Most Americans just don't want small cars

[Bloodshot Scott]

That's the problem with third-world countries:

People are allowed to drive a vehicle without insurance.

This would not happen in Germany

And third-world areas America does have. I won't front - my neighborhood has some great citizens (my parents' neighbor is a lawyer and they just put in a retaining wall the size of Fort Knox) but you head a mile south or so and the ghettoness starts to show. A cop was shot and killed just about one mile south of where they're at and just a few houses down from them a year ago someone was robbed at gunpoint. They've also been robbed a couple times which is why my dad started packing (that and because "liberals told him he should'nt be able to pack") . A mile north and it starts to get exponentially better. My university though was only a couple miles from my place in a somewhat ghetto area but pretty much everything else is right there in the city. Keep going west and you are in Downtown. Living in the city is a blessing and with the crime increase over particularly the last few decades a curse as well.

I would love to drive my one-gallon holding Aero that gets over 100MPG but it's just too risky with all the accidents on the big street there. Someday I might get ballsy enough but you also have to understand six months of the year there is snow and ice on the roads so that kind of undermines the whole point of the bike. IF gas hits 6, 7 or 8+ dollars a gallon that thing will be crucial though. It also will never lose its value despite it being an '84.

 

[ShikokuKichiguy]

My car sits in the driveway 25 days/month on avg....used when the mrs & I head out together.

Fiscally conservative, eh?

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

My car sits in the driveway 25 days/month on avg....used when the mrs & I head out together.

Fiscally conservative, eh?

Ride the Metro Transit maybe? I have them a few blocks to my south and a couple to my west. But I just love my badass car too damn much. I've been driving half my life now too so I am just damn spoiled.

 

[Will E Worm]

Ride a bike?

Riding a bike is for recreation. That is all.

 

[Facetious]

Also if this were all about pickups then no not every farmer is going to use a pickup.[/url] You don't harvest say corn for instance with a pickup. Farmers have more specialized tools for that.

I think that you're getting a bit subjective here... OK, I'll play... Farms essentially employ the use of a field forman, an owner, a principal, or as I used to say, an M.F.I.C. (Motherf'er In Charge) who gives guidance, direction and orders to the rank and file workforce, they're the ones in pick up trucks!. :1orglaugh

However trucks are largely popular with average folk who raise horses, haul furniture and junk around (ever see a junk man?) or people that like the new high fashion pickups that aren't meant for labor.

Ok, for some, trucks may be fashionable, while for others, they may be useful for people who goof of with their play horses, but let's not lose sight of the fact that the good 'ol pick em up trucks are also used in the function of utility, maintenance and management for both farming and construction alike. Oh, sure, there might be a handful of eccentric types who wish to make a statement by driving their subaru around the farm, but for the most part, p/u trucks get the nod.

So yes I think farmers could do without pickups.

Operative word, ''could''.

Now if you had said tractors? I would say no; they legitimately need those.

Now we've come full circle....

 

[Boothbabe]

Ride a bike?

Riding a bike is for recreation. That is all.

Really? Then why do millions of people all over the world ride their bike to work every single day. The Netherlands for instance has a bicycle culture, it's one of the most used forms of transportation over here wich proves your statement (and how you love to present them as facts) is bs. You may think you possess some kind of truth but you don't. If you went into the world sometime you'd see your opinion is just one of milions so You Might as well stop thinking you're above everyone else because your not.

 

[Will E Worm]

Really? Then why do millions of people all over the world ride their bike to work every single day. The Netherlands for instance has a bicycle culture, it's one of the most used forms of transportation over here wich proves your statement (and how you love to present them as facts) is bs. You may think you possess some kind of truth but you don't. If you went into the world sometime you'd see your opinion is just one of milions so You Might as well stop thinking you're above everyone else because your not.

The rest of the world can do as they wish.

This is America. We will do as we wish. That is not riding a bike to work.
It's bad enough most people hate their jobs.

 

[Boothbabe]

This is America. We will do as we wish. That is not riding a bike to work.

You can be sure a lot of people in the US are riding their bikes to work wich makes another one of your statements complete bs. In fact, if you do a Google search for "riding my bike to work" you'll get loads of hits about people in America who do it every day. You really need to stop thinking you are the voice of every single person in America. The more you act like you are, the dumber it makes you look. It shows you are completely unable to look beyond your own small little world.

 

[lurkingdirk]

Ride a bike?

Riding a bike is for recreation. That is all.

I live in America.

This is a stupid post.

Ride a bike whenever you can. It will not only save you gas money, it will help you be less fat.

But, as Will loves fast food and big cars, I'm guessing he'll just think this is a dumb idea. I'm fine with that. He's welcome to heart attacks and adult onset diabetes.

 

[Will E Worm]

You can be sure a lot of people in the US are riding their bikes to work

Not where I live. It's too far to work. :tongue:

Which makes my comment correct.

I live in America.

And :dunno:

Ride a bike whenever you can. It will not only save you gas money, it will help you be less fat.

Wrong. Many people do nothing and are skinny.

In America you have the right to be fat, skinny, eat any food you want, drive what you want, do as you wish. :tongue:

You must hate freedom.

 

[Jon S.]

Wrong. Many people do nothing and are skinny.

In America you have the right to be fat, skinny, eat any food you want, drive what you want, do as you wish. :tongue:

You must hate freedom.

