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Guinness posted:Most people, or at least most younger (20s and 30s) people, couldn't care less about cars, and it's just an expensive and tedious necessity for getting from point A to B that in a perfect world they wouldn't have to deal with owning, maintaining, and insuring. I'm in this group as well. I'd absolutely love biking to work, but I'd probably end up mowed down by some rear end in a top hat on a cell phone within a week. It doesn't help that my car is my second largest money sink (after student loans) and I use it for less than 3 hours per week going to work. Most of that is sitting at lights and driving in a straight line so yeah, I'm kinda sick of car ownership. Driving for fun with no other cars on the road would be nice though, maybe once I get a decent job and candy rains from the skies and the streets will be paved with fulfillment...
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Do some cars not have a physical link between the transmission and shift lever anymore? If there's a bug in some software or an electrical short, can you not shift out of drive? That seems unsafe if you can't simply disengage the engine from the transmission...
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Aug 27, 2012 19:26
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Motronic posted:I live in deer country and we're in the rut, so I'm with you on this. But as a partial comedy option/somewhat serious......this is a $500 truck. If I could take down a few deer with it and get "free" doe tags for doing so it could pay for itself pretty quickly. If you hit it with a kill shot you can harvest it. Just need to call the game warden within 24 hours to report and get your tag.  : So what did you do on the weekend? :Not much, took the Land Rover out, did some deer hunting.: Nice, what do you shoot?:Shoot?
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Wouldn't they just say "Echo Thirty Three Echo Three Echo Echo" or have I been watching too much TV? Of course they could just wait for it to burst into flames and then catch up with him.
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astrollinthepork posted:The Internet is leaking I don't see a single reference to bacon anywhere on either of those cars. Slackers.
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KozmoNaut posted:It's a 3-cylinder, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xWItsdqKxk You're right, I'd actually prefer that sound over a similarly sized I4. Then again, a BMW I3 would probably be a bit nicer than one out of a Metro.
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West SAAB Story posted:For all of you RG fans: You are my favorite poster on this forum. e: I had no idea there were so many seasons...
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some texas redneck posted:Meanwhile, at WalMart.. Flyoverville, KS Craigslist: Customized Nissan Quest - $7500 Selling due to unexpected medical bills Non-smoker's car! Female owned! Over $10,000 invested (in stickers)
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Kachunkachunk posted:Eric the Car Guy is one of the coolest cats around that might explain it for you: Sticker on top of the failed transmission says it's an A640.  e: Equally surprising, there's a horde of manual transmission purists in the comment section! Truly, their driving skills would match the greatest of any Finn if only mom's redgubbinz fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Apr 13, 2013 |
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Apr 13, 2013 17:30
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That complex looks so familiar, is it in New York? I don't see any hideous yellow plates so probably not.
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Aug 9, 2013 04:24
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Unintended acceleration! Time to sue! 
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Aug 12, 2013 18:22
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Slavvy posted:nitrogen filled tyres. I remember seeing the green caps on the GT-R and thinking it's a neat idea, keeps the pressure stable. Now they're on Kia Souls and Optimas. How would you refill them if you got a flat though, pay the dealership for the privilege or use a normal pump and call 78% close enough?
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Kachunkachunk posted:Okay, that's practically something right out of a 14 year-old's first foray through Need for Speed: Underground. I was going to say it reminds me of the generic 'racecar' from Top Gear 2 for the SNES.
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Snowdens Secret posted:Even in the game the excess weight made it a pig to throw around turns compared to the Z, Supra (which I also think you could blow to the moon) and RX-7. You could tweak the diffs and I think even futz with the rear steer but that couldn't work miracles. In GT2 there was always either a white or red Mark 3 Supra available for less than the 10k starting credits, and every time I started a new file I bought it and ground the Sunday Cup until I could afford whatever the top turbo was. After that just keep adding power and nothing else. I have so many fond memories of struggling to keep ahead of wheezy little Kei cars doing a near constant burnout until I crashed into a wall sideways. e: I was going to say this is scarily similar but I think this was how every 13-year old played Gran Turismo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8ZP4htZhq0 redgubbinz fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Dec 23, 2013 |
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Huh. So that's where they got the design for the car from Top Gear 3000.
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Takes a lot of effort to make a Q7 uglier than the factory, but this guy managed it. And then crashed it, or is the bodykit supposed to meet the rest of the car at a jaunty angle?
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Reminds me of the double-wide Wrangler that's probably somewhere in this thread already. It's a Jeeeeeeeep! 
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Jan 31, 2014 03:12
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I seem to remember someone in AI restoring an old Nova, couldn't figure out why it was running like garbage. Then there was an earthshattering kaboom resulting in pieces of (clogged?) exhaust all over his garage floor. vvvv Explosions really do fix everything! redgubbinz fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Mar 2, 2014 |
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Friar Zucchini posted:That's the most underwhelming response to that sort of thing I could have imagined. Not "My ears or still ringing" or "I"m still picking bits of exhaust out of my garage floor" or even "yup, that was me"... Nope. Just "Hi Hi.  
