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I assume these are pre-computer, vacuum driven fuel efficiency/pollution control mechanisms?
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...when your software crashes but there's still some of it running somewhere that knows not to let you drive with the screen playing netflix... https://twitter.com/Black24Payne/status/1544420167660314624?s=20&t=O5OZtmm1jeRu4KGpO6e9Yg
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Scratch Monkey posted:I assume these are pre-computer, vacuum driven fuel efficiency/pollution control mechanisms? computer controlled carb. The A series that came after in the next gen prelude had no fewer vacuum lines carb or efi. Things didn't start cleaning up till the late 80s with the B series.
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Zero One posted:https://twitter.com/jalopnik/status/1544356205023207425?s=21&t=FiB6EpyvkvlzH9Ep3fgSBQ Even grading on the ambitious concept car scale, no. Just no.
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Jul 6, 2022 17:26
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Not sure how making your car look like a 1947 F1 pickup is innovative.
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Jul 6, 2022 18:29
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It looks like something from Batman: The Animated Series, but like they tried to create some unholy union of Art Deco and turn-of-the-millenium Sony AIBO style.
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Jul 6, 2022 18:57
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That is acceptable if and only if each bar makes a different tone when you strike it like a xylophone so when you're driving through fly over states the bugs hitting it sound like dragonforce.
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Jul 6, 2022 19:14
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Kinda reminds me of the roads in Sheffield when the cold weather hits. No thank you, I'm staying indoors until it thaws. https://twitter.com/lookabee83/status/1544706258112237568?t=vZ0BBl3QFPSDhNtK32mqfA&s=19
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Jul 6, 2022 19:18
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lmao just close that road to vehicles, what a disaster
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Jul 6, 2022 22:41
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Lol the last one.
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Jul 6, 2022 23:11
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How often does Mexico City have ice storms?
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Jul 7, 2022 00:58
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I love how you can see more crashes in the background on the other street as well
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Jul 7, 2022 01:01
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Imagined posted:How often does Mexico City have ice storms? Mexico City is in a tropical region but at high elevation. While it rarely freezes there have been temperatures recorded below freezing. It even used to snow until Lake Texcoco was drained and the lake effect snow couldn't happen anymore. More common is hail in the summer wet season.
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Imagined posted:I just randomly stumbled across this vacuum hose diagram for (dual-carb) 1984 Preludes. Gives the Rx-7 a run for its money.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Gives the Rx-7 a run for its money. The RX-7 turbo vacuum diagram is a piece of modern art they reverse-engineered into a car's engine bay. That's the only explanation.
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Jul 7, 2022 14:29
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 The magic happens in the middle?
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Scratch Monkey posted:
Power is stored in the tubes.
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Jul 7, 2022 15:00
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The car is simply a series of tubes....
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Jul 7, 2022 20:13
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A Honda engine is not a big truck you just throw vacuum on.
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Imagined posted:How often does Mexico City have ice storms? Is there even ice involved there, or just wet on a vertical road? Scratch Monkey posted:
Literally. It's a rotary, so the magic is in the spinning Doritos until they escape.
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Imagined posted:How often does Mexico City have ice storms? Is that even from ice or is the road just wet?
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You know how a road is most slippery just after it rains? I'm imagining that's the case. This goes in this thread because he didn't lower it. Amateur. *fakedit: lol at the warning https://twitter.com/SupraMiqote/status/1545265578872475648?s=20&t=5gBDKS-aC_5TMJvSt4Gqgw Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Jul 8, 2022 |
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Hey all, discussion about lovely companies and youtubers has it's own thread! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4006636 Dont know how well it'll work but it's open now.
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Didn't get a picture, but on the drive to work I saw a Pontiac Solstice with a custom American flag paint job, complete with "DON'T TREAD" written across the back.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:You know how a road is most slippery just after it rains? I'm imagining that's the case. From the 1993 newspaper article: "Are we going to have to wait until gas prices got to $5 a gallon before they build a high-mileage car?"
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Jul 8, 2022 14:44
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joat mon posted:From the 1993 newspaper article: Has automaker focus on efficiency ever been lower?
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PBCrunch posted:Has automaker focus on efficiency ever been lower? As the trucks get taller the mileage goes lower  2022 F-250 15 MPG highway
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F250 falls under the classification of a 'medium-duty truck' and therefore subject to different economy/emissions/safety standards. Over 8500lb CAFE does not apply. Light duty is under 8,500lb gvwr. Medium is 8,501-10,000lb, also known as class 2b, 3.
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Ever since gas prices shot up over the last ~6 months I have seen so many Hummers (mostly H2s but also an H1). I haven't seen any in years but I guess now owners just want to be able to complain about gas prices?
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If it has 4 wheels it should be subject to the same standards. Ones that mean heavy cars get the chop because they suck. #ColinChapmanGang
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Olympic Mathlete posted:If it has 4 wheels it should be subject to the same standards. Ones that mean heavy cars get the chop because they suck. #ColinChapmanGang That's not reasonable or possible. Commercial vehicles exist and are not for or able to conform to fuel efficiency standards of passenger vehicles. You can argue about where the line should be drawn (heavier, certainly) but you can't treat them all the same. It's not realistic or practical.
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Motronic posted:That's not reasonable or possible. Commercial vehicles exist and are not for or able to conform to fuel efficiency standards of passenger vehicles. Though technically they generally have more than four wheels. However goon in question seems to be having a fever dream in which entropy doesn't exist seeing as how its possible to have "four wheels", weigh north of 26 thousand pounds, and have a drag coefficient of a four over one apartment complex.
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Could make it illegal for individuals to buy commercial vehicles then.
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Reminds me of the C10 Big Ten that was sold in 1980 so they could make one more year where it wasn’t covered by emissions standards before being choked the same cars from 1981.
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In the EU, in general, the vehicle tax is based on CO2 emissions. The more it emits the more you pay. Commercial vehicles that are actually used in business purposes usually have more lenient rules. And there are various other excemptions as well, but in general the CO2 is the deciding factor.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Could make it illegal for individuals to buy commercial vehicles then. This is more fever dream stuff. I'm guessing you don't know just how easy and cheap it is to form a legal entity/business in the US.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Could make it illegal for individuals to buy commercial vehicles then. which directly targets owner/operators. easy to negate with a llc. bad_fmr posted:In the EU, in general, the vehicle tax is based on CO2 emissions. The more it emits the more you pay. Commercial vehicles that are actually used in business purposes usually have more lenient rules. And there are various other excemptions as well, but in general the CO2 is the deciding factor. Trucks in CA over a certain weight(iirc its 5 or 6k-lb) are titled different(as commercial) are taxed based on their unladen weight.
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The Nissan Titan XD couldn't get an exemption from economy testing because it's box was under 72 inches and as such was still considered a passenger vehicle for which the limit for exemption is 10,000lb gvwr, so they kept the GVWR at 8,500lbs meaning the maximum payload on the top trim trucks were ~1,100lbs, less than a Toyota Camry. On the plus side they're unreliable pieces of poo poo and parts just don't exist for them, so they won't be on the road much longer. Can't use fuel and produce emissions if it can't run.
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Half the posts are for the government and police to gently caress off and half are calls to make more things illegal. Just trying to keep up with what to think today. When the big trucks are illegal who will deliver the electric cars? everdave fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Jul 8, 2022 |
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everdave posted:Half the posts are for the government and police to gently caress off and half are calls to make more things illegal. Just trying to keep up with what to think today. You're such a goober.
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