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Old 08-07-2007, 04:23 PM
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Talking Re: Reflections on dust-up-WHAT DUST UP?

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Originally Posted by phoebeisis View Post
Bob,hey I missed a dust up? I'll have to search for it.I've been away.
I love arguments!Sorry I missed that one.
Not really. The thread is closed over in Journalism. I stand by my posts but I sure wished it hadn't been necessary. Oh well, maybe we'll have a little peace.
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Ive sold 2 cars(needed the $$),and bought one recently.The Prizm(corolla clone) is gone,and so is the Honda Pilot.The Pilot,I miss; it was a great trip vehicle.I still have the Prius, of course.Replaced those two with a 1998 200,000 Suburban($2950 with a one year old trans rebuild,and AC rebuild) in surprisingly good shape(a lawyer owned it thru his partnership,so the maintenance was written off-he took good care of it).
The Suburban has loads of mpg improvement potential.In very short trip driving(average 2 miles with hours in between starts) it gets 12mpg. . . .
I ran into a posting about an outfit that puts an electric motor in series with the rear wheel drive shaft. It looks like a great solution for a Suburban, which if I remember right it has rear wheel drive. They don't have regenerative braking so it is pure 'plug-in' but it could give the Suburban a nice boost using grid-energy instead of terrorist-energy:
http://www.greenhybrid.com/discuss/s...95&postcount=1

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