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MrYenko posted:Someone post the video of the Silverado (?) where a Corvette full-stop loving disappears in front of it at a stoplight and he has to use the forward camera. I was driving a ‘05 tahoe and stopped at a light, but a little bit over the line and traffic from my right was gonna have a hard time getting around me to the lane. I checked the mirrors, all three - nothing for miles. Empty. Zilch. Nada. Nobody was behind me. Put it in reverse, start to creep back, did i hear a beep? Was that a car horn? Did you know a c5 or c6 corvette can tuck right up behind a 05 tahoe and be invisible in the mirrors? Fella was trying to read over my shoulder or something. No harm, no foul. He was real pissy though. Taught me that if i cant see the driver in their mirror then they cant see me, and i position my car so its more visible to everyone else in their canyonero now.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:https://twitter.com/thomashundal/status/1537220379537702913?s=20&t=vVkcd0-KUUZ2h61m67JBEA A lot of companies started going that a while ago so they could increase parts sharing between engines. Pretty much any 90° v6 is based on a v8.
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Jun 16, 2022 13:03
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It looks like there is an insert you replace to control the number of cylinders and the bore. Which ok makes sense from a manufacturing cost prospective but we know that insert is going to fall apart just after the warranty is over and cause the engine to be scrapped.
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MrLogan posted:A lot of companies started going that a while ago so they could increase parts sharing between engines. Pretty much any 90° v6 is based on a v8. Yeah, but I don't think the old Merc V6s or the 2.9 in the Alfa QF use the same block as their V8 counterparts.
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Jun 16, 2022 15:50
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DALL-E mini is a hoot to slam cars together
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Olympic Mathlete posted:https://twitter.com/thomashundal/status/1537220379537702913?s=20&t=vVkcd0-KUUZ2h61m67JBEA It's like when AMD sells a processor as 3 or 5 core because one didn't pass testing. You get into that car's BIOS settings and screw around, buddy you got yourself a V8.
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Jun 16, 2022 17:22
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Yea Vinwiki is already terrible but this video is just cringe inducing. https://youtu.be/Hvr_k8sfP0Q
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Blowjob Overtime posted:It's like when AMD sells a processor as 3 or 5 core because one didn't pass testing. You get into that car's BIOS settings and screw around, buddy you got yourself a V8. Yeah I wonder how far they go to "blank" those two cylinders. It sort of looks like the filler is just part of the header. Can V8 headers fit on the V6 block? I have to imagine they do something significant to make it less easy than that, but never underestimate what a capitalist will (or won't) do to save a penny on manufacturing if they think they can get away with it. It reminds me of how there were lots of RAID disc controller cards back in the day where the difference between a cheap RAID 0/1 card and a much better card was removing a capacitor.
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MrLogan posted:A lot of companies started going that a while ago so they could increase parts sharing between engines. Pretty much any 90° v6 is based on a v8. Based on, yes, but they don’t usually use the *same actual block*. GM 4.3L is literally 3/4 of a small-block Chevy, but it’s also one cylinder shorter. Same deal with Buick 3.8L vs Buick V8. That thing is a V8 with two holes unmachined/unfilled. I guess the crank has an empty throw, too.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:I mean, these are the same guys that built a rocket-propelled bathtub to launch a dude off a mountain, I feel very comfortable in saying they're going to do something extraordinarily-fun/dumb/dangerous with the Teslank Pipin' hot update in narrator voice: they did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJql5QVod_E Apparently, they "solved" the steering problem by just selectively-applying brake pressure between the left and right side (I wouldn't be surprised if this contributed to one of the driveshafts making GBS threads the bed halfway through the video). And in a way that "almost" makes my previous post weirdly prescient, they decided to...launch the loving thing off a mountain to its demise. Once again, no German skills needed, just turn on the subs and watch a bunch of kids yolo a tracked Tesla around an off-road-park and collect the flying springs in the aftermath 
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I worked at a Honda, Oldsmobile and Lexus dealer as a tech back in the day and we were too drat busy to try to rip off anyone. These were separate places. But I’ve been lied to, cheated and disrespected so many times I’m afraid to take anything anywhere. The only shop I trust is down the street they let me install a lift on a van with some help when ingot stuck as a favor. I need something done I can’t confidently do on my own, they can’t and for a million bucks they can’t tell me anywhere to go. A neighbor has a shop that works on fedex and ups trucks and semis and he is going to do it - I trust him honesty wise without question I just don’t know if this will take 2 weeks or 2 months and if I didn’t live down the street no way he would do it. I have lots to say about vinwiki and tavarish I play it in the background but if these are car people no wonder I can’t stand anyone I meet
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BigPaddy posted:Yea Vinwiki is already terrible but this video is just cringe inducing. That guy's dream supercar is a 458? 
