What are your favorite types of cars?

LovelightLovelight
edited May 2019 in General

You may explain, why. :)

Also.

Edit: A part of me has always thought bigger cars = safer in the case of collisions. Then, I checked a quick video just now to challenge the thought I always seemed to have. This video hasn't been much informational, or clear enough. Though, it is a starting point. Any car enthusiasts, and any experts might be out there. What are your thoughts on this? What cars do you think is the safest?

I am just beginning my research on this. So, I've a long way to go. end of edit.

This is the video I saw:

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  • LovelightLovelight

    My favorite cars, for now, are mainly:

    Hummer, Pick Up Trucks, and SUVs.

    I love their designs, and I am under the assumption that they are safer in the case of collisions. As well as for better visibility... against bigger cars?.

  • sethryan44sethryan44

    I like sports cars , like the Chevrolet Corvette. They're amazing to drive and beautiful to look at.

  • pmvinespmvines

    I actually have always had a soft spot for wagoneer as well as old station wagons. If they have wood paneling especially. Tacky and not very cool I know, but they are very nostalgic to me.

  • WorthyWorthy

    Toyota Prius. People live in them by choice. I camp in mine.

  • UKGuyUKGuy
    edited May 2019

    SUVs may come off better in a collision with a small car but they are inherently less stable due to their high center of gravity. In the US, SUV's do not have to comply with normal car standards. If you have a tire blow-out, go around a corner too quickly or brake too hard, an SUV will roll over much more easily than a car. Take a look at some of the car crash videos on Youtube.

  • SnowboundSnowbound

    @Lovelight I'll see you that test and raise you this one:

    Size and mass are definitely only part of the equation!

  • JasonCuddlesJasonCuddles

    My favourite car is a bus or train. They're great, environmentally.

  • tenchio_84ustenchio_84us

    Lancia Delta baby!

  • HoneyBooBooHoneyBooBoo

    @sethryan44

    Last year, May, I traded my 2016 Corvette Stingray for a CPO 2016 Mercedes E400 4 matic. The Vette was impractical. I had to keep a second car. No regrets, if i was buying today, it would be an E400

  • HoneyBooBooHoneyBooBoo

  • HoneyBooBooHoneyBooBoo

  • SideonSideon

    Two ends of the spectrum:

    Classic cars, circa 1960 Chrysler 300 F, or 1960 Chrysler Imperial convertible, which probably average 10+ miles to the gallon on a good day with the wind at your back.

    And the other end of the spectrum, Tesla Model S, with a 100KW battery and a 320 mile range, which costs the equivalent of $15 in electricity to "fill it up".

  • 4cuddles4cuddles

    I know nowt (nothing) about cars(Northern slang for those in the States)!

    But like the look of bettles, mini coopers, minis and turtle like shaped cars. All racing type cars look claustrophobic and too close to the ground to me.

  • jcastilloindjcastilloind

    I love luxury cars that look good

  • mickcuddlemickcuddle

    @pmvines I had a Ford Gran Torino Squire station wagon, model year 1972 or 1973. It had the dark wood panels on both sides and the tailgate. Pretty cool to look st, in a very nerdish way-until I had a little fender-bender damaging one of the panels, which ended up being something akin to wood looking contact paper. Actually I think it was vinyl, but I think actual wood paneling would have been cheaper to replace than that giant sticker was.

  • pmvinespmvines

    @mickcuddle Yet another reason for me to love you!!

  • sethryan44sethryan44

    @HoneyBooBoo While I can understand how the Mercedes is a more practical option and a better all around vehicle, it's sad to see a Vette go.

    My grandpa has a 17 Vette Grand Sport Convertible (pic below) he let me drive. Such an amazing car.

