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xzzy posted:It happens in my prius too, I tend to bury my foot at stop lights and anyone in a fancy car next to me tends to respond by also burying their foot because gently caress if they're gonna let a shameful hybrid be in the front! The most fun to be had in a Prius
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The idea that people with expensive performance cars are quiet respectful sophisticates and only the coarse commoners in their cheap boy racer cars are rude assholes is laughable. Maybe they don't behave that way in your neighborhood, but they definitely do in mine.
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Sep 1, 2020 13:44
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Mahatma-Squid posted:They're pretty good cars, just not a great value proposition new. And definitely not a great value proposition once the warranty is up.
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Sep 5, 2020 00:00
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No, you see, in a busy city, you need to be sure that pedestrians can hear an EV over the cement trucks and dump trucks crashing through intersections, restaurants blasting music out onto empty patios, homeless people shouting at ghosts, ICE cars with noise for the sake of more noise exhausts, jackhammering, concrete sawing, even the loving sparrows are loud noise pollution that nobody seems concerned about because they all wear noise isolating/cancelling headphones everywhere so they don't go loving deaf. So let's make a quiet vehicle noisy so we can be part of the problem that we refuse to acknowledge exists!
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Sep 5, 2020 01:07
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Bbbbut blind people! You run over blind people! Trust me we do a drat fine job running over sighted people in this city, and nobody gives a poo poo about that. Do we really need to legislate noisemakers? How about we enforce traffic laws, and change poo poo where cars and pedestrians can occupy the same space so that they don't/can't/shouldn't ever have to. Oh wait we can just force the manufacturers to slap a white noise bandaid on it at very little public cost and say it's to help blind people, instead of getting poo poo right in the first place? Let's do that then.
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Sep 5, 2020 01:16
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Story time: Since I've been commuting by car again, I've been noticing this orange lamborghini huracan on its way to wherever at the same time of the morning, out in the suburbs where my office is. It hurts to see. I've always loved lamborghinis. To me they've always been truly exotic. The playthings of wealthy playboys, entertainers and drug lords. Not something you drive to work Monday to Friday 9 to 5 out in the bleak suburban wastelands. I mean, kudos to this guy daily driving it to his lucrative business selling groffel grommets or making bus station advertising signs or whatever passes for excitement out here. It just cheapens the whole experience of seeing one. Seeing an orange lamborghini should brighten your day, not be cause to reflect on the bleakness of existence. It's like seeing a prize winning thoroughbred being used to pull a dung cart.
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Sep 9, 2020 19:32
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Eyud posted:Yeah, warehouse sized garages full of exotic treasures that never get driven are way more depressing than a Lambo in the suburbs Thats kind of my point though. A Lambo should be owned by a shithead CEO, rich college kid, trust fund euro trash, or drug dealer. Not someone who has to toil at a regular job for a living like the rest of us schlubs. I'm not saying it should be kept in a garage, but it should be parked outside a snobby cafe that serves champagne at 10am on a weekday. Or a skeezy nightclub on a Friday night. Or a boutique clothing shop in the expensive part of town. Obviously the guy is welcome to use his car however he sees fit, but a car like that should imply that you don't have to walk through the mud, not that you can afford to wear your good shoes while walking through the mud. I've never seen a Murcielago or Diablo commuting. I guess what I'm saying is witnessing this, it speaks to me about the commodification of the brand, which makes me sad.
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Sep 9, 2020 20:05
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Midjack posted:Pure uncut lmao at someone unironically gatekeeping for Lamborghini. A Lambo is a villain's car, or at very least a rogue's. Or it was, anyway. Now, poo poo, it feels like it might as well be a Corvette. I guess the Huracan is just the Gallardo replacement and meant to occupy that tier, but for some reason the Gallardo didn't feel quite so common. Maybe because I was used to seeing them around central London, and associated that with ill-gotten gains, rather than Outer Mississauga, and thus now associating them with the soul-crushing monotony of suburban life.
