I saw a hopped up Checker Airbus on the road here in Columbus, OH. I was riding my motorcycle (KLR 650). So I rode up along side the driver, who turned and started checking out my bike. We both gave each other the nod and I headed off. It was an awesome vehicle!! It's amazing to see one actually driving on public streets.

My Range Rover got closer to 12mpg on gasoline, not 24mpg!

He may use peat as the fuel source but I bet the car still runs on wood gas. I.e. the peat is gassified and that gas is what's put into the engine of the Lincoln.

I think it's my Quad4 CRX; the GM swap used the hub and axles from the donor so it has the GM bolt pattern in front and Honda bolt pattern in the rear. Not satisfied with just that mish-mash, I used Nissan wheels in back.



So that is a Honda with GM wheels in front and Nissan wheels in back.

I like this Citation best!

"the batteries in hybrid cars constitute hundreds (as in several, more than one) of pounds of batteries that cannot be recycled"

That is outright and demonstrably false. The technology in a hybrid battery is the exact same as in portable electronics, only scaled up. NiMH batteries tend not to be recycled because they use inexpensive materials, not because they "cannot be recycled." Even so, Toyota now does have a recycling program for them. LiIon and LiPoly batteries in hybrids are exactly the same as batteries in laptops and iPhones.

I would argue that the Civic Hybrid is more ludicrous. Compare the two: a regular Escalade gets 12 mpg city EPA and the hybrid gets 20 mpg city EPA. That's a 67% improvement in efficiency. The regular Civic gets 26mpg city whereas the hybrid gets 40mpg city. That's a 50% improvement. Plus if you're considering the quantity of gas burned, if the Escalade drives 12,000 city miles per year, you've saved 400 gallons of gas by getting the hybrid. Compare to the Civic, which would have saved only 162 gallons of gas.

Clearly it's better to get people into smaller cars, but if they're going to buy an SUV anyway, a hybrid makes more sense in a big vehicle than a small one!

Read his comment one more time, just a tiny bit more carefully. Then look at the graphic. It took me a second but he's right...

Don't worry, my most expensive vehicle right now was my tow vehicle at $1695.00. That was a splurge.

Crap, that's actually a great price. I had thought you meant it needed a new head now, but you meant you did the head work. Wow. I'm (probably) not interested at the moment but you should definitely be able to sell it for that.