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How the hell can you drive in a city while rolling a j, eating Taco Bell, and texting with a manual? Just doesn't work. I've tried. Gotta have an auto for city life.
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KozmoNaut posted:Also, I must have a huge 4-banger in my car, because I can shift at 2000 RPM all day long and still keep up with traffic (2.2 with ~80% torque available from 2000 RPM. Gas, not diesel) Today that counts as a huge 4 banger when most new gasoline cars are 1.4 or less. Obsolete technology: Non turbo internal combustion engines, do they even still make those? (yes i know they do, but not many).
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# ? May 12, 2014 19:50 |
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Horace posted:I'll accept that manual gearboxes are almost obsolete now that modern automatics have reduced or removed the economy and performance penalties of a traditional auto, but they're still hideously complicated pieces of machinery compared to a manual box and I don't expect them to ever replace manuals across the board. Electric cars don't have gears at all so soon it'll all be for naught.
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Boiled Water posted:Electric cars don't have gears at all so soon it'll all be for naught. The military-industrial complex will rather just start the third world war than allow electrical automobiles to take over the market.
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# ? May 12, 2014 20:15 |
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Then a war we shall have since petrol prices and reserves are only going to go one way.
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# ? May 12, 2014 20:38 |
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NihilismNow posted:Today that counts as a huge 4 banger when most new gasoline cars are 1.4 or less. Well, it is ~14 years old now, and that engine was phased out some years ago for emissions reasons. It's still a peach of an engine, though. Smooth, torquey, makes a pleasant noise. Sadly, 9.5L/100km for 160hp doesn't cut it anymore. mobby_6kl posted:It certainly depends on the engine, my experience was that revving the 1.9 TDI in an Octavia produces a lot of noise and little else, and trust me, I tried to redline it in every gear to Autobahn speeds Try an Octavia with the 1.9 SDI engine if you think the TDI is gutless. Same engine, no turbo. 0-100 kph in 18.6 seconds KozmoNaut has a new favorite as of 20:48 on May 12, 2014 |
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KozmoNaut posted:
Driving in Belgium I wound up with a VW Polo 1.3 TDI as my rental. Trying to get back to the rental agency before it closed so they wouldn't charge me for another day, I'm going 70. There's this guy in front of me who I need to pass. Looks like he's driving some kind of Porsche. It's dark so I can't really tell what kind. I get up closer...is that...no, can't be one of those, they only sold like 1000 of those. Yep. It was: Porsche 980. Going under 70. I don't think I want to live in a world where a 5.7L V10 making 600+ horsepower is an obsolete technology, but that guy driving it would probably be okay with it.
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Boiled Water posted:Electric cars don't have gears at all so soon it'll all be for naught. Most electric cars have a single reduction gear between the motor and the drive wheels, but you are correct that they don't have "gears" in the traditional sense of a multi-geared transmission. It will probably be a long time coming before purely EVs replace ICE and parallel gasoline/electric hybrid powered cars.
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Phanatic posted:Yep. It was: Porsche 980. Going under 70. I don't think I want to live in a world where a 5.7L V10 making 600+ horsepower is an obsolete technology, but that guy driving it would probably be okay with it. I have never ever heard the Carrera GT referred to as the 980 before. One hell of a machine, though. (Manual gearbox only )
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Geoj posted:Most electric cars have a single reduction gear between the motor and the drive wheels, but you are correct that they don't have "gears" in the traditional sense of a multi-geared transmission. The same is true for hydrogen cars which again, near future thing.
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That's because most hydrogen cars are just electric cars with a hydrogen fuel cell and inefficient hydrogen storage in place of the batteries. E: VVVV Hydrogen cars are a failed technology. KozmoNaut has a new favorite as of 22:53 on May 12, 2014 |
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Take the car chat to AI, please.
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# ? May 12, 2014 22:51 |
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Yeah, can we get back to the part of this thread where I owned one of these in 2008 when all my friends had ipods? And then someone considered it worth enough to steal it
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# ? May 13, 2014 00:11 |
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Stalin McHitler posted:Take the car chat to AI, please.
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# ? May 13, 2014 01:56 |
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This is pretty far from cars AND iPods! Back in the 90s one of my relatives replaced his broken automatic washing machine with one of these, a Twin Tub. These things were very popular in the 1960s for the sole reason that they were affordable. But this was the 90s and the thing was a relic when he bought it. It offered zero advantages over a normal washing machine. It couldn't be installed under the counter, it had to be dragged out into the kitchen every time it was to be used. The classy plank of wood top (as photo) had to be removed and propped up against the wall before the fill and drain hoses were connected to the tap and sink. Once it had washed your clothes you had to heave all your sopping wet clothes into the spinner tub and when that was finished it all needed putting away again. The final step being to mop up the water that spilled from the hoses. It didn't last long.
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Horace posted:This is pretty far from cars AND iPods! Back in the 90s one of my relatives replaced his broken automatic washing machine with one of these, a Twin Tub. These things were very popular in the 1960s for the sole reason that they were affordable. Still very popular in Latin America actually!
