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Darchangel posted:Rightfully so. They sold a lot more Cayennes than Touregs. Maybe even more than the Q7.
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The V10 seemed dumb all round. My old workmate was eying up a V12 Q7 but decided to go with the V8 instead. Probably a good move.
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They should do pop-down lights which come out from the underside of the bumper instead.
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I seldom see full sized pickups here, but loads of builders seem to have Ranger Raptors which are still stupid expensive.
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Ruflux posted:Hiluxes are pretty awful outside of their designated purpose which is having carriage capacity on a bed entirely separate from the interior combined with basic offroad capability. They're incredibly spartan even to this day. Very much van replacements in the sense that they're not equipped with particularly powerful engines because they're really designed for work only and have no extra frills, lots of hard plastic, the most basic seat and steering wheel adjustments and so on. The most advanced feature in the Hilux my dad bought to replace his Mitsubishi is the stereo having Bluetooth and handsfree that actually works well and a backup camera (with a really terrible, fuzzy image mind you). None of that is true these days - Hilux and Prado have had the same 2.8 diesel for many years now, and the Hilux is available in fancy trims these days too that have all of the safety and most of the comfort features you'd get in a Toyota SUV.
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Dunno about the new one, but I've spent a bunch of time in the outgoing Prado and it isn't what I'd call a 'luxury vehicle'. Yes it's expensive, but that doesn't have anything to do with how fancy it is inside and there is way less of a perceived quality difference between the Hilux/Fortuner/Prado inside than there is between a Prado and something like a Toureg.
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Oct 10, 2023 23:32
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It's called the 'Mazda Roadster' in Japan still. They've fairly recently dropped the other Japanese model names though (Demio, Axela, Atenza)
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Oct 17, 2023 20:37
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It's a dumb place to cut costs - even the cheapest Chinese EVs that are starting to hit western markets have stalks and a gauge cluster (or at least a screen pretending to be one)
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Nov 7, 2023 21:41
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With small children you'd usually have the back doors locked anyway
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The Door Frame posted:I've had to disassemble a child locked door to get myself out of the back of an Express panel van when the wind blew it closed The child locks in every car I've owned are set from either a switch or keyhole near the door latch which is only accessible when the door is open. Once they're activated they stay activated - the one in the side where my child sits has been set since I got the car. Not saying they're equivalently bad, just that the effect is similar.
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Nov 9, 2023 18:16
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Olympic Mathlete posted:The guys involved with the Polestar without a rear windscreen gave reasoning as to why. The guy was quoted as saying "how often do you look behind you anyway?" and then went on to say they needed to remove it in order to have enough strength for the enormous full length panoramic glass roof. More often than I look out of the freaking roof.
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randomidiot posted:Supercharged 3800 would be a lot easier to source. Wouldn't need to do nearly as much fabrication either. Buuuut not as cool. Needs a 12a
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Ok Comboomer posted:The crossover was born in the 90s. The RAV4 and CRV took the idea of the Suzuki Samurai, etc (the mini 4x4 that can go almost anywhere and is cheap and fashionable, but sacrifices on-road manners to the point where it’s a rollover-happy death trap at highway speeds) and purpose-built it for the road. That's certainly where they got popular. I'd argue some of the lifted wagon versions of earlier models count though where they had taller bodies than the hatch/sedan - Toyota and Honda both had these before the Rav4/CRV
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randomidiot posted:That's Ukraine though, it's kind of the Wild West of car repairs (much like Russia). Obligatory link to Russian body shop https://autobotanik.livejournal.com/ If you scroll there are a few Teslas but none with really dramatic damage like some of the old Skodas and Nissans further down the page.
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Not Wolverine posted:That's literally every GM car prior to the era of steering wheel controls. I miss those days, it was glorious to have every single vehicle control you possibly need all on one stick. Not my grandfather's 2001 Astra - that had a stalk for wipers, a stalk for indicators and the rest of the lights on a dashboard knob. No cruise and no radio controls.
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Yeah I still see a significant number of cars on the road where the high stop is the only working brake lamp.
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My clothes dryer says 'optimising with AI' every time it starts up.
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Frank Dillinger posted:Also until recently the brake light behavior on the ioniq 5 sucked. No brake lights while in regen mode, wtf Hyundai. Which is really weird given they work perfectly fine on the original Ioniq from 2017
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Sagebrush posted:and only because the sedan is the ugliest version. that generation taurus wagon i think is genuinely kinda cool looking, in a SONY XPLOD kind of way: In 25 years time someone is going to be posting current model Rav4s and Outlanders and complaining they don't make cars that look like that anymore.
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Now PHEVs have larger batteries I don't think it's quite six times these days Model Y base - 67kWh Rav4 Prime - 18kWh battery
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Cars that make noises other than 'you've left your side lights on' when you open the door is also terrible car stuff. Like technology in general my car should not make any noise unless I deem it so. I don't see why the car shouldn't just turn the lights off.
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Safety Dance posted:"Sounds like you don't have the authority to stop me from opening the containers either" Wiggum: "Powerless to help you, not punish you"
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Darchangel posted:But isn't that styled after the Town Ace or something JDM? It's going for the Alphard/Vellfire look https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Alphard
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Blue Footed Booby posted:My 2010 Fit has big, chonky knobs for the air controls that are within a few inches of the steering wheel. They even feel different. This poo poo isn't that hard, companies just don't care. My mother's 2016 Fit has (or had, it's since been replaced) crummy Android head unit with a capacitive volume slider and separate but capacitive climate controls.
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Full Collapse posted:I like my Kenwood a lot. They make head units with physical buttons, though I got a cheaper one with capacitive buttons since I use the steering wheel buttons out of habit. Back in the olden days Sony used to do a stubby stalk type remote thing which you could stick to the steering column - great for cars which didn't have steering wheel controls
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mobby_6kl posted:I think a lot of the 90s cars will score pretty highly here. I learned about touchscreens very early on when the nav/climate system in my Japanese import 1999 Nissan Avenir wagon died  Fortunately the physical buttons on the right hand side still worked so I could control temperature and demist but the other controls were on the touch portion and couldn't be accessed at all, and while I could adjust the temperature I couldn't see what it was currently set to. The same car also had a flip down face for the separate single din head unit and of course the ribbon cable eventually wore out.
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In RHD markets BMW fails because like all European manufacturers they never bothered to move the indicator stalk to the correct side of the column.
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Darchangel posted:
Not having access to ACC on a car as expensive as that Polestar (he has the dual motor one) is terrible car stuff. Especially when the hardware is there anyway.
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Jonny Nox posted:Filed under: Never ever adopt early From that incredibly vague article it doesn't sound like the traction battery at all, more like some sort of gremlin in the low voltage side. Leafs, especially early ones, degrade at a fairly predictable rate and it isn't at all common for a pack to suddenly fail.
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I think it was mostly LandCruisers anyway which would have had a 2L or 2H Toyota still sells brand new Hiluxes with the L series of engines where there aren't any emissions standards and reliability is more important than performance (they have like 95hp)
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Edward IV posted:Another annoying thing is that the volume control is oriented horizontally while the music controls is oriented vertically. I've had this car for five years and still hit the source rocker instead of volume like 40% of the time 
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