So, its better to drive a vehicle with a higher center of gravity and a larger area for the wind to blow against?

who's worried about wind.........

Asks the guy living in a city along Texas' hurricane alley...

People that drive in bad weather.....

Well it did in the context I used it in because I was responding to Rider that brought up big Suburbans and SUV's in general and I was just giving an example as to what I've seen around here as far as soccer moms in big SUV's. :idk:

It's just crazy watching them trying to manauver such a large vehicle in a parking lot when they are trying to multi-task and don't seem to have the best of skills in the first place.

I'm not one of the SUV bashers here either. I own a small one as I posted and my company vehicle is a Lincoln Navigator. :idk:

As far as people not knowing how to drive I agree with your statement here...that has nothing to do with SUV's. I see bozo's driving bad in everything from a Prius to large SUV's and pickups.

ah thats 1-2x a yr at most.........now rain thats a diff story, as the pic depicts.

btw, the GX and LX lexus veh. have adj. ride height "on the fly".

Ahh, snow... I still remember the excitement of driving a fwd car on nearly-bald tires and having it lose traction on a steep downhill. And being blown clean across a bridge in a 4wd truck on ice.

My solution was to move someplace warm. :rockwoot:

Be nice if some people who have a truck had the balls to say why they had a truck and not come up with a long bullshit list of excuses.

"I have truck because I wanted a truck and I liked this one in particular. I didn't ask you to justify why you drive a Passat did I? Now fuck off."

oh yeah, I want a lx470 because I want a lx470 and I liked this one in particular. I didn't ask you to justify why you drive a XXXX did I? Now fuck off."

I made a few snowy trips upstate in an 82 V6 Monte Carlo that not only had bald tires...it had wide bald tires. I always had one wheel with tread on it, however more often than not it sat in the trunk because it was a different size rim than the others on the car.

I used to carry 3 full spare tires in the back for those trips.

I drove one winter with tires so bald they eventually went flat. There was zero tread on them. I still didn't have a problem driving in snow.

When I lived up there, we didn’t even have tires. I drove around on the steel wheels.

Sometimes they had too much traction, so I’d hose them down at night and drive on the frozen donuts that remained.

Mid-winter in the “snow-belt”, driving uphill both to and from the lumberjack job on wheels made of ice: THAT is character.

:lol

Were you moonlighting as a waiter?

We are buying a truck soon because we are sick of having to borrow my dad's every other week for this or that. It gets old. If I want to move a bike or buy some furniture, I don't want to have to drive down to my dads an hour away, drive back, pick the shit up, move it, then drive back to my dad's with his truck and then drive my car back home. Megalame.

And we are buying a tacoma because that's what my husband wants. :nee:

You can't be serious.....

Tires are the #1 most important thing in rain, not 4WD....

And a white Lexus is typical for Asian women who drive slow. Way to reinforce the stereotype.

redflip

Very true, one of my neighbors has one and his wife....Asian.

It's probably white or champagne gold, right?

tires + weight

yeah i wish they had 2wd........

and what other classy veh. to forge thru flooded roads to get home and make me a sammich!

i can only think of 2 asians women that i know of that drove them, 1 i sold to her, and my cousins wife , she totalled 1 when she had a blowout, and bounced off retaining walls on both sides of the road. ping-pong.

neighbor has a toy. landcruiser, nigerian
neighbor has a lexus GX, nigerian
rich friend has 1-GX & 2 ('02&'08) LX's, white women
Z"s aunt has a GX, obviously a white women.

His wife is white. :lol:

Yeah it's the light gold whatever you call it.

Yep...or wipers.

I think I've already done that in the past, but I'll do it again just for you, Paul.

I bought a truck years ago simply because I wanted one and it just so happens it turned out to be a handy vehicle for my normal routine. Since then I've always kept a pickup in the driveway. When I bought this last one a few months ago I could have gotten away with a Ford Ranger or something, but fuck that, this is America goddammit and I wanted my big option-laden, gas sucking, 4wd Silverado.

That better?

According to past arguments (by people that now own giant SUVs), you're bankrupting all of us by making gas prices higher.

You should be on a Honda Metropolitan 50, you evil cretin!!

You forgot the "Fuck off" part.
redflip

According to some.

Yep I've used it.

too bad it only lasts like 2 weeks

I use the windshield washer fluid, so I never have to apply it, I just wash the windshield.

True. I like the stuff but haven't used it in a long time but since I saw this I may apply some.

I've used that but it didn't seem to do as well. See you have to have those wipers to do it that way. :lol

I tried to use some on plastic and it didn't work. Turns out there's another version for that.

Yeah I realized really quick working in the lot that it didn't matter what the vehicle was because there are bad drivers for every model on the road. I did notice that Dodge drivers were kinda pricks in the parking lot. They would rather run your ass over then to use the brakes.

James

Why didn't you ask. I bought mine for a few reasons. One I wanted one for years. Two my wife asked me to by her one. Three the rising gas prices put then in price range I was willing to pay.

James

I like Aquapel. I have some that I want to get on my window soon. I love the stuff. It works just like that RainX in the video.

James

Aquapel last way longer then 2 weeks. I put it on my Oldsmobile when I had my detail shop. I wanted to see how long it would last. I sold it at the shop. I had it on a year. I noticed it working for up to a year. But it only worked really well for about 6 months. You could see it was still working after the six months but it started to drop off then. When I reapplied after a year it might have been at 20 percent. That was just enough to remind me that I used it and really wanted to use it again.

I used the RainX washer fluid once and it wasn't bad. It was much better then expected. But I still would go with Aquapel myself.

James

I've become a kinder gentler squid these days.

:lol: :cheers:

*shrug* I have a truck because not having one would be a pain in my ass. I live in the country, I have a lot of hobbies, I get shit done. I've loaded and unloaded more tons of crap into my 5-year-old Dodge than most candy-ass metrosexual urbanites will move in their lifetime. I was driving a truck 17 years ago when it sure as hell wasn't cool, and I'll probably be driving one 20 years from now. If it's cool or not, I don't give a shit. And if you've got some kind of pointless generalization or assumption to make about it, fuck you!

Hey, that was kinda fun. :dthumb:

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