Probably neither one. I don't drive enough to justify a green car and my dream car is just something that will go everyday and is not too hard on the environment.
Very soon Americans will have to face that they HAVE to chose green cars or not drive at all.
Dream car, hands down! Maybe one day we will be able to have are cake and eat it too. Perhaps a electric super car like the Tesla? But we aren't there yet.
Exactly. If your passion is cars, buy your dream car. If your passion lies elsewhere, buy practical wheels and expend your money and resource on what really matters to you.
Dream car, you see plenty of Prius(es) everywhere.
How often do you see a 1966 427 Shelby Cobra S/C?
The Cobra looks better (IMO), is quite a bit faster, and actually appreciates in value... However it does not get 50 MPG, but it pumps out such extraordinary amounts of pollution that it has been reputed to kill off all vegetation within 4 feet of side pipes when you start it up.
Dream vehicles? I've always liked Mustangs for some reason. No, not the ones Ford made, the ones built by North American. Ah yes, that wonderful roar of a Rolls-Royce Merlin V-12.
I wouldn't mind having an H model. It was faster than the defining D model, yet had more docile flight characteristics. With that said my grandfather flew F4U Corsairs in the pacific with the VMF-121 led by Joe Foss. My Grandfather was rotated in right as the squadron was transitioning to the Corsairs from the old Wildcats. So I'm a little partial to the Corsair, but it was a notoriously difficult airplane to fly.
Did you read the thread about the U2 ride James May took? I'm sure that a ride in a Black Bird would be at least as much fun. You can see one up close at the Boeing Museum near Seattle if you ever get to the Left Coast. OR you could toodle on up to DC and see it at the Steven F. Udvar Hazy Center of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (pant, pant) near Dulles Airport.
Figures Captain Slow would ride in one of the slowest jets ever made:) I've been to the Air and Space Muesuem in D.C. a few times, but not lately. The Commemorative Air Force usually stops by the local airport every year and I make it point to go see the old warbirds they bring out. A few years ago, the brough their B-29 "Fifi" and I was fortunate enough to get to go inside her and look around. I think it's only airworthy B-29 in the world.
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