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YOLOsubmarine posted:They have 20 billion cash on hand and the vast majority of their debt is in convertible notes and is held by investors like Amazon who don’t have any incentive to see the company fail. Whatever the reason for the move, and it’s probably just short sightedness and a desire to get cash flow positive ASAP to juice the stock price, they aren’t in any immediate need of money and their balance sheet is pretty healthy. Frankly I don't know that Riven is as interested in selling trucks right now as they are in selling SUVs and trucks to Amazon.
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1985 Caprice 1987 Camaro 1994 Camaro Z/28 1998 Camaro Z/28 1996 Caprice 9C1 1995 S-10 2006 GTO (First New Car) 2013 Volt 2008 Corvette Z06 (concurrent with the Volt, sold 6 months before the Model 3 came home) 2018 Model 3 I have a very specific version of Stockholm Syndrome. 
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MrYenko posted:1985 Caprice That’s a good first new car. I was shopping GTOs in the mid aughts but then moved to AK where they’re considerably less useful.
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1992 Cadillac STS 1994 Mercury Cougar 1998 Cadillac SLS 2000 Honda Prelude 2006 Honda Fit 2008 Smart Fortwo 2017 BMW i3 The Smart I drove over 200,000 miles before it lost compression in some cylinder and it was more expensive to fix then the car was worth. I got the Prelude after because I wanted a cheap car that I could quickly sell once I found something to replace the Smart with, but ended up loving it so much. Now it just sits there in case I need to do a long road trip. At least that's what I tell people; I just really don't want to get rid of it.
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bird with big dick posted:That’s a good first new car. I was shopping GTOs in the mid aughts but then moved to AK where they’re considerably less useful. It remains one of my favorite all-rounder cars GM has ever built. It had rough edges (garbage shifter, wafer-thin paint, and a comical trunk,) but was just a wonderful generalist, and super comfortable.
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Loucks posted:This is how I found out Tesla shitcanned radar. What the hell are they thinking? Vision sucks, we’re just so used to having to deal with it as a primary sensory input that we think it’s good at things. Now I’m extra annoyed that Tesla refuses to let us buy out the lease on the low mileage 3 in the garage that still has radar. Makes me far less likely to buy another Tesla when I have to get a new car. They were thinking: "the supply shortage is preventing us from getting enough radar units. do we constrain production like other manufacturers?" "nah gently caress it, just rip it out and make the cameras do it. We'll have a bigger profit margin as well."
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My BMW I4 preorder has been confirmed as finished being built and awaiting delivery...in June. At least it means I won't be in the backlog with the shutdowns at the BMW plants in Germany due to war
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DoomTrainPhD posted:Having a Caravan as a teenager in high school is the dumbest experience. ALl of my friends made fun of me and asked for rides and to haul their stuff around at the same time. I also had a Caravan in high school and it was great.
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1999 Ford Explorer 2006 Dodge Magnum SXT 2007 Dodge Magnum SRT-8 2013 Corvette Grand Sport 2014 Kia Optima SX 2016 Kia Sorento LX 2016 Mazda Miata 2017 Kia Soul EV 2020 MINI Cooper S 2dr 2021 BMW M550i 2022 BMW M440i Gran Coupe (arriving this month and replacing the M550) I will be back in an EV in the future because I really liked that Soul EV. Given my car ADD it will probably be sooner than later.
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1984 Nissan Sentra 1999 Nissan Sentra 2001 Dodge Ram 2500 (diesel) 2002 Kawasaki Ninja 250 2003 Kawasaki Z1000 2005 Yamaha R1 2006 Kawasaki KLR 650 2008 Aprilia RXV 450 w/street legal kit The only one of these that I still have is the truck. I need a good ev dirt bike after I get a good ev truck. e: there was a 2004 Nissan Xterra in there too that I got rid of since the mileage was a lot worse than the truck Lord Decimus Barnacle fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Mar 4, 2022 |
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Stultus Maximus posted:1981 Buick Regal my god I've never seen someone so committed to Buicks. Do you still own your '99? 1988 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera (let me tell you how painful this thing was to drive) 2003 Acura TL 2004 Honda Civic 2009 Toyota Corolla S 2015 Honda Fit 2017 Dodge Grand Caravan 2019 Nissan Leaf SV Hello it is I family man with my minivan and family hatchback. Kirios fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Mar 4, 2022 |
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Kirios posted:my god I've never seen someone so committed to Buicks. Do you still own your '99? I got the Volt after I totalled the '99 Regal.