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Sep 9, 2020 21:45
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Code Jockey posted:Ha, back in the Before Times I used to commute through this area daily and I think I've seen this dude lol Nah, that's just the new Mazda 3 hatch.
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Sep 9, 2020 21:52
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Memento posted:Having driven a Diablo through city traffic I can tell you the reason you've never seen anyone commuting one is that they are an unmitigated trashfire to drive anywhere except a track. As it should be. CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:What the hell? This has to be one of the worst takes I've read. Screw that DD a Lambo is cool AF. Yeah see now this is good and proper. Here's a guy towing goats with his murc. He is immediately intriguing. A wealthy, eccentric farmer? Tax sheltering charity petting zoo? Taken as collateral? This draws attention, like a good lamborghini should. A ute towing a goat trailer, nobody even blinks.
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Sep 10, 2020 00:54
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I saw a genesis G70 at the gas station this morning. It has this weird shiny fake grille patch thing in the middle of the grille: Lmao that has to be the worst active cruise control sensor camo ever. Yup just print the grille pattern over it, I'm sure nobody will notice the difference!
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Sep 11, 2020 15:05
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david_a posted:NEED A LITTLE EXTERMINATION? I'm sure it's effective, but it just seems a bit cruel to trick the poor bastards into cannibalism before snapping their spines.
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Oct 5, 2020 17:31
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I only made tamales once and actually they weren't too much of a pain, but I cheated by using canned Goya hominy that I boiled and mashed, instead of from scratch masa, and they turned out really good.
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Oct 8, 2020 01:00
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Midjack posted:This thing has to be a delight to turn: All the axles can probably crab, and/or rear counter-steer, and/or one side reverse to tank-turn.
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Oct 10, 2020 18:05
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Rest of the world: word-space-word. What is so difficult. It's a space, between words. Computer touchers:  %20
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Oct 15, 2020 20:25
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Remember when I was saying how lamborghini is a villain's car?
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Oct 18, 2020 02:20
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Wouldn't you want the inlet pointing backwards to keep the dust out? Or does it not matter?
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Oct 31, 2020 03:28
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Data Graham posted:It's supposed to be a metaphor for how the last sprint went. I ... think we were supposed to think of things that corresponded to like, the car (things that moved us forward), or the chute (things that held us back), or the bridge (???), or the guy in the pit (??????) Yup, still no clue what any of this is about.
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Nov 6, 2020 14:58
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I think the worst thing is an electric car doesn't have to adhere to a lot of the conventions of normal car design so you can go pretty crazy with it. ....and this boring looking thing with an enormous vestigial grille is what they turn out. That seat looks brutally uncomfortable but I guess my rear end would have to suffer for the art because the whole thing is gorgeous. Probably the first BMW motorcycle you could actually say that about.
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Nov 12, 2020 19:57
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I appreciate automotive trolling but I cannot in good conscience put this in any other thread than this. That is tremendous commitment to awfulness, and I'm with you on it. It deserves pride of place here.
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Nov 14, 2020 21:49
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Sagebrush posted:Airline-level safety for cars is impossible for a variety of reasons. But a nice first step would be to mandate that drivers pass regular tests and maintain currency, as is required for airline pilots. Even private pilots have to do a flight review every two years, which is officially not a test in that there are no explicit standards, but it might as well be because if the instructor you do it with doesn't like your flying and refuses to sign you off, you're grounded. The problem with this proposal is that unlike the FAA, there is no federal level driving standards agency, it's down to the state/province (who, in America, is more likely than not to be so broke they can't even fix the roads, let alone justify a vastly expanded DMV bureacracy.) The places where strict licensing and testing regimens exist are all generally single state countries with a strong, centralized federal government. That kind of system isn't tenable if Alberta decides that their driving test standard is going to be "can you get your pickup out of the ditch without spilling your beer", and Ontario decides their test is going to be "did you manage to not kill any pedestrians".
