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Darchangel posted:And I didn't really like them when they came out. To be fair, I didn't like the '88s when they came out, either. Now they feel kinda classic. GMT400s break my brain a bit in this regard. I learned to drive in a '97 that we bought new so part of my brain still treats them as a "new" car, in spite of their obvious age. But then I see a photo of the late GMT400 gauge cluster with the analog odometers (or even moreso, any aspect of the early GMT400 interior) and my brain goes "old truck". They look best when you've slammed them to the ground and are as long as possible (Suburban, longbed truck).
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Guinness posted:Tell that to every arsehole that leaves their ball hitch in their hitch receiver 365 days a year I just finished towing a trailer and got back late at night so my ball hitch is still in, went out to the car at night and came so close to just absolutely loving up my shin
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Guinness posted:Tell that to every arsehole that leaves their ball hitch in their hitch receiver 365 days a year I apologise in advance for anyone's shins but I tow every day and I'd never remember to take it out when I go to the grocery. Agree about the 04 generation Silverados, I like that style even better than my 00. Such a great looking front end. After that they just get progressively worse looking with the squinty headlights and gigantic grille.
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Going through old photos I found this thing: Apparently somebody wrote a quick article on it, too: https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a4352/car-culture-isuzu-axiom-limo/ quote:This is one carriage that has seen better days. The bodyshop guys are as puzzled as the rest of us about why an Axiom limousine needed to be created, but The article is dated April 2013 and the photo I took is from a year later so somebody had it fixed and put it back on the road. I saw it at a gas station a couple months later and did not stay around to figure how they maneuvered it out of there.
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Sagebrush posted:That's illegal too, right? You can't have things that project past the rear bumper unless they're flagged? *if* over 12" or so, yes.
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Guinness posted:Tell that to every arsehole that leaves their ball hitch in their hitch receiver 365 days a year Are you saying you have a problem with nutz?
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MomJeans420 posted:I just finished towing a trailer and got back late at night so my ball hitch is still in, went out to the car at night and came so close to just absolutely loving up my shin Ugh, I did that so many times on my XJ when I would be too lazy to take it out. Paid for it, that's for sure.
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I like the opposite as well. I saw a beautiful 4x4 step side with lake pipes on it that was in near perfect shape and it was beautiful. Of course the body lines on the cab were a little lower than the bed, sagging with age. My eye is now drawn to it on everything over two decades old.
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StormDrain posted:I like the opposite as well. I saw a beautiful 4x4 step side with lake pipes on it that was in near perfect shape and it was beautiful. Of course the body lines on the cab were a little lower than the bed, sagging with age. My eye is now drawn to it on everything over two decades old. It's weird but I think if I was going to lift a GMT400, I'd want it to be one of the short ones - two-door Blazer/Tahoe, RCSB truck. Of course, RCSBs look good no matter what you do to them. I swear the bed/cab alignment is like the FedEx arrow. You can go literal decades without noticing it but once you see it, you don't know how the gently caress you or anyone else missed it at any point.
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IOwnCalculus posted:
Or the doe inside the Browning logo.
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wesleywillis posted:Or the doe inside the Browning logo. Whoa whoa whoa, where's the doe? There's the obvious buck... but I've never seen a doe.  edit: the way they wrote BrowninG makes it look like a penis.
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Pham Nuwen posted:Whoa whoa whoa, where's the doe? There's the obvious buck... but I've never seen a doe. edit: \/\/\/ yeah, it's kind of a reach. edit 2: https://www.browning.com/news/articles/celebrating-the-browning-buckmark-logo.html "I consider it a happy accident" - the designer after another employee pointed it out Krakkles fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Dec 18, 2020 |
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It could be argued that the inside line ("white" area) of the logo graphic also makes a deer head, but with just an ear sticking up and no antlers. It's nowhere near as clear as the FedEx arrow.
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Whoever designed this is an idiot who has only ever been told about how to control an audio system but never actually interacted with one. https://twitter.com/stevenewing/status/1339972174031941634?s=20
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Am I weird for never ever wanting to browse media sources in my car? Every time I drive someone else's car, I can't remember which unlabeled button is volume and end up switching to AM and then trying to figure out which unlabeled button switches it back and I still don't know how to make it louder. Bonus points if it's my sister's Chrysler and the buttons are on the back of the wheel and you don't even know they're there.
