My homeboy Mr. Bill is a member of my New Hampshire Chapter, and I live North of him. I can't remember the last time I bought snow tires (seriously). Just good all season radials and front wheel drive for my small vehicles. And I teach skiing at Cannon Mountain in Franconia Notch in the winter. REAL MEN DON'T NEED SNOW TIRES. I am presently driving a 2011 Scion Xd. It's just big enough in the back for the grand action and the tools. I love the way the 60-40 rear seats fold down dead flat in seconds Pull on one handle on the top of the seat to slide it forward all the way, then pull on the one next to it to fold the seat flat. Then flip over the slender "toilet seat lid" to cover the gap between the back of the seat and the rest of the floor. Absolutely the nicest set up I have seen. It is just big enough back there for what I want to carry. I loathe the gas gauge however. Eight amber ovals on the way from full to empty. When you get to the last oval, it starts flashing. But unless you are watching the gauge and know when you dropped into the last oval, you have not a clue whether you have an eighth of a tank or you are sucking fumes. I live in a state that is still largely rural, so the next gas station may be 10 or 15 miles away. Makes me want to find the bean counter who made the engineers design such a thing so that they could save a nickel on the cost of the gauge, and threaten him with bodily harm. Jon, what about the Prius makes its carbon footprint so large? I find the Hummer comment surprising, since it is a mid life crisis poster boy villain as conspicuous carbon consumer. Will Truitt From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Sowers Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 11:58 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Yer Wheels I'm with you Jon! With a family of 5 who depends on me safety, reliability, and ability to go in all conditions is top of my list. You can buy an awful lot of gas for one or two days of tunings missed do to adverse weather. Also think about the cost of medical bills vs. gas if you get into a serious accident! A neck or back injury could cost many year's worth of gas!I also need to occasional pull a piano trailer. Last but not least, I want to look good pulling up to my client's houses. I went with an Acura MDX. Consumer reports top rated mid-size luxury SUV (along with the Lexus - but the Lexus didn't have as much room for my stuff). On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Jon Page <jonpage at comcast.net> wrote: Ever since I purchased a Ford Escape with 17" wheels, I never thought again about the perceived savings on a few miles per gallon over the benefit of performance for trailer hauling and cargo. Gimme a big ole American car over any fern veHickle. BTW, did you know that the carbon footprint to produce a Prius is larger than one to produce a Hummer?? What ever happened to Station Wagons? I think I had one of the last ones... -- Regards, Jon Page -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100919/78500025/attachment.htm>
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