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Rhyno posted:No, get rid of it and drive a goddamn Skyline. Is there really any other answer?
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Rhyno posted:No, get rid of it and drive a goddamn Skyline. Well I was actually thinking that too, I have a mint Celsior V8 if I need a normal car and two Skylines (I just sold the third I had). I think I’m going to have them come pick up the Hyundai and give me a check of it all works out.
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Feb 16, 2020 02:58
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Do it! For science! Or DD a firetruck.
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Rhyno posted:Do it! For science! Well if carvana follows through I think I will. The fire truck I sold on BAT (that I still have but it’s been paid for) would have made a great DD, gas, 2wd and 5 speed. 4 doors and very nice to drive plenty of power.
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meatpimp posted:What's the easiest way to set up a camera to record the installation of my kitchen this week? I want a record of the conversations of expectations and the procedures they use. I bet everything will be fine, but I want some backup, just in case...
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The weird thing is that inside the shipping box, then inside the real box (all sealed) there is not a single Certificate of Authenticity or numbering. The only way to know is from the freight box. Guess it's gonna be worth a bit in time then.
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everdave posted:I clicked on the carvana sell your car Ad on FB and jumped through the hoops and they are offering me 12.6 for my 18 Hyundai I paid 14 + taxes and reg on 26 mo the ago (sticker price was 23k). I’m kind of thinking just have them come pick it up? I have a literal fleet of RHD imports to choose from and they are offering 40k$ Tacoma 4x4 $200/mo leases as well... If you have automotive ADHD like I do, it sounds good. A lease is about the only good deal to be had on a tacoma.
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everdave posted:I clicked on the carvana sell your car Ad on FB and jumped through the hoops and they are offering me 12.6 for my 18 Hyundai I paid 14 + taxes and reg on 26 mo the ago (sticker price was 23k). I’m kind of thinking just have them come pick it up? I have a literal fleet of RHD imports to choose from and they are offering 40k$ Tacoma 4x4 $200/mo leases as well... See what Carmax will offer as well. When we sold the Tacoma carmax offered a couple hundred more then on top of that gave use another $500 if we put that towards buying something from them.
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Status update: stuck on a plane because they can’t figure out how to get the air stairs working. I got up at 3:50am
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NitroSpazzz posted:See what Carmax will offer as well. When we sold the Tacoma carmax offered a couple hundred more then on top of that gave use another $500 if we put that towards buying something from them. Does carmax pick up? Closest one is Nashville. I’ll check out the website have a sick kid won’t be going anywhere today.
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CarMax doesn't to my knowledge, that's the thing Carvana has going for it. We sold my mom's Soul to them for more than I was asking on Craigslist, they're picking it up on Tuesday.
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everdave posted:Does carmax pick up? Closest one is Nashville. I’ll check out the website have a sick kid won’t be going anywhere today. They do not as far as I know, you'd have to bring it to them and let them go over it to get an offer. Probably not worth it in your case having to drive two cars to Nashville. Carvana that poo poo and daily one of your cool imports.
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Yeah car max doesn’t, like I said I have a sick kid so I pulled the Hyundai up in the yard and took the Thule racks off. If carvana gets back to me and confirms just going to have them come get it.
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Goober Peas posted:Someone in another thread got me hooked on flight simulator videos. Thank you, that was indeed entertaining. I and my wife laughed out asses off. The deadpan delivery is what makes it, I think.
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Darchangel posted:Thank you, that was indeed entertaining. I and my wife laughed out asses off. The deadpan delivery is what makes it, I think. I also recommend the 'Funniest of 2019' and the one where multiple planes are taking off with their cockpit doors open.
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fridge corn posted:Bernie or bust You may be surprised to hear this from me, but same AF
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Holy poo poo General Motors has killed off Holden https://www.caradvice.com.au/827459...mp2d3xPjFJR5Owc
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You Am I posted:Holy poo poo General Motors has killed off Holden Getting out of RHD totally too. gently caress you GM, first you take away our V8 sedans, the least you could have done is sell us some Corvettes or even some goddamn real SUV’s.
