Cars and bikes I’ve come across in my travels

Pretty standard 4-door with a top-chop... does visually lengthen it quite a bit!

Seems convertibles were 2-door 2+2 only from the factory.

piet
 
IMG_1104.jpegIMG_1103.jpeg I saw this Sportster in the hotel where some friends are staying in Sorrento. Looks like a lot of thought went into it, notice the Ohlins shocks and the O2 sensors in the pipes.
 
Tried pushing my wife’s small, Peugeot Ion electric when a garage ran it out of juice. There were two of us pushing. We gave up and got a winch…
 
The best handling new car Iv’e ever owned was the BMW i3. Roller skate chassis with carbon fiber structure and all the weight around axle level. Amazing nimbleness and quicker to 40mph than contemporary M3. It was decades ahead of its time. If only we had gotten the updated euro version with the bigger battery and 220hp in the US.
 
I've never owned a good handling car. I don't see the point.
In my younger days, I was given a lift home in a colleagues Alpine A110. When he turned off the motorway without slowing down, I thought that my last moments had arrived. They hadn't.
A son of mine has a Ferrari F12. He took me for a spin, it appears to handle.

I still don't see the point. It just gives the car driver the delusion that he/she's safe making the roads more dangerous for everyone else.

Paul
 
piranha-bro2 said:
Not necessarily Paul. I'd rather have a Ferrari F12 coming at me from the opposite direction at speed than a bloated shit handling SUV!!
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Depends who's driving.
I'd prefer an SUV driven by a prudent old lady going slowly than a Ferrari F12 driven by a young male full of hormones.
I prefer small roads with no cars when I'm on a bike anyway.
Any car is trouble.
Paul
 
Paul Marx said:
I've never owned a good handling car. I don't see the point.
In my younger days, I was given a lift home in a colleagues Alpine A110. When he turned off the motorway without slowing down, I thought that my last moments had arrived. They hadn't.
A son of mine has a Ferrari F12. He took me for a spin, it appears to handle.

I still don't see the point. It just gives the car driver the delusion that he/she's safe making the roads more dangerous for everyone else.

Paul
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I think one could make exactly the same case against good handling bikes. We should all be riding Harleys so we realise how vulnerable we are! But good handling, regardless of number of wheels, can only be good whereas ludicrous performance is another matter.
 
Max said:
I think one could make exactly the same case against good handling bikes. We should all be riding Harleys so we realise how vulnerable we are! But good handling, regardless of number of wheels, can only be good whereas ludicrous performance is another matter.
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You cannot compare a motorcycle with 2 tons of recycled metal and plastic driven by somebody incapable of handling the vehicle in anything but very stable conditions and responsible for the deaths of hundreds of pedestrians and users of two wheelers and the maiming of thousands of others in our countries every year.
Paul
 
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