we all be driving one of these soon

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:55 pm

I don't think you could keep the front wheels on the ground lol if you did that lol

MegaVectra · Post by **MegaVectra** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:05 pm

"has a distinctive European flair"...by that do they mean the size of a gocart?

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:54 pm

the mileage sucks. the three cylinder Metro got far better mileage

pathetic.

Greg

nitro237 · Post by **nitro237** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:46 am

It's been my experience, the smaller the car, the more likely to be seriously hurt or killed in an accident.

A wreck happened right in front of me on Christmas Eve. A little KIA hit a Ford F150, almost headone, it was left corner of vehicle to left corner. The airbag deployed in the KIA but the driver was still killed instantly. The steering wheel went right through the airbag and the drivers chest. We had to cut the body out.

Small cars scare me.

Err · Post by **Err** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:22 am

nitro237 wrote:It's been my experience, the smaller the car, the more likely to be seriously hurt or killed in an accident.

A wreck happened right in front of me on Christmas Eve. A little KIA hit a Ford F150, almost headone, it was left corner of vehicle to left corner. The airbag deployed in the KIA but the driver was still killed instantly. The steering wheel went right through the airbag and the drivers chest. We had to cut the body out.

Small cars scare me.

They're even scarier to drive. My wife use to have a 93 Ford Festiva. Dandy little car. It had a 1.3L engine and got ~40 mpg. It's still running to this day. However, that car is frightning to drive at speeds above 60. When you would get an excess of 70, the doors would shake.

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:19 pm

Little cars like that really are not made for long trips or highway speeds.. IMHO.. When I lived in Spain, small cars like the Festiva (The Fiesta over there) were popular. But they were the people daily drivers for driving around the city at speeds usually less than 40mph (Highest Speed Limits there were about 70mph, but usually no more than 50mph). When people would go out of town or on longer drives they all had Mercedes & Beamers or larger 4 door cars that were used for those kinds of things..

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:13 pm

Yeah, you'd think that it would have better gas milage. My 10 year old Geo Metro gets much better milage.

Koo Koo Mouse · Post by **Koo Koo Mouse** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:53 pm

I was in a photochop contest a while back with one of "those" things to make it look better.. I cound't think of anything but to but smash it down and add some fat to "it" and make it look faster..
I got One vote from a guy that said It looks different from the rest and liked it. Caught hell from everybody else.. They said I wrecked it.. HUH?
If cars are getting taller than they are long then its time to leave the planet..

darcy · Post by **darcy** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:48 pm

i likie, KKM

Viperoni · Post by **Viperoni** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:06 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJHpUO-S0i8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeCIuOOS ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02eghIfyHP0

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:52 am

Wow, that thing does pretty well for the size. Might have to reconsider, if only it didn't cost as much as a Mercedes as well.

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:35 am

Watch in the first video, when it picks up speed there are a couple of spots where it looked like the front end was almost hopping when it hydroplanes lol

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:41 am

nitro237 wrote:It's been my experience, the smaller the car, the more likely to be seriously hurt or killed in an accident.

A wreck happened right in front of me on Christmas Eve. A little KIA hit a Ford F150, almost headone, it was left corner of vehicle to left corner. The airbag deployed in the KIA but the driver was still killed instantly. The steering wheel went right through the airbag and the drivers chest. We had to cut the body out.

Small cars scare me.

I have the same problem, even though my trusty F-150 is a gas guzzler.

I was sitting stopped at a light a couple of months ago. A good ol' boy in chevy 1/2 ton pickup with a bee in his cab hits me in the rear doing close to 10 mph. Hit me hard enough to need the bumper replaced and popped the leaf springs in the rear out of alignment

. He got the worst of it because my trailer hitch went through his radiator. An annoyance to get my ride fixed, but nothing more. If I had been in a teeny car??

Plus at 6'3'' 240 I simply don't fit in the little stuff.

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:45 am

wvjohn wrote:Plus at 6'3'' 240 I simply don't fit in the little stuff.

I'm 6'5" I know how ya feel there.. The little cars might as well be coffins for me.. I often can't even get the seat belt buckled because it's an inch or two too short..

Err · Post by **Err** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:50 am

wvjohn wrote: If I had been in a teeny car??

Plus at 6'3'' 240 I simply don't fit in the little stuff.

You'd be visiting a Chiropactor one or more times a week. My father-in-law drives box trucks for a food delivery warehouse. He was rear-ended. while setting at a stop light, by a dump truck. His back hurt him for months. I told him he was lucky. He could have been driving his Ford Festiva.