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Humboldt Squid posted:Still very popular in Latin America actually! If they also still have fitted carpet in their bathrooms then I could get strangely nostalgic visiting the place.
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Humboldt Squid posted:Still very popular in Latin America actually! So are these: Some things that should be obsolete aren't.
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# ? May 13, 2014 02:50 |
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Phanatic posted:So are these: Is this some kind of water heater?
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Phanatic posted:So are these: Having been to Latin America and seen firsthand the electrical wiring standards they have down there, this is loving terrifying.
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# ? May 13, 2014 03:09 |
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That ain't terrifying, this is: The one you posted looks harmless in comparison.
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# ? May 13, 2014 03:39 |
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So what is it if not an execution device?
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# ? May 13, 2014 04:14 |
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It's as pienipple guessed: A combined water heater / showerhead. You can buy them from amazon apparently. Still baffling, why not just have a safer unit connected down the line, instead of the showerhead itself? You could even have one for the entire bathroom, like the gas-powered water heaters they have some places in Europe.
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SubNat posted:It's as pienipple guessed: A combined water heater / showerhead. Because connecting a heater at the laundry room would require a plumber to get it done neatly. My old man and me sprang for a gas heater since gas is included on my apartment rent. Electricity is brutally expensive down here so this has saved plenty of money. The cost is the main hurdle. A sparkyplus shower head heater costs $30 tops, a proper heater plumbed into your water line is about $200.
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# ? May 13, 2014 04:52 |
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Phanatic posted:So are these: And are those alligator clips?
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# ? May 13, 2014 05:09 |
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Those things are pretty popular in a lot of countries, since all you need to do is jam the heater head onto the shower and you have instant hot water at the tap. Most of the pictures of them on the internet look pretty scary, but it is possible to safely install them and not burn your house down or electrocute yourself in the shower.
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# ? May 13, 2014 05:41 |
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Horace posted:Twin Tub People do laundry in the kitchen? In my condo there's just a closet with a stacked washer/dryer.
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# ? May 13, 2014 06:32 |
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For smaller homes/apartments/rentals, I could see those being pretty valuable, though.
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# ? May 13, 2014 06:45 |
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Larry Horseplay posted:People do laundry in the kitchen? It seems preferable to dragging everything to a laundromat.
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Zemyla posted:Wasn't that from Sochi? Looks like quick disconnects to me.
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Larry Horseplay posted:People do laundry in the kitchen? I live in a 50m^2 apartment, the kitchen was the only practical location for my washer, with water+drain+power in close proximity.
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# ? May 13, 2014 08:45 |
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Do you also have to stand in the toilet to shower? We may have a similar apartment.
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# ? May 13, 2014 11:45 |
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Zemyla posted:Wasn't that from Sochi? Nah, I don't see any tarps or wild dogs anywhere in that photo.
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# ? May 13, 2014 12:51 |
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Having the washing machine hookup in the kitchen was a common design in houses in the 50s. I've seen several houses from that Era like that.
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# ? May 13, 2014 12:52 |
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Boiled Water posted:Do you also have to stand in the toilet to shower? We may have a similar apartment. My apartment is one of the very few in the greater Copenhagen area with an actual bathroom, rather than just a shower stall with a toilet in it, as is the norm. A separate shower stall is a luxury I will not live without.
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# ? May 13, 2014 12:56 |
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KozmoNaut posted:My apartment is one of the very few in the greater Copenhagen area with an actual bathroom, rather than just a shower stall with a toilet in it, as is the norm. A separate shower stall is a luxury I will not live without. Wait, that's an actual thing?! He wasn't just making a joke about a tiny apartment?
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# ? May 13, 2014 13:45 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:Wait, that's an actual thing?! He wasn't just making a joke about a tiny apartment? Outside of the US, toilets and bathrooms are scaaaaary places. Even in so-called "civilized" "Europe" people tolerate insane bathrooms situations.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Wait, that's an actual thing?! He wasn't just making a joke about a tiny apartment? Yes, it is an actual thing. Some of the apartments I looked at when moving here had ridiculously tiny bathrooms, think "broom closet with a toilet and a sink". One even had a small cutout in the door, in order for it to clear the toilet. Most of them used the entire room as a shower stall. All of this stems from the good old days, when apartment buildings had shared toilets (and maybe showers) in the courtyard. If you didn't have shared showers, you washed yourself by the kitchen sink with soap and a washcloth. No room for a bathtub. Don't forget, families of like 4-5 people used to live in these tiny 2-room apartments. Then, during the latter part of the 20th century as the old apartment buildings where being renovated, plumbing was upgraded and a bathroom in every apartment became a necessity, people were fed up with shared facilities (no more taking a poo poo in sub-freezing temperatures during winter). This progression of events happened pretty much simultaneously in every major European city.
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This is very recent history by the way. My father, who is 60, had a shared toilet in the courtyard. This was in the late 60's.
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My Uncle, who is 85, once did some research for the anniversary of housing corporation he worked for and it turned out the house he (and my dad) grew up in was considered too luxurious by some for the people that lived there. They had a private bathroom and that was a waste of money for these people.
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