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Mar 31, 2014 22:54
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As a 4th gen Prelude owner... ugh. 
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Mar 31, 2014 22:59
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atomicthumbs posted:
Are those things in the front painted-over subwoofer cones? 
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Mar 31, 2014 23:02
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triple clutcher posted:What is it about the Smart that sets off random anger in almost everybody? I see an iQ or one of those insectoid Mitsubishis and I'm just like "oh, neat". Smartcar? gently caress YOU I WILL RUN YOU OFF THE ROAD EVEN IF I HAVE TO WALK TWO BLOCKS BACK TO MY CAR TO DO SO. I think it is the assumption that everyone who buys a smart car is all smuggy mc smuggerton about the fact that their car is better for the environment than yours. General vanity plate trends would tend to confirm this assumption. It's like the Prius I saw once with the vanity plate "MY PART"
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Mar 31, 2014 23:09
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xzzy posted:Because they think they're super clever for having a tiny car and stuff themselves into parking spots in all kinds of stupid ways. That plate sounds more like "Hi, my IQ is 42"  to me.
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Mar 31, 2014 23:28
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:I think it is the assumption that everyone who buys a smart car is all smuggy mc smuggerton about the fact that their car is better for the environment than yours. General vanity plate trends would tend to confirm this assumption. I like to counter those arguments by telling them any 20 year old (or older) car is better for the environment than replacing it with a brand new car because of the manufacturing requirements. They usually give me a fish out of water look for a few seconds before trying the "nuh-uh because I spend less on gas" line.
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Mar 31, 2014 23:35
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Counting the manufacture and averaged over the life of the vehicle, a 69 GTO Judge does less environmental damage per mile than any car built in the last 20 years. So if you really care about the planet, drive big block muscle cars.
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Fucknag posted:Counting the manufacture and averaged over the life of the vehicle, a 69 GTO Judge does less environmental damage per mile than any car built in the last 20 years.
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I had a buddy pull that poo poo on me when I got my Ram Daytona. Had it for a few years when I ran into him again, bout '08 when the economy took a poo poo. He asked me how it was doing on gas, I was like, it sucks, getting like 14mpg. "Should have kept your Honda, my new Civic gets like 40  "Then I asked him how many miles he puts on it. He said like 30,000 a year, he uses it to commute. That's when I told him I had 25k on my Ram total and that he spent more cash on gas in a year then I will in two. Wasn't so smug after that. There's been like three other times I had the same conversation with different people. It's almost as if driving responsibly saves gas! e- the hilarious thing is he commutes to NYC to work a job where he makes a bit more than I do and he pisses it away on parking and gas. Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Apr 1, 2014 |
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Apr 1, 2014 01:12
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atomicthumbs posted:
Master P and the No Taste Army. I like to imagine they are subs, and he rolls around blasting music from them.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:I think it is the assumption that everyone who buys a smart car is all smuggy mc smuggerton about the fact that their car is better for the environment than yours. General vanity plate trends would tend to confirm this assumption. Which I really never understood. I always thought the point of the smart car is to be a tiny city car that is easier to park, ie being able to back into the curb where normally cars have to parallel park. They got decent mileage, but weren't designed to be commuters unless you lived in the city. car2go(kinda like zipcar but with a bunch of smart cars) has been in seattle for a while now, and I was pretty surprised how much room there is in them. Being ~6'1", i expected it to be much more cramped than I was.
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Black88GTA posted:Are those things in the front painted-over subwoofer cones? Buckets for rally lights, minus the rally lights VikingSkull posted:I had a buddy pull that poo poo on me when I got my Ram Daytona. Had it for a few years when I ran into him again, bout '08 when the economy took a poo poo. There's some circular reasoning in this. Yes, your buddy has a dumb commute. However, assuming he feels he has to do it for his job/home locations and schedule, his Honda may be more suitable for his dumb commute than your truck would be. The argument that the GTO Judge is more enviro-friendly than a new Honda assumes the Honda never gets built, instead of getting built and just getting discounted until some other shmuck buys it, instead of I dunno keeping his scooter or something. The calculus of rates of return are highly personal, and one person's choice not to consume some resource doesn't mean it doesn't get consumed.
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 This CRX has a look on its face like "Why Me?"  Crazy to see stuff like this still on the road 15 years after the tooners started chopping them up. Even more miraculously, it made the trip to Chicagoland from Tennessee without much of the bodywork flapping off.  Another classic honda from the 90's, this one might still be saved..  Make your own caption!
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Apr 1, 2014 03:48
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NoWake posted:
"The Chrysler 200: Less a mere automobile, and more a mechanical cry for help."
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Black88GTA posted:Are those things in the front painted-over subwoofer cones? Guy i used to work with rocked a kit like this, and he put some kind of waterproof speakers in them. he had some kind of kit under his hood that made fake turbo blowoff noise and he used those speakers for it. EDIT: This wonderful setup was on a 3rd gen Nissan Altima, to boot. nitrogen fucked around with this message at 13:17 on Apr 1, 2014 |
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Apr 1, 2014 13:14
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veedubfreak posted:No one ever questions a rollback taking a car. This is so true it kind of scares me. I own a towing company and i tow cars frequently with out keys and alarms blaring and no one as much takes a second look.
