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Ok. So I'm going to be driving soon. My parents encourage me to do so, and have now decided that I need my own car. So they bought me this real super pretty one! And here it is:
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p255/TikiMick/C263220Mercedes-Benz20SLR-1.jpg
Stock Photo!
A Mercedes something or another. It's shiny. But that's all I know. Is this a good car? My parents own a Jag and some wierd Lambourghini, and they've not had trouble with them yet. I know nothing of cars, really, and to use a friends analogy, "A chevelle is a Ferrari to me."
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I feel like I Have No Name, in thinking that London is in France:Stupid. Does anyone know anything about this car? I loves it well and think it's veeery pretty, but I feel like I'm missing something.
Metal gear MKII
11-25-2006, 09:48 PM
http://ether.seesaa.net/image/pikachuCAR.jpg Recommend highly :wink: THE JAPANESE MAKE THE BEST CARS! no doubt
ChopperDave
11-25-2006, 09:49 PM
You....what...
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SexyTiger
11-25-2006, 09:49 PM
...This is a joke.. right? I mean..
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Mushroom
11-25-2006, 09:49 PM
DOT DOT DOT
Sandor
11-25-2006, 09:51 PM
Sell it and get a four by four.
Ryoga Hibiki
11-25-2006, 09:51 PM
Guys be nice for Tikis sake and give some help.
Guys be nice for Tikis sake and give some help.
you're kidding right
Ryoga Hibiki
11-25-2006, 09:54 PM
Hmmm ya sorry.
Squints
11-25-2006, 10:00 PM
Well Tiki don't worry about everyone else here. XD They're obviously stunned on that fact that, that just looks like a very expensive car. Your first car no less. All cars are good Tiki, they're efficient and all that. This all depends on what you like or what you're used to. What do you like driving manual, standard, or automatic that kind of junk.
Just look around for info on the car you're going to get so you can be sure that you'll like it. That's all I can really say ^_^;
Shadow Turkey
11-25-2006, 10:17 PM
........sarcasm?.......
Metal gear MKII
11-25-2006, 10:20 PM
super nintendo !
Please, guys...I don't know anything about cars except how to drive them!
Ryoga Hibiki
11-25-2006, 11:00 PM
Tiki i want to say im Sorry for the way i was ok i dont know much about cars if it makes you feel any better but realy i feel terrible for how i acted...please forgive me. sorry for any and all typos.
dordreff
11-25-2006, 11:14 PM
I think most people are stunned by the fact that YOUR PARENTS BOUGHT YOU A MERCEDES.
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/7981/scroogerg8.jpg
But really, it looks like a great car. You're lucky to have it, and things. Basically what Squints said.
Johnny
11-25-2006, 11:25 PM
I'm happy for you and all. And you'll understand why a black guy snatches you out and drives off, right?
Right?
But seriously. Congrats, hatred and blah blah blah.
But seriously, stay out of bad neighborhoods with that.
Snow Plow
11-26-2006, 12:02 AM
thats a very nice car. i myself know a lot about cars and that is a very good car just not my type.
Ronald MacKinnon
11-26-2006, 12:38 AM
That's a piece of shit.
Now this is a car.
http://news.caradisiac.com/IMG/jpg/Ariel_Atom_2.jpg
MyDoom
11-26-2006, 12:55 AM
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Does money just flow out your ass?
You must have a dimond mine or mabey a lead-to-gold conversion plant, right?
What does your parents do for a living to afford a ferrari?
And yes, that's a nice car. A VERY nice car.
*twitch*twitch*
MadassAlex
11-26-2006, 01:12 AM
Mein gott.
Valkor
11-26-2006, 01:46 AM
Nice troll post.
Dr. Jager
11-26-2006, 02:03 AM
Bullshits.
An SLR McLaren? I'm *praying* that this is a joke, because one of those in the hands of a new driver is just... idiotic, to be polite.
EDIT: Now that I look at the photo a little more closely, it looks like a model...
Dr. Jager
11-26-2006, 02:10 AM
Pictures of you in/on the car or it's bullshit.
Scytheboy
11-26-2006, 11:29 AM
Rope to hold the doors together... Oh wait that was my first car. Carry on.
..............?
Not everyone's parents buy them a car, let alone a decent car, but damn SLR McLaren? I'm at a loss, your parents must be very well off (which I'm sure is a good assumption considering they drive "a Jag and some wierd Lambourghini") not only to be able to purchase a vehicle for their young loved one, not only is it an expensive vehicle, but as well to be able to pay the insurance costs assosciated with a young free-loving carefree male/female (which is it, because being male makes you pay over twice the insurance) flying around in an expensive high-powered luxury performance vehicle.
