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incels interlinked posted:
I had a 98 SHO for a few years. Many of them blew their engines from faulty camshafts but mine succumbed to extreme body, subframe, brake line rust. What an odd car. 3.4L 32v V8 with V6 horsepower that made a lovely sound bolted to a slow 4 speed automatic. Extremely expensive ZF sourced power steering rack that would probably shame most electric assists today. Electrically adjustable dampers that when working made for an excellent ride. And that goddamn football center stack that made it impossible to install an aftermarket radio. Since the engine was duratec based it also had the alternator located near the firewall at the bottom of the engine bay making it impossible to change without removing a wheel, tie rod, and dropping the subframe. Mine seized up with the engine running one time and began burning the belt. Also coil-on-plug ignition was still relatively new to Ford in the mid 90's, and the V8 SHO's would fry the ones on the rear bank from excess heat, usually causing the engine to dump fuel into one of the catalytic converters. Got a flashing CEL (misfire) in northern michigan on vacation one year and by the time I could pull off the road the cat was glowing red. Had to be replaced. poo poo, no wonder I really like leasing a cheap appliance cars these day. E: New car chat. Some very blurry photos of the upcoming C8 interior 
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Early 80's cars sucked until fuel injection came along, to me that's the point where everything started improving for the better. 70's cars were awful besides the few cool muscle cars from that era. Interesting in retrospect that Saab had both distributorless coil-on-plug and brake-by-wire w/ ABS in 1988, plus Audi, Porsche, and Nissan having computer-controlled locking diffs in 1989. Mercedes started using modern airbags around this time as well. EnergizerFellow fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Jan 12, 2019 |
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Driver's seat outfitted like an intercontinental business class seat with a big armrest covered in a zillion fiddly little controls and a wall to isolate you from the passenger, who gets the equivalent of a regional jet window seat.
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Am I alone in not giving a gently caress about the C8 corvette? I think the Corvette peaked for me with the C6 Z06 with Z07 package. Those were loving gorgeous and had way more than most people would need power and handling wise. The C8 is going to be priced insane, no manual most likely, loving terrible rear visibility, and you lose all the storage from the last few Corvette generations.
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You are not alone.
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Storage: The one thing all Corvette buyers are really looking for.
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MrYenko posted:Storage: The one thing all Corvette buyers are really looking for. It gets 28 MPG on the highway!
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I’m getting vertigo trying to understand what the hell I’m looking at. The angle of the seat compared to the steering wheel is positively Lovecraftian
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david_a posted:I’m getting vertigo trying to understand what the hell I’m looking at. The angle of the seat compared to the steering wheel is positively Lovecraftian Framing that didn't care about level horizon. I think there's some perspective distortion from the lens:  The wheel being turned to the left doesn't help. My guess is that the wheel is in the full tilted up position. e: I get that having a tunnel can stiffen the chassis, but that one seems excessively sized.
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Franco Caution posted:Am I alone in not giving a gently caress about the C8 corvette? MrYenko posted:Storage: The one thing all Corvette buyers are really looking for. ilkhan fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Jan 12, 2019 |
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Jan 12, 2019 21:14
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Not sure about all of you but MPG and storage are my top two items for a sports car. If it can’t fit a full sized 22” 305 spare and 4 suitcases for a weekend trip then I’m not interested.
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When the C6 Z06 was my only car, the big hatch came in handy plenty of times. It was a real plus. I think it only makes C6s better options in the used market.
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MrYenko posted:Storage: The one thing all Corvette buyers are really looking for. incels interlinked posted:It gets 28 MPG on the highway! I moved from CO to FL in a C5. Yeah later, I moved from FL back to CO in a C6. Both times it was great being able to take pretty much everything I needed for day to day life with me in the back. A lot of people use the storage in the vette to hold golf clubs and luggage. It will be interesting to see how the C8 deals with this. It also did not hurt one bit getting amazing gas mileage both trips. The C7 made some good improvements, but I wasnt a fan of how it lost some of the rear visibility of the previous generations. Plus the cost. The C7 Z06 is easily 100k with options, and the ZR1 is even above that. Im curious in a 'gently caress no' kinda way at where GM is going to price the C8.
