Parked at the diner all by ourselves, then after breakfast did a double-take when we saw who had parked all around us. I had my DSLR with me by stroke of luck, so couldn't resist snapping our clubbie. Yes, that's my wife and proud owner of our BRG '09 Justa.


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Having a BRG/BLK Clubman myself, I have found the same results whenever I park far from others then find Booker drawing a crowd when I return.

 

hahah...love it

 

That is a fabulous picture!

 

looks good!

 

It looks like it's been shrunk parked in the middle of all those ute's

 

Thanks... I should post the full size 1680 X 850 jpeg somewhere for download, it looks rather nifty as a wallpaper. The focal length is really tight and the SUV vs Clubman comparison jumps right out. Do check out the gallery link and zoom in, if you hadn't done so already.

 

Nice Pic!

On a sidenote, I never understood the people that backed their cars into a parking spot???? The majority of the time it happens to be someone who cannot park-case in point the driver of the F150.

 

Actually, if it can be done, backing your car into a parking space is the safest. When backing in one can see oncoming traffic and they can see you. When leaving then one can see if there is oncoming traffic instead of backing out blind. Now on busy streets that doesn't work so well as it would be impossible to get traffic to stop so one would have enough space behind them to do so.
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Easy get away... no seriously. We're (for the majority) are required to back in military vehicles when we park them.

And the simple fact of visual as well. How many people have you pulled up to that's backing out of a parking spot, and never see you until they're completely backed out. Flip side: how many people that pull out of a parking spot they've backed into, and see you drive up/by an DO see you.

 

Gotta chuckle out of this one today...

 

LOL that's funny Red.

 

Years ago when I learned to drive a line truck for Ma Bell, we were forbidden to park in any space where we couldn't pull straight forward to an outward-facing space. We were not allwoed to back out of a parking space, or to back into one (with the exception of parallel parking).

They did some study that showed the majority of small accidents were the result of backing into or out of spaces with poor visibility, or backing near things you couldn't in your mirror. You also had to walk around the truck before moving it, to make sure some kid wasn't sleeping just under your passenger's side tires.

Useless info, but the comment about backing into spaces reminded me. Two years ago my MB was seriously damaged when someone backed diagonally out of a parking space and hit the rear corner of my car with thecorner of the bumper on his PU truck. I was parked about 3 spaces away, on the other side of the lot. He admitted he was looking in the mirror, right over the top of my car and never saw it. Hard to miss a 500SEL MB, it's not a small car...

 

Funny I saw this post and I did the same thing the other day while in a parking lot.

 

We should keep this post going with pictures of our clubbies parked next to behemoths or other cars!
What you find next to your parked car!

 

While walking thru the lot I initially couldn't find my MINI..since I couldn't see it..

 

A Smart Car and an even Smarter One...

 

Hehe... cool pic! Yes, let's keep a photojournal of these escapades, I'm down with that.

 

not quite next to each other but this was interesting when I came out from a store last summer

 

Love it! I know which car I would be embarrassed to climb into!

 

Yeh would be embarrassed to climb into Smart Car.....that's a given.

 

Lol B13, that looks like a study in perspectives gone awry... are the Hummer, SmartCar, and Clubman really the same exact size? Stay tuned, for truth is indeed stranger than fiction!