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Sagebrush posted:there has to be a logical explanation right Changing over to his snow tires in the gas station parking lot and airing them up at the same time.
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Nov 23, 2020 22:12
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bigbillystyle posted:I have a 2012 Mini base right now. I like it, it's pretty fun to drive and when I drove it to Indy for the 500 last year (from Massachusetts) I got over 40mpg with it. I get about 35 for an average with my normal driving. I'd say the interior is about the same as a 1991 Camaro I had, size wise. The front seats are pretty comfy, plenty of headroom and it has a back seat but no human adult with legs could actually sit in those seats. I'm only 5'10" and the driver's seat is almost touching the rear seat when sitting normally. With the Mini, BMW somehow managed to capture both the essence of British built motoring and experience of the finest German life-limited parts in one little yellow citrusy package.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Bummer. These were the only interesting VWs. That's ok, they have other brands. Audi will be back next year in endurance racing.
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Dec 1, 2020 20:31
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Krakkles posted:I have mixed feelings about some really classic music because "Southern Man", really? You mean the Neil Young song? That Sweet Home Alabama was a response to?
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Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:I know a guy with 7 kids. It’s the magical number where you plus spouse and kids cannot drive a normal vehicle and either have to get a passenger van or take 2 cars. It sounds horrible. Pfft, Americans  
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Dec 16, 2020 18:13
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Dec 16, 2020 22:21
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We really are all just slightly evolved apes.
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Darchangel posted:Somehow I missed this until today. Haha I just noticed one of those Camry exhausts on the way in to work the other day. Cars have had plain bumpers with hidden, down-pointing exhausts for decades and its been fine, though they tend to be plebian economy models. One wouldn't want one's Audi to be associated with such riff-raff. I'm not 100% on this, but I'm pretty sure the real exhaust on that Audi is because of diesel particulate emissions. Something about firing that poo poo directly onto the road surface leads to people dying of less cancer or something.
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Dec 19, 2020 13:53
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The only thing special about the mark iv supra was you could put a turbo the size of an APU on one and make 1200 RWDyno horsepower, eventually, once it spun up.
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Frond posted:To be fair I don’t really know what the difference between a Sports or a GT car is. The fact that they have full power options and Automatic Climate Control? I think these things are expected at the price points these cars were sold at. Unless you're a Porschist, in which case you'd pay extra for the privilege.
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Dec 29, 2020 18:17
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Majere posted:when are we going to get over the mindset of carbon fiber being "exotic" and "expensive"? it is neither in terms of manufacturing and end product forming. fake vinyl carbon fiber wrap is more expensive per yard at this point. I was going to say still 10x pricier than steel, but then that's by weight, and you can make a whole lot more chassis out of a pound of CFRP than you can steel. 10x more?
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Wasn't the problem with carbon fiber that it's a huge pain to repair? I seem to remember something about it a while back where damage wasn't repairable, they had to replace whatever panel(s) entirely. It is a huge pain to repair, and an even huger pain to determine whether it needs repair.
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and when He had given thanks, He shook it and said, “Take, eat; this is My booty which is shaken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Victory pipes if they're just massive/multiple. Takeyari (bamboo spear) is specifically the oblique slash cut iirc I think I know which one they're supposing is which in this photo, but really it could go either way.
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AmbassadorofSodomy posted:THAT IS AN EXCELLENT PRICE CONSIDERING THEY USE FINE, GERMAN L.E.D.S IN THAT GRILLE. Oh no no no. Those LEDs will be baked right in to the grille. The entire thing will be a separate part number. When you think about it, $500 for a whole new grille is a bit of a bargain. Imagine how much it will cost to replace it when the warranty is up and one of those LEDs shorts out or the integral fuse on the strip pops.
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The Algorithm sent me this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnej-xksgBc I couldn't watch it to the end. It's one thing to "know" people like this are out there somewhere, it's another thing entirely to have the crime scenes streamed directly to your living room. People want to talk about right to repair, after watching this I feel like that is a right you need to earn.
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