My Next New Car
Super cool AND 300 mpg!
posted by Teresa | 12:46 PM
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the not-very-official blog of the sisters formerly known as rosche
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But where are the cupholders?
I don't know, but we've been assured that they're there! (click the link below and look about 2/3 of the way down the page)
http://www.aptera.com/ask.php
So, if it had been a choice between putting up with $4/gallon gas or no cup holders you might have a problem?
Lack of cup holders would not deter me from a good car, however it might leave me psychologically scarred if I had no place to put my coffee.
I've got to do some research, just out of curiosity, about when cup holders in vehicles came into vogue.
I know for a long time before they were commonplace, auto parts stores sold those plastic thingies you hang on the inside of the car door, off the niche for the window. Often, they would fall off from the force of the door opening or closing, spilling your beverage of choice all over the ground...or your floor mats. Bleh.
I also remember back before even those were around. Gertrude, our ugly, beige '63 Ford Fairlane station wagon had nothing but some slight circular indentations in the glove box door to set your beverage on if it was open. Definitely not geared for a moving vehicle. I only remember it being used at the drive-in.
I remember Gertrude. I couldn't recall the make and model until now though. I don't remember the indents in the glovebox, but I remember the hole under the floor mat. This guy on a motorcycle followed us home from church one day to rat on me and Loretta for sticking paper (repeatedly) through the holes.
Okay, here's my question... Why do they have to take that great technology and put in in a package like that? I wouldn't say it's ugly, but it's definitely not something I would want to be caught dead driving. I went to Hybrid Technology, a company near where I work (Google it), and they took that technology and put it in PT Cruisers, Mini Coopers (i.e.- cars that people actually drive).
P.S.- cup holders do make a difference, my friend has a Mercedes with no good cup holders, and now I no longer want a Benz...
One word, baby girl:
AERODYNAMICS.
I remember Gertrude being more rounded than this car, but I do have '63 stuck in my head. Check it out and see if it's what you remember.
Call me crazy, but I'd rather have good ol' American muscle car...like a Transam.
That's Gerturde - I remember the tail fins! I used to think she was sooo ugly after seeing everyone with newer sleeker cars, but I miss her. The back fold down seats was the bomb for us little squirts.
Jazzy, TransAms are fine but they can't beat a Shelby Cobra in my book.
Good God almighty. We may be from Cali but we sure do have a bunch of rednecks in this family : O
Sis, you know Cali has rednecks too - we just keep them confined to Pearblossom and Palmdale (remember the Wagon Wheel Cafe?) so the rest of the world don't find out. Oh crud, I just let the cat out of the bag!
TransAms aren't for RedNecks! They're for badasses.
I want a black one with a dark-grey pheonix that has a purple pinstripe outlining the pheaonix.
The rims will be black and shiny.
"TransAms aren't for RedNecks! They're for badasses."
They are for rednecks that are wannabe badasses =O
No, pickups with big jacked up off road tires or duallys are. Loud horn and exhaust is also mandatory. Bonus redneck points for each confederate flag or Nascar sticker, double bonus if the trailer hitch is shaped like hanging man parts.
P.S. - My Cobra can beat up your Transam.
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