Rocketboy's MINI Blog - Entry Page

Did you look for the biggest idiots to interview at the end of the article? I love Fox News, but the stores on your website really leave much to be desired. Case in point, the story about Mini cars.
"“I’m hating Mini Coopers,” said Sarah Trafford, 23, a 5-foot-11 Washington, D.C., graduate student. “When I get in them, I have to be all hunched over. They’re massively uncomfortable and unpleasant to ride around in.”"

My 50 year old father who's just under 5'11" is in no way "all hunched over" when he rides in my car. My friend's 6'2" 250lbs (not overweight, think more of a bouncer/landscaper type build) remarked that he had more room in my car than his full sized pickup truck. With just under 3'6" of legroom, and over 3" of headroom, someone who is only 5'11" should not be hunched over in any way shape or form.

"John Finn, 57, of Bath, Mich., is leery of the safety of compacts — high-end or not — when surrounded by sport utilities on the highway. He said he wouldn’t let his children drive anything but SUV when they were teenagers."

I'm not a SUV basher, but I do realize that a truck with a high center of gravity, and more mass than you average car does NOT make a safe ride for a teenager. There's a reason that you need a HIGHER class of license to drive a larger/heaver commercial truck than a smaller one. It's because the more mass and size a truck has, the more difficult it is to drive and control. Giving an new driver with little experience a large truck to start off with is irresponsible at best. No wonder why John Finn is leery of the safety of small cars. He think it's a good idea to give green drivers large heavy trucks.

And again from Sarah Traford:
"Trafford said small cars just mean more vehicles on the road — and thus, more pollution. She doesn’t think compacts like the Mini make sense in the U.S."

I think that the college that she is a graduate student in should be in danger of losing it's accreditation. If she thinks that if cars are made smaller, somehow there will be more people driving, she really needs to start from square one. Her logic does not even come close to making sense.

Nice attempt at trying to add a FUD factor at the end of an article by not citing people who buy into the 'Bigger is ALWAYS better' myth. But the attempt is so totally transparent because the person that wrote the article was so lazy that they couldn't even be bothered to find someone who knows what they are actually talking about.