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MrYenko posted:“Intense emotional appeal.” Ford: We have 1999 VW New Beetle at home
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Having lived in Brexitannia, I can't imagine trying to drive one of those things there. Shows how thin-to-nonexistent the line between awesomeness and madness is. I don't think I've ever seen one of those here in the United States. I had to go look at the full size image on Imgur to read the nameplate to figure out what it was. Now I kind of want one. Right up there with like an Round headlight Sedan DeVille or an '68-70 Olds 98, only better, because hidden headlights.
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Jul 17, 2023 18:23
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MrYenko posted:“Intense emotional appeal.” That same museum has one of these:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_Romeo_SZ And I'm sorry but that still looks like the future. AND has what I would call "intense emotional appeal". Even that Ford thing at least is trying, like it looks like it was drawn by some starry eyed kid on the back of a Trapper Keeper. i just really don't like the current styling trends of the industry. Just put more lines, idk try one here
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Jul 17, 2023 18:34
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MrYenko posted:“Intense emotional appeal.” I read that and just figured revulsion counts as an emotion.
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Darchangel posted:I don't think I've ever seen one of those here in the United States. I had to go look at the full size image on Imgur to read the nameplate to figure out what it was. Now I kind of want one. Right up there with like an Round headlight Sedan DeVille or an '68-70 Olds 98, only better, because hidden headlights. The story behind that model is odd and is the kind of thing that could only happen at Chrysler. It was originally the last full sized Imperial. As an Imperial it was sales failure and the entire brand was discontinued. Chrysler being Chrysler they couldn’t let the tooling go to waste so a year later they lowered the price and rebadged it as the Chrysler New Yorker Brougham, and it sold much better.
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Jul 17, 2023 19:28
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KakerMix posted:It has (had?) a less-that-prepared bit behind the fancy display place. Looking through my pictures I found these from June 2018: When you load a picture of the new VW beetle into Kais Power Goo
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Jul 17, 2023 20:08
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It's like a Ford Probe that was left in the sun
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Jul 17, 2023 20:36
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It's clearly a 3rd gen Taurus that ate a bee.
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Jul 17, 2023 21:08
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I briefly couldn't figure out if I had just forgotten what that era of Taurus looked like or what. The Ford badge certainly didn't help but the rest of the images quickly did.
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Jul 17, 2023 21:20
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Data Graham posted:i just really don't like the current styling trends of the industry. Just put more lines, idk try one here When you realise it's just to draw your attention away from the size difference between them and older cars due to 'safety features' and then notice all the other superfluous design features like fake exhausts, fake vents, diffusers that do nothing it all becomes quite tedious.
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Jul 17, 2023 21:37
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I was marveling at the thickness of the door/c pillar interface on my car unloading my kiddo from a trip to the car museum where they had an original 300sl gull wing. The "super wide sill" just looks like the massive sill my 2 year old struggles with every day on our modern car Vs my 30's era designed car, where the door is two pieces of sheet metal spaced just far enough apart to squeeze a pane of glass and the crank mechanism. There's not enough space for a lock so that's built into the door handle. Both cars have roughly the same horizontal interior widths but the older car is physically much smaller externally
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Jul 17, 2023 21:43
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ah so that's where Mercedes got their inspiration for the CLA 
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Jul 17, 2023 22:14
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:ah so that's where Mercedes got their inspiration for the CLA I'm sure I'm on the wrong side here, but I actually like the CLA. Yeah it's totally compromised in the rear seats, but I dunno, I dig the styling. CLS too for that matter.
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Jul 18, 2023 05:21
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hate it, looks like cheap poo poo
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Jul 18, 2023 05:51
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Is the CLA was the mercedes ford taurus for the $30,000 millionaire crowd
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Jul 18, 2023 05:54
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Someone put a sequential gearbox with straight-cut gears into ND miata  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P8FtoOUCp0
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Jul 18, 2023 11:23
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Darchangel posted:I don't think I've ever seen one of those here in the United States. I had to go look at the full size image on Imgur to read the nameplate to figure out what it was. Now I kind of want one. Right up there with like an Round headlight Sedan DeVille or an '68-70 Olds 98, only better, because hidden headlights. I didn't mean that specific model, just the entire genus of American Land Barge.
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Jul 18, 2023 11:36
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Darchangel posted:I don't think I've ever seen one of those here in the United States. I had to go look at the full size image on Imgur to read the nameplate to figure out what it was. Now I kind of want one. Right up there with like an Round headlight Sedan DeVille or an '68-70 Olds 98, only better, because hidden headlights. if you're gonna go Chrysler with hidden headlights, get a '71 (this is a 300) 
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Jul 18, 2023 14:07
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Hadlock posted:Is the CLA was the mercedes ford taurus for the $30,000 millionaire crowd My uncle bought a Mercedes 300E in 1990 and tried to trick all the kids into thinking that it was a Ford Taurus with fake badges. My youngest brother is still convinced that it was.
