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imageshack.us is good, they've been adding more functionality over the year too. you can purchase an account, but they have free ones too (with some limited functionality, mainly how many photos you can upload at one time)
-Brian
For non car related photos I use picturetrail.com. They have free hosting.">
Mark
It arrived reasonably equipped, with all the usual bells and whistles like auto windows, CD player and such. It is a roomy car for sure. It feels like a palace compared to my GF4. I like the luminescent gauges, and the iMac-style, ice blue glow-in-the-dark radio surround. Suspension is comfortable when cruising, taut when slightly pushed, but pretty wallowy when really asked to work, which 99% of owners will never do. But....
I kinda like it. OEM tires are a weak spot, but the car is pretty capable. Steering is light and numb, but precise in a "point and shoot" kind of way. Brakes are competent, almost delicious. The 2.4l has comparable grunt compared to our 2.5l Subie, with understandably better mileage. It is a great highway cruiser, but the engine would be well served by a manual, which pretty much exist only in sales brochures....none on the lots. At all. I actually had the chance to drive the V6, and I think I would take the 4 if I had a choice. It is lighter in the nose, and seems to transition slightly better.
in a nutshell, a comfy bidniss cruiser that delivers the expected vanilla driving experience, but it turns out to be real vanilla with some depth and complexity as opposed to imitation extract.
The Camry is a pleasant drive. Certainly not as engaging as a Subaru but great for long distances and fuss free travel. I recently ordered one as hire car from Hertz for a long fast trip that I needed to make. Scored a Hyundai as a supposed "Camry class" car and found it fussy and tiring to drive. Given that the trip was over long fast desert roads with risk of kangaroos leaping out a constant hazard, I found it pretty tiring. This is the sort of trip where you want to be relaxed and concentrating on the area either side of the road some distance ahead, Not constantly sdjusting the car back on the road.
I've found the Camry 4cyl to be more than adequate and a little more engaging than the V6 which I also drive regularly. A fine car with little hassle factor
Cheers
Graham
Bob
Jim
I was referring to the latter, and not those flimsy things we see on Land Rovers here in the states, but something like 2" to 2.5" dia pipe mounted around the nose and windshield.
Jim
Also, if you play MP3s, you can get the artist, song title, and all the track info.
I know, I know, I'm not talking about late apexing but cut me some slack, I got the van version!
Shocking, I know, but I do not own an MP3 player. But now that I have to drive a lot, and the car has an aux in, I may be tempted. Also need to try out XM again I guess.
I meant MP3s on a CD, though. It reads those.
You can fit about 20 songs on an audio CD, or about 170 MP3s on a CD instead. With a 6CD changer that's over 1000 songs built-in, no wires and nothing to get stolen.
Check if there is an "MP3" label on the face of the radio. I bet it will play burned CDs with files in MP3 format on them.
Long time Crew Members will recall one of my private pleasures, the British obituary. There is a peculiar code attaching to it. Phrases such as "He was a convivial host to his many friends" implies that the subject was a well known drunkard. "He never married but had a wide circle of female friends" suggests a spectacular skirt-man, whilst the deletion of the reference to "female" implies something quite different!
It is a literary form brought to its zenith by The Times and sustained, in recent years, by The Independent and The Daily Telegraph. Today's obituary in the Telegraph of John Gardiner (of Crosthwaite and Gardiner - vintage car restorers) is a gem. I particularly like the following:
"After C&G had restored and prepared an original pre-war Auto Union Grand Prix car, Crosthwaite talked Audi into funding production of perfect running replicas of these complex machines. Gardiner master-minded the project, and visiting Audi engineers were astonished to find him working from a modest farm at Buxted, Sussex.
When Audi insisted on manufacturing the V16-cylinder engine crankshaft for these cars, it failed Gardiner's rigorous inspection; and when an Audi committee quibbled endlessly over technical details Gardiner told them: "Listen, all you've got to do is sign the cheques and tell us how big you want the swastikas painted."
