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The new Suzuki Swift video's been up for 11 days but I haven't seen it come up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tH0g-cYz7A Comes with a manual and N/A three-banger. 1.2l, 83 hp  E: VW ID6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L58V0GT7knE LOl they still have the idiotic two window switches And touchscreen for adjusting air vent direction mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Feb 5, 2024 |
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Only if you are as ridiculously out of shape as Clarkson is. Hammond can easily crash a few more cars still.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:I never understood why some super rich guys like Clarkson look so horribly unhealthy, you can afford the healthiest food available plus a chef to cook it for you every day. And then a trainer to keep you relatively in shape and not looking like a pregnant elderly woman about to give birth. 
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GlassEye-Boy posted:As far as integrated dashboards go, this one looks pretty good.  
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Nope. Can't choose each vent direction independently.  The dials adjust the temperature, you can toggle each vent direction separtely, the windshield button puts it automatically at full blast defogging, and fan speed can be easily increased/decreased by mashing the button a few times. Sab669 posted:
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Yeep posted:605l of cargo is really poor for something aiming for the electric Passat market. That's smaller than a Golf estate. Skoda has the Enyak or whatever and it's kind of meh too E: Carwow has a video on the Fisker Ocean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoIT_onPfKk mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Feb 20, 2024 |
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BuckyDoneGun posted:GOOD NEWS! It's the new Dacia Spring! Hmm as he mentioned the Spring has been available for a while now in other makets but it seems like it got a facelift at least? 16k is way cheaper than the next EV of course, but it's still kind of a lot of money for a very, very basic car with In terms of overall package (well other than safety) it'd be great for someone like my parents on limited income but also with limited travel needs. Buuut if you're on a budget... why not get a used Honda Fit for like $5k? (or my shitbox for $500) I guess it might make sense if you drive a lot within a small radius. e: Thomas has a video too, and he gets to play with the YouClip thing. The base trim also has manual rear windows! Also he barely fits into it lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fUCH8tRDvo mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Feb 21, 2024 |
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^^^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ExIDot-g_4&t=428s Aix posted:you gotta look up the 0-60 for the spring. its a thing of its own Well only if you cheap out and get the 45hp version! Otherwise it's like 13s which is about the same as my 1.2 Honda Fit, which is perfectly usable mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Feb 21, 2024 |
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Cadillac is going to have a new 3-row EV SUV? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odb-Abp9qmQ SlowBloke posted:If you scrap an euro 4 car or older, along with a family income under 30k€ in italy makes a spring a 3000€ car in Italy. It makes it more cheap than an Ami or whatever new motorbike you can buy. 
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Autogefuel has the MX-30 test with the rotary range extender / phev thing. He doesn't seem to be a fan of the combination, which is a bummer as I thought it could work pretty well. Doesn't really come across from the video but I guess the rotary will be spinning quite fast and as smooth as it is, if it's at like 6k rpm in city traffic, it might be pretty distracting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlW2g2oFnNc e: also Peugeot 3008 EV (also available as ICE) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wklgg5Je618 mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Feb 24, 2024 |
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I don't think I've ever seen an MX-30 on the road here. But interestingly I was just checking the Norwegian stats and apparently it's not doing amazingly but still out-selling the ID.3 and pretty much matching the ID.4 lol E: Renault 5 is leaking   quote:When it launches officially on February 26th, it’s expected to arrive with a 52 kWh battery pack and anywhere from 120 to 150 hp mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Feb 25, 2024 |
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Well here's the real thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLbV7LB8k2c
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Other than the relatively high beltline/hood (EV skateboard + pedestrian safety) could it really be much smaller than that while still being a practical 4-seater? In the Autogefuel video you can see Thomas can't really fit in the back as it is It's actually shorter than a Skoda Fabia (3920 vs 4108)  I do think everyone should be driving Kei cars but I doubt you could sell a mainstream car much smaller than that. A class smaller is what, an Up!?
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Oh no, Apple moved their car to the trashcan. Now we'll never know what sort of minimalist UI they'd come up with  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-27/apple-cancels-work-on-electric-car-shifts-team-to-generative-ai DanTheFryingPan posted:Toyota Yaris is in the same class as the Fabia but about 200mm shorter, while the Up, Citigo, Aygo etc. are around 3600-3700mm. I still see lot of Yarises around. The truly tiny cars in Germany seem to be mostly Smarts.  Don't really disagree that it looks a bit fat visually and they should've made a 3-door but realistically I just don't see how they could've made it smaller while having mainstream appeal. The top selling cars in France are the Clio and C3 so about this size. https://www.best-selling-cars.com/france/2023-full-year-france-top-20-best-selling-car-models/ Russian Bear posted:There is a global version that is hybrid right now that the US didn't get. The cutest lil space ship.
