Juniorvanian Armada Augmented¹

By junior on August 1, 2009, at 2:31 pm

With one of these.

Meet "George"

George is a hybrid. I am hoping that means “part car, part robot.”

Transaction closing on Wednesday evening.

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¹Juniorvanian coffers: significantly depleted.

4 comments to Juniorvanian Armada Augmented¹

mom

Sat August 1, 2009 at 7:08 pm

Hey looks pretty good, glad to hear that you have a new member of your family, do I call him grandson. Welcome George.
Mike

Mon August 3, 2009 at 10:42 pm

Without the hybrid tag, but perhaps too literally you could have gotten a Nissan Armada I suppose. George is handsome; I hadn’t been following the Highlanders since their restyle.
geezer

Wed August 5, 2009 at 9:22 pm

Well it is Wednesday evening – did George find his way home okay? Did you plug him in to a nice socket for the night?
junior

Wed August 5, 2009 at 10:57 pm

Yes indeed, George made it home. Details.

But he doesn’t plug in to a socket. He’s a gas/electric hybrid, which means that when you start him up, he’s all electric – quieter than a golf cart, really – and the gas engine doesn’t kick in until either you hit a certain speed (where the gasoline engine kicks in to provide supplementary power) or else the battery needs recharging, in which case the engine drives a recharging generator.

For posterity’s sake, we got George with a mere 125 km of wear on him. As indicated, we took him out for a little toodle around the countryside tonight, and (according to one of the many flashing and whirring electronic geegaws adorning the dashboard and proclaiming such things) we were using 7.2 L/100km of fuel; this is roughly equivalent, according to a helpful website, to getting 32.67 mpg. Incidentally, it’s also approximately the same mileage as the EPA rating for the Nissan Altima Hybrid – a much smaller sedan.