Gardiner's insistence on high standards extended to his customers; he would work only for clients to whom he took a shine. He was as happy to take on a project for Ralph Lauren as he was to offer his services to humble Vintage Sports Car Club members who paid by barter. But he once trapped a slow-to-pay millionaire inside his office until a bill had been settled."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/09/- 26/db2602.xml has the full text.
Ah, the peculiarities of the British
Cheers
Graham
He was baffled by the British establishment's lack of regard for manufacturing, observing: "I don't know how people can live without a lathe."
Bob
A friend of mine reads the "obits" regularly, the wording will now have new meaning to me!
tom
I bet it's less nose-heavy than the I-4 and V6 models.
Mark
-Frank
Won't happen. They're too afraid that they might cause a accident and get sued for it :sick:
-Frank
They also put their logo on some Igloo coolers.
Subaru - keeping your beer cold NO MATTER WHAT!
http://www.electricpowergenerator.com/RGD5000.html
Bob
I'm happy to be in the wrong!
-Frank
Here's another link, which is the corporate site:
http://www.robinamerica.com/generators/index.lasso
And here's a link on the hisory of Robin and Subaru:
http://www.robinamerica.com/about/index.lasso
Bob
tom
Len
-mike
I'm shopping for a pressure washer now.
I had a 1300 psi electric one but it burned up, and I often felt like I wanted more pressure (to clean concrete patios).
Any recommendations?
One caveat when working with any pressure washer...wear shoes. You'd be (painfully) amazed at what that water can do to the skin on your bare feet. Trust me on this!!!
Len
With 3000psi you have to be real careful about how close you get, too, I'm sure that would cut through a lot of things, even wood.
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2007/02/c7682.html
-Frank
I am somewhat astonished that this model, discontinued for two model years now, is still available as new!
Funny you should ask... one of the things I was looking at in Costco was a Karcher electric pressure washer ($225). It's got 1850 psi, a longer life induction motor and pretty good reviews. I can't justify getting a gas-powered model but this one seems pretty capable.
-Frank
Those pics that Bob posted in Inside Line of the supposed Forester 09 with the Legacy body on it.... As suspected, it's not the Forester, but the MY10 Legacy/Outback. For those H6 fans it looks like the new Leg will have an optional 3.6L H6 Turbo + 6MT trans available with those dimensions in that article which are roughly those of the tribecca. All as suspected but it's good to hear it from a reliable source
-mike
That test mule that Mike was referring to showed a longer wheelbase, but the other dimensions appeared pretty close to the current car.
Bob
As for the 2.5L NA pushing it? Dunno if it'll have the grunt, perhaps they'll need to go with the H6 3.0 as the base? Diesel base? 2.5 NA Direct Injection base? If DC can get away with like a 3.0L or 3.5L V6 pushing the led-sled of a Chrysler 300/Charger, I'm sure that a Direct Injection 2.5 NA could push whatever they will come out with for the OB/Legacy.
-mike
Palpatations beginning now. WOW! I figured my next Subie would be a diesel, but this could be enough incentive to do something a bit less practical... looks like I've got some saving to do and some hard decisions in my future! As sweet as that powerplant would be in a Legacy sedan, I hope it's not exclusive to that body style and (nobody hit me, please) available with an auto or semi-auto tranny as well.
I bet they'll keep the 2.5... it's adequate, especially with DI. They'll need the CAFE credits and it helps the green image. I do wonder if the 3.0H6 will be around in the future, though. Perhaps the 3.6 will make it obsolete.
Hopefully Subaru will upgrade the NA 2.5 with direct injection, DOHC and a timing chain. If so, that should give it around 190 hp or so, and will keep it at least equal with the best of that class.
Bob
WalMart.com had one for $120 with 1800psi, has anyone heard of McCulloch?
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=6371184
Look at that the change to the 3.6l did for the Tribeca.
H6 turbo sounds great but IMO the 3.6l is plenty, and it runs on cheap ol' regular fuel.
Bob
Power equipement company that's been around forever. I sold their chain saws in a retail store back in the 80's. Now part of a Taiwanese company called Jeng Feng that makes power equipment/tools for a number of companies as well as automotive and garden lighting.
If it's not that great, I could always take it to the beach condo, and use it there.