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Non-Airline Mogul => General Chat => Topic started by: AirHanoverInternational on January 25, 2008, 10:32:16 pm
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This one is to all the people that own a drivers license and a car: What car do you drive? And if it is not your first car: which one of your previous ones you loved/hated the most? Which one could be your next one? (Hey, dont dream of a Ferrari, Bugatti, Maybach or Lambo!)
Current car: Audi A3 TDI Sportsback, 2.0 liter diesel, 170HP, 6gear standard shift
Most loved: Peugeot 205 GRD 1.8, liter diesel, 64HP, 5gear standard shift -> my first car and bought it with my own money
Most hated: Renault 19, 1.8 liter regular, 88HP, 3gear overdrive automatic -> mileage was like a Cheavy big block :(
Next one: VW Tiguan TDI 2.0 liter diesel, 170HP (not available :( - YET :D ), 6gear standard shift
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Never have owned a car and never will :lol:
Currently Driving...92 Chevy Silverado 1/2 ton 4x4, cab & a half long bed. 190,000 miles, still runnin strong. Pretty much my work truck...had it about a year. Ran hard a lot of the time pulling trailers and equipment between the 2 farms I work on. Love the thing and hope to put many more miles on it before it goes. Other then regular maintenance and a couple minor fixes its held up quite well. Had a true dual exhaust run on it when I got it. Nice and loud, a mandatory thing for trucks here...they better be heard...want a roar not a purr :P
2nd vehicle...not really a truck as more of an SUV. It was my first and is currently kind of a project/screw around vehicle. 89 Ford Bronco II XLT 4x4. At 294,000 miles its had a long hard life...owned it for the last 4 years. Body, frame, paint is all in insane condition. No rust :shock: Just a few minor dents and a couple spots where paints chipped. Fully rebuilt front a back brakes, been worked over pretty well and still have some to go. Even has a new fuel tank as the old one had a huge hole I found one day when I came out of school and found about 15 gallons of my gas on the ground :x But that was in 2005...no longer in school. Its seen its days but long as its kept up it will go another 300K. But not with me. Once a few more minor fixes...mainly interior, drivers door needs a new handle and a new gear for the window motor. Kind of a pain when you have to force the window down by hand and reach out to open the door :roll: The latch on the hatch broke a couple weeks ago...so going to fix it too. Get a couple really small fixes to the engine and will be selling it in a couple months. Time for someone else to put some miles on it :?
Only had a couple other trucks. One a couple years ago...91 Ford F-150...piece of junk, paid only $500 for it though, blew the engine 2 months after I bought it. Scrapped it out.
Another one...my baby...94 Chevy Silverado 1/2 ton 4x4 standard cab long bed. Paid $3000 for it...Put well over $5000 into it, new black paint, pretty much gutted and put a new gray interior in it. Originally was red with a red interior which I hated to death and it wasn't in the greatest shape, but it only had 75,000 miles on it with a very strong engine. True dual exhaust that had a great low pitched rumble. It was the best truck I've ever owned. Had it for a year, put about 15,000 miles on it. Then late one night coming home from work, down a country road, it was raining, and pushing my speed a little bit more then I should have givin the weather. Came up over a hill and slammed a very large buck at 65mph, hood flew up, lost control, rolled a couple times, and finally came to rest in a ditch. Woke up a couple hours later in the hospital where I found out I had 3 broken ribs, shattered 3 fingers on my right hand, broke my right leg, and had a lot of cuts and bruises :oops:
Probably keep the 92 awhile...or might look into something a little newer when I get taxes back. I wont go brand new...a 98 is about my top year. Don't need all the fancy electronic crap, sensors etc...just more junk to go wrong. Just want a basic truck, not pressure sensors telling me when tires are low, oil needs changed, compass, outside temp....its all this junk I see in new trucks that to me is useless. Something goes wrong with some of those computer controls and it pretty much has to go to a shop. Do away with that junk and I can do pretty much all the work myself for much cheaper. Need a truck can haul...not tell me its 30°F outside. :roll:
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Ah, my car.
It is a 2007 Pontiac G5 Coup GT.
I love my car.
(http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z143/sla31/75050.jpg)
Before that is was a 1987 Nissan Maxima. It was old. :lol:
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Ah, my car.
It is a 2007 Pontiac G5 Coup GT.
