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Can't have any Accidents Per 1k Drivers if there aren't 1k of your cars on the road!
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OBAMNA PHONE posted:Lol Yeah, I did get a chuckle from that. Stutz drivers are the safest, they have 0.001284 accident per 1000 drivers, while LaSalle drivers have a much higher rate (MORE THAN DOUBLE) at 0.003754 accidents per 1000 cars.
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Dec 20, 2023 18:55
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I'm guessing if they're looking at personal insurance those numbers exclude fleet vehicles, but a decent fraction of Uber drivers are renting Teslas and that must absolutely drive up accident numbers. Apparently Tesla rental for Uber costs around $800, a week, at least in the South.
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Dec 20, 2023 18:57
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Sab669 posted:Can't have any Accidents Per 1k Drivers if there aren't 1k of your cars on the road! Rural/poor America is still running all of those ragged. I see all of them all the time.
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Dec 20, 2023 19:12
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Sab669 posted:
I mean you laugh but modern CUVs and SUVs would look exactly this goofy if it wasn't for all the specific design tricks to draw your eyes away from the fact the size of them is awkward as gently caress visually. Stuff like fake exhausts and big plastic diffusers that do nothing, extra lights fitted a foot or more under the main ones, huge grilles and fake venting, lower half of the car painted black and cinched up towards the back to make the car less visually heavy... This ugly piece of poo poo is at least honest about itself.
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Dec 20, 2023 19:16
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You heard it here first: car design is basically fraud if u think about it
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Dec 20, 2023 20:41
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Are you mad that the car is wearing makeup?
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Dec 20, 2023 20:45
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Goons. Never change. 
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wesleywillis posted:Its not new car news, but its car news: Ram dethroned by superior German
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Dec 20, 2023 21:01
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Other cars would look that bad if they looked that bad. 
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Dec 20, 2023 21:54
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I mean you laugh but modern CUVs and SUVs would look exactly this goofy if it wasn't for all the specific design tricks to draw your eyes away from the fact the size of them is awkward as gently caress visually. Stuff like fake exhausts and big plastic diffusers that do nothing, extra lights fitted a foot or more under the main ones, huge grilles and fake venting, lower half of the car painted black and cinched up towards the back to make the car less visually heavy... 
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Dec 20, 2023 22:03
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You've gotta fully round out the lower part of the bumper around the fog lights though
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Dec 20, 2023 22:45
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Honestly the lower one looks better.
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Have to concur. That looks so much nicer.
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LeeMajors posted:Honestly the lower one looks better. That's because deep down inside you love the jelly bean Taurus. 
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Dec 20, 2023 23:25
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Reminds me of the late 90s mercury cougar now.
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Just a few hours left to get your entry in for The Sheep Game! Click our mission patch to play today! 
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Dec 21, 2023 00:47
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I still have a Saturn at 260k miles and I see soooo many on the road. Only the Saturn versions though, not the Opel badge engineered stuff or the Chevy badge engineered stuff. First gen Vues and SLs and poo poo all over the place.
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Dec 21, 2023 01:08
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News: Daihatsu has to stop all vehicle shipments in Japan and export markets thanks to improper crash test standards. quote:A third-party panel it has set up identified 174 new counts of misconduct across 25 vehicle test items in addition to those already discovered, with the oldest one dating back to 1989, Daihatsu said, adding that it reported the findings to the transport ministry. Views: This follows after Toyota’s truck maker Hino has had to stop selling some models after emissions data falsification was found and announced in 2022. Yikes.
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Dr. Lunchables posted:I still have a Saturn at 260k miles and I see soooo many on the road. Only the Saturn versions though, not the Opel badge engineered stuff or the Chevy badge engineered stuff. First gen Vues and SLs and poo poo all over the place. I still see Cavaliers on the road. After owning a last gen model, I’m surprised they’re not all drink cans by now.
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Full Collapse posted:I still see Cavaliers on the road. After owning a last gen model, I’m surprised they’re not all drink cans by now. I saw a first gen cavalier at the grocery store the other day and my eyes nearly fell out of my head.
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Dr. Lunchables posted:I still have a Saturn at 260k miles and I see soooo many on the road. Only the Saturn versions though, not the Opel badge engineered stuff or the Chevy badge engineered stuff. First gen Vues and SLs and poo poo all over the place. I saw a Sky this morning on my commute to work.
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Dec 21, 2023 02:58
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:I saw a first gen cavalier at the grocery store the other day and my eyes nearly fell out of my head. J-bodies go back to a RWD platform, so that’d be a hell of a spot.
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Dec 21, 2023 03:57
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Full Collapse posted:J-bodies go back to a RWD platform, Um, no. Two of the J bodies inherited names from the RWD H body but the Cavalier wasn't one of them.
