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Humphreys posted:Wow a bunch of those are terrible! Is one of the listed selling points the world's largest frunk?
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Fire Storm posted:24 Hours of LeMons starts a new 168 hour variant. Car dies? Grab another one. Team that goes through the least number of cars wins. 24 Days of LeMons. 24hrs/24 days.
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Or they could do one of those top gear-esque "hilariously inappropriate car driven from point A to point B" but without the scripting and staged incidents. Sponsored by JD Power hopefully, because that's quality testing I'd like to see.
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Vitamin J posted:I found all the Volkswagens. Kinda surprised half of these aren't on jackstands and have half their engine bay raided for parts. According to this Jalopnik article Volkswagen is waiting to see if the EPA and/or CARB will approve fixes to the emissions cheating so they can re-sell them. So the market might suddenly be flooded with used TDIs in the coming months if/when either agency approves the fixes.
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I was just pointing out that that's a public road in the foreground of the photo, there's only a short fence and no tresspassing signs, and a shitload of cars just sitting there with no security to speak of. It's about 15 miles out of the city in the middle of the desert.
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Back in 05-06, Chrysler discovered an accounting trick where they'd save on production costs by building more trucks than they could sell. I don't know the finer details, but I did see mall parking lots across Toledo start filling up with brand new trucks. Good thing for Chrysler, Toledo had plenty of abandoned malls to choose from. I'd say the lots held between 700 and 1200 brand new vehicles, all parked in neat rows with keys in the dash. It was fun to think about walking in with a couple friends & grabbing a couple free trucks, and I cruised the perimeter road once out of curiosity. There were no fences at the lots, no bollards, no signs, just security guards sitting in their personal vehicles (just common shitboxes) every 50 yards around the perimeter. I don't know about you, but having unknown people in lovely cars watching you like a hawk, while being in a pretty lovely part of town already, is a very unsettling feeling and I just got the hell out of there.
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Right now there are a 20000 brand new Passats in Germany just sitting in the VW parking lot because their supplier for glove compartments had a fire and couldn't keep up so all of them are finished except for the glove compartment. They even started to offload them to parking lots of other companies and pretty much stopped production because of this.
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I work at a teir 2 automotive supplier and the rate we've been told for any problems forcing a line shutdown is $17,000 per minute. That glove box supplier is probably wishing the whole plant burned down at this point.
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Geoj posted:According to this Jalopnik article Volkswagen is waiting to see if the EPA and/or CARB will approve fixes to the emissions cheating so they can re-sell them. *reads the bio of the new director of the EPA* The market will be flooded with used, cheap TDIs in the coming months buttcrackmenace fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Feb 21, 2017 |
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:I work at a teir 2 automotive supplier and the rate we've been told for any problems forcing a line shutdown is $17,000 per minute. That glove box supplier is probably wishing the whole plant burned down at this point. Yeah JIS is great when it works but when one little thing somewhere fails it costs a shitton of money.
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A lot of companies just wholesale eat up JIT and lean manufacturing without understanding its function or whether it's a good fit for what they're doing. It carries a lot of positives but it also carries a gently caress load of negatives.
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My dad used to work for Jag and then later a supplier of locking mechanisms for Jag. There were several occasions where he had to go home to get his passport because they needed someone to fly over to Germany to pick up parts so the company wouldn't get fined £££££ for holding up production. I'm not sure he particularly enjoyed those days considering it was always someone else's gently caress up.
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buttcrackmenace posted:*reads the bio of the new director of the EPA* Great, I will buy one.
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buttcrackmenace posted:*reads the bio of the new director of the EPA* I wouldn't be surprised if EPA tried to roll back some of the fines as well under the new guy. Its not really a good thing either.
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iospace posted:So, you know those Mustangs that get modded to look like cars out of the 30s? fixed the link. You know they've been making stuff since the '80s, right? I am astounded that they're still in business, though. I never really like the regular Zimmers, but I actually like the Zimmer Quicksilver. It's a little less "'30s" than the regular model. It is, of course, a Fiero. Actually ends up being sort of Toronado-like. I'd kind of like to hoon one up with a V8. Powershift posted:There are actually a couple. and i've posted a bunch. zimmer builds them out of mustangs and town cars. mitsuoka out of miatas and 240s. there were companies in the 80s and 90s that built them out of mustangs, cougars, 300zs, all kinds of fun stuff. Don't forget Excalibur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excalibur_(automobile) Crustashio posted:"First ever r18 unequal length header!! What do you guys think?? 2 days work! And sounds amazing!!!" I had to Google around a bit for that. I had no idea that a 4-cylinder with only two exhaust ports existed. I was really confused by that header just from that. NoWake posted:HELL YES Thirding this. Also, there are thousands of folks who would happily pay them better than scrap prices just for the engines to put in older stuff. edit: OOOO! Really the best example of neo-classics (in whichever meaning of "best" you prefer): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stutz_Blackhawk
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:I work at a teir 2 automotive supplier and the rate we've been told for any problems forcing a line shutdown is $17,000 per minute. That glove box supplier is probably wishing the whole plant burned down at this point. Olympic Mathlete posted:My dad used to work for Jag and then later a supplier of locking mechanisms for Jag. There were several occasions where he had to go home to get his passport because they needed someone to fly over to Germany to pick up parts so the company wouldn't get fined £££££ for holding up production. I'm not sure he particularly enjoyed those days considering it was always someone else's gently caress up.
