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Shoot the aim 40-60 years ago WAS to open up South American (continent) trade !! ??
It'll take another gas price spike, and even then the effect is only temporary.
To be fair, hybrids and diesels beat those so they're not really the pinnacle of efficiency any more.
I think Lula peeved the Americans when he had cigars with Castro a while ago in a show of independence. Dilma took over but she was his right hand.
Some there view the USA as very Imperial. Didn't help that when Bush visited they asked the Governor of the state he was in to walk through a metal detector. In his home state!
The secret service can get a little carried away.
1. Friday afternoon/evening wall to wall commute hours
2. Hitting Four congession zones
a. San Jose area commute traffic
b. mid peninsula commute traffic
c. San Francisco area commute traffic
1. 42,000 fan baseball game traffic
2 .untold thousands of fans for NFL Football
3. Streets of San Francisco traffic
4. Fillmore District traffic and parking shuffle
f.. GG bridge tourista season and Marin County area commute traffic
The aftermath? ! 29 mpg. (341 miles 11.5 gal) 12 VW Touareg TDI. Forgot, A/C and ipod blasting the whole time.
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I, for sure would not move (back) into SF. It was great to grow up there, but I'd be hard pressed for real reasons to move back. I have heard "fixer uppers" start @ .8 M. You might get a foreclosure a tad cheaper. Most SF contractors who bids SF remodels, adds a min of 40% to the bid and sweats it to make what he originally thought.
It is great if you are in high tech and sitting on way above water stock options !!
As it applies to cars, if you do not have a garage or Smitty built tube bumpers, you can easily depend on 1,000 to 2,000 front bumper and separate 1,000 to 2,000 rear bumper damage habitually. When you add to that side damage and or the occasional friendly but anonymous hits, well I guess repair shops flourish.
While they were cleaning up my FIL's new Passat for the original delivery, they found the airbag light was on. They had to replace part of the wiring harness to correct this, apparently.
He gets his new car for the first time a couple days later, drives home, carpets are soaked. He takes it back, they keep it for a couple days, replace a seal or two, dry out the carpets and return it.
He drives it home, carpets are soaked. This time it wasn't raining. He tells them to check the a/c like he suggested the first time.
He still doesn't have the car back, drove a loaner up to my house. They still haven't fixed it but have ordered new carpets because the original ones are now ruined.
I did find out that it is a maroon color and has a DSG transmission.
I think I figured out why, I haven't washed the bugger for easily 2.5 months. :sick: It had dirt in places I almost didn't know that it could go. I also lost 3/4 #'s of air per tire also.
Regular here is $4.09.
Diesel is $4.07.
:-)
True but even simple start/stop tech could cut that down to zero.
This was shown to be a huge BUST, as many owners reported more like 43 to 48 mpg.
In any case, oems are trying to incorporate all the "low hanging fruit" so to speak to boost EPA mpg as high as possible.
I have also read in passing that the 03 VW TDI's used .2 gal of fuel per hour of idle.
Additionally, it depends on how the stop-start works. If I'm not mistaken, there is a form of system (and this may even be standard for all I know, I haven't done the research) that doesn't use the battery/starter at all. It preloads a cylinder with air/fuel on a compression stroke. Then to restart, all it does is spark that plug, igniting the mixture and restarting the engine.
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '08 Charger R/T Daytona; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '08 Maser QP; '11 Mini Cooper S
That's not even on hybrids, BTW, that's with conventional cars.
that's cool to preload the cylinder and then spark one plug. not free, and maybe not so smooth a start
the idea of the alternator only charging on engine decel is also very nifty but will not eliminate the need to charge at steady-state or on accel, plenty of the time.
it's nice that mpg on some vehicles has gotten so good that designers can worry about smaller and smaller nits to improve mpg.
In BMW's case not even maybe... :sick:
Plus with all Golfs 150 lbs or so lighter, the next TDI should produce some great MPG numbers.
The 1.7L diesel engine will deliver a power output of 130 hp (96 kW) and a maximum torque of 300 Nm. All powertrains with manual transmission come with Start/Stop functionality. Both the 1.7L diesel and the 1.4L turbo gasoline engine will also be offered with a six-speed automatic transmission.
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2013 Chevrolet Trax Not Bound for U.S (Inside Line)
We'll get the Buick Encore which is a similar size I guess. But only with a gasser engine.
Gasoline Prices in Costa Rica - As of June 2012
Regular gas is 735 colones per liter x 3.78541178 = 2,782 colones per gallon (US$5.64)
Super gas is 746 colones per liter x 3.78541178 = 2,824 colones per gallon (US$5.73) and
Diesel is 667 colones per liter x 3.78541178 = 2,525 colones per gallon (US$5.12)
And the only AWD Golf is the R, at least in the USA.
So let's see what direction they end up taking, long-term.
I have typically gotten 112,300 miles from a front wheel drive Jetta (heavier than a Golf). Just swaging I highly doubt a all wheel drive Golf will improve on that a real lot. Ditto for lateral G rating and for and aft roadability.
@ 256 hp GTD to 260 hp (GTI), the article implies,( but really seems a bit disjointed) that the 2014 Golf R will be more even MORE powerful (than 256 hp) and 150 #'s lighter. 2844 #'s., in addition to the all wheel drive direction. So IF we use the ratios, the min should be app 432 # ft. This turns an already stellar car into a SUPERCAR !!!
So that is why I said what I said. 406# ft of torque already blows one away (225 hp) and that is on a 4,974 # porker, T/S of 135 mph. 432 # ft on a sub 2900 # car. SIGN me UP !
The only models that are available in gas are the BRZ and the Impreza 1.6 XV. That's it.
Everything else they sell is diesel, including all the volume models - Legacy, Outback, and Forester.
http://www.subaru.ie/
Discard your stereotypes: people in the U.S. own fewer passenger vehicles on average than in almost all other developed nations.
It also might not be commonly known that the US markets have app 3 to 5% diesels while the European markets are upwards of 50 % + diesels.
The study seems to have a few holes in it though.
While I didn't VERIFY it, I am assuming the European data that I have read in passing, includes motorcycles also. In other words, a semblance of apples to apples. :shades:
Now a diesel Harley would be cool. 100 MPG on bio-diesel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYNgxVOI1NM&feature=endscreen&NR=1
A diesel bike? How about an electric one that you don't have to worry about falling over at the red light? (Detroit News)
Interesting post over on the Liberty CRD board about a guy in Hawaii who ran biodiesel. Cheap, so long as you didn't value your time.
Funny how you never read about people making gasoline in their bathtub. :-)
Originally found in Africa, Tilapia has been farmed for more than 2,500 years. Tilapia is a perfect fish for aquaponics because of its rapid growth, large size, and because it tastes great. This hardy fish can adapt to most any condition with the exception of water temperature. Tilapia prefer warm water - at least 75 degrees Fahrenheit. It takes about 9 months for our Tilapia to grow to a harvestable size, about 1.5 pounds.
What does Tilapia eat? At Growing Power, we feed our fish duckweed, ground-up salad greens from the greenhouse, worms, and Tilapia love to eat algae from the side of the tank.
http://www.growingpower.org/aquaponics.htm
Emissions aren't necessarily lower, either.
MythBusters had an episode on the subject, and bikes polluted more.
They don't have the sophisticated emissions equipment that cars require.
It is well known that from a geological point of view, there is literally ample (fresh) water under almost any desert one can name. The key is always does it make economc sense to drill and "harvest". In almost most to all cases the anwers is probably no. If so the Sahara would have a hell of a lot more water oasis's.