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Q_res posted:Um, no. Two of the J bodies inherited names from the RWD H body but the Cavalier wasn't one of them. I swear I remember some goon who did long form write-ups of GM cars and the first Cavalier was RWD. This was back when Fleetwood75 posted a lot.
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The Cavalier was only ever a J Body and the J body was only ever FWD.
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Edmunds bought a new Chevy Blazer EV. After only 2 months, it already has more problems than the Alfa Giulia Quadrifoglio that Car and Driver had a few years back:quote:As of this writing, our Blazer EV has 23 different issues that need fixing, more than a few of which we consider serious. The car has been at the dealer for two weeks so far, and we still don't know when or how the fixes, repairs or updates will be implemented. The dealership has told us that an engineer from GM and a technician from a different dealership have been working on the Blazer, but we haven't heard specifics on what it is they're working on and still don't have an estimate of how long it will take until everything is resolved. GM is struggling to produce and sell their new EVs; through Q3 2023, GM has only sold about 6500 BEVs on their Ultium platform.
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Godzilla07 posted:Edmunds bought a new Chevy Blazer EV. After only 2 months, it already has more problems than the Alfa Giulia Quadrifoglio that Car and Driver had a few years back: Holy poo poo, if that's standard for a new car to be provided to a reviewer i don't want to know what's going to be a bad one.
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SlowBloke posted:Holy poo poo, if that's standard for a new car to be provided to a reviewer i don't want to know what's going to be a bad one. They bought it off the lot
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Godzilla07 posted:Edmunds bought a new Chevy Blazer EV. After only 2 months, it already has more problems than the Alfa Giulia Quadrifoglio that Car and Driver had a few years back: Motor Trend's most recent Lyriq sounds like it was a mess too: https://www.motortrend.com/news/2024-cadillac-lyriq-suvoty-review/ Any idea what the BEV3 platform uses for a central computer? Because the Blazer problems sound like an overheating CPU and/or bad RAM. I mean, I'd hope that entire component would be modular, and could just get swapped out completely. Unless those all really are problems with the car, and not false positives, in which case, big oooof.
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Blazer just seems like a loving mess tbh... https://twitter.com/GaytonaUSA/status/1737181142376132721?t=NBAWN1IJ_9tx_z0fNXpfjQ&s=19
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Blazer just seems like a loving mess tbh... This thing is doing the same as my overheating computer did in the early 2000's
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I feel like auto makers are kind of shooting themselves in the foot with their whole approach to EVs where they must all be Tesla-alikes with way too much software and “different because the future” decisions that throw out perfectly good and well-proven designs. It’s really no surprise then that GM, famous for their high quality software engineering, is churning out turds. A lot of the same crap is leaking into regular cars, too, but seems like every EV on the market is trying to reinvent every wheel and be whiz-bang futuristic at the cost of… well everything. Complexity, reliability, usability, and cost of ownership. For the promise of how much simpler EVs could be compared to ICE, they sure find a thousand unnecessary ways to poo poo them up instead. We went through something similar with hybrids like 15-20 years ago when they all had to be weird statement pieces instead of just making typical cars better — which now many cars are hybrids and you’d never know it. Please just do the same with EVs. I’m very bullish on EVs over the coming years but the current crop is largely disposable trash. Guinness fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Dec 21, 2023 |
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yeah beyond the teething problems with any new design/manufacturing process they seem to kinda suck in some seemingly unnecessary ways but I'm not totally sure Gonna be even harder to move the things if they spend a ton of time in the shop on top of every other ask being made of people who've gotta buy a car
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Just for the record I’ve had my Alfa QV since September and almost 7k miles and it’s been 100% problem free so far.
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Guinness posted:For the promise of how much simpler EVs could be compared to ICE, they sure find a thousand unnecessary ways to poo poo them up instead. First gen Ioniq is almost the perfect commuter car IMO. It just needs a bit more sound deadening.
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davecrazy posted:Just for the record I’ve had my Alfa QV since September and almost 7k miles and it’s been 100% problem free so far. Congratulations on jinxing yourself!
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davecrazy posted:Just for the record I’ve had my Alfa QV since September and almost 7k miles and it’s been 100% problem free so far. You absolute fool. The universe is always listening.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Blazer just seems like a loving mess tbh... GM doing a great job showing us their software is a better solution than CarPlay / Android Auto.
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Guinness posted:I feel like auto makers are kind of shooting themselves in the foot with their whole approach to EVs where they must all be Tesla-alikes with way too much software and “different because the future” decisions that throw out perfectly good and well-proven designs. It’s really no surprise then that GM, famous for their high quality software engineering, is churning out turds. I just want a car that looks like it came from the 1980s, but have a modern efficient engine. gently caress infotainment.
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