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mobby_6kl posted:The Probox is good though?? 
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mobby_6kl posted:The Probox is good though?? I would certainly take a Probox over a modern Mini for sure. There's even a range of TRD products for the Probox! From a front splitter, to steelie-look alloys, to silver-coated indicator bulbs, front AND rear! https://toyota.jp/probox/option/trd1/  Or an aftermarket Golf-style "Eurobox" conversion: 
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Mr. Apollo posted:With 612 HP for the AMG-lite model, it'll be hard to justify the full AMG model.
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gvibes posted:Yeah, that was my first reaction. Are they discontinuing the full AMG model? edit - Looks like that's what MB is doing: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/new-2024-mercedes-amg-e63-swaps-v8-straight-six-phev In other news, the Audi Q6 etron (twin to the new Porsche Macan EV) was finally released. Apparently it's going to replace the Q8 erron since it's only slightly smaller but it much more efficient and has better range. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BucVRnrE2qM Mr. Apollo fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Mar 18, 2024 |
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Mar 18, 2024 19:21
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Mr. Apollo posted:No idea. They may do something like the C63e where an electric motor and battery pack is strapped to the rear wheels but they'd have to give it close to 800 HP considering the C63e has 671 HP.  
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Mar 18, 2024 20:33
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oh gently caress all the way off with that
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Mar 18, 2024 20:40
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mobby_6kl posted:Are they doing capacitive buttons on the doors now, including for fog lights How many of those features require a monthly subscription to function? Does the light on the button go out if you're not subscribed to it?
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Mar 18, 2024 20:51
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mobby_6kl posted:Are they doing capacitive buttons on the doors now, including for fog lights
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Mar 18, 2024 20:53
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Powershift posted:How many of those features require a monthly subscription to function? This was my immediate thought. Locking things out looks less lovely ascetically if the button was never a button in the first place.
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Mar 18, 2024 21:34
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mobby_6kl posted:Are they doing capacitive buttons on the doors now, including for fog lights
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Mar 18, 2024 21:54
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ilkhan posted:Those look like backlit physical buttons to me... For the windows, yes, I mean all the other ones on the separate panel. They seem to be flat, maybe with some ridges separating some of them E: content warning, Throttle House content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MamKI2sugQ The Santa Fe looks pretty wild. Like I have no need or interest in a giant SUV thing but it's impressive how nice it seems to be and how much it offers for what is a reasonable price nowadays mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Mar 18, 2024 |
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Mar 18, 2024 22:02
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mobby_6kl posted:For the windows, yes, I mean all the other ones on the separate panel. They seem to be flat, maybe with some ridges separating some of them they look like the buttons on the og motorola razr flip phone which is honestly pretty rad
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Mar 18, 2024 22:05
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Powershift posted:How many of those features require a monthly subscription to function?
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mobby_6kl posted:Are they doing capacitive buttons on the doors now, including for fog lights Our ID4 has that setup. It’s fine. In 3 months of ownership, we’ve touched the light cluster once: last week, to switch on the fog lights.
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Mar 18, 2024 22:06
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morothar posted:Our ID4 has that setup. It’s fine. In 3 months of ownership, we’ve touched the light cluster once: last week, to switch on the fog lights. I'm not ok with "fine", tbh
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KakerMix posted:I'm not ok with "fine", tbh Shrug. I have auto lights on my car and rarely touch it, too. Also, fog lights have rapidly gone the way of the dodo on many new economy cars even at high trims. If you think about it, they don't seem to make a big amount of difference, even lumen calculations with actual fog be damned. I personally like fog lights, but I can understand manufacturers saving cost because 90+% of customers will not notice or care about the decontent, while the profit goes up. VVV Ah yes I agree Inner Light fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Mar 18, 2024 |
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Mar 18, 2024 22:14
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Inner Light posted:Shrug. I have auto lights on my car and rarely touch it, too. Also, fog lights have rapidly gone the way of the dodo on many new economy cars even at high trims. If you think about it, they don't seem to make a big amount of difference, even lumen calculations with actual fog be damned. I personally like fog lights, but I can understand manufacturers saving cost because 90+% of customers will not notice or care about the decontent, while the profit goes up. I meant more on the capacitive buttons at all, not foglights specifically. Capacitive buttons can only ever be "fine" or "I don't even change (button option) often enough for it to matter". Nobody ever like them as an input method, their peak is 'fine'.
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Mar 18, 2024 22:17
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KakerMix posted:I meant more on the capacitive buttons at all, not foglights specifically. Capacitive buttons can only ever be "fine" or "I don't even change (button option) often enough for it to matter". Nobody ever like them as an input method, their peak is 'fine'. To be more specific, they have been just as good as the physical buttons on e.g. our 4Runner, or the LC200 before it: 99% irrelevant, and the single time we had to use them no more nor less pleasant or functional.
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morothar posted:Our ID4 has that setup. It’s fine. In 3 months of ownership, we’ve touched the light cluster once: last week, to switch on the fog lights. KakerMix posted:I meant more on the capacitive buttons at all, not foglights specifically. Capacitive buttons can only ever be "fine" or "I don't even change (button option) often enough for it to matter". Nobody ever like them as an input method, their peak is 'fine'. ilkhan fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Mar 18, 2024 |
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Mar 18, 2024 23:03
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Why would you ever turn your fog lights off?
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Dr. Lunchables posted:Why would you ever turn your fog lights off? 1. It's kind of annoying to others oncoming if they're bright foglights on a dark clear night, they're not aimed the same way as DOT-mandated headlight lenses, that is a significant reason I leave mine off for a good amount of the time. 2. On my car, a dumb German one, the foglights are incandescent and in a hard to access place. I want to preserve them lol.