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Somehow I missed this until today. The '20 Audi S6 Avant:  Oo, nice sporty quad exhaust! Nope:  ..and that's the only exhaust. There's nothing on the other side at all. Also, it's only available in a 3.0L diesel. The *S*6, only comes with a diesel. https://www.carthrottle.com/post/say-hello-to-my-new-audi-s6-yes-the-one-with-the-fake-exhaust-tips/ and yeah, it's got a fake noise system to make it sound like a petrol V8 inside the car. Just because I hate it so much, I'm going to post the '21 4-series and its ridiculous grilles again:  edit: https://www.carthrottle.com/post/7-fake-exhaust-pipes-that-make-expensive-cars-look-cheap/ Related: the fake exhausts are a thing that needs to stop. I don't mind so much the "floating" exhaust openings if there's an actual exhaust there, but mutliplying or completely faking poo poo, particularly on a supposedly premium vehicle, where actually engineering the exhaust can be afforded, is just terrible. The very definition of disingenuous. Is it really beyond the reach of modern carmakers to make the exhaust come out where they want for appearances' sake, and stay there? That poo poo up there is a step up beyond the second tailpipe I spotted on a Toyota Camry that was just a pipe welded to the back of the muffler. At night, my headlights shone straight up that pipe to show that it dead-ended at the muffler. That was factory. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Dec 19, 2020 |
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One more, I'm on a roll. Oh, look, a pair of '58 Corvettes!  Wait...  that doesn't look quite...  Jesu Christus! Yeah, it's a Chinese copycat. https://www.corvetteblogger.com/2020/09/29/tribute-or-copycat-the-songsan-ss-dolphin-makes-its-debut-at-the-beijing-motor-show/ https://www.facebook.com/carnewschina/posts/3654224961276839 edit: though I actually like those wheels. Kind of a neat combo of old-school Centerlines with the rivets, and baby moons. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Dec 19, 2020 |
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Darchangel posted:Somehow I missed this until today. I'd swear I've seen some late model bmw products with the fake exhaust bullshit.
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My favourites are the Mercedes where there's some chrome in the place of exhausts but it isn't even exhaust shaped, so it's just a suggestion that could possibly maybe have been an exhaust a long time ago before the car evolved to not need them. They're still there though to break up the expanse of nothing on the back end because apparently the human mind cannot comprehend car design or vroom vroom noises without them.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:My favourites are the Mercedes where there's some chrome in the place of exhausts but it isn't even exhaust shaped, so it's just a suggestion that could possibly maybe have been an exhaust a long time ago before the car evolved to not need them. Like those little plastic vertical-ribbed diapers that get glued into the rear bumpers to suggest a “diffuser”, even on things like Jeeps and SUVs “What’s this weird shape you see on expensive sports car rear ends? I dunno, just mold one into the plastic”
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Darchangel posted:Somehow I missed this until today. Haha I just noticed one of those Camry exhausts on the way in to work the other day. Cars have had plain bumpers with hidden, down-pointing exhausts for decades and its been fine, though they tend to be plebian economy models. One wouldn't want one's Audi to be associated with such riff-raff. I'm not 100% on this, but I'm pretty sure the real exhaust on that Audi is because of diesel particulate emissions. Something about firing that poo poo directly onto the road surface leads to people dying of less cancer or something.
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Also so the bumper doesnt get sooty or heat warped from the DPF regen cycle.
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Phone posting so I had to zoom in to check if low-profile tires had been taken to a new extreme. Looked like the rim was just coated in rubber at first.
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david_a posted:Phone posting so I had to zoom in to check if low-profile tires had been taken to a new extreme. Looked like the rim was just coated in rubber at first. 'round these here parts we refer to the ultra-mega low profile tires as rubber bands
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Thanks. I hate it.
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https://twitter.com/therealautoblog/status/1340461917312339970
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The future? Looks very 2002 to me.
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It’s worth clicking through to the article because it gets better quote:[...] the operator “sits” in the car in a prone position, laying on their stomach with their limbs in an X position.
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Car Boys meets Monster Factory
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Uthor posted:The future? Looks very 2002 to me. I Robot was a terrible movie
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Rhyno posted:I Robot was a terrible movie The lovely future Lexus is from Minority Report, it was a lovely future Audi in I, Robot. 
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I'd drive the lovely future Lexus but not the lovely future Audi. And definitely not the lovely future Nissan. Hell I wouldn't drive a regular present Nissan
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 How could there possibly be so many S-10s still on the roads? Didn't they stop making them during the Clinton administration?
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Its not the S-10 thats getting the DUI
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Ror posted:The lovely future Lexus is from Minority Report, it was a lovely future Audi in I, Robot. Audi had a way better future styling roadmap ahead of them 20 years ago than they do now
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Well TBH I think the GTR will look like this in 2050  Because Nissan hasnt changed that GTR's styling since 2007 so why not past 2050?
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MRC48B posted:Its not the S-10 thats getting the DUI I wonder maw many vehicles were in DUI's with different owners. Like A Dog's Purpose, but for impounded 2500s
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