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trilobite terror posted:lol if these guys are impossible for you then Donut Media must be like actual torture Thanks, that's about what I would expect. I have a 2019 Model 3, and while it's not as clapped out as the one they tested, it does have more interior noise that I would like, and some things just aren't put together very well. I still like it, but I would really like a R2 or R3 at some point. I've never heard of Donut media, and it sounds like I should remain ignorant.
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Bone Crimes posted:I've never heard of Donut media, and it sounds like I should remain ignorant. This would be very wise of you. Clickbait rubbish that is more wrong than right with facts that Throttle House video comparing old and new Model 3's was a cringefest even if the brutal honest opinions were refreshing and there is no way I'd touch any car with no stalks, what the hell was Musk think.... oh wait I I forgot he probably thought that was a good idea in a haze of ketamine and cocaine while typing racism in another poo poo Twitter post
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TwoDice posted:Please, someone tell me why I shouldn't get a used i3 as a secondary city only errands car. I absolutely loved my i3, the only reason I got rid of it was my extended warranty and battery warranty were expiring and the only reason that I didn't replace it with a 2021 i3 was the used market was so insane at the time that it just made sense to order a Mach-E with the tax credit. Also, my husband thought it was too small, but he hardly ever drove the i3 or drives the Mach-E, so it was a factor, but not a huge one. It is just a delightful little car with so much utility.
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TwoDice posted:Please, someone tell me why I shouldn't get a used i3 as a secondary city only errands car. wheels and tires are gonna be a sore spot, afaik. Like I think there’s only one official tire that fits, and currently it’s fine and you can get it at Costco and tirerack and whatnot but who knows for how long
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trilobite terror posted:wheels and tires are gonna be a sore spot, afaik. So you just buy all the tires you’ll ever need at one go. Like shopping at Aldi.
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until they rot in storage but yea
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:This would be very wise of you. Clickbait rubbish that is more wrong than right with facts Their list videos are bad, but I will die on the hill that the first few money pit and high/low seasons were great car people YouTubing Covid isolation Zach Jobe wrenching on a na miata by himself in his driveway was supremely relatable and took me back to *my first modified car ™* experience.
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I respect anybody trying to do a Top Gear in some fashion on their own who isn’t a loving chud or tory scum, and afaik everybody at Donut is really cool and outspoken about poo poo that a lot of other CarTubers either emphatically avoid having opinions on for the sake of their audience or skew some amount of right of center on
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donut is good, their mechanic reaction videos and project car builds are great. but also if you're the sort of person to use the term "rubbish" unironically yeah i can see how it might not be for you
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I first learned of Donut when I was playing Forza Horizon (4? 5? one of em) and they came off as mildly abrasive during their cameos. After watching a couple of their actual YT videos, it wasn’t any better.
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El Grillo posted:Starts at £42.5k unfortunately which means it hits the luxury car tax in UK. Looks like the range is 339 or 323 miles though which is decent. I'm pretty sure the luxury car tax doesn't apply to EVs yet.
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Yeep posted:I'm pretty sure the luxury car tax doesn't apply to EVs yet.
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Took another drive yesterday and the Alert Driver Alertness Alert did not pop up. Dunno what that was all about. One thing I really don't like about the 6 is there's no padding at all on the windowsill -- just hard plastic that's hard to rest your arm on. Honestly thinking about getting some sort of padded sleeve for longer drives cuz drat.
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The Taycan Turbo GT was just introduced. 0-60 in 2.1 seconds, 777 hp continuous (1019 hp peak), and 988 pound-feet of peak torque. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60149482/porsche-taycan-turbo-gt-revealed-record-setting-lap/
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Tayter Swift posted:Took another drive yesterday and the Alert Driver Alertness Alert did not pop up. Dunno what that was all about. As near as I can tell, this pops up when you're in active lane keeping mode (not the default one, but when you press the little "steering wheel" button on the wheel) or Highway Driving Assist. The car wants input from the wheel every so often or it'll pop up a "pay attention" graphic on the dashboard. If it doesn't sense any input after another couple of seconds, it will sound the tone and complain at you to pay attention. Eventually it will turn all of the assists off (this is absolutely Hyundai's way to keep from getting sued if someone turns on HDA, takes a nap, and plows into a crowd of toddlers). It's kind of dumb because I'm paying attention 100% of the time it's on, but it doesn't usually need my input to stay on course. So I find myself occasionally twitching the wheel slightly just to keep it from complaining at me. Very silly. quote:One thing I really don't like about the 6 is there's no padding at all on the windowsill -- just hard plastic that's hard to rest your arm on. Honestly thinking about getting some sort of padded sleeve for longer drives cuz drat. Agreed. I dislike the interior door configuration in general. I don't like having the window and lock buttons on the center console, and I have no idea why they didn't at least pad the armrest.
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McPhearson posted:The Taycan Turbo GT was just introduced. just 3.341 seconds off the top qualifying 911 GT3 R from last years IMSA race at Laguna Seca on street tires. That's wild
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One of my favourite video genres is pro driver taking someone around the ‘ring and putting the fear of god into them. The best being ex F1 driver Riccardo Patrese taking his wife around in a hopped up Civic Type R If I ever visit that area of Germany I’m doing the ring taxi for sure and I want them to scare the willies out of me
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McPhearson posted:The Taycan Turbo GT was just introduced. Porsche ruined the front end of the Taycan with the facelift refresh
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priznat posted:One of my favourite video genres is pro driver taking someone around the ‘ring and putting the fear of god into them.
