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Re: Not So "Smart" Car (was Tulsa Event)
From: Dan Warlick (edwf430bellsouth.net)
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:55:50 -0700 (PDT)
The farm is already there. It's my brother in law's but it's actually in Riverton,KS.

Dan Warlick
954-725-6331 Office
208-493-3529 Fax
954-793-3529 Mobile



----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Reynolds" <kjtar [at] cox.net>
To: "Dan Warlick" <edwf430 [at] bellsouth.net>
Cc: <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Not So "Smart" Car (was Tulsa Event)


Hell, Dan, any one of a hundred vehicles would do the same job  nicely.
Instead of "pothole" substitute the word "sinkhole" and that's where
S.Florida is going to be heading in the next 50 years...
Get out now and buy that pretty little farm in Plattville, KS.
Willi, you with me, brutha?
Best to all,
TominTulsa

----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Warlick" <edwf430 [at] bellsouth.net>
To: "Tom Reynolds" <kjtar [at] cox.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Not So "Smart" Car (was Tulsa Event)


This is the only time I really wish I still had the International CXT.
"Melissa, did you feel something?"....."It must have been a pothole"

Dan Warlick
954-725-6331 Office
208-493-3529 Fax
954-793-3529 Mobile



----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Reynolds" <kjtar [at] cox.net>
To: "Daniel" <edwf430 [at] bellsouth.net>
Cc: <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Not So "Smart" Car (was Tulsa Event)


> What are the statistics? Most (80 to 90% of all trips are within 25
miles
> of home? Something like that.) So, for most trips, the Smartfortwo or > a
> similar vehicle would make sense. And, don't hold your breath, but
there
> will be more "similar vehicles." I don't have to tell you about > supply
> and
> demand (whether you believe the things the oil companies are telling > you
> or
> not) and gas prices and OPEC, the world situation, etc. Gas prices are
> going
> to go up. Gas is a non renewable resource. Gee, both big surprises,
huh?
> So, whether you're going to live long enough to see the change coming,
it 
> will come.  We will have to adapt, whether we like it or not.  A small,
> economical, eco friendly personal transportation device, is in your, or
> your
> children's, or certainly in your grandchildren's future.
> The Smartfortwo (for the U.S.) is only one of the first steps.  Yeah,
it's
> the smallest vehicle, but like Britt said (thank you for seeing the
> dichotomy of the safety argument, Britt) it makes sense, and most of > the
> time people will be using such a vehicle to go to and from their work.
No
> high speed, just maybe a bit less congestion, a lot easier to park,
easier
> on the billfold, the environment, the petrol supplies, etc. And there
will
> be hybrids coming (if the U.S. can open their minds instead of sticking
> like
> dinosaurs to "this is the way we've done it, we like it, so leave us > the
> f*** alone..." mentality) which will be even easier on our personal
> economy,
> the environment, etc. etc.
> No one, least of all me, is proposing the Smartfortwo or the like > should
> be
> anyone's "fun" car or daily driver if you drive on highways or
expressways
> or Interstates where the traffic flow is going at a high(er) speed than
> you'd be comfortable with in a "small" car. Unless you drive a Fiat > 850
> or
> TR3, TR4, TR6, TR7, MGB, Alfa, oh, do I really need to go on...and are
> comfortable in those situations with that car, then you could feel
> comfortable in the Smartfortwo. Hell, if a box truck is going to do me
in,
> well, we all have to go sometime. Shit, I better not go out and ride > my
> bike 50 miles because some yahoo in a land yacht Queen Mary might be
> talking
> on her cell phone or looking at the nav system and run over me like a
> steamroller over a squirrel. Such is life, and death. And, I'm not
> planning on buying a Smartfortwo or any such, at least not now, but I
> think
> it would be interesting to drive and maybe "down the road" it would be > a
> viable alternative for the lifestyle Karen and I end up living.
> Best regards to all, and let's all drive smart. Friendly. Aware.
Whatever.
> Tom Reynolds
> Tulsa, OK
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ken rentiers" <rentiers [at] mac.com>
> To: "Tom Reynolds" <kjtar [at] cox.net>
> Cc: <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
> Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 8:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Not So "Smart" Car (was Tulsa Event)
>
>
>>
>> On Oct 13, 2007, at 7:56 PM, Britt wrote:
>>
>> >> In many large cities over here the Smart works great, traffic
>> >> speeds are
>> >> low, the congestion charges are lower as are the road taxes and
>> >> unlike
>> >> motorcycles/mopeds/bicycles ect you have a roof over your head for
>> >> all the
>> >> crap
>> >> weather. They turn on a dime and can park nose in to the crub
legally
>> >> (like a
>> >> motorbike).
>>
>> All well. but why would you then advocate the same vehicle in an
>> environment where traffic speeds are high ( like 70 - 80 mph on the
>> freeways). there are no congestion charges or road taxes and no nose-
>> in parking is permitted. Fwiw I think an F350 dualie would be a Dumb
>> vehicle to drive in inner London or Paris but it makes perfect sense
>> here for many folks.
>>
>> I can imagine the horror of the effete French if Ford pickups were
>> introduced, don't be too hard on us for recoiling when we see a
>> Smart. Our roads have already been infested with the mobile chicanes
>> known as a "Prius".
>>
>> What the world needs now is a decently priced flux capacitor.
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