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mawarannahr posted:idgi is there a funny car thing that sticks out to a driver? here's one from the 90s. see if you can notice any differences
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actionjackson posted:I saw what was apparently a new BMW 740i and what the gently caress why is there a splat grill arms race
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actionjackson posted:here's one from the 90s. see if you can notice any differences
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Zerg Mans posted:why is there a splat grill arms race Gotta make the cars look
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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withak posted:Looks like a car to me.
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Zerg Mans posted:why is there a splat grill arms race The two big growth markets for upmarket/luxury big sedan cars - especially German ones - are China and the Middle East. Both favour very large and ostentatious grilles as a symbol of status and because big grille = expensive car = rich driver. Back when BMWs were designed primarily for the European market their big selling point was that they were subtle and discrete. Now it's a race to produce what basically amounts to the first "radiator grille...now with four wheels and a car fitted as standard!" The Chinese market also has an expectation that truly rich car owners will have a driver to actually drive the car while they sit in the back, so sales of upmarket European cars have favoured extended-wheelbase versions with more rear legroom...to the extent that even people who can't afford a driver go for the extended model because that's the prestigious one...so now you often find that the standard BMW on sale in China is what is sold as the long version in Europe, while the Chinese market also gets an extra-long wheelbase version so buyers with chauffeurs can still stand out from the crowd. It's a contest to see who can put the most superfluous rear legroom into a car or massive SUV with a huge grille on the front.
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that all sounds very stupid, i think we should just outlaw cars
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the bitcoin of weed posted:china allowing the proliferation of cars is one of the main things that make me really doubt their vision of the future
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BalloonFish posted:The two big growth markets for upmarket/luxury big sedan cars - especially German ones - are China and the Middle East. Both favour very large and ostentatious grilles as a symbol of status and because big grille = expensive car = rich driver. Back when BMWs were designed primarily for the European market their big selling point was that they were subtle and discrete. Now it's a race to produce what basically amounts to the first "radiator grille...now with four wheels and a car fitted as standard!" “people who aren’t white are ruining my beautiful German cars  ”
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SKULL.GIF posted:It's been really interesting seeing how fast anti-car sentiment has spread over the past year. loving never because the spectator is a pissrag owned by chatham asset management (like almost all kkkanadian media)
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BalloonFish posted:The two big growth markets for upmarket/luxury big sedan cars - especially German ones - are China and the Middle East. Both favour very large and ostentatious grilles as a symbol of status and because big grille = expensive car = rich driver. Back when BMWs were designed primarily for the European market their big selling point was that they were subtle and discrete. Now it's a race to produce what basically amounts to the first "radiator grille...now with four wheels and a car fitted as standard!" good
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mystes posted:It's kind of surprising that none of the more authoritarian countries, even ones who claim not to want to be exactly the same as the us, have just outright banned cars, but I guess they usually have a big class of wealthy people who need to be rewarded with fun toys. yeah man that would be epic
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the bitcoin of weed posted:china allowing the proliferation of cars is one of the main things that make me really doubt their vision of the future rip
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The chinese know they can't allow a car gap. Trust me, they know what they're doing
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37 chinese factory workers piling out of an extended cab bmw, smoking cigars and eating caviar before hammering steel pylons into the earth at the funco pop factory
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mystes posted:It's kind of surprising that none of the more authoritarian countries, even ones who claim not to want to be exactly the same as the us, have just outright banned cars, but I guess they usually have a big class of wealthy people who need to be rewarded with fun toys. they wont ever ban cars, they will make them more expensive so thar naturally only the rich can have them. this sucks as cars are still around, but there will be fewer of them so its a conundrum.
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:speaking of american, with the 4th falling on a Monday it looks like we have ourselves a 3 day weekend of drinking and driving. I recommend getting off the streets before like 6pm unless you want to be victimized by some drunk gently caress piece of poo poo nobody was injured, thankfully, they hadn't gone to bed yet. the bed that was underneath the truck. also good news, no charges because the driver hid long enough the cops didn't bother with a breathalyzer. not that it matters, of course. everything is legal in car. can't wait for them to get sued for the damage done to truk, because one of these things matters in america and nothing else does.
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Lol the cops were out in town today ticketing cyclists for riding without helmets and not getting off their bikes to cross at pedestrian crossings Yet to see any evidence of hospitalisations caused by cyclists in this city
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El Pollo, wtf is wrong with your city? Is this because of that deranged city councilman? What city is this?
