The Energon Pub

bossbot wrote:YAAAJ! another treehuggermobile!

*yawn*

sorry i don't feel the exitement..... bolt a V8 in there and I might actualy call it a car.....

*more yawns*

might just be me...

Jeep? wrote:Wait a minute, isn't the actual execution of the hybrid idea about as counterproductive as putting out a fire in your kitchen by burning the rest of the house down?

PorQPine wrote:The Mondeo is on its way, Getter, along with at least two other European models.

And the paradigm shift begins...

Jeep? wrote:Wait a minute, isn't the actual execution of the hybrid idea about as counterproductive as putting out a fire in your kitchen by burning the rest of the house down?

Not really, because we have to start somewhere. It's the logical step between internal combustion and full-blown electric propulsion. The Hybrid Fusion should be able to run up to 40MPH before the gas engine kicks in. That is combustion-free city driving. The battery is re-charged using the brake friction...instead of converting kinetic energy to heat energy, it converts it to electric energy. It's really quite impressive.

GetterDragun wrote:Scrap the Fusion, bring over the Mondeo with the Diesel:

TheMuffin wrote:

PorQPine wrote:The Mondeo is on its way, Getter, along with at least two other European models.

And the paradigm shift begins...

Jeep? wrote:Wait a minute, isn't the actual execution of the hybrid idea about as counterproductive as putting out a fire in your kitchen by burning the rest of the house down?

Not really, because we have to start somewhere. It's the logical step between internal combustion and full-blown electric propulsion. The Hybrid Fusion should be able to run up to 40MPH before the gas engine kicks in. That is combustion-free city driving. The battery is re-charged using the brake friction...instead of converting kinetic energy to heat energy, it converts it to electric energy. It's really quite impressive.

Is it going to actually be the Mondeo or are they just going to rename some random car from their lineup as "The Mondeo"? And if they do end up bringing it over, what are the actual chances that they won't change it up to look completely different?

TheMuffin wrote:

PorQPine wrote:The Mondeo is on its way, Getter, along with at least two other European models.

And the paradigm shift begins...

Jeep? wrote:Wait a minute, isn't the actual execution of the hybrid idea about as counterproductive as putting out a fire in your kitchen by burning the rest of the house down?

Not really, because we have to start somewhere. It's the logical step between internal combustion and full-blown electric propulsion. The Hybrid Fusion should be able to run up to 40MPH before the gas engine kicks in. That is combustion-free city driving. The battery is re-charged using the brake friction...instead of converting kinetic energy to heat energy, it converts it to electric energy. It's really quite impressive.

Is it going to actually be the Mondeo or are they just going to rename some random car from their lineup as "The Mondeo"? And if they do end up bringing it over, what are the actual chances that they won't change it up to look completely different?

GetterDragun wrote:Come to think of it, why doesn't Ford just make Mercury foreign Fords? We could get the Ka, the Falcon, the Mondeo, etc.

PorQPine wrote:

Jeep? wrote:Wait a minute, isn't the actual execution of the hybrid idea about as counterproductive as putting out a fire in your kitchen by burning the rest of the house down?

Not really, because we have to start somewhere. It's the logical step between internal combustion and full-blown electric propulsion. The Hybrid Fusion should be able to run up to 40MPH before the gas engine kicks in. That is combustion-free city driving. The battery is re-charged using the brake friction...instead of converting kinetic energy to heat energy, it converts it to electric energy. It's really quite impressive.

Jeep? wrote:

PorQPine wrote:

Jeep? wrote:Wait a minute, isn't the actual execution of the hybrid idea about as counterproductive as putting out a fire in your kitchen by burning the rest of the house down?

Not really, because we have to start somewhere. It's the logical step between internal combustion and full-blown electric propulsion. The Hybrid Fusion should be able to run up to 40MPH before the gas engine kicks in. That is combustion-free city driving. The battery is re-charged using the brake friction...instead of converting kinetic energy to heat energy, it converts it to electric energy. It's really quite impressive.

