I don't think On-Star is much of a comfort service, I think it's a bit more "I've crashed and my legs are severed and I'm on fire can I get an ambulance?" service.
pphahaha dude.| No it isn't, well it is, but in actuality it is roadside assistance. Technically speaking if you are swav enough you could probably get them to order you a pizza.
What if you need both? Not a major demographic, of course, and certainly not likely a city-bound one. Or you could argue that they're more luxurious pickups. Or smaller, more offroad-capable buses. Really, it comes down to perspective. Maybe you see mice as smaller capybara, and I see mice as wingless bats. A few TV interviews with arguably pretty cool celebrities I've watched semi-recently seem to highlight an unwritten universal rule: if your parents do it, say it, have it, believe it, or know it, it isn't cool. "That guy tames fire-breathing lion demons for a living? Cool. Oh, he's your dad. That's lame."
Bull! I'm far from old myself, so I kind of understand how an attitude like that can start, but seriously... uncoolness by association and change for its own sake are bad. That's the kind of stuff that, left unchallenged, destroys countries from the inside out. Honestly, I think a lot of the things of our parents' days were cooler than what we have now. Wagons may never have been particularly fun cars, but at least they made sense. Crossovers are pure fashion-oriented garbage, trading the perceived uncoolness of a wagon for the very real stupidity of a unibody, front-based-AWD "SUV". As to the responses to my theory before, after hearing wagons described elsewhere as "unsexy" and "uncool because they're for taking your wife and seven ungrateful kids to see a tourist trap", I guess I figured it was pretty logical to conclude that the death of the wagon started with the moral degradation of the 1960s and 1970s. Speaking of dead body styles, I wish notchbacked coupes were still as common as they once were. Modern hatchbacks are ugly.
What class is a Dodge Citadel? I only ask as their shape includes that cruise control radar monitor for tailgating. Very dumb in the wrong hands, but better than windscreen engrained night vision, imho.
Crossovers actually make some sense, definitely more than traditional SUVs, being smaller and using 4 cyls or V6s mean they get much better gas mileage, being FWD reduces weight, saves more room for storage , albeit the weight savings vanish when adding AWD. Unibody works wonders in increasing space and reducing weight, helping further with the aforementioned better gas mileage. Honestly thinking about it more I'd say that a station wagon and a crossover are probably fairly close in real usefulness. I'd say they're a normal SUV
I was simply comparing, and these are still impractical for a family, but now I want to see these in-game. Especially that tracked one. Relax, relax. I was simply stating an observation, not an opinion. Change for it's own sake is reinventing the wheel at best, I know that well. Still, people grow distant toward otherwise awesome things that they are overly used to. It's just human psychology that you can't be amazed by what you do or see everyday. And if it's any consolation, it works the other way around: "Your dad is a fire-breathing lion demon tamer? That's lame." "You take that back!" Correlation does not necessarily equal causation. The decline of the nuclear family may well be part of why wagons near-vanished, but lots of things in the civil rights era happened for reasons other than the civil rights era happening. The JFK assassination, the race to the moon, 'Nam, the Corvair, the Watergate Scandal, etc. And for the record, I'm not old enough to remember the day the Oklahoma City bombing occurred, and I think wagons are cool.
Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers. Road knowledge helps. Knowledge and confidence in the road has lead to me keeping on the tail of a 911 on the b645 before. Straight line the 911 would win (nearly lost him on the hargrave-chelvestone straight, got him again in the bends at chelvestone). Well driven the 911 would again win. But it wasn't, to me the somewhat erratic braking and total lack of smoothness of the 911 indicated the driver having hit the limits of abilities and/or confidence. I suppose a 15 year old ford focus wagon managing to attack a corner at a speed matching your own is somewhat unnerving for a sports car driver. I certainly couldn't pass him though, I know the spot to take the lead, but it basically means taking the oncoming lane in a tight blind bend, and when we are driving public roads in the daytime without having formally arranged to race, that is a bad idea. My focus is bone stock except for the headunit. Distinctly disliking the religious views that are creeping in. Not so much the views themselves, but the forum is not the place.
Well its about time Alfa Romeo make another sedan, I felt like they were drowning in Hatches & sports cars.
How depressing... Here in BC I think there is a specific license for school buses only. Or certain busses including school busses. Can't remember. EDIT: Nevermind. There are two licenses for all buses, limosines, and taxis. One is to be able to carry more passengers it seems.
That Alfa might be the best looking car I have EVER seen... Here are more pics of it by the way: http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/new-alfa-romeo-giulia-revealed-2015-06-24 It has rear wheel drive, a 3 liter 503hp twin-turbo V6 inspired by Ferrari, 50/50 weight distribution, 0-60 in 3.9 seconds. And it weighs... wait for it... 1500kg... AND IT SOUNDS SO GOOODDD I want it so badly. Such a sexy car. I don't even care if, from the side, it looks a bit like a BMW 3 series, because the front and rear are different enough. Just automotive perfection. In other news: Clarkson apparantly confirmed they're gonna do a car series, probably on Netflix. Please be called House of Cars. And please review the Alfa.
