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similarly, Chery is a romanization of their Chinese names Qirui. Luxeed is something like Lexus i guess, luxurious something something. crap, page snipe. here's a Nio ET5 Touring I wish I could buy here. 
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Saukkis posted:China has also made godawful cars, but they had the good sense not to bring them to west and ruin their reputation. That isn't entirely true, Chery tried with various awful models in the early 2010s, and Australia/NZ got some extremely crappy GWM utes and SUVs. Even more recently I'd consider the MG3 and the ICE versions of the ZS as pretty much garbage. Also MG has the hilariously bad idea of trying to sell the MG5 sedan in Australia (a model clearly never intended for export)
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root beer posted:Camry is the romanization of kanmuri, making it yet another goddamn Toyota called some variant of Crown (Crown, Corona, Corolla). Muscle Tracer posted: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. boys it literally is exactly the same, Chery is a romanization of their name. edit: i suspect a bunch of you would be sitting around saying some pretty dreadful poo poo about the Japanese brands when they came to the US
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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 Yeah they look fantastic. I'm waiting to hear what the macan EV reviews are like and then trying to decide.
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Why would that be any different than right now, when people aren’t saying anything “dreadful”? Because it would be the seventies and everyone would be completely different people?
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:boys it literally is exactly the same, Chery is a romanization of their name. I'd say they were using made-up words, and/or misspelling words on purpose. What's dreadful there? What else is there to say about "Exeed"?
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:don't worry, your local congressman is working hard to make sure they never reach our shores Not here, BYG's are popping up everywhere in Koala fucker land
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:boys it literally is exactly the same, Chery is a romanization of their name. I don’t actually have an issue with Chinese cars coming here nor do I care what the automakers are called, I was only noting that Toyota isn’t very imaginative when it comes to naming their cars
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root beer posted:I don’t actually have an issue with Chinese cars coming here nor do I care what the automakers are called, I was only noting that Toyota isn’t very imaginative when it comes to naming their cars I swear we were just talking poo poo a few weeks ago about carmakers that call their cars by numbers and letters. And how certain numbers that actually meant a specific thing don't even mean that anymore.
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I still feel that way. Gimme all the made up words in the book. I want the Maxcellence sedan and the Perfexcellence coupe.
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can we all agree "build your dreams" is dumb
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GoutPatrol posted:can we all agree "build your dreams" is dumb 9700 for a new car is dream for a lot of us
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https://youtu.be/xoavzFHyIQY?si=U5Pys7hLDxBqXWi2 Farah also described it as "by far the best sports EV I've driven" Price tag is big, but I love that Hyundai is trying to have fun with this thing.
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Ringing endorsement from Farah. I suspect he’s right in saying if everyone doesn’t copy this approach for their performance EVs they will be left behind. This would be right up my alley as a daily but for the price. It’s hard to spend $70K on something you know will be worth 30 in 3-4 years.
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While I know BEV manufacturers can't say the quiet part out loud, having the battery pack and BMS be easily maintainable and replaceable would certainly do a lot for easing longevity fears. If I was reasonably certain that 5-8 years from now I could retrofit a pack with new chemistry/better tech that had the same current and voltage specs as the OE one, I would be way less cautious about buying a BEV.
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speaking of china starting to run laps around everyone else, has anyone looked at this insanity? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbAB0ICj1Mc Lol 150k usd, but still fascinating. 50kwh with a generator seems like a way better design for offroad SUVs vs something like the rivian with just the massive battery pack. It looks decent too, and has buttons.
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:What till you hear what the acronym FORD actually stands for. https://youtu.be/3AJCdmW33fM?si=Q6x-uAqeqi2izNzs
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MeruFM posted:speaking of china starting to run laps around everyone else, has anyone looked at this insanity? from the reviews I saw it has great tech, but probably too heavy to be really effective at offroading. but then again most people who buy these won't be taking them offroad.
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The other trick you gotta keep in mind with naming any global product these days is a) hope it doesn't mean wanker in some other language and b) it needs to be something you can secure as a trademark. Hence, made up words with weird spelling.
