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Applebees Appetizer posted:Now that you mention it they all look the same too, I will not stand for this communism! To throw in some Darwinism, I think that people expect markets to look like ecological niche partitioning, where there's wild variations in form to avoid direct competition, but all of the companies want direct competition, so the products end up largely homogeneous because they're all trying to occupy the same niche at the same time
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:Self described communists having a patreon is never not hilarious. lmao rub those two braincells together again and try once more
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Crankit posted:Why isn't fish allowed, what the actual gently caress I was behind a FISH plate today. So I know it's allowed in Massachusetts if it makes you feel any better that at least someplace gets to have it.
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May 18, 2021 22:59
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May 18, 2021 23:27
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Well the driver was contracted to drop off the car there, not sure what the problem is
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May 18, 2021 23:29
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Oh hey you found the guy who dropped off my old pontiac at 11pm a few weeks back.
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May 18, 2021 23:43
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This gets posted every time and I'm like I'd rather drive any of these over those CUVs.
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May 19, 2021 00:02
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Olympic Mathlete posted:This gets posted every time and I'm like I'd rather drive any of these over those CUVs. I always had a soft spot for Escort GTs. Both the 80s and 90s body style. Before they went to the jellybean body. Also the Fox Body.
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May 19, 2021 00:56
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Olympic Mathlete posted:This gets posted every time and I'm like I'd rather drive any of these over those CUVs. There's a couple of cars on it I'd be wary of driving daily, but only because I don't know them that well due to lack of exposure.
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May 19, 2021 01:07
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AmbassadorofSodomy posted:I always had a soft spot for Escort GTs. Both the 80s and 90s body style. Before they went to the jellybean body. The BG chassis Escort GTs were the best econobox hot hatches ever made imo. Couldn't beat it for the price.
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May 19, 2021 01:10
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Olympic Mathlete posted:This gets posted every time and I'm like I'd rather drive any of these over those CUVs. You're not wrong, and you're missing the point. It's not that all cars look the same, it's that even the cars you like all look the same.
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May 19, 2021 02:10
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May 19, 2021 03:31
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Isn't that basically what Waze does?
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May 19, 2021 03:40
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Uthor posted:Isn't that basically what Waze does? Waze only does it when you're stopped. This doesn't sound like that.
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May 19, 2021 03:48
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God damnit, why didn't any of us think of and patent this kind of poo poo, then either refuse to license it at all or do so at a crazy high price and use the money for a good cause? If this is basically patenting the idea of having a car advertise to you based on qr codes or cuecat barcodes on billboard artwork I've got bad news for them, I own a rope and can make goatse qr codes and don't mind trespassing on billboards to make this happen.
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May 19, 2021 04:09
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Shout “MCDONALDS” to return to HVAC controls. Subscribe to centre screen plus to see fewer ads.
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May 19, 2021 04:13
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kastein posted:God damnit, why didn't any of us think of and patent this kind of poo poo, then either refuse to license it at all or do so at a crazy high price and use the money for a good cause? The Billboard Liberation Front will ride again!
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May 19, 2021 04:26
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kastein posted:God damnit, why didn't any of us think of and patent this kind of poo poo, then either refuse to license it at all or do so at a crazy high price and use the money for a good cause? Considering this is the industry where one time some dudes bricked a Jeep with a cellular connection, I can only imagine the security on this application will be absolutely top notch no-expense-spared and there's no way you could use it to gently caress the car and driver over completely.
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May 19, 2021 04:53
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Powershift posted:Shout “MCDONALDS” to return to HVAC controls. Subscribe to centre screen plus to see fewer ads. We are seriously devolving into Idiocracy, except President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho actually knew enough to find an expert to fix the problem which is much more than I can expect from our actual stupid timeline.
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I always enjoy pointing out that the government of Idiocracy is in fact a better government than we have now since it listens to experts and the smartest person ends up being the leader.
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May 19, 2021 05:25
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razorscooter posted:https://twitter.com/therealautoblog/status/1394684453713190914 Nine thousand pounds? Takes a lot of batteries to move a ton of lard. I should check on the loading capacity of the condos I'm building.
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May 19, 2021 05:41
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StormDrain posted:Nine thousand pounds? Takes a lot of batteries to move a ton of lard. Even as an EV, the Hummer is an icon of excess. Amazing. ("electric hummer truck" sounds like it was pulled out of a hat)
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If anyone's going to patent it, I'm glad it's Ford so I can avoid that technology and also Fords in one easy motion. Of course, now there are going to be Mach-Es and Expeditions barreling through red lights while the driver mashes the 20 pixel "X" on their screen 
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May 19, 2021 11:22
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redgubbinz posted:If anyone's going to patent it, I'm glad it's Ford so I can avoid that technology and also Fords in one easy motion. Well we can all say that Ford will do such a bad job of it that no one will buy them, and those that do will be disabled at the intersection because the Capture input field used Cyrillic as a gotchya!