Thats a nice one. But I need more room in the trunk. I have a garden. Would rather have a truck like Triple_7 but fuel is too expensive here :( Close to 8$ a gallon today :shock: I feel like a poor man when I pass a gas station. :cry:
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In two and 1/2 years it will be a Volvo Stationwagon from 1994 8)
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In two and 1/2 years it will be a Volvo Stationwagon from 1994 8)
Okay. Hopefully you don't crash in it :wink:
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In two and 1/2 years it will be a Volvo Stationwagon from 1994 8)
Okay. Hopefully you don't crash in it :wink:
why would I crash it :? :roll:
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In two and 1/2 years it will be a Volvo Stationwagon from 1994 8)
Okay. Hopefully you don't crash in it :wink:
why would I crash it :? :roll:
Its a Volvo, you'll walk away if you do..... The darn things are probably the single safest vehicle on the road. Its really too bad they are SO damn ugly....
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at the moment a Boeing 747
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In two and 1/2 years it will be a Volvo Stationwagon from 1994 8)
Okay. Hopefully you don't crash in it :wink:
why would I crash it :? :roll:
Its a Volvo, you'll walk away if you do..... The darn things are probably the single safest vehicle on the road. Its really too bad they are SO damn ugly....
There not ugly (at least the SUV)
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Its a Volvo, you'll walk away if you do..... The darn things are probably the single safest vehicle on the road. Its really too bad they are SO damn ugly....
It may look ugly - depending on what design you like. The BMW 7 series is ugly, too, so are many of the actual Mercedes/Opel (Vauxhall in UK)/Ford (Europe) cars. I like some recent Audi/VW models and many American made ones. Why couldn't the last ones use much less fuel that it would be worth driving them here in good old Europe? I can drive about 40miles with a gallon of fuel. It could be less if I wouldn't use the topspeed (145mph) on the Autobahn that often :lol:
But you are right: Volvo did a lot for the driver's and passenger's safety.
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Its a Volvo, you'll walk away if you do..... The darn things are probably the single safest vehicle on the road. Its really too bad they are SO damn ugly....
It may look ugly - depending on what design you like. The BMW 7 series is ugly, too, so are many of the actual Mercedes/Opel (Vauxhall in UK)/Ford (Europe) cars. I like some recent Audi/VW models and many American made ones. Why couldn't the last ones use much less fuel that it would be worth driving them here in good old Europe? I can drive about 40miles with a gallon of fuel. It could be less if I wouldn't use the topspeed (145mph) on the Autobahn that often :lol:
But you are right: Volvo did a lot for the driver's and passenger's safety.
Thats why my parents are giving me their old one :lol:
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(I've freakin posted this 4 times, stupid pc)
We own 5 vehicles now(and I'm trying hard not to adopt anymore)
#1 99 Dodge Grand Caravan Roomy for six people, and runs on E85(Corn powered)
(http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL267/1551006/5760489/297230586.jpg)
#2 94 Jeep Grand Cherokee V-8 AWD AWD is really nice for the winter around here, and V-8 makes it fun to drive
#3 88 Ford F-150 Diesel 4wd. Large, Ugly, Slow But it will drag anything around if you need it to. Runs on 11% Bio-diesel
(http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL267/1551006/12170502/93649763.jpg)
#4 88 Jeep Comanche 4wd Bought it originally to do 'truck' chores around the house, loved it so much it got retired, and now sits and waits to be refurbished.
(http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL267/1551006/7203470/93649781.jpg)
#5 90 Jeep Cherokee 4wd. My play toy. Sits on 3 1/2 inch lift and 33 inch tires. I've off-roaded this Jeep all over the Upper Midwest. Its a ton of fun...
(http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL267/1551006/2965161/195554176.jpg)
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Your Comanche brings up some memories from the mid 90's. I was visiting a friend in Louisiana how had a farm. He owned a Chevy pickup truck. It had a little less rust than your Comanche :wink: but it was fun to drive on the muddy tracks after a heavy rain.
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Its a Volvo, you'll walk away if you do..... The darn things are probably the single safest vehicle on the road. Its really too bad they are SO damn ugly....
It may look ugly - depending on what design you like. The BMW 7 series is ugly, too, so are many of the actual Mercedes/Opel (Vauxhall in UK)/Ford (Europe) cars. I like some recent Audi/VW models and many American made ones. Why couldn't the last ones use much less fuel that it would be worth driving them here in good old Europe? I can drive about 40miles with a gallon of fuel. It could be less if I wouldn't use the topspeed (145mph) on the Autobahn that often :lol:
But you are right: Volvo did a lot for the driver's and passenger's safety.
