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mazzi Chart Czar posted:[screams into the void] this country... is not my kinda country
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what’s with the bluish slate color? all cars have that color now and also look almost exactly the same.
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mawarannahr posted:what’s with the bluish slate color? all cars have that color now and also look almost exactly the same. ummm it's 'Celestite', actually
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The cheapest American made new car you can buy is the Dodge Challenger, which starts at ~$30,800. (The Ford Maverick MSRP is technically lower but no one's selling those at MSRP or will be for a long time.)
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the civic is cheaper than that and they make those here in the usa
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Pardon me, "American" brands (that are all made in Mexico anyway)
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Jan 16, 2023 19:49
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u said american made
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:[screams into the void] they also made a Yaris crossover, too. The Yaris! 
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Was it Hyundai that had to stop using an American contractor because there were some issues with child labour?
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:[screams into the void] disgusting
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an actual frog posted:lmao disgusting
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BonHair posted:Was it Hyundai that had to stop using an American contractor because there were some issues with child labour? Yeah, they kept taking too many unauthorized breaks and the parts they built were often out of spec.
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BonHair posted:Was it Hyundai that had to stop using an American contractor because there were some issues with child labour? they kept finding toys in the bodywork
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mawarannahr posted:what’s with the bluish slate color? all cars have that color now and also look almost exactly the same. crossover with the other great american dead end, the single family home! quote:Aside from war-mongering, rarely does the media manufacture consent like it does in terms of interior design. People often ask me: Why is everything so gray? How did we get here? The answer is because it is profitable. Why is it profitable? I’d like to hypothesize several reasons. The first is as I mentioned: today’s total neutrality is an organic outgrowth of a previous but slightly different style, “farmhouse modern,” that mixed the starkness of the vernacular farmhouse with the soft-pastel Pinterest-era rural signifiers that have for the last ten years become ubiquitous. https://mcmansionhell.com/post/703763852735692801/this-house-may-or-may-not-be-real
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Nitevision posted:Looks like poo poo There's people in the Musk thread eagerly defending crossovers lmao
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no car is defensible
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lobster shirt posted:no car is defensible Street car, train car, burning car, etc
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BonHair posted:Street car, train car, burning car, etc thats true
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Toyota crossified even its european citycar lol. it is less than 4m long
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lobster shirt posted:no car is defensible On their own, sure, but flip a few brodozers on their sides across a street and it makes a very defensible checkpoint.
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Centrist Committee posted:crossover with the other great american dead end, the single family home! The grey-ing of higher end cars is really weird to me.  you buy the ostentatious car and then opt for primer grey?  I imagine it was initially a novelty having something like that in the sea of candy colors, but they're so common these days, it just looks like a bunch of unfinished cars (and it's always a $$$ paint option).
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BeeSeeBee posted:The grey-ing of higher end cars is really weird to me. Is this a legit BMW advertisement, or just a photo from a meetup where three (four, if you count the camera car) bimmer drivers decided to take up the entire road?
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:[screams into the void] Oh, my Dad bought one of these because it's easier to get in and out of with his old man knees than a Honda Civic. Which means this will catch on with old folks who have disposable income and doom it's image.
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I'm going to start asking people why they have a gamer chair in their car just to watch their head explode.
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:[screams into the void] that's not an suv, it's a crossover, which is the best kind of car to have when you just need a sedan
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Dustcat posted:best kind of car Smythe posted:disgusting
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the only difference, apart from appearance, between a crossover and a sedan is that the sedan has a tiny trunk like your old man's car had so you'd sometimes have to ride with suitcases in the footwell
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Dustcat posted:the only difference, apart from appearance, between a crossover and a sedan is that the sedan has a tiny trunk like your old man's car had so you'd sometimes have to ride with suitcases in the footwell I'm quite sure the crossover is longer, taller, and has a somewhat higher grille
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actionjackson posted:I'm quite sure the crossover is longer, taller, and has a somewhat higher grille who the gently caress measures the grille on their car though
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Dustcat posted:who the gently caress measures the grille on their car though higher grille = more dangerous to people it hits
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Dustcat posted:who the gently caress measures the grille on their car though The pedestrian being scraped off it
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Dustcat posted:who the gently caress measures the grille on their car though sorry, did you wander into this thread by mistake?
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Can't find it but I just saw a screencap of a news article out of Philadelphia (I think) about a cyclist who was killed by a car. Some of the most horrific use of the passive voice I've ever read; it said something like "Cyclist who collided with car on her bicycle has died in hospital." I mean that's barely even passive voice, that's practically blaming the cyclist.
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Mister Speaker posted:Can't find it but I just saw a screencap of a news article out of Philadelphia (I think) about a cyclist who was killed by a car. Some of the most horrific use of the passive voice I've ever read; it said something like "Cyclist who collided with car on her bicycle has died in hospital." I mean that's barely even passive voice, that's practically blaming the cyclist. https://twitter.com/cbsphiladelphia/status/1614348439818469378?s=46&t=rytKODqWX-alnSiY1bFw-w
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Colliding with a car is a bad maneuver for a cyclist to make IMO.
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God the way that's written is infuriating. The only sentence, buried midway through, that suggests that the car just ran over the cyclist is "Police say the 32-year-old driver of the car was trying to make a left turn onto Columbus Boulevard when the two collided" and even that is worded as if it's impossible to determine who's to blame there
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yeah the phrasing "bicyclist who collided with a car" strongly implies that the car was just parked or otherwise minding its own business not doing anything and some yahoo on a bike just pedaled straight into it, rather than the opposite which is what actually happened "bicyclist struck by a car" is both more honest AND fewer words and yet they went out of their way to phrase it in such a way that the dead woman on the bike is framed as the sole responsible party
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Thank you duomo for finding the article. Infuriating. Honestly, what is with the passive voice in journalism? Is it out of some toxic desire to maintain 'impartiality' above all else, indoctrinated into journalism students by their dinosaur professors? Are the editors in the pocket of some nefarious lobbying interests, like police unions or car companies? It's mind-boggling that more people don't see right through this sort of language.
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Driver drove into cyclist is the phrase they are looking for.
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