What car or cars would you love to own?

[The Batman]

ALSO the Hemi-Cuda from Phantasm, of course.
This is added to my previous list.

[ChristineBCW]

We have two Mercedez G-Classes (2006, 2014) and I like those very much.  While I've never rolled either, the side-mirrors do pop off like dislocated shoulders - go back, pick 'em up, plug 'em in.  They work fine.  And the bumpers are stout enough so that they wouldn't dig into the tires! 

But I was looking at the 2018 G-Concept and, I dunno, folks...



First, those bumpers (rear and front) have NO BACKING SUPPORT so they'll cut into any tire when rolled or if I challenge a rock at probably even 10mph.  There is no backing U-brace support from the body, and I see no reason to have bumpers ready to slice into tires whatsoever.  What's the purpose of the rear-wheel well's 'cut away' to expose Bumper & Tire together?  "Oh gee - this cut-away allows debris to be flung straight over the bumper and out back!"  Well... fine.  But rocket-launchers built into the rear bumper - or machine guns or oil-jets - would do an even better job of getting rid of tail-gaters and other commie spies...

Second, those little cornstalk side mirrors might pop out just fine, but having them inserted into glass probably means, at some point, the surrounding glass would be cracked by roll-overs as the side-mirrors popped out of socket. 

I don't know what the slightly raised-from-window side pillars are for.  Side window protection during roll-overs?  Or are they hand-holds so that, as I'm speeding away, friends and allies can grab on and I can speed away while they're doing their best to hang on?  That'd be pretty thoughtful, if so.  But, in my limited experience with friends hanging on by fingertips, I sure couldn't drive too far, too fast with such tiny finger-tip holds. 

Finally, the Top. 

I've seen rear-shots of this vehicle and there is no snorkel exhaust, so those front-four bulbs can't be some kind of 3D periscope system.  (That's what I asked for, too.)  I mean, if you're not going to have snorkel'd exhaust, why have 3D camera systems mounted merely a foot higher than my own eyes? 

So, could those be, like, laser beams?  They can't be machine guns.  They can't be rocket-launchers (you'd roast whatever surfboard I was carrying on the rear luggage rack, after all.  I HATE that when that happens.)

And what about that little gull-wing luggage rack?  It looks cool but, frankly, the roof is still too narrow to support any .50-cal gun turret I need.  Even an old 2-gun turret from a B-25 wouldn't fit and, if it did, the gunbelts would be dangling down in the 2nd Row Seats, getting caught up in passengers' gowns and suits, or messing up drive-thru burger-joint meals. 

Of course, I wanted to get a B-29's electric remote gun-turret, but I can't find any 2-gunners - just the more standard 4-gunners, and those need a VERY wide roof for support - I'd need at least another 18 inches up there.

So, we're going to stay with the older ones.  For now.  I keep sending them ideas, though, and they just keep ignoring me, apparently.  I don't know why.

[Hepcat]

What's the purpose of the rear-wheel well's 'cut away' to expose Bumper & Tire together?

I'm not sure about the James Bond stuff, but I think the oversized wheel wells are designed to enable the installation of even larger tires without any need to jack the whole truck up higher.

[ChristineBCW]

Yes, but that 'cut away' over the bumper - that's not going to make any difference in tire-fit. 

Actually, it's probably an anti-mud build-up structure, where mud jammed upward gets split under the lower edge of the bumper, or over its top.  Instead of one large block of mud, it'd be split into two, unsupported globs that hopefully will fall away all the more quickly.

If the wheel-well was one solid piece down to the bumper, the mud would be one long blob inside that well's backwall. 

That can be such a mess to clean out, too... Getting Hubby to clean out my wheel wells is a REAL chore.  He hardly ever lets me have any fun.

Still, I'd rather have bumpers supported to prevent their collapse into tires.  Or maybe we'll get our second li'l bus...

[Sean]

I DO like the bus.

[ChristineBCW]

We passed on the older style one (like the above Green one) due to lack of overhead storage at the rear, and bought one like this:



which is similar to our existing one.  We'll refurb it, repaint it white (or maybe checkerboard - I think I've learned how to do that) and it should be able to seat 20 for in-town jaunts or 8 or 12 on longer tours, plus hold a bunch of equipment, too.  Even offer some triple decker bunks. 

And no, Hubby won't allow gun-mounts or rocket launchers, despite my many winning arguments about MY uses for them.  He keeps insisting that dead-drivers would be worse drivers than the live-ones I encounter.  I dunno, though... and once again, he refused to even look for the half-tracks... "Parking spaces?  I don' squeeze into no steenkin' parking spaces!"



He just never lets me have any fun.