Basically, ANYTHING can get a car to be considered totaled.
musta been one of the last luminas, then (i hear most of em are allready IN the junkyards). the problem is, I slid into a culvert with an A body Celebrity. the only real damage was a tire got popped (and it took a 4 inch piece of the culvert corner off!), but the car was considered totaled because the crossmember got tapped by the culvert
from the sound of it, it was destroyed literally, unlike my case. good luck with the Points your getting.
Volkswagen did it first with the Beetle and Type 2.
They're FWD and heavy, so obviously they're front-heavy and prone to overload the front tires. They're also shod with cheap tires from the factory and, unless driven by someone who thinks they're driving a sportscar, shod with cheap tires for their whole operational lives. Furthermore, Detroit didn't learn until recently that a car doesn't need to be a sportscar to be tight and controllable, so they have soft, floppy suspensions with little to no shock absorber control, and lack any sort of handling refinement.
True. All I was pointing out is how the Corvair was an air-cooled rear- and flat-engined coupe that, as you said, was turned into a van, and how the Beetle was an air-cooled rear- and flat-engined coupe that, 11 years before the Corvan, was turned into a van.
True. All I was pointing out is how the Corvair was an air-cooled rear- and flat-engined coupe that, as you said, was turned into a van, and how the Beetle was an air-cooled rear- and flat-engined coupe that, 11 years before the Corvan, was turned into a van.
I was riding passenger. We were making a beeline to his house. He had to swerve to miss a deer that decided to plop itself down just on the shoulder on the right side of the road (the corner was semi-blind). He either jerked the wheel to fast or over corrected, but the car just started coming around from the back. The front left wheel suddenly decided to impolitely gain traction while the car was mostly sideways and whee! It was like a motion simulator. Luckily we weren't going that fast (double nickel in a 60 zone), so it only rolled once. I do know where the car ended up, and I'm going to check it out in the sunlight for the first time tomorrow. I'll take some pictures of it then.niky
Yes. Because even if I was dumb enough to do some kick ass street racing in the middle of the night on back roads, I would totally pick a 3300 pound boat with 200 HP and a 4 speed slushbox to do it with. I'd street race my Blazer before I would street race a W body car.
Completely unrelated, but what type of car do you think inexperienced, starting drivers (the kind that regularly get into accidents due to pushing cars past heir limits) are more likely to have?Rotary Junkie
Ah. Disregard anything I said about you being behind the wheel then.
I rest my case.
Exactly, that's one part of it. I also have seen and have had the unfortunate opportunity to ride with older drivers of heavy FWD sedans that speed everywhere and brake as late as possible. Drivers like those aren't scared of body roll. They just aren't scared.
I wasn't even talking about sportscars or sporty cars. I would contrast the Lumina with an equally utilitarian but safer-handling car, like a VW or Mazda.
