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I just got a Chevy Silverado Regular Cab Long Bed WT2 for $22.4k. Not really much different in price than say a mazda 3 with similar features. But yeah whoever pays more than $30k for a 1/2 ton is crazy.
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Most Lightnings I see nowadays are clapped out pieces of poo poo. And I lost any incentive to ever want one when the 15 F150 got announced.
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Feb 18, 2015 01:37
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The Lightning went from "world's fastest truck" to "lol, my base Ram can eat you" rather quick when you think about it they were the cat's rear end for a hot minute
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In other rebadged VAG junk news, here's a refreshed CGT. New for 2015: Fender vents in the shape of a B. 
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Feb 18, 2015 01:58
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Kia released a few teaser shots of their Concept car for the Geneva Motors show and I now have a tremendous car boner     Sure hope they start making this around the time my current Optima lease is up in 2 years and that they come up with a less dumb name then Sportspace http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows-geneva-motor-show/kia-sportspace-concept-previews-new-optima-estate
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Feb 18, 2015 03:04
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Kerrow posted:Good news everyone! Skoda is the greatest and I'd really like an Octavia vRS wagon in that silly grey colour to haul my family, despite not having a family to haul.  It'd be even better if Seat was a thing in my country as the Cupra ST 280 wagon looks/benchraces even better
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kill me now posted:Kia released a few teaser shots of their Concept car for the Geneva Motors show and I now have a tremendous car boner I know there is basically zero chance of the wagon coming to the states but oh my goooooood 
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kill me now posted:Kia released a few teaser shots of their Concept car for the Geneva Motors show and I now have a tremendous car boner gently caress you Kia now I want this AND a focus RS.
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Limo mazda 3 with vw front end?
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Feb 18, 2015 03:36
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kill me now posted:Kia released a few teaser shots of their Concept car for the Geneva Motors show and I now have a tremendous car boner Whoa. That is superb.
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Feb 18, 2015 03:37
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kill me now posted:Kia released a few teaser shots of their Concept car for the Geneva Motors show and I now have a tremendous car boner holy poo poo beltlines are getting tall these days
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HEY VAPER posted:holy poo poo beltlines are getting tall these days It works here because it really goes to the extreme. I'm sure a non-concept gets toned down way too much though.
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Feb 18, 2015 04:04
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kill me now posted:Kia released a few teaser shots of their Concept car for the Geneva Motors show and I now have a tremendous car boner I know it will never happen but please let it be RWD, or AWD. That would make me so happy.
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Feb 18, 2015 04:23
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:I see lots of new American trucks on the road here in I was one of these guys for many years. My daily driver was an F-150, and I never had anything in the bed (on most days). Guess what - you can't really tell why someone owns a truck unless you know them, or maybe when you catch them (me) on a weekend towing the race-car to a track. When I got rid of the race-car and trailer.. I also sold the truck. I do miss having it once in a while when I want to pick up something from Lowes or wherever that's too long/big to fit in a normal car though.
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kill me now posted:Kia released a few teaser shots of their Concept car for the Geneva Motors show and I now have a tremendous car boner Not much to say that hasn't already been, but oh my god. It's like an Alfa had a three way with a VW and a BMW and this thing showed up nine months later. We'll never see it here. 
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The Locator posted:I was one of these guys for many years. My daily driver was an F-150, and I never had anything in the bed (on most days). I haul my bicycle, mower, building materials, motorcycle, and enough bags of gravel from walmart to make a driveway at 30 $4 bags at a time. gently caress you 20 ton load of limestone for $1000
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If KIA make that and sell it in Australia I'll love them for it. Not many wagons sold here, mainly skoda/passat, volvo and mazda/ford. There is lancer and hyundai but they don't look great and are more used for businesses. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Feb 18, 2015 |
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Feb 18, 2015 05:55
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kill me now posted:Sure hope they start making this around the time my current Optima lease is up in 2 years I'm used to owning a car for 10+ years but I would flip my 2012 Optima in a second to buy that. And if it were a bit faster than the current 2.0t and had AWD I might consider getting rid of the Corvette and letting my girlfriend finally park in the garage.
