Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/26/83; site ihuxw.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!whuxlb!pyuxll!eisx!npoiv!npois!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxw!rung From: rung@ihuxw.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: re: Small Cars-flame force 10 Message-ID: <407@ihuxw.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Jul-83 10:29:51 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxw.407 Posted: Fri Jul 8 10:29:51 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Jul-83 16:25:02 EDT References: <157@auvax.UUCP> Organization: BTL Naperville, Il. Lines: 38 You, sir, make me laugh! Your ignorance on long distance interstate driving gives you away! Apparently you have never discussed (in your case I you the term loosely) the topic of small cars with a cross country trucker. For your information, their complaint on small cars is the quick action they are able to take because of their design. Have you ever been hauling several thousand pounds of cattle on a slick wet road when car (of any size) cuts you off and now you have 2 seconds to decrease you inertia? A person who spends tens if not hundreds of thousands on a fine luxury automobile is less like to make such an ignorant move because he values his life (not car) more than making the next exit. Have you ever thought that a person driving a luxury automobile (because he can afford one) has much more to lose financially if he gets hurt in a wreck than the person driving a Chevette. Therefore he drives very defensively. (The exception being those snobs who inherit their fortune rather than achieve it. They don't give a damn and don't appreciate what they have and therefore abuse it.) So the complaint is that drivers of small cars generally speaking drive more offensively than defensively than those who driver larger cars! As for the PIG, you obviously don't drive 50-60K miles per year. If you did, and did it several years in a row in your 13 footer, you probably who have an acute case of spinal curve (it's obvious you already have problems with your spine). Drive your lawn mower if you want it, you have the right. Just don't deny me my right for comfort and luxury while traveling. Pete Rung BTL, Naperville, Ill. PS: Anything 13 feet and under stays in PENs. Great cars rest in stables!!!