Yuppie Short Bus
People, we must rid the world of these things. We must kill them with memes. And this one has a killer meme. “Yuppie Short Bus” is from the Urban Dictionary. We could be rid of these bean-counter POS’s in no time. What we NEED is something like this that works. Exit and entry angles that aren’t too bad, road-manners for the day-to-day, but with brains, can get almost anywhere. Like the old Disco claimed to be, and the Land Rover (or Land Cruiser) before it. The critical component in the US market is a demand for Diesel engines. That’s it, we get over this hump, we’re saving the world. Not limiting the benzene in petrol (makeup on a corpse) or killing MTBF (horse fled, barn burned down, let’s lock up!) we need to improve the acceptance of diesels. I want my daughter’s 1st car to be a diesel so she will learn. Hear that Detroit? You got 2 years TOPS or she’s goin’ in a Beetle!!! How hard is this? Electric cars? Interesting, but the storage medium sucks. Batteries are too heavy and expensive, ultracapacitors are not efficient enough and WAAAAY too dangerous. Hydrogen is a fiction, although as a storage medium it leverages several things we’re pretty good at. Turbines? Oh yeah baby, but the price...CVT’s might yet save them but I don’t know. We need the home-made turbine hobbyests (take a turbocharger, put a combustion chamber between the sides, presto: Big Heat & Noise Generator!!) to start making real work out of these bastards. I say $100k for the first from-scratch, scrapyard turbine-powered lawn tractor. $250k for the 1st one Toro judges as a suitable pre-prod proto. As for now, I want you to go out and use “yuppie short bus” in a sentence to one friend today. We can generalize it to the entire Hummer line now that the good one is gone. Thanks for reading.