Ford and GM make fine trucks, but lousy cars. If you want a great car, get a Toyota or if you have $100k, a Tesla.
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Going car free?
- Thread starter Quintessence
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oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
Excellent! For the last several years of my career I traveled the whole UK holding training courses......... with a fold up bike and a rucksack which contained private and work related gear. I loved it! I would take train to London, cycle across London to the next station and then on to the arrival town or city. I would then cycle to either hotel or venue.
On many occasions when the trains failed I could cycle up to say, 20 miles to a parallel system or Coach Station without even thinking about it.
But the bike has to be very good quality and fold up small enough to fit into a bag.
Lithium Polymer batteries are massively expensive, and their electronics are micro-processed. If you are travelling within a big city only, then alright, but I don't think that electrical cars are developed enough yet.... and they are so expensive. I did try an electric folding bike but I had to worry about security for the battery (£300) if I ever left it outside a shop etc. I found that pedal power was best!
I can't live carless... 
I work next town, and obliged to attend to my family (mother and sisters especially) and take them out to have fun to distant places. Without a car I cannot do those requirements.
I however know life would be healthier without combustion engine cars.
I work next town, and obliged to attend to my family (mother and sisters especially) and take them out to have fun to distant places. Without a car I cannot do those requirements.
I however know life would be healthier without combustion engine cars.
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
I got rid of my car 15 years ago, definitely one of my better decisions. I realise some people need them for work and family commitments, but it puzzles me why so many people have them in urban areas with good public transport.
Small electric vehicles will take over the urban landscape in the near future. Look for novel methods of power delivery to the vehicles. I like induction technologies.
DawudTalut
Peace be upon you.
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Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
I wouldn't mind living in a cave, providing it had wide-screen TV and hot running water.
You might adopt?
I could use new parents!
Who's mom?
Anyway, I saw one of these up close, & find it to be about the best RV trailer out there for its combination of light weight, durability, maintainability & reasonable cost....
Quicksilver VRV, Axxess, and Polaris Ultra Lightweight Toy Haulers | Livin' Lite RV
dust1n
Zindīq
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Exactly. Maybe a bit roomier.
Either towable like this:
Or incredibly boat shippable (making it international) from cargo containers:
dust1n
Zindīq
The Aluminum Travel Trailer's ain't bad. I wonder how much all the aluminum costs though.
As I recall, a mid-sized model is about $25K brand new.
Their pop-out sleeping pods are really nifty.
And because the floor is aluminum, you can hose the whole place down after an orgy!
dust1n
Zindīq
Not bad. Metal is clean, but it would hard to work with. It's hard to get an orgy started on a metal floor.
Well, of course you'd have rugs/blankets, furniture, pillows, etc.
Whatever soaked thru or rubbed off....no sweat (so to speak).
dust1n
Zindīq
The real question is can I get the electronics firmly built and mounted, set for solar. How else will the night-vision hidden cameras maintain power?
It would be an easy job on such a trailer.....just spendy.
Whiterain
Get me off of this planet
I was car free about 3 years but I had a motorcycle, a 1100 V-Star, then a 1800 VTX then an R6. It's rough, the weather, it wears on you. The wind or bone chilling cold of the winter.
But you still may need an automobile, if you can't rent one, for labor or whatnot. Public transit isn't bad in most cities now days.
As far as being completely vehicleless it sucks.
But you still may need an automobile, if you can't rent one, for labor or whatnot. Public transit isn't bad in most cities now days.
As far as being completely vehicleless it sucks.
Only times in my life I have been vehicle-less I was living right in the CBD, and could literally walk to work and transport hubs, or I was living in a logging village in Papua New Guinea. No frigging way I'd go car free living in the burbs.
However, moving to a single car is an interesting concept if at all possible (assuming a 'normal' two car family model, I mean)
However, moving to a single car is an interesting concept if at all possible (assuming a 'normal' two car family model, I mean)