Having said this, however, I always have a Gregorys in the car... after all the GPS with the bloody calm male voice has known to be wrong on more than the odd occasion
)It will happen. But I am surprised that hybrid technology hasn't been adopted in the heavy transport industry.
I envision a Mack with the motor/generators outboard the diffs so they can start heavy loads moving with lighter transmissions and possibly even doing away with the double reduction boxes. But there are smarter guys than I out there.
Normally it would have been disastrous - probably a new engine, but in her case (she is one of our customers) she filled up at the servo, drove a short distance home and after realising her mistake she called me at the workshop.
When we lived in the US, we flew down to Phoenix from Oakland, then had to drive from there to the Grand Canyon - about 4.5 hours.
It is last year's model. The boot space is no biggie for us. Early this morn we were dropping my son and his lady, and my daughter to the airport: Even the "large" V6 Honda couldn't carry a driver, the three tourists and their luggage so we still had to take two vehicles.
I think the problem is a lot of them don't want to keep upgrading their knowledge; too much like hard work/lazy etc - prefer the older and easier ones they already know to work on.
) because we don't want to be left behind.Hyundais are a very under-rated brand. I've owned 2 cheapies - an Excel and after that an Accent. Both did around 200k's and had pretty much no issue, and I don't look after cars very well. That was before my current life, and we work on loads of them; good cars for the price, and generally good cars.
