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The FWD drive BMW is going to have a 1.5L 3 cylinder motor, that seems awfully weird. How are they going to deal with the generally undesirable NVH qualities you get with a 3 cylinder motor? Sounds like it's going to be a tiny, possibly European only car anyways.
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Linedance posted:just for perspective, here's a typical two-way suburban street in west London at Google-Car o'clock when it isn't particularly busy. Jesus gently caress that makes me claustrophobic just looking at it 
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Aug 14, 2012 21:42
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Cream_Filling posted:I've never quite understood why anyone would buy a Honda Accord coupe. The sedan, I get it: you need decent reliable transportation with more room than a compact car. But why the coupe? It doesn't even look that much better and it's cutting into the half the point of an Accord - it's bigger than a Civic or competing midsize sedans. If I wanted a cheap giant boat of a coupe, I'd buy a Dodge Challenger or a pony car, which actually look cool and have more power. Old people who don't need 4 doors on a car anymore because they aren't carting around their kids.
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Sep 6, 2012 17:22
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Welcome to capitalism? The goal isn't to make a great product, the goal is to make money. Making a great product is just one way to make make money, but you can't make it too great because then you wind up competing with yourself. Look at HP with their printers. The LaserJet 4 has a Volvo 240-esque reputation for reliability, but their later printers have a reputation for being temperamental pieces of poo poo. nVidia is competing with their 8800/9800/280 GTXs 4 years later (an eternity in computers!) in the midrange. It's not just the physical specs of the products either. You're competing with the reputation of the product, the memory consumers have of those products, because while a good product gives you a good reputation amongst consumers it also sets the bar higher for what you make in the future. Hell, the same idea exists in the labor market. Don't be too good, don't set expectations too high for your bosses, the consumers of your labor because you will be expected to do that all the time and that might not even be possible. True excellence is fleeting and the profit motive only ensures incrementing yourself slightly beyond your competitors. Anything else would be inefficient.
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Sep 16, 2012 20:45
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MrChips posted:When automakers stop fighting and agree on a new standard for higher voltage electrical systems. Are there actuators up to the task of opening and closing valves several hundred times per minute for hours at time over the course of 10-15 years without failure? I figured that would be the biggest stumbling block.
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Sep 18, 2012 21:35
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Keyser S0ze posted:So you can load it up with Tapout stickers, jack it up 36 inches, and maybe tow something 10 miles twice per year when you are not trying to drive it like an M3 and weaving in and out of traffic and spewing diesel exhaust all over. MANLY MEN spend $60k on pickup trucks! I really need to take a picture of the front parking lot where I work. It's like a never ending cavalcade of macho men trying to one up each other with their ridiculous trucks.
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Sep 26, 2012 22:11
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grover posted:That's about the same as the loving 68hp Fiat 500 I had for a rental once in Italy. To say it's dangerously slow is an understatement. Suice on the highways, and utterly incapable of maintaining speed up even shallow grades, even with the engine revving in the peak of the powerband. I haven't driven a car that anemic since I had a 1994 Cavalier with the biggest pause between the 2-3 shift that I have ever seen in my life but I never had an issue merging onto I-75 in Michigan where the majority of drivers are doing 10 over the posted 75mph speed limit.
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Oct 5, 2012 15:25
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All the highways around here are 60-65MPH until you get out in the boonies and it's not like you're taking an electric car on a cross country road trip. In theory something like an electric fourtwo would be perfect for 95% of the driving I do, too bad they're out of my price range...
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Oct 10, 2012 18:45
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Who cares if you're getting passed left and right?
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Oct 10, 2012 19:06
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Something like that would be literally perfect for me provided there was enough space for a couple of bags of groceries in the back.
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Oct 10, 2012 20:28
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Previa_fun posted:Thanks. It still seems like strange wording though. I prefer my fonts sans serif for extra aerodynamic efficiency.
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Oct 31, 2012 16:27
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It's more direct injection and other advanced materials and poo poo allowing Ford to use much higher compression ratios than you'd normally see in a turbocharged engine.
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Nov 30, 2012 00:51
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Well there's the New Beetle!
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I don't know about the cars themselves, but holy gently caress do Infiniti's commercials annoy the ever living gently caress out of me.
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