General Car Conversation
10-27-23, 04:42 PM
#7651
Lexus Fanatic
Thread Starter
For me, it’s not angst over crossovers. Sure, people buy and drive what they want. I don’t like driving them as a personal preference and I would prefer not to have one as a rental car in Europe. The handling was poor in both of the crossover rentals I got in Germany. The Kona was less bad than the Citroen. They both felt floaty and disconnected. I did take both to 160 km/h (100 mph) on the non speed controlled sections of the Autobahn. It’s not a comfortable cruising speed for those vehicles. 80 mph is about ideal.
The poor handling of the Kona was exposed while driving on smaller roads with higher speed limits than a similar road in the US would have. It wasn’t well suited for that type of driving (but we made it).
I am not the typical car buyer and market research clearly shows that people like crossovers. I don’t.
The poor handling of the Kona was exposed while driving on smaller roads with higher speed limits than a similar road in the US would have. It wasn’t well suited for that type of driving (but we made it).
I am not the typical car buyer and market research clearly shows that people like crossovers. I don’t.
I promise you a proper RWD crossover with multi-link suspension and a RWD setup handles sustained 100MPH just fine.
So is going 1MPH over the speed limit.
Whom does it affect? If anything it makes people wish they had it.
In any case, people can think I'm rude but I really don't think anyone thinks anything of it. Others do this all the time, too. All I'm doing is edging over a curb... to make the light.
Whom does it affect? If anything it makes people wish they had it.
In any case, people can think I'm rude but I really don't think anyone thinks anything of it. Others do this all the time, too. All I'm doing is edging over a curb... to make the light.
Every time you do that somebody who sees you goes "what a jerk" I promise you. "others do this all the time"? Not anywhere I drive.
10-27-23, 04:47 PM
#7652
Lexus Champion
So is going 1MPH over the speed limit.
Whom does it affect? If anything it makes people wish they had it.
In any case, people can think I'm rude but I really don't think anyone thinks anything of it. Others do this all the time, too. All I'm doing is edging over a curb... to make the light.
Whom does it affect? If anything it makes people wish they had it.
In any case, people can think I'm rude but I really don't think anyone thinks anything of it. Others do this all the time, too. All I'm doing is edging over a curb... to make the light.
10-27-23, 04:55 PM
#7653
Lead Lap
Sidewalks are for walking, it damages the curb and the sidewalk which wasn't designed to have vehicles drive over it, and it shows an arrogance and self importance that is ugly. I can sit behind somebody turning left until the roadway clears, I am not so important that I need to drive up on a sidewalk to save 25 seconds and neither are you.
Every time you do that somebody who sees you goes "what a jerk" I promise you. "others do this all the time"? Not anywhere I drive.
Every time you do that somebody who sees you goes "what a jerk" I promise you. "others do this all the time"? Not anywhere I drive.
10-27-23, 05:04 PM
#7654
Lexus Champion
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Sidewalks are for walking, it damages the curb and the sidewalk which wasn't designed to have vehicles drive over it, and it shows an arrogance and self importance that is ugly. I can sit behind somebody turning left until the roadway clears, I am not so important that I need to drive up on a sidewalk to save 25 seconds and neither are you.
Every time you do that somebody who sees you goes "what a jerk" I promise you. "others do this all the time"? Not anywhere I drive.
Sidewalks are for walking, it damages the curb and the sidewalk which wasn't designed to have vehicles drive over it, and it shows an arrogance and self importance that is ugly. I can sit behind somebody turning left until the roadway clears, I am not so important that I need to drive up on a sidewalk to save 25 seconds and neither are you.
Every time you do that somebody who sees you goes "what a jerk" I promise you. "others do this all the time"? Not anywhere I drive.
Last edited by AJT123; 10-27-23 at 05:09 PM.
10-27-23, 05:14 PM
#7655
Lexus Fanatic
Thread Starter
You're acting like I'm running over the whole sidewalk all the way up to the light or damaging something, or endangering pedestrians. Edging over that small little curb with one tire for literally a second and a half makes me an arrogant and self-important person, ugly person? I think I'm "important"? Dude you are wayyy off. That car in front of me shouldn't even have been there...blocking traffic like idiots pulling out of a shopping center just to block the traffic on the actual road.
10-27-23, 05:20 PM
#7657
Lexus Fanatic
Thread Starter
You asked me why I thought it was rude and I explained to you why.
10-27-23, 05:23 PM
#7658
Lexus Champion
Sorry, driving up on the sidewalk is rude, and I guarantee other people think you are rude when you do that...there is no reason to ever drive up on a sidewalk unless there is some kind of an emergency or a disabled car that cant move or you are getting out of the way of an emergency vehicle or something like that.
You asked me why I thought it was rude and I explained to you why.
You asked me why I thought it was rude and I explained to you why.
If the idiot who CLEARLY pulled out of a shopping center just to block traffic thinks I'm rude, IDC.
10-27-23, 05:26 PM
#7659
Lexus Fanatic
Thread Starter
Curb, sidewalk, its just not necessary to ever do that. The person will be turned and out of your way in a few seconds, you can wait. You would need to drive both wheels over the curb and onto the sidewalk to get around that car.
Last edited by SW17LS; 10-27-23 at 05:30 PM.
10-27-23, 05:31 PM
#7660
Lexus Champion
In any case I'm not the fool who's blocking traffic causing the problem.
10-27-23, 05:32 PM
#7661
Lexus Fanatic
Thread Starter
And the light will turn green again. Its minutes we're talking about here. You're not a doctor on your way to transplant a heart under a deadline. You can wait.
10-27-23, 05:40 PM
#7662
Lexus Test Driver
and fine lets agree that driving over the sidewalk is rude, is that person blocking the lane not also rude?
10-27-23, 05:44 PM
#7663
Lexus Fanatic
Thread Starter
and fine lets agree that driving over the sidewalk is rude, is that person blocking the lane not also rude?
What did acting that way do for that guy? Nothing but harden his arteries and made a fool of himself in front of everybody watching.
10-27-23, 05:52 PM
#7664
Lexus Champion
I never speed on the interstates, ever.
10-27-23, 05:58 PM
#7665
Lexus Fanatic
Thread Starter
I drive along with the flow of traffic in a safe and reasonable way. If I am driving 80 on an interstate, the speed limit is 65-70 and driving that slowly would be unsafe. I am never the fastest car on the highway, one of the fastest perhaps but never the fastest. Driving with the flow of traffic increases safety, it doesn't decrease safety. If I were doing 80 and weaving around everybody else doing 60, you would be right.
Last edited by SW17LS; 10-27-23 at 06:03 PM.