If you couldn't drive, what car would you own?
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May 13th, 2013
Just a for-fun question.
Rules: You can occasionally drive, maybe in your neighborhood or around the block or a mile to the grocery store, but you aren’t allowed to be the one operating it otherwise.
Anyone else can drive it for you; you could be seriously well-off and have a chauffeur driving you, or your co-workers could get to wheel your sweet ride to get you and them to the office every day.
It is the only car you own, so consider more than just ”What if I had a FERRARI“when deciding. All rules of the road must be followed, including emissions and safety laws.
In general, try to be more creative and/or reasonable than FERRARI.
EDIT: You should add why you selected a certain vehicle.
Go. Err, or just let your driver answer. :3
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I’m your ice cream man. Stop me when I’m passin’ by.
oh my my
I actually have to go with @poisonedantidote on this oddly enough. I had a friend who had a contractors van. He hooked up a hammock crosswise in the back and it swayed gently as he drove. It was pretty damn relaxing. And novel.
@rosehips While I agree that’s an awesome idea, it doesn’t comply with rule 3-and-a-half. Click it or ticket.
Bah I live in AK sonny.. : ) and I happen to have not short of a ½ dozen click it violations on my insurance and at least 3 times as many warnings.
As fortune would have it, I am already in this situation. I have a little 1989 Mitsubishi MiniCab Kei class truck. Originally I was shopping for a golf cart, but where I live one would think they were made of Kryptonite or something as they are insanely expensive. This little truck came along through a friend who was coming back from Okinawa and picked it out for me as his vehicle to transport home. So it was free. It is incapable of speeds in excess of 50, is 4 wheel drive, and has air conditioning. I’ve had it for 10 years now and have thoroughly enjoyed it. It is classified in the State of Ohio as Agricultural equipment so requires no license, costs only $50 per year to license, and can be operated on any surface street except divided highways. As the highway patrolman who inspected it said, ” you are an Amish guy without the horse”. It is unstoppable in the snow, comfortable in the summer and gets insane fuel mileage owing to it’s 500cc engine. Literally I can go all Summer running all my errands in my small town on a tank of gasoline. Call it ‘Months per Gallon’.
This one, a Messerschmitt three-wheeler bubble car. Believe it or not, my dad owned one for a short time in the late ‘50s, thinking he might open a dealership. But when it tumped over at the curb one day, he gave up the idea and the car.
A Toyota or some other reliable, but still attractive, car. This would be my answer if I could drive it whenever I wanted to as well. I’m not really sure why one’s preference would change just because they have to be driven around…?
If I can’t drive a pickup truck. I’m a sports car guy myself. If I had absolute choice a Rolex GTP.
Edit A pickup is practical for a lot of things. A GTP would let you feel everything without needing any other senses.
I don’t get the point of this question. I’m sorry. But I still want to answer. :)
I suppose if I had to have a car that I could hardly drive but I was chauffeured around in I certainly wouldn’t pick the car I want. Screw that, the car I want, I’m sorry but I want to drive it myself. So occasionally I will be fine with driving a Rolls Royce Phantom Limo or a Maybach Stretch and the chauffeur could drive me around in either of those all day for all I care.
A big hooped up fancy dancy lights, siren, and all cop car.
I won’t have trouble finding someone who wants to drive it for me.
I think I’ll go with an Aston Martin DB5 that’s been modified by Q. My husband’s initials are JB and he likes to shoot things. He can park better than me so I’m happy for him to drive it.
No one said a deloran yet???
A chauffeur driven 1929 Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8A with limousine bodywork by Castagna of Milan. It’s not for everybody, and it never was. I would gladly never drive again. Why this car? Quality and tradition that can’t be reproduced today. Every Isotta limo was one of a kind, lovingly hand made by the same Italian artisans who made the royal coaches before the Great War. The Castagna body was their most luxurious design. It was a loss leader to attract buyers to their other models. It is history and art, and still the height of comfort and elegance. Made just before the world changed forever, before mass production had gone truly mad, quality was sacrificed for quarterly returns, built-in obsolescence became acceptable, and before today’s crippling cynicism. It would be best out in the country, but it will do in the city as well. This car commands a reverence on the road that will protect it.
As to emissions, in most states they can be grandfathered in as an antique.
A hearse, so I could take naps in the back while my chauffeur drives me to work.
Fred Flintstone’s foot blisteing roller kart…yabba-dabba doo!!
I always had a hankering for a hummer. Then I could run over the mini coopers that are clogging up the roads these days.
@Symbeline Leave it to you to come up with that idea.
This is my dream situation.
A car that functions, that I don’t have to drive in order to travel in? Thank you!
I’ll say “Whichever car makes my husband most happy”, so he’ll not mind lugging me all around town in it. So, the answer would have to be a rockin’ muscle car. I think he’s pretty fond of Chargers.
Surprise twist! Based on the EEGs I’m having over the next week or so, I might be diagnosed with epilepsy. Based on one law or another, apparently it is illegal for me to drive for the next six months to a year after having a seizure, including the one that prompted a possible diagnosis.
So, though I’m not counting on never being able to drive ever again, I thought I’d like to get some inspiration. I also can’t drive commercial vehicles, period.
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