Though I can't speak for his lurkingness, the only things I really hate are idiots, morons, and those who demonstrate time and time again that they are "probably" brain dead (I'm pretty sure you know the type)......those are the types who tend not know how to properly use the freedoms that Americans are blessed to have.

Oh yeah, I also HATE fucking fat ass pant loads.....you know about 75% of the U.S. population anymore. I always had great disdain for fat asses......because they are the ones responsible for their own plight and they can't seem to realize the only way to turn it around is through eating right, eating the right portion sizes, AND EXERCISE!!!!!!!!!! Sorry Worm, all of these fat asses are going to be taxing our medical resources for years to come unless we change. For fucks sake, they were even too fucking cheap and misguided in this country for years that they had stopped putting in sidewalks until recently. And for the record, I was NEVER fat until recent years....and I am working on losing 50 pounds myself....but that hasn't changed the great disdain I have for fat asses....nope, not one bit!

Don't you think the fact that we have kids in elementary school developing Type-2 diabetes (also known as ADULT onset) a sign that things need to change? Just because you have freedoms doesn't mean that you do not have a duty to excercise them in a RESPONSIBLE manner! It's mindsets like yours that has this once fine nation viewed with such disdain by the rest of the world! You might be proud that we are becoming a nation of fat assed, worthless, and uneducated rubes......but I for one am not! We're basically a nation of petulant little kids. Kids are the ones who are supposed want to get what they want when they want it.....adults are supposed to have at least a little sense about them.

Though I think this was addressed already in this thread.....why the fuck don't we have a functional mass transit system in this country like the rest of the world has (think highspeed rail)? Seriously!?!?!?!? Why are we #1 again? I keep hearing it, but the reason always escapes me! If we are really #1 we should be leading by example.....instead, time and time again, we seem to be showing the rest of the world WHAT NOT TO DO! It's sad but true. Historically though, the U.S. usually figures out the rest of the world was right.....it just usally takes us 50-100 years to do so. Just sayin'!

 

[Will E Worm]

eating the right portion sizes, AND EXERCISE!!!!!!!!!!

That's only one part. Some of it is inherited and medical conditions and other things. Let's not bring that up. :tongue:

Sorry Worm, all of these fat asses are going to be taxing our medical resources for years to come unless we change.

Illegals and people without insurance are more to blame than portly people.

functional mass transit system in this country

Most people do not want it and then you have to think about the country and rural areas. They don't want it either.

 

[guitarnnblack]

I drive a Dodge d50. Biggest bed in it's class, 6.5ft! Oh and for the record, We use my truck for moving things because it sucks to laod anything into a truck that sits 4ft off the ground.
Also have an VW MK1 Scirocco, just for fun!

 

[ShikokuKichiguy]

That's only one part. Some of it is inherited and medical conditions and other things. Let's not bring that up. :tongue:

>50% of which be can be changed/helped via a healthy diet

Illegals and people without insurance are more to blame than portly people.

:rofl2:

 

[Supafly]

That's all I have to say for now :2 cents:

 

[Petra]

Though I think this was addressed already in this thread.....why the fuck don't we have a functional mass transit system in this country like the rest of the world has (think highspeed rail)? Seriously!?!?!?!? Why are we #1 again? I keep hearing it, but the reason always escapes me! If we are really #1 we should be leading by example.....instead, time and time again, we seem to be showing the rest of the world WHAT NOT TO DO! It's sad but true. Historically though, the U.S. usually figures out the rest of the world was right.....it just usally takes us 50-100 years to do so. Just sayin'!

This kind of puzzles me as well. That and the fact to travel by rail costs as much as an airline ticket...wonder if lobbiyists for the auto industry have any impact on why we haven't set up a good transit infrastructure yet. :dunno:

 

[max0rz]

I'd well believe the poll results in the OP.

However, just because they ''really don't want small cars'' doesn't mean the rest of us have to bend over, grab ankles and go f*ck up the enviroment somewheres drilling for more oil or go off on stupid missions to foreign lands, kicking up all manner of trouble trying to steal their oil.

You guys and gals can have your freedom to buy gas guzzling suvs and we'll have our freedom not to just blindly accommodate you.

 

[feller469]

part of the problem of not having a quality high speed rail system is how do you get around when you get where you are going?

 

[lurkingdirk]

This kind of puzzles me as well. That and the fact to travel by rail costs as much as an airline ticket...wonder if lobbiyists for the auto industry have any impact on why we haven't set up a good transit infrastructure yet. :dunno:

Sure they do. If you get some serious separation of the North American auto industry and big-oil from politics, you'd see a huge push to build a mass transit system. I think it would be extremely well received, and I think it would revolutionize this nation at least as much as the Interstate Highway system project did.

 

[PrairieStud]

I actually think the complete opposite is happening. I was just remarking to my wife the other day that out of the 20 or so cars stopped at the traffic light only about 7 were either a truck or an SUV. The rest were sedans or 2 door cars. I have been noticing that alot more cars are on the road lately which is great. As to the increase in truck sales, could this be due to the increase of possible contract sales to government agencies who are retooling thier fllet of worker trucks? Also, trucks will always be needed in the US, its just good to see the declinbe of the suburban, escalade and tahoe type vehicles. It really pissed me off seeing a soccer ball in the window of some little fake blonde thing tooling around talking on the phone with a starbucks in the other hand and no one but herself in the car.
I also see a rise back to the minivan since they are based off a car chasis and they have to perform to car standards unlike those big SUV's who function under the truck regulations.

Here in Alberta I'd say pickup trucks out number cars by 2:1. Easily.