Posted on 08/26/2016 10:12:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A woman climbed behind the wheel of a white Mercedes-Benz SUV at an Arlington, to take it for a test drive.
A woman climbed behind the wheel of a white Mercedes-Benz SUV at an Arlington, to take it for a test drive.
But the fun was over in the virtual blink of an eye when she somehow managed to flip the pricey machine over in the parking lot.
The only explanation reported for what might have happened is that the woman somehow mixed up the gas pedal with the brake.
One of the cars she hit was her own SUV.
Nope. Merc is Mercedes unless you’re a poverton. A Merc is a Merc.
That's great. Glad to hear she's keeping in shape.
How's the car holding up?
Have suspected for some time the whole M-B "thing" in the US was a cleverly devised marketing scheme for the gullible that demanded some sort of elitist "cachet".
At least that was his own freshly PURCHASED vehicle...
The imbecile woman in the OP... was beginning her TEST DRIVE...
One doesn’t accidentally confuse the accelerator for the brake pedal. That is a case of A-1 incompetence reflective of someone who should have her drivers license permanently revoked...
I’m just thankful no-one was standing in the way - they would have been killed!
The only car I did NOT see as taxis in Germany, was Porsche. I saw many MB, BMW, and Audi taxis, but never a Porsche.
Yeah, they have always been Benz’s to me. Merc’s are lead sleds to me.
a Merc is a Mercury, a Mercedes Benz is a Benz !
I submit to the will of the people.
“Merc” has always been Mercedes to me, but I’m from Europe, so I guess it’s different.
C63 AMG REPRESENT!
Who pays for all of this?
And yeah, what's an Arlington? Was this just outside of DC, maybe?
Plenty of Asian women there. d;^)
I don't hang around with a lot of MB owners, but the few I know refer to theirs as a "Benz" or a "'Cedes" (rhymes with "raids").
Lead sleds one of my unfulfilled wishes was to own a chopped, lowered '49 Mercury mild custom like a guy in my hometown owned when I was quite young. If that woman had been driving a customized (or even "kustomized") '49 Merc like that one - it had a lot of "grandpa's body filler" applied - she'd have had her work cut out for her as far as flipping the thing goes.
Mr. niteowl77
Boy, she didn’t even have enough time behind the wheel to apply her eye makeup or text anybody.
I guess we really do need driverless cars.
It is said a car depreciates as soon as you drive off the lot, but while still on the lot?
No thank you. I don’t like how it rides.
Spent over 30 years working in a truck factory. Some vehicles just seemed jinxed, nothing but problems all the way down the line. I always wondered what happened to them when they got to the dealer and customer.
I worked with a guy from Maine. He had a friend who was a farmer, who went to the dealership to pick up his new 4WD pick up. When he unexpectedly didn't return home hours later, his wife began calling friends. They organized a search party to see if he had gone off the road somewhere on the likeliest route home, but found nothing. One of them figured that if you had a new 4WD pick up would you take the state road or the logging road home. They went looking for him on the logging road.
They found him, safe but shaken, on a bridge in the crushed cab of his new pick up. He had confronted a moose on the bridge, and honked his horn when the moose wouldn't move. The moose responded by climbing up the hood and jumping all over the cab until it was "dead."
In the U.S., all it takes to get a drivers license is the ability to fog a mirror.
Did she get the selfie?
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