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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: DavidinHartford on October 07, 2006, 06:56:30 pm ---Car less? YIKES! The only people I know without cars are in Boston or New York city. I would imagine you could in San Fransisco too. Those are like the only cities we have here in the States with a decent public transportation system.
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Add Philadelphia to that list of cities where it's possible to be carless, David--at least, if you live in the heart of the city, as I do. And I am carless. After I moved to the city in 1986, I kept a car at my parents' place until 1998, when I sold it before it got ready to start falling apart on me. ;D
mlewisusc:
Hiya Jeff my boy and everyone else! Logged on for the first time in forever, found this thread via chasing delalluvia's posts. This is a topic that keeps much of my attention much of the time - cars, I mean. Can talk 'em for hours, often do with my dad. My pop and I share several vehicles, some he owns, some I own. Right now my daily driver is a big fat tax write off from 2004 (e.g., a luxury SUV that weighs more that 6000 lbs, thanks for something, George Bush)! But the car I have which is probably the most fun to drive is a 2004 Cadillac CTS-V which is a standard small Cadillac sedan with a big Corvette motor and gearbox in it. Fast, fun, and the first Cadillac since 1959 to have a manual transmission! Unfortunately we need to sell it :( Anyone interested? If you are from the east coast, drive it home through Signal and Lightning Flat!
Hope everyone is well, I'll try to be around more!
Front-Ranger:
Here's my little Prius, gets 50 miles to the gallon.
moremojo:
A little personal update: My sister recently invested in a new car, but, after talking it over with me, has decided to keep her old one as well, and let me use it as my major means of transportation. The car will remain in her name, and she will continue to pay the insurance on it--what more could I ask for?
Even though I have tended to be critical of households in which every member has their own car (as I tend to see that as symptomatic of the materialism and heedless consumerism bedeviling so much of American society today), I can't deny the sheer comfort and pleasure afforded by having one's own personal access to transportation, without having to be dependent on anyone else (whether they be a cab driver, bus driver, or family member), and so will succumb (if only for a while) to the temptation. The car's catalytic converter needs replacement, and is now in the shop for that purpose. But upon completion and payment (which I will make), I can start using the vehicle as regularly as I wish.
The car is a 1996 Chevrolet Cavalier, red, two-door. And it is now, in everything but name, mine.
Pipedream:
Here's my latest purchase: a little orange Skoda Fabia TDI. I love it! It's economical and fast. Got it two months now and have driven about 8.000 kilometres already... :)
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