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My 65y.o. Mother really, really wants a juke. I am doing my best to get her to like an impreza of something.
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Nope, the GTR is a lot less. You'd get a Juke-R if you had serious problems with taste and poor spending.
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Sep 13, 2012 00:31
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Froderick posted:Does that hideous Juke-R cost considerably less?  no it costs considerably more. It's an extremely limited production run (25 units I think?) that each cost €450,000.
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Sep 13, 2012 00:36
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 You've got to be making GBS threads me.
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Sep 13, 2012 00:46
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Froderick posted:Remind me why* I wouldn't just get a GTR? Does that hideous Juke-R cost considerably less? Simply put, any sane person would look objectively at the GTR and the Juke-R especially with the insane price of the Juke-R and wonder why the gently caress you would think of the Juke. But looked at from a Automotive Insaity view, the Juke is completely off the dial that makes it awesome. They took a lovely softroader, threw in a GTR driveline - and not only that, they made it work so well that it can be compared to a Porsche without laughter. It's a drunken fevered dream made real and that probably makes it worth the money for the 25 who will buy em.
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Sep 13, 2012 00:51
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Godholio posted:
basically some Nissan engineers made this skunkworks Juke for a lark, people thought it was cool, Nissan said it never happened and never will happen, then some Arab zillionaire told Nissan he wanted 2 and he'd pay whatever they wanted, so Nissan said "umm... 2... million?" and he reached in his spare change purse and gave it to them, and then Nissan figured what the hell, we might as well make a few more because there's bound to be more than one rich idiot out there. At least that's how I understand the chain of events.
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Sep 13, 2012 00:53
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I wish more manufacturers would make completely bonkers poo poo like that Juke. It reminds me of that W12 Golf that VW made a few years ago.
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Sep 13, 2012 01:11
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Nathan Explosion posted:I wish more manufacturers would make completely bonkers poo poo like that Juke. It reminds me of that W12 Golf that VW made a few years ago.
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Sep 13, 2012 01:36
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The Juke-R is a joke and the worst way to spend $600,000.
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Sep 13, 2012 02:20
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Devyl posted:The Juke-R is a joke and the worst way to spend $600,000. You might be singing a different tune if, like the people who are going to buy them, you had a spare $600,000 kicking around and a thirst for an interesting motoring experience.
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Sep 13, 2012 02:37
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Yeah, for the handful of rich Arab princes that will buy them, $600,000 is jokin' around money.
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Sep 13, 2012 02:49
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If I had $600,000 to piss away on a unique motoring experience, I'd buy something like this. Then I'd go buy a Juke & a GT-R. Then I'd blow the Juke up with some explosives and spend the rest of the money on the GT-R. You'd be surprised what almost $300,000 can do to a GT-R.
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Sep 13, 2012 03:04
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If you're gonna drop six hundred large on a Juke-R, you don't have to worry about money and what cars you could buy with that money instead. You just buy them all.
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Sep 13, 2012 03:07
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Not even kidding when I say even if I had a hundred million dollars, I wouldn't buy that. Nope, I'd have exactly the same set of rusty jalopies, I'd just have everything I need to fix and fully build/upgrade them on order for overnight delivery and the cement pad for a 3 bay garage curing in the yard 
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Sep 13, 2012 03:10
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IOwnCalculus posted:Mine did too, until I told her how small it is on the inside (I think it's actually got a smaller interior than our Mazda3 hatch). At a glance it appeals to the I-want-a-crossover crowd but it is really, really small for a crossover. I believe the Juke is based on the Versa frame (B?) and I have driven a Juke and I own a 2011 Versa, and I would say the Versa is downright cavernous inside compared to it.
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Sep 13, 2012 03:13
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kastein posted:Nope, I'd have exactly the same set of rusty jalopies, I'd just have everything I need to fix and fully build/upgrade them on order for overnight delivery and the cement pad for a 3 bay garage curing in the yard
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Sep 13, 2012 03:21
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The Rocket Salad posted:If you're gonna drop six hundred large on a Juke-R, you don't have to worry about money and what cars you could buy with that money instead. You just buy them all. Yep, exactly. It's a ridiculously expensive batshit insane small crossover for people with ginormous cash slabs that also happens to be by all reports an exceptionally good and unique vehicle. Reduce the price to something halfway sane and every single person here would be all over that poo poo like a hooker for crack.
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Sep 13, 2012 03:51
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Shai-Hulud posted:Im pretty sure we've already talked about that thing in one of these threads and after someone shopped away one of the two sets of headlights it actually looked alright. I remember that. It started from this photoshop:  ... but I don't have the one with the lights removed. Here's the original. I still hate it.
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Sep 13, 2012 04:28
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kastein posted:I dunno, somehow I like it, though the roofline needs to be higher at the back and those headlights look incredibly dumb. I was in traffic behind a Range Rover Evoque a few weeks ago and before I recognised it, I honestly thought the owner had either put two tonnes of lead in the back of had jacked up the front by half a metre. Their roofline at the back is beyond ridiculous. It honestly looks like it about to fall over backwards when you see it from behind. I've tried to find a decent picture to illustrate my point, but all of Rover's images of the car from the rear have been taken from around knee height.
