heymagic Banned Mod Moderator Location: La la land Join Date: 01/25/2006 Age: Fossilized Posts: 3,740 Rally Car: Not a Volvo |
Gold!!! Those frickin 20 and 22 inch tires are horrible. |
Creech Scott Creech Mega Moderator Location: Jane, MO Join Date: 12/02/2012 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 415 Rally Car: Audi 90 Quattro (WIP) |
I've always said: Easiest way to get the guy in front of you to Speed Up... is to PASS THEM... Parfois, on fait pas semblant! I am: I know: I am from: Nobody. Nothing. Nowhere. |
Creech Scott Creech Mega Moderator Location: Jane, MO Join Date: 12/02/2012 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 415 Rally Car: Audi 90 Quattro (WIP) |
Make certain it's a Manual. Hyundai never did get that shitty slushbox to stay in one piece for more than 80 or 90 thousand, so they dropped it. Parfois, on fait pas semblant! I am: I know: I am from: Nobody. Nothing. Nowhere. |
imnotcrazy Don Kennedy Senior Moderator Location: Reading, PA Join Date: 10/05/2006 Age: Fossilized Posts: 227 Rally Car: Impreza |
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JohnLane John Lane Elite Moderator Location: Lynden Washington Join Date: 01/14/2006 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 725 Rally Car: The Fire Breathing Monster |
I got to drive Tiny to Arlington and back yesterday.... Prius in the left lane doing double nickels (his speed limit is 70.. Traffic moving at 75).... I roll up behind at 65.... Woke some shit-head the f___ up.... OH SHIT>>>>> THERE IS A HUGE BUMPER IN MY REAR VIEW!! (wanders all over the lane as though the text conversation just got dropped into the Mocha Frappuccino) But true to form.... Dip-shit did not get out of the left lane. I got to wait for an opening in the right lane to pass it. Ugh!
I'm tempted to Mount a reinforced Railroad tie to the front of Tiny as a bumper and go to the local wrecker so as to 'rub on' several colors of paint to make it look the part. JohnLane Overkill is consistently more fun |
alosix Jason Powers Godlike Moderator Location: Lyons, CO Join Date: 08/02/2011 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 326 Rally Car: 02 WRX, still to quiet, but it finished a rally |
Arg.. Merging.. Seriously, don't ever drive in CA.. its just how they drive. I'd normally scare the ever living shit out of people rolling down on on-ramp @ 5-10 over in my JEEP hunting for a spot to fit in. Oh.. and I'd comment on the Jeep thing, but mine is current in pieces in the garage .
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derek Derek Bottles Elite Moderator Location: Lopez Island/ Seattle WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 853 Rally Car: Past: 323, RX2, GTI. Next up M3 ? |
Can not say I have seen a new car with any personality or sex appeal in a long time. They all appear to be boring sensory deprivation tanks rolling down the road.
I am also shocked at how many people in my peer group have no clue how to do the little things, like change a flat tire anymore. In the long run reality always wins. |
frumby Jason Hynd Infallible Moderator Location: Oak Harbor, WA Join Date: 03/16/2007 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 333 Rally Car: XR4TI a slow build! |
I just spent two weeks in the PNW. Everyone there sucks at driving. They're all entitled to the left lane, and almost never move over on single lane roads that widen up hills to allow for passing. It's really quite amazing. Cops everywhere.. I mean EVERYWHERE. If you slip up and go 60 in a 50 you're fucked. On Whidbey island at least that's a guaranteed ticket.
They're not so good here in HI either. It's hilarious to me that they'll bust you for no seat belt, but pick ups will have five kids in the bed no problem, and wearing a helmet on a motorbike is truely rare. Best drivers IMO? Italy. Speed limits mean nothing, every city is chaos... but there are many unwritten rules that are followed, and everyone is super aware. Very few cops. It just works. Very little texting/cell phone driving. Lots of shitbox little cars that actually are fun to drive, and can actually be parked. |
NoCoast Grant Hughes Godlike Moderator Location: Whitefish, MT Join Date: 01/11/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 6,818 Rally Car: BMW |
Chaos leads to awareness. French drivers were similar I thought. India was by far the most fun. Navigating Chennai in a rickshaw with nothing but a compass, the knowledge that we wanted to go north, and three friends yelling stuff like "watch out for that goat!" and such was a highlight of my life. Grant Hughes Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/04/2013 04:50PM by NoCoast. |
john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Professional Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Until not terribly long ago the Italians had no drunk driving laws. You hit somebody, you hit them, you speed, you sped.. In the typical logic they would seriously say: "logiclly drunkeness can be looked at as a mitigating factor. You were drunk, you you crashed... You have to ask 'If you weren't drunk, then why did you crash?" I've thought that when you see cars crashed on sparkling clear days, dead straight road, no visibility problems, light traffic straight road and some POS SUV on the roof... In by view it is prima facia proof they driver is incompetent and did something with outrageous indifference, and should be banned for 10 years from being near motor vehicles of any kind. And Whidbey cops have preyed on Navy people for ever, they know nobody is going to get too mouthy of bother much, pure gross cynicism. John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
frumby Jason Hynd Infallible Moderator Location: Oak Harbor, WA Join Date: 03/16/2007 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 333 Rally Car: XR4TI a slow build! |
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Creech Scott Creech Mega Moderator Location: Jane, MO Join Date: 12/02/2012 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 415 Rally Car: Audi 90 Quattro (WIP) |
Americans don't do ANYTHING Half-Assed. Except Politics. Parfois, on fait pas semblant! I am: I know: I am from: Nobody. Nothing. Nowhere. |
john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Professional Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Oh? Really? December 8th, 1941 in London in a cabinet meeting about the Americans finally getting into the war against world wide Fascism some upper crust Pommie general was recorded by a couple of sources to have said "Thank Gawd the Americans are finally in the war, they can always be relied upon to do the right thing" To which it is recorded Winston Churchill muttered "Oh yes, after they try everything else" John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
Creech Scott Creech Mega Moderator Location: Jane, MO Join Date: 12/02/2012 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 415 Rally Car: Audi 90 Quattro (WIP) |
The Joke was that Americans are SERIOUS about Driving Drunk - and do so in an overboard, overkill manner. However, you just made my point about the Politics half of the joke.... Parfois, on fait pas semblant! I am: I know: I am from: Nobody. Nothing. Nowhere. |
derek Derek Bottles Elite Moderator Location: Lopez Island/ Seattle WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 853 Rally Car: Past: 323, RX2, GTI. Next up M3 ? |
The Prius, 20th on the list of fuel efficient cars after 19 Diesels
http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21584436-automotive-technology-electric-and-hybrid-cars-are-being-given-run-their In the long run reality always wins. |