Am I being mean?Follow

I was thinking that and decided a pacer was much more demeaning.

Here he comes
Her comes Speed Racer
He's a demon on wheels
He's a demon and he's gonna be chasin' after someone.

He's gainin' on you so you better look alive.
He's busy revvin' up a powerful Mach 5.

And when the odds are against him
And there's dangerous work to do
You bet your life Speed Racer
Will see it through.

Go Speed Racer
Go Speed Racer
Go Speed Racer, Go!

He's off and flyin' as he guns the car around the track
He's jammin' down the pedal like he's never comin' back
Adventure's waitin' just ahead.

Go Speed Racer
Go Speed Racer
Go Speed Racer, Go!



Edited, Jun 8th 2007 12:45pm by LurkinAround

Did you people forget that Smash is a liberal ****** from the East Coast or are you all just having sh;ts watching him babble? Of course he thinks the kid should get what he wants. It falls in line with his world view. Bob forbid we make someone learn a lesson. Give them what they want for free and make the productive members of society pay for it.

Personally, I have no problem with the kid's attitude. He's a kid. He's supposed to have a sh;tty attitude. The real problem here is that Thumby's a f'ucking blight on the surface of the world. People like you are helping to hand-hold America to the sh;tter so it can flush itself. Coddle him some more, why don't you. I'm sure he'd love some hooker cash or fake ID money just for using more oxygen than he's worth. I mean, Bob forbid you tell your son to man up, grow a pair and get better at life.

I didn't have to buy a car until I was 30 years old. I drove the last car my parents gave me until it died on the side of the road. It was a great giant cow pie painted to cover the brown decaying recycled grass. But I sure as f'uck didn't complain about it. Why? Because my dad would have been happy to let me walk and store that thing in the driveway for a decade to remind me that I was an ungrateful *******.

Generally the failure would occur at around the point of the entrance of the corner at 70mph, when he realises he doesn't actually know how to drift, resulting in the car plowing in a straight line into a wall/fence/person resulting in injury or more probably death. That's a pretty big fail right there.

I'm reading between the lines of the op. It's the only way this makes sense.



(btw, my two young adult children, while home from college, get to share my old 1993 Taurus Wagon...pretty dam nice of me to let um use it)

Edited, Jun 8th 2007 9:25pm by Elinda

This is my real first car, but it only worked downhill.

Don't you hate that, even when you know he's trollin'?



Almost right.
If he hates the BMW that much, then let him sell it at his expense. He can buy the car he wants with the money, and he doesn't get the extra cash that you were going to spend to spruce the BMW. He gets the privilege of learning how free enterprise works, he gets to make some adult decisions, and live with the consequences.

I don't know if anyone brought this up or not but here are the specs of a Evo VIII

 
    * Base Price (estimated MSRP): $35,392 
    * Body Type: 4-door sedan 
    * Layout: front engine, AWD 
    * Engine: 274 hp, 295 lb-ft of torque, 2.0-L, 16-valve, DOHC turbocharged I-4 
    * Transmission: 6-spd manual 
    * Brakes (front/rear): disc/disc, ABS, EBD 
    * Curb Weight: 3,085 lbs 
    * Acceleration (0 - 60 mph): 4.4 seconds 
    * Acceleration (0-1,320 ft or ¼ mile): 12.9 sec @ 107.6 mph 
    * Braking (from 60 / 80 mph): 117 / 195 ft 
    * Cargo Volume (trunk): 11.3 cu ft 
    * Seating Capacity: 5 
    * Fuel Economy (city/hwy): N/A 
    * Warranty (mo/miles): 36/36,000 comprehensive - 120/120,000 powertrain 
    * Direct Competitors: Subaru Impreza WRX STi 
    * Web Site: www.mitsubishicars.com 

Now I might be wrong, but I do believe those things come stock with a 15psi turbo. Which doesn't sound like much psi but it's quite tremendous.

For his safety a Evo VIII is just too much car for a 16 year old. If you did get it for him, I could see him in an accident in the matter of months.


Source

Edited, Jun 8th 2007 8:26pm by Rimesume

I started off with a POS Saturn that I took over the payments on from a family friend after that died I spent all of my tiny tax return on a POS Escort and after that died I spent yet another tiny tax return on my 2000 Cougar and I love that damn car more than I would any child I could have.

Kids lucky to get any car right off the bat. If he wants to drift that bad get him a XBox or a PS2 and a copy of Need for Speed Carbon he can drift all he wants and not kill himself in the process

On a related note, Drifting is a great adrenaline rush if you've learned to control radical over and under-steer, use the handbrake when it's needed to kick out the rear end, and most of all, become a very experienced driver.

Also saves time when making uturns.

You know what would be absurd? Drift monster truck races!

Exactly.

So what happened? Did he reconcile himself to the situation?