No 56k: Parked like an idiot

[Pedrocas]

 

[prizrak]

In my experience, the A4 (and S4) handle a lot better with summer tires and without any of the adjustable drive stuff.

I think you are confusing handling with cornering both A4 and S4 can corner very well thanks to the AWD system but A4 for one has a very soft suspension so it tends to roll quite a bit in the corners. S4 is pretty good especially the newer models since the engine is further back.

 

[narf]

http://pic.armedcats.net/n/na/narf/2011/07/16/Foto0482.jpg

 

[Sixth Gear]

How did they get out from the spot?

 

[narf]

That's not a problem. I was thinking of the poor left rear tyre.

 

[mitchell.scott]

I think you are confusing handling with cornering both A4 and S4 can corner very well thanks to the AWD system but A4 for one has a very soft suspension so it tends to roll quite a bit in the corners. S4 is pretty good especially the newer models since the engine is further back.

Maybe your generation of A4, but the current A4's suspension is pretty firm. A lot less body roll than the B5 and B6. And believe me, I've thrashed the B8 a good amount.

 

[IceBone]

The B6 had quite a bit of body roll, until I switched the springs. It's just as smooth over the bumps, but doesn't roll even 1/3 of what it used to.

 

[narf]

This is a parking hattrick. First, the poor right rear wheel is resting on an estimated 10% of its intended surface. Secondly, it is parked on a marked lane for the traffic lights - also verboten. Thirdly, it's parked under an explicit no parking sign (pictured later).
http://pic.armedcats.net/n/na/narf/2011/07/18/Foto0483.jpg

I guess someone didn't take their brain medicine before planning this:
http://pic.armedcats.net/n/na/narf/2011/07/18/Foto0484.jpg
Yes, I know, technically nobody parked here like an idiot. However this picture just feels right at home in this thread.

Literally nine minutes after seeing the Ka above I see this, hattrick #2: Again with the suffering rear wheel, again on the marked lane, and again under the no parking sign hanging from the pole you see right behind the friggin car.
http://pic.armedcats.net/n/na/narf/2011/07/18/Foto0485.jpg

 

[Pedrocas]

The Ka and the Multivan got the same driver?

 

[narf]

The Ka and the Multivan got the same driver?

No self-respecting Multivan driver would touch a Ka with a million-lightyear pole.

 

[prizrak]

Maybe your generation of A4, but the current A4's suspension is pretty firm. A lot less body roll than the B5 and B6. And believe me, I've thrashed the B8 a good amount.

It really depends on what you consider acceptable body roll. To me 350z is the golden standard for stock body roll vs comfort. It's pretty smooth over bumps but it's quite flat even going at good clip.

B8 does have a much improved suspension over B6 but that just makes sense

 

[Red_Bull]

I guess someone didn't take their brain medicine before planning this:
http://pic.armedcats.net/n/na/narf/2011/07/18/Foto0484.jpg
Yes, I know, technically nobody parked here like an idiot. However this picture just feels right at home in this thread.

What a stupid thing to do. I think it's a pretty stupid thing to do anyway, even without whacking it over a disabled park. It's a car park, not a botanical gardens. If you're going to add greenery, plan it while you're building the thing so you don't remove or limit existing parking spaces. Don't just retrofit a few trees around the place later.

 

[narf]

What a stupid thing to do. I think it's a pretty stupid thing to do anyway, even without whacking it over a disabled park. It's a car park, not a botanical gardens. If you're going to add greenery, plan it while you're building the thing so you don't remove or limit existing parking spaces. Don't just retrofit a few trees around the place later.

To be fair, there is some method to their madness that I didn't capture.

As you might know, yellow lines on German roads mean temporary markings. I'm standing on a newly constructed pedestrian strip that used to be part of the car park. When it was under construction they put the yellow parking spots there in front of the construction site. After building the pedestrian strip they put a row of trees there, and simply didn't remove the yellow markings.

Here's an overview (Warning: Very Germanic), the picture was taken at the upper A with the triangle - basically they finished the line of trees that was started with the two trees on the right with these five new trees.


PS: 7000

 

[AiR]

Silly person, he's in a huge car park and he's parked his car right on top of the no-parking sign!

http://pic.armedcats.net/k/kn/knarkas/2011/07/19/5015227151_870fb3c926_b.jpg

I don't think they have parking fines in North Korea though. It'd just be money going around the machine, as the state would be fining itself.

Let's throw in a highway for good measure. For all we know, the car could be parked.
http://pic.armedcats.net/k/kn/knarkas/2011/07/19/2467321340_db82e56a45_z.jpg

 

[narf]

http://pic.armedcats.net/k/kn/knarkas/2011/07/19/2467321340_db82e56a45_z.jpg

Next TG road trip to North Korea, anyone? That highway is just screaming for some black marks.

 

[Pedrocas]

http://pic.armedcats.net/k/kn/knarkas/2011/07/19/2467321340_db82e56a45_z.jpg

Holy Highway, Batman! Why do NK need such huge highway anyway?

 

[narf]

Holy Highway, Batman! Why do NK need such huge highway anyway?

Because they have their priorities in order.

 

[leviathan]

Holy Highway, Batman! Why do NK need such huge highway anyway?

Tanks need a wide road. Also, it naturally had to be wider than the roads in the rotten capitalist West NK is very USSR-ish in that matter.

 

[prizrak]

Tanks need a wide road. Also, it naturally had to be wider than the roads in the rotten capitalist West NK is very USSR-ish in that matter.

No if it were USSRish it would have no roads just a jumble of stones.

 

[Ilpav]

That was probably designed to be divided in 2 with a barrier in the middle (like any 2-way highway), but they got lazy and didn't feel like finishing it.