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Seat Safety Switch posted:Honda put out this ad which pays homage to Ferris Bueller's Day Off by giving Matthew Broderick a CR-V. "Remember that 80's movie where you called our car a piece of poo poo?"
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MikeyTsi posted:"Remember that 80's movie where you called our car a piece of poo poo?"
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Jan 30, 2012 22:29
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InitialDave posted:I'm firmly in the camp of "Nice idea, well executed, should've waited for the new NSX". What's with the trend lately with manufacturers of decidedly non-performance cars trying to play them off like they're high performance? I mean, are any owners actually going to drift their FWD Mercedes? Are we merely seeing a last-ditch effort of car companies trying to stave off the stigma that's caused entire generations to swear they will never ever ever buy a station wagon, minivan or SUV?
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Jan 30, 2012 23:44
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wait what MBs are fwd other than the hideous little A and B class which we don't even get here
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Jan 30, 2012 23:49
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I think we can forgive them, though, as they don't have the NSX at a stage where they'd feel like getting big names involved in doing some kind of parody/comedy advert for it. Oh, wait.
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Jan 30, 2012 23:53
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:wait what MBs are fwd other than the hideous little A and B class which we don't even get here
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Jan 30, 2012 23:53
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grover posted:I mean, are any owners actually going to drift their FWD Mercedes? Edit: Missed it.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Honda put out this ad which pays homage to Ferris Bueller's Day Off by giving Matthew Broderick a CR-V. Awful. Shame on Honda for doing this pandering, half-assed piece of garbage. At least the "swagger wagon" commercial was slightly original.
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Jan 31, 2012 01:37
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grover posted:I thought the C-class was FWD, but I was mistaken. Still, not exactly the most common car on the drift circuit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPh90yNX-mY#t=4m27s
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Jan 31, 2012 07:29
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grover posted:I mean, are any owners actually going to drift their FWD Fixed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPnum5gnyzU
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Jan 31, 2012 07:59
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Honda put out this ad which pays homage to Ferris Bueller's Day Off by giving Matthew Broderick a CR-V. I think you all are very obviously missing the whole point of the ad, which is clearly "you are a middle aged man who does middle aged things and we make cars for you now, not your teenage fantasies". The point isn't to say "our car is like a Ferrari like remember in that movie?", it's more "haha, remember when we thought the coolest thing would be to steal dad's Ferrari and play hooky? You ferry your kids around in a Honda Broodwagon now." Which, when viewed against traditional car advertising that tries to sell us a fantasy when what they're pushing is anything but, is really kind of brilliant.
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Jan 31, 2012 11:31
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The saddest part is that the Ferrari in Ferris Bueller was a body kit on an MG  Lazor posted:Fixed Why did they cut it off early and miss half the 2nd half of the spin?
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Jan 31, 2012 11:59
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Lazor posted:Fixed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyPTKpHhYrU Though I guess it's not so much drifting as it is skidding. I own an '11 Optima SX (looks just like the one posted on the last page, minus the LEDs), and I've actually inadvertently re-enacted the maneuver in that video - did it while avoiding an accident a few weeks after I got it. Though I wasn't as entertained by it as the Saudi guys.
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Jan 31, 2012 13:17
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Megiddo posted:Thank you for the opportunity to post this again: The best Kia commercial. There's a new Viper coming and I can't loving wait!  e:vv Yes at 300mph! (probably not) vv Mental Hospitality fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Jan 31, 2012 |
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Jan 31, 2012 15:33
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It's going around a banked corner?
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Jan 31, 2012 15:39
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Oh Jesus, please tell me the new Viper doesn't have those gay LED eyebrows or whatever they call them.
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leica posted:Oh Jesus, please tell me the new Viper doesn't have those gay LED eyebrows or whatever they call them. It'd be hilarious if those lines actually were the legit locations for LED pipes. It'd be like some 7-year-old's dream. Thwomp fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Jan 31, 2012 |
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Jan 31, 2012 19:10
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Aww, the logo isn't an upside-down Daffy Duck any more?
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Jan 31, 2012 19:11
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leica posted:Oh Jesus, please tell me the new Viper doesn't have those gay LED eyebrows or whatever they call them. I really like the LED lights on the Audis, it was a neat thing like the halo lights on the BMWs. Now that everyone is copying it, it's really annoying.
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asmallrabbit posted:I really like the LED lights on the Audis, it was a neat thing like the halo lights on the BMWs. Now that everyone is copying it, it's really annoying.
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Feb 1, 2012 05:34
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I heard somewhere that the proliferation of LED lighting is due to some recent EU regulations where daytime running lights are mandatory on all new cars.
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Feb 1, 2012 07:38
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Billy Zane posted:I heard somewhere that the proliferation of LED lighting is due to some recent EU regulations where daytime running lights are mandatory on all new cars. It's not that recent, DRLs have been mandatory in Canada for decades. The advantage of LEDs are reliability and power draw, and now the really bright white ones you need for automotive lights are cheap enough to use.
