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Originally Posted by jester
Then we are in agreement!!!!!
I HATE the soccer moms who have the super monster truck, and the only off roading they do is when they drive on the sidewalk because it is to much vehicle for them to handle...
I know so many idiots who have monester trucks like that and they have my contempt. What is even funnier, is in metro LA they have 4 wheel drives and it rains, they put their vehicles in 4 wheel drive! ARGH!!!! someone shoot me now!
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About the "soccer moms" that seem to be an international type as we have one at my daughter school but that goes with the mom more than with the car. The bigger the car the less caring they have to give.
A small story about this (true one as I have an eyewitness to it): a man (obviously wealthy) is trying to find a parking space for its large Jaguar. After 30 minutes running around the block he finally find one. A little girl (in her 20's) jumped in with her tiny austin mini. The guy is mad and ask her to leaving pointing out that he was there first (he is right about this). Her answer is "I'm young and pretty, I can do as I please". The man doesn't say a word, gets back to his car, puts it on rear and crushes the austin mini. He goes out before leaving and tells her "I'm old, mean and I have the best insurance, have a good day". Then, he left the spot while the girl was crying on her ruined car. I hope I have been clear as I love that one.
About the guys putting there FWD with rain that might be justified. I have a small suzuki jimny (really tiny) and I'm in the mountain so i'm using it often. However, when it rains, if you don't put the FWD on you have a good chance to jump off the cliff after two or three turns. That is also true when driving on a nice strait road. It is the only problem that I can see with this car. Otherwise, you can almost climb trees with it. By the way my other car is a regular drive one but with reinforced floor as the roads in my area are not that good. Most roads have only enough room for one car but they are two ways with trucks and buses taking them. I'm laughing my ass off each time I see some city guy with a Hummvee; strangely only city guys have Hummvees.
In my area the most common FWD will be japanese models with Lada Niva coming second and Land rovers (mostly older models) coming third.