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An idle threat. But if mazda made a manual rwd 6 wagon with that inline 6 here I would legit buy one assuming it wasn’t $80k.
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Sab669 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNE-NyaYBcg thanks but no thanks elon
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Wistful of Dollars posted:also, the new GX press camp impressions are out Yeah I watched the Savage Geese one on the GX, seems like a pretty nice truck. So much better than the last GX in the looks department. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKdXieacf-s
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Full Collapse posted:Just saw a Crown out in the wild. It looks like a lifted Avalon. My brother in law has one. The interior is nice but cramped as gently caress.
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BuckyDoneGun posted:Bad news about the 6: The only way this is gonna get solved is legislative action to punish SUV style cars to make them less desirable. E: gg france, well a city in france. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/27/france-crack-down-suv-drivers-britain-city-streets https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/11/23/suvs-could-be-the-latest-casualty-of-climate-change-as-paris-tries-to-drive-them-out His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Feb 2, 2024 |
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Good news everyone! Lancia is back.   https://www.theautopian.com/the-first-new-lancia-in-13-years-looks-decidedly-weird/ It's probably just a stellantis rebadge job but doesn't look too bad and at least it's not a giant piece of poo poo
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mobby_6kl posted:Good news everyone! Lancia is back. it's another eCMP/STLA small based ev ride but interior and exterior are bespoke.
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mobby_6kl posted:Good news everyone! Lancia is back. Somehow it'll have a battery that will dissolve into rust
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mobby_6kl posted:Good news everyone! Lancia is back. My first thought was that this looks weirdly French; very Renault or Peugeot on the front. My second thought after reading the article was: ah, it’s a reskinned Peugeot? Like the rear though.
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mobby_6kl posted:Good news everyone! Lancia is back. In Pog form!
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I like the new Lancia. Stellantis gets a lot of well deserved poo poo for badge engineering things, but it’s nowhere near as bad as 90s GM, so I say god speed.
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morothar posted:My first thought was that this looks weirdly French; very Renault or Peugeot on the front. My second thought after reading the article was: ah, it’s a reskinned Peugeot? If you squint, you could mistake it for a Citroen I guess. But that car has literally zero design elements from a Peugeot or a Renault. Mostly it looks like a generic Chinese EV with retro tail lights.
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weirdly chilly pussy posted:If you squint, you could mistake it for a Citroen I guess. But that car has literally zero design elements from a Peugeot or a Renault. Mostly it looks like a generic Chinese EV with retro tail lights. The dashboard+infotainment is from opel, the wheel buttons are the same as an avenger while the rest of the interior and exterior is bespoke as far as I can tell.
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weirdly chilly pussy posted:If you squint, you could mistake it for a Citroen I guess. But that car has literally zero design elements from a Peugeot or a Renault. Mostly it looks like a generic Chinese EV with retro tail lights. What does a generic Chinese EV even look like? Please describe.
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GlassEye-Boy posted:What does a generic Chinese EV even look like? Please describe. Cheap looking, cheap feeling, chintzy design that never manages to feel cohesive I think that Lancia looks fine I suppose.
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Inner Light posted:Cheap looking, cheap feeling, chintzy design that never manages to feel cohesive You've just described modern car design as a whole though?!
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Inner Light posted:Cheap looking, cheap feeling, chintzy design that never manages to feel cohesive Thanks for letting me you know nothing about the modern Chinese car market.
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GlassEye-Boy posted:Thanks for letting me you know nothing about the modern Chinese car market. Glad to know some are evolving past the perception I was talking about! Let me know when that becomes the norm enough to define what most people think of when they think of a Chinese designed EV, which is what I was referring to
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Inner Light posted:Glad to know some are evolving past the perception I was talking about! Let me know when that becomes the norm enough to define what most people think of when they think of a Chinese designed EV, which is what I was referring to BYD has surpassed tesla in sales in certain western markets, since it tends to have better craftsmanship than chinese or german made teslas at same or better price brackets. For all intents and purposes, the most bland and soulless vehicles you see on the roads in europe are teslas not chinese brands like lynk, byd or zeekr.
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GlassEye-Boy posted:What does a generic Chinese EV even look like? Please describe. Like this: j/k it looks ok but nothing really says "Lancia" to me. Probably because the brand's been basically dead for years and hasn't had its own distinct identity
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Dr. Lunchables posted:Yeah, nobody knows what “Lancia” looks like anymore Lancia has been a rebranded fiat (or Chrysler) for so long, there is little identity remaining. The last Lancia that was done from scratch without technical or design constraints was the thesis in 2002.
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The last Ypsilon was so sad I thought it'd be more dignified to put Lancia down instead of selling that car. Lancia still sold roughly 50K Ypsilons per year in Italy.
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Inner Light posted:Cheap looking, cheap feeling, chintzy design that never manages to feel cohesive Having been to Shanghai not quite 4 weeks ago, that doesn’t connect with anything I saw there. If anything, seeing all of the local hybrids/EV was really refreshing.
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Godzilla07 posted:The last Ypsilon was so sad I thought it'd be more dignified to put Lancia down instead of selling that car. Lancia still sold roughly 50K Ypsilons per year in Italy. Current Ypsilon rides in the same category of the Suzuki Swift, where it's compact enough to fit in historical roads while having enough room for four people inside. 500 and panda second row is for children and double amputees, while the 500L is a lot bigger than the ypsilon. Fiat killing the punto, leaving just the panda and all the 500s, sorta crippled their catalog as the punto was historically their sales backbone for Italy. Punto clientele either went for the Ypsilon, Suzuki Swift or Hyundai i20.
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Inner Light posted:Cheap looking, cheap feeling, chintzy design that never manages to feel cohesive quote:Let me know when that becomes the norm enough to define what most people think of when they think of a Chinese designed EV Stuff from Chinese owned / built like MG, GW Geely and BYD do not fit that description, Volvo is Chinese majority as is Polestar And frankly you would be seriously hard pressed to id the majority of any of thsoe brands as "Chinese" in any way if you didnt know CAT INTERCEPTOR fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Feb 5, 2024 |
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Well then, it seems I was verifiably out of date from a few years ago. I am not sure I welcome our new Chinese design overlords, but with eventual homologation and sales in the US I hope competition brings reduced prices for consumers (it will not)
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Wonder if we should chnage this thread to be more about car news? Anyway ifyouwant a new SUV in Paris,that will cost you more https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/04/parisians-vote-in-favour-of-tripling-parking-costs-for-suvs
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moxieman posted:Hell yeah. More of that please.
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The metrics for getting the extra tax are kinda arbitrary but if it limits the number of MRAPs doing school runs I am all for it.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Wonder if we should chnage this thread to be more about car news? Paris really pushed for self-powered transport during the pandemic and it has stuck. The people now realise cars in such an environment were just ruining it. I need to visit and see the difference for myself, it was so busy last time.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Paris really pushed for self-powered transport during the pandemic and it has stuck. The people now realise cars in such an environment were just ruining it. I need to visit and see the difference for myself, it was so busy last time. I did stop there for a quick train change last june and it wasn't chaotic at all, i would consider Milan or Rome to be worse in comparison.
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It's only over 1600kg so doesn't count Capturs or 3008s which are the common 'SUVs' in France.
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dissss posted:It's only over 1600kg so doesn't count Capturs or 3008s which are the common 'SUVs' in France. The article says SUV or 4x4 car, so does that mean it includes stuff like the Audi A4 and X-drive 3 series?
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