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knox_harrington posted:Is this your photo ? Where is it? Looks like rural Suffolk It's from Jonny Smith's review, timestamped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQI_9dOL-l8&t=877s
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Darchangel posted:From the comments: Zerin has some incredibly bad views, particularly on enormous cars. He posted up some photos of the Miata style in headrest speakers in that Escalade and all I could see was the absolutely awful leather stitching job with the shoddy pattern cutting and the busted-rear end plastic work on one of the ill-fitting speaker surrounds.
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nitrogen posted:What I mean by "easy to work on" is basically designed for human beings, not Japanese little people to be able to wrench on I find cars to be easy to work on when they have a minimum of casual racism. It's true about the inverse proportionality of "easy to work on" to "reliable" though. I love my El Camino. It's super easy to work on, which is good because it often needs to be worked on. But I flog my Mazda2 all over town, mercilessly abusing it, and yet it continues to yip about like a happy little puppy with little but basic maintenance.
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Imagined posted:Doesn't a car that's 'easy to work on' imply inefficiency in several directions, i.e. an engine bay way bigger than it needs to be, no complex or computerized emissions or fuel efficiency systems, etc? I think most of the issue is the designed for easy assembly no other considerations. Most modern cars start their pull engine instructions with place on lift, unbolt subframe, lift chassis off drive train. Sure in a pro shop this can be quick but when half the stuff you might need to fix is so buried it wants an engine out it makes everything hosed. This hyper tight packaging doesn't make anything more reliable though.
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Hell yeah internet of poo poo is coming full force to the car industry. Having your car not work because it can't connect to a server is going to rule. (image in the first tweet) https://twitter.com/BoziTatarevic/status/1574741035015626752?t=1QC8_NN8XgphtHBiv06eUA&s=19
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nitrogen posted:All I want is a truck with a decent, easy to work on engine, and a minimum amount of computers, and a stereo I can upgrade with anything I want from crutchfield. That new? tf was built in '07? my 32 year old truck has one computer* in it. so far its one of the only things that has yet to break. *I'm the one that built it, wrote the code, and put it there. Trade one set of problems for another. but then again Olympic Mathlete posted:Hell yeah internet of poo poo is coming full force to the car industry. Having your car not work because it can't connect to a server is going to rule. (image in the first tweet) gently caress everything to do with this.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Hell yeah internet of poo poo is coming full force to the car industry. Having your car not work because it can't connect to a server is going to rule. (image in the first tweet) 
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“I want my car to work just like my computer!” *forgets password* “Piece of poo poo!”
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fins posted:it gets worse lmao
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fins posted:it gets worse As a Infosec person, this makes me laugh/cry
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Hey why can't I start my car? Oh, "Alps Alpine" went bankrupt after their CEO embezzled a bunch of money and they couldn't pay their AWS bill.quote:Alps Alpine is evolving into an Innovative T-shaped Company and aims to bring comfort and enrichment to society by continually creating new value. wtf?
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This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!
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fins posted:it gets worse I'm laughing because this is just one piece of an incredibly lovely cake with added microtransactions at multiple levels (which you'll no doubt be able to pay for because that server is ALWAYS up)
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Scratch Monkey posted:
This makes me want to punch a Marketing person repeatedly. I'ma start a company and make the mission statement "we make neat stuff." Seriously, someone do that and live up to it. Why in the actual gently caress would you ever do that? What was the supposed end goal?
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Darchangel posted:
They're obviously draining all of the fire from the gas tank.
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dphi posted:They're obviously draining all of the fire from the gas tank.
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Have another fugly BMW. I'm loving the split headlights, an admission that the car is simply too large. https://twitter.com/CNETCars/status/1574881886870052894?t=hqhDY1uEbwMuZVBERBS_hA&s=19
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Have another fugly BMW. I'm loving the split headlights, an admission that the car is simply too large. Why do they keep making the grill bigger? Like who wants or likes that? 
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Finally saw a Hummer EV irl and it absolutely looks like poo poo and anyone buying one sucks for doing so
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DarkSol posted:Why do they keep making the grill bigger? Like who wants or likes that? SUV owners broadly want their car to look mean and scary to intimidate everyone else on the road. Big flat armor-wall noses with squinty little angry eyes and sharp teeth. It's a well established pseudopsychology embraced by every auto company's marketing department. Trucks work the same way. Also something about THE BRAND. Bigger = better! Here's a nice BMW to soothe the burn. 
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dphi posted:They're obviously draining all of the fire from the gas tank. Ah, I hadn’t thought of that. I normally store fire in non-flaming formats. Chris Knight posted:Great success!! Indeed. Looks like they got it all out. Olympic Mathlete posted:Have another fugly BMW. I'm loving the split headlights, an admission that the car is simply too large. CNET is right. I hate it.
