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24th September 2011, 07:51 PM #1Deceased
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green cars only
if your car is green you may park here,otherwise keep circling .
Herald Sun has a story about this .
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24th September 2011, 08:56 PM #2
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24th September 2011, 09:39 PM #3
Whatever. I'd still park in it.
Disabled spots I understand. 'Mothers with prams' spots I don't understand (especially when they are normal width spots, and don't prams have wheels to push them easier?). This one is crazy. I'd take pleasure in parking my V8 in that spot if I still had it.
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24th September 2011, 09:50 PM #4
I always thought that if I was suddenly very wealthy, I'd buy one of those Hummer H1's - not the pathetic H3s on sale here... The original big one. I'd paint it camo green and put a bumper sticker on it saying 'I care about the environment, I drive a green car'.
Obviously tongue in cheek, but do you reckon I could park in that spot?
Cheers,
Dave...but together with the coffee civility flowed back into him
Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour
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26th September 2011, 09:42 AM #5
Hybrids aren't green. Apart from the much publicised cradle to grave issues they don't use less fuel than a comparible diesel. In fact in NZ last year we got stuck with a prius for the first week. Driving normally it used more fuel than the corolla we had in the second week, and was one of the worst cars I've ever driven.
Awful seats, ergonomics, virtually nil rearward visibility and poor forward visibility, dangerous brakes terrible power delivery. The only good things I could say about it was the load space was useful and the steering was ok. The corolla was a revelation by comparison, by far the nicest toyota I've ever driven and a superb car for it's type/class.
BTW the military are starting to get rid of the perrenti's. I'm hoping to acquire one during the decommission. Does kaki count as green ?I'm just a startled bunny in the headlights of life. L.J. Young.
We live in a free country. We have freedom of choice. You can choose to agree with me, or you can choose to be wrong.
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26th September 2011, 09:51 AM #6
I would have thought that if your car wasn't green you should park it ASAP. It is much better for the environment for the "green" cars to keep circling!
anne-maria.
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26th September 2011, 10:14 AM #7
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26th September 2011, 12:21 PM #8GOLD MEMBER
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What a load of horse manure!
What next - spaces for white cars as they don't get as hot as dark cars so the AC works more efficiently?
- spaces for 1,2,3,4,5,6,8 cylinder vehicles????
This one scores an 11 on my BS meter.
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26th September 2011, 01:07 PM #9Retired
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I think you will find that they have charge points fitted in those spots.
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26th September 2011, 04:54 PM #10SENIOR MEMBER
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I didn't think hybrids needed charging.
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26th September 2011, 07:05 PM #11GOLD MEMBER
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The local shops have been adding building faster than car parks, so there is always congestion down there. They added some oversize spaces and marked them "4WD/Minivan only"
On a particularly busy day, I parked my Golf in one of those parks under the glare of a snarly mum in her monster toorak tractor. As I walked past, she protested loudly through her open window that I had taken 'her' park, but was somewhat deflated when I replied: "that car has 4WD" (it has) haha. The teenagers in the back lost it with laughter, probably got bread and butter for tea!
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26th September 2011, 09:46 PM #12Retired
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29th September 2011, 11:22 AM #13I'm just a startled bunny in the headlights of life. L.J. Young.
We live in a free country. We have freedom of choice. You can choose to agree with me, or you can choose to be wrong.
Wait! No one told you your government was a sitcom?
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29th September 2011, 02:56 PM #14GOLD MEMBER
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Original 2004 MkIV R32
Still a great car, not so green though.
woodbe.
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29th September 2011, 08:41 PM #15Jim
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