Large, heavy vehicles with high hoods and poor visibility are incredibly dangerous. Even people who drive them will admit that if they hit someone, that person would probably die. At the same time, though, people are selfish and want to look out for their families first. If they’re going to be in a wreck, they want to make sure the people inside their Pedestrian Crusher 9000 are as safe as possible. Except bigger doesn’t actually mean safer, as new research from the Insurance Institute for
If you want to keep yourself safe and see more than an SUV driver, why not buy an Abrams?
Might be more achievable than you think… maybe not specifically the Abrams, but this Scorpion is available for £68,000, and you can get a Daimler Ferret for $35,000.
Then you can really fuck the cars.
Okay, fair warning to people who want to do this tanks are expensive to maintain. Not as bad as BMWs but still.
Fuck yeah, you better be ready to do your own maintenance work or you’ll be paying someone else a lot. Tires for the armored cars are gonna be super expensive, and spare parts are gonna be worse if you can even find them.
Plus, you’re gonna have a hard time parking anything bigger than the Ferret.
Thank you for bringing this glorious thing to my attention!
It’s interesting, isn’t it? Cheaper than a new SUV, small enough to park in a one-car garage, runs on regular gasoline, relatively easy to make street-legal in most jurisdictions, and common enough that getting spare parts should at least be possible. Not a lot of passenger space, but definitely enough power to be useful as a towing vehicle if you want, and obviously fantastic off-road capability, even amphibious versions.
Of course it’s like 5mpg, worse than an old steel-body coupe.
Better than Hummer.
Street legal tanks? U mad
Sure I’ll just go and get a 40 million dollar loan real quick and buy one
None of those are SUVs
Sorry. Pedestrian crushers.