European MPG, that’s what. Take, for example, last week’s Top Gear “race”, wherein the three hosts started in Basel, Switzerland, and ended up in Blackpool, England (well, two of the three; one of them was too slow). They were challenged to make the 750-mile journey, in a car, on one tank of fuel. A single [...]
Posts Tagged ‘car’
You know what’s amazing?
Posted in Posts, tagged car, television on March 10, 2009 | Comments Off
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. What always amazes me is that the same folks who always advocate for density, urbanization, walkability, etc., are the same folks who advocate things like plug-in cars. Which is fine, except that the two don’t meet up very well! I mean, is their answer, “You live in [...]
Fleet sales
Posted in Posts, tagged car on December 6, 2005 | Comments Off
TAPPED: December 2005 Archives: “It’s also worth noting that while very few normal people seem to want to buy GM or Ford cars, there are plenty of them in the institutional fleets of car rental places (though not Zipcar), taxi companies, and other things like that.” A main reason for this is that the big [...]
Hello, again, hello
Posted in Posts, tagged anecdotes, car, pets, tech, television, work on August 12, 2005 | Comments Off
Wow, so it has totally been a while since I have blogged. I am bored and feel a long post coming on…. This summer has, well, basically it has SUCKED. And now that it’s finally almost over I am very relieved. Things are looking up today, actually… Work is so ridiculous that it can’t even [...]