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Feb 1, 2012 14:10
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Billy Zane posted:I heard somewhere that the proliferation of LED lighting is due to some recent EU regulations where daytime running lights are mandatory on all new cars. Yes, this. LED lighting is cheap, draws virtually no power and extends the life on xenon bulbs/ballasts for those cars that have them seeing how they're 100+ or more for a pair of replacement bulbs and way more for the ballasts so they're perfect as DRL systems.
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I think the Audi/MBZ LED's are annoying and too bright.
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Feb 1, 2012 16:42
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Whats wrong with led bulbs in conventional housings? I hate led eyebrows.
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Feb 1, 2012 21:00
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The only problem I see with LEDs is that if one of the dozens of individual leds of the "eyebrows" dies (which happens...), you have to replace the whole thing, which will be very costly. And you'll probably have to to pass whatever vehidle inspection is mandatory in your country/state.
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Feb 1, 2012 21:26
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BonzoESC posted:It's not that recent, DRLs have been mandatory in Canada for decades. The advantage of LEDs are reliability and power draw, and now the really bright white ones you need for automotive lights are cheap enough to use. What's the motivation behind a law like that though? Is it just greater visibility?
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Feb 1, 2012 21:29
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Cakefool posted:Whats wrong with led bulbs in conventional housings? I hate led eyebrows. DRLs aren't about projecting light so you can see better, they're about visibility. With that comes the flexibility to use them as a design element to add character instead of a requirement to design around. GlenMR posted:What's the motivation behind a law like that though? Is it just greater visibility? Exactly; a car with its lights on is easier to see in any weather.
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Feb 1, 2012 22:37
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Cakefool posted:Whats wrong with led bulbs in conventional housings? I hate led eyebrows. But then how will all the neighbors know that your car has LEDs? The only reason cars aren't covered with those eye-searing blue LEDs that all computer equipment had just a few years ago is legal. People have some sort of perverse fascination with bright blues and really high color-temp. God knows why.
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BonzoESC posted:DRLs aren't about projecting light so you can see better, they're about visibility. With that comes the flexibility to use them as a design element to add character instead of a requirement to design around. I think there was actual statistical evidence to this effect as well.
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SouthLAnd posted:There's a new Viper coming and I can't loving wait! Lots of cars now have those LED eyebrow lights, but the new Viper will be the first with LED eyebags.
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Cream_Filling posted:I think there was actual statistical evidence to this effect as well. Looking into it, there's a report from NHTSA that says there's a decrease in accidents but it's not significant, and one from the EU that says the decrease is probably significant but they can't really say how much.
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Dr JonboyG posted:Looking into it, there's a report from NHTSA that says there's a decrease in accidents but it's not significant, and one from the EU that says the decrease is probably significant but they can't really say how much. Speaking as a Canadian driver, I feel it's really helpful determining when it's safe to overtake on an undivided highway (which we have a lot of, compared to the parts of the US I've been to), especially in conditions where part of the road is in shadow. Obviously there are a lot of American cars on our roads, so you can't rely on oncoming cars having DRLs, but I like them anyway.
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I like decorative DRLs because they don't throw enough light to convince moron drivers that they don't need to turn on their headlights in snow/fog/rain/dusk
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Feb 2, 2012 01:14
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DRLs are handy for all those jackasses that drive black vehicles and like to forget to turn on the lights at night and get all pissy when you flash them and try to let them know that their lights aren't on while they do their best to ignore you and pretend you're not trying to tell them something. Yeah, those jackasses. At least there's SOME warning for oncoming traffic that way.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I like decorative DRLs because they don't throw enough light to convince moron drivers that they don't need to turn on their headlights in snow/fog/rain/dusk Most new cars have a light on the gauge cluster to tell you when your headlights are on. It is the new idiot light.
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law abiding rapist posted:Most new cars have a light on the gauge cluster to tell you when your headlights are on. It is the new idiot light. people still cannot figure it out it's 6:20 am and dark out dude turn on your mother loving head lights
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Feb 2, 2012 03:36
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I blame always illuminated gauge clusters. It'd be a lot more obvious if you can't read the speedometer. (maybe...if you don't already notice you don't have headlights maybe you aren't that attentive?)
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Feb 2, 2012 05:38
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I can't remember the last time I've had to actually manually turn ON my headlights in any of my BMW's since 2000....people still have to do that?  My headlights turn on if it's even slightly foggy out and it has DRL's and if that isn't warning enough there are the Orion V2 angel eyes (turned all the way down with a rheostat since the fuckers are so bright)
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Keyser S0ze posted:I can't remember the last time I've had to actually manually turn ON my headlights in any of my BMW's since 2000....people still have to do that? When I first bought my car (MS3) I left the auto-headlights switch on. But then, occasionally, I would leave a parking garage and drive into broad daylight and my headlights wouldn't turn off and my gauge cluster wouldn't lighten back up. After that happened a few times I just switched back to manually toggling my lights when I needed them.
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