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Hadlock posted:Is the CLA was the mercedes ford taurus for the $30,000 millionaire crowd Wasn't the joke that the C stood for Cheap?
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mobby_6kl posted:Someone put a sequential gearbox with straight-cut gears into ND miata That looks so relaxing, what a nice drive.
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BuckyDoneGun posted:I'm sure I'm on the wrong side here, but I actually like the CLA. Yeah it's totally compromised in the rear seats, but I dunno, I dig the styling. CLS too for that matter. MB looked at the BMW Chris Bangle era and were like 'yeah gimme dat rear end'
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Jul 18, 2023 17:41
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BMW's are so ugly now Bangle looks like a genius in comparison.
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Jul 18, 2023 22:36
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Who would have thought the 1 Series M would be the last BMW I considered attractive
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Jul 18, 2023 22:46
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BMW was doing ok up until the 2020 7 series, 2021 M4 and 2022 XM Based on the sober (but not handsome) looking 2024 5 series looks like they're trying to walk back the ridiculous hot wheels styling a bit
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Jul 18, 2023 23:26
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I still like the 3 series.
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mobby_6kl posted:Someone put a sequential gearbox with straight-cut gears into ND miata It's beautiful but why's he playing music twice?
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Hadlock posted:BMW was doing ok up until the 2020 7 series, 2021 M4 and 2022 XM The new 5 series look like the back fell off
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Jul 19, 2023 09:59
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Why buy a X1/3/5 when you can just get a CX-90?
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Jul 19, 2023 20:11
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The CX90 is huge in comparison to X1/X3 You can also go into a BMW dealership and order any of those cars as you see fit, and in a couple months it shows up. You can't do that with Mazda.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I didn't mean that specific model, just the entire genus of American Land Barge. Honestly don't see that many genuine land barges any more, either. A neighbor has a round-headlight (IIRC, so pre-'75) Eldorado that they drive fairly often, and that's cool. PainterofCrap posted:if you're gonna go Chrysler with hidden headlights, get a '71 (this is a 300) My paternal grandmother had a Plymouth Fury III sedan when I was young, in blue. Also 1971, maybe 1970 judging by photos and my memories, but I don't think it had the hidden lights. Some did, some didn't looks like. Maybe just the Fury Sport got the hidden headlights? Really liked riding in that car. Miles of bench seat. Arson Daily posted:BMW's are so ugly now Bangle looks like a genius in comparison. I never would have believed it back then, but damned if you're not right. Hadlock posted:Based on the sober (but not handsome) looking 2024 5 series looks like they're trying to walk back the ridiculous hot wheels styling a bit Agreed. evobatman posted:The new 5 series look like the back fell off There's a skit that needs to be inserted here.
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Darchangel posted:
He said the back fell off, not the front.....?
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The ix is the ugliest car on the road today Its somehow even worse than the g80/82 m3 and m4 The current x4 is also extremely bad
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Jul 20, 2023 14:44
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Found a photo of my old surf club circa when (insert your favourite goon to call old here) was young: Back in the day:  Last year on google maps:  I have passed out/fell asleep under those trees many times.
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I've been looking for a good explanation of how the old prewar Bugatti crankshafts were put together, just because they looked so crazy and unusual, and  content creators don't have the money or network to access an engine like thisHe has a kind of round about rambling style of talking where he includes all the context up front and then gets to the details later but in the end it all meshes together nicely. His story about racing type 35s back in the 1980s makes a lot more sense when he starts talking about the roller bearings and how they're oiled etc If you want to just see the crank and how it comes apart (it's held together with squared pins!) that's about a third of the way through, and then he talks about the oiling system which is pretty clever involves a groove on the inside of the crank and centripetal force, near the last third https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpohTIT7KSA Pretty cool video overall even if it clocks in at almost 45 minutes but really gives a lot of insight into what a 3 main roller bearing 1.5L inline 8 looks like and how it goes together He references his accent a couple times I think it's an English class thing? He's got a bit of a gravely cockney accent I guess he's just proud to working on pre war Bugattis Hadlock fucked around with this message at 05:54 on Jul 21, 2023 |
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Wild EEPROM posted:The ix is the ugliest car on the road today Don’t forget the Xm and Xm label red.
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Sadi posted:Don’t forget the Xm and Xm label red. You better put a bmw in front of those names or be ready for a throw down 
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 https://twitter.com/GPLapsJake/status/1682067295336579072?t=Oe5zZ0q7_Oe9WB0Z7CrQTQ&s=19
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Olympic Mathlete posted:
Rally Hiace?
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:He said the back fell off, not the front.....? Well, yes, but it's still not supposed to fall off. Boaz MacPhereson posted:Rally Hiace? Agreed.
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