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Huge_Midget posted:Bro why haven’t you had your tuner enable automatic launch control? It’s the best feeling ever dusting people that think they can hang with a Focus. I just have an off the shelf tune from Adamtuned and honestly, that's fine for me.
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KillHour posted:I just have an off the shelf tune from Adamtuned and honestly, that's fine for me. I use Adam as well, the custom tune is amazing and if you wait until Black Friday they go on sale.
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BloodBag posted:I was looking at the Hyundai Kona... More mechanical details of the Kona than anyone asked for. From underrated youtuber speedkar99 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRe24FpAP5Y
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Anybody know who this MotoManTV guy is on Youtube? He seems to have way more real wealth than garden-variety rich youtubers, talks like somebody with a formal engineering background, and from various comments made in passing, probably some executive-level guy in something at least tangential to the automotive and/or aerospace world. Stuff like posting videos of him and Bob Lutz bullshitting over cigars and mentioning in passing being buddies for a decade. Some samples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJYUHNGJ4vY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3weEmInfvQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11ckl1e3Il4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpcyqSJWj_I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuADw4X5gx0 EnergizerFellow fucked around with this message at 09:56 on Aug 1, 2020 |
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smooth jazz posted:More mechanical details of the Kona than anyone asked for. Hey! I remember this guy, always using a manky toothbrush to point at things and has an accent like half the dudes I work with. His EJ25 teardown was good poo poo.
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On the 'new car you like' front I had a chance to drive a 2020 Civic Sport Hatchback with the manual and if anyone is looking for a fun to drive and reasonably priced/practical car that's a good way to go. It's not a fire breather by any means but it pulls well and is very good in corners. The nearest competitor seems to be the Mazda3 which is around $5k more expensive if you want the manual. The Mazda has a much nicer and more modern interior but I imagine if you're into manual hatchbacks that's not a priority. I saw a video on YouTube that convinced me whatever issues the 1.5 had with oil dilution have been resolved.
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EnergizerFellow posted:Anybody know who this MotoManTV guy is on Youtube? He seems to have way more real wealth than garden-variety rich youtubers, talks like somebody with a formal engineering background, and from various comments made in passing, probably some executive-level guy in something at least tangential to the automotive and/or aerospace world. I've been enjoying all of his recent classic car reviews. His channel also has some in-depth interviews with well known folks in the industry (Lutz, Albert Biermann, Dave Coleman, etc.).
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Rumour is the CX-5 replacement will apparently be called CX-50 (no surprise) and will be on a FR platform (surprised).
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smooth jazz posted:Rumour is the CX-5 replacement will apparently be called CX-50 (no surprise) and will be on a FR platform (surprised). Probably moving all SUVs to two numbers at this point since the cx-4 in China messed up their naming scheme. FR is a pleasant surprise.
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smooth jazz posted:Rumour is the CX-5 replacement will apparently be called CX-50 (no surprise) and will be on a FR platform (surprised). More number means better car!
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Super Soaker Party! posted:The speeding up to a red light thing is the most ridiculous to me. I see it all the loving time - multilane road, stoplight turns red, I'm let's say 100 yards away, traveling at a reasonable speed, and I'll let off the gas - it's not like I'm insta-braking, just recognizing there's no point to continuing to apply power, and inevitably someone zooms around me angrily and pours on the gas. And then brakes immediately. Are they seriously so dumb and incapable of planning that they can't look a few hundred yards--- last weekend some guy honked and flipped me off for coasting on the freeway ramp to the red light
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  I hope that camo is just doing a really good job of hiding those rear flares...
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They’re gonna be gently caress ugly.
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I like how there's some sane looking kidney grilles in the background of the first and then the second is Beaver Teeth Stage 1
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And that's not with american plates on them.
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I like how the ACC sensor takes up a quarter of the grill.
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My first thought is that they're so ugly that they're going to sell like poo poo. My second thought is that since I don't like any of today's best selling vehicles, I'm probably the one that's wrong and they're going to sell like hotcakes.
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It’s a BMW with a M badge. They won’t have any problem selling them.