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May 19, 2021 11:34
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razorscooter posted:https://twitter.com/therealautoblog/status/1394684453713190914 gently caress me lmao EVs are going to destroy the enivronment faster
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Rigged Death Trap posted:gently caress me lmao And the general vicinity of the crashes.
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May 19, 2021 12:11
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razorscooter posted:https://twitter.com/therealautoblog/status/1394684453713190914 9,046lbs - add a few hundred for the driver and his performative masculinity, and watch them together do 0-60 in under 4 seconds into a pre-school
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May 19, 2021 12:29
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Jesus Christ imagine getting T boned by one of those running a red light
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Terrible car stuff is what's happened to the Ute market in Australia now that you can't buy new ones any more. I've got a saved search that I check in on from time to time as I wanna get one of these guys and bring it up here to Milwaukee in a few years time to satisfy my Aussie ex-pat bogan desires. But it's looking like I may need to buy one sooner rather than later and park it up at a mate's for a few years, because poo poo's getting out of hand. It's getting hard to find one without tacky poo poo rims...  Finding that a lot of the survivors are like this one - modded to hell and back - and while this one at least appears to have been done well it's completely hosed the vehicle up from the standpoint of "being a useful ute" because the bed's loving carpeted now.  Why the gently caress would you move the gas filler to the bed? Why the gently caress would you put the goddamned Pontiac front-end and badge on a Holden? Why would you put those lovely stripes or... argh. This one's the dream buy though. Correct transmission, correct color (Tiger Mica), low (enough) miles, reasonably priced, clearly owned by someone who has cared for it. Someone else buy this. https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/details/2001-holden-ute-ss-vu-manual/SSE-AD-7190506/?Cr=7 
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Jesus Christ imagine getting T boned by one of those running a red light It'd have enough mass to t-bone cars at the next intersection along. 9046lbs works out to 4103kg which would put it in a category here that means it would probably have to be electronically limited to a max of 60mph and you'd need a special license to actually drive one on the roads.
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sarcastx posted:Terrible car stuff is what's happened to the Ute market in Australia now that you can't buy new ones any more. Get it with the rims anyway and buy something tasteful. Sell the stupid rimmmmzzzz as "mad sick ADM rims mate"!!!!!
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redgubbinz posted:If anyone's going to patent it, I'm glad it's Ford so I can avoid that technology and also Fords in one easy motion. This is exactly why I gave up on ever getting a brand new car, I loving hate this kind of tech in cars with a passion. Touch screens absolutely have no place in the dashboard of a goddamn car, they're stupid, non-intuitive, distracting garbage.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:It'd have enough mass to t-bone cars at the next intersection along. Sort of also interesting taking into account what the GVWR on a 9000lb vehicle will be listed as. Would make registration a tad more painful in certain states.
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sarcastx posted:UTE Stuff There is a company that sells them in the US converted from old Pontiac's which are Holden's underneath. They start in the mid 30s when I looked a few months ago. Basically they take a Pontiac G8 (I think) and a salvage UTE from Oz and graft them together so it has the Pontiac VIN and then use a form available in a few states to change what the vehicle is called on the title so it becomes a 2005 Holden UTE. This video goes over the process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjTOEX-qJB8
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BigPaddy posted:There is a company that sells them in the US converted from old Pontiac's which are Holden's underneath. They start in the mid 30s when I looked a few months ago. Basically they take a Pontiac G8 (I think) and a salvage UTE from Oz and graft them together so it has the Pontiac VIN and then use a form available in a few states to change what the vehicle is called on the title so it becomes a 2005 Holden UTE. This video goes over the process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjTOEX-qJB8 Yeah I've seen those guys - based out of Colorado I think. But I want a RHD ute - I miss shifting with my left hand  I have considered asking them if they can do only the necessary compliance mods and leave a vehicle as RHD since the VE+ (MY 2007) series Commodores were designed for global markets from the get-go so hopefully the body/hard points/crash points are already near US compliant (there's something to do with the fuel tank, something to do with airbag sensors, and I'm sure other bits and pieces I don't know about) but I figure I'll wait to ask them until I've got all my cash together.
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sarcastx posted:Yeah I've seen those guys - based out of Colorado I think. But I want a RHD ute - I miss shifting with my left hand Would doing all that exempt them from the 25 year law?
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AmbassadorofSodomy posted:Would doing all that exempt them from the 25 year law? Yes, though I'd have to pay a higher duty (IANAL).
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Colostomy Bag posted:Sort of also interesting taking into account what the GVWR on a 9000lb vehicle will be listed as. Would make registration a tad more painful in certain states. Its ~10,400lb for that vehicle. Which should be somewhere in the modern 3/4 ton range and higher than the old 1 ton srw range.
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cursedshitbox posted:Its ~10,400lb for that vehicle. Which should be somewhere in the modern 3/4 ton range and higher than the old 1 ton srw range. So with four average (lol fat americanzzzzz!) adults, and a bit of luggage, it would pretty much be overloaded.
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