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64bit_Dophins posted:I drove an 07 matrix from stateboro to Atlanta last weekend and I actually love the shiftier placement. The mid 2000s civics had the shiftier on the dash like that as well. GF has a super base 05 (only option is floor mats). Yeah, I really dig the shifter placement when I drive it, but the clutch is so goddamned hard to modulate in it (at least coming from a GM that has a flywheel that weighs ~25 lbs - you can just sidestep the clutch on my car at idle, and it'll buck a bit and take off). I swear it feels like it has a lightened flywheel, but I think it's more the combination of the 1ZZ-FE and a somewhat heavier car than the Corolla it was meant for. That shifter position is really great because of the seating position - it feels like I'm sitting a lot higher and a bit more forward vs my own car. The lack of cruise control seriously sucks on road trips (and we usually take hers, since it has half the miles that my car has + shitload more reliable + more reliable), but it's basically just a matter of adding the switch and some wiring. But in the US, only the Si hatch got the dash shifter - the plebian 01-05 Civic had the shifter in the regular place. Slim Pickens posted:Are troops in the air force are doing the world a disservice by not ridiculing this guy until he removes this bullshit. Snapped this a couple of years ago... 
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Black88GTA posted:In 2002, Cadillac was putting cabin filters in the (then newly redesigned) Escalade. In 2003 (and at least up until the redesign in 2007), they not only stopped including them, but they also sealed up the airbox so you couldn't even put them in yourself. To save a couple pennies per unit. On a $55k+ truck that already had huge profit margins built into it. Nissan pulled this on the 2nd gen Altima. I went out and bought a new cabin filter, pulled the glove box, only to be greeted with nowhere to put the filter. Turns out it's an option on the mid level trim (GXE), and standard on the GLE and SE, at least for 99. Also, for GM cheapery, think about this - GM was offering ABS as standard equipment on more cars than anybody else in the 80s and 90s - even a base model cargo van that my stepdad custom ordered in 1988 (with an AM radio and no AC, in Texas - the radio was the only option he ordered it with), had ABS. They made it optional (and usually only on the top trim) on many of their cars in the late 90s/early 00s. IIRC, the article I read about it said they saved something like $5 per car.... plus the extra profit of safety-minded people having to spring for a top of the line or near top of the line model.
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I had a 2008 Yaris for a few years that had no ABS. How it wasn't a universal standard at that point is beyond me. Still loved the car though. It had no power anything, it was as poverty spec as a car could get and I liked the idea of having locks and windows with no electric bits to wear out.
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NoWake posted:2020 USDM cars are dead it's trucks trucks TRUCKS. Jason's still gonna use it as his commuter car 95% of the time so none of the details up top actually matter. It's just gotta be tall and have big ol tires and a tailgate and of course four doors because Caylynn's car seat is gonna go in the back and Jenny doesn't want to be seen driving a mom-bomb CUV. The only thing I disagree with in this post is your spelling of Caylynn. Its PROPERLY spelled "Kaye-Linne" Cause she's a special lil' girl.
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I have seen this in person a bunch of times, it was made by a sculptor and called the fat car, lives in MONA. Aussie dude did it as a riff on people getting Botox/plastic surgery thinking it makes them prettier when in fact it just fucks them up Edit: I’m pretty sure I made this exact post once before lol SquirrelGrip fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Mar 22, 2019 |
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I give you, my new neighbor:quote:Yes, it says LONEWLF
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Fuckin A, man. Fuckin A.
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Why would a LONEWLF need an extended crew cab?
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That Works posted:Why would a LONEWLF need an extended crew cab? To haul around all the women who throw themselves at him, obviously.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:appliance.jpg ART is there one for mid-size sdans?
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Olympic Mathlete posted:appliance.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_evolution
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Does his horn howl during a full moon?
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C-Bangin' it 
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Olympic Mathlete posted:appliance.jpg Reminds me of this 
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NoWake posted:Jason's still gonna use it as his commuter car 95%* of the time so none of the details up top actually matter. * - other 5% being driving on graded gravel/dirt roads or parking in a grass field.
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Powershift posted:Reminds me of this It does but thing is most of those cars are cool...
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Powershift posted:Reminds me of this Couple questions...is that a 944 turbo? 928 shouldn't belong. Amazes me how a Saleen Mustang ended up in there as well.
