Near Miss
Posted by Pavan Chander | Filed under Events
I was on the bus today, coming home and we were sitting at a red light behind a small red car. This is a pretty busy intersection, so there are lots of cars going every which way. When our light turned green and the red car started to move forward, out of nowhere a silver Range Rover comes barreling in from stage left.
The driver had tried to run his yellow light and failed miserably, and not only was his light red by the time he got into the intersection, ours was green. As you can imagine he was going extremely fast because of his red light problem, or his mental problem we don’t know, and so sitting in the bus we heard a huge screech of his brakes. He managed to stop the SUV with less then six inches of room between him and the red cars driver door!
Due to that incident all traffic at the intersection ceased for about 20-30 seconds (you could clearly imagine both drivers barely catching their breathes). 30 seconds doesn’t sound like much, but it’s one of those “you had to be there” moments. Besides it was long enough for out light to turn back to red.
Unfortunately I can relate with what the red car driver must have felt as he heard the brakes. Four months ago I was in an accident on the highway where the car barely missed hitting my door window, and instead hit us on the right side just in front of the passenger door (our car had done a 180 degree turn due to ice).
Lincoln Navigator vs Toyota Sequoia
Posted by Pavan Chander | Filed under Review
Man what a bad time not to have my camera on me. I think I need to carry it around with me everywhere so I can always be able to snap lots of images, although I don’t know how much people who visit my Flickr would appreciate that.
Me and my dad went to the Toyota dealership to pay the lease on our Toyota Sienna today, and while we were there we noticed that they had the Sequoia in stock finally. So we took a good look at it, opened all the doors, sat in all the seats - the usual.
We’ve been thinking of a new SUV and as my dad is a Toyota fan I told him they have something big enough to compete with the huge Ford’s, like the Expedition or the recently discontinued Excursion. But I had been debating on whether to get the Sequioa or to get something like the Lincoln Navigator as that is more of a “name brand” in luxury SUV’s.
We couldn’t go for a test drive in the Sequioa but on the way home we decided to check out the Lincoln dealership to really understand the differences firsthand. Upon first glances the Navigator looked nice, well of course it did otherwise it wouldn’t be as famous as it is. What surprised us was the lack of a step/rail to help you get into the SUV, but much to our surprise and delight the moment you open a door, the rail actually comes sliding out from underneath in time for you to step on it. That seemed a little fishy to me, so I stepped on and jumped a little, needless to say it survived.
Tags: car, lincoln, navigator, photos, Review, sequioa, suv, toyota