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ilkhan posted:When was the last time you got in your car and looked longingly at the physical foglights button and thought "what a functional work of art!"? I think this every time I use the many wonderful physical buttons in my car Capacitive buttons are loving garbage
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Inner Light posted:1. It's kind of annoying to others oncoming if they're bright foglights on a dark clear night, they're not aimed the same way as DOT-mandated headlight lenses, that is a significant reason I leave mine off for a good amount of the time. At this point in time with LEDs regularly stuck in projector housings, nobody even thinks about your fog lights, I can promise you.
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Eyud posted:I think this every time I use the many wonderful physical buttons in my car Yeah it's this. I do not benefit from a capacitive button, I don't care if it's for fog lights or HVAC or stereo volume or whatever else. In a car they are, at best, fine. I'm already annoyed that I have to go into the touch screen to change the vent situation in my 2018 Land Cruiser even if it isn't something I do often, but thankfully that's the single instance. Plus the screen is integrated in the dash and not sitting on top of it like a first year designer's rushed project. Or perhaps I'm just an out of touch old man. I can afford a new car though, and I don't want a single one of them.
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KakerMix posted:Or perhaps I'm just an out of touch old man. I can afford a new car though, and I don't want a single one of them. I think you’d be surprised how much like the LC200 the ID4 is. One of the things I loved about the LC is that I rarely had to interact with anything. Heated seats would switch on when it was cold and cooling would switch on when it was hot. Light would switch on when it was dark, and the AC was just set to 68F. Even the heated steering wheel switches on by itself if I recall correctly. ID4? Basically the same. Plus, I can switch the AC on at 0630 from my phone and get into a warm/cool car at 0700.
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mobby_6kl posted:Are they doing capacitive buttons on the doors now, including for fog lights Fog? That middle button is the headlight control brother. They're all in!
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quote:When was the last time you got in your car and looked longingly at the physical foglights button and thought "what a functional work of art!"? Last weekend with the glorious array of switches in the rallycar on the center console
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morothar posted:I think you’d be surprised how much like the LC200 the ID4 is. One of the things I loved about the LC is that I rarely had to interact with anything. Heated seats would switch on when it was cold and cooling would switch on when it was hot. Light would switch on when it was dark, and the AC was just set to 68F. Even the heated steering wheel switches on by itself if I recall correctly. This is the sort of stuff I want zero part of though, I sought out the LC because it isn't disposable. The ID4 is a far better ride, more comfortable and of course more efficient. It will not outlast a Land Cruiser. If we sell this it's because we leave the country. I don't want something new, I just want something good. Modern VW does not jive with my sensibilities.
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That Q6 is a double shame as Audi used to pride themselves as having the best most clicky buttons on the market.
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BuckyDoneGun posted:Fog? That middle button is the headlight control brother. They're all in! Auto headlights require zero thought. Still stupid to be on a capacitive button on the door though.
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fknlo posted:Auto headlights require zero thought. Still stupid to be on a capacitive button on the door though. yes but auto headlights wont let me have highbeams on 24/7 and blind people for fun - average american
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Dr. Lunchables posted:Why would you ever turn your fog lights off? Because I don't want the fuzz to fine me? It's a 41-168€ fine depending on the cop mood here in 
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SlowBloke posted:Because I don't want the fuzz to fine me? It's a 41-168€ fine depending on the cop mood here in in america americans keep their fog lights on even with clear weather and blazing sun m8
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Don’t forget your lightbar
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Celexi posted:in america americans keep their fog lights on even with clear weather and blazing sun m8 Or treat their dogs as the “low beams.”
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Russian Bear posted:Don’t forget your lightbar I'm seriously considering installing a set of light bars, one facing forward, one facing backward. Front - For dickheads with LED bulbs in housings not meant for them, blinding everyone, just to give them a taste of their own medicine. The rear one - for those same dickheads and the additional dickheads that either refuse to replace their burned out low beam bulbs and run their brights all the time so the cops don't pull them over, or are too inept to understand that the blue octopus means you're blinding me.
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My car has factory LED headlights and I only use my low beams yet I still get people flashing their high beams at me a couple of times a month when I'm at a stop light. They always stop after I flash my high beams back at them.BloodBag posted:I'm seriously considering installing a set of light bars, one facing forward, one facing backward. Front - For dickheads with LED bulbs in housings not meant for them, blinding everyone, just to give them a taste of their own medicine. The rear one - for those same dickheads and the additional dickheads that either refuse to replace their burned out low beam bulbs and run their brights all the time so the cops don't pull them over, or are too inept to understand that the blue octopus means you're blinding me. Mr. Apollo fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Mar 19, 2024 |
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Mr. Apollo posted:Around me, it's either people driving with their high beams on or no headlights at all. Thanks to instrument panels that are illuminated all the time, I guess people assume that their headlights are on. With all the poo poo that’s regulated on cars, it completely blows my mind that this is still allowed. It’s such an idiotically simple fix.
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Driving in to work at 6:30am when its dark I'll probably see someone with headlights on but no rear brake lights every day/every other day.
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Good call. I go in to work at 5:30 every weekday morning so I see someone with no headlights on about once a week at least. There's a left turn onto an unlit road right near my work. I was lucky I looked twice one time while driving my NA miata because some jackwagon was driving along with no lights and I was just about to pull out in front of him. I'm sure that would've felt nice. E: the drivers in Houston are so terrible that I'm about to sell my motorcycle. I just can't deal with the combination of way too many heavy trucks in all lanes all the time, and the complete psycho drivers. Anyone want to buy a CFMoto Ibex 800T with the full set of panniers?
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