Friday Humor: Henry Payne's CARtoons
Usually for our Friday Humor, we find an odd article and in some way twist it into something resembling green auto-related news. Sometimes, this is effective, sometimes not so much. But, this week, we're gonna be a bit more conventional in our humor. While I was e-paging through my online copy of The Detroit News, I found a link to Henry Payne's CARtoons, and this one regarding the Smart FourTwo jumped out at me. I drive on I-75 regularly, and I can honestly say that I hate that road. I cracked a rim in a pothole near Detroit a few years ago, and I always know what lane I'm based on the harmonic frequency resonating through my car. Michigan surely has some rough roads...
But, would driving in a Smart make that any worse? I doubt it... at least not to me. Granted, semi truck drivers sometimes have the habit of moving slower traffic over, but it's not like the car is incapable of freeway speeds. The safety cage which makes up the passenger compartment would make me feel a bit better about the drive as well. But, to each his own, I guess.
[Source: Henry Payne / The Detroit News]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
AlexP 6:26PM (8/03/2007)
I don't feel that way in my G3/Wave... :0
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litesong 1:32AM (8/04/2007)
What a set of left hand compliments!...I guess. I've ridden motorcycles next to semi trucks. Ya want to complain about that too? Its not that the SmartCar is too small. The problem is that America thinks you should get around only in a big vehicle...& for some reason America has a superiority complex about their bigness. But America doesn't much care to look into hospitals to see all the inner city kids with lung diseases due to auto air pollution. So where is America's superiority. I ain't seeing it. I guess there's too much pollution to see it. We got to get in smaller vehicles...& I ain't guessing about that.
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Jeremy Korzeniewski 1:15AM (8/04/2007)
litesong -
I think you may have misunderstood what I was saying. I think we need small cars in America too, and that they will be just fine on our roadways. The cartoon was just the joke that got me talking about the subject.
Jeremy
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Don 6:55PM (8/06/2007)
Honestly, this is precisely what I'd be worried about if driving this car...but who's going to take it on I-75 anyway?
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