sigh From svelte sprinter to a cross between a shot-putter and an Abrams tank. Somewhere in Germany there's an automotive engineer crying while writing up those design docs.
MEN who love flashy cars really are just compensating for having tiddly todgers, research reveals. Fellas showed more interest in having a sporty motor in psychological tests when they thought they…
more like customer demand. As long as there are idiots buying these cars, the car manufacturers will produce them. So don't only blame the manufacturers on that, which are yet partly responsible for creating them in the first place. It started with the SUV hype. Never understood, why you'd need a SPORTS UTILITY vehicle in a city. Not that there's a lot of hills, woods and rough terrain you'd have to drive through, besides the total ugliness of these models.
Is that an X7? Those things are insanely huge. And drives like a house that transforms into an unreasonably large race car. Fun to drive but too large for any practical use at all outside of use as a getaway car.
What is the model of the BMW grey car (and the other too) ? I try to obtain the real dimension of it because it's enormous and incredible. But the SUV witch is closest to this is the BMW XM (same front). When I read spec, his width is early 202 cm when a BWM 318i build in 2002 (for example) has a width of 173 cm. This photo suggest there is at least 100 cm of difference, maybe more, so it's strange.
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in reply to stux⚡ • • •might be good for a country setting but I bet in the city it's just pointless.
and all that extra metal is going to be shit for fuel efficiency when you constantly have to start+stop tha giant hunk of metal.
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in reply to stux⚡ • • •The fossil fuel industry does all it can to inflate gas demand.
Hyperthyroidal gas guzzlers are part of that.
The oil industry has some very reliable go-to consumers. Religious bigots. Fragile men. Price gouging billionaires. The superficial dark triad types.
Overcompensating masculinity?
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inc.com/chris-matyszczyk/think…
lsureveille.com/221458/opinion…
thesun.co.uk/motors/21026699/m…
What men are overcompensating for when they drive a flashy car revealed...
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more like customer demand. As long as there are idiots buying these cars, the car manufacturers will produce them. So don't only blame the manufacturers on that, which are yet partly responsible for creating them in the first place.
It started with the SUV hype. Never understood, why you'd need a SPORTS UTILITY vehicle in a city. Not that there's a lot of hills, woods and rough terrain you'd have to drive through, besides the total ugliness of these models.
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in reply to stux⚡ • •That thing should be classified as an RV and pay the proper road tax for the extra tonnage.
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Might be good to add size to that. Like occupied space and amount of empty interior. Of the car, not the driver.
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in reply to stux⚡ • • •What is the model of the BMW grey car (and the other too) ? I try to obtain the real dimension of it because it's enormous and incredible. But the SUV witch is closest to this is the BMW XM (same front). When I read spec, his width is early 202 cm when a BWM 318i build in 2002 (for example) has a width of 173 cm. This photo suggest there is at least 100 cm of difference, maybe more, so it's strange.
(and Yes, in all the case SUV are useless)
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