Georgy Zhukov Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Charges been popping up in places. In fact this lady I know would drive to Costco on her lunch break to recharge her leaf as she buys stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris1989 Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 That's how to do it, charge as you shop. Perfect really, no time loss like in a petrol station. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 (edited) I don't want a car if it's not destroying the envoirnment. Nice 5 litre American Dodge'll do me Edited July 15, 2015 by Len B'stard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris1989 Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Don't get me wrong, I'm not a tree hugger - a 1960's V8 Mustang is on my wish list and my current car is an S-Line Turbo Audi.I'm just willing to embrace new tech, and working in the industry allows me to see some neat cars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Something about the idea of electric cars just winds me up. I don't know why exactly, I'm sure one day I'll be able to put it into words...just not at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazey Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Enjoy paying £70 a tank and I'll enjoy 0-60 in 3 seconds and free refuelling.I don't drive so I don't give a shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magisme Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Something about the idea of electric cars just winds me up. I don't know why exactly, I'm sure one day I'll be able to put it into words...just not at the moment. Reminds me a bit of this:So, what is going on here? In the last decade or so there has been a shift in the accent of marketing, a new stage of commodification that the economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin designated "cultural capitalism". We buy a product – an organic apple, say – because it represents the image of a healthy lifestyle. As this example indicates, the very ecological protest against the ruthless capitalist exploitation of natural resources is already caught in the commodification of experiences: although ecology perceives itself as the protest against the virtualisation of our daily lives and advocates a return to the direct experience of sensual material reality, ecology itself is branded as a new lifestyle. What we are effectively buying when we are buying "organic food" etc is already a certain cultural experience, the experience of a "healthy ecological lifestyle". And the same goes for every return to "reality": in a publicity spot widely broadcast in the US a decade or so ago, a group of ordinary people was shown enjoying a barbecue with country music and dancing, with the accompanying message: "Beef. Real food for real people." The irony is that the beef offered here as the symbol of a certain lifestyle (the "real" grass-root working-class Americans) is much more chemically and genetically manipulated than the "organic" food consumed by an "artificial" elite. What we are witnessing today is the direct commodification of our experiences themselves: what we are buying on the market is fewer and fewer products (material objects) that we want to own, and more and more life experiences – experiences of sex, eating, communicating, cultural consumption, participating in a lifestyle. Michel Foucault's notion of turning one's self itself into a work of art thus gets an unexpected confirmation: I buy my bodily fitness by way of visiting fitness clubs; I buy my spiritual enlightenment by way of enrolling in the courses on transcendental meditation; I buy my public persona by way of going to the restaurants visited by people I want to be associated with.http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/may/21/prix-pictet-photography-prize-consumption-slavoj-zizek 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Drama Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Enjoy paying £70 a tank and I'll enjoy 0-60 in 3 seconds and free refuelling.I don't drive so I don't give a shit. Is that because you don't have hands? Something about the idea of electric cars just winds me up. I don't know why exactly, I'm sure one day I'll be able to put it into words...just not at the moment. Reminds me a bit of this: So, what is going on here? In the last decade or so there has been a shift in the accent of marketing, a new stage of commodification that the economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin designated "cultural capitalism". We buy a product an organic apple, say because it represents the image of a healthy lifestyle. As this example indicates, the very ecological protest against the ruthless capitalist exploitation of natural resources is already caught in the commodification of experiences: although ecology perceives itself as the protest against the virtualisation of our daily lives and advocates a return to the direct experience of sensual material reality, ecology itself is branded as a new lifestyle. What we are effectively buying when we are buying "organic food" etc is already a certain cultural experience, the experience of a "healthy ecological lifestyle".And the same goes for every return to "reality": in a publicity spot widely broadcast in the US a decade or so ago, a group of ordinary people was shown enjoying a barbecue with country music and dancing, with the accompanying message: "Beef. Real food for real people." The irony is that the beef offered here as the symbol of a certain lifestyle (the "real" grass-root working-class Americans) is much more chemically and genetically manipulated than the "organic" food consumed by an "artificial" elite.What we are witnessing today is the direct commodification of our experiences themselves: what we are buying on the market is fewer and fewer products (material objects) that we want to own, and more and more life experiences experiences of sex, eating, communicating, cultural consumption, participating in a lifestyle. Michel Foucault's notion of turning one's self itself into a work of art thus gets an unexpected confirmation: I buy my bodily fitness by way of visiting fitness clubs; I buy my spiritual enlightenment by way of enrolling in the courses on transcendental meditation; I buy my public persona by way of going to the restaurants visited by people I want to be associated with.http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/may/21/prix-pictet-photography-prize-consumption-slavoj-zizektl;dr. Bollocks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magisme Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Dazey