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Everyone forgets that for a moment, the Taurus was actually good. Then, of course, the Accord and Camry got much better.
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Dec 23, 2020 05:25
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Fermented Tinal posted:I unsubbed years ago, so I guess I'm on one side of that. The guy just rubs me the wrong way these days, like AvE. Some of his reviews are hilarious though, and his delivery of the punchline to the AE86 intro was great. I only recently unsubbed after that poo poo-take on "5w30 is too thiiiiiiin" but as it was I hadn't watched pretty much any of the regular RCR videos in ages. Whenever The Roman gets to do one, he's funnier than Mr. Regular now, and the last consistently good videos on that channel were the various car show vids. "MY CORVETTE IS BEST CORVETTE"
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Dec 24, 2020 05:00
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I bailed on AvE when he started spiraling into anti-mask fuckhead territory.
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Dec 24, 2020 16:03
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Fermented Tinal posted:Miatas are cheap? Cheaper than fox bodies, sure. Fox bodies haven't been truly cheap cars for a long time, especially now that LS-swap parts are widely available.
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Dec 25, 2020 16:00
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CannonFodder posted:Now for the Confessional Hour of HAVE YOU EVER? MrChips posted:Excessive speeding 1. Worst was one terror-inducing trip to north of 120MPH in the C10. 2. In a loving W210 E320, and got ticketed for it. 3. Forgot to torque lug nuts after swapping a spare on. 4. Drove a borrowed shitbox Corsica that leaked so much water I'd stop to top it off twice during the drive because it'd start overheating. 5. There was a time where just about any length of time driving on I10 between Phoenix and Tucson would put me to sleep. In hindsight maybe it was CO poisoning?  6. Who hasn't engaged Safety Squints? 7. Summer tires, but yes. 8. Unintentionally 9. If you don't do this on some freeways in AZ you're never getting past some fuckers. 10. Did a loving stupid entering a roundabout. 11. Pretty sure "bed of my truck" counts while being technically legal.
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Dec 26, 2020 05:27
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MrChips posted:Jeep Wrangler - 3 I went full sheep but I think the Wrangler legitimately might be a more likely last-one-standing. Depends on what happens first - Mazda develops a DCT for the Miata, or Jeep has to hybridize every version of the Wrangler to deal with fuel economy standards. quote:In the year 2525 - CAT_INTERCEPTOR Only if we're still alive.
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Dec 27, 2020 00:43
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:WRX has a very decent argument that it'll be the last one. But in the end EV's are the real death knell - the looming new ICE bans in a decade in Europe (And Cali's 2035 ban) pretty much signals gearboxes are on the way out full stop. Yup. Suppose that's the other endpoint - makes me wonder if anyone who doesn't have a DCT yet is even bothering with developing one since it won't translate to an EV.
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Dec 27, 2020 01:58
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:And no, manuals are not less economical or slower. Manuals will shift as fast as you can make em and do exactly what you want without the lag of a auto - let alone give a manual a moonshot gearing like an 8 speed auto and they will return the same economy. Where manuals fail compared to autos is emissions. On every run up through the gears, you have a throttle close on every upshift in a manual, which makes the engine run lean for an instant. So you either implement a throttle delay and ruin the PuRiTy (someone plz buy the purity sticker from MCM as an emote) or you just have to deal with the increase in emissions for the manual variant of the car. Or, you realize your take rate on manuals is dropping and you look for reasons to simplify your powertrain options and spend that much less on certifying the next generation of the car. Barring disability, I'll never not own at least one manual, but even without EVs coming they're doomed. Automotive market gonna look weird as gently caress in 15 years when a new ICE isn't available in large parts of the world.
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Dec 27, 2020 06:00
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Mmmm. Maybe that is the case, I haven't looked. It's more for me that the dogma about new autos being better and "faster" for sporty drivers is bullshit and most the writers who spew the line know it's bullshit too. I meant to say rich not lean but point still stands. It's something manufacturers have to account for on emissions and every year the financials around "we can sell X manual transmissions" versus "it will cost us Y to make the manual pass federal / CA standards" get worse. Liquid Communism posted:I still think there's zero chance in hell of this actually happening, at least in the States. Too many dollars in lobbying involved and half our elected officials are full on death cultists. California is a big enough market on its own to count as a "large part of the world". StormDrain posted:I feel like Wranglers have a fine tradition of using old technology too long and selling just fine. They'll sell fine, it's a matter of what they'll be allowed to sell while still passing emissions standards. They only stopped using the 4.0 because it would have cost more to make it pass emissions than it did to use something without its roots in a 1960's AMC design. CannonFodder posted:At some point Wranglers will be delivered tires up to the purcasher so they can flip them over and If this sort of thing let them end-run around emissions standards, I could legitimately see people buying new frames/tubs like that.
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Dec 27, 2020 17:58
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Ugh. I hate the PT so much I mentally block it out.
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Dec 28, 2020 03:29
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STR posted:The ones on my first Saturn were pretty decent. They'd come on about when I'd usually flip them on (unless it was raining during the day), stayed on 30 seconds after shutting off the car, and you could disable them if you wanted (though you had to disable them every time you started the car). The stupid thing about "raining" is that on any remotely modern car with a CAN (whether actual CAN or one of the early Jeep systems like PCI), there's no reason the car shouldn't be smart enough to say "oh, wipers are on? headlights go on too". My '03 Grand Cherokee had this as something you could configure using the multifunction display. The latter part you mention (disable every time on startup) should be mandatory, especially in the modern era of gauges being backlit 100% of the time. My MS3 and Grand Cherokee both had automatic headlights with a traditional detent-based switch, where there was a true "off" position. My Canyon has what you describe, where "off" is a soft-off that resets every time the truck starts. I don't think I've driven in enough rain in the Canyon yet to notice if it automatically turns on the headlights when the wipers go on, but I wouldn't be surprised if it does. It also turns the lights on generally when or before I would normally.
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Dec 28, 2020 19:27
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meatpimp posted:Congrats, IOC, even if I hadn't balked on "seat belts," you'd have beaten me. I thought I was done for sure when I loving whiffed (though amazingly, didn't completely wolf) with the McLaren F1 instead of the DMC12. Charles posted:Also AI mods as winners -- it's only natural. NO MODS NO MASTERS ONLY MILK GIMPS
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In my Jeep, I have my mask hanging off my shifter MrChips, thank you for another outstanding game. For shits and grins, any stats on winning score as a percentage of maximum score?
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