What do you drive and why do you drive it?
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Socks on, socks off
If you decide you like Smart, and always have been looking for a car that ain´t usefull, or practical, in any way and virtually impossible to drive duting the winter - you should try to get your hands on one of these:
The Smart Crossblade, only some 2 500 were made
I took one for a test drive a couple of years back and that was a really odd experience. Have you, during 20 minutes of testdriving a car, ever laughed your socks off, and I don´t mean for like 2-3 minutes, I mean - the entire testdrive..?!
Thought so. Neither had I, thus defining the experience really odd (and earns the crossblade a seat at my "cars wanted" table along with Porsche 911 Carerra 4S, Aston Martin Vanquish and BMW M5).
If you decide you like Smart, and always have been looking for a car that ain´t usefull, or practical, in any way and virtually impossible to drive duting the winter - you should try to get your hands on one of these:
The Smart Crossblade, only some 2 500 were made
I took one for a test drive a couple of years back and that was a really odd experience. Have you, during 20 minutes of testdriving a car, ever laughed your socks off, and I don´t mean for like 2-3 minutes, I mean - the entire testdrive..?!
Thought so. Neither had I, thus defining the experience really odd (and earns the crossblade a seat at my "cars wanted" table along with Porsche 911 Carerra 4S, Aston Martin Vanquish and BMW M5).
Sassylassie said:
Gawd, I hope what I drive doesn't say anything about me.
I drive a monster Ford F150. It's a "practical" vehicle. I used to drive fun cars ... a 62 Austin Healy Sprite convertible, a 69 Old Cutlass Supreme convertible, an original Austin Mini. The one vehicle that actually mattered was a 1992 Harley, straight out of the shipping crate.
If it has four wheels, it's transportation. If it has two wheels and wakes the neighbours when you rev it, it's a personal statement for me. 
In a perfect world with perfect people, little "Smart Cars" would be the way to go. Unfortunately, it is not a perfect world and we are not perfect people. A lot of us drive big, powerful, full sized cars and even bigger, over sized, pickups that would smash a smart car flat along with anyone who had the misfortune to be in it. I don't drive a full sized car or a pickup, but nor am I going to endanger my family in one of those upholstered rollerskates.
I would drive a Smart Car in the city I live in. I would be about as safe in it as I would be walking around....I wouldn't take it out on the 400 series highways though...
I'm just not willing to shell out 16K for one. They are highly over priced IMO.
I'm just not willing to shell out 16K for one. They are highly over priced IMO.
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Here is a picture of me with my brand new 2002 Smart Cabrio!
In the city the car is WONDERFUL. I, 187 cm long, actually sat better in my Smart than I did in my 1999 VW Golf I had prior to the Smart. The bad thing with Smart on the highway is windsensitivity. Also, mine was limited to 135 kmh, but with the AC on full speed it would´nt go faster than 115-120 kmh :lol:. I felt that was enough though, only got a speeding ticket one with that car (67 kmh at a 50 kmh road in Stockholm).Jay said:
I would´nt say they are expensive, but they do cost alot (there is a difference). I gave 23 500 $ for my Smart cabrio with most equipment, got 14 300 $ for it after three years, 55 000 km. So worth it!Jay said:
Here is a picture of me with my brand new 2002 Smart Cabrio!
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HI Thulin,
I love the term sossekontainer, and the reason for it! We have admired and owned Volvos for a long time, if I could, I would own one of these increasingly rare P1800 ES (I even found a rare on to post, ha ha!):
Thanks! Ours had that crank as well, all 2CVs did. It really is a masterpiece of design when you think of it. Your battery dies, your starter dies, you're still going where you want to go with that crank. Excellent for getting out of sticky situations.
We did love our 2CV, the only thing that was wrong with it was us buying it too late in our lives. It is a car best suited to the young and insane rather than the old and insane, :lol: which we found out on a road trip with her.