has hands, just no opposable thumbs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Something about the idea of electric cars just winds me up. I don't know why exactly, I'm sure one day I'll be able to put it into words...just not at the moment. Reminds me a bit of this: So, what is going on here? In the last decade or so there has been a shift in the accent of marketing, a new stage of commodification that the economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin designated "cultural capitalism". We buy a product an organic apple, say because it represents the image of a healthy lifestyle. As this example indicates, the very ecological protest against the ruthless capitalist exploitation of natural resources is already caught in the commodification of experiences: although ecology perceives itself as the protest against the virtualisation of our daily lives and advocates a return to the direct experience of sensual material reality, ecology itself is branded as a new lifestyle. What we are effectively buying when we are buying "organic food" etc is already a certain cultural experience, the experience of a "healthy ecological lifestyle".And the same goes for every return to "reality": in a publicity spot widely broadcast in the US a decade or so ago, a group of ordinary people was shown enjoying a barbecue with country music and dancing, with the accompanying message: "Beef. Real food for real people." The irony is that the beef offered here as the symbol of a certain lifestyle (the "real" grass-root working-class Americans) is much more chemically and genetically manipulated than the "organic" food consumed by an "artificial" elite.What we are witnessing today is the direct commodification of our experiences themselves: what we are buying on the market is fewer and fewer products (material objects) that we want to own, and more and more life experiences experiences of sex, eating, communicating, cultural consumption, participating in a lifestyle. Michel Foucault's notion of turning one's self itself into a work of art thus gets an unexpected confirmation: I buy my bodily fitness by way of visiting fitness clubs; I buy my spiritual enlightenment by way of enrolling in the courses on transcendental meditation; I buy my public persona by way of going to the restaurants visited by people I want to be associated with.http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/may/21/prix-pictet-photography-prize-consumption-slavoj-zizekThats pretty spot on actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Don't get me wrong, I'm not a tree hugger - a 1960's V8 Mustang is on my wish list and my current car is an S-Line Turbo Audi.I'm just willing to embrace new tech, and working in the industry allows me to see some neat cars.Yeah, I don't get how people who drive hybrids or electric cars are considered tree huggers. Some of them are. I drive a hybrid, but I don't like to spend money on gas.Saw a Model S Tesla today. If you want to go electric, that might be the best car on the market. I heard they can be expensive though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris1989 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Tesla Ludicrous mode - 0-60 in 2.8 seconds, announced today! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Comstock Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 (edited) Today I test drove a 1971 GMC 1500 and I want it so bad.edit:imagine if this were only the darker color, but had a wood box (basically, a farm truck). Edited July 23, 2015 by Gordon Comstock 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake-Pit Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 This 1997 Dodge Grand Caravan looks nice...For sale in America... Wouldn't mind that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris1989 Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 It's a Chrysler Voyager over here, just buy one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 More commonly known as 'a heap of shit' 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris1989 Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 More commonly known as 'a heap of shit' Let the boy dream won't you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Honestly, what lad in his 20s in his right mind wants a middle class Mums mobile Oh sorry, yeah, 'right mind', apologies 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake-Pit Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 (edited) Honestly, what lad in his 20s in his right mind wants a middle class Mums mobile Oh sorry, yeah, 'right mind', apologies The one who wants to insure a driver, tint it out and film man in van porno video with black and asian girls etc... Driving 'round Soho!, who'd ya think? It's a Chrysler Voyager over here, just buy one. Edited July 28, 2015 by Snake-Pit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 In that case Snakes, i take it all back, you're a genius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IZZYISGNR Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 These are the best cars at this year Pebble Beach edition (price over 10 million $). 5 out of 7 are Ferraris: Ferrari 250 SWB Berlinetta Competizione Ferrari 250 LM by Scaglietti Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Competizione 'Tour de France' Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider Ferrari 275S/340 America Barchetta McLaren F1 LM Specification Jaguar C-Type Works Lightweight 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake-Pit Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 This '72 Plymouth Sebring Plus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake-Pit Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 http://gothic-limousines.co.uk/Wow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake-Pit Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 (edited) Any Sebring from the era... That body.. Kind of fussy about the headlights though..Erm...And this The Ferrari 458 Atalia Edited August 11, 2015 by Snake-Pit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Nova Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 I'd love a Tesla....could be realistic in a few years, once the technology becomes less expensive to produce and they come down in price some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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