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Count Freebasie posted:Drove past a Smart car in Boston with license plate: SMAAHT WKDSMAT
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Jun 12, 2015 16:50
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Smart car owners are the current smuggest assholes on the road, they've actually managed to dethrone Prius owners. They always have some idiotic chirpy custom plate that oozes smug. Which is funny considering how poo poo the things are. Worse economy than a hybrid, worse performance, and you can't even carry a load of groceries.
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Jun 12, 2015 16:53
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I saw a smart car grow rapidly in my rearview as I was passing someone and moved over to let them blow by me at like 80-85mph a while ago. Really restored my faith in humanity.
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Jun 12, 2015 17:09
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Count Freebasie posted:Drove past a Smart car in Boston with license plate: SMAAHT Boston accents, ho ho hah hah! *reads Ziggy*
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Jun 12, 2015 17:19
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kastein posted:I saw a smart car grow rapidly in my rearview as I was passing someone and moved over to let them blow by me at like 80-85mph a while ago. Really restored my faith in humanity. Was it on the back of a wrecker? I can't imagine surviving a failure at that speed considering it's survival strategy is "be the only thing on the road with a non-crumple frame"
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Jun 12, 2015 17:20
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Well, at least it's more clever than the douchebag who lives near me who has a Ferrari with the license plate: NTMY1ST
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Jun 12, 2015 17:21
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Octopus Magic posted:Boston accents, ho ho hah hah! *reads Ziggy* Ugh, jokes 
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Jun 12, 2015 17:21
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kastein posted:I saw a smart car grow rapidly in my rearview as I was passing someone and moved over to let them blow by me at like 80-85mph a while ago. Really restored my faith in 
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Jun 12, 2015 18:00
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Count Freebasie posted:Drove past a Smart car in Boston with license plate: SMAAHT
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Jun 12, 2015 18:32
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kastein posted:I saw a smart car grow rapidly in my rearview as I was passing someone and moved over to let them blow by me at like 80-85mph a while ago. Really restored my faith in humanity. I took one up to 50 once. It was terrifying. edit: though, going over a speed bump at 35 was hella fun DEAR RICHARD fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Jun 12, 2015 |
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Jun 12, 2015 19:04
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DEAR RICHARD posted:I took one up to 50 once. It was terrifying. I drove a few as a valet, and I can say beyond a shadow if a doubt that they are the epitome of terrible car stuff. Worst driving vehicle I've ever been in.
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Jun 12, 2015 20:23
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Friar Zucchini posted:Seriously though, American accents are a lot milder than they used to be for the most part, but there's this guy at work that for a little while at first I thought he was making some weird faux-British accent since he jokes around a lot, but the accent never stopped and eventually I found out he was actually from Massachusetts and the accent is actually real. Transatlantic English? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpv_IkO_ZBU
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Jun 12, 2015 20:37
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QuiteEasilyDone posted:Was it on the back of a wrecker? I can't imagine surviving a failure at that speed considering it's survival strategy is "be the only thing on the road with a non-crumple frame" There was someone in my university who had one with a stereo, racing stripes, and a nitrous bottle that, as best we could tell, was only hooked up to the purge line. He showed up to my ASME chapters cars shows with it and we heard him poo poo talking other people'c cars more than once and wore a "Think Smarter" t-shirt. The guy was generally pretty smug about his dumb little car. Over the winter he got into a accident with another car which badly injured one of his legs, pinned him in the car and left him in a coma for two weeks. He had to do an evasive maneuver with a bit of snow on the road and the short wheelbase preformed just as poorly as you think it would even with snow tires. From the description it sounds like in just about any other car it would have been a minor accident. He's also a conservative that thinks Obamacare is literally the worst law ever so obviously he's asking people for money to help cover his hospital bills.
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Jun 12, 2015 20:47
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re: Smart cars, my dad still wants one. I told him as long as he swaps a Hayabusa motor into it, i'm down with it  That being said, he's also like 6'4", so neither of us are quite sure if he'd even fit in one.
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Jun 12, 2015 20:59
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He'll fit just fine, one thing I will give them is that they use the lack of rear seating to give the driver and passenger a decent amount of room.
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Jun 12, 2015 21:12
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You can fit in anything if you put your mind to it. Exhibit 1: 14's Civic Exhibit 2: my Justy e: 3: InitialDave's Cappuccino 4: Jeremy Clarkson in a Peel P50. Hell, if those came in 3wd, I would buy one
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Jun 12, 2015 21:16
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Or Jeremy Clarkson in a GT40 as posted in the awesome car stuff thread earlier today. ..mostly.
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Jun 12, 2015 21:17
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kastein posted:You can fit in anything if you put your mind to it.