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That Works posted:Why would a LONEWLF need an extended crew cab? To keep his taticool gear and assault rifles before going on a killing spree like most terrorists.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Does his horn howl during a full moon? More likely plays the opening riff from sweet home Alabama.
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Dave Inc. posted:I give you, my new neighbor: Please, intercept his mail and toss any JC Whitney catalogs that show up.
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Please tell me he has truck nuts.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:It does but thing is most of those cars are cool... The non cool one being the MK3 escort
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wesleywillis posted:Please, intercept his mail and toss any JC Whitney catalogs that show up. For god sakes, a man needs reading material when sitting on the shitter. That is quite cruel.
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He could always read the back of the Lysol.
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Colostomy Bag posted:For god sakes, a man needs reading material when sitting on the shitter. That is quite cruel. Thats what the various Time life home improvement books are for, before you send them back for their full money back guarantee.
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wesleywillis posted:Thats what the various Time life home improvement books are for, before you send them back for their full money back guarantee. God dang, how old are you? I remember those commercials.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:appliance.jpg All cars have more or less copied each other since about 1910 or so. But now the internet lets you feel smug for noticing this!
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ExplodingSims posted:All cars have more or less copied each other since about 1910 or so.
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Cage posted:What kind of white suv do you drive '92 Jeep Cherokee. :v Square, as an SUV should be 
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I like the assumptions you guys are making about LONEWLF, because they are practically the opposite of who drives it and that's my favorite part. He's a middle-aged, well dressed black gentleman. I don't think he listens to Skynyrd nor owns tacticool gear. 
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I don't like the new Porsche Zellweger.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:appliance.jpg its a good writeup https://medium.com/swlh/the-zombie-mobile-b03932ac971d
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Dave Inc. posted:I give you, my new neighbor: I propose that your new neighbour has been posted in the wrong thread
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I can't link photos because phone, but random wikibrowsing has lead me to the knowledge that GAZ once built the Chrysler Sebring under license. Which must have been several kinds of poo poo.
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:I can't link photos because phone, but random wikibrowsing has lead me to the knowledge that GAZ once built the Chrysler Sebring under license. Yeah, called the Volga Siber Companies sell their old tooling all the time. BAW sold their Jeep XJ Cherokee up until 2014 as the BAW Qishi  I'll try to find it again, but china even bought old soviet tooling and built chinese versions of soviet shitboxes.
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Memento posted:I propose that your new neighbour has been posted in the wrong thread No, and purely because he has the wrong grille guard on there and it's like 6" too high. I think it must be made for their medium duty series that had the filler panel below the grille and above the bumper.
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Fender vents. Why in the *gently caress* did fender vents have to creep onto a Jeep? Dave Inc. posted:I give you, my new neighbor: Does LONEWLF know that his brush guard is mounted about 4" too high? I know, I know, but among the sins, that's the one that jumped out at me. e: f, b! Finger Prince posted:More likely plays the opening riff from sweet home Alabama. Turn it up, now.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Couple questions...is that a 944 turbo? 928 shouldn't belong. Amazes me how a Saleen Mustang ended up in there as well. 80s_design.jpg you could probably do pretty much the same thing with any decade, although the current gen would just be one giant grille.
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Dave Inc. posted:I give you, my new neighbor: I honestly can't hate this too much. In 1989 or 1990, that'd be a fuckin bitchin truck, and would be decked out with Alpine and Rockford Fosgate equipment. And aside from the headlights and cow catcher, it really does look like a time capsule. The same companies that pumped out millions of conversion vans tried their hands at pickups in the 80s and 90s, and this easily passes as one. (yes I know this truck is probably a bit newer, but that body style was introduced for the 1988 model year, and ran until the end of the 2000 model year) Put a regular license plate on it, yank off the cow catcher (or whatever the gently caress you call those things), throw stock headlights on, and drop $5-10k (in the 90s, anyway... so like $1500 today  - bonus points if you find some massive oldschool Precision Power or Soundstream amp that's like 5 feet long and needs welding cable to power it) worth of sound equipment in it, and it'd be loving perfect for 1992.
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Dave Inc. posted:I give you, my new neighbor: This guy should be on an FBI watch list. You just know he's gonna snap.
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