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Sab669 posted:https://youtu.be/xoavzFHyIQY?si=U5Pys7hLDxBqXWi2 I've been saying for a while, if you haven't driven a Hyundai N-Line you are seriously missing out - they are all incredibly good and actual drivers cars
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Genesis should bring the G70 Touring over to the US and then MAGMA it so I can be 1 of 3 buyers 
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Sab669 posted:Genesis should bring the G70 Touring over to the US and then MAGMA it so I can be 1 of 3 buyers Well, we know 2/3rds of them would be owned in forum, anyway. Sadly, the G70 is a one and one in the US.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I've been saying for a while, if you haven't driven a Hyundai N-Line you are seriously missing out - they are all incredibly good and actual drivers cars You mean N? N-Line is mostly an appearance package.
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I would love to get an Elantra N, but a couple months ago i tried out a GTI and quite frankly the streets, roads, highways over here are not suitsble AT ALL for a sports tuned car, the streets are much too uneven, rough and bumpy to make it a livable daily driver. Also the municipality here loves LOVES speedbumps that havent been re-painted in a decade or two. Sadly im completely out of the right geographic market for sports tuned cars like the N lines, Gr-86's, GTI's etc. Thats why im mostly interested in cars like the land cruiser, because you might as well have an big off roader with good ground clearance given the huge variance in road quality here. Al-Saqr fucked around with this message at 11:03 on Apr 20, 2024 |
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I've been saying for a while, if you haven't driven a Hyundai N-Line you are seriously missing out - they are all incredibly good and actual drivers cars I think Hyundai only (re?)entered Japan with a couple of the EV models, including the Ioniq5. So no go-fast until those work their way through.
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The Ioniq 5 is one of the better looking cars today, but it's still a chunky little SUV. If Hyundai would turn either the Vision 74 or the Grandeur EV concepts into real cars I would instantly buy either one of them.aa
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How is it an suv.
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Perhaps because of the size? It looks smaller in pictures but in person it's larger than I expected. It's basically a lowered X3 size wise.
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The 5 was a great exercise in marketing in that all the photos were chosen in such a way as to hide how big it was. I pulled up behind one on my motorbike after launch and it was the same size as the Range Rover Evoque next to it. The thing is like 2" shorter in height but almost 12" longer. So while it may be hatchback styled it's big as gently caress but of course the proliferation of truly enormous SUVs available to the US market will have skewed your perception of sizing a bunch.
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An overgrown hatchback is a win nowadays. At least it retains a lot of cargo utility.
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Mavericks are finally building in stock and a tad under msrp but unfortunately it's just the loaded packages in the mid $30k range lol. Base models are way harder to find in stock and I'm sure that's by design, gently caress you Ford.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:The 5 was a great exercise in marketing in that all the photos were chosen in such a way as to hide how big it was. I pulled up behind one on my motorbike after launch and it was the same size as the Range Rover Evoque next to it. The thing is like 2" shorter in height but almost 12" longer. I thought the same thing but I just looked up the specs and it's actually not that big? It's kind of baffling. Compared to the Golf it's 4 inches wider, 4.5 inches taller and just over a foot longer. The Evoque has the opposite problem, it looks big but it's compact car sized.
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Bulk Vanderhuge posted:I thought the same thing but I just looked up the specs and it's actually not that big? It's kind of baffling. Compared to the Golf it's 4 inches wider, 4.5 inches taller and just over a foot longer. Which makes it bigger than a Tiguan.
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If we're kind and ignore height because EVs are putting batteries under the floor so will obviously be taller... *edit: vs a hatch that was everywhere on UK streets...  "well it's just a bit bigger" - person who doesn't understand volume. Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Apr 21, 2024 |
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Yeah the 5 has that hatchback look but then someone set it to 130% size.
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I went and sat in an Ioniq the other day finally and it was like... completely normal sized. It's the size of a new CRV. Ok just barely bigger. But I don't get why people have an issue with that, if it was smaller inside no one would buy it, like no one bought a honda E. People don't go, a CRV oh my god what a monstrosity.
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Infinotize posted:I went and sat in an Ioniq the other day finally and it was like... completely normal sized. It's the size of a new CRV. Ok just barely bigger. But I don't get why people have an issue with that, if it was smaller inside no one would buy it, like no one bought a honda E. People don't go, a CRV oh my god what a monstrosity. euphronius posted:One of my neighbors has a 1986 caprice classic . I haven’t seen him drive it for years. He had it out yesterday and its tiny !! I remember in the 1980s the caprice was a huge car. Things are getting hosed up Peoples sense of normalcy is indeed getting hosed up.
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