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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (213611)7/31/2009 5:40:50 PM
From: MulhollandDriveRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 306849
 
yeah, as in living in it...comments are worth posting here, ill add mine here....FCUK U obama:

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gavincurtis (23 hours ago) Show Hide
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This is human ignorance at the highest level. ? There is no reason to destroy that car.
optflv (23 hours ago) Show Hide
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It's beyond shameful, and? C4C is a travesty. This government is disgusting on virtually every level.
cadreaming100 (22 hours ago) Show Hide
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gavincurtis - you are the epitome of human ignorance! You need to check? your facts before you make your ignorant comments. Dealerships are required by law, the law that your wonderful president passed, to DESTROY all vehicles turned in for the Cash for Clunkers program. If you want to call someone ignorant look in the mirror or call your president!
gavincurtis (22 hours ago) Show Hide
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Hello cadreaming,

What the hell was that comment all about?

I? am fully aware of the C4C program and it is complete BS. Just watched a late model BMW 735i get destroyed the same way.
xdbx (22 hours ago) Show Hide
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Tax dollars at? work ... you and I are paying to destroy a car that should be resold.
bigcrowfly (22 hours ago) Show Hide
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What model volvo is that. It? looks pretty new, and most Volvos have small engines with over 18mpg?
gavincurtis (20 hours ago) Show Hide
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1997 VW Jettas are also? accepted under this program.... don't they get over 18 MPG? So why are they accepted.

If you have a nearly new 2004 Mazda RX8, you can get a whopping $4500 too.

Seems like a lot of wasted cars.
toaster1971 (21 hours ago) Show Hide
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What a? fucking waste.
Seth38101 (21 hours ago) Show Hide
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I saw a stunk like this in some foreign? country and Americans called it SHAME FULL,, Now we are doing this????? Fucking bullshit! Theres not A THINK wrong with that car
ZeroG21 (21 hours ago) Show Hide
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That it? horrible.... Poor thing...
moldymac (21 hours ago) Show Hide
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Wow, was a real nice car. Too bad its a pile of shit now. ? Thanks C4C for nothing!
redstripe302 (20 hours ago) Show Hide
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I'm surprised the tranny lasted through that procedure.
Doesn't surprise me that it's there, because these Volvos with the T6 motor had a craptacular transmission sourced from GM due to packaging needs. These cars by now are on the second tranny at least, if not third.
I THINK this is a T6 not a 2.9 or a 2.5T, if it's the 2.9 or? 2.5T, then yes, a waste. Otherwise I don't blame the owner for taking advantage of the program.
TranCendenZ (17 hours ago) Show Hide
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moldymac: I agree. That Volvo actually looks better than most of the cars that I've ever owned. This Cash for Clunkers program is? ripping off us taxpayers.
WindowsBreakerG4 (20 hours ago) Show Hide
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Poor s80. What a waste. Doesn't even look as though you? seized it.
rrader1 (1 hour ago) Show Hide
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When it quit,? it stuck soild.
fuzzypeach777 (19 hours ago) Show Hide
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How is that hope and change working out for ya America?

Vote Democrat and reelect these? fools for another term!
M1Matt (19 hours ago) Show Hide
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I bet that put out more pollution in the destruction then the whole life? of the car......
NORCAL50S (19 hours ago) Show Hide
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nice one
one less? peace of crap on the road
M1Matt (19 hours ago) Show Hide
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FUK? OBAMA
storydude (19 hours ago) Show Hide
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I"m LOL at the greasemonkey making 12.50 an hour trying to steal the GPS from? the dash
mikeb1444 (16 hours ago) Show Hide
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cash? for clunkers is a damn waste.
yeliwmots (16 hours ago) Show Hide
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Cash for clunkers is a good way for perfectly good cars to be destroyed in the name of "green". It seems as though most of the cars being brought in (such as this one) are in fine shape but don't get the best milege. I? think it is such a waste of resouces.
kdw75 (15 hours ago) Show Hide
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The saddest? part is that all the money is coming from our taxes and going to big businesses. Many of which are overseas.
pimpdaddytabes (14 hours ago) Show Hide
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I love how the idiot shot a fire extinguisher on a REVVING CAR ENGINE. They acted so surprised when the oil shot out after that cold shock they caused.

Of course shit lit on fire, it was revving at the redline, which is generally 7-8 thousand RPMs. The engine's going to be furiously hot, and spraying a cold extinguisher onto it isn't going? to do any favors.
rrader1 (1 hour ago) Show Hide
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Well look again,? it put the small oil fire from the turbo, the oil that shot of of front was trans fluid, the rev limiter keep the engine at 4k!
kdw75 (14 hours ago) Show Hide
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So what is this liquid glass that it is so incredibly strong? Hell I guess I? could just sell my welder and use some of this stuff.
ninjagold (14 hours ago) Show Hide
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This is like watching one of those slaughterhouse videos that PETA puts out. That whining engine is? going to haunt me for years.

