Quote from 377OHMS:
I have a few cars but like something efficient for a daily driver. Some of you know I've been commuting in a Ford Focus.
I got interested in the Ford Fusion Hybrid and picked one up last week. I'm getting about 42 mpg and it is very comfortable and even a little fun. When you start the car it doesn't make a sound, a green light turns on in the dash and says "ready to drive". After the car gets up to about 62 mph it switches over from electric to a 2 liter gasoline engine. The car has a lot of gadgets including a "lane keeping system" that actually has a forward facing camera that it uses to steer the car to keep it in the middle of the lane. With the cruise control engaged and the lane keeping system active you can sit and eat a sandwich with both hands and the car effectively drives itself. The cruise control maintains however many car-lengths gap you specify between you and the car in front of you. I'm liking it and will be driving it up to Oregon next weekend:
Quote from 377OHMS:
I don't know. They say "radar based" but do they really have a little magnetron or klystron in there blasting out stuff? It seems a little unlikely.
Quote from tomdavis:
Nice wheels. Glad to hear you're enjoying it. My wife is currently driving a Chevy volt and now wants to get a Ford Fusion as soon as the lease on the Volt is over (about 15 more months). She says she wants the "plug-in" Fusion Hybrid, which supposedly gives it about 20 miles range under electric power alone.
Congratulations and best of luck with your new car.
Quote from Mav88:
not quite the same as low frequency
http://www.freescale.com/files/microcontrollers/doc/fact_sheet/AUTORADARFS.pdf
Quote from atticus:
That "Porsche" (VW) in your 100-yard pic in the first post of this thread is a 1970 914-4 (cylinder) and not a 914-6 GT. You're a complete piece of shit for attempting to pass that turd off as a real GT car. The tires are wrong; the bumper is wrong; no flared quarter-panels. I could go on and on...
You lose. I will collect on the 10-large.
Mods: Do not delete. He's welching on a bet he first would not accept and now wants to revisit with this fraudulent pic of this 914-4.
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3705839#post3705839
Quote from Mav88:
Fred says your full of shit, he's ready when you are