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NoWake posted:
Skee-lo really ran out of money
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iamthehans posted:This is so true it kind of scares me. I own a towing company and I tow cars frequently with out keys and alarms blaring and no one as much takes a second look. Not car related but I accidentally set of my burglar alarm the other week for which I don't have the code. I phoned the non emergency police number to tell them and they were just like, "that's cool, we'll put it in the system so that if a neighbour reports it no one will be sent out." Helped me out at the time but I could have easily been a robber and spent the next hour emptying the place out.
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:Not car related but I accidentally set of my burglar alarm the other week for which I don't have the code. I phoned the non emergency police number to tell them and they were just like, "that's cool, we'll put it in the system so that if a neighbour reports it no one will be sent out." But homeowners setting off their own alarm system is ridiculously common. . . Did the alarm company at least verify your identity in any way? At the very least, they probably could have your cell phone number on record and use that to verify that is actually is your house. or your stolen cell phone but who cares at that point
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Crotch Fruit posted:But homeowners setting off their own alarm system is ridiculously common. . . Did the alarm company at least verify your identity in any way? At the very least, they probably could have your cell phone number on record and use that to verify that is actually is your house. or your stolen cell phone but who cares at that point I didn't even speak to the alarm company. I just phoned the non emergency police and my rental agency haha. I was also away for 5 days the week after and at some point it started going off and was still doing so when I got back. Never heard anything from the police or anyone. It ended up being a problem with one of my fire alarms (they're all connected to the burglar alarm system for some reason.) Anyway to bring this back to vehicles I was away for 5 days in one of these lovely vans... 
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Apr 1, 2014 17:04
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xzzy posted:Yeah I guess that makes more sense.. I always thought the rating in the US was 42 mpg but looking it up, it's actually 41 mpg highway and 36 combined. Zipcar took its sweet-rear end time coming to my city, so Mercedes brought in its own car-sharing program using only Smartcars. There are Smarts all over the city nowadays but it's rare to see one that isn't a Car2Go. I'm entirely okay with this, especially because they stand out and let you file them in the mental category for "doesn't drive often".
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Phy posted:Zipcar took its sweet-rear end time coming to my city, so Mercedes brought in its own car-sharing program using only Smartcars. There are Smarts all over the city nowadays but it's rare to see one that isn't a Car2Go. I'm entirely okay with this, especially because they stand out and let you file them in the mental category for "doesn't drive often". I can't even describe how amazing it is to watch car-hating hipsters decide to get their first taste of inner-city winter driving with a short wheelbase RWD car on all-seasons.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I can't even describe how amazing it is to watch car-hating hipsters decide to get their first taste of inner-city winter driving with a short wheelbase RWD car on all-seasons. Car hate and car-independent living doesn't happen here in the southwest, so the first time I watched a New York native drive was just phenomenal. I was terrified of his driving on every level, including his choice of car (beat to poo poo Crown Vic that had bald tires). He's better now that the Army told him to take a defensive driving class.
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Lack of good public transport is the most terrible car thing of all. 
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Apr 1, 2014 19:22
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Um, pretty sure the Toyota mini dually is amazing.
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uncle_skin posted:Well it's that time of the year again when my town gets overtaken by donks. My house is right between two of the places they gather so I can sit on my porch and watch the parade of ridiculousness go by. I'll try to get some photos for this thread. In the meantime here's a video from last year. The cars start about two minutes in. I kind of kept this going off to the side while working on something else, and caught this @ about 12:46. I swear that's a Jeep 2WD straight axle under that Caprice, or something very like it.  
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razorscooter posted:Lack of good public transport is the most terrible car thing of all. Wrong thread. I would drive that all day 'erryday.
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rear end in a top hat Bicycle posted:Um, pretty sure the Toyota mini dually is amazing. Yeah the Toyota Duallies are cool but I think they were only cube vans or campers, I think.
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I have admittedly terrible taste in cars because the Toyota minitruck dually is awesome, that van is awesome, and donks/scrapers/bubbles are especially awesome. 
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 It's a wrecked PT Cruiser, therefore it automatically belongs in this thread, but does anyone have any idea what is going on with cutting the metal around the emblem?
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JayKay posted:
Hatch release jammed from the wreck and they had to get into it for personal belongings, most likely.
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JayKay posted:
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Pham Nuwen posted:Wrecked PT Cruiser? I'm gonna call wrong thread. It's still on the road, so right thread. Edit: Please tell me that truck in front of it is on the back of a flatbed and not a super bro truck.
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Poisonlizard posted:It's still on the road, so right thread. Super bro truck Just kidding, it's a flat bed. Said flat bed is also towing the PT cruiser JayKay fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Apr 2, 2014 |
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Poisonlizard posted:It's still on the road, so right thread.
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Are... are the fenders on hinges? Edit- Or do they just stick out like that all the time? Not sure which would be worse.
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Is it meant to transform...? Or something?
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