Mos Eisley Cantina

[stellarmagic]

Boy is it dead in here.  

[Missing00]

*puts on a silly hat* now it's dead in here...with hats.  

[Nelowulf]

Rawr!

So everyone having a good summer? Apparantly my mom might be considering buying a diesel Jetta. Not too shabby for a car that gets 47 mpg on te highway.  

[Darkened Angel]

I has cheezburger earlier. Nom nom nom!

KABLAMMO!  

[Nelowulf]

Car shopping with mother dearest:

mum: "Which color you like best?"
Me: "The red"
Mum: "I hate that color. What car did you like?"
Me: "The Jetta."
Mum: "I liked the american comforts better."
Me: "then buy the Ford."
Mum: "But you said you hated it."
Me: "The seats sucked."
Mum: "But it has power seating."
Me: "I don't need power seating."
Mum: "But I'm not buying for you."
Me: "Then my opinion's not very useful, i guess."
Mum: "But I don't like the gas mileage of the Ford."
Me: "Well, any other options?"
Mum: "There is the lacrosse."
Me: "What's wrong with that?"
Mum: "Nothing."
Me: "Then buy it."
Mum: "I don't want to spend that much."
Me: "Then don't buy it."
Mum: "there is also the Lacerne."
Me: "Get that one."
Mum: "It has a sunroof."
Me: "So does the ford."
Mum: "But the ford's cheaper."
Me: "So buy the ford."
Mum: "But it's not as nice. And they have terrible gas mileage."
Me: "So what's that leave us?"
Mum: "the Jetta."
Me: "So buy that one."
Mum: "I don't like it. What do you like?"
Me: "What about the ferrari over there?"
Mum: "Be Serious."
Me: "Fine. We'll trade the F-250 for that F-650 over there one for one. I'm sure they'll take it."
Mum: "Wil you just be serious and make up your mind!"

AUGH!  

[Darkened Angel]

Why does she even want your opinion if that's all she does when you offer it?  

[Nelowulf]

Believe it or not, she's excluded all poniacs because of one bad lemon, all mazdas' due to one mpg average on the sticker, pretty much any red car due to that's the one she totaled, all green cars because the gremlin she owned crapped out on her...

And she's been looking for nearly 9 months for a car now. She's pretty much the living example of the stereotypical illogical woman.  

[stellarmagic]

I like my car... though I must be the only one here who has gotten through high school and college without buying an American manufactured junker.

I've had a 20+ year old Audi, and now I'm on a 12 year old Mitsubishi. Thus far, the Mitsubishi actually rates as the nicest damn car I've sat in, and it runs like a dream... all the electrics work including the sun-roof, power seating, windows, collapsing aerial, and all that. Oddly it lacks a CD player... there's a slot for one but nothing in the slot, and I've had some trouble with the plastic trim and mudflaps. Course the gas mileage isn't the shocking good, but it ain't bad.

If its gas mileage you're after get a VW Golf Diesel. It does a mind blowing 70+ mpg highway (It's the only car that I've heard of where the advertised MPG is actually lower than its real-world highway performance.)  

[Nelowulf]

"Too small".  

[stellarmagic]

I swore if I ever suggested this to somebody I should be shot... so Cale if you'd please shoot me after this.

Toyota Prius  

[Darkened Angel]

* shoots Stellar *

Cale's fast on the draw, but only in bed... xd

I had to say that. I saw the " Superman's faster than a speeding bullet. " joke earlier and just had to.  

[elvisnake]

My summer doesn't start for another few weeks. I need some boxes, damn...  

[stellarmagic]

*Is Shot*

I deserve it... for suggesting a completely illogical car that should have remained nothing more than a concept for display at car shows. The hybrid is less fuel efficient than high efficiency diesels, and has an enormously larger pollution footprint in its manufacture thanks to the nasty composition of the electric batteries that are continually recharged by the engine.

Plus in just general performance it's downright crummy... you should hear the top gear boys tear into it.  

[Des Voh]

******** win of a conversation. It only things were that easy.  

[Nelowulf]

She thinks the prius is a f*****t's car, and wont' let the family go near one.