Originally Posted by
Marrero
100% I drive a massive "UPS/FEDEx/Bread Truck" like ford E350 Boxtruck for work. I drive it much slower than I drive our mirage but experience far less people (possibly none) doing one of those "Revenge overtakes" where they overtake and cut in front of you (inches or a foot or two). I don't think it is directed toward the Mirage but towards any small car, I'm assuming people have more self preservation instincts when dealing with larger vehicles than with smaller vehicles that wont really injure them.
It could also be a financial or Odd man out thing, people are blown away when they find out I drive a Mirage and Fiat 500 (at the office we all have six figure salaries). So just like homeless people get treated worse than someone who has a lucrative career a mirage owner might get treated as someone who has made so many bad/dumb decisions that they can "only afford a clown car".
just my 2 cents.
Yea eh I drive a bunch of different trucks at work myself. In the truck and heavy equipment world, it has been a natural gas, or electric drivetrain world for a long time now. Bigger issue is you can't have gasoline fumes pumping everywhere indoors in a manufacturing facility in winter in Canada.
So that's why propane and electric drivetrain was invented, for safe air.
It's the weight of big work trucks etc, and rigs, what makes them dangerous. That is what has already been said. Sorry I am bad for names on the internet.
On my new truck at work I have a screen actually, but it's a 360 direction thing involving the tires I won't get into. I like old tow trucks far more than new.
Driving one of those things every day for 11 years makes you think different about driving for sure
Edit sorry is it true Canadian edition Mirages since 2014 are slower than the speedometer? I have noticed this with the unmanned police radar speed thingys they put around randomly to tell you how fast you're going. My car is off I know this. However, I was specifically referring to the jerk from the oncoming traffic. Maybe people really do think their lives are somehow more valuable. You don't need to eat your cake to have your cake, the not a zero-sum kind of win or lose. We can all win if we are polite and follow the rules for the sake of everyone. If one person loses and the rest win, no one really wins in that game.
Last edited by dspace9; 10-08-2021 at 08:32 AM.
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