  • sethryan44sethryan44

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel

    Time to think of a better future:

    https://www.karmaautomotive.com/revero

  • cuddlesfordays1cuddlesfordays1

    Morris minor travellers

    Ideally self driving

  • cuddlesfordays1cuddlesfordays1

    @pmvines love wood panelling

  • pmvinespmvines

    @FunCartel I am thinking of my future, which is why unfortunately a 1300 a month car is not in mine

  • pmvinespmvines

    I wish environmental cars were more cost friendly, It is a bit like eating healthy. Junk food is just so damn cheap!! If I could buy a Prius for 2 grand like I can with an old Buick, I would have a driveway full of them!

  • pmvinespmvines

    @cuddlesfordays1 You really are after my heart!!

  • openmindedopenminded

    Mercedes Benz for me.

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel
    edited May 2019

    @pmvines I can dream. I cannot go to a car dealership in my town that sells Jags, Porsches, Lambos, etc. because I have test drove too many times and never purchased a thing. I even scheduled a test drive with Tesla and I think the very young salesperson’s head exploded when I said that 1) I am not confident Elon can deliver in a timely manner and 2) they do not have layaway.

    But I think the cost of electric is about to plummet as Volvo is going all electric by 2022, Renault has pledged the same, and Volkswagen is about to ramp up EV production. The sooner petroleum companies are humbled and we embrace low to no emission vehicles the better if we intend to survive as a species.

  • cuddlerforu24cuddlerforu24
    edited July 2019

    I’ve been looking for a 1959 or 60 vauxhaul station wagon . It looks like a 1957 Chevy Nomad that shrank in a car wash .

  • JasonCuddlesJasonCuddles

    Train cars are my fav cars.

  • mickcuddlemickcuddle
    edited July 2019

    I’m a big guy (more than a few extra pounds) and have trouble getting into most cars. While I’m of average height, I sit a little taller in the car seat (and you can translate that to having to have my jeans shortened) and I have a short, fat neck that doesn’t bend as much as I’d like. Don’t be thinking about the Fat Man at the circus. I’m sitting having coffee in the neighborhood breakfast joint and I’ve seen 3 men and a couple women bigger than myself, but without the short-neck, long-torso issue.
    I drove a Ford Flex for 9 years (2 cars in that time) and I could enter and exit like a normal human being. Every once in a while I find an SUV that isn’t too bad, but cars made by Asian or German companies can be next to impossible. I’m driving a Ford Flex now, and I had to learn an entry routine that works fine, and a friend drives a Subaru SUV that’s actually easier for me to get in than my Edge.
    Unfortunately, Americans are growing fatter. Also, unfortunate, is the fact that cars are growing smaller.

    [Edited for typos. I never find them until after I hit “save.”

  • RaindropSweetieRaindropSweetie
    edited July 2019

    As an EMT, if you want safe make sure you have a seatbelt and the lap belt is across your hips not stomach. Pee before going into a car or your bladder may rupture. Drive with windows up and have front airbags AND side airbags. Side collisions are the most likely to kill you. Rollovers are also very dangerous, because every time the car hits the ground it's like a new collision = multiple high impact hits to your body. Accidents front to front are generally safer, because cars are built for those accidents specifically. In a simple accident you already have 3 impacts; car hitting car, body hitting seatbelt or car interior, organs hitting inside walls of body.

    There are physics equations that demonstrate how much goes into reducing the impact to your body.
    Simply: Force = Mass x Acceleration

    Engineers design car fronts to crumple in a way that slows the car enough to reduce the force the makes it through the car to you a ridiculous amount. Seatbelts and airbags each reduce this amount massively as well. What hits you in the end is thousands of times less force than what would have hit you without any of these. Only using one of these safeties (such as the car front crumpling mechanism) still allows enough force to hit you and cause injuries that can kill you within seconds. You may end up with a major artery literally slicing straight across, or a spleen tear, and bleed to death internally before anyone can get to you.

    So, drive slower, wear a seatbelt properly, have front and side airbags, windows up.

    Geeked out a bit there, ha ha.

    I used to like Teslas, but I read a few investment articles recently. They are making too many mistakes to bother with them for now.

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