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Admit it, you want somthing with a HEMI in it

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 1:28 PM

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They're a fad, just like disco, hula-hoops and Obama.

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 2:07 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Just keep telling yourself that. Hey, it worked for Detroit in the 70's, right? "Small cars are just a fad!"

Mike

PS: I *have* something with a Hemi in it. I kinda hate it. The only thing it does better than my Honda Accord is launch from a stoplight. It gets crappier mileage, carries less, has less head and leg room, less cargo room, handles worse, takes longer to stop, doesn't cruise as well...

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:14 AM

FREMDFIRMA

I do run some things with a Hemi, and it's quite powerful and fuel efficient.

Given that they are 50cc, 49.8cc and 67.5cc

The Tomos A3, A35 and Puch E50 moped engines are all technically "Hemi" engines, and remain so even when substantially overbored.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemi

I think the Honda NQ50 Spree engine might qualify, so that's a nice giggle for you next time someone's stroking their e-peen about having a Hemi - you can point to the college geek on the scooter and say "Yeah, well, so does he."

-F

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:21 AM

CHRISISALL

They fall right out of the sky.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:32 AM

HERO

Quote:
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
I do run some things with a Hemi, and it's quite powerful and fuel efficient.

I just bought a Jeep Grande Cherokee Limited on Saturday. Black, chrome, leather, navigation, sat radio...and a HEMI. Makes car go fast.

Edited to add: While I'm no greenie weenie, the new car's gas milage is better then my old Wrangler, so I am doing my part.

H

"Hero. I have come to respect you"- Chrisisall, 2009.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:33 AM

CHRISISALL

Thanks for helping with the recession, btw.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:33 AM

KWICKO

Quote:
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
I do run some things with a Hemi, and it's quite powerful and fuel efficient.

Given that they are 50cc, 49.8cc and 67.5cc

The Tomos A3, A35 and Puch E50 moped engines are all technically "Hemi" engines, and remain so even when substantially overbored.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemi

I think the Honda NQ50 Spree engine might qualify, so that's a nice giggle for you next time someone's stroking their e-peen about having a Hemi - you can point to the college geek on the scooter and say "Yeah, well, so does he."

-F

And technically, the newer "hemi" really isn't, anyway. The combustion chambers are so flattened out nowadays that a hemispherical combustion chamber would be woefully inadequate - it wouldn't have enough compression, and it damn sure wouldn't give a decent enough burn to be anywhere close to clean on the emissions front. So the new Hemi is really more of a SEMI - it's got a combustion chamber that's semi-hemispherical in cross-section. Of course, so do most other internal-combustion engines, for that matter...

Just goes to show how well you can sell bullshit if you give it a snappy new name!

Mike

The "On Fire" Economy -
The Dow closed at 10,587.60 on January 20, 2001, the day GW Bush took office. Eight years later, it closed below 8000 on the day he left office - a net loss of 25%. That's what conservatives call an economic "success".

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:40 AM

KWICKO

Quote:
Originally posted by Hero:
Quote:
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
I do run some things with a Hemi, and it's quite powerful and fuel efficient.

I just bought a Jeep Grande Cherokee Limited on Saturday. Black, chrome, leather, navigation, sat radio...and a HEMI. Makes car go fast.

H

"Hero. I have come to respect you"- Chrisisall, 2009.

Let me know when stuff starts falling off it. My Dodge Durango just turned over 16,000 miles. The driver's side windows aren't working - the front glass fell off its track, and the rear one only goes down very occasionally (reminds me of a few girls I've known, come to think of it!). When you push and release the button to open the center console, it shoots the whole latching mechanism across the car.

Yeah, buddy... we sure do need to rescue Chrysler. Actually, we might have to rescue them from themselves!

Mike

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:46 AM

HERO

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Thanks for helping with the recession,

If by recession you mean 0% financing...then I'm all for the recession.

Basically the recession made my new $45k car cost $34k and gave me 0% financing. I bought the car which helped Jeep workers, the local dealership, the car salesman, the guy who's going to service it for me every 3,000 miles, and the bank that handled the loan. I feel very good about myself today...or it could be the heated leather seats.

H

"Hero. I have come to respect you"- Chrisisall, 2009.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:50 AM

HERO

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Let me know when stuff starts falling off it. My Dodge Durango just turned over 16,000 miles.

Jeep's a good brand.

H

"Hero. I have come to respect you"- Chrisisall, 2009.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:18 AM

FREMDFIRMA

I hope ya went and shelled out for the (snicker) optional 4WD variant.

Otherwise just imagine the embarassment of being stuck on WET GRASS, in a Jeep.

That actually happened to a guy last time I bothered to show up at the local UU congregation, someone with a Subaru Outback had to give him a little push, hee hee.

-F

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:02 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

Quote:
Originally posted by Hero:

Basically the recession made my new $45k car cost $34k and gave me 0% financing. I bought the car which helped Jeep workers, the local dealership, the car salesman, the guy who's going to service it for me every 3,000 miles, and the bank that handled the loan. I feel very good about myself today...or it could be the heated leather seats.

See kids, crime DOES pay.

Hope you enjoy paying $10/gallon for gas in 12 months. Plus GPS tax by the mile, and GPS speeding tickets by mail.

Your car was never worth 45K. Now its worth 25K.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 6:53 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Hemi? That's too slow for me, and my car is already much better looking than those, besides being faster and quicker, and handling better. And my car isn't made by those german guys who owned Dodge. GM was theorically an american company, just made all their cars in Mexico, Australia, and Canada.
But the Viper does still interest me.

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Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:27 AM

KWICKO

Hell, these days it's damn near impossible to tell an "American" car company from any other maker. Even the "different kind of car company", Saturn, is importing at least two of their models from Germany (the Aura and the Astra are rebadged Opel models). Honda, Nissan, and Toyota build cars here in the U.S., as do BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Lots of "good old American iron" is built in Canada; I'm not sure about the new Camaro, but all of the old ones for at least the last ten years or so of its life were built in Ontario!

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Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:09 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Hell, these days it's damn near impossible to tell an "American" car company from any other maker. Even the "different kind of car company", Saturn, is importing at least two of their models from Germany (the Aura and the Astra are rebadged Opel models). Honda, Nissan, and Toyota build cars here in the U.S., as do BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Lots of "good old American iron" is built in Canada; I'm not sure about the new Camaro, but all of the old ones for at least the last ten years or so of its life were built in Ontario!

The new Camaro on the Impala platform is built at Oshawa, Ontario, along with the Impala. The 4th generation Camaro/Firebird on the F-Body platform was in St Therese.

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Friday, March 20, 2009 1:01 AM

KWICKO

Thanks for the clarification, JSF.

Back when I was racing, I had one of the "Camaro guys" (and you can always pick them out; they're the ones in the Lynyrd Skynyrd tee-shirts and mullets) berating me, telling me I should "Buy American!".

It was funny because at the time I was driving my '91 Honda Accord station wagon - which was built in Ohio! I just smiled and told him that I would if he would, which caused all manner of confusion, until I told him to look at his build plate and then look at mine. He did, turned red, and stormed off. It was a good day.

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