Can You Afford Your Gasoline?

Do you get free gas if you rent through hotwire.com?

 

Yeah, that was stupid, wasn't it?

Lack of sleep is my excuse. I'll go crawl back into my hole now.

Thx.

 

About 40 per fillup (I don't usually wait until my tank is empty) every 7-10 days, and I commute about 15 miles a day to work (back-and-forth), not including weekends (I tend to drive slightly more during the weekend).

Anyways, I nominate DaDakota as the director of Bush's "Get America Healthy" campaign.

I know we whine and b!tch about it, but the mere fact that these 'higher costs' have led to serious changes in the habits of the average American (for ex: SUV/Large truck sales are down a good 25% or so) IS a good thing long-run, and I can only hope that the prices stay at this level or even increase a bit more; Houston could use it (environment-wise and traffic-wise).

 

pirc1,

I hate to sound like I am picking on you here, but I have noticed not only in this thread but the one in the D&D that talks about GM and Ford that you can't spell Toyota's best-selling vehicle. There are no TWO "a's" in it - it is "Camry". Sorry for being anal but seeing the way you are spelling it annoys me for some reason - I know, I know, I am an ass but nonetheless...

Getting back on the topic - I have to fill up my 350Z once a week with 93 octane. It may still run okay on 87 but I really don't want to sacrifice the performance. But it costs me about 45 to 50 dollars and it pisses me off every time I fill up as I can remember just 3 months ago, spending only 26 dollars or so in filling up.

 

Sorry about the spelling, I never really paid attention to that. Next time I will remember it is Camry.

 

I saw this in a Toyota commercial: the letters in the word "Camry" got scrambled, and they became "My Car." Pretty cool, isn't it?

 

I guess it is my car. Do you know if Camry have any meaning or is that just a word Toyota picked?

 

Not sure Camry has a meaning. Do we have any clutch fans from Japan?

 

Supposedly it comes from Japanese "Kan-Muri" meaning "crown". No, I don't know Japanese and I Googled that.

 

Thanks for the info.

 

Interesting. Wasn't there a Toyota Crown many years ago, or am I thinking of something else?

 

I may be mistaken but I think that the Camry actually evolved or was preceded by the "Toyota Corona" just like how the Nissan Maxima was preceded by the Datsun 810.

 

Manny, I caught that misspelling in the first page. My thoughts were: "if pirc1 has a camry and it's HIS car, how come he can't even spell it?"

Good points, everyone, overall.

My wife drives our '03 Camry and I drive the '03 Corolla to the Park & Ride and sometimes to work, but this is when I laugh at all those people saying: "You bought a [camry\corolla]? You're DUMB. You should have bought an SUV. Those rock."

Well, they don't rock NOW, do they?
And to answer the question of this thread: YES. I CAN afford my gasoline.

 

The Camry just replaced the Corona, but it didn't really evolve from it from what I recall - especially since the Corona was rear-wheel drive (I think). My first car was a 1988 Camry. I still see those things driving around every-so-often.

 

Yup. But I don't think it was brought to the US... or if it was, it was before I started following cars.

 

I think in Saudi Arabia we had slightly different model names. I remember a Cresceda (sp?) -- which was the equivelant of the Camry, only more upscale may be -- and either the Crown or Corona (can't remember)

 

Damn! Had a Crown and didn't even know it!

 

OK, now I remember, it was DEFINITELY the Crown. But the Crown back in those days was a fancy azz car, it had a mini fridge in the arm-rest area I think, it might be more comparable to the Avalon nowadays (it was bigger than the Cresceda).

 

The Cressida in the US was once the top-of-the-line Toyota. It took pretty much the same position as the Avalon does today. I think it was phased out in the early 90's(?).

 

Correct both on the phasing out and on the position as the avalon. My brother owned one of these and it was a SMOOTHLY-riding and had a very quiet engine. To top it off, there was a mobile phone (with the cord to the headset) inside of it. Very very nice and reliable car.