What's Wrong With This Picture: Meanwhile In Europe Edition
by
Jack Baruth
Published: May 14th, 2012
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“…as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.”
So Johnson wrote of Pope. It’s always best to face the truth and do one’s best with it. Thus, in this TTAC-reader-contributed image, we have a FIAT Seicento — the absolute exemplar of “crappy Euro commuter” — and, rather than a Valkyrie or guy with a Fast and Furious sword on the side, we have the humble snail. Slow is good! Ask any hipster.
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If I was forced to drive any minuscule city car, I'd prefer one with a fire-breathing snail mural over one without. That said, I have a Volvo 244 with the Grim Reaper on its hood, so maybe I'm not the best guy to ask.
I deliberately choose underpowered cars to prove my point about other people driving deliberately slow. If there are true road slugs overseas, I hope they are humiliated when overtaken by the metaphorical snail.
Go S car go!
I choose small cars because its easy to make them quicker with just a few HP, that and they're cheap (except Ford Festivas). That and easy to avoid things. Theres always a pleasure of when Mustangs and Vettes give you the right of way, I was just doing a the speed limit in my Tercel on a county road and while everyone passed me a guy in a black mustang had the patience to drive behind me, at the speed limit. Do I have a smail or flames on it? No, but I've considered racing numbers in all honesty.