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Is the mid-engine Corvette For Real this time?
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I've read speculation that they are going to price it starting around $10,000 higher than the C7 all the way up to $100K more than the C7. If it's the former I'd potentially be in the market but not sure where I could put my dog.Franco Caution posted:The C7 made some good improvements, but I wasnt a fan of how it lost some of the rear visibility of the previous generations. There were multiple new C7 Z06s marked down to the low $80,000 range (for 2LZ) and high $70,000s for 1LZ at the dealership I was at this past week, not cheap by any means but that is a hell of a lot of vehicle for the money. I'd still rather pick up one lightly used for <$60,000 since so many of them are garage queens that have barely been driven heated game moment fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Jan 12, 2019 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWsUWV7NoxA There was a video leak of the new supra.
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Solus posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWsUWV7NoxA gently caress ugly. Change my mind. 
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Can’t wait to troll new Supras in my FoRS.
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Keyser_Soze posted:This is what we need! Pretty much just the new A-Class interior: 
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I like it dead on from the front and side but there's something off about the 3/4 view both front and rear.
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https://twitter.com/Jalopnik/status/1084252485408182277 Expensive, ugly, with Japanese styling and German parts
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That's $5k more than the M240i only $1400 less than the 440i
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incels interlinked posted:https://twitter.com/Jalopnik/status/1084252485408182277 Ya, methinks the legend of Supra might suffer a little with this one, no matter how good the car is.
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*$50,000 340hp supra fails* I guess people just don't want sports cars 
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Honda now is when you unleash the Prelude on people as the peoples fun car
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AggressivelyStupid posted:Honda now is when you unleash the Prelude on people as the peoples fun car I mean what would be an equivalent Prelude these days? People poo poo on the Civic Type R for being too expensive and too gaudy, but anything less than 300hp gets poo poo on for not having enough power.
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uh, 4ws and being cool, obviously
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Previa_fun posted:I mean what would be an equivalent Prelude these days? People poo poo on the Civic Type R for being too expensive and too gaudy, but anything less than 300hp gets poo poo on for not having enough power. The Civic Si coupe?
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AggressivelyStupid posted:uh, 4ws and being cool, obviously Pop. Up. Headlights. EZ $$ automotive press blowies
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Powershift posted:*$50,000 340hp supra fails* 70k/60k/50k sales for Mustang/Challenger/Camaro last year.
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I hate the fact that the mechanicals in the Supra are all BMW.
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Well I like this
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I like the body; I don't like the drive train.
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Wistful of Dollars posted:I like the body; I don't like the drive train. Yeah, bring back the B8444S
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KakerMix posted:Pop. Up. Headlights. If you added radar sensors to make the lights snap down out of the way right before you hit the pedestrian I bet popups could pass modern safety standards
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Throatwarbler posted:70k/60k/50k sales for Mustang/Challenger/Camaro last year. For the price of a Supra you can get a competitor with well over 400 reliable horsepower (and 4 doors in the case of the Charger)? What point are you trying to make If the Supra weighs like 3400lb it will be reasonably quick I guess but I don't get who their audience is I'm anticipating the $50,000 Supra vs. Mustang GT Track Pack vs Camaro SS 1LE where the Supra finishes dead last in all objective metrics but wins for 'gotta have it factor'
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Wistful of Dollars posted:I like the body; I don't like the drive train. I test drove a V90 (it was even brown!) when they came out and it was amazing except for the lackluster drivetrain. Shame, really.
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bull3964 posted:My bet is the i6 starts at about $58k. Just quoting myself. I even UNDERSHOT and everyone was telling me it was a high estimate.
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