Best car for hypothetically ramming other cars out the way
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Firstly, before anyone gets on their high horse, this is just a fun thought exercise based on the selfish idiocy I experience on a daily basis on the road where I live.
There's a drive between my house and the neighbour to access the parking and garage to the rear. It's a shared drive but we're the only ones who use it. We regularly find cars parked partly or wholly across the drive. Additionally, the road is a cut through. It's reasonably wide for a residential road and straight - so we get idiots driving far too fast along it in chavved up Audis, BMWs and Mercs with crappy pops-and-bangs remaps (30mph limit - 70+ not unusual). Clipped wing mirrors are a regular occurrence. Police and council had failed repeatedly to even show the slightest interest despite there being a nursery school at one end.
Anyway, this is all a preamble to the point of this post: my recurring daydreams of buying some wreck and using it ram the inconsiderately - and illegally - parked cars blocking the drive, and generally discouraging the idiots using the road as a drag strip. So the criteria are simple. Something that will take a beating, preferably already battered looking enough for anyone with half a working neuron to give a wide berth. Big, reliable-ish, bomb-proof and the kind of thing that will shrug off moderate impacts. Big torquey engine for forcibly towing offenders out of the way is a bonus.
Over to you lot.
There's a drive between my house and the neighbour to access the parking and garage to the rear. It's a shared drive but we're the only ones who use it. We regularly find cars parked partly or wholly across the drive. Additionally, the road is a cut through. It's reasonably wide for a residential road and straight - so we get idiots driving far too fast along it in chavved up Audis, BMWs and Mercs with crappy pops-and-bangs remaps (30mph limit - 70+ not unusual). Clipped wing mirrors are a regular occurrence. Police and council had failed repeatedly to even show the slightest interest despite there being a nursery school at one end.
Anyway, this is all a preamble to the point of this post: my recurring daydreams of buying some wreck and using it ram the inconsiderately - and illegally - parked cars blocking the drive, and generally discouraging the idiots using the road as a drag strip. So the criteria are simple. Something that will take a beating, preferably already battered looking enough for anyone with half a working neuron to give a wide berth. Big, reliable-ish, bomb-proof and the kind of thing that will shrug off moderate impacts. Big torquey engine for forcibly towing offenders out of the way is a bonus.
Over to you lot.
k it.Crown vic cop car:
https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C2140067
Just needs a big nerf bar on the front. Separate chassis and a 5l v8.
Or one of these:
https://www.mod-sales.com/stock/oshkosh-m1070-8x8-...
20 tons and 8 wheel drive
https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C2140067
Just needs a big nerf bar on the front. Separate chassis and a 5l v8.
Or one of these:
https://www.mod-sales.com/stock/oshkosh-m1070-8x8-...
20 tons and 8 wheel drive
Just get a truck with a spec lift:
The above type are common in the UK. Much rarer, but probably more satisfying to use, is the US "repo" style spec lift, where there are 2x L shaped prongs which can be hydraulically activated from within the cab - meaning for many FWD cars with manual trans and RWD manual/auto, it is possible to lift the car and safely tow it without even getting out. There really isn't much use for them in the UK so they are rare, though.
The above type are common in the UK. Much rarer, but probably more satisfying to use, is the US "repo" style spec lift, where there are 2x L shaped prongs which can be hydraulically activated from within the cab - meaning for many FWD cars with manual trans and RWD manual/auto, it is possible to lift the car and safely tow it without even getting out. There really isn't much use for them in the UK so they are rare, though.
Once I arrived at work but my car had broken down and wouldn't restart. I arranged a lift, but I needed to push my car a little distance to store it out of the way, over some rough ground (so doing it by hand was not possible). I used this, occasionally hopping out to readjust the steering, with no damage to the car:
If it needs to be a car then the choices are much more limited, but anything heavy/grippy with a tyre or two wedged between each car's bumper would push another.
If it needs to be a car then the choices are much more limited, but anything heavy/grippy with a tyre or two wedged between each car's bumper would push another.
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