"Flavien Vidal" (flyingfrenchy)
11/17/2014 at 02:54 • Filed to: None
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"Flavien Vidal" (flyingfrenchy)
11/17/2014 at 02:54 • Filed to: None | 3
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Yup I do drive a micro POS right now :)
(Notice the impeccable bro-parking... I put my car there just for the picture ;) )
The car is actually not bad, very reactive, precise and turns on a dime... It's just that the autotragic is what it is: tragic...
Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy
> Flavien Vidal
11/17/2014 at 03:09 |
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Japan sure has some small cars. That LC is huge.
promoted by the color red
> Flavien Vidal
11/17/2014 at 03:12 |
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Nice to see a Toyota 86.
blackjack666
> Flavien Vidal
11/17/2014 at 03:19 |
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Sorry for you bro, but the Land Cruiser looks pretty badass!
I also really like the JDM Daihatsu Copen roadster
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Flavien Vidal
> promoted by the color red
11/17/2014 at 03:51 |
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They are everywhere here... I live 20 minutes away from Toyota city and I think I see about 5 to 10 GT86/BRZ everyday... Really crazy at how successful this car got here...
shop-teacher
> Flavien Vidal
11/17/2014 at 03:52 |
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Wow! I think thaf car would fit in the bed of my truck.
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Flavien Vidal
> blackjack666
11/17/2014 at 03:52 |
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Meh, not a big fan personnally... And bros (4 of them!) were indeed driving it loudly and obnoxiously lol.
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Flavien Vidal
> shop-teacher
11/17/2014 at 03:56 |
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It would require a rather big bed, but it definitly could... it's 340cm long and 148cm wide... :)
Vimto
> Flavien Vidal
11/17/2014 at 06:38 |
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I know its a Subaru, but it looks A LOT like the Hyundai Atos that my parents owned when we lived in England.
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Flavien Vidal
> Vimto
11/17/2014 at 07:38 |
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I dont know but it looks like this... We have the sti version of the car with a turbo lol. It's 4wd too.
BJ
> Flavien Vidal
11/17/2014 at 08:23 |
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You need to paint that thing yellow, at least then you can pretend it's your old corvette...
At the very least, driving a kei car in urban Japan is probably more fun than driving that bro-cruiser.
DanZman
> Flavien Vidal
11/17/2014 at 09:26 |
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they have dude-bros in japan? do they still wear tapout shirts?
Luc - The Acadian Oppo
> Flavien Vidal
11/17/2014 at 09:59 |
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A kei car a POS?
unless you mean "piece of superbness"?
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shop-teacher
> Flavien Vidal
11/17/2014 at 11:16 |
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The width would actually fit, except for the wheel wells. It would fit into the average landscaper's dump truck, no problem!
Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> Flavien Vidal
11/17/2014 at 12:41 |
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Is it the picture angle, or is there a fat bro on the driver side of the Land Cruiser?
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Flavien Vidal
> Luc - The Acadian Oppo
11/17/2014 at 17:09 |
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I'm afraid you are victim of the "can't have it" syndrome :)
Yes a huge majority of kei cars are total crap. They are designed to cheap to buy, cheap to run and cheap to license. Just because they are extremely tiny and under powered does not make them good in any way :)
Imagine a base rental Kia Rio, but very small, slower, less comfortable and less practical. This is what most kei cars are. Not exactly awesome to say the least :)
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Luc - The Acadian Oppo
> Flavien Vidal
11/17/2014 at 17:21 |
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That's what make them great the fact that they are so cheap.
The thing with a base Kia Rio is that yes the car is cheaper but everything else cost the exact same as a bigger car. So why bother with a Kia Rio in the first place?
But take that same Kia Rio and make the insurance a fraction of a "normal car" and make the licensing/parking/taxes and everything else way cheaper that a "normal car" then that crappy Kia Rio is a FANTASTIC car.
Driving a kei car is the cheapest form of 4 wheeled motoring and that's what makes it great.
For the price of a base Kia Rio you could get a fully loaded Kei car and to me that is awesome value.
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Flavien Vidal
> Luc - The Acadian Oppo
11/17/2014 at 17:51 |
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The insurance and licensing are not that much cheaper than with a normal (30% off maybe) car, it gets about the same gas mileage as any other "economical" car and believe me when I say that most of them are unconfortable. Seats are usually finer than a potato chip and suspension are as cheap as the rest of the car. My Corvette was more confortable than the Subaru R2 I'm driving now and that means A LOT.
Most poeple drool at kei-car because of this "can't have it" disease that most Jalop have, which means that any car they cannot have is AWESOME! Sure a fully loaded kei-van will be more confortable, and ingenuous in some ways... But in the end of the day, it's still a cheap ass car that is not that cheap overall when new...
Not all keicars are AZ-1 or Cappuccinos unfortunatly :)
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Flavien Vidal
> Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
11/17/2014 at 19:15 |
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lol nah, nobody was in the car :)
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Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> Flavien Vidal
11/17/2014 at 19:22 |
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That is some serious leaning.