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General => IHADAV8 Playground => Topic started by: Recklessrob on February 09 2007, 12:30:26 AM

Title: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: Recklessrob on February 09 2007, 12:30:26 AM: Damn you ZAP ! Stop hangin' with Al Gore you tree hugger. :mad:
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Just in case you forgot, Tesla isn't the only electric car game in town, and while the noted manufacturer is said to be working on its own crossover utility vehicle, this here Lotus ZAP-X electric version of the APX crossover is all thanks to Lotus and the Zap! guys. Lotus is, of course, bringing those hip-cool stylings and aluminum frame, but Zap! has replaced the V6 gas engine with in-hub electric motors, which can provide a combined 644hp, and vault the vehicle to 155 mph. Zap! is claiming an impressive range of 350 miles, with a 10 minute charge -- though we're guessing you aren't going to pull that kind of juice out of your regular ol' wall jack. If that's not enough for you, an auxiliary power unit with even more batteries is planned, and since the motors are in the wheels, there's plenty of room in the hood for such add-ons. Says Zap! of the ZAP-X: "The innovative placement of the power train leaves the space previously occupied by the conventional engine and drive train for additional battery capacity and amenities, making it a very consumer-oriented electric car concept. These design features will give the ZAP-X crossover the structural strength, and potentially storage and range that no electric vehicle has yet achieved publicly." Not too shabby at all. Unfortunately there's no word on when you'll be able to get one of these into your driveway, or how much it'll cost you, but the vehicle is definitely planned for a US release, so it's only a matter of waiting.
Title: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: Be4u on February 09 2007, 04:58:09 AM: That cah sounds pretty cool!
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Post by: SuperSix on February 09 2007, 07:45:44 AM: That's one pissed off looking cah..

Fashioned after it's mentor Zap mebbe?
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Post by: Zap on February 09 2007, 12:55:11 PM: Too bad it's not my venture, I could quit my job as a high class male hooker. :sad;
Title: Re: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: kma697 on February 09 2007, 01:03:31 PM: Quote from: "Zap @ Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:55 am"
Too bad it's not my venture, I could quit my job as a high class male hooker. :sad;

That explains why your always online....plen ty of free time!!!! :yawinkle:
Title: Re: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: Zap on February 09 2007, 03:51:53 PM: My time ain't free, big boy. :cool;
Title: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: Racer X on February 09 2007, 09:54:08 PM: Well, it ain't all that expensive either.
Title: Re: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: Zap on February 09 2007, 10:43:18 PM: Seriously (ugh) if everyone had an electric car (not the hybrid type, the plug-in type) what kind of strain would that put on already strained electrical grids? Seems like a flawed idea to me, but I'm not that bright.
Title: Re: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: Recklessrob on February 10 2007, 02:33:22 AM: Quote from: "Zap @ Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:43 pm"
Seriously (ugh) if everyone had an electric car (not the hybrid type, the plug-in type) what kind of strain would that put on already strained electrical grids? Seems like a flawed idea to me, but I'm not that bright.
True. Not to mention that most of our electricity is produced from fossil fuels. So It doesn't help the enviroment as much as they'd like you to believe.

Have you considered civil precedings for trademark infringement ? They did use your name...
Title: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: 87natty on February 10 2007, 03:34:20 AM: You want to talk about the environment? Where do all these dead batteries go? Let's take toxins out of the air and put it in the ground water.

*rolls eyes*
Title: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: Racer X on February 10 2007, 10:56:05 AM: *Racer X is looking for his rant on electric cahs*
Title: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: 87natty on February 10 2007, 11:32:02 AM: Ooh, do I sense a long awaited Racer X blog?
Title: Re: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: Zap on February 10 2007, 04:53:05 PM: Testify brother! :prayer:
Title: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: Recklessrob on February 10 2007, 06:48:50 PM: Quote from: "Racer X @ Sat Feb 10, 2007 10:56 am"
*Racer X is looking for his rant on electric cahs*
You left it on myspace the last time I saw it.
Title: Re: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: Ttype83 on February 10 2007, 07:28:38 PM: Quote from: "Zap @ Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:55 pm"
Too bad it's not my venture, I could quit my job as a high class male hooker. :sad;

I thought you were a metermaid
Title: Re: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: kma697 on February 10 2007, 07:45:45 PM: Quote from: "Ttype83 @ Sat Feb 10, 2007 6:28 pm"
Quote from: "Zap @ Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:55 pm"
Too bad it's not my venture, I could quit my job as a high class male hooker. :sad;

I thought you were a metermaid

I thought he was a french maid??? Perhaps a french metermaid!!
Title: I might be part French
Post by: Zap on February 10 2007, 08:40:02 PM: I do have a wee wee-wee.
Title: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: 87natty on February 10 2007, 09:24:10 PM: Oui?
Title: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: Racer X on February 10 2007, 10:41:56 PM: Quote from: "Recklessrob @ Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:48 pm"
Quote from: "Racer X @ Sat Feb 10, 2007 10:56 am"
*Racer X is looking for his rant on electric cahs*
You left it on myspace the last time I saw it.

Ahh yes, there it is. Thanks Rob. :D

Quote from: "Racer X's blog entry @ June 23, 2006"

Short rant for today

Hybrid cars. Ugh. So the short sighted Tree Hugging community has taken it upon themselves to force Detroit to start making these little cute battery powered cars. These are nothing more than a gilded Golf Cart without a set of bags (and you can take that to mean any kind of bag you wish).