Ye, theoretically the actual device works, but the assembling of said device does more damage than it eventually saves.

bossbot wrote:Over here in europe mondeo's are one of the most common cars around, specialy in belgium (where they are made), almost all off them are diesels (doctor diesels evil invention is very common to)

I realy cant see what u guys are making the fuss about, its one of the most boring cars around.
Hell my mother drives one for cybertrons sake... sure its good, but so is its VW counterpart , its renault and citroen counterpart, its opel (GM) counterpart, and pretty much every 4-door the japanese are pumping into the market over here ....
its just , i dunno.... "meuh" nothing wrong with it, just nothing realy for it either...

You Americans have build almost all of the most inpressive, inspiring and downright mad vehicles the world has ever seen.
Most people over here where still driving horse and cart when you build beautifull works of art in the 50's.
The musclecars of the 60's and early 70's became icons.
your still building stuff like the Viper, Mustang, Vette and the most rugged-ass trucks in the world powered by the best type of engine ever concieved.

And you get exited over a euro-ford with a 4 cilinder diesel leafblowerengine in it? its actualy build 20 miles from here, in car hating belgium !

Have some more pride in Detroit guys... you've done great things for the automotive world, dieselclunking mondeo's arent part of it

Sure things have changed with the high gas prices (you should check em out here if you think you have it bad) and everyone wyning about global warming (witch apparantly is causing the coldest winter in europe since decades )

But please, never forget the great stuff you guys are capable of bolting together.

From a Dodge truck driving european.

(witch is as rare as a surfing eskimo )

Sherade wrote:Then again, you gave us Lamborghini and Ferrari....I'll only take away one cool point for that.

PorQPine wrote:

Jeep? wrote:

PorQPine wrote:

Jeep? wrote:Wait a minute, isn't the actual execution of the hybrid idea about as counterproductive as putting out a fire in your kitchen by burning the rest of the house down?

Not really, because we have to start somewhere. It's the logical step between internal combustion and full-blown electric propulsion. The Hybrid Fusion should be able to run up to 40MPH before the gas engine kicks in. That is combustion-free city driving. The battery is re-charged using the brake friction...instead of converting kinetic energy to heat energy, it converts it to electric energy. It's really quite impressive.

Ye, theoretically the actual device works, but the assembling of said device does more damage than it eventually saves.

You might be right. I'm read several studies on environmental damage, but I consider it to be common when a new technology comes about. Just think at how much damage the very first mass-produced internal combustion engine caused, and we eventually minimized it. Change is painful, and, oftentimes, dirty.

Jeremy wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7yKOJXfpDA

Dead Metal wrote:

PorQPine wrote:

Jeep? wrote:

PorQPine wrote:

Jeep? wrote:Wait a minute, isn't the actual execution of the hybrid idea about as counterproductive as putting out a fire in your kitchen by burning the rest of the house down?

Not really, because we have to start somewhere. It's the logical step between internal combustion and full-blown electric propulsion. The Hybrid Fusion should be able to run up to 40MPH before the gas engine kicks in. That is combustion-free city driving. The battery is re-charged using the brake friction...instead of converting kinetic energy to heat energy, it converts it to electric energy. It's really quite impressive.

Ye, theoretically the actual device works, but the assembling of said device does more damage than it eventually saves.

You might be right. I'm read several studies on environmental damage, but I consider it to be common when a new technology comes about. Just think at how much damage the very first mass-produced internal combustion engine caused, and we eventually minimized it. Change is painful, and, oftentimes, dirty.

Jeremy wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7yKOJXfpDA

Sherade wrote:Will you be my new best friend? Pwease?

I dunno, I think that you guys did some good stuff too, as in with our companies.
The Falcon is still over there, and I think it evolved nicely from the original, Chevy still makes a Caprice (I think(?)), and you gave us the beautiful Pontiac GTO from a few years ago and gave us the basic shape for the whoop ass G8.
And Saab, which is owned by Gm, who's cars have gone form completerly fugly to quite nice, while somehow never losing defining elements.
And isn't Volvo form over there somewhere?

Then again, you gave us Lamborghini and Ferrari....I'll only take away one cool point for that.

GetterDragun wrote:Thank Ferrari for inspiring Ford to create the first GT40.

bossbot wrote:I think your kinda mixing things up a bit.... do you mean a ford falcon? only place I know their making that to this day is Australia , and europe has never seen one i'm afraid, not that it isnt nice .