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I found this a bit amusing. T-Mobile Tuesday's big giveaway this week was a chance to win.....a Fisker Ocean One Launch Edition. I realize that these giveaways are likely arranged a long time in advance, but I wouldn't even WANT to win one of these things since what you pay in tax will probably be more than the car's worth in 6 months.
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I kinda like this?! I got in a few of the Exeed range recently and the interiors are really nice quality and the cars are mad cheap considering the quality. You were talking £20k for a base SUV thing with a 7 year warranty... Top model was only £30k and they were very definitely gunning for Range Rover's market but at like half the price. https://twitter.com/GregKable/status/1780481616978001968?t=ycAHZhIwr1JLJIF4H7-ZGw&s=19
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kill me now posted:I don't think that there would be any reasonable expectation that Ssanyong, Kia, Nissan or Toyota would be producing cars in Italy to back up the Italian model name. Its a bit different when its Alfa Romeo. The law called out by king dipshit doesn't require an Italian brand, just an Italian sounding product name. If Stellantis called the next Peugeot Valpolicella it would be the same. It's a law that is usually activated against food products when the DoP criteria aren't strong enough (and the receiving end doesn't have any decent lawyers).
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Speleothing posted:I'd buy that minivan
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Apr 17, 2024 18:56
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“Upmarket” great
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I kinda like this?! Needs one of those diagrams that show how far a toddler can stand in front of it before you can see them through the windshield. Also, Chery? Exeed? Are they just throwing car manufacturer names into random word generators now?
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euphronius posted:“Upmarket” great This works out to $22,700 as I saw it: https://www.exeedinternational.com/models/lx/index.shtml it even had motorised running boards/those dorky step things to help you get in. This is $40k on the nose: https://www.exeedinternational.com/models/rx/index.shtml 'upmarket' for a Chinese brand is going to be an interesting number.
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MortLansky posted:Also, Chery? Exeed? Are they just throwing car manufacturer names into random word generators now? It's like all those fake brands on Amazon lol. If this car gets too many bad reviews they'll just close up shop and reopen as "WIHOLL.".
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MortLansky posted:Needs one of those diagrams that show how far a toddler can stand in front of it before you can see them through the windshield. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automobile_manufacturers_of_China Start learning them.
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this is like people in 1985 talking about hyundai lol
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I kinda like this?! Cyberminivan
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:this is like people in 1985 talking about hyundai lol If you had told me in 1987 as I was hanging on for dear life in the rattletrap Hyundai Excel driven by my sister's potdealer boyfriend that the favorite car I ever owned one day would be an SUV made in Alabama by the same company, I'd have told Tony that if he keeps lacing his stuff with PCP I was gonna have to tell my dad`
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MortLansky posted:Also, Chery? Exeed? Are they just throwing car manufacturer names into random word generators now? All names are just made up.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:this is like people in 1985 talking about hyundai lol yep. the time to giggle at Build Your Dreams is now gone. Olympic Mathlete posted:I kinda like this?! this looks like they borrowed the draft files for Toyota's next Alphard, or at least what they would show of that at
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The front of that thing is too concept car for me, and the wheels are some 70s British sci-poo poo, but that is an incredibly sexy rear 3/4 profile.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:this is like people in 1985 talking about hyundai lol Except Hyundai made undoubtfully godawful cars, there's a load of Chinese cars that are very decidedly not godawful that are fully capable of cleaning up the bottom to mid end that other car makers have vacated / not really taking seriously AND they arent so bone headed as locking themselves into big rear end shitboxes. BYD for example is far larger as well than most in the west understand and have in some cases their tech has gotten ahead of western makers liek blade batteries and being an enormous bus baker, they have made over 3 million cars last year (and growing a a massive rate), 100,000 EV buses and well over 10,000 EV trucks overall. It's more and more likely BYD and co are going to be huge presence going forward.
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harperdc posted:yep. the time to giggle at Build Your Dreams is now gone.  That's what I thought as well. Not a bad thing by any means, Alphard's loving rule.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Except Hyundai made undoubtfully godawful cars, there's a load of Chinese cars that are very decidedly not godawful that are fully capable of cleaning up the bottom to mid end that other car makers have vacated / not really taking seriously AND they arent so bone headed as locking themselves into big rear end shitboxes. China has also made godawful cars, but they had the good sense not to bring them to west and ruin their reputation. Another difference also seems to be that Korea only had room for few car companies, so Hyundai had to slowly improve their products and reputation. In China after the car manufacturers improved you could take the lessons learned and start a new company with good cars right from the beginning.
