Is There A Car You Wouldn't Hoon?

"Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2" (pompei426)
12/24/2013 at 22:00 • Filed to: None

I ask this simply because I find every car I drive enjoyable. Old minivans to rental whatevers. Each car can be fun in its own way. The only cars I wouldn't hoon would be Concours cars and the liking because of value.

DISCUSSION (26)

JR1 > Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2
12/24/2013 at 22:02

My motto is, hoon it if you got it

PatBateman > Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2
12/24/2013 at 22:02

Kinja'd!!!

WOULD NOT HOON.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2
12/24/2013 at 22:03

Same here, I'd never hoon a Concours car.. BUT.. I'll add one more thing.

I'd NEVER hoon a Taildragger, that would just be wrong..

Kinja'd!!!

Chatham Harrison dba SPANFELLER DELENDUS EST > Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2
12/24/2013 at 22:05

My grandmother's Ford Freestar. Worst-braking car I've ever driven. I didn't even like driving it at the speed limit, because it takes about 900 feet to stop from 60. Overdriving it would be probably be less forgiving than a Can-Am car.

getchapopcorn > PatBateman
12/24/2013 at 22:05

Deathmobile!

PatBateman > getchapopcorn
12/24/2013 at 22:10

I do not go through life drunk and stupid.

Admittedly, I was drunk often, but wasn't "stupid", per se.

JGrabowMSt > Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2
12/24/2013 at 22:13

No. I mean, honestly, if I'm going to buy a car, it's not to just sit there and look pretty. My bosses car gets whipped around a lot, and it's pretty rare (R129 SL600 AMG, black on black, etc etc) and it's got the 95k miles to prove it. It's got a little rust underneath, nothing drastic, but there...I'd like to just get it looking good, but as much as I'd love to fix it up for a concours, it would get the crap driven out of it often. The seats are beat up, the arm rests are worn, and the engine (while it's well kept mechanically) is not the looker of the bunch. It also has twice the mileage of most other SL600s (maybe even more compared to some).

Even the 1965 Shelby Super Snake I saw gets hooned once in a while. How else would the owner know it's top speed is 159 because it starts to get squirelly after that? That specific car holds 3 world records, and he drives it to shows. He told me that at 65mph in 4th gear, you can floor it and it'll just peel out. The car is maintained and inspected yearly by the insurance company to make sure it isn't being modified or altered.

If the car is a true work of art, then I can understand it not getting hooned, but I can't think of a single car that doesn't deserve a good thrashing once in a while. And if I had a chance to drive any car in the world, like hell is it going to be at 25mph puddling around town.

BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion > Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2
12/24/2013 at 22:31

Depends on your definition of hoon. If, by definition, it means enjoying driving a particular car, then no, I never came across a car I really dreaded driving. More often than not, I was just driving it the wrong way. Some cars just wanna roll slow and smooth over the pavement, chilling out and blasting some classic rock. Others are better at screaming their lungs out while you're going flat out on a stretch of road, and others are at home kind of doing both.

Otherwise, yeah, there probably are a few cars out there I wouldn't enjoy driving all out, clipping apexes and heeltoing into second, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't enjoy driving them in a different way.

Stef Schrader > Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2
12/24/2013 at 23:55

Concours cars, or anything too tall.

I really don't like sitting tall in the air.

Tow the hoon-car? Okay. Hoon the tow car? Nope nope nope nope nope. Insta-crap my pants, that.

offroadkarter > PatBateman
12/25/2013 at 00:12

You wouldn't want to either, the brakes are way undersized and the steering feels like its connected to a tub of lard

they are such cool cars though

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
12/25/2013 at 00:22

No such thing as too tall. I drift the dually diesel all over the place in the rain and I'd hoon a double decker bus if I could figure out a way to sneak it out of the motor pool

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
12/25/2013 at 00:50

I've been trying to break myself of this. I went in a friend's Rav4 on track, I've been in a friend's dually drifting doughnuts...man, I'm still kinda jkfldjsaf;k if something is tall and floaty, though.

Tall and solid seems fine.

Tall and...well, Dad's Exploder in ANY form, ever—I won't drive that car. At all.

Clutchman83 > Stef Schrader
12/25/2013 at 01:01

I went from driving a lowered 240Z and stock Acura Vigor to a Nissan Xterra with fat, tall off road tires. It was disconcerting at first but the Xterra handled it's first emergency lane change so well (dodged a goddamn boulder that fell out of a dump truck at 60 mph) I knew she could handle just fine after that. Commenced rallying the fuck out of dirt roads on my way to mountain bike trailheads!

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
12/25/2013 at 01:05

No tall and floaty? But then how will we dominate Baja?

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
12/25/2013 at 01:17

Class 11 Beetle, man!

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
12/25/2013 at 01:21

Need moar travel. It's miserable out there without travel

Zibodiz > Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2
12/25/2013 at 01:32

Short answer: No. Long answer: I treat my cars gently, and always take care of them (seriously, the car may have cost me $850, but if I scratch or dent it, I'm out there with Bondo & paint.) That having been said, I feel strongly that you can have a lot of fun in a car while treating it with respect. I'll take my cars down any dirt road, but I'll be very careful to avoid scraping the bottom on anything, or hitting a branch that could catch in the undercarriage. The same principle applies to the pavement; I drift anything I can get my hands on. Just don't drift in gravel where you've got debris hitting the car; but if you do it sensibly, you can have tons of fun in any vehicle without worry.

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures
12/25/2013 at 02:30

Pfffftttt. I do like tossing cars in the air, though. I got a short ride in a VW-powered buggy a couple months ago and was like HHHHHRRRRNNNNGGG. Me gusta.

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader
12/25/2013 at 03:07

See those are different. They're so light you can stay on the throttle and just skip over all the rough bits, the entire car is the suspension travel. Need to make sure you've put roll bar padding everywhere though, because you'll be a giant bobblehead

Singhjr96 > Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2
12/25/2013 at 15:44

Mazda Miata, Always the answers.

Singhjr96 > Singhjr96
12/25/2013 at 15:46

Jk, I love Hooning the miata. Prius. Wouldn't catch me driving that thing.

Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2 > Singhjr96
12/25/2013 at 16:13

I would hoon the shit out of a Prius. My foot would be firmly planted to the floor the whole time and I would be hunting down dirt roads.

Singhjr96 > Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2
12/25/2013 at 16:25

Prius's have super skinny tires to help with saving gas, same tires as the GT86. But they also have very little power and acceleration. I had to drive one for drivers ed, and about 90% of the time I had my foot planted to the ground. It could barely make it up some hills that we had in our area. The thing that pisses me off the most about the Prius is the fact that people buy it to help save the environment, when in reality it is actually worse for the environment.

Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2 > Singhjr96
12/25/2013 at 17:02

Finally someone that acknowledges that Prii are not environmentally friendly. I have also driven a Prius before, and I would drive/hoon it till it would fall apart or just die.

Singhjr96 > Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2
12/25/2013 at 18:57

You got about 10 years for the battery then.

Singhjr96 > Singhjr96
12/25/2013 at 18:59

They did finally make a battery that will last 20 years, which is the amount of time it takes for a prius to start compensating for the emissions that were emitted from its production, but those batteries are still more expensive, still not in the prius yet, and have metals that are more harmful to the environment than a battery that is in a prius currently.