Your suggestoin for a SUV

[Full_Name]

And you can park it anywhere.....

Downside might be the ability to find a drive through window or drive
through "car" wash that it would fit into well.

an upside though is that I bet that the Saudi's & the rest of the "oil
patch kids" would help finance folks in the US who want to buy one as
commuter vehicles ;-)

 

[Joseph Oberlander]

And you can park it anywhere.....

T5-R
(aka - the hell was that yellow blur?)

 

[Ken Weitzel]

Downside might be the ability to find a drive through window or drive
through "car" wash that it would fit into well.

There's an upside, too.

Betcha the mounties (or OPP) would think long and hard
before trying to stop you for a ticket, eh?

Ken

 

[Full_Name]

<snip>

T5-R
(aka - the hell was that yellow blur?)

In the UK a while back "that yellow blur" would have been followed by
a white blur with flashing blue lights on the roof & another T5-R
emblem on the rear. Caught me off guard the first time I saw one in
action.

 

[Mark Gibson]

Downside might be the ability to find a drive through window or drive
through "car" wash that it would fit into well.

an upside though is that I bet that the Saudi's & the rest of the "oil
patch kids" would help finance folks in the US who want to buy one as
commuter vehicles ;-)

I've read about people who do drive/pilot things like old tanks and warplanes.
When I went to the machine gun shoot and gunshow at Knob Creek Kentucky,
there were some guys who have a 20mm (30mm?) rotary cannon mounted in
the back of what was obviously a military truck that must have weighed
several tons. Very impressive to watch them blow up old cars and
appliances that had some hidden sticks of dynamite hidden inside by
the rangemasters. Only problem is, there is a multi-year waiting list
to get a spot on the firing line at the Knob Creek shoot, and you have
to be sorta rich to afford to fire most machine guns -- the little .22LRs
such as select-fire, supressed 10/22 clones being a notable exception.

Since a lot of carheads are also into things that go bang, I can highly
recommend visiting one of the two machine gun shoots held open to the
public each year. They are a blast!

Getting back to the subject of commuter vehicles, I suppose an Apache or
Comanche attack helicopter might be sort of fun to fly. Finding a place
close to the office where one can land the thing could be problematic.
Maybe there would be enough room to store a dirt bike for the last part
of the trip inside the chopper...I don't really know.

Regards,
Mark

 

[Thomas Moats]

Actually, you did. My quote showed two levels deep for it, which meant that
I said that you were quoting somebody else when you posted it. But I agree
it would have been better if I had the attribution for the original poster
as well. But then again, even he was quoting somebody.

The other problem is that people started top posting to a bottom posting
thread, which made it hard to follow, and you quoted somebody's signature,
which is not necessary. I'd suggest you use Quotefix since you are using
OE. That would have prevented this.

I did not post that quote. Period. I did not quote somebody's signature.

This is the text I posted.

"That all depends on your driving skill and tire selection. It does quite well
as
most RWD vehicles do on limited traction surfaces."

That is the only text I posted. The date of which is 10/17/2004 @ 10:14pm. That
post was to "Mark Gibson" and is as follows.

You forget the main point to having an SUV to drive. It lets one
driver over and crush people like you in their little wimpy econoboxs!

Of course, that doesn't always work...as the guy who tried to run me off
the road in his big 4x4 learned the hard way. I was perfectly willing to let
him hit my 1990 Jeep Eagle Talon. I figured I'd come out of the wreck OK,
and then force him to buy a nice new Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution when I
took him to court! Too bad he was smart enough to realize I was not about
to get out of his way, no matter how big his ugly truck was.

New Rule: Never play chicken with a driver who is far crazier than you are,
especially if he's greedy and has plenty of witnesses.

Regards,
Mark

P.S. Realistically, most SUV owners never drive them under "off-road"
conditions, and probably couldn't do so if they wanted to. A few years
ago, I had the amusing experience of driving my low-slugn Jeep Eagle Talon
TSi AWD car all over Champaign, IL when the only other vehicles on the
roads were cop cars (slipping and sliding all over the place), snow plows
with loads of salt or sand, and a few adventurous 4WDrivers in pickups or
SUVs. I was passing all of them, even the cops! Much fun!

