Whats your Ride?

[S&Wshooter]

Originally Posted by k9870

I never got the "minivans are needed for a family" thing. A 4 door car works just as well. Most families have just 1 or 2 kids. I can drive around with 3 or 4 of my friends in my accord. The minivan is just a marketing scheme.

I agree. You can totally fit as many people that you can in a minivan as you can in a Expedition

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by k9870

I never got the "minivans are needed for a family" thing. A 4 door car works just as well. Most families have just 1 or 2 kids. I can drive around with 3 or 4 of my friends in my accord. The minivan is just a marketing scheme.

Actually, when minivans first became a trend in the auto market in the 1980s, the average American family had 2-3 kids.

Kids are fussy and like room to play around and keep lots of stuff to play with, especially on long road trips. That is the main reason people buy Minivans.

Originally Posted by S&Wshooter

I agree. You can totally fit as many people that you can in a minivan as you can in a Expedition

Except the mileage is worse.

[S&Wshooter]

Dude, I rode from North Kentucky to Gulf Coast Texas a few times in a little four door sedan when I was a kid. It isn't that bad.

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by S&Wshooter

Dude, I rode from North Kentucky to Gulf Coast Texas a few times in a little four door sedan when I was a kid. It isn't that bad.

Do you know what solipsism is?

[S&Wshooter]

Originally Posted by MT2008

Except the mileage is worse.

Can you sleep on your back in a minivan? No, but you can in an Expedition. I can see how a minivan can be useful if you live in the 'burbs and never go into the country or city, but it's useless anywhere else

[S&Wshooter]

Originally Posted by MT2008

Do you know what solipsism is?

Nope. And I don't care, but go ahead and tell me.

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by S&Wshooter

Nope. And I don't care, but go ahead and tell me.

It means that you think that everything that's good enough for you should be good enough for everyone else, and that nobody has any right to argue. In other words, it's basically a hallmark of a superiority complex.

Actually, it's not uncommon for kids your age (since your profile says you're in high school). But it is kinda immature.

Originally Posted by S&Wshooter

Can you sleep on your back in a minivan? No, but you can in an Expedition. I can see how a minivan can be useful if you live in the 'burbs and never go into the country or city, but it's useless anywhere else

Considering you (almost surely) aren't even paying for your own gas, don't you think that's somewhat inappropriate?

[Gunmaster45]

A green 1998 Ford Explorer, engine smokes, but it runs.

Priuses aren't girly (and just because the extremely unfunny Jeff Dunham says so, doesn't make it true), and when people drive by me in Hummers I yell "Viagra" because I assume people who drive Hummers are compensating, and could use it to help their poor endowment.

And solipsism is basically being self-centered and egomaniacal. Lets play nice guys, these are hurtfully eloquent words.

[S&Wshooter]

Only because you asked nicely

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by Gunmaster45

And solipsism is basically being self-centered and egomaniacal. Lets play nice guys, these are hurtfully eloquent words.

I'm not saying I think S&Wshooter is actually solipsist, just that he's kinda acting that way.

I have friends (my own age) who talk the same way, and I don't think they're egomaniacal. Just outspoken. But I do tell them that they'll be perceived as self-centered if they talk that way endlessly in public. Which is a valid constructive criticism.