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The 90s and 00s happened. Edit: Well that's an amazing page snipe.
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First it was patents. Now it's trademarks for Mazda. https://taku2-4885.hatenablog.com/entry/2021/08/17/105811  E-Skyactiv R-Energy E-Skyactiv R-HEV E-Skyactiv R-EV
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Aug 20, 2021 15:27
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Midjack posted:lmao I may have the name wrong since I've been trying to get a new Nvidia card since last fall, but it was something like that. Fortunately the only actual color option was yellow, and since my stinger is already yellow I wasn't interested. I still hate the rear but eh, it's a compromise all over. The upshot is if it's affordable it'll be way faster than we'd ever need my wife's commuter to be.
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Aug 20, 2021 15:34
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McTinkerson posted:First it was patents. Now it's trademarks for Mazda. 
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Aug 20, 2021 17:05
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Is there any reason a rotary engine would be particularly good for an electric generator role? don't get me wrong I  Triangle but just curious
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Aug 20, 2021 17:42
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Genesis makes 2 steering wheels. The Chunky 2 spoke that looks like its out of a late 90s early 2000s Chrysler. And then the 3 spoke 'Sport' one which looks so much better. Weird they went with the 2 spoke for the GV60 Franco Caution fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Aug 20, 2021 |
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Aug 20, 2021 17:46
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McTinkerson posted:First it was patents. Now it's trademarks for Mazda. Dont loving fall for this poo poo. At this point we are enabling Mazda by continuing to paying attention. Im torn on which tech Ive enjoyed and gotten the most use out of from Mazda: -One of the 20+ 'Guys we totally figured out Rotaries and its back' vehicles -The offered for 1 year total 'Guys a Diesel Cx-5 is the way to go' -Rotary powered Range Extender -Skyactiv-X
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Aug 20, 2021 17:52
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Rotary range extended hybrid four door RX9 CUV.
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Aug 20, 2021 18:00
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MrYenko posted:Rotary range extended hybrid four door RX9 CUV. Still somehow only 17mpg
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Aug 20, 2021 18:01
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Powershift posted:Still somehow only 17mpg Needs range extender motor replaced after 10k miles
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Aug 20, 2021 18:48
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Monkey Fracas posted:Is there any reason a rotary engine would be particularly good for an electric generator role? Rotaries are very efficient at like one specific (very high) RPM and nothing else. They're also very small and light for their output, which helps when you have giant fuckoff batteries. Edit: Apparently they work really well with hydrogen fuel too. KillHour fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Aug 20, 2021 |
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Aug 20, 2021 19:06
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Plus the old (and probably wrong) saying of insanity being "repeating the same task expecting different results" does line up with this forums namesake. So Mazda's rotary efforts are peak automotive insanity.
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Aug 20, 2021 19:14
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McTinkerson posted:Plus the old (and probably wrong) saying of insanity being "repeating the same task expecting different results" does line up with this forums namesake. So Mazda's rotary efforts are peak automotive insanity. If an OE was to get an SA account and post in AI, it’d be Mazda. They’d probably eat a ban for trolling people, but it would be Mazda.
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Aug 20, 2021 19:45
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I don’t know poo poo about rotaries from any experience but my indirect understanding of them is that they have some substantial benefits over a piston engine, like the aforementioned packaging size and weight, if someone ever figures out apex seals Kinda have the impression material science will solve the issues of rotary engines some time after ICE have already become an obsolete niche technology for hobbyists
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Aug 20, 2021 19:45
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https://youtu.be/iipgIt5lXAY
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Aug 20, 2021 20:08
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I expect that the big players in power generation investigated rotaries back in the 50’s or 60’s and what ever makes them unsuitable for large scale energy sector use probably holds, or they would be around, but maybe modern packaging has solved some issues for limited uses?
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Aug 20, 2021 21:09
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KillHour posted:Rotaries are very efficient at like one specific (very high) RPM and nothing else. They're also very small and light for their output, which helps when you have giant fuckoff batteries. Ah, thought they were just generally inefficient- it's just the 8k of revrange they need to get through to find their sweet spot of efficiency. Interesting that their maximum power RPM seems to overlap with their maximum efficiency RPM.
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Aug 20, 2021 21:15
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KozmoNaut posted:Yeah, I like it. Ugly, interesting, same same. This is the one I was thinking of, next model on  Between Corollas and Hiaces I must have spent hundreds of thousands of KMs holding that horrible slippery plastic thing
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Aug 20, 2021 22:07
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KillHour posted:Rotaries are very efficient at like one specific (very high) RPM and nothing else. They're also very small and light for their output, which helps when you have giant fuckoff batteries. Is anyone even trying to make hydrogen fuel cell vehicles viable anymore or are they just token efforts? I feel like they had a (very) brief moment in the sun but battery EVs took an early lead and hydrogen disappeared.
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Aug 20, 2021 22:55
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KillHour posted:Rotaries are very efficient at like one specific (very high) RPM and nothing else. They're also very small and light for their output, which helps when you have giant fuckoff batteries. Rotaries work better with poo poo fuel and pretty much any crap that will combust. Wouldnt exactly call them efficient at high rpm, they drink like a sailor still - the issue has always been the port overlap that spits a fair bit of the air/fuel out the exhaust. I suppose if you wanted a 50-100hp generator, there's not much that can actually give you that in such a small package but you still need to try and get it emissions tested, need the fuel tank, radiator and why wouldn't you just switch all that to more battery? Even as a card carrying RADL member, I just dont get why Mazda are doing this
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Aug 20, 2021 23:36
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I just dont get why Mazda are doing this Mazda in a nutshell. Love 'em and hate 'em for it.