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The Locator posted:I was one of these guys for many years. My daily driver was an F-150, and I never had anything in the bed (on most days). I understand needing a truck for hauling poo poo on the weekends or for road trips or whatever, but it seems to me that it's really wasteful to use one as your DD if that's your use case. Buy something more fuel-efficient and less gigantic for running around, get a cheap used pickup to do your hauling poo poo around, save a lot of money on gas and no longer push small cars into the ditch by accident.
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:I understand needing a truck for hauling poo poo on the weekends or for road trips or whatever, but it seems to me that it's really wasteful to use one as your DD if that's your use case. Buy something more fuel-efficient and less gigantic for running around, get a cheap used pickup to do your hauling poo poo around, save a lot of money on gas and no longer push small cars into the ditch by accident. Sometimes it just doesn't make sernse to. If you drive 1000 miles a month, the fuel cost for a 15mpg pickup would only be $200. for a 50mpg prius it would be $60. you can't fit insurance for a second vehicle, depreciation, and maintinence on a second vehicle into that $140 difference, and that is assuming you split what you paid for the truck in half and instead of 1 nice truck bought 1 old truck and a prius. You'd need 2 parking spots, plates/rego on both vehicles, be losing in depreciation on both vehicles, and unless you're paying double, get 2 less featured, less enjoyable vehicles. If you've got $40,000 to spend on vehicles, and need a truck 20% of the time, it makes sense to just buy a $40,000 truck.
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Powershift posted:If you've got $40,000 to spend on vehicles, and need a truck 20% of the time, it makes sense to just buy a $40,000 truck. That only works if you live somewhere the truck is actually suitable to use the other 80% of the time.
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dissss posted:That only works if you live somewhere the truck is actually suitable to use the other 80% of the time. There's really nowhere a truck isn't actually suitable the other 80% of the time. You fuckers get really melodramatic when it comes to parking a modern half ton pickup.
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Powershift posted:There's really nowhere a truck isn't actually suitable the other 80% of the time. Depends on where in the world you are.
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dissss posted:Depends on where in the world you are. That i will concede. If you live in venice or paris or singapore, don't buy a pickup.
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Powershift posted:That i will concede. If you live in venice or paris or singapore, don't buy a pickup. Or really any large city outside of north America
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dissss posted:Or really any large city outside of north America I didn't realize that was much of an issue. I assumed most people complaining about half ton pickups everywhere were in north America.
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davebo posted:I'm used to owning a car for 10+ years but I would flip my 2012 Optima in a second to buy that. And if it were a bit faster than the current 2.0t and had AWD I might consider getting rid of the Corvette and letting my girlfriend finally park in the garage. I'm probably retarded for even thinking this, but part of me hopes its a setup somewhat like the Trail'ster concept where its a turbo I4 up front with a hybrid drive system for the rear wheels. The idea of fuel economy gains, capability gains, and power gains of that style system are really appealing and if they could stuff it in to a car that looks like the Sportspace it would be a very cool car. http://www.autoblog.com/2015/02/12/kia-trailster-concept-soul-chicago-2015/
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Honestly, if parking and maneuvering in tight city streets isn't a concern, trucks and SUVs are the poo poo. Comfortable to get in and out of, great view outwards due to ride height, greater safety in most accident scenarios due to that greater ride height. Seriously, if you do a lot of highway travel (Up here in Canadaland and I imagine much of America) animals are a legit safety concern which are largely ameliorated by driving a truck or SUV. gently caress parking the god drat things though.
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Wheeee posted:Honestly, if parking and maneuvering in tight city streets isn't a concern, trucks and SUVs are the poo poo. Comfortable to get in and out of, great view outwards due to ride height, greater safety in most accident scenarios due to that greater ride height. Seriously, if you do a lot of highway travel (Up here in Canadaland and I imagine much of America) animals are a legit safety concern which are largely ameliorated by driving a truck or SUV. Keep in mind that for all the increased awareness the great view affords SUV drivers, that's awareness of traffic you're removing from people behind you. Maybe not a concern in the great white north but on the D.C. beltway I can tell you people don't just start leaving 10 car lengths in rush hour traffic just because they can't see through or around the Landcruiser in front of them. Cue the vicious cycle of cars not knowing people ahead of an SUV are braking, then tapping the SUV and having to pull over to exchange info, thereby causing rubbernecking and someone behind another SUV not knowing the people in front of him are breaking, reapeat.