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Jun 12, 2015 21:19
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InitialDave posted:You are remembering my size and what I own, aren't you? Yeah, I updated the list
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Jun 12, 2015 21:19
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T1g4h posted:re: Smart cars, my dad still wants one. I told him as long as he swaps a Hayabusa motor into it, i'm down with it Counterintuitively, the fortwo is a lot more roomy than the forfour (I test drove a brabus forfour and at 6'4 I did not enjoy the experience)
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Jun 12, 2015 21:28
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kastein posted:I saw a smart car grow rapidly in my rearview as I was passing someone and moved over to let them blow by me at like 80-85mph a while ago. Really restored my faith in humanity. I saw one towing a camper trailer in the middle of the Adirondack park one time. He could barely maintain 50 (in a 55), but was actually letting people by.
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Jun 12, 2015 21:38
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Saw one of these for the first time the other day, had no idea they even existed: Why do SUV's have to be a thing? Whyyyyy?
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Jun 12, 2015 21:46
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Slavvy posted:Why do SUV's have to be a thing? Whyyyyy? I need a big burly car to protect my crotch fruit when I ditch into a telephone pole because I was tweeting about this hilarious imgur I saw.
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Jun 12, 2015 21:49
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My friends are looking for an SUV-type thing under the "now we have a kid" justification, but their logic is based largely on her having a bad back from being rear-ended by a trucker (car crash, not buttsex), and the higher seating makes it easier to get said offspring in and out. I understand, but would prefer that there were an option that didn't basically involve them buying a pretend-4x4 where you're paying (in cash and fuel economy) for a drivetrain that is not needed and likely won't be of any benefit.
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Jun 12, 2015 21:57
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The macan is pretty great tbh. I'd daily one.
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Jun 12, 2015 21:58
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InitialDave posted:My friends are looking for an SUV-type thing under the "now we have a kid" justification, but their logic is based largely on her having a bad back from being rear-ended by a trucker (car crash, not buttsex), and the higher seating makes it easier to get said offspring in and out. Minivan?
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Jun 12, 2015 22:50
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You never saw a Cayenne before? They're all over the place in the UK. I have no idea why either, I can only guess it's something like "I want a big 4x4, but I also need to show off more than a Range Rover allows". Oh, right, it's a new smaller one. Meh. InitialDave posted:My friends are looking for an SUV-type thing under the "now we have a kid" justification, but their logic is based largely on her having a bad back from being rear-ended by a trucker (car crash, not buttsex), and the higher seating makes it easier to get said offspring in and out. Skoda Yeti? Nissan Qashqai? Mazda CX5? Thread appropriate comedy option: 
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Jun 12, 2015 23:00
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Wolfsbane posted:Thread appropriate comedy option: I'd drive it, as long as it was that color and had that goofy rubber thing on the door. Ribbed for her pleasure... Ewwwwwww!
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Jun 12, 2015 23:05
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Wolfsbane posted:Thread appropriate comedy option: I've seen a couple of these in person though not in that colour and they don't look too bad
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Jun 12, 2015 23:06
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Wolfsbane posted:Thread appropriate comedy option:
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Jun 12, 2015 23:09
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Nah, you want this one I actually have a soft spot for citroen. They seem to have a strong aversion to dull.
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Jun 12, 2015 23:10
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wayfinder posted:Minivan? Wolfsbane posted:Skoda Yeti? Nissan Qashqai? Mazda CX5?
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Jun 12, 2015 23:21
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Having driven all of them, that is the correct choice (assuming they can afford it).
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Jun 12, 2015 23:23
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Wolfsbane posted:
I actually really loving like these, not the bubblewrap door protector thing though. The interior's pretty minimal:  I do generally like Citroen's wackier poo poo though, their 'store' on the road to the Champs Elysse had this in it when I visited, the Revolte (the joke practically writes itself):  It does however have the BEST rear seat of any car ever, it's basically a wrap around plush velvet bench seat which starts at the passenger door:  
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Jun 12, 2015 23:28
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Wolfsbane posted:Having driven all of them, that is the correct choice (assuming they can afford it).
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Jun 12, 2015 23:29
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Wolfsbane posted:Nah, you want this one What the actual gently caress.
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Jun 12, 2015 23:30
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Revolte indeed. Those have to be the most hideous wheels I've seen on a concept car.
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Jun 12, 2015 23:31
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88h88 posted:The interior's pretty minimal:
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Jun 12, 2015 23:46
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I can't figure out why manufacturers decided that LCD screens that look like tablets someone glued to the dash was a good idea. It's super common right now and looks idiotic.
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88h88 posted:I do generally like Citroen's wackier poo poo though, their 'store' on the road to the Champs Elysse had this in it when I visited, the Revolte (the joke practically writes itself): 
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