rednecktatertosser wrote: on the point of braking abilites thats horse crap if you can feel your brakes getting worse you have overloaded your car.
No, it wasn't overloaded, it was just loaded. Hell, I can feel the difference in acceleration between a full tank of gas and a near empty tank of gas. I can feel the difference in the engine after an oil change. Maybe I'm just more observant than you, but 5 people at 150lbs each= 750lbs, plus some stuff in the trunk. Considering the car weighs only 2600lbs, the 'cargo' was easily about 30% more mass than driving alone, so of COURSE I can feel the diffference.
on a seperate note, dodge blows
Disagree. They made the Hemi, which was the best V8 of all time, and it's many incarnations are STILL used in some of the fastest dragsters on the planet today. They also tended to overbuild their suspensions, which was dramatacized in the show, "the dukes of hazzard". If you ever read the article about the filiming of the legendary movie, "Bullit", you'll read that the mustang was hopped up, and the suspension was redone and shot peened and all this stuff to make it stronger, and the charger was stock. Still, the ford was falling apart during the filming, wheras the charger was not.
how many 30-40 year old asian cars have you seen on the road?
That's a really stupid example, considering that asian cars were barely imported back then. Here's a better one: how many 1980s cars do you still see on the road? Most are japanese. Coincidence? Beats me.
on import cars they make everything out of aluminum or plastic and it breaks a helluva lot easier.
You are talking out of your ass. The only all aluminum japanese car I know of is the Acura NSX. I would LOVE to have an all aluminum car, it would haul major ass. In the really real world, Japanese cars are made of steel, just like most cars on the road. My SVX is steel. Both my hondas are steel. My old dodge was steel. My old ford was steel. You are really talking out of your ass, and basically proving to everybody who knows anything about cars that you really don't know what the hell you are talking about.
once your chinese car gets over 20 years old, if it hasnt already, ittl crap out soon.
China hasn't started selling cars in the USA yet. And sorry, my 17 yr old honda runs fine, even with over 250,000 miles. I'd like to see you find a better running 1989 domestic model, with that many miles, or more.
Modderxtrordanare wrote:
Actually no, you can't "feel" your car's braking improve due to less people in it. Unless of course the people in your car were 500 pounds+ each. (including yourself) If that is the case, then you probably overloaded your brakes since you can feel the difference since now it's just you. Maybe if you had a truck you could have towed all them.
Actually,
yes, I can. The accord weighs 2600lbs. Throw in 5 people, at around 150lbs each, and you have an additional 750lbs. Throw in a trunk load of stuff, and there's another 50lbs. So I had 800lbs of cargo in a 2600lb vehicle. You can DEFINITELY feel a difference in braking, handling, and acceleration. To say otherwise is just ridiculous. If you'd like to honestly settle the matter, please come visit milwaukee. After receiving a deposit of $3500 for my vehicle, you may test drive it with and without 5 people in it, and come to your own conclusions.
Oh, and are you not smart enough to think of anything intelligent to say to me, other than the fact that I used the wrong form of 'your'? It's called human error, I know the difference between your and you're.
I said a few other things, which you completely ignored. I'll copy and paste them for you:
When was I not capitalizing the first letter of the first word of a sentence? And, starting a sentence with 'and' or 'but' is perfectly acceptable.
http://cal.bemidjistate.edu/WRC/Handout ... dEdit.html
"A Few Myths About Sentences
Or Things you might want to unlearn to help you edit
"Never start a sentence with and or but."
There's no such grammatical rule. And it is done all the time. In some situations, starting a sentence with and or but is inappropriate, and by all means use the technique sparingly. But a full sentence starting with and or but is still a legitimate sentence."
You ignored all that. You know, the part where you were wrong.
An argument about trucks and cars and their respective safety has degenerated into an argument over who is more intelligent, based on tiny little spelling and grammar errors.