The Tree Huggers want these little cars to save on burning fossil fuels and therefore saving the Ozone and stop global warming, blah blah blah. Little do they know that the Global warming is probably due to their constant verbal protests as much as anything!

So now we have these cute little battery powered chick cars that will seat only two to four people at a time. That means if you have a big family youre gonna need a few of these little buggies just to go out for dinner. Now we have more of these slow moving cars on the road causing more traffic jams which keeps the gas powered cars on the road longer burning more gas as we try to pace ourselves behind these Bob Hope Chariots of no-Fire.

These are cars that were made for the blue hairs in Palm Springs, not daily commutes to work. I have one question for the Tree Hugging Planet Loving Mother Earth Left Lane Hogging Vegetarians out there. Sooner or later those lethal and lead laden batteries are going to expire and we are going to have to dump them somewhere. You didn't think about that did you, Al Gore.

:mad:
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Post by: kma697 on February 10 2007, 11:05:59 PM: Couldn't have said it any better!! :atbeer: :psix; :atbeer:
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Post by: Zap on February 10 2007, 11:16:24 PM: Some a-hole name "Tim" really dissed Racer X's anti-electric car blogging. What a jerk! :mad:
Title: Re: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: Recklessrob on February 10 2007, 11:35:12 PM: Quote from: "Zap @ Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:16 pm"
Some a-hole name "Tim" really dissed Racer X's anti-electric car blogging. What a jerk! :mad:
Can you believe the nerve of some people ? :rofl;
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Post by: Zap on February 11 2007, 05:20:13 PM: No I can't. That jerk named "Tim" is probably as ugly as he is stupid.
Title: Re: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: Recklessrob on February 11 2007, 05:36:10 PM: Quote from: "Zap @ Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:20 pm"
No I can't. That jerk named "Tim" is probably as ugly as he is stupid.
Well you can rest assured that he doesn't look like this:
(http://ihadav8.com/phpBB2/images/avatars/uploads/120662535245c95c2f2ee2d.jpg)
Title: Re: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: Zap on February 11 2007, 06:22:02 PM: I'll bet he wished he did.
Title: Re: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: Racer X on February 11 2007, 10:43:10 PM: Quote from: "Zap @ Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:16 pm"
Some a-hole name "Tim" really dissed Racer X's anti-electric car blogging. What a jerk! :mad:
:rofl; I don't know if "Tim" dissed my blog as much as he revealed his true self. A car hating tree hugger. :mad:
Title: Re: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: Zap on February 11 2007, 10:54:44 PM: You've seen my Al Gore Bobblehead collection, haven't you? :evil;
Title: Re: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: Recklessrob on February 11 2007, 11:20:57 PM: Quote from: "Zap @ Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:54 pm"
You've seen my Al Gore Bobblehead collection, haven't you? :evil;
Yeah, they "flip flop" just like the real thing. :phpbbt;
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Post by: Zap on February 12 2007, 12:44:20 AM: They'll be worth big money when he snags the Oscar. :rock:
Title: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: Be4u on February 12 2007, 03:49:49 AM: Dont matter if he wins or not, you'll still be stuck with them. BUT, if you dressed him up in a Star Trek outfit they should sell fast regardless
Title: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: kma697 on February 12 2007, 08:28:21 AM: Quote from: "Be4u @ Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:49 am"
Dont matter if he wins or not, you'll still be stuck with them. BUT, if you dressed him up in a Star Trek outfit they should sell fast regardless

He would be a good "Bones" impersonator!!
Title: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: Recklessrob on February 12 2007, 01:05:57 PM: Quote from: "kma697 @ Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:28 am"
Quote from: "Be4u @ Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:49 am"
Dont matter if he wins or not, you'll still be stuck with them. BUT, if you dressed him up in a Star Trek outfit they should sell fast regardless

He would be a good "Bones" impersonator!!

I could see it now:
Quote from: "Zap impersonating Bones"
Damn it Jim, I'm a Doctor not a medical practitioner !
Title: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: 87natty on February 12 2007, 06:06:45 PM: Ooh, Ted Kennedy can be Scotty! He's got the liver for it! All we need are sexy green women.
Title: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: Recklessrob on February 12 2007, 06:35:47 PM: Quote from: "87natty @ Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:06 pm"
Ooh, Ted Kennedy can be Scotty! He's got the liver for it! All we need are sexy green women.

We could have Kate Moss and Morgane Dubled covered in green makeup, and
not much else...
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Post by: TSM Girl on February 12 2007, 06:37:28 PM: LMAO...
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Post by: kma697 on February 12 2007, 06:41:30 PM: St. Pattys Day is around the corner....you may find some sexy drunken green women!!
Title: Re: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: Recklessrob on February 12 2007, 06:50:27 PM: Quote from: "kma697 @ Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:41 pm"
St. Pattys Day is around the corner....you may find some sexy drunken green women!!

Brilliant ! :atbeer:
Title: ZAP has gone into the cah buisness and betrayed us !
Post by: Be4u on February 12 2007, 10:18:37 PM: It's all comming together!
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Post by: Dragonational on February 13 2007, 10:26:19 AM: this place never stops amazing me. LOL
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Post by: DCEPTCN on February 24 2007, 04:20:40 PM: Um, I'm not even going to read this thread on account of all I've heard lately being about the new Tesla plant they're building about an hour from here.