If I could find a 240DL wagon from the mid-80's, I'd probably adopt it, and run it on Waste Veggie Oil. I have two fryers that I could have all the oil I want out of them..
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Well I'm 16 (as of yesterday :D ) so I just steal my parents cars :D
Dad has a 2000 Mercedes ML 270 CDI identical to this one:
(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p88/zkvac/01ml270cdi.jpg)
After just selling his 2004 Holden Adventra V8 like this, but silver:
(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p88/zkvac/adventra1.jpg)
Mum has a 2005 Fiat Stilo Abarth like this one:
(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p88/zkvac/1512_1.jpg)
Although she has just ordered a Brand New 2008 Skoda Octavia RS Diesel Wagon like this one to replace the Fiat, but in (you guessed it) Silver.
(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p88/zkvac/14980_1122383371208.jpg)
I am saving up for a Mini 1275 GT like this, but I don't have it yet :D
(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p88/zkvac/800px-Mini_1275_GT_002.jpg)
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:lol:
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I don't own a car, but my mother doesn't drive hers very often so I'm on the road with it. It's an Opel Astra Caravan (like the one on the link but in night blue). It's underpowered, the electronics are crap, the gearbox has moodswings depending on the temperature and this morning when I wanted to go to school the battery failed- 2 houers later it was back up again :roll:
http://autoscout24.de/Details.aspx?id=lcfljkz1kpv2
My father just bought something like this (but in green)
http://autoscout24.de/Details.aspx?id=lmmxlnttvwfr
Makes for a nice driving but somehow I dislike Mercedes
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Current, black 1999 Volvo V70 stationwagon. Exactly like this one:
(http://www.prylbanken.se/images/Prylbanken.se-img_Bilar-Volvo_V70_Classic_2_4_X-tremt_fin_svart_helskinn-Saljes_412_580x443.jpg)
Most hated tie between Opel Kadett and BMW 320
Most loved: My saab 96 or the 2 Volvo Amazon I used to have in my younger days.
Most wanted: The new Volkswagen Passat, biogas powered that will come in the autumn, gorgeous, environmentally friendly and good power too :)
(http://images.autobytel.com/view/aic/VOLKSWAGEN/PASSATWAGON/wgn/usa_2008_volkswagen_passatwagon_wgn_4_x_exfrdrvr75_x.jpg)
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I just came back home from the VW Emden factory where the Passat is made. :D
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:lol:
Something funny about the mini? :D
Nice SA, I love those Volvos. Is yours the 'R' model?
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Nope, not the R, it's a n ordinary 144hp variant. Insurance for the R is $1000 a year here in Sweden :shock:
Besides, I'm a municipal worker, speed is not my thing :lol:
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Mini's are the best, if someone says they arn't then Ill beat them up.
But I can't drive because im 13 and I would only hav a mini as a beach car. I might just bye Mr. Beans Mini :lol:
(http://web.ard.de/galerie/bilderpool/boulevard/2007/bean/beanserie.jpg)
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Mini's are really nice, and it's marginally safer than travelling in a wheel barrow at 100mp in down town traffic :lol:
But, I am going to buy my missus a newer Mini Cooper when she gets her license (She's only 37 :roll: )
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Ill be driving this baby in NZ.
(http://www.mccullagh.org/db9/1ds-5/ferrari-enzo-2.jpg)
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Ill be driving this baby in NZ.
(http://www.mccullagh.org/db9/1ds-5/ferrari-enzo-2.jpg)
Sadly there isn't one of them in NZ :(
No one here can afford them :lol:
NZ's richest man just spent all his money on a new BBJ..
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Doug, thats a car, NOT A BABY!!!!! :P
Vovlo's are the best :)
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Your looking at the future riches person in NZ or maybe the world :D
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Your looking at the future riches person in NZ or maybe the world :D
Oh yes the whole Kiwi Air thing?
:lol: so you'd be the Third Airline in NZ called Kiwi Air to be killed off by Air New Zealand..
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not to get off topic....
Nope, AKA will hopefully be successful in Dunedin.
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Mini's are the best, if someone says they arn't then Ill beat them up.
They're way too slow 8)
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Yeah, maybe stock. I plan to fiddle with mine a bit.