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I don't care how it looks. It's a 500HP AWD M coupe and I can't afford an 8. It's at the top of my list. Other stuff I'd consider (F-Type R, GT4) are 20k more expensive.
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why do you have to buy a new car
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Looks like rear end...coming and going
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:why do you have to buy a new car because we live in a consumer society
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:why do you have to buy a new car Not falling for it. Nice try though.
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But your gang tag says I want nothing 
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Applebees Appetizer posted:But your gang tag says I want nothing Correct. I'm a soulless husk, damned to purchase ever more expensive and unreliable vehicles, void of satisfaction or catharsis until I finally taste the sweet release of death. I truly want to obtain the Great and Permanent Nothing that will free me from this curse.
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Video of a Bronco on the Silver Lake sand dunes: https://autos.yahoo.com/watch-2021-ford-bronco-traverse-232600340.html
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if it's this vid it's like the most boring vid ever https://www.instagram.com/p/CDWt2TQlRVP
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ooo this one is a bit better tho https://www.instagram.com/p/CDZKQqxFWFC/
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KillHour posted:Correct. I'm a soulless husk, damned to purchase ever more expensive and unreliable vehicles, void of satisfaction or catharsis until I finally taste the sweet release of death. I truly want to obtain the Great and Permanent Nothing that will free me from this curse. See, me too, but I think I'm going to get an expensive air cooled car from the 80s instead of an expensive new car because I'm less likely to get dragged out to get guillotined. I think.
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I'm definitely having a hard time reconciling my two main hobbies and job to my desire to not have the world turn in to a blighted post apocalyptic hellscape since like, all three actively contribute to that. So far I've been ignoring the contradictions.
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This youtube channel is gold: "Build Quality Test", some guy sitting in various cars pressing the interior bits exposing how trash some of these cars are. Mercedes, BMW are consistently awful. Lexus, Audi and Honda not bad. Fair point- all interior hard plastics will creak when you press up on them, even in a Rolls Royce Drophead, but man Karen's new 40k C-class is utter crap in this regard. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCao8Sj4RBZScLJELWkpA-Hg/videos
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I guess the question is, what's the point in fiddling around with all the non-touch surfaces? Also, you can't make everything fit super tight because of thermal expansion and contraction.
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A good car would have temperature controlled interior panels and buttons to eliminate thermal expansion problems
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i mean i am a big materials toucher but i would much rather have the relatively few surfaces i touch occasionally be very high quality and the rest of the materials be lower quality
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bull3964 posted:I guess the question is, what's the point in fiddling around with all the non-touch surfaces? You make a good point I never really considered. Car interiors can be subjected from what -50 degrees to over 130? I know the interior of my car when I lived in Phoenix could reach 160 degrees or more in the summer. I would say though the quality of some of the interior plastics leaves a ton to be desired. The interior of the new Ford Explorer for instance was a turn off. We've owned 3 Explorers so far, and my wife and I don't like the new one as much. The interior for a 58K ST trim model is a joke.
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I really want to see how those interiors hold up after 200,000 miles and 20 years in alternatively extreme temperatures. I don't give two shits about how much a panel creaks when I push on it. (full disclosure, my daily is a Dodge Challenger)
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bull3964 posted:I guess the question is, what's the point in fiddling around with all the non-touch surfaces? It's just another thing that sucks about modern cars IMO, but some manufacturers are better than others at interiors. I mean, come on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swplZPJT2A0 It takes a certain level of OCD, but poo poo I'd be livid if my 80k E class panzer did this.
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skipdogg posted:You make a good point I never really considered. Car interiors can be subjected from what -50 degrees to over 130? I know the interior of my car when I lived in Phoenix could reach 160 degrees or more in the summer. I’m a ford guy but the interior on the new explorer was really disappointing. The faux wood looked ok but it had wonky gaps and angles and fit like poo poo in the soft plastic.
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My truck is made with Rubbermaid and that's how it should be
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bull3964 posted:I guess the question is, what's the point in fiddling around with all the non-touch surfaces?
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