Thread: New car coming to the states
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Old Feb 27, 2006 | 05:45 PM
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Wayne1992
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From: Dalton, GA
Default Re: New car coming to the states
Originally Posted by bollox
Wayne - All roads in the USA are designed around american cars (i,e no turning circle) parking in the USA has never been a problem. A country that does not even have roundabounds (too hard to navigate - need to turn the wheel) does not need a car that is designed to park face on to the curb in the same cubic area as a car parked normally (i.e. 90 degrees to this). This is just another SMART car - very popular in places like Italy where they have very narrow streets and very little parking and where two passengers is OK (too windy on a scooter).

Why would you want one of these - you live in a country that has been planned around a big automobile.

Sorry to be negative but I have seen some of these... and I just don't get it...
My wife and I have always liked very small cars. We used to have a '73 Honda civic which was considered ridicules at that time. We just enjoyed driving it. The XF is small and that’s one of the reasons we like it. What I think is wasteful are people driving huge cars, Hummers, big trucks or gas guzzling SUV’s with just one person in it when a little economy car would do. I’m not a “green” fanatic but I think us good old Americans may need to think on a smaller scale.

Does anybody else feel this way?

BTW, Georgia and Tennessee do have roundabouts but they are probably bigger than any in Europe.

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