mother (or mother-in-law)? No, rephrase that, are we the only one who don't mind their mother (or mother-in-law)? Neither I nor my husband have a lot of problems with them.




Them living three or four countries away might be helping, naturally...

I loved my mother-in-law, and my father-in-law, too. They were the best!

[beppe]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

I loved my mother-in-law, and my father-in-law, too. They were the best!

But you certainly deserved it. I was very lucky with my first FIL, and I am good chums with my third.

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

If they live that far away, visits are rather rare (my mother lives 1500km and 3 countries away, my mother-in-law 2500km and, 3 or 4 countries away, depending how the plane goes...)

When we married MIL lived also in Milano so she took FirstWife shopping every day in the afternnon. The creature worked mornings. When they moved to Rome, I thought finally the pleasures of marriage. So every two weeks she came up to visit for two weeks, camping on our couch, and looking longely at it everytime we had friends over for an evening of drinking and ribald singing. Kids.

Then we moved to Canada. At the first Holidays FirstWife had to go back for 2 months ...

Originally Posted by Juliette

Like they'd say: ma manco morta! (over my dead body). Fiat cars aren't much prized here, and pour cause! .

Fix It Again Tony

[beppe]

Originally Posted by Juliette

Well, not the Enemies of Mother, but the Circumvention of Mothers would be a nice idea, from times to times. Then again, it can just work indefinitely if you're not a girl

For you girls it might be the only way out. They have a tendency to consider daughters as minions at their service. Expendable. And to be shaped and dressed like them. Cssss! .

The problem with circumvention is that it starts a reverberation of lies, that like a web will leave the daughter completely at the mercy of the benefactress supreme et dolorosa. My PresentWife is entangled in such a sticky net, and everyone involved is just plainly impotent to do anything, but to stay at large.

For us guys, mothers can be overpowered, if one has the determination to use physical intimidation. That's the core of the Society that I founded and chair.

[dsvick]

Ok, call me slow but when did a half gallon of ice cream turn into a quart and half? For you metric people that would be "when 2 liters of ice cream turn into one and a half liters"?

I'm sure it's been a while, but I don't buy it very often...