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122 messages, Last post on Apr 15, 2009 at 5:57 AM
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Replying to: gagrice (Jan 15, 2009 6:38 am) In my case, I think having a car worked out well. I worked 6 days per week, and before I had a car, my grandmother would usually pick me up from school on her way home from work and drop me off at work, and then my Mom would have to come pick me up at 7:30. And someone would have to drive me to work on Saturdays. Out where I live, public transportation is practically non-existent. Although if I had to (and I have) I could have walked from the house to work in about a half-hour. |
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Replying to: larsb (Jan 15, 2009 6:50 am) If you want a safe vehicle for teenagers, I'd suggest something reasonably large but boring, and not designed for performance...think older Camry or Taurus. |
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Replying to: grbeck (Jan 15, 2009 7:07 am) It was fairly low to the ground and handled pretty well. It really only seated 2 and was as slow as molasses. |
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Replying to: larsb (Jan 15, 2009 6:23 am) LOL. Just wait until you tell him that. I'd love to be a fly on the wall at your house when he starts to whine that no girl will date him because he rides "the loser cruiser" (bus). Then again, maybe your son will see the wisdom you have acquired throughout your life and agree with you 100%. Yea, right! 
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Replying to: oldfarmer50 (Jan 15, 2009 8:46 am)
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Replying to: larsb (Jan 15, 2009 8:53 am)
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Replying to: gagrice (Jan 15, 2009 9:00 am) I once read that one of the most common accidents between two vehicles are rear end accidents. My old insurance agent suggested the same thing you just did because the Pick-up had a ladder frame protecting the cab from any accidents from the rear. The front frame on a pick-up had additional steel added to carry the engine and transmission. My son had a truck and still I added big rock guards on both sides to add to side impact resistance. I do see the wisdom of putting your kids on a Bus. It is even bigger than a SUV or Truck. I do question the dating aspect for young men but if they are commuting to work it should work fine. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Jan 14, 2009 8:51 am)
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Replying to: nwng (Jan 15, 2009 12:47 pm)
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Replying to: gagrice (Jan 15, 2009 2:32 pm) Which profile fits you Gary? 1. According to Bradsher, internal industry market research concluded that S.U.V.s tend to be bought by people who are insecure, vain, self-centered, and self-absorbed, who are frequently nervous about their marriages, and who lack confidence in their driving skills. 2. Over the past decade, a number of major automakers in America have relied on the services of a French-born cultural anthropologist, G. Clotaire Rapaille, whose speciality is getting beyond the rational—what he calls "cortex"—impressions of consumers and tapping into their deeper, "reptilian" responses. And what Rapaille concluded from countless, intensive sessions with car buyers was that when S.U.V. buyers thought about safety they were thinking about something that reached into their deepest unconscious. "The No. 1 feeling is that everything surrounding you should be round and soft, and should give," Rapaille told me. "There should be air bags everywhere. Then there's this notion that you need to be up high. That's a contradiction, because the people who buy these S.U.V.s know at the cortex level that if you are high there is more chance of a rollover. But at the reptilian level they think that if I am bigger and taller I'm safer. You feel secure because you are higher and dominate and look down. That you can look down is psychologically a very powerful notion. So where do you fall Gary? Which of those categories fit you?
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