Depends on state I guess, in California I'm pretty sure the speed limit on all freeways is 55 or maybe 60, and that's despite the fact that most of the areas they are in hardly even get rain, and rarely gets cold enough for ice to form.
I agree completely, especially on the long wide open highways that hardly anyone even uses. When I first heard about the speed limits most other places have I was surprised and confused.
I think in Cali most highways are 70, however it's 55 for trucks and anything pulling a trailer, that's part of the reason it sucks to drive a big truck through California. 55 is the limit. California is terrible, don't go there.
I don't think I've EVER seen a 70 mph speed limit sign 65 is the highest I think we might have here. But either way Cali has relatively Yugo friendly highways.
Here's a terrible car. Believe it or not, I'd take a Toyota Prius over this thing. At least the Prius would be more reliable in a crash and it wouldn't explode and barbecue me.
Oh ok thanks want to see the worst car ever i didnt know that was a ford pinto that car is on fire. --- Post updated --- Here it is the weirdest car ever.
I'd say the Smart cars are among the worst cars, overall they are pretty useless for everything other than the cuteness factor and IIRC they use lots of Mercedes parts so that should say a lot about the maintenance costs. there really isn't any reason to want one. The Pinto and Yugo at least served a purpose(an economy car and a dirt cheap car respectively) Nothing is really that bad about the pinto though, they are just known for catching on fire in rear end crashes but there isn't really anything that makes them any more prone to it than any other car with a rear fuel tank(rather than mid)
I'm willing to debate it, but I believe that the Pinto has potential to be the worst car Ford ever made. This car was extremely dangerous in rear end collisions, due to poor construction involving the gas tank. Upon rear end collisions, the fuel tank would rupture, and there was also a risk of fumes getting in the passenger compartment. You could even end up locked inside this car as it bursts into flames, because the doors would be jammed shut in the collision. About 27 - 180 people died because of this car. To make things worse, Ford didn't do shit about it. They just let this slide, and there was even a few court cases because of it. I believe they did fix the problem toward the end of the Pinto's production, but it was already too late. This crash test video sums up how dangerous it was. Over 3,000,000 of these deathtraps were built. You could offer me one for free, and I still wouldn't take it. Gimme something safer.
So out of three million cars built there were only 27 to 180 deaths due to a failure of the car? Keep in mind that not every death was an individual car. I'm no expert but those numbers seem well within acceptable levels.
Makes me more interested in that 1971 Impala. What a lovely big boaty car. Barely took any damage. If the car was designed safer, that number could've been even lower. What really gets me is that Ford didn't do anything about it until one investigation and two court cases later. Here's some pictures I found online. A little something I did. The Pinto in a nutshell.
They didn't do anything about it for so long because the death rate was within acceptable levels as I said before, and if they made it safer they probably would have had to make other compromises.
