rudyamid on July 7th, 2008 at 2:28 pm

[UPDATE June 29 2011]: There seem to be a lot of interest on IMA battery replacement. I just called my local dealer, and he said, for sure Honda does NOT offer free replacement of the IMA battery. He was not aware of any service bulletin that offers it. He also said the California State EPA […]

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rudyamid on June 20th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

We went to Curry House this week.  It was a very warm day when we talked about: A co-worker likes sprint car racing.  Pretty expensive hobby, but it looks like a lot of fun. The laugh out loud movies: Dumb and Dumber, Borat, Harold and Kumar, and Eddie Murphy movies up to Beverly Hills Cop. […]

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rudyamid on June 19th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

A few people around me are talking about doing a “hypermile” with their cars.  In a nutshell, hypermiling is a fuel economy maximizing behavior, or a set of tricks to gain more miles per gallon.  For the most part, the recommendations are good advice. For me, I can’t do all the tricks because it depends […]

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rudyamid on May 19th, 2008 at 5:15 pm

A co-worker once told me that I was crazy to buy a Hybrid car back in 2002. He listed a bunch of bad reasons and we used to argue about them regularly. Below are the list of his gripes and my rebuttals (with a little hindsight thrown in): Gas price is still cheap (below $2 […]

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rudyamid on April 27th, 2008 at 5:24 am

When I lived in Toronto years ago, I used to enjoy using their public transport system: the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission). It’s the city’s main public transport system; a vital service for millions of people living in the city. I used it almost exclusively when I went school. I would go to the university, almost […]

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