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Mar 2, 2014 18:18
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The new Lexus Stormtrooper/Cylon Helmet: Sponsored by Nike.
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drukqs posted:Facebook versions of car forums. Seem to be universally terrible. A public flogging for anyone who uses that passive aggressive "let me google that for you" poo poo. It takes less effort to just say 'google it' if giving advice is truly so far beneath your attention. Granted, if you're looking for useful information of any kind on Facebook, you may be in the wrong place. redgubbinz fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Mar 13, 2014 |
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quote:xzzy posted:Hmm, I'm stuck driving the slowest version of an already comically underpowered car. Yep some rims will fix that right up! Finally, a car I can beat in a straight line that isn't a diesel Mercedes!
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I wonder if he knows those are GM hybrid badges on his FERD. E: v We all know any 'thought' that rattles around in that undoubtedly shaven head is not only extremely lonely, but also begins and ends with the word "bro." redgubbinz fucked around with this message at 09:01 on May 5, 2014 |
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Of all the modern Chrysler product lines to obsess over, he could have picked a worse one. Much, much worse.
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Well you know how the old saying goes...you buy Jeep, you buy twice.
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AirRaid posted:There is also things like this now popping up - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-28540259 It's a golf cart, closer to those GEM vehicles you see on college/industrial campuses. Unless they're marketing it as an actual car in which case that's a bit optimistic. I think Final Gear did a test where one of the presenters tried to live with it for a month and while she liked it, it was not very well suited to normal car duties. She also drove around almost exclusively in the city with the one highway experience being one of sheer terror.
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Panty Saluter posted:
It's not believable because the guy put more effort into this than GM did with the actual first-gen Escalade.
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I thought the first generation Insight was cool and 15-year-old-me wanted one simply because it looked like the future, mileage didn't matter. It's a shame the new Insight just tried to be a budget Prius and not either a Fit hybrid or a continuation of its predecessor. Probably still wouldn't have sold either way though.
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Viggen posted:Most of them only highlight how he drives like a complete rear end in a top hat and honks at virtually any small issue that isn't even an issue. He has a hard on for people turning right who aren't AT CRUSING SPEED by the time it takes him to launch himself at them at full speed. Watch a couple of his videos. I'm surprised it hasn't happened already but eventually he's going to honk at the wrong person and end up learning the art of patience.
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Shifty Pony posted:
When this came out I thought it almost looked like a modern Isetta (minus that whole 'cheap+small' thing). Then after watching a video of some guy restoring an actual Isetta, no, it's just vomit on wheels. I guess the body is a shell that goes over the self-contained powertrain+frame so if they put someone blessed with the gift of sight on the project they can plop something decent on there. redgubbinz fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Dec 17, 2014 |
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Linedance posted:Trailer park fix to prevent the pivots from icing up? I've never put trash bags on my wipers but I put ziplock bags on my side mirrors if there's a possibility of poo poo weather, and one of these over the windshield. gently caress scraping at 6am in single digit temperatures.
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Geoj posted:This is why I'll probably never buy another car that doesn't have heated mirrors ever again. Quarter inch of ice on the mirrors? Turn on the rear defroster, come back in 5-10 minutes and it's gone. Yeah but ziplock bags are a fraction of a penny and reveal clean mirrors in two seconds  e: vvvv Well, if the redgubbinz fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Jan 13, 2015 |
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HotCanadianChick posted:Get a bike then. All the fun of a sports car, all the fuel economy of a plug-in hybrid. My bike is a relative gas-guzzler at 40mpg, but then again it does have ~150 BHP at the crank. If you go for something smaller and more reasonable than what I ride, you could get upwards of 70mpg. This sounds great, but between winter and the 'people we share a road with' I would fully expect to be road pizza within the year. It would be a fun year though. Cacafuego posted:Liveleak commenters are a bunch of racists, go figure... I can't imagine the human detritus that comments on liveleak videos, probably the same ones that comment seriously on porn. redgubbinz fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Jun 29, 2015 |
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IOwnCalculus posted:I can't think of non-American companies making a car worse just to advertise a price.  There's also Mitsubishi, but they might have been genuinely trying their best.
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It's like a Facebook feed given form. Burn it to the ground.
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I think it was a Subaru Brat, but it doesn't matter because the image was a filthy lie, shattering my worldview into tiny pieces. e: No, google shows it is a 1200 pickup, the tiny pieces have now been urinated upon.
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dangit Bobby, hwhat have I told you about that flag and the internet, I don't want the family truck on the news!
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xzzy posted:If I never had to watch an ad for a regional car dealer ever again I think I could die happy. As someone who lives in upstate NY's capital region, I couldn't possibly agree more with this. HUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE 
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