Your first car...

Same here.

 

I love those sandals, my fave of all I have ever had.

 

I road bikes, I drive a smart car, it's got a huge amount of safety items built in and I already know a few people who were smashed up in them or pushed off the road in theirs, survival is as good as any mid sized car at least.
Check it out before you verbally trash it, I feel safer in it then I did on my bikes even tho I never dropped a bike.
It has a tridium safety cell around it which most cars don't, the doors spring open after impact so the jaws of life shouldn't be needed and the engine if impacted past the crash boxes will slip under the seat so it doesn't get you in the back. The seats are like helicopter seats and it has four air bags. The window is further away from the head then most cars meaning less chance of cracking the glass with your forehead in a head on. Safety features in the tires, and there's more. Look it up. They did crash tests against a mid sized mercedes and the smart did quite well. The videos can be seen on utube and unless you must have a great big monster of a truck this car is as good as most on the road. Till date I don't know of anyone who died in one in Canada altho there might be, hey peeps die in accidents all the time. I will say I would rather crash in this car at 60mph then off my bike using my body to make pavement pizza at 60mph.
One cop I knew in Saskatchewan was driving along a highway and an SUV came along side of him, driver sleeping. The SUV smacked the cop off the road, like he would have any car he slammed into, the cop rolled three times and then stopped. The rescue crew could not believe he had a knuckle on the left side of his head from smacking the door glass as would happen in any car and a broken right wrist because he slammed his hand down beside the emergency break. That was it and they were going about a hun 10k along this highway at the time of the push. They lifted the roof glass and slid him out effortlessly. He spent the night on hospital to watch for concussion and off to home he went to rest up.
We have web sites for the smarts and ya, about as many accidents as any cars can be in but the survival rate is not only fair to mid sized cars but possibly slightly better, and no road rash on yer ass if you do get hit, like off a bike.
I am serious about my safety and I paid a good chunk for this car, it's an all dress special edition Brabus and this is the second smart I have owned. So it's not about saving a buck and taking chances, this is my toy. I Love it, it's even almost as fun to drive as the bikes I owned were to ride. The tires alone are worth nearly a grand each, not a cheap car at all.
If I am a smart driver as I was on my bikes and all other cars and motor homes I have owned, I have all the chances most cars on the road have and yet as little chance as many cars if we are talking about your bumper. Good on ya. But a smart car is only small looking from the outside. They have been in Europe for years and are trusted motor vehicles there, why not here, ever been on the Autobahn? I want to drive my smart on that highway some day.
I have it souped up for absolute speed and it goes like crazy. Can pass cars on our mountain roads and gets me where I want to go, even across Canada which my dad did a few times in his smart.
Oh and it's damn cheap to drive, I get about three weeks out of my tiny tank on a fill. Can you say dat? You have that attitude big or nothing so there is no convincing you but I have had a lot of fun in my car, I also have a leisure travel which sits about as high as your truck, for camping, do I hope to smash a small car in it? Na, I am all about driving safely so there,,,, And its not cheap on gas so it's only for camping, not daily commutes to save ma ass from other vehicles.

BTW, this smart car stands taller then my Cross fire and slightly lower at the roof top then my mini van that I use for my work truck. Really, seems most vehicles would stand lower then your bumper. So maybe I just need a tall truck with a big bumper.

 

a sporty 2006 chrystler seabring I loved it

RIP

 

Senior year in high school. The Fall of 1979. A 1963 Plymouth Valiant. Two-door coupe. Faded white exterior. After market bucket seats in front, and cheap at that. Slant six - pushbutton automatic transmission. The man was selling it for two-seventy-five. He sold it to me for two-fifty.

- JKHolman

 

you seem to like lying to yourself. i envy your ability to do so.

have you actually studied anything other then fossil fuel industry propaganda when you say that? i have.

 

I know it well, I once had a '64 fury with the same. :2thumbsup:

 

I ended up coming across a photo of my first car (the backside of it at least) and wanted to share...


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bow chicka wow wow....

rainy showing off her "backside"



you live in california?

 

that's my front side 0.o
oh god, I do still live here..

 

I had a blue sticker on that car that said 'Live Your Dreams'.. I was just reminded of that sticker when I saw this pic, loved it, gotta get another one.

 

is that your natural hair color? it's nice

 

nope
I'm blonde..

 

FIXED......:2thumbsup:



Cheers Glen.

 

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