Originally Posted By DVC_dad vbdad I figured you for a Beemer. LOL I couldn't agree more with your post. Personally, I don't care what others think about my car or my use of natural resources. I drive my vehcile for two reasons. 1.- Dependable, you can say what you want about Consumer Reports charts but my last one was FAR from done at over 150K miles and 6 years...oh and that is MOSTLY CITY miles. 2.- My KIDS. I can fit them all in and feel safe. Again you can talk about roll over of large SUV's but I got rear ended twice in my last one, felt like a fly landed on my bumper. Unfortunately I use your share of gas vbdad as I drive around 23K miles a year at around 12 mpg.
Originally Posted By PlainoLJoe I cant say much at all really. I have a 12 gallon tank, only use premium, liquid gold for oil (mobil 1) and I get about 20 miles to the gallon. There has not been a tank of gas where I have topped 250 miles. ANd its a 1.8 liter 4 cylinder. I go through gas like crazy. I dont look at gas prices though. I figure I have to pay it to drive my car so whatever it costs I will have to pay and I am not going to change my driving style or what I want to drive becuase gas goes up. I dont get on anyone for the car they drive unless they cannot drive it. On my drive to work I see so many H2s and H3s who cannot drive them at all. Cant stay in their lane, cannot park properly. My favorite one is an h3 in a compact spot. But people not being able to drive what they own is not limited to the hummer, I see people with civics that cannot make a simple u-turn. IN A CIVIC!!!!!!!! I personally like trucks and SUVs. Not all of them of course but a select handful. Heck I loved driving my explorer till it was totaled.
Originally Posted By Mrs 2oon <<Personally, I don't care what others think about my car or my use of natural resources. >> I agree with you. A vehicle is a personal choice. I drive a '03 Windstar that doesn't get great gas mileage but I can get my kids and their friends around. My daughter is a swimmer and it's nice to have the room to fit high school kids, swim bags, parkas, fins, etc. My son is in boy scouts and 2oony can drive scouts to and from camping trips. Also, we take the backseat out and load up for our own family camping/Disneyland trips. I'm a stay at home mom and a part-time student. My commute to school everyday is five miles each way but it's all city driving so the gas mileage stinks. Anyway...just my two cents.
Originally Posted By tink_26 "Tink 26---Do you and hubby have the similar type compromise deals that my wife and I have? It's tough sometimes as she is quiet and demure and I'm the assertive one. How do you guys manage?" Yes- we do compromise all the time, although I must say it is really easy in our situation. My hubby and I rarely disagree. He is really laid back and usually doesn't mind my idea. I am the assertive one also, I guess opposites attract. So far we have managed with out major dissagreements. He knows he gets on my nerves sometimes and I know when I need to relax, it works!
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <I just read an article about this in Motor Trend. To be fair, there really isn't any discrimination between American and foreign made cars when the new EPA ratings come out. The new ratings make the gas mileage ratings currently in use look inflated for cars made in America as well as Japan, Korea, etc< where the discrepancies come in is many of the American sedans have large 6's or small 8's that guzzle more when idling -- the change in the mileage of a CIvic/ Corolla or Chevy Cobalt won't changemuch -- but watch for instance the V8 - Yukons/Tahoes and the Lincolns and Caddy's
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <How's the M3 and they are big here at the Ridge?< Have owned waaay too many cars in my days ( driving 35 years and have owned over 30 cars )- and the M3 is in my top 3 ! I love it as it gives me a little size with the handling and stones of a true sports car....Never one day of trouble with it either.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <vbdad I figured you for a Beemer. LOL I couldn't agree more with your post. Personally, I don't care what others think about my car or my use of natural resources. < yeah, long time Bimmer owner....love the construction and features on the cars ...and they treat you like gold, whether you drive a 3 series or a 7....free car washes any time you stop in -- different dealer events...driving schools...and the lock for me was when they started ( in 2003) - 4 years - 50,000 of free maintenance. This is not bumper to bumper warranty stuff -- but all scheduled maintenance -- haven't spent a dime on my car since I've had it...last time in for an oil change they changed my wiper blades as an example because they felt it was time..
Originally Posted By LOUDROCK Hey TINK as long as we are married I have every right to voice my opinion if it efects our marriage. Just because she brings the bacon home now and i am lookinf for work means nothing as far as decision making. Besides San Diego is in California and all the money she makes while we are married is shared just as if I made the money and she was looking for other work, RIGHT. OH and another thing TINK if you are married would you let your man or lady buy a thity thousand fishing boat without your consent or a ten thousand dollar outfit. YOU WOULD NOT SO DO NOT COME DOWN ON ME.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>It is so irresponsible to drive a large suv which gets 11 miles/gal when there is only one person in the car and there is no cargo being transported.<< Some might say that the market will take care of such "excesses". In other words, as China and other nations continue to develop their middle class, the demand for oil will constantly outstrip supply and prices will continue to skyrocket. Eventually, the price of fuel will get high enough in the US to make 10 mpg vehicles a luxury that only the very wealthy will be able to afford.
Originally Posted By fkurucz And FWIW, $3 per gallon gas has already had an adverse impact on large SUV sales. Now imagine its $5 per gallon....Detroit is, and they are scared to death.
Originally Posted By imadisneygal Loud, it's not so much the concept that you share decisions regarding large purchases with your wife. It's the "Me man, you woman. You do what man say!" attitude that is getting people riled. Of course you should discuss large purchases with your spouse. And of course the money being brought into the household is as much yours as hers. But to say that you put your foot down and forbid her from purchasing something just to express your manhood is ridiculous.
Originally Posted By LOUDROCK wait a minute here disgirl where did i say that i forbid her just to express my manhood. I forbid her beacuse buying that gas guzzler beast is irresponible. I am the man of our house and she is the woman of our house and we each have our roles to make this marriage work. If she wants to see other men i would forbid that also not because "i am the man" but because it would hurt our marriage just as if i would see other ladies. I did not marry a man, i married a lady and she married a man not a woman so we each have impotant roles to play. The two roles are = in power but shaped differently.
Originally Posted By PlainoLJoe << I am the man of our house and she is the woman of our house and we each have our roles to make this marriage work. >> Roles that now-a-day are so blured that they are nearly indistinguishable. Minus who has the breasts of course. The simple fact that you use the word "forbid" makes you a complete idiot.
Originally Posted By imadisneygal Oh brother... Where is it your right to "forbid" another adult to do anything? She's a grown woman and, in truth, she doesn't have to ask your permission to do anything she wants to. Good luck with that tactic...
Originally Posted By DVC_dad <<<buying that gas guzzler beast is irresponible. I am the man of our house>>> Irresponsible? Which one of you has a job?
Originally Posted By DVC_dad LOL personally I could care less LOUD if you forbid her to do anything. I just like giving you a hard time over it. Nothing personal as I am not married to you.
Originally Posted By StillThePassHolder I'm 48, my wife is 40, we'll be married seven years this August, first marriage for both of us. No kids. We're both government employees, college grads, and I'm an attorney. We're equal partners in everything. In all the time I've known my wife, which is eight years now, we've never argued. The day I "forbid" her to do anything is the day I would expect to find myself out in the street with my things strewn around me, looking like the neanderthal I just became once I uttered the words "I forbid". "Man" does not rule the roost over "woman" in any sensible, rational thinking home. A true marriage by definition "forbids" that type of rock-headed behavior.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney He is a LOUD-ROCK after all STPH. Also a Troll in my opinion. Don't feed him!