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My man there are multiple generations of Regals you've missed out on! No love for the fifth or sixth gens?
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I think part of the problem Rivian is currently facing with the R1T costs is that they are being compared to current Tesla which is not a particularly fair comparison because Tesla has 12 years of experience under their belt and started out with an easier product (low volume production of expensive halo vehicles). Like even though the Tesla quality meme still circulates a lot, if you pay attention to people actually taking delivery hardly anyone is complaining about them anymore. They are consistently delivering with no faults or issues in increasingly high volumes. Just from the last couple of years I've seen a huge drop in the number of noted issues on Reddit even though the number of deliveries has skyrocketed, I think its starting to be pretty obvious that Tesla is has actually become quite good at high volume manufacturing and that makes life a lot harder for startups like Rivian or Lucid. Basically Rivian trying to start with an affordable high volume EV is starting up in extra hard mode, even Tesla almost went bankrupt from making that leap and only survived by the skin of their teeth mostly because nobody else was even attempting it at the time.
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Kirios posted:My man there are multiple generations of Regals you've missed out on! No love for the fifth or sixth gens? Almost got a fifth gen with manual a few years back but it sold right after I looked at it. I really wanted a TourX when the 99 bit the dust, but it was out of my price range so I got the Volt.
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93 Chevrolet Lumina euro 04 Dodge Stratus coupe 02 Audi A6 12 Chevrolet Cruze eco 17 Chevrolet Volt LT 22 Tesla Model Y (soon) The were mostly all good cars except for the Stratus, that thing was pretty terrible.
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1995 Saturn SL2 1997 Toyota 4Runner 1999 MB E55 2004 Nissan Pathfinder 2010 Audi S4 2015 Jeep GC SRT 2007 Lexus LS460 Forever alternating between cars and SUVs. The LS owns so much for the price and we still have an 01 911 Turbo for giggles that until car prices settle down, I'm probably stuck. I really wanted to get an ID.4 so I can make some wild custom parts but I'll never buy a VW after having to work with them. The Ionic 5 N is my current hope but I really want to pick up an LC500 or Supra in a couple years. Jymmybob fucked around with this message at 04:10 on Mar 4, 2022 |
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:seriously talk about loving lousy decision making processes Corporate decision making is often dumber than bricks with zero understanding of how it will play with the customers. Look at all the companies who've utterly spiked their user confidence to jump on the NFT train for no reason. Kickstarter and MeUndies as standouts.
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I’ll play.
Loucks posted:This is how I found out Tesla shitcanned radar. What the hell are they thinking? Vision sucks, we’re just so used to having to deal with it as a primary sensory input that we think it’s good at things. Now I’m extra annoyed that Tesla refuses to let us buy out the lease on the low mileage 3 in the garage that still has radar. Makes me far less likely to buy another Tesla when I have to get a new car. Honestly, the only remaining annoying thing (for me) about vision-only is that it turns on your bright headlights when you use autosteer. You can turn them off right away, but not before blasting every vehicle in line of sight with some excess photons. It’s a road rage generator. I’ve had 3 or 4 “phantom braking” incidents in the vision-only Tesla, and about 20 in my wife’s Nissan (with radar). The biggest difference is that when the Tesla lets off the accelerator, regen kicks in and it feels like you’ve slammed on the brakes. The Nissan just coasts for a few seconds. Does that mean Tesla should be an industry leader in fixing the drat problem, since their cars make the experience much worse due to other functionality choices? Almost definitely, but here we are.
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So there are more former Volt owners here than I expected. I'm test driving a low-optioned LT, low miles 2019 Volt tomorrow. It's still under the factory B2B warranty for a few more months. If I like it should I buy it or try to find a well optioned Premier with the driver confidence packages? I don't care about the 7.2kw charging. All the Premiers I'm seeing are 17-18 models with much higher miles, if that matters. I'm getting a little paranoid reading about the shift to park issues.
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Tyro posted:So there are more former Volt owners here than I expected. I've got the Premier and it's a nice car (although if you look at my list, take that with a grain of salt). The shift to park issue is annoying, although it seems to be a warm weather thing and at some point I'll take apart the shifter and try to fix it.
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1997 Jeep Wrangler 1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse sadly not a GSX 2002 Mitsubishi Evo 2005 Audi TT 2006 Nissan Frontier 2008 MazdaSpeed 3 2012 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sport 2015 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon 2021 Tesla Model Y P Kinda been all over the place with my vehicles. There was a couple sport bikes in there too as well but I haven't ridden a motorcycle in 10 years now.
