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How about terrible car people? In a recent episode of Mythbusters Jr, the kids used increasingly larger dominoes to crush a car. It happened to be a first-gen MR2. Of course, people lost their poo poo.
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Feb 3, 2019 20:08
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Thief posted:
I know  it was an addition to the post before.
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Feb 3, 2019 20:11
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I'd buy the gently caress out of that E46 M3 Touring
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Feb 3, 2019 20:52
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A lad I know built a new shape m3 wagon and it’s p sick https://instagram.com/63np?utm_source=ig_profile_share&igshid=hsg20q4s4jaa
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Mister Kingdom posted:How about terrible car people? Do people not realize this was some $350 car off Craigslist with basically no frame left and no title?
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Bape Culture posted:A lad I know built a new shape m3 wagon and it’s p sick horry gently caress, that is sick.
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Feb 3, 2019 21:38
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FatCow posted:Do people not realize this was some $350 car off Craigslist with basically no frame left and no title? do you think people on the internet would really do that? just go off half-cocked on bad information, making no attempt to inform themselves of the facts? sad if true!
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FatCow posted:Do people not realize this was some $350 car off Craigslist with basically no frame left and no title? Sane people would know.
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Never understood why BMW never made M touring cars given the apparent popularity of Audi’s RS Avant models.
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Bape Culture posted:A lad I know built a new shape m3 wagon and it’s p sick This loving owns
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  Gimme 5 stars on the ride or I'll fxck u up
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I've always wondered with poo poo like that: do they put it all on at once? Or so they just start with a Punisher decal, and then something in the BUDK catalogue catches their eye, then there's something on the nazi table at a gun show that looks like it would go great on their bumper, and the next thing they know they're giving handjobs for Ed Hardy-looking dogwhistle racism shirts in an alleyway.
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what the heck is this and what is it doing in North Texas? posted here since it seems like a custom hack job. but it also seems to be RHD 
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FBS posted:what the heck is this and what is it doing in North Texas? Dude, I regularly see a guy rolling around here in the panhandle plains in a straight-up Morris british taxi converted to LHD and painted silver. I don't know anything about him and I can't even respect the effort because I'm so afraid he's a gross teaboo Here's the origin story on that bus:  : It's got mirrors, don't it? : (signs vehicle inspection certificate)
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FBS posted:what the heck is this and what is it doing in North Texas? So it's not the same bus, but there was another RHD British bus in North Texas. Several years ago, there was a food truck called The Angry Friar that roamed around Denton (mostly on campus at UNT, generally on Avenue A just off Hickory, in the alley between the language building and Curry Hall). The owner was gen-u-ine British, and the fish was indeed delish.  He shut it down with no warning at the end of 2012. The facebook page still exists, but the last post is basically "we don't want to talk about it, but we're shutting down as of now.".
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With some work I could see that being a pretty rad RV or party/tailgate bus. Although fuel economy has to be atrocious - even by bus standards.
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STR posted:He shut it down with no warning at the end of 2012. The facebook page still exists, but the last post is basically "we don't want to talk about it, but we're shutting down as of now.". gonna say it's pills
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I saw mine in McKinney, not Denton, so if this project got abandoned it was opioids rather than adderall.
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Yeah college students tend to gravitate toward amphetamines for some reason.  God knows I had adderall and dexedrine connections when I was in school, but hey, had a 4.0 average 3 semesters in a row...
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Slim Pickens posted:
Everett? This was Everett, wasn't it. Or that area looks like somewhere along 99 anyway
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tuo posted:excuse me for using bild, but I found their gallery faster than the one from AMuS (which has many more pictures) I'm surprised they haven't tried to sell these in Australia, a country that basically fell in love with the El Camino to the point where there's at least two major competing variants.
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Sagebrush posted:I can't find a specific article on it, but to the best of my recollection: BMW built in a system to disconnect the alternator from the engine under certain conditions, because removing that tiny bit of parasitic drag would improve fuel economy by a tiny amount. One of the situations where they chose to do this was cruising on the highway. When they tested the system in Germany, it was fine; the battery would get a little discharged on the highway, but it would quickly charge back up under city conditions, and there were no downsides. A bit of additional info on this. The system in question is a form of micro-hybridization, KERS strictly from battery loading. BMW was the first one to field it in its efficient dynamics program, but everyone is using it meanwhile and it's gonna be mandatory in the EU within the next decade. Its also not a black/white operation. Usually you charge the battery to an elevated but generally safe value like 13.2-13.5 volts or so and leave it there for the entire drive. What BMW does is capping the stand by voltage during driving to 13 volts and combining it with programmed info about the battery type (this means you always have to recode when you change batteries so the ECU gets the info of the new capacity and resets the age correction) During braking, the battery voltage is elevated over the general purpose cutoff voltage for charging, somewhere into the 14 volt region, and goes back to 13 volts on standby driving/idling. The battery is never discharged during driving, just not topped off all the way, to allow oscillating for energy recovery. The system has several safety checks and thresholds that make sure you never go below 50 percent battery charge and to make sure starting and stand by performance are not affected. The current you can crank out of the 50 percent AGM cell is comparable to a fully charged wet acid battery and chosen so that people don't notice a difference in operation. Its entirely possible BMW went cheapskate on the US market or over complied with some wacky state law, but within Europe, these systems have been used for 10 years without any complaints I would say, and I'm the first one to complain about these systems if they even foreshadow increased maintenance or reliability concerns.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm surprised they haven't tried to sell these in Australia, a country that basically fell in love with the El Camino to the point where there's at least two major competing variants. Not any more, Ford and Holden (GM) have both stopped making cars here and therefore stopped making utes altogether. Which is thread-correct material as far as I'm concerned. Everyone's buying Toyota and Mazda utes now, which are solid vehicles, but the Ford and Holden ones were basically two-door sports cars you could load your weekend recreational equipment into the back of, regardless of how big it was.
