| Go-cart handling (3) | Monday, Jan 4, 2010 2:33 pm |
A recent commercial for the Mini Cooper claimed that it had go-cart handling. Not being a go-cart owner or driver, I don't really know what that means, and I'm not entirely sure it's a good thing. I guess technically I drove a go-cart at Disney World, but those things only went about 10 mph and were surrounded by bumpers so they could serve their main purpose of hitting other go-carts. Maybe it's alluding to the fact that go-carts have tiny lawnmower engines. That's good, right? Or maybe it's because they sit low on the ground, so you can intimately feel whatever surface you're driving on. I guess if I ever have a desire to drive a go-cart on a highway, I'll invest in a Mini Cooper. Otherwise I'll stick to a normal vehicle.
It's better to remain ignorant to this sensation than to experience it and then yearn for a Mini. Just ask our friend Scott. (Or ask me, but then I sort of just said it didn't I? I miss my mini as impractical as it was for us).
The weird thing is that I've driven a Mini, and my only feeling is that it's like a normal small car, but with no back seat or trunk. I guess I never got to the "yearning" part.
I've been hearing 'go-cart handling' on promotions for the mini cooper on pbs, and I wonder 'what kind of a nut would that appeal to?" It makes no sense. If those cars do have that 'feature', transportation authorities ought to confiscate the lot. It's hard enough, when driving at freeway speeds, to keep track of traffic without worrying about some zippity-do-dah cart squirting around while its driver is subjected to several Gs of jolts we haven't had the pocket-emptying pleasure of since carnival bumper-cars.