Car Sizes!?!?

[Enlightenment]

My ride gives new meaning to drive by shooting.

I'd rather an SS-25. Much less maintance than a a tracked vehicle.

[haas mark]

Enlightenment: yopurs looks even worse...

[Dennis Toy]

http://website.lineone.net/~mr.x/P002.jpg


Love the ford probe......

[EmperorMing]

300ZX all the way man.

Actually, almost any Z for me.

And if I get a truck of any sort, it *will* be for rough weather/off road use...

[GrandMasterTerwynn]

What the flying frick is up with America these days. I was in the States last week(after a 10 year absense) and all these freaking jerk wads are driveing these freaking HUGE TANKS(SUVs, Trucks, etc.) Pluse everyone has the nerve to complain about the gas prices while driving these gas guzzeling things. They cant even park properly in the parking spaces anymore.....GAWD it was irritateing.......WHY? WHY? WHY? And please dont give me "they are safer" crap...i dont buy it.


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I couldn't agree with you more. Those things are a menace. They're worse than putting an AK-47 in Shep's hands. They don't look where they're going as they put on their makeup, eat breakfast, drink their coffee, talk on the phone and smoke a cigarette. AND their left arm is broken because they NEVER USE A FUCKING TURN SIGNAL!

I've seen people like that. Every third driver seems to be one nowadays. I don't see them for long because I'm usually on my way over to the hammer lane to avoid them.

[GrandMasterTerwynn]

What the flying frick is up with America these days. I was in the States last week(after a 10 year absense) and all these freaking jerk wads are driveing these freaking HUGE TANKS(SUVs, Trucks, etc.) Pluse everyone has the nerve to complain about the gas prices while driving these gas guzzeling things. They cant even park properly in the parking spaces anymore.....GAWD it was irritateing.......WHY? WHY? WHY? And please dont give me "they are safer" crap...i dont buy it.


Thank you..I just needed to get

I totally agree. Most people don't need anything more than a station wagon or a minivan. Sometimes I get the urge to wring the necks of those idiots who buy the big 4x4s when the most challenging driving condition they will ever face is the first five minutes of rain shower on urban streets ( and some of those SUVs are defeated even by that, owing to their uneven weight distribution (i.e. the wheels delivering the most thrust are the ones with the least weight over them.))

And they are not safer. They only look that way because they carry a hefty momentum advantage into any impact with a smaller vehicle. But on even terms, they are very unsafe, the typical large SUV is built on a truck chassis, which means mounting a cab atop a frame box, which is very sturdy when you hit it head-on (Due to those big beefy frame rails. Actually this is something of a bad thing actually. That means that the passengers absorb more of the energy of an impact.) And they're pretty worthless in very low speed collisions too. (They have very cheap bumpers. This means that minor collisions mean major repair costs. Though come to think of it, new cars have crap bumpers too.)

[GrandMasterTerwynn]

I love cars. Give me a 60's Jag or 'vette or Beetle any day. Sports cars are sexy. ;)

Ugh....bugs....too small....but vettes (I assume you dont mean Chevette?) and Jags are veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery nice...I also seem to like beamers...

CORvette.

BMWs are nice. Good cars too.

Old Corvettes are nice. Well, come to think of it, new Corvettes aren't so bad either. Old Camaros are nice. New Camaros just suck.

And VW Bugs . . . . ehhh . . .

[GrandMasterTerwynn]

What the flying frick is up with America these days. I was in the States last week(after a 10 year absense) and all these freaking jerk wads are driveing these freaking HUGE TANKS(SUVs, Trucks, etc.) Pluse everyone has the nerve to complain about the gas prices while driving these gas guzzeling things. They cant even park properly in the parking spaces anymore.....GAWD it was irritateing.......WHY? WHY? WHY? And please dont give me "they are safer" crap...i dont buy it.


Thank you..I just needed to get

Hell, I've been silently screaming the same thing for years now down here.

What I find especially irritating is the owners that "baby" their SUV when they're pulling into a parking lot or going over a rough patch in the road. Hello!!! That monster is called a Sport Utility Vehicle, right? That means it was designed to go offroad, right? That means it can handle a 4" curb bump entrance to a parking lot, dumbass!!

Wrong. The typical SUV sold nowadays has very little stock offroad capability. About the only offroad thing about them is the ground clearance. and the typical SUV has running boards, which tends to do away with that advantage. And the larger ones are too big to go offroad. Take a new stock Explorer, Expedition, Trailblazer or Land Cruiser offroad and see what it gets you. Actually I'll tell you . . . it gets you stuck. They're heavy, and their transfer cases have been optimized for snowy/slippery roads. Most of 'em don't even have a proper locker.

And most cars can handle a little four inch bump. Unless you drive a lowrider, in which case you're an idiot.