Peeking ducks
[Cross-posted] ‘Oh, duck! I canardly believe it! The new Mini Cooper S Clubman!’
One of the shots we won’t publish (in print) from my 35 mm roll.
The best country in the world
[Cross-posted] ‘Oh, duck! I canardly believe it! The new Mini Cooper S Clubman!’
One of the shots we won’t publish (in print) from my 35 mm roll.
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The best sports car: Porsche 911 Carrera.
The best noise: Aston Martin V8 Vantage.
The one I would hate to have the bills for: Aston Martin DB9, but my goodness that looked sublime. However, I kept putting gas in that thing over and over again …
There were some bad ones, like the 2004 Mercedes C180—terrible gearbox—and the Peugeot 307 1·6 petrol (the real basic model). That car had no guts compared to the 307 HDI I owned in Europe.
Incidentally, I accidentally sent this to the Asian group and I wasn’t supposed to. Oh well, plenty of Asians like Minis!
Yes I've heard that about diesel. But hasn't the introduction of the turbo diesel brought that back up to higher emission levels again?
I think I might be the only person in this country that doesn't mind the price hike in fuel. I have a little four cylinder car that (almost) runs on the smell of an oily rag so it doesn't hurt me so much at the bowser. But with the rest of the country groaning and complaining bitterly I hope to see the new supposedly green Rudd govt start a fast and permanent trend towards either hybrid cars or new clean technology for our cars here in Au.
Fingers crossed....
Turbos do have higher emissions, I think, but they are still not too bad.
We were lucky over here for ages because we produced our own natural gas—then the National government taxed it like crazy and it lost favour in the 1990s. So we lost our two-decade lead in clean, natural gas cars just so some oil companies could get rich. Since the mid-1990s Kiwis have blindly gone to gas guzzlers—we’re worse than Australians since we probably buy more new Commodores per capita than anyone else and then we have the gall to complain!
If the natural gas availability and pricing were still right, I’d have gone on that ages ago.
I have a small car, too—but it runs on 95 octane which is coming up to $2 a litre here.
Oic! $2 a litre? Ow!
Ironically we bought a gas car years ago when the first petrol hikes started here in Au, thinking we would be smart and save a few dollars.
Sadly the gas conversion wasn't factory fitted and we had no end of trouble getting the car to run and it was probably the only time in Australian history when gas was more expensive than fuel!!!
Trends continue until unforeseen events cause humans to change their behavior. I don’t bet the farm on $150 barrel oil.