Car thread

[$trinick]

I didn't practice parallel parking and I wasn't asked to do it on the test. The little box where they write my score for parallel parking had an X through it. I was kind of scared of parallel parking until I actually ended up having to do it, then it was fine and I had no problem from there on out.

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[Otis Da HousKat]

I didn't have to do it on my test either. We started to and I got lined up with the car in front and the tester just said whatever good enough let's go back.

On my way home from school I saw the wreckage of a Mustang that rear ended a Malibu in an intersection. The Mustang driver looked like some punk who thought he was hot stuff and probably gunned it through the road slush and lost control.

[Night Fox]

I kinda like seeing people like that cause accidents
don't want them to get hurt or anything, but having a fender bender when they're loving aronud is a nice reality check

[devildogelite]

I did my driving test at my high school, it was a joke. We had to drive off campus, go down the road at the speed limit. This is out in the middle of nowhere and it's pretty much a straight road. Pull in at the elementary school which is connected to the campus. Drive back to the rear parking lot and parallel park. I didn't really parallel park, I tapped the curb a little and he guided me through it. I passed and it took me at most like 5 minutes.

In the 2 years I've been driving I've parallel parked only 3 times I can remember. The first time was in driver's ed, was guided through it all. The second time was for my license test. The third time was at college and I had a ton of space. I hope I never move somewhere that parallel parking is required.

[XR-7]

My mom's driving instructor reached over and grabbed the steering wheel to jerk the car off the road to see how well she handled quick situations.

Also, if I were in a small car, I probably wouldn't have any issue with parallel parking.  Last time I drove a small automatic car (minivan size or less) would have been in December (best guess) when I drove my grandparent's Chevrolet HHR.

[Alyx Vance]

Well maybe you shouldn't be driving if you have unchecked vision problems you nimrod.
In all likelihood your instructor will just say forget parallel parking, but it's always a crapshoot.

I've driven before, at night, while it was slightly raining, and there was fog. I also only had one mirror because the other one broke. On top of that the back windshield was fogged.

I can drive just fine

[$trinick]

Wtf, who considers a minivan a small car? Anything with more than 2 doors is not a small car. I barely even consider my own car small, I consider the miata small.

[devildogelite]

Wtf, who considers a minivan a small car? Anything with more than 2 doors is not a small car. I barely even consider my own car small, I consider the miata small.

I really don't think XR-7 drives, a lot of stuff he says just is weird. I'm pretty sure a minivan is pretty much the largest vehicle before you get into vehicles built on truck frames, or old land yachts.

[ABlockOfCheese]

Wtf, who considers a minivan a small car? Anything with more than 2 doors is not a small car. I barely even consider my own car small, I consider the miata small.

I beg to differ, the BMW E30 was small, even the four door models, which look better than the two doors imo.

[Night Fox]

why does the 2013 corvette look like something from a decade ago when it's only a year older than the 2014?

[ResonKinetic]

Wtf, who considers a minivan a small car? Anything with more than 2 doors is not a small car. I barely even consider my own car small, I consider the miata small.

Have you seen the Scion xA? it's a four-door and is quite small.

[Georges]

Have you seen the Scion xA? it's a four-door and is quite small.

no no no, Chevy spark is a small 4 door car.

[ResonKinetic]

no no no, Chevy spark is a small 4 door car.

That thing's a four-door? Wow. Well, the xA was the smallest thing I could think of that wasn't a Smart car or something.

[Night Fox]

toyota aygo

[$trinick]

The Scion xA might be stubby, but it's big and tall. Same with the Toyota Aygo. The Chevy Spark is the size of a normal 4 door. Err, sorry. I was thinking of the Dart. The spark is in the same class as the other two I just mentioned, aside from the fact that it's a 2 door. I maintain my original comment.