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I suspect this might be the old "pull up until you can't see the rear tires" mentality, not adjusted for how loving close you'd have to pull up to a giant SUV to make that true.
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BigPaddy posted:Yea Vinwiki is already terrible but this video is just cringe inducing. jesus i watched for 10 minutes and he was still going on and on about nothing, so i skipped ahead and well, i dunno what the hell the end of this story was but i am glad i will never find out first comment lol 
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Blue On Blue posted:jesus i watched for 10 minutes and he was still going on and on about nothing, so i skipped ahead and well, i dunno what the hell the end of this story was but i am glad i will never find out I fucken guessed it was this fucken stuckup nerd.
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Interior quality on par with the finest 80s shitboxes. https://twitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/1537634756388700160?s=20&t=Amz1zXuQhb0WQ9orv-DlPA https://twitter.com/Model3Owners/status/1362511337893605380?s=20&t=Amz1zXuQhb0WQ9orv-DlPA In the comments equally poo poo build (but then it's British so...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QlzjwGTZRc Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 10:08 on Jun 17, 2022 |
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Jun 17, 2022 10:05
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 I usually just lurk this thread but I saw this civic in my little Scottish town and had to post it. It's been like a decade since I've seen something so badly boyracer. You still see boy racers, but their cars are usually at least well done these days.
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Jun 17, 2022 10:58
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Interior quality on par with the finest 80s shitboxes. Christ, my used Volvo has better build quality.
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Jun 17, 2022 11:47
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IOwnCalculus posted:I suspect this might be the old "pull up until you can't see the rear tires" mentality, not adjusted for how loving close you'd have to pull up to a giant SUV to make that true. I am strongly considering a magnetic sticker for the back of my kids car that says “Beware: car has manual transmission and will roll back into you”
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Jun 17, 2022 11:54
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There's a reason Japanese cars went from a joke to taking over the world, and the build quality of American, Italian and British cars has a lot to do with it.
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Humphreys posted:I fucken guessed it was this fucken stuckup nerd. The primal urge to punch someone in the mouth has never been raised so far by a YouTube video.
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Jun 17, 2022 13:47
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Whoop whoop https://twitter.com/autocar/status/1537110208647942144?s=20&t=0RGxBFGB6u6CkOM2bt98yg
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Hahahahahahaa of course it is
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Help us Koenigsegg, you’re our only hope.
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I saw the Lambo one yesterday and all I can say is wow, it looks even worse in person.
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I pulled up behind a Ford Ranger yesterday that had a nice retro graphics stickers on it. It looked like the Tremor graphics: https://www.kbb.com/comparison/2021-ford-ranger-tremor-vs-2021-toyota-tacoma-trd-pro/ But I'm not sure because I didn't see it say Tremor. Anyway. On the tailgate stripes they added their own stickers across the whole back which said: PROUDLY POWERED BY FOSSIL FUELS. NO NEED TO RECHARGE. I was tempted to pull alongside and ask how they felt about fuel prices but I didn't want to be the victim of road rage.
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I still can't wrap my head around why some people get SO ANGRY about EVs. I guess it's just a weak libtard thing for them to rage against.
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Perhaps I don't know what the gently caress supply and demand is, but: A - don't electric cars mean less demand for fuel and thus lower (lol I know thats bullshit) prices? B - doesn't that also mean "more for the rest of us"?
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It's just fear that someone's going to take away their dino-sauce powered penis extension.
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I know guys in real life that believe using a reusable grocery bag makes them look less masculine. It's these fuckin' guys. An EV is a direct attack on their manliness. Which certainly isn't anything toxic.
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opengl128 posted:I still can't wrap my head around why some people get SO ANGRY about EVs. The world is changing in a way they're not controlling, thus it's bad. They're fine with change as long as they're the ones instigating it. Other peoples' change is communism.
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Yeah, the most common line I hear is "soon everyone will be FORCED to drive electric cars". And they don't mean that in a positive way.
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Nidhg00670000 posted:Yeah, the most common line I hear is "soon everyone will be FORCED to drive electric cars". And they don't mean that in a positive way. In what way should anyone who loves cars and well, freedom of choice be saying that in a positive way?
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fresh_cheese posted:I am strongly considering a magnetic sticker for the back of my kids car that says “Beware: car has manual transmission and will roll back into you” Or you could just pay for driving school.
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everdave posted:In what way should anyone who loves cars and well, freedom of choice be saying that in a positive way? Depending on your worldview that sentence could be positive or negative. I was clarifying that this is what I hear from people that have a reflexive need to tell others they hate EVs.
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When someone says that gas cars will go away and no one will be able to enjoy them I just ask if horses are extinct.
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BigPaddy posted:When someone says that gas cars will go away and no one will be able to enjoy them I just ask if horses are extinct. Counterpoint: we’re not going to run out of grass.
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