HI Thulin,
thulin said:
I love the term sossekontainer, and the reason for it! We have admired and owned Volvos for a long time, if I could, I would own one of these increasingly rare P1800 ES (I even found a rare on to post, ha ha!):
Thanks! Ours had that crank as well, all 2CVs did. It really is a masterpiece of design when you think of it. Your battery dies, your starter dies, you're still going where you want to go with that crank. Excellent for getting out of sticky situations.
We did love our 2CV, the only thing that was wrong with it was us buying it too late in our lives. It is a car best suited to the young and insane rather than the old and insane, :lol: which we found out on a road trip with her.
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I agree with what your saying, but for just a little more I could purchase a Honda Civic, and the resell on it would be similar...I don't but Civics though.....
The picture of your car is great, though it looks like some crazy guy is just about to drive away in it!!
thulin said:
I agree with what your saying, but for just a little more I could purchase a Honda Civic, and the resell on it would be similar...I don't but Civics though.....
The picture of your car is great, though it looks like some crazy guy is just about to drive away in it!!
#juan said:
The Smart car might just surprise you in that regard:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6605730767077503480&q=crash
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Haggis McBagpipe
These days Volvo is more a luxury car than back in the 1980:s, I mean the 740 was to the swedes what the Trabant was to the people of DDR! Now a days only like 1/5 of all the cars in Sweden is a Volvo... :lol:
If you are going to buy a P1800, you have to buy the "station wagon" model (the one on your picture) with the backdoor in glass - that is a beuty! Now be a good girl and buy a pink one!!
Haggis McBagpipe
These days Volvo is more a luxury car than back in the 1980:s, I mean the 740 was to the swedes what the Trabant was to the people of DDR! Now a days only like 1/5 of all the cars in Sweden is a Volvo... :lol:
If you are going to buy a P1800, you have to buy the "station wagon" model (the one on your picture) with the backdoor in glass - that is a beuty! Now be a good girl and buy a pink one!!
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The station wagon is the ONLY one to have, I agree. My good god but they are beautiful things. And the pink one . . . yeah, THAT'S going to happen. What a terrible thing to do to a beautiful car like that. :lol: Why, it's a Mary Kay Volvo. Actually, that is really funny now that I think of it.
It is strange to learn that so few people in Sweden now drive Volvos. I would never have suspected.
The thing I don't like about the new Volvo is, it has totally lost the unique Volvo-ness. Used to be you could always recognize a Volvo, but now you have to search for that logo and bar on the grill.
Are there many of the old turtle-back Volvos over there? You never see them here anymore:
thulin said:
The station wagon is the ONLY one to have, I agree. My good god but they are beautiful things. And the pink one . . . yeah, THAT'S going to happen. What a terrible thing to do to a beautiful car like that. :lol: Why, it's a Mary Kay Volvo. Actually, that is really funny now that I think of it.
It is strange to learn that so few people in Sweden now drive Volvos. I would never have suspected.
The thing I don't like about the new Volvo is, it has totally lost the unique Volvo-ness. Used to be you could always recognize a Volvo, but now you have to search for that logo and bar on the grill.
Are there many of the old turtle-back Volvos over there? You never see them here anymore:
Haggis McBagpipe
I searched "Bytbil", a swedish database for cars that are for sale. Found nine PV (1 400 - 15 000$), four Amazon (4 400 - 15 000 $) and eight P1800 (11 700 - 20 300$).
Personally, I have always been weak for the Amazon coupé. The 1964 model, 235 000 km one below will be yours for only 7 000 $!
I searched "Bytbil", a swedish database for cars that are for sale. Found nine PV (1 400 - 15 000$), four Amazon (4 400 - 15 000 $) and eight P1800 (11 700 - 20 300$).
Personally, I have always been weak for the Amazon coupé. The 1964 model, 235 000 km one below will be yours for only 7 000 $!
thulin said:
Oh my good god that car is a masterpiece! That just happens to be my second most favourite era for Volvo, in fact. I can't believe the mileage is so low, that is amazing.
