Don't take your Porsche Cayenne Muddin'

[Surrey]

I can tell you that most euro countries have much better drivers than us. I have done a few moto tours in the Alps and you can scream through narrow mountain road curves on the bike without worrying if the oncoming car will be in their own lane. It's like heaven really.

Im not so sure about American Drivers (Or Albertans, for that matter) but here in BC, where every highway is a mountain highway, we know how to stay in our own freakin' lane.

That being said, the cities are still full of assholes in Cayennes and Range Rovers driving way too fast in their toy trucks.

 

[BlueChariot]

I can tell you that most euro countries have much better drivers than us. I have done a few moto tours in the Alps and you can scream through narrow mountain road curves on the bike without worrying if the oncoming car will be in their own lane. It's like heaven really.

I knew already that european standards for getting a license are much more strict than in America, in the UK, you have separate licenses for automatics and manuals, in Germany it costs an arm and a leg and they used to not have cupholders in their cars before they started exporting in large numbers to America because to them, a car was never a mobile dining room.

That is actually pretty steep. And if you notice at a point the right front tire is off the ground while the left front is digging in. Let's see a stock Ranger do that.

I honestly don;t mean to sound like an ass but my first thought was "oooo, wow. traction management control is like black magic ain't it." it's the same type of wheel slip based power splitting electronics you find on just about every front wheel drive sedan nowadays so they can say they have AWD (whoch bothers me). The Cayenne is different than those, but the basis is the same and its actually annoying to me. If I was crawling around the countryside, I wouldn't want the car's brain working out problems for me.

Again, not tryin to sound like an ass.

 

[gribly]

That is actually pretty steep. And if you notice at a point the right front tire is off the ground while the left front is digging in. Let's see a stock Ranger do that.

It's steep but it's smooth, it looks worse than it is because he is straddling a trench. Look at it again, it's not that bad. I posted it to show that a Cayenne can do a little bit, but not much. There is also ZERO suspension movement there, that is why the tire gets airborne. A Ranger wouldn't even have noticed the difference.

 

[Jason]

As tock torsion bar ranger flexes about the same. I had two to know.

 

[ranger_mclaren]

Wow. just Wow. Thats some pretty impressive damage from a tire blowing.

No shit the side curtin airbags and everything! Hell you get killed going down the high way and run over something sharp the tire would blow the air bags blow you'd freak out and flip the truck and get killed. Forget the Firestone and explorer debuckle. Sheeesh....

 

[DL BOGART]

Know the difference between a porsche and a cactus? A cactus has a prick on the outside! True most european countries have more strict drivers license requirments, but I don't think they cover off-road driving in the exam. My 1st one in Mn in '76 was more about parallel parking. That might have been sufficient for dating but...

 

[BlueChariot]

Know the difference between a porsche and a cactus? A cactus has a prick on the outside! True most european countries have more strict drivers license requirments, but I don't think they cover off-road driving in the exam. My 1st one in Mn in '76 was more about parallel parking. That might have been sufficient for dating but...

Finalnd covers offroad stuff (mostly as it relates to cars, so mostly loose surface ground). Hence my support of their methods, and why in rally driving they have the saying "If you want to win, employ a Finn".

 

[Clay Lorance]

That was hilarious, but the guy driving the Porsche Cayenne is an IDIOT.