14 miles and one trifle later...

My Little Pony · Post by **My Little Pony** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 8:22 am

oh holy shit, my sides are aching, and the tears are flowing. That was the best laugh I've had in a long time! Didn't Mr Bean drive one of those? I've got to send this to some friends. Thanks!

Aggroton · Post by **Aggroton** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 10:03 am

Jeremy Clarkson is pure class.
That was great.

calamari kid · Post by **calamari kid** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 10:03 am

That's frickin' hi-larious! Thanks for that.

My Little Pony wrote:oh holy shit, my sides are aching, and the tears are flowing. That was the best laugh I've had in a long time! Didn't Mr Bean drive one of those? I've got to send this to some friends. Thanks!

Bean drove a Mini. His arch nemesis on the road was a blue Robin.

CarolinaBoy · Post by **CarolinaBoy** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 10:33 am

hahaha. love it

Bigshankhank · Post by **Bigshankhank** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 1:09 pm

I think the best part was they put The Stig in it around the track and even HE (it, whatever) couldn't help but tip it over.

Zim · Post by **Zim** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 3:11 pm

My Little Pony wrote:oh holy shit, my sides are aching, and the tears are flowing. That was the best laugh I've had in a long time!

I laughed so hard, I had tears, went into a coughing fit, nearly blacked out, then threw up.

My Little Pony · Post by **My Little Pony** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 3:19 pm

Zim wrote:
My Little Pony wrote:oh holy shit, my sides are aching, and the tears are flowing. That was the best laugh I've had in a long time!
I laughed so hard, I had tears, went into a coughing fit, nearly blacked out, then threw up.

Oh yeah, well I watched it again, shit my pants and had a hernia. Beat that.

MATPOC · Post by **MATPOC** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 3:49 pm

they made whole bunch of episodes with Robin, there is the one where they send it to space, Ken Block drives one, Stig drives one...

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piccini9 · Post by **piccini9** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 3:55 pm

My Little Pony wrote:
Zim wrote:
My Little Pony wrote:oh holy shit, my sides are aching, and the tears are flowing. That was the best laugh I've had in a long time!
I laughed so hard, I had tears, went into a coughing fit, nearly blacked out, then threw up.
Oh yeah, well I watched it again, shit my pants and had a hernia. Beat that.

I laughed myself to death, and am typing this from the Great Beyond.

Zim · Post by **Zim** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 4:05 pm

Oh crap... I can't watch those. I'm giggling just from MATPOC's description.

No, really, I puked. It was the part with Starsky & Hutch's Torino paintjob on the Robin. Then, out of no where, the white one does the barrel roll into it.

A powerful, redfaced laugh, a hiccup, a gag, and then just enough time slap the spacebar to pause the video on the mad dash to the bathroom.

My Little Pony · Post by **My Little Pony** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 4:27 pm

I think its just amazing that quite a few people were involved in designing this thing, and apparently, no one stood up and said "Geez, we can't build this thing, it's gonna roll right over". And then lots of people bought it. Just amazing, and hilarious. Even more hilarious is the fact that Zim threw up watching these videos.

Post by **DerGolgo** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 6:40 am

It is, apparently, possible to build a three-wheeler thusly that not only will it be as stable against rollover as a regular cage, but even have superior stability.

But when you are trying to make it look just like a normal econobox, that won't really work.

But since that was what people wanted, what with the tax breaks and all that, of course they'd make it.
I wonder wether modern stability control systems might be able to get the thing under control without a sack of potatoes in the passenger seat.
Maybe using the rear-engine platform of the smart or some-such configuration. But what with consumers these days being more likely to have a car license rather than a bike license, that probably wouldn't even sell in Britain.

xtian · Post by **xtian** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 7:48 am

I'm not sure a contemporary english 4 wheeler would drive so much better. tTose where just the cheapest alternative to a motorcycle, the equivalent of the licence free cars largely used in poorly urbanised area of france. They were just mopeed with a plastic cover on, not really anything that need to merge into traffic or pop a time around a race track.

Jaeger · Post by **Jaeger** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 8:29 am

HAAAAHAHAHAHAAHAAAA!!!!!

And the Space Shuttle thing is PRICELESS.

--Jaeger

MATPOC · Post by **MATPOC** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 9:15 am

DerGolgo wrote: I wonder wether modern stability control systems might be able to get the thing under control without a sack of potatoes in the passenger seat.
Maybe using the rear-engine platform of the smart or some-such configuration.

here, just add the roof, this would make great episode of Top Gear, trying to convert this to car

Zer0 · Post by **Zer0** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 10:28 am

So I'm thinking a coupla minutes into this--yeah. Cute--british silly. And my office door is open--it's only closed when I'm talking to someone because my language is something the district does not count as one of its strongest attributes.

Students are studying and then I snort and spit my coffee all over my desk. I have coffee stains on my shirt and it's 10:22 in the a.m., (and I'm meeting with the Veep of Instruction after lunch and some visitorsd from another college.)

Students came in to complainn. By the time the first showing was done there were 9 students crammed in my 8x8 office.

I had to host a second showing, this time with 11 people. My dean walks past, sees us cackling like drunk 8 year olds, shakes her head and is now trying to forgert what she just saw,

I have a headache now. I will watch no more fucking vids posted on this thread.

Fuck No. that's enough. Head's tyhrobbing

ridiculous

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