British Prime Minister Tony Blair has the most wonderfully pleasant speaking voice. I swear, the guy could be on TV reading a phone book and I'd stop to listen for a few minutes.
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That new Hyundai Sonata is one hot looking little car. Grover is thinking "hmm... possible trade-in some time next year?"
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That new Hyundai Sonata is one hot looking little car. Grover is thinking "hmm... possible trade-in some time next year?"
posted by Grover at 7/21/2005 06:31:00 AM
8 Comments:
Nah, get a Beamer!
Eek! Too pricey. Really, what I want more than anything is a black Toyota RAV4, especially after that hellacious storm last winter.
C3PO. Tony Blair sounds like C3PO
Whenever he speaks I get an almost uncontrolable urge to kill.
His voice I hate, so condescending and false. Not to mention ridiculously staccato, especially when he is trying to sound sombre. You could make a cup of tea inbetween one of his pauses.
Karl,
We Americans are just happy to hear anything other than Bush...anyone sounds better than his ignorant tone. I think Blair sounds comforting.
Andy,
All the Hyundais I've been in ride horribly and are kind of pieces of poop. :( Why don't you try Hondas. I've got a Civic LX that I adore. In your neck of the woods I would try to get something 4x4. Maybe a Honda CRV or Pilot. My friends lease a Nissan Murano that they love and handles the Colorado inclimate weather superbly.
I DISAGREE.
I owned a Hyundai Excel for TEN years. Drove that fucker from the Artic Circle in the Yukon to Alaska to California, into the Canadian Prairies, and back again.
The thing NEVER broke down on me. Drove as smooth as any car I've ever been in, and that's with an insane amount of highway driving, and my having 4x4'd with it in the Yukon when I lived there for a year.
I must have spent MAYBE $2500 on maintenance with oil changes, brakes, tires, and tune-ups over the course of 10 years. Then someone totalled it on me.
I fucking LOVED that car. My friend is an engineer and always swore on Hyundai after my experience.
And they're better than they used to be. I know at least three or four people, though, including me, who put over 200,000kms on theirs.
Me, I'll buy a Hyundai again. Service was excellent, and that car was as tight as a drum until someone rearended me, then it was a little less than stellar, but still exceptional and most reliable car I've ever had.
C3PO... bwahahahahaa! That's so true!
I thought about the Honda CRV, but I thought it acted funny when I test drove it. At city speeds it seemed confused about what gear it wanted to be in. As for the Civic, the rock-hard seats were too abusive on my back. Angela drives an Accord, and it's really freakin comfortable, but equally expensive.
I should buy a Honda, though. It's a cornerstone of Midwest Ohio's economy. Troy is home to Honda's largest parts warehouse in North America, and F&P (right across the street from where I work) manufactures their manual transmissions and stamps out all of their chassis.
But then Uncle Bill was just handed Toyota's supplier of the year award for 2004. Hmm...
Not sure if the US Honda models are the same as the European, but here Honda have pretty much the most environmentally friendly engines, they perform very well as well. If you absolutely need a car, I'd side with them.
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