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Subject:Re: What is it with the US? (No real van content)
From:Jake de Villiers
Date:Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:13:55 -0700

Your Smart car gets 60-70 MPG already, let's not worry about it!   :)

Its time to get my suburban neighbours out of their Expeditions & Yukons and
into something sensible.  Nothing like a 120 pound woman in an F250 double
cab to really define the term "over-consumption".

On 6/23/07, neil <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> er, diesel w/electric motor assist a la Prius.
>
> Neil.
>
>
>
> On 6/23/07, neil <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yah, ok!
> >
> > ;)
> >
> > But can one fit a diesel electric in a Smart Car?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 6/23/07, Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > RE: A DIESEL hybrid (electric motor assist)? That makes SENSE!
> > > Gee, what a great idea.  Let's call it a Diesel/Electric.  Lets make a
> > > locomotive like that.  Lets do it in the first half of the 20th
> Century.....
> > > Or let's do it on CG 40 Boats...
> > > Or big earth movers...
> > > (The rest of the list is left as an exercise fo the reader....)
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.
> >
> > http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
> >
>
>
> --
> Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.
>
> http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
>

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Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
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