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It's like a Toppola, except horrible! 
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Toppola should really have been a Ford product.
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May 12, 2015 22:46
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Maybe a Ford / Peugeot joint. France's Ford Toppola.
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May 12, 2015 23:17
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Safety Dance posted:Maybe a Ford / Peugeot joint. France's Ford Toppola. You just beat me to making this joke 
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May 12, 2015 23:24
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Safety Dance posted:Maybe a Ford / Peugeot joint. France's Ford Toppola. Boooooooo
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May 12, 2015 23:28
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Ugly as poo poo but cool as gently caress.
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May 13, 2015 00:31
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Safety Dance posted:Maybe a Ford / Peugeot joint. France's Ford Toppola. 
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May 13, 2015 00:31
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Slavvy posted:Pretty sure the answer is 'merica but I could be wrong. Giant parking lots + fat security guards + a fetish for pointless labour saving devices, if I had to guess. It's actually French.
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May 13, 2015 00:33
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Safety Dance posted:Maybe a Ford / Peugeot joint. France's Ford Toppola. That wins. Just. Wins 
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May 13, 2015 00:35
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Safety Dance posted:Maybe a Ford / Peugeot joint. France's Ford Toppola.  Fantastic work here.
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May 13, 2015 00:38
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Safety Dance posted:Maybe a Ford / Peugeot joint. France's Ford Toppola. Bravo sir. BRA-Vo.
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May 13, 2015 00:59
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:It's actually French. Well then gently caress, no idea 
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May 13, 2015 01:38
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I don't get it 
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May 13, 2015 01:48
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Spotted on the way to work this morning: There was one of those labels on each side as well. I've yet to actually drive or work on one of these, I can only imagine the story that goes with it.
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May 13, 2015 03:23
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Koch This Nissan Van Sucks.mp4
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May 13, 2015 03:55
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Root Bear posted:Spotted on the way to work this morning: An insane neighbor of mine years back had something similar to this on their Toyota minivan. Their story was that it had so many problems, it should have been Lemon Law'd but the dealer/Toyota wouldn't do it so they crazied their car up with TOYOTA IS AWFUL DONT BUY THEM type writing all over it like those ridiculous Bible verse ones. My guess is the dude either beat the piss out of it or tried to modify something on the engine to make get 200mpg or some wacky thing like that. The guy was a total nutter obviously.
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May 13, 2015 04:56
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Ozz81 posted:This is precisely why I like manuals - I used to love revving up getting on the interstate in my old 5 speed beater years ago, was so much fun. Being able to control what gear you're in and when, versus the car choosing for you, is way, way better IMHO. Plus it helps to know how to drive manual if you ever need to drive someone else's car, like I used to when I helped my brother at his auto shop. Just makes you look like a dunce when you hop in a car, see the stick shift and go "welp, dunno how to use that, sorry" A couple of weeks ago, I took my car to Safelite to get a chip/crack repaired (insurance paid for it 100%, woop!) The guy started to get in the car, then I heard a OH HELL NO and he got back out and told me "Yeah, uh... I don't do manual." I offered to pull it in for him, he said he couldn't let me do that, he'd take over a job a coworker was doing and said coworker would handle my car. It probably didn't help that the guy was about 6'3 and... on the larger side. Watching him trying to climb into the car was comedy enough.
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May 13, 2015 06:34
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How can you even say you can drive if you can't use a manual transmission?
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May 13, 2015 07:00
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My car has a cvt :iamafag:
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May 13, 2015 09:43
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some texas redneck posted:A couple of weeks ago, I took my car to Safelite to get a chip/crack repaired (insurance paid for it 100%, woop!) Jesus christ.
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May 13, 2015 10:55
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DEAR RICHARD posted:My car has a cvt :iamafag: Condolences
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May 13, 2015 15:19
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Came across this beauty from Sema 2013. It's got suicide doors and a Ford motor!  Looks like an angry spider. 
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May 13, 2015 16:45
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davebo posted:Came across this beauty from Sema 2013. 
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May 13, 2015 17:55
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Ether Frenzy posted:If it takes you more than 3 attempts to learn how to drive any stick at any point in your driving career, you took too many tries. It's really not very hard and 85% of the world's driving population has never driven anything other than standard transmission. Yep, this is true - I learned to drive stick in less than an hour in an empty parking lot when I was 16. The only difficult part (at first) was timing the clutch/gas properly to avoid stalling, but once I had that down, it was a cakewalk. People that can't drive manual are either stubborn or lazy, it's really, really simple to learn.