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DarkSol posted:Why do they keep making the grill bigger? Like who wants or likes that? According to BMW's advertising it's "Internet Influencers" and 20-something's that DEMAND ATTENTION PLEASE LOOK AT ME! what I don't get is that XM GRILLLL is smaller than the iX grill (and the fugly M3/M4/4) so maybe they are backtracking on the mega double mega grilles now?
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Keyser_Soze posted:According to BMW's advertising it's "Internet Influencers" and 20-something's that DEMAND ATTENTION PLEASE LOOK AT ME! I was driving out of my apartment's parking lot the other day and finally noticed the grill of a new Lexus. Somehow worse than that BMW's grill. Whomever said that it looked like the front of a old BSG Cylon's "face" was right. 
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Darchangel posted:Lol, 20-something’s can afford a car. Well if you go over to Reddit you can get about a billion of them screaming "you don't like the new BMW designs BECAUSE YOU CAN'T AFFORD THEM!!" over and over. Probably bots, maybe influencers, trustafarian club dipshits or oligarch failkids, Roman Roy, who knows?
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How tf is I'm gonna drill in the gas tank not a let's go ahead and have the extinguisher right here moment. I know it's because if you're that smart you don't poke the hole to begin with but wtf.
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That's a great way to get the bed off! Twitter friend of mine sent me this and my jaw dropped. https://twitter.com/fyvie2/status/1574926413479956480?s=20&t=lky7I3vCmu6Sf5VnT_WgcA
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The gently caress lame rear end cons has this nerd been going to? Every professional and semi-professional con I've been to has been a social event with other poo poo going on in order to justify the event.
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Darchangel posted:Lol, 20-something’s can afford a car. i mean, "internet influencers" can. this means people like kylie jenner, and kylie jenner wannabes funded by the bank of mom and dad.
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Darchangel posted:Lol, 20-something’s can afford a car. You can with Daddy's / boyfriend's money Olympic Mathlete posted:Have another fugly BMW. I'm loving the split headlights, an admission that the car is simply too large. Yeah nah C-Net, there's nothing awesome about that piece of poo poo full stop
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Keyser_Soze posted:Well if you go over to Reddit you can get about a billion of them screaming "you don't like the new BMW designs BECAUSE YOU CAN'T AFFORD THEM!!" over and over. The first post I saw on Reddit about the new IX was complaining that it only had 653hp. Still if you really want to set them off slap an M badge on a non-M car, or worse add M coloured kidney slats.
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Galler posted:The gently caress lame rear end cons has this nerd been going to? Every professional and semi-professional con I've been to has been a social event with other poo poo going on in order to justify the event. A 48 hour long dinner party sounds awful
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Lord Ludikrous posted:Still if you really want to set them off slap an M badge on a non-M car, or worse add M coloured kidney slats. It isn't possible to buy a new BMW car without the M Sport badges here - it's standard even on the most basic 118i hatch. The X models are apparently available in non-M Sport versions but you seldom see one.
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Keyser_Soze posted:Well if you go over to Reddit you can get about a billion of them screaming "you don't like the new BMW designs BECAUSE YOU CAN'T AFFORD THEM!!" over and over. I like Bentleys, and I can't afford them even more than I can't afford a BMW, so NYAH, Reddit! Sagebrush posted:i mean, "internet influencers" can. this means people like kylie jenner, and kylie jenner wannabes funded by the bank of mom and dad. Yeah, but chasing that market is sort of futile. It can't be terribly large. nitrogen posted:That's a great way to get the bed off! I feel like that was the goal, given the attachment point. quote:Twitter friend of mine sent me this and my jaw dropped. Sweet, Jesus. *Maybe* to roll it around the yard, but otherwise NOPE. dissss posted:It isn't possible to buy a new BMW car without the M Sport badges here - it's standard even on the most basic 118i hatch. Something something brand dilution something. In all seriousness, poo poo isn't special if anyone can buy one or one that looks like it. If they're all special, none of them are. Seems like BMW has forgotten that, and not the only one.
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Time to be reminded once again that M-sport trim level/editions isn't a modern thing and BMW have been doing it for decades. As for all our (dis and I live in the same country) models being M-sport, it's nothing to do with being special or anything, it's just no one orders stripper models, by the time you've optioned everything people want, oh look might as well just spec the M-sport edition as standard. Same as not bothering selling a 5 series with cloth seats and wind up windows, poo poo's gunna sit on the lot.
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BuckyDoneGun posted:Same as not bothering selling a 5 series with cloth seats and wind up windows, poo poo's gunna sit on the lot. Cloth seats are currently a 15k option on a 911. They look awesome though. 
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