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mobby_6kl posted:If you want a proper good scare on the 'ring, drive yourself in your own car, or a really expensive rental. Like from Sixt, not from the ring places. I want a good scare not a real scare, I have heard about the costs involved from both the rental places and the fines you get from damaging the armco so noooo thank you sir  I consider myself a pretty decent driver but I have zero track type experience and would not jump straight to that for the safety of everyone and everything involved.
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WhiteHowler posted:Agreed. I dislike the interior door configuration in general. I don't like having the window and lock buttons on the center console, and I have no idea why they didn't at least pad the armrest. The dog's already rolled the window down once :p
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Tayter Swift posted:i cant be bothered right now so heres old car new car 
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We have an appointment on Monday to retrofit our 2019 Model 3 with a CCS-speaking charger doodad.  e: it's kind of dumb that the CCS1->Tesla adapter can't be used with J1772 (according to the manual), but I guess juggling adapters is just going to be the North American EV experience for the next 4-6 years 
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trilobite terror posted:Porsche ruined the front end of the Taycan with the facelift refresh Agreed, it looks bland. Should have just stolen the 928 or 959 face.
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Failson posted:Agreed, it looks bland. Should have just stolen the 928 or 959 face.
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WhiteHowler posted:As near as I can tell, this pops up when you're in active lane keeping mode (not the default one, but when you press the little "steering wheel" button on the wheel) or Highway Driving Assist. The car wants input from the wheel every so often or it'll pop up a "pay attention" graphic on the dashboard. If it doesn't sense any input after another couple of seconds, it will sound the tone and complain at you to pay attention. Eventually it will turn all of the assists off (this is absolutely Hyundai's way to keep from getting sued if someone turns on HDA, takes a nap, and plows into a crowd of toddlers). so it's basically an alerter reset like on a railroad locomotive. except putting another button would eat into the margins, and probably be more subject to bypass
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cruft posted:We have an appointment on Monday to retrofit our 2019 Model 3 with a CCS-speaking charger doodad. What incantation did you speak to summon this upgrade
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Qwijib0 posted:What incantation did you speak to summon this upgrade It was right there in the app. Ms Cruft did it, I can't tell you how she found it. But their web page lists Model 3 and Y now: https://shop.tesla.com/product/ccs-combo-1-adapter
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I would also be remiss if I passed over the opportunity to laugh at the Cyber Truck, which cannot use Tesla's CCS1 adapter because of the idiotic way it's designed. I wonder what the general consensus is about the Cyber Truck over in Tesla's engineering departments. I kind of suspect they hate it as much as we do.
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cruft posted:It was right there in the app. Ms Cruft did it, I can't tell you how she found it. But their web page lists Model 3 and Y now: https://shop.tesla.com/product/ccs-combo-1-adapter Still didn't show as available to me but I made a generic service request and it was scheduled. Thanks for the heads up
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cruft posted:I would also be remiss if I passed over the opportunity to laugh at the Cyber Truck, which cannot use Tesla's CCS1 adapter because of the idiotic way it's designed. The under-the-skin engineering thats gone into the thing is the only redeeming feature of it
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ROFLBOT posted:The under-the-skin engineering thats gone into the thing is the only redeeming feature of it Yeah the part where the wheels fall off is pretty neat
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Munro is going to be tearing down a cybertruck, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwahPIbCW5E (Just an intro video, nothing taken apart yet). Seem like a lot of youtubers have been getting theirs, wonder if this is part of Tesla's "we don't do marketing" marketing.
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Absolutely. The old man will be wowed by how clever and innovative it is.
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Munro made an hour-long video, proverbially sucking off Elon Musk after his introduction to the Cybertruck at the advanced press event. It was a whole lot of ooh and ahhs about revolutionary technology that's changing the future. It was absolutely disgusting and I just fast-forwarded through it. I've never seen blatant fanboyism on his channel, so that was exceptionally disturbing.
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Munro’s an idiot who literally believes that tech & trade jobs went away and companies outsourced all of their machine shop and tool/mold-making to China and India because “too many kids were told that they could major in English” and woke culture run amok instead of the real reason (because three generations of MBA big-brains chased short term ‘number go up’ by downsizing and outsourcing the poo poo out of everything and also the government chose rewarding shareholders over keeping wages in line with inflation for ~40 years). He acts like he invented the idea of a company buying a competitor’s product to tear down and benchmark. It’s only natural that he would spend his dotage in the court of King Elon.
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Yes, all of that, AND His company exists to identify ways to spend less money on car manufacturing, and Tesla is leading the way there with innovations like “keep removing parts and see when the NHTSA sues” It’s like when elong bought twitter and started literally pulling cables on random servers. See what you can get away with not having. It makes their cars utterly repulsive to me, but you better believe other auto execs got hard when they realized maybe you don’t need turn signals after all.
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Just stumbled on an Elektrek article about GM's new hydrogen truck: 300 mile range on that bad boy, and they had enough space left after the hydrogen tanks to provide a whole 3 feed of bed!
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Wayne Knight posted:Yes, all of that, AND yeah that’s absolutely what a lot of business brains have seen from the whole Twitter thing. “Elon fired 80% of the staff and started cutting poo poo and everybody said it would crash and burn overnight, and it’s been a year and a half and it hasn’t yet”
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