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Austin-Rover is a great example of a company that wholly embraced JIT, partly because of Honda, and it just made their supplier and product problems even more apparent.
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stump posted:I had a Nissan Qashqai this week for a hire car. Picked it up with just 34 miles on the clock. Dropped it off 1000 miles later well and truly run in. I found the Infiniti QX30 to suffer from the exact same problem with the steering. Heavy and utterly lifeless.
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:Angry headlight mods are always terrible car stuff. They're in the same category as headlight eyelashes. These really exist? I thought I only imagined those in a fever dream.
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Nidhg00670000 posted:I'm so glad Euro Ncap is testing all kinds of poo poo now. I want to see them test a NASCAR Cup car or F1 car for the other end of the spectrum.
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Hopefully something happens to those TDIs besides a cash-for-clunkers style destruction of the engines. Hopefully the stigma and depreciation and market flooding put them on the market for peanuts. I have no real use for one but I have dreams of using the TDI + DSG in all sorts of antics. The two I like best is putting that combo into a Porsche 914 or putting it into a 1990 Audi Coupe Quattro. With all those Audis on the lot, maybe I just upgraded from a I4 to a V6.
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Audi of America would like to remind you that C5 A6s cannot possibly be harmed by water due to Audi's well established reputation for having completely waterproof eletronics. https://twitter.com/Audi/status/834186678235303936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:These really exist? I thought I only imagined those in a fever dream. Headlight eyelashes? Yep, absolutely. I think the world's entire stock is installed exclusively on Minis and the 90's era New Beetles
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Also Chrysler 200s and Concordes
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Darchangel posted:
I saw one of these IRL once. Sitting in someone's yard in Frayser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frayser,_Memphis . I was taking a friend to buy a Honda Accord wagon and the guy had a poo poo ton of cars in his yard. I studied it for a long time going "Well what the gently caress is this thing??" before I asked the guy, he just said it was a Stutz. Took me a while on the computer to figure out which Stutz. It just screams "70s pimp sled". It's so over the top and ridiculous it comes back around again to being awesome. It's a tie between this and the Nash Metropolitan that I saw for sale on Highway 100 in Chester County TN for the rarest car I have laid eyes on personally.
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Sagebrush posted:Headlight eyelashes? Yep, absolutely. I think the world's entire stock is installed exclusively on Minis and the 90's era New Beetles Twingos, PT Cruisers and 1998 Mercedes SLKs
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Sagebrush posted:Headlight eyelashes? Yep, absolutely. I think the world's entire stock is installed exclusively on Minis and the 90's era New Beetles Saw some on a pearl white Range Rover Evoque once. I'm trying to hunt down the photograph but it was about 5 years ago so it's providing difficult.
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1500quidporsche posted:Austin-Rover is a great example of a company that wholly embraced JIT, partly because of Honda, and it just made their supplier and product problems even more apparent. Also Lamborghini using Nissan 300ZX headlights on the Diablo.
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wayfinder posted:Twingos, PT Cruisers and 1998 Mercedes SLKs Audi TTs and Peugeot 206 CCs
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Throatwarbler posted:Audi of America would like to remind you that C5 A6s cannot possibly be harmed by water due to Audi's well established reputation for having completely waterproof eletronics. He does push a nice bow wave
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wayfinder posted:Twingos, PT Cruisers and 1998 Mercedes SLKs Fiat 500's.
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Sagebrush posted:Headlight eyelashes? Yep, absolutely. I think the world's entire stock is installed exclusively on Minis and the 90's era New Beetles I saw a Tacoma once that had both headlight eyelashes and truck nuts.
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Yeah its a drag car.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Yeah its a drag car. AAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Yeah its a drag car. 
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SpannerX posted:Fiat 500's. Besides, it's bad enough for me when I'm driving it. Baby blue with a minnie mouse ariel topper. 
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Yeah its a drag car. Fabulous.
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