Saying "is this a good car" is like asking a dead man how his day was. It's a fantastic car, but for the love of god be careful. That is a rediculously expensive high-powered vehicle and it's very easy to make mistakes, espescially since you're just starting to drive and other drivers don't like people with fast expensive cars (espescially YOUNG people driving fast expensive cars). Also be wary of thieves, considering you're in a tourist state, there's bound to be someone on the lookout for a car just like yours.
Also keep in mind, any car is a good car, espescially for those of us who have to buy our own damn vehicle and pay for our own insurance. So, pardon my jealousy, if you will.
You'd better enjoy the shit out of that piece of automotive gold, or you'll have the fury of the less fortunate flying at you from every direction. So that means no "my car sucks" posts.
SexyTiger
11-26-2006, 05:01 PM
Not everyone's parents buy them a car, let alone a decent car, but damn SLR McLaren? I'm at a loss, your parents must be very well off (which I'm sure is a good assumption considering they drive "a Jag and some wierd Lambourghini") not only to be able to purchase a vehicle for their young loved one, not only is it an expensive vehicle, but as well to be able to pay the insurance costs assosciated with a young free-loving carefree male/female (which is it, because being male makes you pay over twice the insurance) flying around in an expensive high-powered luxury performance vehicle.
Saying "is this a good car" is like asking a dead man how his day was. It's a fantastic car, but for the love of god be careful. That is a rediculously expensive high-powered vehicle and it's very easy to make mistakes, espescially since you're just starting to drive and other drivers don't like people with fast expensive cars (espescially YOUNG people driving fast expensive cars). Also be wary of thieves, considering you're in a tourist state, there's bound to be someone on the lookout for a car just like yours.
Also keep in mind, any car is a good car, espescially for those of us who have to buy our own damn vehicle and pay for our own insurance.
You'd better enjoy the shit out of that piece of automotive gold, or you'll have the fury of the less fortunate flying at you from every direction. So that means no "my car sucks" posts.
QFE
I don't know, Maybe my parents are idiots. :lol:
Squints
11-26-2006, 05:59 PM
or rich.
or rich.
Or both. *shrugs*
Personally if I had kids and money and was going to buy one a car, I'd get him/her a car with all-wheel drive and a high safety rating, not a road model race car.
Raldios
11-26-2006, 06:02 PM
Or both. *shrugs*
Personally if I had kids and money and was going to buy one a car, I'd get him/her a car with all-wheel drive and a high safety rating, not a road model race car.
I'd get him a car he'd have to repair, so he would learn how to repair one on the road with a toolkit he could carry.
Ronald MacKinnon
11-26-2006, 06:32 PM
I'd get my kid a Ford Tempo.
My Ford Tempo actually, because at this rate I'll never sell it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/Ronald_MacK/bilgemobile003.jpg
Also: I concur in that this is likely a troll thread. Picture of you with the car, or it never happened. And no "I don't have a scanner / digital camera" bullshit; if your parents can afford a Jag, a Mercedes (that Jeremy used to win a race across Europe in an episode of Top Gear, I might add) and a Lamborghini something or other, then they fucking well own a digital camera of 50.
Snow Plow
11-27-2006, 11:37 AM
I'd get him a car he'd have to repair, so he would learn how to repair one on the road with a toolkit he could carry.
thats what i had to do
Well, My parents have wanted this car a long time. I'm just the excuse they have for buying it, because now we have three cars for threee drivers. They'll probably end up driving it more than me, because I just so happen to fear driving. The car is pretty much extremely impractical and unessesarily pretty, etc, but hey: It is a nice car.
Atlarge
11-27-2006, 08:07 PM
Buy a Mini.
Ronald MacKinnon
11-27-2006, 08:53 PM
Buy a Mini.
They're not that great. A Ford Focus ST is a better car than a Mini; the use of interior space in the Mini is rather poor.
Atlarge
11-28-2006, 03:55 AM
They're not that great. A Ford Focus ST is a better car than a Mini; the use of interior space in the Mini is rather poor.
Lies.
As long as the people in front aren't assholes (or really tall) there's enough leg room in the back to comfortably seat four. And the trunk is big enough for normal activities. with all seats up, and it's as big as any other with the seats down. I will admit, though, that anyone taller than 6'1 or 6'2 is fucked.
Spoon 8787
11-28-2006, 04:36 AM
This is a joke thread, it has to be. With my first car I'll be lucky to find something with working brakes and a seatbelt. No fucking way did your parents buy you that as your first car. Even if they are rich as all hell, this is like giving the the Enterprise to a kid in flight school and telling them to "just go nuts".
