One Thousand Miles on a tank of gas

[danlisa]

Originally Posted by mr chris

This what i drive at my unit.
Close Support Tanker (Fuel)
http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/engineering/1504.aspx
Always wondered how far we would get with a full tank.

Jeez! They let YOU drive that........so what do you play chicken against?

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by mr chris

This what i drive at my unit.
Close Support Tanker (Fuel)
http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/engineering/1504.aspx
Always wondered how far we would get with a full tank.

How is the air conditioner in that thing?

[Letum]

Originally Posted by mr chris

This what i drive at my unit.
Close Support Tanker (Fuel)
http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/engineering/1504.aspx
Always wondered how far we would get with a full tank.

In Cyprus?
Not far.

[mr chris]

@ Dan, playing chicken with these in the dark can be fun.
http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/fig...cles/1475.aspx

@AVG, It was a nightmare in Iraq last year the air con was constantly full of dust and sand so had to be clean out almost 3 times a week if you were out on ops.; Even then it did not make much differnce, Due to the fact that the cab had a extra 3 ton of armour on. And it's so hot in the summer out there.

@Letum, That is what i drive at my normal unit im just on a 2 year detachment out here. But no doubt i think you could clock up a few laps of the only motorway out here.

[AVGWarhawk]

@AVG, It was a nightmare in Iraq last year the air con was constantly full of dust and sand so had to be clean out almost 3 times a week if you were out on ops.; Even then it did not make much differnce, Due to the fact that the cab had a extra 3 ton of armour on. And it so hot in the summer out there.

I bet it was miserable.

[mr chris]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I bet it was miserable.

It was all good fun. When you look back on it.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by mr chris

It was all good fun. When you look back on it.

Well, hey, thanks for driving it around and doing what you signed on to do

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by mr chris

It was all good fun. When you look back on it.

You always did like playing 'chicken' as I recall

Originally Posted by TarJak

So is it this big?


or this big?


Both Honda's different sizes.

I just sold my last car,
which was a Honda Stream.
Looked like the one Pictured above,
not the Bike
same colour too

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by owner20071963

I just sold my last car,
which was a Honda Stream.
Looked like the one Pictured above,
not the Bike
same colour too

I've still got the photo you sent me of it

[geetrue]

The Ford Fusion Hybrid sounds like a nice car for people that can afford them, but what about the rest of us?

The experts during the last oil crisis said that even if America comes up with an energy saving plan that works that the price of gasoline
would then rise even higher due to the law of supply and demand.

In other words gas will still cost $5.00 a gal (in the USA) someday even with a hybrid

[FIREWALL]

I must be pretty economical.

I can walk a mile on a small amount of gas.

[mr chris]

Chicken...Hmm Does bring back some fond memories Jim.

[Platapus]

I am glad Ford is moving forward with hybrid cars.

This is a parallel hybrid. There are also some series hybrids coming out in 2010 that also looking good.

Soon we should be seeing diesel electric series hybrids in automobiles. Then I will be most happy

I really think that diesel electric series automobiles will be great once the technology is ironed out.

Good going Ford!

[don1reed]

Is that what’s also called “Hyper-miling”? Where the driver coasts, as much as possible when traveling downhill;
turns the engine off when at traffic lights and/or while in fast-food drive-thru’s;
setting cruise-control not to exceed 57 mph on highways;
gentle braking, coasting to all traffic stops; etc? (the list goes on.)