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KakerMix posted:
you dream about getting a Alphard or the Lexus version if you're getting picked up to go to the airport. And then you get stuck in a lovely ford
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The difference between Hyundai and the Chinese brands is it's not just one company, it's a bunch. EVs are basically resetting the playing field so it's going to be like the early 1900s with a bajillion companies nobody can keep track of until most of them die or get bought up. How many new car companies have come to the US in the past 5 years compared to the like 50 before?
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The new land cruiser is getting great reviews, very excited to make this my next car when i can afford it https://youtu.be/RDcOOoDqcto?si=LuS3vHo-AxlCMU22
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Al-Saqr posted:The new land cruiser is getting great reviews, very excited to make this my next car when i can afford it I'm more interested in whatever the not-English-dude bought from Japan. An 'old' Land Cruiser, my guess is a 70 series.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Except Hyundai made undoubtfully godawful cars, there's a load of Chinese cars that are very decidedly not godawful that are fully capable of cleaning up the bottom to mid end that other car makers have vacated / not really taking seriously AND they arent so bone headed as locking themselves into big rear end shitboxes. Or they will get sanctioned for price dumping
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I kinda like this?! That's ugly as poo poo
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His Divine Shadow posted:Or they will get sanctioned for price dumping Sure, that could get fabricate that for the 1.4 billion in the us/europe. The Chinese ev shot callers are going to be huge for the other 6.6 billion
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Al-Saqr posted:The new land cruiser is getting great reviews, very excited to make this my next car when i can afford it If I manage my career switch with a relatively high paying position I really want to make this my car. But I’ll prob just end up driving my Tacoma to the bitter end.
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Hyundai as a name at least means something, if not in English. Chery and Exeed feel all the weirder because they are clearly English-inspired, but with weird mispelings evocative of, like, Tumblr.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Except Hyundai made undoubtfully godawful cars, there's a load of Chinese cars that are very decidedly not godawful that are fully capable of cleaning up the bottom to mid end that other car makers have vacated / not really taking seriously AND they arent so bone headed as locking themselves into big rear end shitboxes. don't worry, your local congressman is working hard to make sure they never reach our shores
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Muscle Tracer posted:Hyundai as a name at least means something, if not in English. Chery and Exeed feel all the weirder because they are clearly English-inspired, but with weird mispelings evocative of, like, Tumblr. what about like... acura. or camry feel like people really need to look a bit inward about why they think that this particular iteration of Strange Names is bad
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I was pleasantly surprised when I learned that Toyota is a guy’s name. I don’t know why it made me feel like that, but it did. I still dislike the ovals Toyota logo, though. I preferred when they just wrote the name on stuff.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:what about like... acura. or camry I just turned 40 and a whole lot of my (younger, even) contemporaries started talking about kids and their slang and fashion as somehow being lesser or stranger than whatever ~we~ did when we were that age. Literally, unironically going "BACK IN MY DAY" boomering right before our very eyes, even though they directly make fun of their parents for doing exactly that, to our generation. Everyone forgets what it's like to be kids and nobody seems to be able to look inward without concentrated effort, is what I'm saying. I will give any "BEST BRAND USA :)))" Chinese EV a chance ever before I'll give loving Ford or General Motors another chance.
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Dr. Lunchables posted:I was pleasantly surprised when I learned that Toyota is a guy’s name. I don’t know why it made me feel like that, but it did. *Toyoda It was changed to Toyota because when writing the name out Toyoda has 10 strokes, Toyota has a lucky 8.
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KakerMix posted:Or ~LEXUS~ Apocryphally - Toyota wanted a way to promote their more premium vehicles but realized Americans care more about brand/badge than actual content. So when they introduced cars like the Toyota Celsior American focus groups were like "But it's still a Toyota?!" which had this weird association with cheap disposable Asian vehicles and not mighty Cadillac or Mercedes. To compensate, Toyota came up with a luxury marque and brought the Celsior in as the famous LS400 under the newly created brand Lexus. Luxury Export US =Lexus.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:*Toyoda Did not know that. I knew the name was Toyoda, but never the strokes. Gonna store it in the trivia section.
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Kraftwerk posted:Apocryphally - Toyota wanted a way to promote their more premium vehicles but realized Americans care more about brand/badge than actual content. So when they introduced cars like the Toyota Celsior American focus groups were like "But it's still a Toyota?!" which had this weird association with cheap disposable Asian vehicles and not mighty Cadillac or Mercedes. What till you hear what the acronym FORD actually stands for.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:what about like... acura. or camry they've at least gone whole hog into making something up entirely, a time-honored tradition. spelling things wrong on purpose has a much more "local HVAC repair guy" vibe, or "insufferably twee 2010s internet" vibe.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:what about like... acura. or camry Camry is the romanization of kanmuri, making it yet another goddamn Toyota called some variant of Crown (Crown, Corona, Corolla). [edit] ninja’d
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