Sarge McD
11-28-2006, 05:05 AM
In my many years working in the field of caranomics there is only one piece of advice I can give you.
WALLS DO NOT MOVE IF YOU DRIVE INTO THEM.
AAsama
11-28-2006, 05:14 AM
Your first car will ALWAYS get dented one way or the other.
Be careful.
Spoon 8787
11-28-2006, 05:38 AM
In my many years working in the field of caranomics there is only one piece of advice I can give you.
WALLS DO NOT MOVE IF YOU DRIVE INTO THEM.
This is a lie, I know for a fact that if you drive fast enough parts of the wall do infact move with you.
Magnus9
11-28-2006, 05:44 AM
Dude, just follow the signs.
I with you all....my parents were pretty silly to buy me, a early sixteen year old would-be-driver with no experience, that car with the long name. But as I've said, I think they bought it more for themselves than for me. They have a weird complex with looking rich. WE'RE NOT RICH. We save our money, budget, and mostly: inherit.
Aetre
11-28-2006, 08:42 PM
1. Sell it.
2. Buy a used Toyota or Honda cheap. Those things run great.
3. With the extra money, learn to invest.
dordreff
11-28-2006, 11:41 PM
They have a weird complex with looking rich. WE'RE NOT RICH.
If they bought you a $500 000 car, then they'd have to be pretty fucking rich.
Takeo void
11-28-2006, 11:43 PM
Hey, inheritance. Makes you rich without having to be rich, or something.
But really, congrats on the car. To bad you still can't drive yet :nyah:
SexyTiger
11-28-2006, 11:50 PM
If they bought you a $500 000 car, then they'd have to be pretty fucking rich.
Not to mention the fucking insurance must cost 1000$ every 6 months.. hell even more for a 16 year old driver.
Takeo void
11-28-2006, 11:58 PM
Why anyone would bother that much for a car is beyond me. My Volvo S60 R is nice. I don't know that it's really a great car, but it's cheap and shiny :lol:
Not to mention the fucking insurance must cost 1000$ every 6 months.. hell even more for a 16 year old driver.
If I were to drive a shitbox around I'd be paying around $5000 a year, and that's the low end of the spectrum. If I were to drive a sports car there's no doubt I'd be paying three times that. Just for insurance. But, I'm a young male, young females pay just under half of what we pay. Because apparently they're safer drivers. :/
Since there's now a young driver in the house, the rates for their Lambourghini and their Jaguar will skyrocket as well.
Pretty much...Hey, I agree it was a pretty dim-bulbed idea. I wanted no car, They did.
Ronald MacKinnon
11-29-2006, 01:42 AM
But, I'm a young male, young females pay just under half of what we pay. Because apparently they're safer drivers. :/I'm pretty sure these stats are skewed due to girls with lisences just not driving anywhere, because all of the girls I knew in high school who got their lisences couldn't drive for shit.
Of course, most of the guys I knew couldn't either, but at the very least that'd make it equal.
Micolithe
11-29-2006, 02:11 AM
I'd get him a car he'd have to repair, so he would learn how to repair one on the road with a toolkit he could carry.
This plan would probably backfire, as my car has so many problems and I don't know how to solve a single one without going to a mechanic.
Johnny
11-29-2006, 04:46 AM
In my many years working in the field of caranomics there is only one piece of advice I can give you.
WALLS DO NOT MOVE IF YOU DRIVE INTO THEM.
Thats bullshit. If you hit it hard enough, that motherfucker will not only move, it'll be your BITCH.
Dr. Adcon
11-29-2006, 04:48 AM
Sadly, that same advice does not apply to California Highway patrol crusiers.
darkbadness
11-29-2006, 05:41 AM
I'd say something out of spite due to such an expensive car... but then my father was going to teach me to drive his car which we recently had to sell.
This is the car my father wanted me to drive. (http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/808/dsc00456copyum7.jpg)
6 gears and goes 180mph at 3k rpm in 5th gear :yikes:
Mercedes makes decent cars, and that is a very nice car. I would have gone with something a little less conspicuous personally, say a mini cooper or a PT Cruiser, but that's still a very good car.
The Godfather
11-29-2006, 10:13 AM
Your parent bought you a WHAT? A Mercedes? Dude, have you any idea how lucky you are?
Anyways, as for car advice, treat it like a speciality car, as in, try not to drive it in the winter when there is sand and all that crap on the roads, unless you really want to clean it every time you drive out to wherever your going. Get oil changed, always check tires(air), keep the interior clean, that thing runs ABS so you should be good, and apart from that, just have fun. Man, wish I had parents like that xD.
