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jhocking:

--- Quote from: Inlander on 28 Nov 2010, 16:43 ---We have lots of locusts in Victoria at the moment if anybody wants one.

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Do you mean actual locusts or cicadas? Some people think cicadas are called "locusts," that bothers me.

Inlander:
That's dumb, they're completely different creatures!

http://www.abc.net.au/rural/locusts/

To tie it back to vehicles, we've got public safety announcements on the TV at the moment advising people about what to do if they're driving through a rural area and find themselves in the middle of a locust swarm.

Something Witty:

--- Quote from: Lunchbox on 28 Nov 2010, 16:46 ---I hate Lotuses. They sound like bees and they look completely idiotic. Anybody who buys a Lotus is Trying Too Hard.

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My car is a mazda and it sounds like bees.

I can see your point though, I'd still love to have an Elise. In some horribly flashy red, to boot. Because I don't care if you judge me about my car, as long as I like my car.  :D

Nodaisho:

--- Quote from: Aurjay on 28 Nov 2010, 17:35 ---Best thing about that car is that it's electric. 0-60 in 3.7 seconds in an electric car is just fuckin sexy. 

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Yeah, it is. I would say that it also would be a great car to drive in windy or wet conditions. That extra weight at the bottom would keep it well anchored. I drove my grandmother's hybrid civic in the rain once. I was doing 80 in hard rain on a road that is windy for a flatland highway and didn't feel the slightest shimmy, even enough for the traction control to have come on.

Although if someone were to be concerned about the environment, and were to live in one of the more polluted parts of the world, they might want to get a gas-powered car. Some higher performance gas cars are so efficient now that they will reliably put out cleaner air than they took in unless you are in the middle of the sahara or some other equally-clean place. That also would happen accidentally with some older cars, just as a fluke of luck with how it was set up, but there is a porsche (I forget which one) that does that reliably.

Something Witty:
The only problem with the tesla is that the 1500-or-so laptop batteries in it's belly kill it's performance in the corners, the range also goes to squat if you drive it fast. Then you have to spend FOREVER charging it back up so you can drive 2/3rds of the advertised charge mileage.

What people need to do is push for the Honda Clarity to make it to the mass market, because it's all the glory of a gas/electric hybrid except it produces water clean enough to drink as it's exhaust. right now it's only available in California.

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