A Crown
Victoria is *NOT* a good car to drive on snowy, icy roads...

That all depends on your driving skill and tire selection. It does quite well as
most RWD vehicles do on limited traction surfaces.

Regards,
Mark "How fast will this Corvette go? -- gotta experiment -- Oh, wow!" Gibson

Now notice there are two lines of text with out >'s.? That would be my post a
reply to the above statement, you know the lines of text with the >'s? Get a
clue.

 

[AB]

With the firepower that things got i think levelling a piec of ground to use
as a landing pad wouldn't be that difficult? Probably be a lot of fun too!

 

[Mark Gibson]

AB wrote:

T5-R
(aka - the hell was that yellow blur?)

I do have a serious bias against Volvos. They tended to be one of the
cars favored by safety freaks for many years...now some are actually
sporty. The look on woman's face wthen I closed in on her taillights
doing about twice the 55MPH limit in my first RX-7 was precious. I was
amazed she didn't flip me the bird as I passed her! She was doing maybe
45MPH, at best. The driving conditions were pretty good, but she
seemed to be a very timid driver. (Yes, she did drive with the lights on,
even though that was uncommon back in 1985.)

 

[AB]

I was a bit sceptical about Volvos till I got one... Now (aside from mushy
handling) I think they're a great all rounder...

And mine (only a '99 T5) goes so well when you put your foot down its
brilliant! And the fact that here in the UK the police used to use them
means you can have a bit of fun on boring motorway journeys too.....

;-)

 

[Hagrinas Mivali]

Actually, you did. My quote showed two levels deep for it, which
meant that I said that you were quoting somebody else when you
posted it. But I agree it would have been better if I had the
attribution for the original poster as well. But then again, even he
was quoting somebody.

The other problem is that people started top posting to a bottom
posting thread, which made it hard to follow, and you quoted
somebody's signature, which is not necessary. I'd suggest you use
Quotefix since you are using OE. That would have prevented this.

[snip]

Now notice there are two lines of text with out >'s.? That would be
my post a reply to the above statement, you know the lines of text
with the >'s? Get a clue.

There it is again. You get a clue. It's exactly as I said. It appeared in
your quote two levels deep, which means you were quoting somebody else's
post.

 

[Full_Name]

[snip]
<snip>
There it is again. You get a clue. It's exactly as I said. It appeared in
your quote two levels deep, which means you were quoting somebody else's
post.

THIS is still going on??????????????

Sheesh.

Sorry but let's get back to bitching about how shoddy the Chinese,
North Korean's, Chryslers, Fords, Toyoyo's etc, etc are...

 

[Caroline]

Sorry but let's get back to bitching about how shoddy the Chinese,
North Korean's, Chryslers, Fords, Toyoyo's etc, etc are...

In the interests of open-mindedness, Korea's Hyundai has come a long way and
some of its models now compete well with Honda and Toyota.

And yes, I hate to admit this! But there was a time when Hondas weren't such a
great car (early 1970s?), either, right?

 

[Dori A Schmetterling]

When I was a youth many decades ago "made in Japan" usually meant cheap and
shoddy of anything. How things have changed!

DAS

 

[Stephen M. Henning]

Sorry but let's get back to bitching about how shoddy the Chinese,
North Korean's, Chryslers, Fords, Toyoyo's etc, etc are...

While in China we were told that the number 1 selling car in China is
the Buick. The Chinese love it.

 

[Tegger®]

When I was a youth many decades ago "made in Japan" usually meant
cheap and shoddy of anything. How things have changed!

Remember the old joke that something cheap was made by
the J. A. Pan Company?

Remember that special Chinese paper you used to be able to get for your
typewriter? You know, Tai Ping Paper? (think, now...)

 

[Hagrinas Mivali]

When I was a youth many decades ago "made in Japan" usually meant
cheap and shoddy of anything. How things have changed!

DAS

Wow, you must be really old! Maybe even over 40!