Quake3World

So you don't own a car, and work for a rental company.

i have a mazda. no complaints here. maybe canadians just suck at driving?

pft, I could drive circles around you, I'm not saying all mazdas suck, I'm sure the higher end models probably aren't as noisy or uncomfortable but the Mazda 3 has the quality of a potato.

If you own one and you think it's a good car I suspect you haven't driven many other cars.

Kracus

Nothing like a Kracass car thread to snap this forum back to life...

Κracus wrote:pft, I could drive circles around you.

Is there anything you can't do?!

Tell the truth?

zingg

Κracus wrote: Yeah 110km is the norm here on the highway, since the mazda 3 is shit and didn't have cruise control I noticed the wheel shake when I happened to get near 120. It would be unusual for a cop to pull over someone doing 120 as many people, myself included drift over the 110 limit when going downhill or accidentally on long drives.

Yes 110 kph is to be found on some highways "down under" but generally it is a 100 kph speed limit.

Oh, and the police here are dropping their tolerance just about every year and we believe they will book/fine you for just like 4 k over. They fancy their radar fixed, mobile and hand held here

You have fixed speed cameras I suppose too?

This heavy handed policing is not a bad thing I suppose as there are so many idiots on the road. BTW, our national road toll is down and if that is something to be proud of, I don't know. I had to check data for peace of mind.

Quick search reveals fatalities for one state, Queensland for the first 6 months of years (January - June)
2012 = 119
2012 = 129
2013 = 145
2014 = 103

Site with Statistics

Poor Kracus watches all the cars go by and he whispers to himself "one day" repeatedly as a tear rolls down his cheek and into his laminated weekly bus pass.

Whiskey 7 wrote:

Κracus wrote: Yeah 110km is the norm here on the highway, since the mazda 3 is shit and didn't have cruise control I noticed the wheel shake when I happened to get near 120. It would be unusual for a cop to pull over someone doing 120 as many people, myself included drift over the 110 limit when going downhill or accidentally on long drives.

Yes 110 kph is to be found on some highways "down under" but generally it is a 100 kph speed limit.

Oh, and the police here are dropping their tolerance just about every year and we believe they will book/fine you for just like 4 k over. They fancy their radar fixed, mobile and hand held here

You have fixed speed cameras I suppose too?

This heavy handed policing is not a bad thing I suppose as there are so many idiots on the road. BTW, our national road toll is down and if that is something to be proud of, I don't know. I had to check data for peace of mind.

Quick search reveals fatalities for one state, Queensland for the first 6 months of years (January - June)
2012 = 119
2012 = 129
2013 = 145
2014 = 103

Site with Statistics

Not sure what you mean by fixed cameras, are those like speed traps? If so, no we don't have those here. I've had one cop pull me over for going 115 once in a 110 zone (most of our highways are 110). I went to court over it and contested the charge, the cop didn't show up so I won and the ticket was dismissed, it's really unusual for them to do that though but I was in a country area that has next to nothing going so the cop was probably bored.

Captain Mazda wrote:Poor Kracus watches all the cars go by and he whispers to himself "one day" repeatedly as a tear rolls down his cheek and into his laminated weekly bus pass.

Your life is so pathetic your fantasies about my life are probably the only thing keeping you from suicide. You're welcome.

Cars

Who wants to waste their time driving around?

Κracus wrote: Not sure what you mean by fixed cameras, are those like speed traps? If so, no we don't have those here. I've had one cop pull me over for going 115 once in a 110 zone (most of our highways are 110). I went to court over it and contested the charge, the cop didn't show up so I won and the ticket was dismissed, it's really unusual for them to do that though but I was in a country area that has next to nothing going so the cop was probably bored.

If they're anything like the ones we have here they look like this, and are all over the place. They're automatic so work all day.

PhoeniX wrote:
If they're anything like the ones we have here they look like this, and are all over the place. They're automatic so work all day.

Yes, just like that. They have same for people that run red lights too and they are probably more numerous here.

They have a number of fixed cameras on the other side of overhead bridges that cross freeways where the speed limit is 100kph.

Κracus wrote:your fantasies about my life

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1.
the faculty or activity of imagining things, especially things that are impossible or improbable.

2.
your entire posting history you dunce

Κracus wrote:

Captain Mazda wrote:Poor Kracus watches all the cars go by and he whispers to himself "one day" repeatedly as a tear rolls down his cheek and into his laminated weekly bus pass.

Your life is so pathetic your fantasies about my life are probably the only thing keeping you from suicide. You're welcome.

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Κracus wrote:I've had one cop pull me over for going 115 once in a 110 zone (most of our highways are 110). I went to court over it and contested the charge, the cop didn't show up so I won and the ticket was dismissed, it's really unusual for them to do that though but I was in a country area that has next to nothing going so the cop was probably bored.

What? Is that really how it works there? The cop has to show up in person, and if he doesn't the ticket is automatically dismissed? Why doesn't everyone contest their tickets always and everywhere then? Cops would have a full time job just showing up in court.
Here it's a longwinded process to contest a ticket and it doesn't happen very often that you get it dismissed. Cops are infallible for our law so if a cop wrote a ticket, it's up to you to prove he's wrong, which is rather hard in most cases. I don't really agree with that system either but your system sounds like the wild west.

Cops get paid time and a half to go to court, if they don't show up it's because they don't give a shit. In Kracus' case, they noticed the rusty rental car he was driving and felt bad for him.

either that or there was a donut somewhere that need to be eaten

Captain Mazda wrote:Cops

*snigger*

hey come on not all potatoes are created equal

even then some chumps dont know how to prepare like a pro

Just get the right Mazda; mine has been a dream.

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Really nice machine there Dr_Watson.

Dr_Watson wrote:Just get the right Mazda; mine has been a dream.

I actually really love the Miata and the RX7, RX8. I know I'm generalizing but it's more of a tongue in cheek comment.

The mazda 3 I drove though really did suck, easily as bad as a Kia Spectra I owned several years ago for a very brief period of time.

On Monday I drove a 2014 Hyundai Elantra and goddamn that car is good on gas. The first car I ever bought with my own money was a 2002 Elantra. Like most "first" cars I loved it and thought it was a great car even back then. I got in an accident with it though and then bought the infamous Tiburon involved in that club business scandal I posted about once upon a time.