RIP dear Volvo...
dpaanlka (14 hours ago) Show Hide
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A Volvo S80 is likely such a better? car than whatever POS he's getting in exchange.
hotamber22 (13 hours ago) Show Hide
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OMG the US should be ashamed....dumb dumb dumb!!!?
ccrimsonfox (13 hours ago) Show Hide
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sounded like it was knocking a little when? it started up
themaritimeman (9 hours ago) Show Hide
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That is stupid, and nothing more. I thought the name of the program was "Cash for *Clunkers*? Then why the hell are these guys destroying perfectly? good cars? Why not just give them a cleaning and sell them for a couple of thousand $'s, and leave the destroying for the REAL clunkers?

Sorry, that's just my opinion, but the Volvo was gleaming!
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That Volvo must have had some severe mechanical problems to be worth less than $4500. And that Explorer Limited next to it - it looked like it was in perfect shape!

Why not just sell the vehicles in good working order, or that can be in? good working order with a few cheap repairs, to people with low incomes?
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It was in perfect shape, even had Nav. It was worth around $4200.00 Whsle, but? Obama gave him $4500.00 plus 200.00 scrap. The car was in perfect condition. So was the V-8 Explorer next to it.
F41Driver (6 hours ago) Show Hide
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I had to stop the video? when it started crying. :(
wlombardi (6 hours ago) Show Hide
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The s80 does not even qualify for? CARS. What gives?
rrader1 (3 hours ago) Show Hide
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It? did and we have been paid.
89hatchie (6 hours ago) Show Hide
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poor little volvo?
WeatherVixen09 (5 hours ago) Show Hide
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Ok, so I say if it starts up ok and runs fine, why destroy it? I have an '85 Cherokee that runs great STILL with over 300,000 miles on it, and never have had any engine problems. Plus it gets better gas mileage than some of the NEW jeeps! With a manual drive train, I've managed to get up to 27mpg! It's all about the driver in most cases. "Clunkers" is just offensive, especially in this? case.
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Waste at it's best right here. I can see if the program was taking real clunkers that are puking smoke out of the tailpipe off the road, but these look like decent modern vehicles. All this program is going to do is drive up used car prices and make it more difficult for people to afford? a car.
paWOLFck (4 hours ago) Show Hide
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The entire program is just bullshit. Someone driving around an actual 'clunker' probably could? have used that nice, fine condition Volvo.
pickupman1995 (3 hours ago) Show Hide
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OK, that Volvo is obviously? not a clunker...

if is, all vehicles are...

this program is super retarded.
VeeDubTDI2 (2 hours ago) Show Hide
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Cash for Clunkers is a piece of crap. I can't believe that they destroyed a perfectly good S80 T6. That should have been shipped off to another country where it would have gotten a *real* clunker off the road, instead of destroying a perfectly good engine that? actually has very low emissions (compared to what people in poorer countries drive).

I'm glad that this program got cancelled. It's painful to see such a nice Volvo get that kind of slow and painful death for absolutely no reason.
Todd82TA (1 hour ago) Show Hide
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No, it's? back. It just got another 2 billion funding from the House. That, by the way, came out of an environment protection fund (which would have been used for national parks, etc...)
raydarfiero (2 hours ago) Show Hide
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Does the fact that the same group of legislators are "working on" healthcare just scare the crap? out of anyone else?
rrader1 (1 hour ago) Show Hide
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I hope that we are all smart enough to end this distruction of our country? in 4 years!
johnnycanada (1 hour ago) Show Hide
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Killing a? perfectly good car. Government policy gone mad.
poisonthewizzle (50 minutes ago) Show Hide
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pure? absurdity
SuperSexyShine (21 minutes ago) Show Hide
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Government mandated waste--the? best kind!
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hell, I would pay $4500 for this thing. The S80 is a nice car, almost $50k new, and this one? doesn't look to be older than a 2000 or so. Nicer than the car I'm driving :(
gavincurtis (10 minutes ago) Show Hide
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Doesn't our wonderful? President think that maybe his family in Kenya would really like to live in a nice Volvo as this? I thought he was all about helping the poor and downtrodden.

Why destroy these cars when they could be donated to less fortunate?
TheCommodore88 (2 minutes ago) Show Hide
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Thanks Congress!

I hope one day the people of this country wake up and rip your ass out of your fucking? chairs.
pirellipzero (52 seconds ago) Show Hide
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A bunch of? professional technicians, I see.