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Ola posted:1985 Honda CB 100 Blows my mind at how frequent people switch cars. I’m at 9 years on mine and outside of wanting to switch to electric I don’t actually have a reason to switch from it. I could easily get another 5 years out of it if not more. I’ve had 3 cars overs the last 20 years and one was a lease in between. First one was a Mitsubishi Montero my parents passed on to me. I loved that thing.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Blows my mind at how frequent people switch cars. I’m at 9 years on mine and outside of wanting to switch to electric I don’t actually have a reason to switch from it. I could easily get another 5 years out of it if not more. I’ve had 3 cars overs the last 20 years and one was a lease in between. First one was a Mitsubishi Montero my parents passed on to me. I loved that thing. 1994 BMW 325is 2004 Honda CR-V (RIP) 2015 Ford Fiesta ST I got the Bimmer in 2012 and plan to hold onto that sucker forever. I got the FiST in summer 2021 after wrecking the CR-V, and will probably also try to hold onto it. I think RN the plan is to Daily the Fiesta for 1-2 years and then retire it for something a bit cushier, maybe EV. IDK if I had more money and space I’d have more cars  .
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Tyro posted:So there are more former Volt owners here than I expected. The shift to park thing is not a huge deal at all. It is caused by microswitch in the shifter failing prematurely. I fixed my own for $5 and 30 minutes of my time. Several other GM vehicles that use the same shifter have the same problem. Repair of this is covered under the B2B warranty for all model years, and also the Voltec warranty for 2016 to 2018 models.
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Kirios posted:my god I've never seen someone so committed to Buicks. Do you still own your '99? 1965: Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick? Stultus Maximus: 
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I have to wonder why Tesla isn't using the vision-based autopilot software on radar-equipped cars and just treating the radar data as an extra input. I'd like a camera fallback when the front end is all iced over and blocking the radar. My car history started at a character-building low point, it only gets better after a four speed manual 2-door station wagon with an engine that runs as smoothly with 1-2-3-4 firing order as 1-3-4-2. 1990 Volkswagen Fox 2008 Honda Fit 2013 Audi Allroad 1999 BMW 323i 2021 Tesla Model 3
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bird with big dick posted:Those are basically all Leaf analogues. 14/24 with manual transmission 8/24 with 4 or all wheel drive 2/24 with T-tops 7/24 with forced induction/power adder 3/24 with 375 or more horsepower
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Blows my mind at how frequent people switch cars. I’m at 9 years on mine and outside of wanting to switch to electric I don’t actually have a reason to switch from it. I could easily get another 5 years out of it if not more. I’ve had 3 cars overs the last 20 years and one was a lease in between. First one was a Mitsubishi Montero my parents passed on to me. I loved that thing. Same 1993 Toyota Camry 2022 Polestar 2
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Blows my mind at how frequent people switch cars. In my defense, I'm old. I kept them 6-10 years each until we wrecked the Vanagon, which i forgot to list. We got the model S because I was tired of playing the stupid game where you keep the car between the lines for hours on end or else your family dies. We got the Model 3 because it was the car we originally wanted but wasn't being made. LEAF was Jr's starter car (now it's my dad's car). Bolt is for college. I feel like we're doing okay, except that I bought a lot of new cars in order to get safety features. Being in a T-Bone on the highway and nearly killing someone changed my priorities.
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Via WSJ (Wall Street Journal) -- Market Talk Mentioned: F 1003 ET - Ford said part of the corporate overhaul to create distinct divisions for EVs and gas-engine vehicles will include big changes in the way dealers sell cars. Ford envisions a new process that will result in a non-negotiable price for EVs and rely on customer orders, rather than dealer inventories, said Kumar Galhotra, Ford's president of the Americas and international markets. Ford will work out details with its dealers over the next few months, he said. Dealerships charging above the sticker price has caused tensions between Ford and its dealers in recent months. (mike.colias@wsj.com; @MikeColias)
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DoomTrainPhD posted:Brokedown /too poor to fix * 5 I had a lot of that. My 260Z caught on fire and burnt to the ground. Toyota P/U started running on 3 cylinders and dealer couldn't diagnose the problem without big bucks. Turbo blew on the Colt GT and took the rest of the engine with it. I also just liked buying cars though. Ended up on the wrong end of a few trades until I wised up a little.
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