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| Thread ID: 61207 | 2005-08-28 10:24:00 | SUV or 4WD or something else? | Elephant (599) | PC World Chat |
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| 384301 | 2005-08-29 03:05:00 | Well I said my moan was about the drivers dropping kids off. Not what they drive to do it. Everyone in Auckland notices the sudden reduction in traffic during school holidays. I don't care if they all own minis - its the mania for DRIVING their little brats to school I hate. | pctek (84) | ||
| 384302 | 2005-08-29 03:08:00 | .............did I ever mention once when I was traveling down a 4 lane road in Auckland in a transit van I saw an entry into McDonalds across the other side so after a quarter of a second look in the mirror I pulled a hard right intending to enter the drive-way at high speed. Pity I didn't see the 2 foot high traffic island separating the lefties from the righties. Muhahahahaha. Resulting in smashing up both front wheels, and launching the van into an aerial maneuver, then crashing to the ground, sliding sideways and hitting the curb, smashing in the left rear wheel. One of the dislodged hub-caps even managed to make its way into the McDonalds car park. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 384303 | 2005-08-29 03:23:00 | .............did I ever mention once when I was traveling down a 4 lane road in Auckland in a transit van I saw an entry into McDonalds across the other side so after a quarter of a second look in the mirror I pulled a hard right intending to enter the drive-way at high speed. Pity I didn't see the 2 foot high traffic island separating the lefties from the righties. Muhahahahaha. Resulting in smashing up both front wheels, and launching the van into an aerial maneuver, then crashing to the ground, sliding sideways and hitting the curb, smashing in the left rear wheel. One of the dislodged hub-caps even managed to make its way into the McDonalds car park. Obviously wasn't during kiddie collection time or you might have taken out a load of mums too. Rather an exciting way to use a drivethrough.... :D |
pctek (84) | ||
| 384304 | 2005-08-29 03:40:00 | Well at least you still ended up at your destination to retreive your hub cap | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 384305 | 2005-08-29 03:43:00 | Not quite. The road island I hit/mounted/used as a launch ramp was on the four lane road.Only the hubcap made it anywhere near the destination. And then I had a lovely chat with a couple of Police type persons who arrived at high-speed in a shreik of sirens, Then I had to orginise the removal of a slightly damaged transit van. Then I had to ring work, explain what had happened to the work wagon and request some transport. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 384306 | 2005-08-29 04:39:00 | [QUOTE=Metla]boo hoo hoo. Amazing. Take a 4WD, do everything in your power to roll it over.It will mean travelling at an unsafe speed and swerving the vechicle wildly. WRONG!!! The pommie program "5th Gear"(Tv1 Sat 2.30) ran a story a while back. They took 1x Range Rover 4x4, 2x normal sedans, fitted the rover with rolllcage, decent seat& belts and sent them all down a straight bit of road. The car in front would slam on it's brakes forcing the following to brake & swerve suddenly. The normal sedan was fine up to around 80MPH when it spun out. The 4x4 managed around 35MPH before rolling. 35MPH is 56KPH folks. This is with only 1 person in it, add more people and the centre of gravity rises making it worse. That is a litte above our residential speed limit, how good would one be at 100+KPH full of kids??? |
rmcb (164) | ||
| 384307 | 2005-08-29 04:52:00 | That’s 1 wagon. And they set out to roll it. Means not a lot. Apart from if you want to have an easy time deliberately rolling a vehicle then that’s the one to get. They set up the trial to roll the wagon, not demonstrate how they could avoid a hazard without rolling. Which they could easily do. If they wanted a real teste they should get 10 average drivers,pull that stunt on them,and then see what teh results are. I would guess no rollovers,but 10 rovers driven into the back of the moron standing on his brakes.And no doubt the Rover would be still drivable and little Johnny safe as houses. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 384308 | 2005-08-29 04:57:00 | Yeah, but don't forget about the unfortunate person in the mini behind the 4WD who can't see around it and goes up it's smelly exhaust pipe, probably neatly decapitating the mini driver in the process :thumbs: | Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 384309 | 2005-08-29 05:47:00 | Most 4X4's would crash into the back of the car and be perfectly safe in doing so, the car on the other hand would be a right off. | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 384310 | 2005-08-29 05:54:00 | My motives for buying the Hummer are not to convert (ya egg); my motives are pure revenge :D BTW how can anyone miss seeing a traffic island on an Auckland main road??? |
Myth (110) | ||
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