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This is the first new thread I have started, so I figured I would start off with a humbling and funny story, so here goes.
The one thing you tend to hear the most about these cars from people who don't own them is about the bad gas mileage. So, in my opinion, what is the worst thing that can happen? you got it. I ran out of gas on the way to work yesterday morning. it took 24 hours for me to see the full humor in the situation. Let me paint the picture for you (insert cheesy flashback graphic here) Tuesday evening on the way home from work, the wife calls and says "I need you to take my car tomorrow to have the tires rotated (I work at a dealer), so I need your car, ok?" so I say sure, I check the gas situation for her, it has 40 miles to empty showing on the gage, your commute is 30 round trip, so go ahead and take it, I will gas up on the way to work the next day so you don't have to worry with it. So, she decides to run an errand at lunch to the tune of 25 miles, not put gas in, and drive it home for me to take the next morning. She hadn't told me about the errand so that was not in my calculations. as I am heading to work yesterday, it hits me that she came home with produce, so she must have made a lunch run the day before, and I start to figure a way to fuel up ASAP. from my house to the nearest gas station on my way to work is 15 miles. there are hundreds of gas stations around town, but as I live out in the country, and take back roads the entire way, I don't drive near any. So, to shorten an already long story, I am half way to work, and a good 2 miles from the first gas station and the car just quits. I'm at the worst possible place, on a two lane back road, just around a corner, 1/4 blocking the lane, uphill, with my right front tire 5 inches deep in the soft ground, no way to push it. Luckily only one oblivious driver tried to "modify" my 2 month old baby, and me in the process, but thankfully she slid to a stop 1 foot short of contact, as I was standing behind the car surveying my options, and she would have really ruined my day. I was trapped behind the car by a phone pole on the right, and oncoming traffic to the left, so nowhere to move. She said she thought my car was moving when she came on it. My flashers were on, I was standing behind the car, I am 6'4" 300lbs and was wearing a bright red jacket, I have no idea how she thought the car was in motion. I had already called the wife, and told her to come with the gas can in the garage for the snow blower and mower. So all I could do is wait. a half our later she gets there, and I have to say, the most embarrassing part is standing next to your brand new shiny 485hp, 14mpg baby, holding a gas can as traffic rolls by. My wife and I have a great relationship, and sense of humor, so of course she starts with the jokes, until I less than politely remind her, she put me in this predicament, and I had no options for gas between home and where it quit. And of course, many people I work with, and the wife works with, who know me and my car, use the same route to work. I spent a good portion of my morning recounting what happened.
Oh well, everybody needs a good story every now and then, I hope you enjoyed this one.
The one thing you tend to hear the most about these cars from people who don't own them is about the bad gas mileage. So, in my opinion, what is the worst thing that can happen? you got it. I ran out of gas on the way to work yesterday morning. it took 24 hours for me to see the full humor in the situation. Let me paint the picture for you (insert cheesy flashback graphic here) Tuesday evening on the way home from work, the wife calls and says "I need you to take my car tomorrow to have the tires rotated (I work at a dealer), so I need your car, ok?" so I say sure, I check the gas situation for her, it has 40 miles to empty showing on the gage, your commute is 30 round trip, so go ahead and take it, I will gas up on the way to work the next day so you don't have to worry with it. So, she decides to run an errand at lunch to the tune of 25 miles, not put gas in, and drive it home for me to take the next morning. She hadn't told me about the errand so that was not in my calculations. as I am heading to work yesterday, it hits me that she came home with produce, so she must have made a lunch run the day before, and I start to figure a way to fuel up ASAP. from my house to the nearest gas station on my way to work is 15 miles. there are hundreds of gas stations around town, but as I live out in the country, and take back roads the entire way, I don't drive near any. So, to shorten an already long story, I am half way to work, and a good 2 miles from the first gas station and the car just quits. I'm at the worst possible place, on a two lane back road, just around a corner, 1/4 blocking the lane, uphill, with my right front tire 5 inches deep in the soft ground, no way to push it. Luckily only one oblivious driver tried to "modify" my 2 month old baby, and me in the process, but thankfully she slid to a stop 1 foot short of contact, as I was standing behind the car surveying my options, and she would have really ruined my day. I was trapped behind the car by a phone pole on the right, and oncoming traffic to the left, so nowhere to move. She said she thought my car was moving when she came on it. My flashers were on, I was standing behind the car, I am 6'4" 300lbs and was wearing a bright red jacket, I have no idea how she thought the car was in motion. I had already called the wife, and told her to come with the gas can in the garage for the snow blower and mower. So all I could do is wait. a half our later she gets there, and I have to say, the most embarrassing part is standing next to your brand new shiny 485hp, 14mpg baby, holding a gas can as traffic rolls by. My wife and I have a great relationship, and sense of humor, so of course she starts with the jokes, until I less than politely remind her, she put me in this predicament, and I had no options for gas between home and where it quit. And of course, many people I work with, and the wife works with, who know me and my car, use the same route to work. I spent a good portion of my morning recounting what happened.
Oh well, everybody needs a good story every now and then, I hope you enjoyed this one.
