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    chuck
    Chuck
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  • #2
    A fun read!

    FWIW, my car has 3 cupholders: two behind the parking brake (positioned one after the other, between the 2 front seats). They are the shallow kind with 4 rubber flaps to hold the bottle/cup in place. And then it has a very hi-tech one that pops out of the middle console (closer to the passenger side); the size of the opening can be selected (plastic, spring-operated flaps).

    But I rarely use a cupholder; occasionally, on a long drive, you might find a small waterbottle in one of the middle holders (a bottle there doesn't bother me; it isn't in sight, but within reach when I pause).


    Jörg
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    • #3
      Lol.

      ~~DukeP~~

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      • #4
        my cup holders have become coin holders, which incidently are also in the car, but remain empty.
        Yeah, well I'm gonna build my own lunar space lander! With blackjack aaaaannd Hookers! Actually, forget the space lander, and the blackjack. Ahhhh forget the whole thing!

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        • #5
          Hmmm. 2 in front, 2 in middle seat, 3 in back - 7 total.

          Incidentally, there's still a drive-up A&W restaurant about 30 miles from here. No roller skates on the waitpeople, but they do have the window trays like in the '50s.

          - Steve

          edit: made the first '2' lowercase

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          • #6
            none - and proud!

            a 1985 BMW 318 here - that is what side pockets are for!

            RedRed
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            • #7
              Sorry for sounding like a fool but since when do Toyotas have mercedes' shifts? look at the 2nd pic in the article (dont count the ad in the middle).

              I've only seen that type of automatic in mercs and recently in chryslers.
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              • #8
                But the interior looks all plasticky, very japanese, not at all mercedes-like. Then again, I don't know shit about cars. Ask guchi, if that's a mercedes, he'll tell you the model, hp, and the owner's phone number.

                AZ
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                • #9
                  Nothing is more disconcerting than having a drink spill over while driving. A good cup holder can prevent serious accidents. Never underestimate them.

                  A guy I work with made a mega-cup holder that our 7-inch wide 7-11 UltraMegaGulps fit into, for our store van.

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                  • #10
                    Human cup-holders are the best
                    All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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                    • #11
                      Cup holders are a must in Canada, since the entire country is hooked on Tim Hortons coffee.
                      Bart

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by VJ
                        A fun read!

                        But I rarely use a cupholder; occasionally, on a long drive, you might find a small waterbottle in one of the middle holders (a bottle there doesn't bother me; it isn't in sight, but within reach when I pause).


                        Jörg
                        Yeah, that's one of those American things the Europeans and Japanese didn't get for a long time.

                        Americans live in our cars sometimes. Coffee, or big sodas(another American thing) are standard driving fare, and we demand easy access to them.
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by az
                          Ask guchi, if that's a mercedes, he'll tell you the model, hp, and the owner's phone number.
                          AZ [/B]
                          thought guchi would know about BMWs..
                          anyway i dont think cup-holders for drivers is a good thing...unless they come up with a straw/pipe to the cup.. it is more worse than using a handphone..
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                          • #14
                            The first time I opened this thread, I thought it was about CD-ROM trays.

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                            • #15
                              lol

                              never seen that except in The Flintstones
                              "Women don't want to hear a man's opinion, they just want to hear their opinion in a deeper voice."

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