Oh and for God sakes, read the owners manual, I know people who have beening wondering why there cars act the way they do, and I always say to them "You read the owners manual?" and they go "No", "Then there is your problem".
OK, update.
No matter what I say hear, I'll still end up sounding...overpriviledged, so here it is anyways.
http://www.cardata.com/2005/2005_Audi_A4_Sedan.jpg
An Audi A4. Starting price, around $28,000. Still tons more than any semi-normal parent would ever spend on their teenager, but a lot less than that Mercedes.
Now, after telling my parents continually that all they'll get out of that car would be a look, and that they're insurance would explode and the car probably would to after I got on the road with it, they gave in. It is a lot easier knowing your driving a car that will not put your parents into bankrupcy. And I did not do this simply because the forumites went crazy, that car really was just to much. I am pleased with the new car. It's a 2006, so not brand new, but is easy to drive. And my predictions are true anyway: my parents already drive it more than I do, and not just because I'm in boarding school. They just like new things. What can I say, they're my parents. But I things worked out semi-OK in the end. Better than in the beggining, at least. I am satisfied.
dordreff
01-13-2007, 12:08 AM
Rich, too much money, etc.
But really, nice car. Have fun with the driving and the "accidental" running over of the pedestrians.
Tommah666
01-13-2007, 01:16 AM
Congrats, drive carefully and enjoy your car :3
Sarge McD
01-13-2007, 01:58 AM
Gimmie the keys, Tiki.
Dr. Adcon
01-13-2007, 01:59 AM
Gimmie the keys, Tiki.
And then let me borrow them.
Sarge McD
01-13-2007, 02:01 AM
Then, TO FREEDOM!
There goes my pancreas...
dordreff
01-13-2007, 02:16 AM
Gimmie the keys, Tiki.
Does this mean it's finally time for The Fantismical Adventures of Kill4Fun and Friends?
Sarge McD
01-13-2007, 02:18 AM
Does this mean it's finally time for The Fantismical Adventures of Kill4Fun and Friends?
Only thing stopping us from loving again is a hoarde of hell bound dinosuars, a pair of sadistic madmen and 30 thousand miles of nasty road. Are you man enough to feel?
Dr. Adcon
01-13-2007, 02:19 AM
Don't suppose you crazy kids have any room for one more.
Sarge McD
01-13-2007, 02:20 AM
There is never enough.
Dr. Adcon
01-13-2007, 02:22 AM
Damn. Well, I still have my pickup.
.hack//ADAM
01-13-2007, 02:48 AM
*Breaks down crying* I would be happy with just a a camry, even if it were 10+ years old! I can't even get that! *sniffle* I haven't even gotten my permit yet because I know that there's no fucking way I could pay for a car.
Escavel
01-13-2007, 02:53 AM
Oh, you silly people and your cars.
My motorcycle will get me where I need to go.
Oh, you silly people and your cars.
My motorcycle will get me where I need to go.
If it was the nine gates of hell, sure.
.hack//ADAM
01-13-2007, 02:57 AM
Oh, you silly people and your cars.
My motorcycle will get me where I need to go.
I have...legs.
Escavel
01-13-2007, 03:05 AM
If it was the nine gates of hell, sure.
Hey, as long as I use it in accordance to the law, I'm fine. Now, it's those scooters and vespas you have to look out for. They're illegal in my city because of the extremely capable escape vehicles they make when one is running from the police..... and somehow, motorcycles aren't.
Don't ask, it's the law.
Hey, as long as I use it in accordance to the law, I'm fine. Now, it's those scooters and vespas you have to look out for. They're illegal in my city because of the extremely capable escape vehicles they make when one is running from the police..... and somehow, motorcycles aren't.
Don't ask, it's the law.
I can see that anime shows and korean romance movies have a bigger influence over the world than I thought.
Escavel
01-13-2007, 03:14 AM
I can see that anime shows and korean romance movies have a bigger influence over the world than I thought.
It was a big problem in the late 80s and early 90s around here. They couldn't catch a single theif who stole less than 5k on a single occasion because they all had vespas, which are generally cheaper and easier to get than motorcycles and a bit more maneuverable on the small streets.
So they outlawed them unless you have exceedingly restricting licsenses and papers.
Spoon 8787
01-13-2007, 06:56 AM
Gimmie the keys, Tiki.
Oh, Sarge, Sarge, you're drunk Sarge, gimme your keys. Sarge gimme your keys.
klein
01-14-2007, 12:18 PM
Nice car man.
And Spoon, give Sarge your keys. Give him your keys Spoon.
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