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What car do you drive ?

Nuvollari

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veK

veK

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if you had a bike like mine you would love to  :)

you have much more fun hopping through the city with this kind of wheels than to be stuck in a traffic jam (I work right downtown in the absolute uber-middle of the city)

also you can run from the cops better after damaging stuff or crashing into people (okay, I don't this on a regular basis...)  ;D

chatfsh

chatfsh

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Granted, this may be true and that is a rather nice bike you have there. :)  But I work at the corporate headquarters of a bank where business attire is required, so I can

veK

veK

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okay that's a good point. I don't have such a long ride. it's 10-15 minutes to work. I wouldn't go 15 miles with it, especially not in a suit. fortunately I only have to wear a suit for meetings with customers not for regular work (bless the marketing industry and our agency :) )

I don't pick up girls after all. I have not time for dates and I'm not very interested in relationships or anything like it at all. I have much more other stuff to do and don't have enough time for all this.

besides I guess I'd have to pick her up some place in south-america so even a car won't help to cross the ocean  ;D

anyway, to get back to the topic: I really like the new audis. a r8 or s8 would be my first choice right now I guess. maybe the bmw 6 (or m6) as well. expensive cars but they rock. if I wasn't working in the middle of the city and hadn't such a short way to work and would need a car regularly (you really don't need a car in hamburg though it's the 2nd biggest city in germany) I'd most likely drive one of those. a leasing-car of course...

veK

veK

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it seems lexus has some cars they don't sell over here. I saw some pretty cool rides in the states last year.

I also like the mustang gt - which I haven't seen in germany (except for private sellers who imported the car themselves). nissan, toyota, honda and mitsubishi also offer different cars in the states which we don't have over here - but instead we have some of their cars which I haven't seen at any car lot in california.

about the girls: they'll survive it. it's hard, I know, but they'll sure do  ;D  ;)

chatfsh

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In the states, the Mustang GT and the Mitsubishi Eclipse were very popular cars for the college crowd.  While in college I wanted one, but then I grew up and became more enchanted with the luxury automobiles.  I swear, my next car will be a Mercedes! ;D

veK

veK

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you know... mercedes has some kind of an "for elderly people" image over here. except for the slr sportscars but all the classic ones. I doubt I will ever drive a mercedes

MrFlibble

MrFlibble

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I don't have a car, and haven't even learned driving. I move around via subway and on foot. A fellow student of mine, however, has had a Zhiguli, but I'm not sure which model. In about 3 months of driving he has had some minor car accidents, but finally the car was hijacked one night and never found :'(

Now he has another car (Zhiguli too, I guess - haven't seen it), which he also crashed one big time - luckily without anyone hurt. So I don't know if he's still driving it.

In any case, it is not likely that I will ever have a car, because I tend to suffer from motion sickness in cars, especially after rapid braking, which occurs more than frequently in urban traffic :(

chatfsh

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Then you most certainly should never drive with me. Never in my life have I been involved in an automobile accident, but while in the driver's seat, I do tend to make people sick, or grab onto the door handle

MrFlibble

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I hope you navigate through the streets well. My aforementioned friend seemingly has problems with this issue. Out of three times I had a ride in his first car (no accidents luckily), once I had to get off during a tiresome endeavor to get to some place. Even with a map, my friend got us into the middle of nowhere, where I had to get out and continue on foot because of the extreme dizziness that all the "drive several meters - stop - check map - drive more meters - check again - try driving back to a missed turn - and so on - and so on" routine inflicted upon me. As a result, I arrived to our checkpoint much earlier than him...

MrFlibble

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The trick is that our destination was actually quite near the start (if you go on foot), but the car happened to be on a one-way lane leading away from where we wanted to get, and the nearest turn (according to the map) was after about 3 blocks, so eventually we got into some deep unknown ;D When I got off, I just walked an almost straight line to the destination, while my friend had to take some wildly roundabout way ;)

Cyborg

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Haha, MrFlibble, you damn Russians must crash a lot of cars... Although I completely understand it. The suckage of your cars is unbelievable. My grandpa had a Lada once, and he got a tendon inflammation because the wheel was so hard to move. ( Or maybe it's all the booze that makes you bad drivers. )

Anyway, I don't have my own car, so I have borrow my dad's ( Mercedes C130 ) or my brother's car ( Toyota Starlet ). As mentioned earlier by some German guy, Mercedes is mostly for the "elderly" ( dad's 50-something ).

The Starlet is a very small car, and being 1.90 metres tall, I literally wear the car when driving, having the wheel at my crotch.

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