And sadly, the daily papers have photos of the carnage on a daily basis. It appears that people believe the abs and airbags will save them no matter how poorly they drive. It was slippery here yesterday with some fresh blowing snow etc. The paper this morning showed a single photo with 3 vehicles in the ditch - 2 cars and an SUV, on its roof. I believe the paper said the SUV had rolled several times. Now one must ask, how fast was the driver going in order to accomplish that and why didn't they understand that it was likely slippery and they should slow down? The driver likely has a college education and is considered to be fairly intelligent - just no common sense. It is too easy to get a new car and there are no real consequences to wrecking it. If you make good money, you don't care if your insurance goes up a bit. Silly, and frightening. I don't want one of these careless dweebs to kill me or one of my family members.
Done ranting for now. Randy B -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Zoltan Finks Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 3:16 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] weenies You know, I've quite often wondered about that: The auto industry is producing some pretty powerful stuff these days (where in the past, didn't one really have to specifically purchase a performance car in order to get one - i.e. a muscle car, etc.)? Today there are regular sedans approaching 300 hp. Each and every driver of such cars has the ability to push that pedal as far as they choose. But as you touched upon, I doubt 90% of them know the consequenses. Throw thousands of these folks together, and it's a marvel we don't have even more "accidents". Brian 83 240D On 3/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <<Why do people have performance cars and drive like weenies?>> > > The ones who have been owners for a while may feel they have nothing to > prove. The car says it all. There are, however, plenty of buyers of performance > status cars of the day who really shouldn't have one. They are the ones who > realize that the thing is not a race car after all as they head off into the weeds. > > RLE > _______________________________________ > http://www.striplin.net > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net > _______________________________________ http://www.striplin.net For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net
