OT: new car advice

[Dan Lund]

I think that'd be plausible outside of the US, but unfortunately US
diesel just sucks.
Though you're right, but only in low-rpm/high-power situations.  I can
only imagine how that'd feel to have 3/4 of the power applied to the
wheel at 1200 rpm ;) (on a motorcycle)

On the arena of alternative fuel, there is an electric motorcycle that
is either coming out Real Soon Now (tm), or is already out.  The
downside is that a Geo Metro could smoke it..... I think it was
somewhere in the ballpark of 0-60 in 14 or 16 seconds.

On 11/24/05, FoulDragon at aol.com <FoulDragon at aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 11/24/2005 12:28:31 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> situationalawareness at gmail.com writes:
> Now a hybrid-powered motorcycle would be interesting....
> I wanna see a diesel thrown into a hybrid; a given turbodiesel seems to be
> more efficient than a comparable petrol engine, and they're more "flexible"
> with fuel options than petrol engines (biodiesel and blends are
> possibilities)