I was just driving home and hit nearly 45 mph. Terrifying I tell you.
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I was just driving home and hit nearly 45 mph. Terrifying I tell you.
Not getting anywhere soon at 50 MPH.
I have a similar favorite: the brand new lifted one ton mall crawler with a plow. You lifted it, then put a low ass plow carriage on? Either lift it or run a plow, not both.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bromontane
lol, the new speed limit governors are how they're gonna get 50 mpg, you didn't read that yet? retrofitting all vehicles at next emission test.
I'm pretty sure they are seriously considering bringing back the Gran Torino wagon.Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Hold on, did gravity lover call his BRX a sports car??
Ducking
BRZ c'mon ;) Yeah I called it a sports car, why wouldn't I? Sports cars are historically marginally well powered and able to be driven to their limits fairly easily. Look at some of the classics and they were all 200hp or less, relatively lightweight (sub 3k#), well balanced, quick steering ratios and RWD. I'm thinking cars like BMW 2002/3.0, Fiats, Alfas, Triumph, MG, Z cars, and similar. Over the last 20 years or so having unnecessary HP has been equated with being a sports car but before that high HP was called an exotic or supercar or something similar. They typically weren't as streetable without higher risk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aldo
Sports car people have long known it is much more fun to drive a slow car fast than to drive a fast car slow.
Regarding safety, how often do you decide to skip a drive for safety? And how often is cost a consideration? I don't skip a drive to save gas often, but it happens. I'd bet 90% of people don't ever skip a drive for safety's sake unless it's weather related. You want to be safe from accidents? Stay off the road. Drive less. Telecommute. People stay home to avoid head colds. Unless you're that scared of driving your excuse to buy a bigger car for 'safety' is bullshit.
I disagree. He’s saying we usually don’t ‘’need’’ a yuge car that is less easy to control on the roads than a smaller, hatch-back style car. All things equal the roads would be safer if we all drove vehicles that were built most purposefully for the purpose of.... driving. Smaller and easier to control. That’s physics too amirite?Quote:
Originally Posted by AdironRider
There is some serious tilting at windmills going on in here considering you can buy a small car akin to any of Fords offerings from Hyundai, Kia, Honda, Toyota, Mini, Fiat, Mazda, Chevy, etc.
So this is the part where I actually do agree with the OP. For one of the major automakers of the globe to head in this direction isn't good. I was previously just expressing why I felt it was happening. And I'm in the camp of it not happening. I have a Jeep and a truck. Might switch to a car and a truck. Isn't gonna be a small car. As Ice and others said, have you seen some of the potholes around here? Wanna toss two bikes and camping gear in the back?Quote:
Originally Posted by mecc69
But they make sense for people in dense areas commuting for work daily, which again I don't currently do.
Update: I was expecting something around a good blue book trade in for it and would have taken that happily to get rid of car fast approaching end of warranty, plummeting resale values with never ending DSG clutch replacements down the road.Quote:
Originally Posted by PNWbrit
Just got their formal offer yesterday. I'm getting back full purchase price, down to even dealer origination and paperwork fees, every single cent in interest I've ever paid on car, all registration and tag fees paid. Less 12 cents a mile I've driven it.
They're going to end up giving me about $12k more than I was expecting. And more than the original sticker price of the car.
Crazy.
Top contender for her new commuter car currently a Mazda CX3
That plan B was rapidly becoming plan AQuote:
Originally Posted by Bromontane
lol - they also will follow you home and take your gunsQuote:
Originally Posted by Rideski
Ford to cut 7,000 salaried jobs, or about 10% of its white-collar workforce.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/20/ford...this-week.html
Thanks ObamaQuote:
Originally Posted by Mazderati