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I would argue the SUV trend was more instrumental as their higher seating positions and rooflines make it more difficult to see obstacles near them.
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Infinotize posted:Anyone who lives in a place where parallel parking is normal loves dippy mirrors and every car should have them. I know everyone in AI is a pro that drifts their car perfectly into a parallel spot, but lol you can't see your wheel/curb through any car and if you have to parallel enough times and especially if you have low profile tires with rims that stick out past your tire, it's only a matter of time before you curb the poo poo out of your wheels. Yeah, my E46 coupe had perfectly good visibility and I still found the reverse mirror like a million times more useful than any back-up cam I've ever used. It drives me crazy that it's not a standard feature on every car.
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Those rims are awful and likely contributed to his flat tire but thats it.
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Goober Peas posted:I would argue the SUV trend was more instrumental as their higher seating positions and rooflines make it more difficult to see obstacles near them. What I consider impressive is the backup camera in my wife's Acadia, it does not need a touch screen radio at all. Instead it uses a small monitor built into the rear view mirror and when that monitor is not the mirror functions just perfectly like a regular rear view mirror. I'm not sure how to describe it like a one way mirror effect or something but when the LCD is not on it goes right back to just being a regular mirror. I could see potential for implementing the same sort of camera into side view mirrors so that a downward pointing screen is turned on instead of using a complex Nissan style solution which requires the transmission to be replaced when the system fails. At the very least, I imagine it would be a lot faster to just turn a camera on instead of actually motoring the mirror down and it could save on wear on the mirror's motors. Also, that LONEWLF truck is awesome car stuff. I just love the look of 90's Chevy trucks, I think they are the best looking pickups (with the crappiest motors. . . I'm looking at you 6.5L Diesel). When I win the lottery, I fully intend to own a 1 ton C/K dually with a Duramax swapped into it.
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Paradoxish posted:Yeah, my E46 coupe had perfectly good visibility and I still found the reverse mirror like a million times more useful than any back-up cam I've ever used. It drives me crazy that it's not a standard feature on every car. They will be integrating side view mirror controls in every transmission from this day forward.
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wrong thread sir
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https://twitter.com/usaphilipusa/status/1109593336904474625
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That is one hundred percent in the wrong thread
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*checks math* TWO HUNDRED PERCENT!!! e: the awesome part about it is that it's CGI.
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Just the body panels and mirrors, right? I feel like I've seen th unedited version of this video, but I wouldn't know how to find it.
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She should probably take her starter crank with her though.
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Oh god someone post the other video where the steering wheel falls off at the end.
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Why does she just leave the starter crank? Does she not need to start the car again at her destination
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[quote="Throatwarbler" post="493662828"] Why does she just leave the starter crank? Does she not need to start the car again at her destination[quote] It probably cna't drive more than 30 feet anyways
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i think you just started some poo poo, friend.
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lol has anyone ever ripped those bumper things off and made the car look like a giger alien?
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Thief posted:lol has anyone ever ripped those bumper things off and made the car look like a giger alien? Yes, there are quite a few bumper delete kits. There are also hemi swap kits 
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Powershift posted:i think you just started some poo poo, friend. 
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Thief posted:lol has anyone ever ripped those bumper things off and made the car look like a giger alien? IIRC there were kits that would serve to fill up the gaps left by the bumper removal, but I’d be scared shitless of some idiot throwing a trailer hitch ball into the now super-exposed front end. The real travesty of the Prowler was Chrysler not getting the crazy old graybeards that worked on the K-car turbo-4’s and telling them “go out in a blaze of glory” with twin-turbos on the V-6. Also not slapping a manual transmission option in it. Edit: Powershift posted:Yes, there are quite a few bumper delete kits. Holy hell I had no idea they could jam Hemis into those. Aren’t Hemis ludicrously wide for V-8s? funeral home DJ fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Mar 25, 2019 |
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Question: what's more hated, the prowler, the last thunderbird or the ssr? I don't care much for the ford but I've never been able to bring myself to hate the other two as much as everyone else seems to.
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Ripoff posted:IIRC there were kits that would serve to fill up the gaps left by the bumper removal, but I’d be scared shitless of some idiot throwing a trailer hitch ball into the now super-exposed front end. Yeah, it takes some.....modification.  As Nero Danced posted:Question: what's more hated, the prowler, the last thunderbird or the ssr? I don't care much for the ford but I've never been able to bring myself to hate the other two as much as everyone else seems to. The last thunderbird is a completely forgotten boomermobile exactly as designed. The Prowler was "wow, cool, sports car!" and then a "minivan engine, pickup truck transmission" wet fart
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SSR has an absurd number of motors to move the hardtop, from a time when GM wasn't known for accessory reliability. It also weighs 5000lb or something. The Prowler has zero forward visibility for drivers over 5'6", which was distracting enough to keep me from remembering anything else about it.
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heffray posted:SSR has an absurd number of motors to move the hardtop, from a time when GM wasn't known for accessory reliability. It also weighs 5000lb or something. Tell me if you were a billionaire with a 500 car garage, there wouldn't be a prowler in there In reality, most of our automotive heros are god awful to drive and horribly impractical.
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As much as I enjoyed calling the last Thunderbird the "Thunderchicken" to get under the skin of a friend whose mother drove one and thought it was the pinnacle of automotive engineering, it really didn't try to do anything more than what it was - a big, heavy, boaty cruiser that wasn't particularly fast despite having a V8. Kind of like the original.
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I now want to see a Prowler vs a countach around a track, just to piss everybody off
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 it is me too. i like prowlers but only bumper deleted and built or swapped and in purple. i stand with you friend.
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Powershift posted:Yeah, but it looks so rad. If I were a billionaire, I'd just get an original t-bucket tho. Or a '34 Ford Hotrod more likely.
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I love the Prowler, and if its production version was ever as good as the Howler, we'd all remember it fondly
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Jonny Nox posted:If I were a billionaire, I'd just get an original t-bucket tho. I keep coming back to the same thought, if I hit the lottery I'd consider buying one but then probably change my mind and buy a Factory Five 33 roadster instead.
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always going to appreciate them for doing something different ...but in the way i appreciate that reverse trike thing that sounds like it belongs on a track whenever it skirts by downtown on a friday night like even if i won one in a raffle i'd just auction it immediately without even redlining it once
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can am? https://can-am.brp.com/on-road/?redirect=false
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That or the hideous abomination that is the Polaris Slingshot. That thing is the answer to the question of “what if we took an Ariel Atom, made it utterly poo poo and found a way to make it so you can’t avoid potholes?” Edit: Jesus they offer driver training on the Can-Am. Just sit down and steer the thing, it’s a drat car.
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Grown adults buying training wheel motorcycles because despite millions of people riding them daily, they cannot believe a motorcycle won't just fall over while you're riding it.
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