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i finally got enough energy to read that thread (well, with a lot of skimming the op's posts) and uh. well then. some phrases that stood out to me were "romanticized the idea of being a nomad IT warrior" and "as a single guy in my 40s I'd feel permanently awkward driving [a minivan]" and "I may be technically homeless in September when my lease is up and I refuse to renew, but that will be a choice" i can't believe how many times he keeps going back to the same suspension shop that he thinks is loving him over because this time is the time they'll finally make it drive like he thinks it should the guy wants to live an imaginary life while working a job that doesn't exist and he seems desperately convinced that getting the truck sorted out will finally make it happen but he won't even buy a car that's objectively better for what he says he wants because it doesn't fit his image. boy. woof
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Sagebrush posted:"as a single guy in my 40s I'd feel permanently awkward driving [a minivan]" Is it awkward to be a single guy in my 40s driving a station wagon? Asking for me.
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Aug 16, 2023 20:31
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Depends. Do you feel awkward as a guy in your 40s driving a station wagon? If no, then no. And I want my Astro van back, actually. That thing was handy. Definitely entertaining the idea of finding an AWD one and ghetto turbocharging it. What would GMC have called an Astro done up like a Syclone/Typhoon?
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Aug 16, 2023 21:06
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Darchangel posted:What would GMC have called an Astro done up like a Syclone/Typhoon? "Galaxy" would combine the stars + spirals motifs of both parts but Ford has that name locked up already.
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Aug 16, 2023 21:07
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Darchangel posted:Depends. Do you feel awkward as a guy in your 40s driving a station wagon? I mean, it's a little awkward that it's an automatic and I don't get to shift my own gears.
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Aug 16, 2023 21:11
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CMD598 posted:I do not understand how you can go through like a half dozen different suspension systems, on something as common as a Tacoma, including high end systems, and not find... some kind of improvement. Munchhasen by proxy?
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Aug 16, 2023 21:12
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Darchangel posted:
Yeah this was my favorite bit - “I’ve added so much weight to the truck it’s now over gross weight just sitting still and it’s hitting the bump stops and riding like poo poo. Better get springs that are so stiff they can’t ever touch the bumps!” “I don’t know why it rides so harsh!!” Followed by “it’s still riding like poo poo, the springs must be too soft. Guess I’d better get stiffer ones, that’ll surely help!” Ad nauseum. I do feel for him, but talk about having the blinders fully on. It’s a truck, they only ever ride acceptably when they’ve got a little weight in them to calm the stock setup down. This clown managed to get it to a 6700lb curb weight and is surprised it rides weird with a short wheelbase and really really stiff springs.
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Aug 16, 2023 21:37
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He said he wasn’t interested in any actual off-roading but had at one point installed 800lbs of ‘armour’ for some reason.
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Aug 16, 2023 21:44
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Uthor posted:Is it awkward to be a single guy in my 40s driving a station wagon? Asking for me. I'm 40 and drive a Volvo V60. I don't feel awkward at all but I haven't exactly asked around if others agree.
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Aug 16, 2023 21:46
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Station Wagons are not age restricted
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I made what I thought was a perfectly reasonable suggestion to just go with the trd lift available from Toyota/dealers as it's a decent kit, comes with a warranty from Toyota after he said something along the lines of "I don't want to do anything too crazy off road with this thing". I'm tempted to look for the thread on Tacoma world and see what they say but eh, 
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Aug 16, 2023 22:02
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CommieGIR posted:Station Wagons are not age restricted wrong children cannot drive station wagons
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Aug 16, 2023 22:14
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I could write a thesis off of the thread. I'll leave it at this though. Goon went wrong when they cared more about their public perception in their vehicle than the things in their life that actually mattered. We've seen it in this subforum time and time again. Let's... Move on.
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Aug 16, 2023 22:26
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Once he got the GoPro out didn't he say it actually never touched the bumpstops? So either the springs are so hard that it feels like full compression every cycle or he just has no idea what he's feeling/talking about. I assume the latter. If you can't feel the difference between stiff springs and a spring rate that goes to infinity, I'm not sure you should be making modifications to a vehicle...
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Aug 16, 2023 22:29
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CommieGIR posted:Station Wagons are not age restricted Maybe not restricted but let me tell you I just turned 40 this year and I'm like desperately after a wagon for some reason now and we don't even have kids.