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Smythe posted:37 chinese factory workers piling out of an extended cab bmw, smoking cigars and eating caviar before hammering steel pylons into the earth at the funco pop factory Honestly a beautiful mental image.
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Harik posted:good news! that wasn't enough for my friend. drunk driver plowed through their bedroom after going through the power pole, taking out power to the whole neighborhood. and I do mean through the bedroom, front bumper in the hallway. then they fled, leaving their passenger trapped. should at least count as a felony home invasion
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El Pollo Blanco posted:Lol the cops were out in town today ticketing cyclists for riding without helmets and not getting off their bikes to cross at pedestrian crossings where was this?
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In Wellington on lambton quay. I suspect there are a lot of complaints about cyclists at the moment as more and more people get e-bikes Yesterday I saw a cyclist getting driven off the road, and saw a post on a local cycling page about bus driver nearly running down two cyclists in a bus lane because he thought cyclists weren't allowed in bus lanes (they are) lol
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El Pollo Blanco posted:In Wellington on lambton quay. I suspect there are a lot of complaints about cyclists at the moment as more and more people get e-bikes
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Harik posted:also good news, no charges because the driver hid long enough the cops didn't bother with a breathalyzer. not that it matters, of course. everything is legal in car. lol the driver was probably a fuckin cop off-dooty cop here ran a red light and t-boned a car at a double T intersection and did the same poo poo, disappeared until it was too late to run a breathalyzer
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:they wont ever ban cars, they will make them more expensive so thar naturally only the rich can have them. this sucks as cars are still around, but there will be fewer of them so its a conundrum. We're getting that here now, with the bonus of never reorienting our society to allow people to live without them.
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actionjackson posted:https://citymonitor.ai/community/neighbourhoods/google-maps-local-traffic Really cool how Google Maps is just loving killing people, and nobody is doing anything about it.
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Just did ~200 miles from Western MA to NYC on my bike and the suburb people every mile of the way on numbered roads were completely psychotic. Anything connecting a suburb to a walmart, no matter how rural it seemed, had at least 25% of the drivers acting like reckless assholes. It didn't matter if I was all the way over on the shoulder (which was never more than 18 inches wide) or a few feet into the road for maximum visibility, sometimes 4 or 5 cars would pass from about 3 feet at 50-60mph all at the same time because they were tailgating one another. Absolutely loving terrifying. I don't think I will ever do a bike tour that goes along numbered roads again. I don't care if it takes twice as long and only goes on dirt, it was a miserable experience. The last time I did this was in 2015 and mostly avoided those kinds of roads and it was a lot easier. The next long ride will go directly north into Vermont because it seems like anything 100 miles inland is totally infested with drivers like this. Once I got to the rail trails I was able to do 30 miles more riding each day, easily, because I wasn't experiencing constant spikes in my heart rate from getting buzzed by some rear end in a top hat in a rush to get their amazon packages.
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actionjackson posted:bad: filled up ten gallons at 5.19/gallon cool looking whip. get a different stem though, adjustables look like poo poo
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larper posted:Just did ~200 miles from Western MA to NYC on my bike and the suburb people every mile of the way on numbered roads were completely psychotic. Anything connecting a suburb to a walmart, no matter how rural it seemed, had at least 25% of the drivers acting like reckless assholes. It didn't matter if I was all the way over on the shoulder (which was never more than 18 inches wide) or a few feet into the road for maximum visibility, sometimes 4 or 5 cars would pass from about 3 feet at 50-60mph all at the same time because they were tailgating one another. Absolutely loving terrifying. I don't think I will ever do a bike tour that goes along numbered roads again. I don't care if it takes twice as long and only goes on dirt, it was a miserable experience. The last time I did this was in 2015 and mostly avoided those kinds of roads and it was a lot easier. The next long ride will go directly north into Vermont because it seems like anything 100 miles inland is totally infested with drivers like this. I quit riding on roads here, period, when we had to take a bypass road around the Montour Trail and two people actively tried to run us over and screamed poo poo at us in the course of twenty minutes. One of them, a Jeep driver (always a Jeep driver) flew up behind my wife at top speed, slammed the brakes a few feet from her, and leaned on the horn. Had my wife been startled and fallen she'd have certainly been run over.
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