Too Fat for your car?
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Too Fat for your car?
Interesting post about cargo load and maximum weight for your car.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired...u-too-fat.html
We might be surprised to realize just how easy it is to exceed a manufacturer's Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) for a passenger car or a sport-utility vehicle. That figure, when exceeded, absolves the automaker of blame in the event of mechanical or dynamic failure.
The eight-cylinder Chevrolet Corvette and the four-cylinder Mazda MX-5 Miata each carry maximum-load ratings lower than 400 pounds. Go figure.
me,gill,and tl-s
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my integra ls has a maximum weight load of 700 pounds, It's funny when my cousin and i get in the car with our shit it feels like it is slow but when his fat ass gets out i run low 12's. he is such a fat ass.
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Originally Posted by fuzzy02CLS
Thought I read it's not the car it's the tires. Get tires with a higher load rating & you won't have a problem. Get better springs & shocks & you won't have a problem.
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ahaha I thot this thread meant not being able to fit in a car. well long story short, I'm 285 and the girl was err 120 and no need to say the MX-5 handled quite poorly even tho it still had some get up and go to it, around corners it was pretty sad, now i understand why 
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Originally Posted by phile
interesting source....feedburner.com, you know they're on top of things like this!
It redirects to the Autopia Blog, from Wired
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2007/09/are-you-too-fat.html
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Originally Posted by stright-(paint)balling
damn 400 lbs i weigh 260 lbs, better not haul my dad he weighs about the same. 
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Once I packed myself, a family of four and their luggage for a two-week trip to Germany into my Santa Fe and the engine lost all enthusiasm for life. A hill I can usually go up at 50 when alone I could not exceed 35 and that was with the motor making its feelings heard in second gear. I don't know what the weight limit is but the back end was sinking way down and I think there was probably close to 1,100 pounds of human and luggage in that car. 
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