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Sep 13, 2012 06:39
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I found it easier to accept the "face" of the Juke if you treat the top lights as angry eyebrows and the round lights as its eyes.
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Sep 13, 2012 09:06
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Sep 13, 2012 09:09
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DropShadow posted:I remember that. It started from this photoshop: Yeah it still didn't look great but much better than that four eyed monstrosity. No idea what the designers were thinking
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Sep 13, 2012 12:05
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peepsalot posted:There's an ECO(still not sure if that stands for for "eco-friendly" or "economy") but it's basically the inverse of the boost gauge. Mash the pedal and it goes to 0 chunks, coast and it goes to 4 chunks. loving stupid. Dammit I hate that car. Best guess is that it's a manifold vacuum gauge; they used to be somewhat popular as 'economy gauges' around the same time people were deliberately injecting air after the carburettor for a leaner burn.
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Sep 13, 2012 12:36
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Gorilla Salad posted:I was in traffic behind a Range Rover Evoque ..... There's nearly no visibility out of the back. Fortunately, they put cameras that come up on the center screen all over the thing. I kinda like them. They look mean/sporty but admittedly a bit ridiculous. I wouldn't buy one, but they are at least full of all sorts of interesting ideas/design details. I think these illustrate your point pretty well:   "Belt line? We'll show you a freaking belt line!"
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Sep 13, 2012 15:27
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Who cares about blind spots. No one looks when changing lanes anyway. Some fuckstick cut me off yesterday on the way to work without even checking my lane. But it's my fault for driving a gray car I guess.
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Sep 13, 2012 15:58
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Motronic posted:"Belt line? We'll show you a freaking belt line!"  This poo poo has got to stop. Bring back cars with proper greenhouses.
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Sep 13, 2012 15:59
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KozmoNaut posted:This poo poo has got to stop. Bring back cars with proper greenhouses. It won't. You can't hide side-impact air bags and good crush-resistance in glass, unfortunately. The only thing I liked about my old beater Integra was that I could see everything around me; came at a cost though, even with the a/c blowing 40F you couldn't cool the thing down in South Texas summers.
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Sep 13, 2012 16:31
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Nice, pretty sure I saw that thing rolling around here in Tampa during the RNC.
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Sep 13, 2012 16:55
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Motronic posted:There's nearly no visibility out of the back. Fortunately, they put cameras that come up on the center screen all over the thing. The 3-door Evoque looks ridiculous, but I think the 5-door models look quite cool.
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Sep 13, 2012 17:38
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EightBit posted:It won't. You can't hide side-impact air bags and good crush-resistance in glass, unfortunately. I know  But I want to roll down the windows and rest my arm on the windowsill without dislocating my shoulder. I want to be able to actually see stuff around me without having to rely on cameras and sensors. Perhaps I'm in the minority? My current car has a proper greenhouse, but it's 12 years old.
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Sep 13, 2012 19:23
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SaNChEzZ posted:
Why are angelica's boobs so big? She's like four.
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Sep 13, 2012 19:24
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Not thug enough. Chucky needs a diamond grill, tommy should be wearing a tupac beanie etc... I guess they forgot Lil and Phil?
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Sep 13, 2012 19:28
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^ We are only seeing one side of the car...
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Sep 13, 2012 19:43
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Motronic posted:There's nearly no visibility out of the back. Fortunately, they put cameras that come up on the center screen all over the thing. Maybe the designer was inspired by the Lamborghini Countach?
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Falkenbok posted:Best guess is that it's a manifold vacuum gauge; they used to be somewhat popular as 'economy gauges' around the same time people were deliberately injecting air after the carburettor for a leaner burn.
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peepsalot posted:It's not a physical gauge, just something that displays on a little screen. It's more likely calculated based on the actual fuel consumption, based on rpm and injector pulse width, etc. The thing that makes it idiotic is the fact that it only has four discrete gauge positions and no units. Same with boost gauge and accelerometer, oh and a torque gauge also IIRC. The same reason that amps don't usually operate in any specified units: http://xkcd.com/670/ Most people couldn't give two shits about the units, just  BIGGER NUMBARS
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Motronic posted:There's nearly no visibility out of the back. Fortunately, they put cameras that come up on the center screen all over the thing. It's even worse when it gets dirty, because the rear windscreen is only about a foot tall, the rear wiper is only about 10 inches long, so it can only clean a very small portion of the rear window, as this high tech rendering demonstrates. 
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Sep 13, 2012 20:45
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veedubfreak posted:Who cares about blind spots. No one looks when changing lanes anyway. Some fuckstick cut me off yesterday on the way to work without even checking my lane. But it's my fault for driving a gray car I guess. Every time this happens to me I wish I drove a beater do that they could hit may car and I wouldn't car about it, but it would still be their fault
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Motronic posted:
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