This isn't any slower than the next car:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7fRxHAM8HA&feature=related
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They're way too slow 8)
Most of the people here dont need cars faster than 130km/h (75mph). They cant use it. I am glad to live in Germany. It would take me a day to drive to Munich instead of 5 hours.
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They're way too slow 8)
Most of the people here dont need cars faster than 130km/h (75mph). They cant use it. I am glad to live in Germany. It would take me a day to drive to Munich instead of 5 hours.
Well, I think no-genral-speedlimits politic is the one thing other countries should take over from Germany!
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Well, I think no-genral-speedlimits politic is the one thing other countries should take over from Germany!
Agree to that. International studies show that there die more people on british highways than on german ones. There are also studies in America that say the police could be used better in the cities to prevent crime instead of chasing people on the highways. I dont mean that the highways should be unlimited in speed in general. There are parts of it where a speed limit makes sense - for example near big cities where you often approach traffic jam or when the road is in bad condition. On the other hand I remember almost empty and straight highways in the States. It is boring to drive slow and I think than many people getting tired and do not pay enough attention which may cause accidents.
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I think there should be speed advices, not limits.
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Well remember some countries can't afford it- Here in NZ, we have the same sized land mass of Italy but 1/10th the population. We can't afford to build huge motorways everywhere- Only in cities. Therefore the roads aren't as good - (eg State Highway 1, NZ's main road, is mainly 1 lane each way, with the odd passing lane.) so it's not as safe to go 130km/h or more here. Our speed limit is 100 km/h (60mph) but you are given 10% error, so I generally cruise at about 109km/h. Of course if you have a radar detector and a quiet road.. I can tell you that a Fiat Stilo Abarth will happily do 200 km/h :D :twisted: . Also a good ( bad for other people?) thing here is the driving age. You get your learners at 15 and can drive on your own (Restricted licence- what I've got) at 16.\\
Italy was awesome- the limit is 130km/h but nobody seems to care- we're passing small cars at 170km'h and BMW 545's are roaring past in excess of 200km/h!
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Well it's true that NZ hasn't got the world's best roads. But until 2007 Australia's Northern Territory also had no speed limits. Their argumentation that these easy speed limits caused many crashes, but I can't really follow that. Fact is, in Germany most deadly car crashes happen inside the cities (where we've got speed limits of 30-50 km/h). At the same time, other countries that had similar roads (for example France, Italy, Spain) had much higher crash/fatality numbers than Germany. And these countries all have VERY strict speed limits.
How does that happen? Well, it's all about how alert you are. Many German Drivers are afraid of Italy and France because many people in these countries don't concentrate what happens outside their tin box. They drive on the lane they want, at the speed they want and they do very risky manoevres when they overtake you.
In German cities you might drive like this. However chances are that you'll be stopped if the cops see you. Try to drive 80 in the left lane of an Autobahn where you're allowed to go 120 or even unrestricted and you'll find out how loud 20 horns can be and how angry people will get.
Also we don't need to go over the legal limits to test our cars. If we want to find out how fast a car goes we don't do that in a silent back alley in a cold december night so that you can scrap our cars from a tree the next morning, we simply wait for the right weather and traffic conditions and then head for the Autobahn.
I think NZ could live with unrestricted speed limits if you were used to them!
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Sure, NT may have unrestricted speed limits, but that's because they are dead straight, with no traffic. Roads in NZ are overcrowded, and the government can't do much because we don't have toll roads, and often windy. Lots of roads here it would be literally impossible to do 130km/h in your average car. I'm sure NZ would never get used to 130km/h roads, because of the standard of vehicles (mostly crappy used Japanese imports, due to our lax import laws), and the ability of most drivers here. Because NZ is very 'multicultural', there are lots of drivers from certain parts of the world which aren't renowned for good driving ( I won't name countries, at the risk of generalizing/being racist).
I may be wrong, and I'm not trying to insult you, but I've found Dutch/German tourists to be some of the most inconsiderate drivers here. Because most roads are single lane, we can't just pass when we like, so we rely on slower cars/ motorhomes to pull over and let cars going the speed limit past. I've been stuck behind Germans driving motorhomes that seem to be completely oblivious to the 50+ cars held up behind them at 70km/h. Which brings us to another side effect of NZ's poor roads- Road rage :twisted:
And I'm not sticking up for NZ- I wish we had no speed limits!!