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BuckyDoneGun posted:Getting out of RHD totally too. gently caress you GM, first you take away our V8 sedans, the least you could have done is sell us some Corvettes or even some goddamn real SUV’s. According to that article they're probably going to import some Tahoes and Suburbans. What other actual SUVs does GM make these days? Also apparently the C8 is showing up already set up for RHD instead of making the HSV team swap it over. It's definitely a big move but not all that surprising. Seemed only a matter of time once they killed the real Commodore.
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Literally leaving the entire Asian market so not just Holden. What the ever living gently caress are GM thinking??????
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Literally leaving the entire Asian market so not just Holden. What the ever living gently caress are GM thinking?????? An admission that they've never had anything competitive for the Japanese?
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Wonder what the cops will drive then. They've used Holdens here in NZ as long as I can remember
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IOwnCalculus posted:An admission that they've never had anything competitive for the Japanese? And yet early this century GM had its mitts around Daewoo and invested in other Asian manufacturers with the size and wallet to expand even further. gently caress the poo poo about Tesla going out of business... GM will go bust first at this rate
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Literally leaving the entire Asian market so not just Holden. What the ever living gently caress are GM thinking?????? GM have completely mishandled the shutting down of Holden's Australian production and its aftermath. Nissan shut down local production in 1992, but still get reasonable sales in Australia with pretty average products. Ford still does well in Australia with the Mustang, Courier ute and Transit van (while no one buys the Focus and the Mondeo has the axe). GM let Holden sell the Cruze and Captiva well past their sale by dates and not giving them a good enough cars to replace it until the last moment when the VF Commodore was about to die, since they gambled (and lost) on Opel being a brand in Australia. GM selling off their European arm to Peugeot in 2017 surely meant that people could see the writing was on the wall for Holden, since the GM Korean stuff outside of the Astra sedan had dried up. Why would you buy a Holden SUV these days over the Japanese or Korean offerings? The fact that Holden's 2019 sales were the lowest since they first started producing cars in 1948 just screams what a complete gently caress up GM has been.
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Not completely surprising, once they retired the Commodore they've only been selling junk cars. I was a bit surprised that the Opel Commodores didn't sell but really all of their SUV's are just low cost rebadges of the GM ones and for most of them there's better to be had for less money.
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Goober Peas posted:Someone in another thread got me hooked on flight simulator videos. Dumb question, but I take it from the first part of this video that there are multi-player flight sims and some guy just volunteers / is appointed air traffic control, then sits there and does that job as randos fly in and out?
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IOwnCalculus posted:According to that article they're probably going to import some Tahoes and Suburbans. What other actual SUVs does GM make these days? Also apparently the C8 is showing up already set up for RHD instead of making the HSV team swap it over. I’ll believe it when they’re actually on sale. But I’ve always thought, as gigantic and out of place US models are on our roads, GM was leaving money on the table when you still have buyers who were buying $100k HSV’s, now left with the choice of a vastly overpriced Camaro, or a V6 Acadia, if you didn’t want a ZB Commodore. Why not at least try to sell them Tahoe’s and Suburbans or Escalades, or volume Camaro. Getting out of RHD seems dumb, when with modern design and manufacturing techniques, every other manufacturer does it happily, on both high and low volume cars, including.....Holden, for a while at least. BuckyDoneGun fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Feb 17, 2020 |
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BuckyDoneGun posted:I’ll believe it when they’re actually on sale. But I’ve always thought, as gigantic and out of place US models are on our roads, GM was leaving money on the table when you still have buyers who were buying $100k HSV’s, now left with the choice of a vastly overpriced Camaro, or a V6 Acadia, if you didn’t want a ZB Commodore. Why not at least try to sell them Tahoe’s and Suburbans or Escalades, or volume Camaro. Holden DID try to sell Suburbans here. It was one completely huge and hilarious failure. (Really doubt anyone who wants to pay 100K for a HSV is going to even think about the road turds GM otherwise sells apart from yeah okay maaaaaaybe the Camaro. But thats a big if) GM should have sold Holden alongside of their Euro setup to PSA. Maybe Holden wouldnt have had the crippling profit shifting BS that GM demanded and they might have made a profit. Like strangely enough Opel did in 2018 for the first time since 1999.... odd co-incidence that