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Aug 16, 2023 22:37
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35 in a month and I have this real bad want for a gen1 volt or a g2 prius to circuit bend into a tool cart. To lift 55mm. Grabbers. LincolnLock the diff, bellypan to keep the converter thieves out, add a 6kW inverter to power my dumbass 240V tools and charge off my solar as a portable welding rig. E: hell I'd run a sienna hybrid if they were a thou bucks. dgaf minivans own. I almost parted my truck out to build an econoline. I love vans.
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cursedshitbox posted:We've seen it in this subforum time and time again. Let's... Move on. ^^^^^
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CommieGIR posted:Station Wagons are not age restricted When I was in my late teens/early 20s the two coolest cars you could own were a Legacy GT or Mitsubishi Legnum VR-4 wagon. Preferably with some snowboards on the roof rack.
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Aug 16, 2023 22:53
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I'm 40 and drive a Volvo V60. I don't feel awkward at all but I haven't exactly asked around if others agree. Oh, I should have noted that I'm 53 and drive a wagon ('03 Subaru Outback) when my wife isn't driving it, no problem. Though I prefer my V8 couch (AKA: Crown Victoria.) I have no problem with Volvo wagons and CTS (V!) wagons, etc. I like being able to hauls stuff as well as rear end.
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Aug 16, 2023 23:04
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My 17-year-old son drives a Volvo V70 wagon with a 5-speed. Lowered. With an exhaust. Truly wagons are ageless.
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Aug 16, 2023 23:10
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Midjack posted:"Galaxy" would combine the stars + spirals motifs of both parts but Ford has that name locked up already. GMC Safari. gently caress it, just use the Swahili spelling of galaxy: Galaksi. Ford can't have Galaxie, Galaxy, and Galaksi, the greedy fuckers.
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I went from a '93 Passat wagon into a '05 Colorado with carpeted bed a fiberglass cap (basically a wagon) into a '10 Golf Sportwagen into a '19 Golf Alltrack - the last "wagon" VW will sell here. I want to camp inside the thing I can throw a bike into and a kayak on top of and haul lumber for a fence with and work on without a ladder and hand-wash the top of without standing on a wheel and also put it in the garage and close the door. Does half of that stuff actually matter? Nah. But cars are boring and don't do it all. Barely anybody uses their truck to do anything but drive. SUVs are everywhere. In this landscape, a wagon is almost bespoke. In 2023, it would be easy to say that every current wagon owner has gone out of their way to hunt down and buy theirs. It wasn't a "guess I'll go with the one they have on the lot.." type decision.
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bigbillystyle posted:Maybe not restricted but let me tell you I just turned 40 this year and I'm like desperately after a wagon for some reason now and we don't even have kids. Because wagons kick rear end
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About the best cars I ever had were the Ford Windstar/Freestar vans that were my company cars from 2004-2012. Nimble, versatile, comfortable; hauled a ton of people and cargo. Probably half of the building materials for my garage came home in them. I taught my son to drive in the Windstar; he loved it because of the commanding, nearly 360-degree view; made him feel very secure. I never got the minivan hate. How insecure do you have to be? Also had a '93 Buick Roadmaster. Could load full sheets of plywood & close the tailgate.
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PainterofCrap posted:I never got the minivan hate. How insecure do you have to be? For me it's not an insecurity, they just suck to drive. My wife has an odyssey, and it's fantastic for what it does, but my daily driver is a BRZ so driving that giant land whale of a vehicle sucks compared to my little go kart.
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PainterofCrap posted:About the best cars I ever had were the Ford Windstar/Freestar vans that were my company cars from 2004-2012. Nimble, versatile, comfortable; hauled a ton of people and cargo. Probably half of the building materials for my garage came home in them. I always hated our Windstar; gutless, thirsty, and unresponsive. Although, that car was definitely at the end of its life, the door could freeze open in the winter and it had a lot of that kind of "first car" problems, so maybe my experience is not representative of owning a Windstar Vans are great though, I encourage their purchase to almost everyone, because they meet most people's needs, even if their styling is usually appreciated with time. I almost bought a Mazda5, so I'm comfortable being the man with the van
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The Door Frame posted:I always hated our Windstar; gutless, thirsty, and unresponsive. Although, that car was definitely at the end of its life, the door could freeze open in the winter and it had a lot of that kind of "first car" problems, so maybe my experience is not representative of owning a Windstar This was my family's car when I was a kid and took us many hundreds and thousands of miles doing everything including road trips between New Jersey to Orlando, FL (all in a single day driven exclusively by my dad) and to southwestern Virginia. This one had captain seats instead of a bench seat in the middle road so my brother and I were less prone to invading each other's personal space. We even got a portable TV/VCR combo that neatly sat between front seats and kept me and my brother occupied during those road trips. One time, my dad even almost lost a hand when my little brother inadvertently slammed the sliding door shut while his hand was still resting on the B-pillar. Good times. However, I wouldn't be surprised if my parent's hated that thing as a car. Granted they weren't car people but, after being a Ford family since they came to this country in the 70s, they decided to move on to greener pastures (ie Toyota) after the Windstar blew a headgasket which leaked coolant into the cylinder(s). They did have to pay for a rebuilt engine just to have a running car again. It didn't stay for that much longer before they got a '06 RAV4 that's still running to this day.