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Lord Ludikrous posted:Never understood why BMW never made M touring cars given the apparent popularity of Audi’s RS Avant models. The M5 E34 was available as touring, the M5 E60 as wekk, and IIRC I red somewhere that the current M5 will also get a touring. The M3 e: fixed M3 code tuo fucked around with this message at 09:01 on Feb 4, 2019 |
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Irony: in the US, Ford is shifting their focus (lol) over to only F-series trucks, the Mustang, and SUVs. Plus commercial stuff. No actual passenger cars after this model year. Focus? Already gone (still some 2018s on dealer lots). Fiesta, Fusion, and Taurus are gone after this year model. But they sure as gently caress have plenty of SUVs, trucks, and vans. I'm kinda surprised to see the Fiesta for a 2019 model year, the initial announcement was that the Fiesta would be the first model to leave, IIRC.
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FBS posted:what the heck is this and what is it doing in North Texas? Looks like a late production Leyland Atlantean that somebodys mucked about with. some sort of camper? Although it looks like the engine ahs been ripped off the back
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm surprised they haven't tried to sell these in Australia, a country that basically fell in love with the El Camino to the point where there's at least two major competing variants. Hey arsehole we created the ute  
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Sagebrush posted:gonna say it's pills my first guess was "indecent liberties with a minor, fifteen years minimum."
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um excuse me posted:Oh sorry, we had a back up car for the shoot and now it's up for sale. Yeah, not so much. Lots of people like cars they have no practical use for, or couldn't afford to buy spur of the moment if a chance came up. That new gladiator definitely belongs here though. Holy gently caress what an ugly pos.
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Memento posted:Not any more, Ford and Holden (GM) have both stopped making cars here and therefore stopped making utes altogether. Which is thread-correct material as far as I'm concerned. There isn’t a big enough sad face for this.
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MrYenko posted:There isn’t a big enough sad face for this. On a global scale, I sort of get it, but I don't. Mostly know that corps worry about the next quarter and not years ahead (which will obviously be a normal event known as a recession.)
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DJ Commie posted:I'm pretty sure my HR-V weakens the alternator field to drop the mechanical load on the engine. I haven't plugged in the OBD-II reader to see, though. They most certainly do this in the Civics so I would be surprised if they don't do the same in your HR-V. In the Civics it flogs the battery and alternator so it is common to disable this function within a reflash.
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Okay okay I might have been too harsh on that BMW pickup. I think my judgement came from having uncool stereotypes about who this would be marketed to when sold to the mass market. To elaborate, I the car itself is cool albeit not super easy on my personal eyes. However, what I was struggling to see is how that car would do when introduced to the public. It's a pickup, so people will want to use it to haul poo poo and have it get beaten up on construction sites and such. On the other hand, it's also a shiny luxury BMW and people will freak out if the coat or the rims get a scratch or the interior gets dirty. So when I was imagining who would line up for these I was getting very judgy images in my head. I know it's not cool to be judgy.
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Slim Pickens posted:
Dude. DUDE. Nothing you can do is going to butch that car up, short of the one with the electric Gatling on top. And even that's not the car that's manly - it's just providing wheels for the ridiculous gun. Jr. posted:teaboo  Liquid Communism posted:Yeah, not so much. Lots of people like cars they have no practical use for, or couldn't afford to buy spur of the moment if a chance came up. After that commercial where they crushed an honest to God Gladiator, FCA-Jeep can go gently caress themselves. As someone noted in comments on Jalopnik: "how about if someone made a commercial about a pet adoption agency where we killed the old dog, but it's OK because here's a new puppy?"
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Code Jockey posted:Everett? Close, it's SeaTac/tukwila
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Darchangel posted:Dude. DUDE. Nothing you can do is going to butch that car up, short of the one with the electric Gatling on top. And even that's not the car that's manly - it's just providing wheels for the ridiculous gun. That ad's going over like a fart in church with the people they want to sell to, too. 1.6m views, 1.8k likes. Looking at their site, the fucker only comes in 4-door as well, who the hell is their target audience? People who don't think their wrangler is long enough? At least it comes in manual. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Feb 5, 2019 |
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Lord Stimperor posted:Okay okay I might have been too harsh on that BMW pickup. I think my judgement came from having uncool stereotypes about who this would be marketed to when sold to the mass market. Yeah right like there’s really people who wouldn’t buy a fancy truck that never sees use? Liquid Communism posted:That ad's going over like a fart in church with the people they want to sell to, too. 1.6m views, 1.8k likes. See above. All trucks need to be four doors and be able to haul people around and pets and golf clubs in the back seat. The bed is for looks.
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Liquid Communism posted:That ad's going over like a fart in church with the people they want to sell to, too. 1.6m views, 1.8k likes. trucks are where the full size sedan market went
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