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The most important thing about this discussion is the fact what you are used to. As a German I am used to pretty good roads and highways with rare placed speed limits (although they say about 33% do have speed limits). When I leave Germany for Dutch, Austrian or Italian highways I carefully obey the speed limits cause the cops there seem to watch out for the "rich Germans". This may be a cliche from the past but I still am afraid to pay a big amount of money. In Austria the cops do not need a radar to check your speed. If they think you were above the limit they may stop you and make you pay - without any evidence. To come back to the speed limit discussion: I dont know if you (blue sky mine) remember what happened in East Germany after the reunification. Peoples were not used to the speed causing horrible crashes with their old eastern (or unreliable western) cars that were not built for that speed. Almost 20 years later east german roads are still the most dangerous ones. I am not talking about the Autobahn. There is be one thing you will notice when you leave the state Lower Saxony (where I live) for the eastern part of Germany: in almost every small village you will find fix mounted radar. In one village they even have two of them within 200 meters! So better watch your speed there.
@blue: I do understand your argument about the foreign drivers in Germany. Especially when I drive on the A2 - wellknown as the "Dutch-Poland-Highway" :wink: - I always watch carefully the eastern trucks I pass. I drive about 50.000kms a year and I have seen so many terrible accidents where those drivers were involved. Also the A7 (It starts in the north at the danish border and crosses the whole country and ends in the south at the austrian border) is well known for accidents with foreigners involved. What those people may forget that we do have speed limits for certain cars: Trucks (not the SUV's or pickups - the big ones) are limited to 100kmph and if you drive a car with a trailer it may be 80kmph or 100kmph. But many times I drove behind a car with a trailer driving 130...140kmph. The part around the city Kassel (ca. 150 kms) contains many curves and hills. This part is probably one of the most dangerous in summer time.
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I think you can't classify motorhome drivers as normal drivers- rather as tank drivers :twisted:
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UR32kWUJWZw
Oh yeah, this song had to be posted here- you might not understand it but it just represents this thread :twisted:
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The worst thing about that song:
"Und kost' Benzin auch 2.10 DM" ("And if regular would cost 2.10 DM" roughly about 1.05 EUR per liter)
Well, we are "slightly" above that value: 1.40 EUR (about $7.80 per gallon incl. tax). But this song was made in the eighties.
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But I like the part I've taken into my sig:
Mein Maserati fährt 210,
Schwupp, die Polizei hat´s nicht geseh´n,
das macht Spaß!
Ich geb Gas, ich geb Gas
My Maserati makes it up to 210
Wham, the police didn't see a thing
that's fun!
I floor it, I floor it
Of course the translation kills it (as usual)
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But I like the part I've taken into my sig:
Mein Maserati fährt 210,
Schwupp, die Polizei hat´s nicht geseh´n,
das macht Spaß!
Ich geb Gas, ich geb Gas
My Maserati makes it up to 210
Wham, the police didn't see a thing
that's fun!
I floor it, I floor it
Of course the translation kills it (as usual)
Almost a 'stolen' line from Joe Walsh.
'my Maserati does 185, lost my liscense now I don't drive'- Joe Walsh Life's been Good
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The worst thing about that song:
"Und kost' Benzin auch 2.10 DM" ("And if regular would cost 2.10 DM" roughly about 1.05 EUR per liter)
Well, we are "slightly" above that value: 1.40 EUR (about $7.80 per gallon incl. tax). But this song was made in the eighties.
Haha we have it good here- 98 is $1.90- about €1.02 a litre. Diesel is about $1.20- or 60 euro cents/litre. Then we have road tax (for diesels) which is about $300 (€160) for 2000km.
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Haha we have it good here- 98 is $1.90- about €1.02 a litre. Diesel is about $1.20- or 60 euro cents/litre. Then we have road tax (for diesels) which is about $300 (€160) for 2000km.
Could you send me a ship full of diesel? :lol: But if I would drive my car in your country it would be more expensive than here. I drive 1,000kms - sometimes even more - a week.
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Haha we have it good here- 98 is $1.90- about €1.02 a litre. Diesel is about $1.20- or 60 euro cents/litre. Then we have road tax (for diesels) which is about $300 (€160) for 2000km.
Could you send me a ship full of diesel? :lol: But if I would drive my car in your country it would be more expensive than here. I drive 1,000kms - sometimes even more - a week.
It's ok, it would take you longer to drive that distance here because our roads and drivers are crap!