Paging Audi Owner: Your Car Is Covered In Ice

Luke Mathews

Most of the city's car owners spend winter on constant snow maintenance, and if you ever wondered why it's because this is what their car would look like if they didn't. Reader Michelle send us this photo of an icicle-covered Audi on 2nd Street between 1st and 2nd Avenue, and short of using a flamethrower we're not sure how the owner is going to get it out until spring. Oh, and once it is chiseled free, it can immediately drive into a sinkhole! This, folks, is why we take the subway.

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By Jaya Saxena in News on January 23, 2011 4:23 PM

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Dubai Directory

Subway is the best way. Anyhow the owner of this car would be happy to introduce the new ice-cream (choco-audi).

Just Me

Chocolate covered cars?
Mmm.

dubstepc

how I love living in California
who the fuck wants to put up with that?

aydiosmio

It's not such a big deal if you don't own a car. Who wants to put up with Californians?

dubstepc

Today's temperatures:
NYC 20°F
San Francisco 64°F
San Diego 68°F
Los Angeles 72°F

Now if you'll excuse me - I need to lower the top on my convertible

smorrebrod

I like seasons and snow, thank you very much.

dubstepc

yeah, that's the lie people keep telling themselves when they live in a place with shitty weather.

Peanut_Butter

You're absolutely right. That's why New York City is such a backwater. Your town must be the center of the universe.

diablofreak

then wtf are you doing on a blog for nyc

wacky idiotic californians!

dubstepc

I just love to see how miserable the weather is on the east coast. and I love to see new yorkers trying to convince themselves that it's a nice place to live

Peanut_Butter

Cause you don't understand what a weighted average means.
3/4 of an East Coast year is still better than 4 West Coast seasons.

dubstepc

whatever you may tell yourself, 95 degrees and high humidity is *not* comfortable. rain, snow, thunderstorms etc are also not comfortable.
keep living the lie.

JenEsss

I don't think many of us consider it "nice." More like "convenient."

unretrofiedforu

O ok - anyway you guys have plenty of stopping time during all that traffic - plenty of time to put it in park and bring up and down the top say, ooo 40x.

Tony C.

The license plate is unreadable and so is the registration sticker on the windshield. It'll stay ticket-free until it thaws.

jay gonzz

Its an Audi so it will of course start right up. If it was an Olds or some other nasty American brand, the owner would be screwed..

unretrofiedforu

Really? Haven't had a lot of experience with VW I see.

luke_1

Car owners are on constant snow maintenance except for the snow mullet they leave on top of their (usually lumbering SUV) jalopy, to be rained down on unsuspecting individuals behind them.

RobNYC

Well it is supposed to be about 40 on Tuesday. If you can open the drivers side door and get it started the rest of the ice will melt off pretty quickly.