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May 13, 2015 19:22
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Ozz81 posted:Yep, this is true - I learned to drive stick in less than an hour in an empty parking lot when I was 16. The only difficult part (at first) was timing the clutch/gas properly to avoid stalling, but once I had that down, it was a cakewalk. People that can't drive manual are either stubborn or lazy, it's really, really simple to learn. I think it's a learned helplessness thing, like olds and computers. They just decide "I don't know how to do that," so their thought process (and thus learning process) just shuts off right there. Even though it would be pretty simple to learn.
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May 13, 2015 21:21
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davebo posted:Looks like an angry spider. This made me loving lol.
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May 13, 2015 22:44
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DiggityDoink posted:An insane neighbor of mine years back had something similar to this on their Toyota minivan. Their story was that it had so many problems, it should have been Lemon Law'd but the dealer/Toyota wouldn't do it so they crazied their car up with TOYOTA IS AWFUL DONT BUY THEM type writing all over it like those ridiculous Bible verse ones. This is what I was thinking. I worked at a grocery store in high school and there was a semi-regular customer who drove a Volvo station wagon that was covered in a bunch of screed about how terrible Volvo was. It was apparently a work in process, the last time I saw it he had added a 4x8 sheet of plywood tied upright on the roof with his anti-Volvo manifesto stenciled on in 1" letters detailing the vehicle's lifespan and all of the problems/service he had to have done to it.
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May 14, 2015 01:53
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Will you get a priuspism if you use one of these for too long?
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Raluek posted:I think it's a learned helplessness thing, like olds and computers. They just decide "I don't know how to do that," so their thought process (and thus learning process) just shuts off right there. Even though it would be pretty simple to learn. One of my coworkers is constantly bitching about not being able to drive manual. I always offer to teach him, and he keeps refusing.  I taught myself by going out and buying a car with a manual, and had to figure out how to get it home. I'd had a couple of lessons years before, but had never driven more than a mile or so at a time.Whereas my mother, who refuses to learn how to do basic stuff like check the oil in her car ("girls aren't supposed to do that!"), can drive manual just fine. It's been long enough that every time she does drive manual, she does a burnout on her first few launches  but she gets to buttery smooth shifts within a mile or so.
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Ether Frenzy posted:Modern DCTs allow you to be in exactly the gear you want to be in with millisecond-speed gearchanges, and have the added benefit of preventing you from money-shifting (because you are not a race driver). I got the pleasure to learn stick in a Quebec snowstorm. Not that hard, although I'll freely admit I had a couple close calls later on in the winter. Nothing beats the panic attack you get when you need to stop at a light in a near 30° iced incline for the couple first times.
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May 14, 2015 06:38
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MetaJew posted:Will you get a priuspism if you use one of these for too long? The battery powered ones don't have that problem.
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some texas redneck posted:One of my coworkers is constantly bitching about not being able to drive manual. I always offer to teach him, and he keeps refusing. Dude if I still lived anywhere near Dallas I'd take you up on that. I've finally convinced my dad to teach me stick after like 15 years and he's still somewhat reluctant about it.
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May 14, 2015 17:59
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I taught my wife to drive stick. Then her NY license expired before we had a chance to switch her over to an Oregon license, so she had to re-take the driving test to get a license here, and she passed her test driving stick. It's seriously not hard. I learned cold turkey by being told one day that I was going to be the one driving the manual trans truck to the store by my step dad, and I'd never driven stick before. In the 10 minutes it took to get to the store, and the 10 minutes coming back, I learned to drive stick.
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May 14, 2015 22:03
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Took these pictures myself. I know, I know, I was driving at the time but look at it.  
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May 14, 2015 22:29
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If the front is a beetle too, wrong thread.
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May 14, 2015 23:45
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James May did it first. 
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HotCanadianChick posted:I taught my wife to drive stick. Then her NY license expired before we had a chance to switch her over to an Oregon license, so she had to re-take the driving test to get a license here, and she passed her test driving stick. I learned in a Macys parking lot in the 5 ton before driving it 550 miles home. It actually taught me a few bad habits, because first gear is unsynchronized (well, some previous owner burned up a synchro if it was synchronized when it left the factory) and I learned to sit at lights with the trans in gear and my foot on the clutch because of that. Fortunately didn't take too long to break that habit.
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My uncle owns a '36 Chevy. It's got a two-speed transmission, with unsynchronized first. The trick is apprently to not downshift unless you've stopped.
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atomicthumbs posted:My uncle owns a '36 Chevy. It's got a two-speed transmission, with unsynchronized first. The trick is apprently to not downshift unless you've stopped. or to rev match,
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