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I fixed it. 
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SouthLAnd posted:Whoa. That is superb. No, this is superb: Kerrow posted:Good news everyone! 
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davebo posted:Keep in mind that for all the increased awareness the great view affords SUV drivers, that's awareness of traffic you're removing from people behind you. Maybe not a concern in the great white north but on the D.C. beltway I can tell you people don't just start leaving 10 car lengths in rush hour traffic just because they can't see through or around the Landcruiser in front of them. Cue the vicious cycle of cars not knowing people ahead of an SUV are braking, then tapping the SUV and having to pull over to exchange info, thereby causing rubbernecking and someone behind another SUV not knowing the people in front of him are breaking, reapeat. I used to drive a truck, previously drove a tiny sports car, before that drove a body on frame SUV, and currently drive a sedan. I get the argument you are presently and frankly agree with it. In an ideal world people would be required to pass strict extra licensing requirements to drive large vehicles such as trucks and SUVs because they absolutely do represent a safety issue for people driving small and normal sized cars, but we don't live in an ideal, rational world and so I really can't blame people for driving a truck or SUV/CUV. I can however blame anyone who raises their vehicle. Lifting a vehicle beyond a couple inches of stock height should not be legal for use on public roads and gently caress any redneck rig pig who disagrees.
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kill me now posted:Kia released a few teaser shots of their Concept car for the Geneva Motors show and I now have a tremendous car boner Dodge made that a few years back. Nobody in the US bought it either. If they bring it here, nobody will buy it because 'beltline too high, roof too low, floor too high, no cargo room. Same thing that happened to the magnum. Either that or people still think kia makes poo poo (and Bajaha's experience with his Velostomy Turdo has me thinking hyundai/kia still don't know how to make cars properly)
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Bovril Delight posted:It works here because it really goes to the extreme. I'm sure a non-concept gets toned down way too much though. Not necessarily, a lot of that is probably just camera angles. The current Optima also has a super high beltline, just like every other car.   They look like they share the same front door/window glass. It probably looks more normal from a normal camera angle or IRL (unless you're 4 feet tall). This is also partly why you rarely see full profile shots of cars anymore. Honestly that thing looks like a production-ready concept so pretty much add an inch of ride height and make the bumpers stick out more. OXBALLS DOT COM fucked around with this message at 12:51 on Feb 18, 2015 |
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I think the large amount of things I can see from the driver's seat of my car at any given time can be, honestly, overstimulating and dangerous. Frankly, I'm not going to be happy until I have to drive my car by peering out a tiny, tiny slit, like driving a tank. The last Camaro I drove came really close to replicating that experience, but I think with a bit of effort, even that could be improved upon. Bonus points if the side mirrors are made to be uselessly tiny in the interest of aerodynamics!
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PT6A posted:I think the large amount of things I can see from the driver's seat of my car at any given time can be, honestly, overstimulating and dangerous. Frankly, I'm not going to be happy until I have to drive my car by peering out a tiny, tiny slit, like driving a tank. The last Camaro I drove came really close to replicating that experience, but I think with a bit of effort, even that could be improved upon. Bonus points if the side mirrors are made to be uselessly tiny in the interest of aerodynamics! My next car:  or maybe just 
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Where exactly does Skoda fit into the market in Europe? Is it just slightly less expensive than comparable VW's? It's always seemed like the VW/Skoda/Seat arrangement would cause similar problems to those that GM had with Pontiac and Saturn. Bouillon Rube fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Feb 18, 2015 |
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kill me now posted:Kia released a few teaser shots of their Concept car for the Geneva Motors show and I now have a tremendous car boner
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Taco Box posted:Dodge made that a few years back. Nobody in the US bought it either. If they bring it here, nobody will buy it because 'beltline too high, roof too low, floor too high, no cargo room. Same thing that happened to the magnum. Either that or people still think kia makes poo poo (and Bajaha's experience with his Velostomy Turdo has me thinking hyundai/kia still don't know how to make cars properly) The plural of anecdote is not data.
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