I had a dream...

Last night I had an interesting dream... I was attending some sort of GTG with a bunch of you guys... it was night time, we drove around on some highways... then we pulled off to fuel up and I got a chance to put B100 into my tank for the very first time! I remember starting the car and seeing some large amounts of smoke from the BioDiesel's cleaning properties clearing out my intake and such. It was a really cool dream . I think it was brought on by the fact that I am in fact about to switch to B100, at least for the summer, for the very first time. Soy bean power!

Bean dip for dinner last nite??

I dreamt that I had a Saturn TDI a couple nights ago. I was very confused.

Bean dip for dinner last nite??

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Actually, I did have baked beans for dinner that night... that's even weirder!

I once dreamed that I was driving a Chevrolet Cavalier TDI...

What a nightmare!!!

My most recent dream involved driving a Plymouth Voyager TDI....the madness continues...

Your dream is in fact a reality!

What the heck is a Voyager Turbo Diesel?

franke@southslope.net

wiltjk: OH...MY...GOD!!! What country is that?

wiltjk: OH...MY...GOD!!! What country is that?

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One that obviously has more on the ball than ours.

wiltjk: OH...MY...GOD!!! What country is that?

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One that obviously has more on the ball than ours.

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Wait, isnt chrysler an american car maker?

wiltjk: OH...MY...GOD!!! What country is that?

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The "D" on the license plate says it's a German registration. Isn't the Voyager built in Ontario, Canada?

Chrysler Voyagers and Grand Cherokees are made by the Steyr-Daimler-Puch faciltiy in Graz, Austria.
I believe it is called the Eurostar factory and the biggest seller now is the PTCruiser that they assemble there for the European market also.

I took this visiting a Castle Ruin near Karlsruhe, Germany while visting some friends. Another anamoly seen over there was a vast number of PT Cruisers.

I took this visiting a Castle Ruin near Karlsruhe, Germany while visting some friends. Another anamoly seen over there was a vast number of PT Cruisers.

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I'm surprised that Europeans will drive the PT(urd) Cruiser. My brother had one for two weeks as a rental car while his Golf was in the body shop. I drove it for a day. What a junker. It drives like a crippled ford escort and gets 20 mpg with the base engine. I hope Europe gets diesels, at least. That thing needs a whole new suspension and braking system, too. Not to mention that the ergonomics are terrible and you can't tell what any of the controls do at night. Needless to say, my brother was very happy to get back in his Golf TDI.

From what I heard, the PT Cruiser is built on the same platform as the Neon. So yeah, the suspension and all that stuff is pure crap if that is true. No offense to Neon owners, but I drove one... it blows chunks.

my mother got a PT cruiser as a rental. what a POS

She loves her passat and can drive that thing for hours. She was a wreck driving from Ohio to Michigan and back in that thing.

Not only is it a POC there really isn't THAT much room in it. I hate the stupid truck (truck because thats how it is classified for CAFE AND CARB purposes) stupid PT . . .

and the NEON . . . dont' get me started on crappy cars in the forum.

The only good cars can burn BioDiesel

Only REAL cars can burn BioDiesel

I thought that REAL cars would have LEDs for all of the lighting!

Hi, Brock!

or HID

...The only good cars can burn BioDiesel

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We`ll never own one (or any ICE) that can`t. No more Petroleum Madness for this family.

Just got a used Kubota lawn tractor. Filled it with some B100 today, cutting grass was never so pleasant.

RC said: We`ll never own one (or any ICE) that can`t. No more Petroleum Madness for this family.

I filled up on BioDiesel for the first time last Friday. It is the first time in my life that I feel really free to drive around "guilt-free". All my life I've been interested in alternative, renewable fuels. I was reading about solar cells when I was like 10 years old (I'm 52 now). It has always been...well, in the next 20 years or so...there will be cars like...

It was always "artist's renditions" on the cover of Popular Science or something like that.

NOW MAN... I am DRIVING an alternative fuel vehicle that is RENEWABLE...and it feels...GREAT! FREE!

...and all for a measly $15-20 extra per month! No more waiting!

and the NEON . . . dont' get me started on crappy cars in the forum.

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Fit and finish is lacking, yes. But I would not call the Neon an all-around crappy car. I had a '98 R/T (DOHC) 5-spd. The R/T came with higher-rate springs, better struts than the other models, 5-spd, the DOHC engine and the standard creature comforts. It was the most fun car I have ever owned. Once I had the well-known bad factory head gasket replaced under warranty, the car was bulletproof (zero problems) for over 70,000 highly modified miles, when I sold it because it "only" got 30mpg in combined city and highway driving. Plus, it was a gasser

However, I know of no other car that you could have bought new for under $15k, dropped another $1k into it, and had a low-14 1/4 mile and low 6-second 0-60 car (like mine), not to mention a National SCCA winner 5 years in a row (umm...not mine), all while getting 30mpg in combined city and highway driving. Here's just a couple of links I found:

9-second Neon

Neons suck ?

I will agree 99% of the Neons on the road are not worth driving. However, the 1st-gen Neon had great potential and the 2nd-gen, especially the SRT, is lookin' to be even more of a screamer.

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Congratulations--you sure got farther than I did with BD

I tried to work myself into caring about this until I found out that the nearest retail pump is 35 miles. So then I had an email conversation with some BD guru out at UMN. Says it's just the way it is--spotty availability etc. With some of the problems mentioned around here, I'll just keep trying to get some premium diesel around here...that should take up a lot of my extra time

leseid said: ...nearest retail pump is 35 miles.

Yep. That is a bummer. I thought about buying a tank for my house (since biodiesel is so bio-degradable there's not much to worry about the tank, leaks, etc.).

But...with the great mileage the Golf gets, I ended up just buying some yellow Blitz cans and filling those AND my Golf's tank whenever I'm over by the biodiesel distributer. I won't need to stop back very often.

RC said: We`ll never own one (or any ICE) that can`t. No more Petroleum Madness for this family.

I filled up on BioDiesel for the first time last Friday. It is the first time in my life that I feel really free to drive around "guilt-free". All my life I've been interested in alternative, renewable fuels. I was reading about solar cells when I was like 10 years old (I'm 52 now). It has always been...well, in the next 20 years or so...there will be cars like...

It was always "artist's renditions" on the cover of Popular Science or something like that.

NOW MAN... I am DRIVING an alternative fuel vehicle that is RENEWABLE...and it feels...GREAT! FREE!

...and all for a measly $15-20 extra per month! No more waiting!

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I'm right there with ya man! When people ask me how much biodiesel costs per gallon, I ALWAYS ask them how much it costs them to drive 1000 miles. People get so hung up on per gallon price....