"cabarne4" (cabarne4)
05/12/2014 at 23:58 • Filed to: None
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Toooooorque. This thing is effortlessly quick. Second gear especially fun to roll into and let boost build quickly from "meh" at 1,500 RPM, to "Oh, that's why the seats are designed this way" at 3,000 RPM. That last part is almost exactly what my cousin said when she rode in it for the first time. I love how non-car people can put things sometimes.
Emphasis mine.
This made me think of quite a few times when non-car friends and relatives have put concepts we take for granted into much simpler terms.
Back in February, my mom came to visit in Phoenix. She is not a car person, at all. She had a rental Mazda3, and I talked her into going to Tortilla Flat to grab some lunch (which is a touristy restaurant at the top of a twisty road, where some of my friends work). She was driving, and I had her promise not to drive slow. Around the first hairpin, she had the 3 understeering slightly. She immediately says something along the lines of "That's weird, in [my Expedition] if I give it a little gas around the corner, it pushes it around the corner a little tighter. In this car it just does the opposite and makes it want to go off the road."
In that small moment, I realized my mom perfectly summarized the difference between oversteer and understeer / RWD and FWD, in terms that a non car person can understand.
Anybody else have good examples of non car people oversimplifying concepts, or making interesting comments / statements regarding car stuff?
Logansteno: Bought a VW?
> cabarne4
05/13/2014 at 00:09 |
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My girlfriend isn't a car person whatsoever, but she did the same kind of thing one day when we drove both her Camry and her Dad's 328i. She said something like:
"My cars tires start to squeal and the car stops turning as sharp once I get going fast enough. But in the BMW, if I go too fast, the back end of the car starts to come around." I was amazed how easily she explained under and oversteer.
She did the same thing with the seats in the BMW. Something like:
"The sides of the seats are made like this so when you drive like an idiot I stay in place"
Both of these happened a while ago, and she now fully understands most of these kind of concepts.
Opposite Locksmith
> cabarne4
05/13/2014 at 00:43 |
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My girlfriend felt like her Kia "pivoted at the engine bay" when turning
Garrett Davis
> cabarne4
05/13/2014 at 01:45 |
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I love hearing these observations. I wonder how well this question would work as a QOTD. Probably not well, but it's fun to hear the stories anyway.
Thanks for the share! I wish I had thought to put that in question form. You should repost this for the morning crowd so you get some more responses. That seems to be the best time to put these things out there.
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cabarne4
> Garrett Davis
05/13/2014 at 08:21 |
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Reposted. I think it would make a great QOTD! Haha