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11-08-2007, 08:14 PM
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11-08-2007, 08:14 PM
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11-08-2007, 08:50 PM
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Yeah... Then again, fat everyone around the world as well.
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11-08-2007, 08:50 PM
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Yeah... Then again, fat everyone around the world as well.
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11-09-2007, 03:30 AM
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Fat people hurt the car industry as well. Many modern cars, in an effort to save weight and gain performance fuel mileage, make their cars with 170-ish pound people in mind. So basically, it's very easy to load a car past its maximum load. I think the new Corvette is meant for less than 400 pounds or something. Two fairly hefty guys will, without luggage, be too heavy for the car!
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11-09-2007, 03:30 AM
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Fat people hurt the car industry as well. Many modern cars, in an effort to save weight and gain performance fuel mileage, make their cars with 170-ish pound people in mind. So basically, it's very easy to load a car past its maximum load. I think the new Corvette is meant for less than 400 pounds or something. Two fairly hefty guys will, without luggage, be too heavy for the car!
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11-09-2007, 04:18 AM
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Despite the truth that a large majority of Americans are overweight it just bugs the crap out of me because I know when I post for the first time in a forum that mostly contains English and Europeans they imagine me looking like this...
http://philip.greenspun.com/images/2...burger-2.4.jpg
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11-09-2007, 04:18 AM
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Despite the truth that a large majority of Americans are overweight it just bugs the crap out of me because I know when I post for the first time in a forum that mostly contains English and Europeans they imagine me looking like this...
http://philip.greenspun.com/images/2...burger-2.4.jpg
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11-09-2007, 04:38 AM
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Originally Posted by mrmojo77
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Originally Posted by 79TA
Fat people hurt the car industry as well. Many modern cars, in an effort to save weight and gain performance fuel mileage, make their cars with 170-ish pound people in mind. So basically, it's very easy to load a car past its maximum load. I think the new Corvette is meant for less than 400 pounds or something. Two fairly hefty guys will, without luggage, be too heavy for the car!
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Isn't that countable by subtracting the curb weight from total weight? My car is specified for 85kg/passenger+his/her luggage. I think there's safe margin, because 7 guys weighing 80kg + 5kg luggage each would never fit in the car in the first place  |
something like that
I think the total weight you mention is often referred to as the gross vehicle weight, as in, the car loaded with as much weight as it can handle.
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11-09-2007, 04:38 AM
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Originally Posted by mrmojo77
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Originally Posted by 79TA
Fat people hurt the car industry as well. Many modern cars, in an effort to save weight and gain performance fuel mileage, make their cars with 170-ish pound people in mind. So basically, it's very easy to load a car past its maximum load. I think the new Corvette is meant for less than 400 pounds or something. Two fairly hefty guys will, without luggage, be too heavy for the car!
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Isn't that countable by subtracting the curb weight from total weight? My car is specified for 85kg/passenger+his/her luggage. I think there's safe margin, because 7 guys weighing 80kg + 5kg luggage each would never fit in the car in the first place |
something like that
I think the total weight you mention is often referred to as the gross vehicle weight, as in, the car loaded with as much weight as it can handle.
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11-09-2007, 05:55 AM
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11-09-2007, 05:55 AM
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11-09-2007, 07:35 AM
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i guess she was on her way to mcdonalds 
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11-09-2007, 07:35 AM
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i guess she was on her way to mcdonalds
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11-09-2007, 09:29 AM
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"As we look at people around us today we are certainly aware that those numbers no longer are valid. This is also problematic for other rides apparently, but seemingly worst at "It's a small world after all."
That's the biggest bunch of pseudo-sciende I've heard in my life. :fist:
As for the "fat epidemic" in America I'm still wondering how influenced this is by the pharmaceutical (weight loss $$$) and fitness industries. 
Also, weighing 200 lbs doesn't necessarily make you fat. I weigh 195 and am not fat. I also have friends weighing in at over 220 lbs who are not fat (just muscle-bound). Maybe it was just time to face up to their ride's technical flaws and improve it. Blaming it on the customers seems extremely bad for business.
The same goes for the car industry; they should adapt to their customers' requirements and,for the most part, they do. I for one could never complain about having more room in a car.
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