I have a tiny pee-pee and so I need this car

**HenryDorsetCase** · 26th January 2023, 11:58

You wankers think your Ford Ranger makes you tough? Yeah Nah

https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...navi-vengeange

Originally Posted by that article

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, drivers behind the wheel of an SUV are two to three times more likely to kill a pedestrian in a collision than when driving a regular car. A study in Michigan found that, at 20-39 mph, 30% of SUV crashes resulted in a pedestrian fatality, compared with 23% of car crashes. While, at 40mph or above, 100% of SUV crashes resulted in a pedestrian death, compared with 54% of car crashes.

It comes down to simple physics: SUVs are more lethal due to their enormous weight, much taller front ends, and poorer visibility. While a regular car generally strikes a pedestrian’s legs, throwing them on to the bonnet, an SUV strikes their upper torso, or head, and then crushes them under the wheels.

thats \m/

**neels** · 26th January 2023, 13:18

Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase

You wankers think your Ford Ranger makes you tough? Yeah Nah

From the article it sounds like it's most popular with those who have no pee-pee at all, which begs the question, does that require even more over-compensation?

'Styled like an Elon Musk fever dream'........

**R650R** · 26th January 2023, 21:26

80% of those USA suv fatalities are prob from cops running over offenders

**TheDemonLord** · 26th January 2023, 21:43

Originally Posted by R650R

80% of those USA suv fatalities are prob from cops running over offenders

I thought it was from mostly peaceful protestors driving through Christmas parades...

**Laava** · 27th January 2023, 06:35

I wonder if it comes with automated gun racks?

**jim.cox** · 27th January 2023, 10:10

They are hardly the first to market

Although the first series did not sell that well

**pritch** · 29th January 2023, 08:16

A friend, more attuned to luxury cars than am I, said he was following a late model Maybach in Auckland recently. A similar ownership syndrome? We don't see many Maybachs out here on the rural rump.

**R650R** · 29th January 2023, 08:59

Envy... one of seven deadly sins....

I note is mostly the leftist leaning people concerned with what other people do with their hard earned money.
Bet there’s a lot of greenies in Auckland getting on their knees now with Ranger owning neighbours.

I really do love the whole paradigm about how we think we know what complete strangers do with their vehicles lol

**pritch** · 29th January 2023, 16:42

Originally Posted by R650R

Envy... one of seven deadly sins....

The aforementioned friend identifies very much with BMWs. I don't think he's 'envious' of a Maybach. I've never even seen one, nor have I read much about them, so they aren't on my envy list. My Lexus suits me thanks.

If I was feeling spendy though, I'd probably get a new two wheeler.

**F5 Dave** · 29th January 2023, 18:10

Sins? Are you talking about your invisible friends again?

Ask him why he didn't stop the holocaust, or why the Christians lost the Crusades for that matter?

And don't say because the Jews killed Jesus, it was the Italians.

**R650R** · 29th January 2023, 20:35

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

Sins? Are you talking about your invisible friends again?

Ask him why he didn't stop the holocaust, or why the Christians lost the Crusades for that matter?

And don't say because the Jews killed Jesus, it was the Italians.

He was off on ACC and the other Gods were too busy to double shift. One night he had a bit too much wine and forget to put his full PPE gear on before throwing lightening bolts about at the damned. Those high voltage electrical burns can be nasty.

**HenryDorsetCase** · 29th January 2023, 23:12

Originally Posted by pritch

The aforementioned friend identifies very much with BMWs. I don't think he's 'envious' of a Maybach. I've never even seen one, nor have I read much about them, so they aren't on my envy list. My Lexus suits me thanks.

If I was feeling spendy though, I'd probably get a new two wheeler.

I've got a client with one of those Maybachs. Its overkill in every way. The biggest Mercedes SUV with even more blingy luxo stuff. It has lovely seats and the best paint I have ever seen on a car. So dark green it looks black, with a bit of metalflake. I think it has that yuge W12 motor too.

**HenryDorsetCase** · 29th January 2023, 23:15

Originally Posted by R650R

Envy... one of seven deadly sins....

I note is mostly the leftist leaning people concerned with what other people do with their hard earned money.
Bet there’s a lot of greenies in Auckland getting on their knees now with Ranger owning neighbours.

I really do love the whole paradigm about how we think we know what complete strangers do with their vehicles lol

my objection to them is the way the tax system is skewed to make them the logical and inevitable choice for urbanites. There are a couple of flash harry mortgage brokers here who have double cab utes as work cars because of course they do.

**onearmedbandit** · 30th January 2023, 00:23

Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase

I've got a client with one of those Maybachs. Its overkill in every way. The biggest Mercedes SUV with even more blingy luxo stuff. It has lovely seats and the best paint I have ever seen on a car. So dark green it looks black, with a bit of metalflake. I think it has that yuge W12 motor too.

The W12 was a VW group engine, the Maybach SUV uses the normal 4.0l V8 TT (with the addition of hybrid drive) found in a range of Mercs and Aston Martins.