What's on your mind today?

[Asmodean]

Oh, a Caddy Escalade looks cool too... But it feels like it was made for a tenner using hammer and nails and drives like... Like... Titanic is the only thing that springs to mind. That, and old steam locomotives with no leading wheels.

... ... And that new Mustang. I was SO expecting more from that car. 

[Buddy]

As soon as I find out what's wrong with it, I'll see if it's an easy fix. If it is, then I'll just get it fixed. If it is going to be expensive, I sell.

[Asmodean]

A healthy attitude, that.

I really ought to get meself a ten years younger Old Rusty, but the wheels are still firmly attached to the old one and everything is sort of... Fine. Almost sad. 

[Amicale]

I own a 16 or so year old foot-brake bicycle.  Does that count?

[Buddy]

I own a 16 or so year old foot-brake bicycle.  Does that count?

When I excersise the minis, I just hop on my bike and hold on to the lead rope. 

[AnimatedDirt]

Oh, a Caddy Escalade looks cool too... But it feels like it was made for a tenner using hammer and nails and drives like... Like... Titanic is the only thing that springs to mind. That, and old steam locomotives with no leading wheels.

... ... And that new Mustang. I was SO expecting more from that car. 

Don't get me started on my opinion(s) of American cars (post 70's)...  

[Asmodean]

Ah, but do lets! 

My general opinion is that many of them do look very well and have those big throbbing engines, but pretty much all of them feel cheap, can't go around corners at speed and use 1980-ish tech more often than not.

...And how is it possible for those engines, measured in cubic lightyears, to be so damned underpowered compared to Euroboxes?

[Amicale]

My general opinion is that many of them do look very well and have those big throbbing engines, but pretty much all of them feel cheap, can't go around corners at speed ....

Are you sure you're talking about vehicles? 

[Ali]

My general opinion is that many of them do look very well and have those big throbbing engines, but pretty much all of them feel cheap, can't go around corners at speed ....

Are you sure you're talking about vehicles? 

*Snort*

[AnimatedDirt]

Ah, but do lets! 

There's a reason American cars don't hold their value (again, speaking of cars after the '70's-ish) They are garbage.  I'll admit that they are changing for the better these days, but I'm still more inclined to spend my $$ more wisely on (1) German or (2) Japanese vehicles.  The Koreans are doing much better too.

[Asmodean]

Yes, you see, the Koreans tend to feel cheap and dreadful, but that is because they kind of are. They do not pretend to be something they are not, something I certainly felt both a 2007 Mustang and a 200-something Caddy Escalade did big time. One was pretending to be sporty, the other was pretending to be luxurious and both were aspiring to look expensive on the outside. At least with a Kia, you know you are getting... A Kia. No more, no less.

That said, Germans are good, but a BMW makes you look like a dick, a merc makes you look like a banker AND a dick, an Audi makes you look like a dick with no manner of eye for shape and Porsche design their cars with tracing paper.... AND make you look like a dick. That sort of leaves VW in my book, and a Golf makes you look like an 18 year old, a Caravelle makes it look like your life is over and you are waiting to die, especially in prosthesis white, Touareg is pointless and expensive... That leaves Passat and Phaeton (Notice how I'm not even starting on the Fox/Lupo nonsense)

Alfa Romeos are nice, but who has the maintenance coin to keep one..?  

[Ali]

.......And that's why I roll a Honda.  Makes you look as firmly unexceptional as you are. 

[En_Route]

Looking forward to the forthcoming Annual Shoelace Collectors Convention.

[Recusant]

Looking forward to the forthcoming Annual Shoelace Collectors Convention.

Are they going to have a seminar on carbon fiber aglets?

[Asmodean]

.......And that's why I roll a Honda.  Makes you look as firmly unexceptional as you are. 

Makes you look like a human being in a Honda. Unless it's one of them dreadful Civics, in which case we are back to looking like a kid who couldn't afford a mid-sized sedan or STV... Unless it is in pensioner green.

Generally, Golf-sized cars are ok for city dwellers too, but personally, I wouldn't want to own one. Beats walking by far and wide, but still... What if I bought a ridiculously large TV and wanted to get it home? What if I wanted to help a friend move? What if I had four passengers I cared enough about to want to make them comfortable?