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Galler posted:Did the test determine if it was or was not a dino? The truck isn’t a dinosaur, but the owner is.
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Darchangel posted:One guy broke his AutoX car, so rented a Malibu (late '90s, early '00 at the time), I think it was, and used that just for fun. The body roll was hilarious. Some groups might not let you run a tall vehicle out of rollover concerns though. Barely related, but I was behind a Regal on my way out of work yesterday (W body, so anywhere from 97-04?). There's a long curve coming out of the property that everybody hauls rear end on, and the body roll on that thing was hilarious. It looked like it wanted to capsize. I know that's larger than a Malibu, but that's not the point. I was able to go around him mid-curve comfortably. My mother had a W body Intrigue, and I remember it handling.... decent. Not great, but I don't remember it ever feeling like it was going to roll onto its side. But it was also only a couple of years old at the time.
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Galler posted:Did the test determine if it was or was not a dino? Clouds and clouds of dino.
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Dankpods (audio device and gadget reviews) / Dankmus (simpsonwave) has another channel called Garbage Time where he sometimes does car stuff like putting banana skins in his van's diff. It's very Australian. This is almost the wrong thread for it, almost... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUv6cyKZdIs
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televiper posted:They don’t appear to have gotten much better. Is this seriously where these are at? Let me know when they can get you into a spot 3 feet larger than the car.
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Source4Leko posted:Is this seriously where these are at? Let me know when they can get you into a spot 3 feet larger than the car. Not used, but every demo I've seen is better than that. Remember, it's a car commercial, and they loving hate showing any other cars, or anything that implies cars are a pain in the arse. Wide, smooth city streets with just you cruising smoothly from coffee shop to picking up the kids. Free flowing highways. In this case they actually need other cars to demonstrate the feature, but better not show them too close, squeezing your SUV in amongst a sea of other SUV's is a breeze, especially with Ford's new Autopark!
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televiper posted:They don’t appear to have gotten much better. Also can we take a moment to discuss how Ford is no longer built tough. They're just proud of any trash they polish
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Dickbird's been offroading again I see.
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tater_salad posted:Also can we take a moment to discuss how Ford is no longer built tough. They're just proud of any trash they polish They never were op. They came to terms with the fact they can't build such things and pivoted their slogan accordingly.
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STR posted:Barely related, but I was behind a Regal on my way out of work yesterday (W body, so anywhere from 97-04?). There's a long curve coming out of the property that everybody hauls rear end on, and the body roll on that thing was hilarious. It looked like it wanted to capsize. I know that's larger than a Malibu, but that's not the point. I was able to go around him mid-curve comfortably. I'm fairness it was at least 18 years old and probably on its original suspension.
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Aren't Buick Regals always just old man couch cars? I got one as a rental to drive from Denver-LA in 2001 and it felt like I was driving a waterbed. Thing had body roll on the straights
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Buick was selling two different models based on the W platform back then, the Regal was actually positioned as the sportier of the two. The other being the Century.
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LOL why do the doors fly open? I assume they re-lock after it catches on fire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAIxdwOFnQk In the old days, when motor industry CEOs had to sell books to get "likes" from adoring MBAs and other sycophants, cars at least threw you out in minor rollovers
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Cacafuego posted:Remind me again just what was so unsafe about the Corvair? Ralph Nader said it was.
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The first gen had a swing axel rear suspension that could tuck under and lose contact while cornering. How big a problem it really was is disputed by Corvair enthusiasts. Edit: Tuck under and cause roll overs. Here’s a video where a test driver takes one out on a track to demonstrate. The tuck under does look real scary and it even lifts the opposite tire but it doesn’t roll it. Those may be much better tires than they came with though. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NI9Hq0_Mhy0 Fornax Disaster fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Aug 28, 2022 |
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Colostomy Bag posted:Anyone else smell their nightmares? The burning plastic smell?
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And replaced it with an arrow, yes. As far a screed vehicles go it's pretty well crafted and clever.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Good Civic. "Shredder" windshield banner is accurate. (You can see it in the video in the actual Tweet) tater_salad posted:^^ oops hope the guys red Yankee hat and truck nutz(tm) are okay. Lower it about 2" from the ground. Then it'll be fine, I'm sure. Or do like that guy running in a fun spec series for minivans did, and shove a Grand Prix or G6 GT under a Pontiac Montana, I believe it was. Lotta work, but it came out pretty neat. edit: even better, it was a G6 under a Lumina APV - you know, a Dustbuster. Made specifically for the Soccer Mom Challenge of GRM's $20XX challenge, 2016, in this case: https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/news/readers-ride-not-your-moms-minivan/ https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/build-projects-and-project-cars/1996-chevy-lumina-apv-gtp-2016-soccer-mom-challeng/107614/page1/ edit edit: Ah, man, it was for sale for $2K in 2020! https://www.motor1.com/news/434175/lumina-pontiac-gtp-chassis-for-sale/    edit the third: dang it, he scrapped it when no one would buy it...  That part belongs in this thread. Ether Frenzy posted:LOL why do the doors fly open? I assume they re-lock after it catches on fire. Hmmmm, wonder why so many of those are VWs....  I'm including the 911. Beetle proves to be pretty sturdy in a rollover, at least. Cacafuego posted:Remind me again just what was so unsafe about the Corvair? Same thing that made all those Beetles and other swing-axle V-dubs roll over, actually. VW just sort of coughed and looked the other way, hoping Nader wouldn't notice that they used the same setup. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Aug 29, 2022 |
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Whelp. https://www.motor1.com/news/602085/corvette-electric-sedan-suv-rumors/ I really, really, really hope this is just wild speculation and the lash-back from something so asinine as calling anything that isn't a Corvette a Corvette makes Chevy pause, but it certainly didn't stop Ford from doing a dumb. edit: 
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opengl128 posted:I absolutely hate it, but it will cause corvette boomers to stroke out so Oh, yeah, for sure.
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Bajaha posted:Powershifts creations have leaked out of AI. Don't blame him, at least Powershift had taste!
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