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swillfly 5 ก.ย. 2019 @ 8: 58pm

I've noticed a hipster trend where the kids are all sporting fancy lil cars. Smaller cars seem less likely to sustain life in the eventuality of collisions.

On the bright side, they allow for quickie burials. Just dig a small hole and plant the departed.

Would you drive any of these daily?

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Vince ✟ 5 ก.ย. 2019 @ 8: 59pm

https://youtu.be/7D6AXWVOWW4

Z i o ⚡ 5 ก.ย. 2019 @ 9: 03pm

Not a Mini Cooper. Other small cars fine, but not that Smart Car.

Your_White_Knight 5 ก.ย. 2019 @ 9: 04pm

Sure... you're just being silly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGr-I_hDSjA

8ullfrog 5 ก.ย. 2019 @ 9: 06pm

My mom had a smart car, it died so she sold it. I thought it was a piece of crap. I don't think this is a trend or millennial thing, they're simply more reasonably priced automobiles.

I'll also say the little football looking Yaris is a piece of crap, that thing you had to fight the computer to get up to speed on the freeway, it wanted a nice slow incremental speed increase, when sometimes you have to go from full stop to 60 fairly quickly. (Some on ramps in that area use stoplights)

Z i o ⚡ 5 ก.ย. 2019 @ 9: 09pm

I drive a Yaris. The acceleration isn't fast but it's decent. Not as slow as the smarter car. That smart car also has purposely slow gear shifts to give you the feeling like you're in a manual transmission getting shifted automatically.

แก้ไขล่าสุดโดย Z i o ⚡; 8 ก.ย. 2019 @ 12: 05pm

swillfly 5 ก.ย. 2019 @ 9: 12pm

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Your_White_Knight:
Sure... you're just being silly.

Really? You'd drive one of those day-in, day-out with all the 9-to-5ers? The thought of being smooshed in some collision in one of those does not seem like good times to me. I don't even care for most sedans/coupes either as you sit much lower than all the empowered pickup motorists (which are typically non-work, jacked up F-150's pristine & shiny).

I've seen collisions (and been hit before) in a variety of vehicles. More metal and substance around me on the hellways feels like better survival odds than driving lil bee-bops.. taking a chance a flyaway soccer mom won't kill me or worse, live discombobulated.

แก้ไขล่าสุดโดย swillfly; 5 ก.ย. 2019 @ 9: 18pm

Xite >X< 👁️👁 🇦🇺 5 ก.ย. 2019 @ 9: 16pm

I buy cars on safety standards and requirements.

8ullfrog 5 ก.ย. 2019 @ 9: 17pm

There are multiple models of Yaris, I hear the four door is a decent vehicle. I'm talking about the runt of the litter, I believe it was marketed as a 3-door because of the hatch back.

All of the controls, which were of course computerized were shoved where the stereo would be on an actual car, including the digital readout speedometer.

I would have rather drove my moms little crap smart car, but I was put on full chauffer duty by my grandmother. Imagine doing a Costco trip or catering run in a vehicle where the storage space is similar to a standard sedan's GLOVE COMPARTMENT.

Apparently it was the 2012 model. Was an automatic.

[update - I was wrong, it was between the 2005-2008 model, these crapboxes all look alike.]

I remember you could use that ugly crapbox as a starter vehicle in Forza 3, which came out in 2009.

แก้ไขล่าสุดโดย 8ullfrog; 5 ก.ย. 2019 @ 9: 22pm

swillfly 5 ก.ย. 2019 @ 9: 27pm

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย 8ullfrog:
There are multiple models of Yaris, I hear the four door is a decent vehicle. I'm talking about the runt of the litter, I believe it was marketed as a 3-door because of the hatch back.

All of the controls, which were of course computerized were shoved where the stereo would be on an actual car, including the digital readout speedometer.

I would have rather drove my moms little crap smart car, but I was put on full chauffer duty by my grandmother. Imagine doing a Costco trip or catering run in a vehicle where the storage space is similar to a standard sedan's GLOVE COMPARTMENT.

Apparently it was the 2012 model. Was an automatic.

I've seen those Yaris' and similar make micro coupes driving at speed zipping in-n-out of traffic on highways and even getting in front of big rigs and buses that cannot stop on a dime. Even if you're the best, safest defensive motorist in a small (but best rated safety standards) putt-putt-putter doesn't mean you will live when Outlaw Country gets behind the wheel.

8ullfrog 5 ก.ย. 2019 @ 9: 32pm

Oh yeah, every time I got in the smart car I wondered when the last time I filed my will was.

Also, it had like this fabric cover for the moonroof that didn't do ♥♥♥♥ to block out the sun, like sitting under a magnifying glass.

Mom solved that by buying a bunch of car sun shields, cutting them down to fit, and velcroing them to the glass. Good AC and stereo though.

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Zekiran 5 ก.ย. 2019 @ 9: 46pm

My housemate has a little Fiat and it's like twice the size of any given smart car.

And I could roller skate with two Fiats on my feet so...

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swillfly 5 ก.ย. 2019 @ 9: 46pm

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Miss Ann Thrope:
The new Mini's or the old classic ones?

There is nothing particularly "mini" about the new models, especially the SUV's.

Really any micro small coupes -not ltd. to MINI and wouldn't apply so much to most SUVs.

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8ullfrog 5 ก.ย. 2019 @ 9: 49pm

I thought someone had abandoned a fiat in our parking lot. Nope, he just never cleans the dang thing. Looks like an abandoned car. I've seen it get 72 hour dinged multiple times.

That's what made mom sell the dead smart car, 72 hour ding from an uppity cop. Jerk has an award for getting a ton of cars towed.

My roommate drives a giant friggin whale of a car, looks like something that should have been junked two decades ago. I don't remember what it is, I'm gonna guess Chrysler? Either way, he doesn't get 72 hour stickered.

GIANT interior.

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swillfly 5 ก.ย. 2019 @ 10: 03pm

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย 8ullfrog:
I thought someone had abandoned a fiat in our parking lot. Nope, he just never cleans the dang thing. Looks like an abandoned car. I've seen it get 72 hour dinged multiple times.

That's what made mom sell the dead smart car, 72 hour ding from an uppity cop. Jerk has an award for getting a ton of cars towed.

My roommate drives a giant friggin whale of a car, looks like something that should have been junked two decades ago. I don't remember what it is, I'm gonna guess Chrysler? Either way, he doesn't get 72 hour stickered.

GIANT interior.

Oof... yeah Fiats are another death-mobile you couldn't pay me to drive. Scares me when I see others drive those zipping by.

I had a late '70's Pontiac Le Mans that was a beast... lots of metal with a v8 motor that guzzled gas like an alcoholic. It had no back seat so I tossed a filthy yellow foam cushion back there. That thing was an ugly rusted od green nightmare with a foot size hole behind the front bench for riders to conveniently toss their McDonalds garbage. I was hit in that a couple times by others in the 80's with more damage to their stuff than my 'ol hunka junk.

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