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Neslepaks posted:Really quite taken with the R5. May have to test drive it when it lands here. Make sure to test the baguette holder
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TheMadMilkman posted:I could never fit in that, but drat it looks good. E: the 4-door Jimy looks wrong but I'd bet they'll sell tons of them mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Mar 1, 2024 |
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Pretty sure I've seen the BYD Seagull a few months ago when videos from China started coming out but another one popped up in YT so I had a look again. Its claim to fame is that it's a $12k EV that isn't a complete piece of poo poo like the Changli or something. Now obviously that's the price in China without taxes, possibliy including state subsidies, shortcuts on safety, slave labor, whatever. What's interesting though is where they didn't cheap out. Vents you control with your fingers. Physical clicky buttons on steering wheel. Stalks. Two displays, the large one rotates. A glove box with a manual latch (not visible obviously).  Seperate button for each window, locks and mirror adjustments. Physical door levers.  A small panel with a gear selector, drive modes, A/C and volume controls.  It's not that buttons are free, but this makes me think they really wouldn't be saving that much by sticking everything into the screen. Or they would've done that on the super-cheap car. Even if all this luxury cost BYD something crazy like $1k (or 10% of the whole car!), then that's something I think the likes of Volvo or VW could afford to do on their $50k car/suv things
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Blackhawk posted:VAG's 2023 operating profit was $22.5 billion, it's not that they can't afford to put in physical controls without increasing the price of the car, they just want to squeeze every last drop of profit possible out of their paypigs. That's true of course, but usually this is the excuse when VAG or Volvo or Tesla come up with a dogshit "minimalist" interior; they just have no choice but to save money to give you a $50k SUV, when in reality I suspect the $500 or whatever a few buttons and toggles could cost would be easily a rounding error on the price of a vehicle.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:$500 per is a big number in vehicle cost accounting Twerk from Home posted:I would take cheapo 90s GM parts bin physical controls over touchscreen only, and there is no way that those were expensive, either to R&D or to manufacture.  On the upside though I think with the advancements in 3d printing, CNC machining and approachable electronics, it should be pretty easy to make your own dream gauges for your EV. Basically like what Matt talks about doing (but apparently never does lol) with old Jaaaag gauges by connecting them to Tesla computers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2cw8vR2tuo&t=276s In any case I don't think this is something I'll have to worry about anytime soon.
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I don't mind the look of the coupe, the 4-door is a bit weird in the profile. I'm more concerend that it's going to be AWD by default, what is that poo poo.
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Paging Engineering Explained guy to do the math for us E: He does actually have a video on mass vs acceleration lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cUIhVEJEaM gently caress it, let's do this. We have all the information to do the math in that Car and Driver article except the gear reduction, but it seems to work out to about 9.5 which is similar to what Tesla uses, from a quick google check, so probably about right.  Wait it's just linear lol. I guess IRL traction limitations with lower weight and air resistance would affect that mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Mar 6, 2024 |
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It doesn't really matter either way because the road wear increases with the 4th power of weight per axle. So even porky passenger vehicles do nothing but busses and heavy trucks gently caress poo poo up real quick. Random chart from GIS: 
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There was another hit on google of a recent paper, I don't have time to read the whole thing but there was this chart: https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/313811988/Read_wear_EV_CTEP_Publishers_Copy.pdf Olympic Mathlete posted:Me sat in traffic in my Miata: "I need to get a motorbike for commuting"  I can walk to my work (or WFH) so it's not really an issue but going through downtown or some of the ring roads for any reason can be a nightmare at times and would be much faster and more fun on a bike. A Grom would do it I think. At least I think it would, if I wasn't too much of a pussy to ride anything with fewer than 4 wheels 
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Speaking of "luxury", here's a close look at the Celestiq from less than an hour ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnkIVRSshJA I've seen photos of these things but no idea if it's an actual first time it's shown up close. I like the idea of a giant outrageous Cadillac like the V16 or something but not really loving that rear end so far. Also doesn't seem to have as much space insied as an S class or something.
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E53 AMG wagon, I6 hybrid, 612hp. Hopefully you can order it in brown too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA6qjir7S7s ID.3 GTX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6y7VdcOkxA
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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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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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I generally like what Genesis is doing (yes even that Magma thing) but wtf is this https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/03/sporty-orange-and-big-luxury-genesis-brings-its-ev-game-to-ny/
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FlapYoJacks posted:It's a concept car OP. Concept cars are notorious for being crazy and impractical but generally cool-looking at first glance. Are you saying there isn't going to be an enormous widescreen stuck on the dashboard? 
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I don't think they sell the Accord in Europe at all. No idea WTF Honda is doing (or rather not doing). EU's a pretty big market and cars like the Fit, Civic and Accord (RIP) are all in popular segments, not to mention their CUV thingies. I haven't been insde a current-gen Honda but they seem to be very competitive by all accounts so it's really strange. Maybe it's becasue everything is only weird E-CVT hybrid and people hate it? 
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antimatt posted:I too had a '15 with a manual and had the exact opposite thoughts about it. You could merge onto the freeway WFO, shifting at the limiter and not break the law (much). It was one of the best shifting transaxles I've driven in a long time. Applebees Appetizer posted:I turned my Scion xB into a decent handling car just by adding a sway bar in the rear, putting a bigger sway bar and strut bar in the front, and of course good summer tires.
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dissss posted:I've always thought of the Swift as the fun hatch (the Sport is legit good) whereas the Jazz/Fit is like a mini-minvan. Dr. Lunchables posted:Guy I know crammed a K20 into his Fit. I haven’t seen it drive but it’s like Saab 9-3 levels of tight in that engine bay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V77gpcS-nmw
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TheBacon posted:Not eligible for import for another 8 years. Unless you mean actual E60 and not E61, in which case, why?
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TheBacon posted:I mean I have looked pretty heavily into converting an E91 and it is really loving expensive. $180k would not be insanely off to try and make it like new. Also man bangle must be feeling so justified right now. This used to be a forum. A proper AI forum.
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SlowBloke posted:When the Tychy plant started making Pandas the people reaction was "finally we can get a Panda whose doors won't fall off". If you ask the average italian where he likes his cars to be built the standard response is "everywhere but Italy".  Nothing wrong with making cars there of course, but if Fiat got a handout from the government to make cars there [e: in Italy], that's pretty lovely. Southern Italy is pretty hosed economically and needs all the help they can get. mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 12:31 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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