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My Mazda has a great knob.
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KillHour posted:Someone plug a mouse into their car and see if it works. And please make that a ball mouse.
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Wistful of Dollars posted:My Mazda has a great knob. 100% agreed. I love the knob on my 2021 Mazda 6. Granted it’s my third straight Mazda so I’m used to the environment but it’s just so intuitive. I love the feedback, it runs quickly, does apple CarPlay. It takes very little of my attention while driving. And the interior feels so well built. I shopped for a long time and test drove a ton of cars and just couldn’t find anything that gave me the balance of quality and price that Mazda did. I cross shopped the Stinger, Acura TLX, Audi A6, and Genesis G80 for reference.
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McTinkerson posted:I want Grayhill's CANbus touch encoder to be used more. I'm already looking for way to retrofit it into my 2006 Mazda. Ohh yeahhhh, this is great. I've been thinking of ways to have Audi TT style climate controls in my Mini and this could be the ticket. Except I know next to nothing about CANbus or programming. Adding onto the praise for Mazda's excellent interface design, the rotary controls in our CX-5 work fantastically. Bulk Vanderhuge fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Feb 12, 2022 |
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Dr.Donkeypunch posted:100% agreed. I had a Mazda 6 as a rental when they were totaling out my old 4Runner a couple years ago and I found the knob to be a challenge as an Old Toyota Luddite. I had it for like 4 days and it was so distracting it drove me nuts. I know it takes more time but I spent several minutes fullbore ![]() I loving hated the AT programming too, but then I found the race to the highest gear is just now a standard of modern autos.
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LeeMajors posted:I loving hated the AT programming too, but then I found the race to the highest gear is just now a standard of modern autos. Yeah that's just a modern car thing. Gotta be in top gear by 35mph!
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opengl128 posted:Yeah that's just a modern car thing. Gotta be in top gear by 35mph! Really lugging the engine makes fuel economy number go up! Other potential side effects won't be an issue until much later in the car's life so who cares about those.
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Blackhawk posted:Really lugging the engine makes fuel economy number go up! Other potential side effects won't be an issue until much later in the car's life so who cares about those. On most modern cars the engine is tuned for all of the torque in the first few thousand RPMs and the transmission ratios are so short that spinning 2500 in 6th gear at 40mph isn’t lugging the engine.
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The Android Auto voice commands work reasonably well for choosing music, so I reckon that's where we're headed.
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Deteriorata posted:Try using the touchpad on a laptop while a car is in motion. to be fair the touchpad is affixed to the car so doesn't move independently of the vehicle, so it would not be this bad
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Has anyone tried TrackPoint™ based car interface? You could even put it on top of the gear knob and fondle it with your thumb.
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mobby_6kl posted:Has anyone tried TrackPoint™ based car interface? You could even put it on top of the gear knob and fondle it with your thumb. the CarClit
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Guess who has 2 thumbs and MORE problems with his FoRS![]()
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What now!?
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KillHour posted:What now!? He got stranded ![]()
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KillHour posted:What now!? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3699520&pagenumber=901&perpage=40&userid=0#post521438452
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Wellllllll poo poo. Finally got home. As it was being lowered off the truck bed there was some fluid on the bed. So probably not just the pedal itself.
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Looks like you're going to be replacing a master cylinder / clutch line
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Built fjord tough. The fjord of mystery liquid is under your car.
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Dr.Donkeypunch posted:100% agreed. People who borrow my car know that they'll lose a finger for each finger-print on the screen I find when I get it back. They all know how to handle the knob.
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You sound annoying to be friends with
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I wouldn’t handle your knob even if it was diamonds
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Wistful of Dollars posted:People who borrow my car know that they'll lose a finger for each finger-print on the screen I find when I get it back. They all know how to handle the knob. Do I have to wear gloves to work your knob?
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Twerk from Home posted:Do I have to wear gloves to work your knob? if they tell you you don't need to wear a glove, you should really really wear a glove.
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KillHour posted:You sound annoying to be friends with ![]()
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i thought jokes were supposed to be funny and or clever
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Surprise surprise, the Maverick hasn't left the factory yet, that delivery date was a lie
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A lot of them produced since the new year have been held up at dispatch waiting for some modules that weren't installed during initial production. But by the sounds of it that logjam is clearing so it shouldn't be too much longer I'd think. Mine is scheduled for production next week so now it's a tense next few days to see if mine actually goes into production after being rescheduled 4 times (and a fifth forwards a week).
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The Canadian truckers blocking the border between Detroit and Windsor is also holding up supplies of parts and thus production.
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darnon posted:A lot of them produced since the new year have been held up at dispatch waiting for some modules that weren't installed during initial production. But by the sounds of it that logjam is clearing so it shouldn't be too much longer I'd think. Mine is fully built according to the tracker, waiting shipment.
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the 2023 Corvette C8 z06 absolutely WILL have haters bawing and clout chasers on their tails. I hope to own one some day. ![]()
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styls trill epic posted:the 2023 Corvette C8 z06 absolutely WILL have haters bawing and clout chasers on their tails. I hope to own one some day. Perhaps its because I'm too old, but what does this even mean?
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BloodBag posted:Perhaps its because I'm too old, but what does this even mean? Terrible GBS style spam poster.
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definitely a re-reg account that enjoys getting probed constantly
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That being said 670hp at 8,400rpm out of a N/A V8 is pretty sick. Flat plane? How has reliability held up for the Ford flat planes? Edit: dual clutch only though? 👎
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BraveUlysses posted:enjoys getting probed constantly who doesnt? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Charles posted:That being said 670hp at 8,400rpm out of a N/A V8 is pretty sick. Flat plane? How has reliability held up for the Ford flat planes? C8s in general also make a huge portion of stereotypical Corvette Buyers very mad because the engine is in back, so I love them anyway. Also as much as I love a stick, what the C8 is trying to be and do is no longer the domain of a manual transmission. After how "well" the last moon-shot manual GM project sold (CTS-V Wagon), they might have finally learned their lesson about building cars that enthusiasts want to buy... used, in 10 years, for 1/4 of MSRP.
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IOwnCalculus posted:C8s in general also make a huge portion of stereotypical Corvette Buyers very mad because the engine is in back, so I love them anyway. Mid engine supremacy. Honestly driving an "automatic" (1-speed) has been super great for commuting for me. I'm a bad AIer ![]()
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the C8 Corvette interior is so annoying with the dumb "WALL" how are you supposed to get freaky in that thing? ![]() Keyser_Soze fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Feb 15, 2022 |
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# ? Jun 10, 2024 17:08 |
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Keyser_Soze posted:the C8 Corvette interior is so annoying with the dumb "WALL" how are you supposed to get freaky in that thing? Everyone who drives a Corvette has SUCH A SMALL DONG that they can't even do anything with it, assuming they're NOT TOO OLD to even get it up to begin with.
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