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Aug 20, 2021 23:38
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Franco Caution posted:Pretty wild to spend a large part of the day running through all the GR86 reviews and hearing about it's 23 extra HP, and then end the day with Nissan dropping the 400HP number. 228 hp is what the first gen 86 twins should have had and then the 2nd gen should be moving up from there. I don't know why automakers insist on making sub 3000 lb rwd cars slow. Especially in this day and age when all the pieces are there to solve this issue.
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Aug 23, 2021 01:42
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But but..... -it won't fit -it will cannabalize sales of _______ -it would be too expensive. Aftermarket easily made it fit. I have 0 interest in the Supra. So I guess just not having me interested in either car is somehow better? -it's ok to make 2,3,4 versions of a car. Most manufacturers do this. The world doesn't explode. You can make a 30k and a 40k version of a car. Take any other car and apply the normal excuses the Twins put forth and it sounds so silly. I'm happy for those who love the twins. Love your car. But it seems dumb to deliberately not sell more of your thing to more people. Also watching a review last night and the loving Veloster N gets into the 4s on 0-60 now? Jesus christ.
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Aug 23, 2021 04:08
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Coredump posted:228 hp is what the first gen 86 twins should have had and then the 2nd gen should be moving up from there. I don't know why automakers insist on making sub 3000 lb rwd cars slow. Especially in this day and age when all the pieces are there to solve this issue. Because Toyota has final say.
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Aug 23, 2021 04:24
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Franco Caution posted:I'm happy for those who love the twins. Love your car. But it seems dumb to deliberately not sell more of your thing to more people. Toyota and Subaru have decided that trying to sell more (expensive) versions of their thing to more people (who would now be directly cross-shopping a Mustang or Camaro or Z instead of poo poo like the Civic Si and GTI) would, in fact, be dumb.
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Aug 23, 2021 04:58
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if the 86 had an Alpine or Alfa Romeo badge on it, ppl would be masturbating furiously over them imo
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Aug 23, 2021 05:35
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smooth jazz posted:if the 86 had an Alpine or Alfa Romeo badge on it, ppl would be masturbating furiously over them imo Both the 4C and the A110 are 400lbs lighter than the twins and also have more horsepower and torque. So I guess you’re right in that if they had Alfa or Alpine badge they’d be better cars.
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Aug 23, 2021 06:43
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Those aren't even remotely in the same class, they're more expensive than a Supra.
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Aug 23, 2021 06:54
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Neither available with a manual though. So at least we would have something to complain about.
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Aug 23, 2021 07:56
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Franco Caution posted:-The offered for 1 year total 'Guys a Diesel Cx-5 is the way to go' Good turbo diesels built by the Japanase for passanger cars - uh that Toyota lump they had in Landcruiser and Hilux? - ??
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Aug 23, 2021 11:05
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KozmoNaut posted:Yeah, I like it. Ugly, interesting, same same. Man, every time I see something like this from a production car in the eighties, it really just makes me realize how much we were robbed in the nineties. Just look at that awesome instrument cluster!
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Aug 23, 2021 13:14
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FBS posted:Toyota and Subaru have decided that trying to sell more (expensive) versions of their thing to more people (who would now be directly cross-shopping a Mustang or Camaro or Z instead of poo poo like the Civic Si and GTI) would, in fact, be dumb.
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CornHolio posted:Man, every time I see something like this from a production car in the eighties, it really just makes me realize how much we were robbed in the nineties. Just look at that awesome instrument cluster! Japanese car design really peaked in the 80s, then the utter blandness started to creep in. At least modern ugly Toyotas stir something in you, even if it is mostly confusion or disgust. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Aug 23, 2021 |
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Aug 23, 2021 14:04
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KozmoNaut posted:Japanese car design really peaked in the 80s, then the utter blandness started to creep in. Couldn't agree less  300ZX is easily the ugliest, or at least most bland, generation Z in my book. First / second gen RX-7? NO THANKS. First gen MR-2 is actually cooler than the second one, alright. I'll take four-gen Supra over second/third gen every single day of the week. Celica...doesn't interest me at all, actually What else is there? 
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Aug 23, 2021 14:17
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You have no taste. More wedges and more angular surfaces = more better.
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Aug 23, 2021 14:30
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The Germans did boxy extremely well. The Japanese did not.
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Aug 23, 2021 14:33
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Sab669 posted:What else is there? AE86
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Aug 23, 2021 14:33
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FBS posted:Toyota and Subaru have decided that trying to sell more (expensive) versions of their thing to more people (who would now be directly cross-shopping a Mustang or Camaro or Z instead of poo poo like the Civic Si and GTI) would, in fact, be dumb. Imagine we lived in a world with the 86 twins and no WRX and someone tried to pitch the idea of the WRX. : Ok lets take the 86, add a turbo, awd, AND two doors. : You'll have to add $10,000 to msrp of the 86 twins.: gently caress that we're going to price it $2,500 cheaper Hopefully the price of 1st gen 86's start to go down though. So many of the used ones are still north of $20k right now. Sab669 posted:The Germans did boxy extremely well. The Japanese did not. The defense submits exhibit 2nd gen Toyota Supra to the court.
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Yea, the Skyline gets better with every generation  But I do kinda like the 7th gen ones. 8th is better than 7th.AE86 does absolutely nothing for me. Maybe if I were a weeb who watched Initial D I'd find it cool, but I'm not so I didn't therefore I don't. And I already addressed the Supra
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https://carsandbids.com/auctions/37Qzo5Gp/1984-nissan-bluebird-wagon this thing fucks though 
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