We finally sold that orange Charger

[Jeff]

Yeah, the one that was stolen last winter. We have had it all this time. It was sold as a new vehicle w/ 300 miles on it. The new owners are getting custom tags "STOLEN1." I just thought that was too funny not to share.

[BLINGMW]

wow, they actually LIKE that it was stolen? If a dealer told me about that I would be soooooo outta there! I can only imagine how hard of a break-in it's had....

[Chris]

yeah they must not be the smartest people... I hope they got an incredible deal on it.

[Jeff]

fuck you chris. They knew what they were getting, nothing was kept from them. The got the EPP deal on it. They are Harley people and wanted the orange.

[Ryan T]

fuck you chris. They knew what they were getting, nothing was kept from them. The got the EPP deal on it. They are Harley people and wanted the orange.

Damn Jeff, PMS much? Nobody implied that you kept anything from them.

[Jeff]

It was a polite "fuck you." I should have mentioned they are friends of the family. I guess that makes calling them "not that smart" strike a cord. We were planning on making the car an expensive doorstop anyway, but they came along and decided that they just had to have an orange car. We looked it over very well when we got it back. It seems that all they did was drive it to DC and then to WV. All the radio stations were preset to DC hip-hop stations. The rear tires still had the dimples and the floor still had the plastic so they didn't rock it too hard. Oh, and PMS...yeah...it happens

[Andy]

A buddy of mine recently bought the Charger SRT-8. It's scary fast but talk about a car that doesn't make any sense.

[Jeff]

A buddy of mine recently bought the Charger SRT-8. It's scary fast but talk about a car that doesn't make any sense.

True. What don't you like about it? Besides the fact that it is not Azian

[Evan]

It's scary fast but talk about a car that doesn't make any sense.

:?:

[Ginger]

+1... It makes as much sense as any other car?

[CaptainHenreh]

It's scary fast but talk about a car that doesn't make any sense.

Because this makes so much sense:

[Andy]

A car that gets SUV mileage, requires premium and is slapped with a gas guzzler tax of 2100 dollars on top of the purchase price strikes me as retarded considering the inevitability of 4 dollar gas. The real kick in the balls is the auto only option which sucks when you have such a crazy ass engine to play with. For the price he paid, he could've gotten a new TL, E46 Bimmer, CTS, any number of vehicles. Even a 505 bhp corvette gets 26 miles to the gallon.

As of right now, it get 9-11 miles to the gallon. According to him, if he pussy foots it, he can get up to 15-16. Give me a break.

[WRXtranceformed]

The SRT Charger is balls slow (for what it is) because it is so heavy. 0-60 in 5 seconds and high 13s in the quarter with 425hp? I think it weighs like a whopping 4,200 lbs!

[ViPER1313]

A car that gets SUV mileage, requires premium and is slapped with a gas guzzler tax of 2100 dollars on top of the purchase price strikes me as retarded considering the inevitability of 4 dollar gas. The real kick in the balls is the auto only option which sucks when you have such a crazy ass engine to play with. For the price he paid, he could've gotten a new TL, E46 Bimmer, CTS, any number of vehicles. Even a 505 bhp corvette gets 26 miles to the gallon.

As of right now, it get 9-11 miles to the gallon. According to him, if he pussy foots it, he can get up to 15-16. Give me a break.

People who buy expensive powerful cars really don't care about gas mileage. My father's SUV gets 17mpg in straight highway driving with no AC usage. When I asked him why he doesn't get rid of it considering the price of gas (plus the fact its a slow ugly POS) he said "you don't buy a yacht if you can't afford to put gas in it." He really couldn't give a shit that it gets 17mpg - he likes the car, and the price of gas doesn't dip into his life style in the least.

Besides that, the Charger is a very unique looking modern V8 muscle car - people looking at buying one really don't cross shop Acura and BMW. A CTS and a Vette also cost way more than a charger.

Glad you finally sold it Jeff 8)

[Chris]

fuck you chris. They knew what they were getting, nothing was kept from them. The got the EPP deal on it. They are Harley people and wanted the orange.

woah there buddy, lay off the hatorade!

[NTIman]

We get more gas mileage complaints on the Prius and the Hybrid Highlander than any of the SUVs or other vehicles at the Toyota stealership i work at

[Ginger]

We get more gas mileage complaints on the Prius and the Hybrid Highlander than any of the SUVs or other vehicles at the Toyota stealership i work at

That's because the hybrid vehicles don't meet expectations. If you drive realistically you get ~42mpg out of a Prius. I managed to get about 55 to 60mpg out of my [former] Prius on one tank - once, but I was going slower than everybody all the time. Call me crazy, but 42mpg isn't special. Hybrid cars are an accessory, a statement, they aren't practical by any means... at least not yet.

When you buy an SUV you a truck, or a fast car, or whatever, you know exactly what to expect. You know what kind of mileage you'll get. Most people haven't driven hybrids and expect extroidinary things out of them... and they don't deliver that.

[Maengelito]

People who buy expensive powerful cars really don't care about gas mileage. My father's SUV gets 17mpg in straight highway driving with no AC usage. When I asked him why he doesn't get rid of it considering the price of gas (plus the fact its a slow ugly POS) he said "you don't buy a yacht if you can't afford to put gas in it." He really couldn't give a shit that it gets 17mpg - he likes the car, and the price of gas doesn't dip into his life style in the least.

agreed. my commute isnt bad, and i dont care much for the difference between $2.80 /gal and $3.10 /gal (fill up just under 1/4 notch = ~12 gal x $.30 difference which is $3.60 every 1.5 weeks, i dont care) so i dont mind driving the suby. if i cared about gas prices, then i'd have bought a civic or rsx or something.

[Andy]

People who buy expensive powerful cars really don't care about gas mileage. My father's SUV gets 17mpg in straight highway driving with no AC usage. When I asked him why he doesn't get rid of it considering the price of gas (plus the fact its a slow ugly POS) he said "you don't buy a yacht if you can't afford to put gas in it." He really couldn't give a shit that it gets 17mpg - he likes the car, and the price of gas doesn't dip into his life style in the least.

agreed. my commute isnt bad, and i dont care much for the difference between $2.80 /gal and $3.10 /gal (fill up just under 1/4 notch = ~12 gal x $.30 difference which is $3.60 every 1.5 weeks, i dont care) so i dont mind driving the suby. if i cared about gas prices, then i'd have bought a civic or rsx or something.

The consensus seems to be that 3.00 gas isn't going to modify behavior but economists thinkt that 4.00 per gallon will do just that and that is the supposition that I'm making. My uneducated guess would be that we will have 4 dollar a gallon gas within 5 years so producing big ass sedans/trucks/suvs with terrible gas mileage isn't a good long term business model.

Also, my buddy spends 100+ dollars per week on gas which a terrible and unnecessary cost.

[HAULN-SS]

People thought 3$ a gallon would make a damn too. Anything that has a use or was made to be driven has a market that will sell their 200,000 units or whatever, whether it's 2 3 or 4$.