Marketing speak gone wild
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@jaming said:
This is true; however, some of those people probably do need a truck at least part time.
It would be more economical for a lot of people to simply rent one when/if they needed one.
I think I read once that it's somewhere between status symbol and some form of tax break? If I go to the local equivalent of home depot and buy more than I can fit in the back of my clio, they've got a bunch of 750kg trailers that are free the first 2 hours.
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Just a way of life in my area. When January and February hit, the only vehicles that can reliably make it anywhere are the big 4x4 pickup trucks. Even 4x4 SUVs have trouble, you gotta have weight to stick to the road through the ice and snow.
I had a college roommate from Texas. He showed up in the tiniest Ford hatchback I've ever seen in my life. I seriously think the tires were about 16" diameter, and it couldn't move for weeks at a time when winter hit.
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They were laughing their tails off telling us about roaring around the DC beltway, one guy driving, one guy trying to read the map, and the third holding the door open to make the light come on.
I'm not too impressed with the idea of a bunch of soi-disant "engineers" who didn't have a flashlight and didn't think to run to the nearest store to buy one.
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I had a college roommate from Texas. He showed up in the tiniest Ford hatchback I've ever seen in my life. I seriously think the tires were about 16" diameter, and it couldn't move for weeks at a time when winter hit.
That's pretty funny. I used to drive a Geo Metro in college and I used to drive that all over around hilly New England roads in the winter. The difference is probably that your roommate was from Texas, not a place that has lots of snow.
They should send everyone down here up north in the winter to learn how to drive in snow and ice.
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But then we don't get to have clips of people failing to drive in the snow and ice!
Filed under: Seriously, you're going to try taking that turn at 35 Mph? Well, Your loss I guess...
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I'm not too impressed with the idea of a bunch of soi-disant "engineers" who didn't have a flashlight and didn't think to run to the nearest store to buy one.
But they had a light right there! And a way to turn it on! You just hate fun. Also, getting off the DC beltway if you don't know where you're going is a recipe for getting hopelessly lost. Getting off if you have an idea of where you're going is just a recipe for getting lost for 15 or 20 minutes or so.
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ut, speaking of Fusions, it really would be more economical if @blakeyrat drove a Toyota Yaris and rented a Fusion when he needed one.
Bizarre as it sounds, this is basically what I do. I own nothing but 2 seat sports cars, stuff that isn't road legal and my truck (which is also a 2 seater). Need something else (like, say, a normal people car?) for a few days? Rental agency!
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They should send everyone down here up north in the winter to learn how to drive in snow and ice.
It wouldn't work. Everyone in Michigan forgets about winter driving in the summer and they have to learn over again the first time it snows.
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didn't think to run to the nearest store to buy one
But who would want to do that when you can literally hold the door of a minivan open whilst driving on the highway instead?
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@FrostCat said:
They should send everyone down here up north in the winter to learn how to drive in snow and ice.
It wouldn't work. Everyone in Michigan forgets about winter driving in the summer and they have to learn over again the first time it snows.
Ok, so we won't send them to Michigan. Upstate NH would probably work.
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How about Siberia?
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But, I want to start by sending Rick Perry to Siberia...
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But, I want to start by sending Rick Perry to Siberia...
That's crazy talk. There are many more people you should send before him.
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Don't worry, there's plenty of room in Siberia for all of them.
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@ijij said:
They were laughing their tails off telling us about roaring around the DC beltway, one guy driving, one guy trying to read the map, and the third holding the door open to make the light come on.
I'm not too impressed with the idea of a bunch of soi-disant "engineers" who didn't have a flashlight and didn't think to run to the nearest store to buy one.
Why do you make me look up words like "soi-disant"....
They didn't carry the tools of their trade in their pockets because they worked in 8" plate steel and 100-ton cranes. Inconvenient
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But they had a light right there! And a way to turn it on! You just hate fun. Also, getting off the DC beltway if you don't know where you're going is a recipe for getting hopelessly lost. Getting off if you have an idea of where you're going is just a recipe for getting lost for 15 or 20 minutes or so.
What he said.
I think they were scared silly they'd end up in the Blue State.
I thought you'd lived in Inner-Beltopia once?
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I own nothing but 2 seat sports cars, stuff that isn't road legal and my truck (which is also a 2 seater).
You drive that truck back and forth to...um.. "Oz"... every day?
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Why do you make me look up words like "soi-disant"....
Because it's an awesome word that carries a nice context of sarcasm.
They didn't carry the tools of their trade in their pockets because they worked in 8" plate steel and 100-ton cranes. Inconvenient
That's as may be but a flashlight isn't exactly a tool of the trade, it's something everyone should have.
I think they were scared silly they'd end up in the Blue State.
I thought you'd lived in Inner-Beltopia once?
Maybe I just have better-than-average direction sense, but I never had much problem navigating DC.
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Maybe I just have better-than-average direction sense, but I never had much problem navigating DC.
DC, being largely laid out on a grid, can be done, though one way stuff can get you into trouble. But especially Virginia, where most places aren't grid based, is a real PITA if you're not familiar with the roads where you're going. I suppose it's not so bad in this day and age of ubiquitous GPS. But there's plenty of things that look simple on a map, but then you get there are realize you can't get there from here. And correcting a mistake can lead to a large detour.
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Naw. That epic journey happens in the Subaru BRZ. One of the world's highest mileage examples...