What car is this?
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Okay. So a Fiat 500? Thot you got rid of that pos for the Nissan?
In 2012 in a snow filled hotel parking lot, I was able to drive it out of the parking lot while other cars trouble even pulling out of their parking spots let alone leave the parking lot.
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It can't be one of these. The snow would just slide right off. 
And how about that styling
I think I liked things better when everything was still angry bird.
And how about that styling
I think I liked things better when everything was still angry bird.I still can't believe that anyone makes a vehicle that looks like that ..... and much less, that lots ? of people are actually buying them . I think the world is going mad !!!It can't be one of these. The snow would just slide right off.
And how about that styling
Just give me a nice petrol V8 ...... or 6 cylinders in a motorcycle .... and I'll be happy. (and drive them for years and years and years ,,, and save all this digging up the world)
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Harmless...A bumper car.
back in the 80ies a friend of mine was commander in the tank group...
And they were asked for assistance to open some massive snowdrifts...
"... has it been confirmed that there no abandoned vehicles?! ..."
"Nah, we checked, everything's fine!" the winter service replied...
So... that M-88 backed up about 100 yards, lowered its plow and belched out a thick cloud as the driver gunned it...
You can imagine the rest...
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I had one just like it, back in 2010... For scale, that's a 4 foot ruler.
What I didn't have at the time was a powered snow relocation device. Dug that sucker out by hand.
The Fiat is relegated to lawn ornament duty . It was a good car for the first time 6 years and then its poor build quality raised its ugly head. I really enjoyed driving it but it became a money pit to keep going.
That happened with my 2012 Mini, too. I loved driving it but after it left me on the side of the road with non-warrantied / non-scheduled maintenance/repair problems for the third time in 4,000 miles over a 13 month span, enough was enough.
Heck, Gerhard. You could have carried it out.... Alone.
In 2012 in a snow filled hotel parking lot, I was able to drive it out of the parking lot while other cars trouble even pulling out of their parking spots let alone leave the parking lot.
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When I was a kid we lived in Pennsylvania just outside of Philadelphia. The first year the snow was light and my Texas born parents said "this is not so bad." The next winter came with wave after wave of heavy snow. I think that's my dads Chevy!
There was no third winter.
There was no third winter.
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I HATE SNOW
The first winter after we built our 2 story house, on a 6 acre hilly wooded lot 31 years ago, we had a huge snowfall for sw Ohio. 18" at once (we normally get 19" a year). We had made the gravel driveway about 100 yards long downhill curving thru the trees. It was beautiful that summer and fall, but then winter hit. That 18" of snow kept us house bound for days. Every day my son (who was forced to stay home from school) and I would go out and take turns shoveling since we had 1 snow shovel and no way to get out and buy another. Then it warmed up during the day and started to melt, and get all wet, but would freeze again overnight turning into ice we had to break up with a pick. The next summer I black topped the driveway and bought a huge 48" 10 hp dual stage snowblower which really did the job until I got old and got tired of walking up and down the hill behind the snowblower. So, 10 years ago, I bought a Honda Rancher ATV with a snow blade on the front. It's saved me from several heart attacks I'm sure lol.
Now at 74, I think my dream home is a small ranch style house on a flat 1/4 acre lot (little grass to mow) with a driveway just wide enough and long enough for 2 cars lol.
I had a bow building buddy that lived up in New York in that lake effect snow area and he would send me pics of his house with 5' and 6' of snow. Couldn't find his car, snow up almost to the eaves of his house and stacked on the roof he had to rake off, had to shovel head high paths just to get out of his house and I just thought NO WAY could I ever live there.
When I used to bow hunt up north (Michigan, Wisconsin, the UP etc) I would visit motorcycle dealerships and would be amazed that there would be 40 snowmobiles in the showroom and 10 street bikes in the back row.
Did I mention I HATE SNOW?
The first winter after we built our 2 story house, on a 6 acre hilly wooded lot 31 years ago, we had a huge snowfall for sw Ohio. 18" at once (we normally get 19" a year). We had made the gravel driveway about 100 yards long downhill curving thru the trees. It was beautiful that summer and fall, but then winter hit. That 18" of snow kept us house bound for days. Every day my son (who was forced to stay home from school) and I would go out and take turns shoveling since we had 1 snow shovel and no way to get out and buy another. Then it warmed up during the day and started to melt, and get all wet, but would freeze again overnight turning into ice we had to break up with a pick. The next summer I black topped the driveway and bought a huge 48" 10 hp dual stage snowblower which really did the job until I got old and got tired of walking up and down the hill behind the snowblower. So, 10 years ago, I bought a Honda Rancher ATV with a snow blade on the front. It's saved me from several heart attacks I'm sure lol.
Now at 74, I think my dream home is a small ranch style house on a flat 1/4 acre lot (little grass to mow) with a driveway just wide enough and long enough for 2 cars lol.
I had a bow building buddy that lived up in New York in that lake effect snow area and he would send me pics of his house with 5' and 6' of snow. Couldn't find his car, snow up almost to the eaves of his house and stacked on the roof he had to rake off, had to shovel head high paths just to get out of his house and I just thought NO WAY could I ever live there.
When I used to bow hunt up north (Michigan, Wisconsin, the UP etc) I would visit motorcycle dealerships and would be amazed that there would be 40 snowmobiles in the showroom and 10 street bikes in the back row.
Did I mention I HATE SNOW?
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I’m not a fan of snow either and we don’t get much here- it is cold today though (24 F this AM). When it does snow on a rare occasion, it’s apparently Armageddon and the city shuts down for a few days (only have seen that once in 9 years of being here).
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I was in the AF, stationed just south of Chicago during the 1970/71 miserable winter....the storm that froze the lake completely over. Due to the alternating sleet/snow freeze warning, the base was closed for four days....most went home. Several of us stayed to maintain things. Second evening we got a little 'loose' and decided to water bomb the VW bug in the parking lot. Bucket brigade using several trash cans from the office and soon it was covered with some three inches of ice on top and was completely encased....looked like an enormous yellow scoop of ice cream. Took nearly a week for the owner to be able to get into it.
There are always entertainment opportunities if you look hard enough.
There are always entertainment opportunities if you look hard enough.
'Snow way in hell.