ive got a mini cooper which is a sweet ride but the parts & repairs are criminally expensive-- next time im buying japanese.

nice you used a pic of a dc area bus

i have a 2000 honda accord, the fuel economy is good, but my next car would better served if it was smaller

wanna trade?

i was thinking i want a station wagon or a tiny SUV to carry stuff in it (work requires equipment).

i was thinking of one of these:



but the mileage is still too high for my taste (22mpg? fuck that-- i do 30-40).

More green than your SUV....

ha ha ha-- awesome

only problem i see is that the driver is right behind the exhaust pipe

i have no suv though... i was just looking at them...

i think go with a wagon, they probably have better mileage

1999 Toyota Camry LE

invisible to the police.

yeah. maybe a matrix or a subaru outback. i wonder when they'll make them hybrid.

but holy shit-- i like this tiny car

well ok i could if i wanted to really get a car but i really dont have any use for it and like you say i can afford more if i dont have one. i know for some people they are a nesseccity but for me i just dont have the need. i suppose its like phones, i dont have the need to get an amazing, does everything, super expensive mobile because really its just a phone and it wouldnt make any difference to my life and my friends would still be able to text and call me the same as now.

i decided to simply add a roof rack after all-- ha ha

less hassle!

anyway thanks for the inspiration, this got me thinking

yes, i drive this beast.
just cruising
mine is dark green though
like the forest rangers

this car is so underrated

I had one when I first chimed in on this thread.
I have zero cars now and go by bike year-round.
I am much less frustrated this way.

endorphins rule.

while i really need a car sometimes (jobs, etc), i try to use it as little as possible & get around locally on bike or on foot.

how do you arrange when you really need a car though? zipcar?

The only time I ever really "need" a car is when I need to move gear or something large, and there are two ways to tackle that:

1. Bandmate's van
2. Giant cube truck I drive for work, which I can borrow at any time


Public transit is pretty good here too, but cold doesn't immobilize me. Deep snow and freezing rain are the only two things that can get me off the bike. Freezing rain is the worst! Pure misery.

awesome.

every now and then but just very rarely i think i need a pickup truck-- like the other day when some office building was throwing away perfectly good office furniture and there was this HEAVY table. of course it would be insane to own one just for that purpose. but having an available truck at all times sounds great.

here is my 1991 VW Golf GTI

;)

That guy doesn't look like he'd get on a bike if you paid him with a life's supply of LSD.

I don't drive a car, I don't even have my G1.
Even if I get the dumb thing I wont be able to really drive for another like, year. Hopefully I'll be moved out by then and in the city where I can bus and walk.

I don't want a car.

that guy probably drives the single most polluting vehicle in his county!!!!! some old Piece of shit with no exhaust muffler and oil burning constantly.

I love bicycles. I need a bicycle again. (I had one which got stolen from my house during a burglary)

when I was 13-18 I had a red schwinn ten speed, and it was nigh indestructible. I would ride that shit everywhere, ramp it, jump over bayous with it, race other kids and shit. I must have patched the inner tubes at least 10 times. It was a mighty mighty bike. I once rode with no hands at all from my house to the library, about 2.5 miles away, making all the turns and shit.

2001 toyota corolla.

Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to come across like a prick there. And I'm totally on board with the phone thing. I've had the same piece of crap Nokia bog-standard 0 megapixel for 5 or 6 years now, and it's fine for my purposes. I spend about a fiver on credit a month and that's fine for me.

My housemate got a car recently, and he's very quickly fallen into the trap of those little five-minute drives down to the shops/ dropping people off places... it takes a lot of will-power to not give in to the temptation, and I'd much rather the temptation simply wasn't there. The cost soon clocks up. The only problem is it limits my local gig ability - there are a few little towns nearby that I simply can't play due to rubbish public transport.

you didnt come accross as a prick^

i know what you mean about the 5 minutes to the shops thing. many people i know do that and it annoys the hell out of me.

In L.A. is a necessity to do the 5 minute thing.

I have 127 thou and counting on the Camry

1999 Pontiac Grand Am GT2 Looks similar to this...

There is a primary school at the end of my road. It is not a long road. It take me, literally*, 2 minutes and 30 seconds to walk down. There is a woman, who is fat, who lives approximately 45 seconds up the road, who EVERY SINGLE MORNING drives her children, who are fat and about 7 or 8, to this school. Every time I see her I feel so very sorry for her children. It must take her a good 3 minutes longer to do it like that than just send them to walk on their own. I can understand that some people think it's quicker to drive everywhere, but she'll sit in the traffic near the bottom of the road with her little 'uns in the back rather than walk the fuckers.

I just want her stabbed and her children taken into care. Seriously.


*I get very annoyed by people using the word 'literally' as an intensifier - so this is a proviso that I do really mean literally. Incidentally, someone at work recently said "They were tearing their hair out, literally!" to which I said "But they weren't literally tearing their hair out, were they?" and she said, "Yeah, they were literally tearing their hair out". I pointed out again that they weren't actually, physically, with their actual hands, tearing their hair out" and she said, "No, they were literally tearing their hair out". Now everytime I talk to her I amuse myself by saying "I'm literally standing here" and she looks confused. The irony being that, although I'm using the literally entirely superfluously, I am using it more correctly than she does. What a cunt [I am] eh?

Atari 2600 said sarramkrop was "literally" a cocksucker and that I was a figurative one.
I've been called worse.

rather than insecurity about your looks i think it has more to do with fearing to be perceived by others as pretentious or ostentatious.

that's normal and probably a good thing.

i dont drive i metroooooo

1989 Toyota Corolla, she purrrrrs. But the price of gas makes me think she won't be purring much longer.

i take the subway but i have a car sitting in the garage at my mothers house

that car being a 78 nova that looks something like this one except it's a different colour




that's what you get when you total two cars in a year.

man thats a beautiful colour for a car, If i had a car i'd want it to be that colour, or Burnt Orange.

I don't drive, don't have a license, don't ever intend to. ever.

mine's expired