Wednesday, May 27, 2009

The Galloper. . .

This behemoth of Korean technology if what we get around in down here. . . It's like a Bronco or a Blazer on steroids. It has pretty good get up and go, except when it comes to hills, then it's pretty much like pedaling a bike in mud. There are a lot of one-lane bridges here in this part of the country, and there's a yield sign (ceda) on one side of the bridge, meaning that the folks with the yield sign have to give way to traffic coming from the opposite direction. We have noticed that when we drive the Galloper, people tend to yield for us, even when they don't have to. When we earlier drove a little Nissan Sentra around, getting anyone to stop for us was next to impossible.

The Galloper must only be made for export to Costa Rica and other countries as well as domestically in South Korea, as we see a lot of them around here. I've never seen one back in the States. The owner's manual is entirely in Korean, so not much help in that regard.

2 comments:

Kiki&Jiji said...

Disappointing. I was expecting somekindof Harrison Ford careening over the cliff made of iron and shell casings bad ass vehicle with a 50 cal on top and a dog with sunglasses sticking its head out the window.

lu-mar said...

we only break out the big guns when we go up north! ha! we've been used to driving the little kia rio that we have, so this is like driving a dump truck. . .