I want that car!! Once I show my husband, all hell will break loose. :lol: I'm a fiend for that era, he is an absolutely nut job for it.
:mumum: GRRRR ... you know all those acronyms for "Ford" ... "Found On Roadside Dead" .... "Fix Or Repair Daily" ... piece of crap truck of mine has me creating ones the auto censor here would snip.
Starters. Fords and starters. I had mine replaced. It was a bad starter (not a rebuild, but a new one from the dealer). Of course I never got around to having it replaced. I hate mechanical stuff and kinda think if you ignore it long enough, it will miraculously heal itself.
Today I was going to put Canucklehead on the plane to fly back east to get his stuff, and the Ford decided it was a good day not to start. I'm crawling around under the damn thing in a dark parking garage with a frickin lighter, trying to remember where the hell the starter was so I could bash it with a hammer. Never did remember.
Poor Canucklehead ... speed dialed a cab which guaranteed to get him there on time. Man. My Harley never gave me this kind of grief. If it did, at least I could fix the damn thing myself.
Starters. Fords and starters. I had mine replaced. It was a bad starter (not a rebuild, but a new one from the dealer). Of course I never got around to having it replaced. I hate mechanical stuff and kinda think if you ignore it long enough, it will miraculously heal itself.
Today I was going to put Canucklehead on the plane to fly back east to get his stuff, and the Ford decided it was a good day not to start. I'm crawling around under the damn thing in a dark parking garage with a frickin lighter, trying to remember where the hell the starter was so I could bash it with a hammer. Never did remember.
Poor Canucklehead ... speed dialed a cab which guaranteed to get him there on time. Man. My Harley never gave me this kind of grief. If it did, at least I could fix the damn thing myself.
Cosmo said::mumum: GRRRR ... you know all those acronyms for "Ford" ... "Found On Roadside Dead" .... "Fix Or Repair Daily" ... piece of crap truck of mine has me creating ones the auto censor here would snip.
Starters. Fords and starters. I had mine replaced. It was a bad starter (not a rebuild, but a new one from the dealer). Of course I never got around to having it replaced. I hate mechanical stuff and kinda think if you ignore it long enough, it will miraculously heal itself.
Today I was going to put Canucklehead on the plane to fly back east to get his stuff, and the Ford decided it was a good day not to start. I'm crawling around under the damn thing in a dark parking garage with a frickin lighter, trying to remember where the hell the starter was so I could bash it with a hammer. Never did remember.
Poor Canucklehead ... speed dialed a cab which guaranteed to get him there on time. Man. My Harley never gave me this kind of grief. If it did, at least I could fix the damn thing myself.
That's what you get for driving a gas-guzzling truck, Cos, ha ha! Seriously, there is one time when a car or truck is guaranteed to break, and that's when you have somewhere you have to be in record time.
The key to 'repairs by hammer' is, when you can't remember the location of a part, is to bash the whole engine with the hammer, then move on to the vehicle body, for good measure. :lol:
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Canucklehead called ... he made his plane. whew
Haggis ... I was sorely tempted to use your method. I had already considered it while I was down there crawling around on the cold cement. I did kinda whack around underneath, hitting everything I could reach with the hammer, but obviously I didn't hit the starter. I know what it looks like, but can't remember where the damn thing is. grrrrrrrr
Of course when I go down this afternoon, it will start flawlessly. You are correct ... the only time it quits is when it really matters. Piece of $#it.
Canucklehead called ... he made his plane. whew
Haggis ... I was sorely tempted to use your method. I had already considered it while I was down there crawling around on the cold cement. I did kinda whack around underneath, hitting everything I could reach with the hammer, but obviously I didn't hit the starter. I know what it looks like, but can't remember where the damn thing is. grrrrrrrr
Of course when I go down this afternoon, it will start flawlessly. You are correct ... the only time it quits is when it really matters. Piece of $#it.