ice-boy opened this issue on Mar 19, 2009 · 91 posts
bagginsbill posted Tue, 24 March 2009 at 1:21 PM
I have 3 cars.
The BMW can go 200 miles per hour and is pretty safe, but is unable to climb rocks, won't move in snow at all, and uses a crapload of gas. Plus it cost much more than most people make in a year.
The Volvo can do 130 MPH and eat snow like crackers and is extremely safe but it still sucks quite a bit of gas and won't really climb big rocks and cost a year's pay for most people.
The Jeep is good on gas and can climb rocks, but only goes about 95 MPH before it starts to wheeze and if a truck hit me in it, I'd be dead, but it only cost $20K.
(Please do not point out to me that the speed limit where I live is 65 MPH. I like to accelerate from 0 to 30 in 1.5 seconds - merging traffic and all that.)
So I'm a bit dissatisfied with the Jeep. I'm thinking of complaining to Jeep (as well as other Jeep owners on the Jeep forum) that it isn't the rock-climbing-snow-leaping-Porsche-eating family sedan I wanted it to be. I mean, come on, they all have an engine, four wheels, a body, seats, and so on. Why don't I get all the best features in one car at the cheapest price? I don't get it.
Oh, is that off-topic? Sorry. I thought that's what we do here.
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