Cagiva: I’d say the most useless thing in the New Beetle is that stupid flower vase in the dash!
Oh, and on most if not all modern cars, the windows will open automatically if the car submerges. Not to worry, dump it safely into that icy harbour now.
My little first aid kit. My mom gave it to me. It has leetle bandaids, an “automatic” cold compress,and some little packets of over the counter meds like ibuprophin, etc. That’s it.
Hell, I carry practically all that stuff in my purse. For my car’s first aid kit, I’d like to see at least, oh, some some large compression bandages? Some scissors? Some freaking alcohol wipes?
I couldn’t even remove a splinter with the contents of that kit.
Also, those prisms people hang from their rear-view. I know it’s giving your car all kinds of good energy and groundedness, but it’s also freaking blinding the person behind you.
There are a lot of stupid things about cars nowadays I have realized. Has anyone ever noticed the unusual bump on the back of a Nissan X-terra? From what I hear, it is a special roadside emergency kit…“hey guys! My car has a retarded looking bump, guess what its for?”
Also i recently saw a commercial for a car the size of a geo metro that was all decked out luxury style and wonderful safety features. What was really stupid is that it comes with special plugins for your little rock band to hook up to. I’m sure Wayne and Garth would love the idea, but lets get real.
My brother only recently bought a car and decked it out (he’s just turned 16 less than a month ago and got his insurance and everything less than a week ago). He has one of those, along with a matching light attached to the inside of the roof of his car that flashes to the bass of his speakers.
He was approached out front of my house when he came to pick me up for a drive, and asked if he sold drugs. -rolls her eyes- I wonder why he got all those things. Oh wait, he’s a boy, he’s a car fanatic, going to become a mechanic and he likes stupid car accessories like that.
I don’t know Max. I kinda like the idea. Then again, I’m a degenerate.
Being into Import tuning, we are dealing with a flood of products that are stupid. Little LED’s for your windshield wiper fluid dispensers is the current rage.
The good folks at APC and JC Whitney should all be drug into the streets and shot. APC, more than any other company, is responsible for the “ricer” image that has become far too common in the Import scene today.
All I want in a car is a seat that fits my back.
It’s not like I have a hump, or scoliosis, or anything. My back is normal-- so why does every seat force me into a hunched-over curve that’s extremely painful after half an hour?
MY friend’s Laser had visors in the rear window, so that if you were sitting in the back seat and put them down, they were behind your head. You couldn’t flip them out to the sides, either.
Then again, we’re talking about a car that pointed out useless facts to you, if your keys were in the ignition, the car’s robot-voice would say “your keys are in the ignition.”
When you opened your door, “passenger door is ajar.” When the engine was on fire, “engine temperature above normal. Engine damage may occur.”
That talking car idea never seemed to really catch on, did it?
Because they want you to be able to see as much out of that mirror as possible. The mirror is slightly convex so as to minimize the amount of blind spot you are left with. The side-effect of this is to make objects reflected in it appear smaller, or to put it another way, further away.