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We had 3 different Caravans growing up. Beige ‘86, a white ‘94 and a red pimped out ‘02 Town and Country my dad foisted on my mom not long before the divorce when she wanted something sporty because all us kids had either moved out or had our own cars. She made him take it in the divorce and it would have ended up getting lemon lawed but my dad voided the warranty Large Testicles fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Aug 17, 2023 |
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All through college and shortly after I drove a 91 Voyager that my mom gave me. It had fake wood paneling and I ate tons of poo poo because it was a "grocery getter" but whose car did we take every time we went to the bar or someone needed to move? That thing hauled more furniture and rear end than any of my pickup or SUV owning friends. Comfy as hell too; loved that thing.
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I liked my facelift Mazda5 and had 6 comfortable seats but it had almost none of the storage space that 6 people would need. I sold it and bought a second gen Mitsubishi Montero.
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I wish my grandparents had let me know when they sold their Turbo Caravan...
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The Door Frame posted:the door could freeze open in the winter
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My brother in Satan have you been in an odyssey or sienna in the last 10 years? Large, quiet, smooth and comfortable. I'd take one over a fukkin Escalade or whatever any day of the week.
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Yeah modern minivans are nice inside and all, and are especially nice to drive compared to a big SUV, but I don’t want to own one of those either. We rented a newer Sienna to drive five of us from Vegas to the Grand Canyon a few years ago and it was perfectly suitable, but given that I have a choice of many cars to drive to suit different purposes, I’ll never buy a minivan. We never need space for more than 4 people at home, and if I need to haul something biggish, I have a Kei truck and my wife has an Escape (even this is too big for me to drive regularly) My FiST is my work car and I haul large amounts of medical equipment in that behemoth. It’s not that I have some sort of vitriolic hatred against minivans, it’s just not “for me”. I prefer smaller cars with three pedals.
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I'm convinced US road planners have shares in concrete and tarmac companies (and possibly have debilitating brain injuries) because what the gently caress is this monstrosity? https://twitter.com/LakeStevensWA/status/1691825107017322966?t=b1oLEBywtVRtdcArK1-eCg&s=19
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Cheaper than building overpasses at this weird wide spot in the road that has recently become busier than expected, probably. Not to say it's not dumb but it's probably mostly to slow the highway traffic coming through without making it so cross-traffic has to wait for stoplights if no one is coming.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I'm convinced US road planners have shares in concrete and tarmac companies (and possibly have debilitating brain injuries) because what the gently caress is this monstrosity? this is very weird as I used to live there a while ago, and that idiot town likes putting roundabouts at random places this is no surprise and I am glad I dont have to drive in it lol e. oh that's over by Safeway and Highway 9. That part loving sucks, it's a nightmare getting in and out of that Safeway because it's right on Highway 9. good luck everyone
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I'm convinced US road planners have shares in concrete and tarmac companies (and possibly have debilitating brain injuries) because what the gently caress is this monstrosity? Just why? Forcing people though this at your strip mall shopping area seems like you're trying to keep people away by making it inconvenient to quickly traverse by car when lots of people want to shop at the same time, completely defeating the purpose of a strip mall shopping area Just imagine getting groceries there on Super Bowl Sunday 
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The Door Frame posted:
it was already impossible due to how the lights / entry / exit were set up near the highway, lmao it's gonna be even worse now as people try to navigate the labyrinth in their giant trucks
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Ether Frenzy posted:Cheaper than building overpasses at this weird wide spot in the road that has recently become busier than expected, probably. Not to say it's not dumb but it's probably mostly to slow the highway traffic coming through without making it so cross-traffic has to wait for stoplights if no one is coming. On my drive to work, there are two roundabouts off the highway. Not too bad. But, they're opening up a
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