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cut some hoops in the ve ss in memory of holden. e: CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Holden DID try to sell Suburbans here. It was one completely huge and hilarious failure. I dont know how much of a failure it was, i still see a fair few around. You see a lot towing horse floats etc. also should i get a hurst for the commodore? i think its already got a short shifter in it but its still fuckin terrible
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My neighbour works for Holden and is pretty much too old to retrain and not close enough to legit retirement. I'll have to take some beers over tomorrow and see if theres a way I can get him into my industry with a minimum of fuss.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Holden DID try to sell Suburbans here. It was one completely huge and hilarious failure. Yeah but that was a much worse product than today, an ancient platform, and you could still buy a Commodore then. I’m saying maybe you get to keep some of those former SS or HSV buyers. Not selling them anything is clearly a far worse proposition. Edit: I guess what I’m saying is they could have done something, ANYTHING to try and retain those customers, not just...nothing. Back on the RHD thing, someone pointed out to me that even Jeep can screw together RHD vehicles. JEEP! BuckyDoneGun fucked around with this message at 12:13 on Feb 17, 2020 |
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BuckyDoneGun posted:Back on the RHD thing, someone pointed out to me that even Jeep can screw together RHD vehicles. JEEP! One of my newspaper carriers had a RHD Cherokee. I didn't know until I went to orient him on the route, ended up completely redoing the delivery routing and sequencing to suit him (since nearly all our other carriers use standard LHD for delivery).
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:And yet early this century GM had its mitts around Daewoo and invested in other Asian manufacturers with the size and wallet to expand even further. GM bought one of the worst automakers in the world and thought they could compete with the rest of the world, while doing nothing to actually improve the product or build quality BuckyDoneGun posted:Getting out of RHD seems dumb, when with modern design and manufacturing techniques, every other manufacturer does it happily, on both high and low volume cars, including.....Holden, for a while at least. I mean, GM never figured out how to go the other direction either. Every time they rebadged a Holden for the US was a flop. CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Holden DID try to sell Suburbans here. It was one completely huge and hilarious failure. I don't see how they'd ever be competitive except for people who specifically want the longest three row SUV possible. I'd wager a Land Cruiser ends up far more competitively priced there verses here and that seems like a much more compelling sale. Beach Bum posted:One of my newspaper carriers had a RHD Cherokee. I didn't know until I went to orient him on the route, ended up completely redoing the delivery routing and sequencing to suit him (since nearly all our other carriers use standard LHD for delivery). I would legit expect that the existence of the DJ5 is still the biggest reason RHD Jeeps continue to exist, along with needing relatively few bespoke parts thanks to the solid front axle.
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IOwnCalculus posted:GM bought one of the worst automakers in the world and thought they could compete with the rest of the world, while doing nothing to actually improve the product or build quality Daewoo build quality and warranty claims are probably superior to what they were seeing in small cars before.
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Man, I love Brad from Bon Appetit  Was a tad hungover yesterday morning and I've been loving everything on their YouTube channerl, so I threw that on and the second or third video in the playlist was him making a fried bologna sammich with a chopped dill pickle/mustard/mayo sauce on toasted rye with some iceberg. That sounded like a perfect hangover snack, so I went down the street and got some bologna from the deli and fried that poo poo up. It was so good I made another for dinner.
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Tremek posted:Everything is expensive down under, what is this competitive pricing you speak of Yeah, but that's in Dollary-Doos. In real money, that's a very reasonable and competitive $89,263.40 
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