cars

[winged raft]

Hard or no

[solar rapids]

Ay, all good. And yeah, visuals are always subjective. I find both light shapes to be very awkward, on top of clashing with the bodylines.

I'd like them much more if they did something like this for the lights.

I kinda prefer the headlights have a flat bottom altogether, but I get it's a modern thing to put a kink in them somewhere.

(The taillight design doesn't have to be exactly like that, just that general shape fits the car much, much better.)

[full prism]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1198727661783093318.webp?size=48&name=Necoarc_Stare

i agree that rear lights should fit to front one, it doesnt rn

[solar rapids]

I eventually would like to get a Fiat 124 Spider because I want a modern Miata, but I strongly prefer the Fiat's looks.

It still looks happy, too.

[full prism]

oh damn, fiat looks like too much front design to me

but rear is better yea

[solar rapids]

I like the front. It's almost like a baby Mustang.

[full prism]

lol

it do be like that

[compact grotto]

I love discovering a video that you used to love but haven't seen it in years

https://youtu.be/YiQ6FcyiPag

such a vibe

[full prism]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/693228239736275028.webp?size=48&name=MCSenkoGaze

[compact grotto]

And I think Misha for jogging my memory. https://youtu.be/X5tpnhwJMXc

[full prism]

what a meet of legends

[frosty thunder]

"Car"

[full prism]

gyaaat

[compact grotto]

https://youtu.be/D3PdqvCTYTM @dusk ocean guys just out here doing stuff, gotta love it

[dusk ocean]

lol awesome

[compact grotto]

he was literally in the race today at daytona lmao

[dusk ocean]

that is so cool

[gentle thicket]

Aww man. Was hoping for a finish at least, if not a strong one.

[compact grotto]

shame but i'm sure that's not the last we'll see

[dull cedar]

Be prepared to engine swap it then, the one they come with isn't the Miata one and it's ass

[full prism]

lmao

[solar rapids]

What's bad about it?

[dull cedar]

1.4 litre turbo that produces far too little power for such a car

Also it's a fiat engine

[gentle thicket]

meh - the Miata RF looks the best - aside from that terrible screen in the middle of the dash.

[pure pond]

140-160hp for such a small car is fine

[dull cedar]

The 181hp from the mx-5 2 litre is fine

The others really aren't

Especially 138hp from the normal 124

[solar rapids]

It's faster than my Mustang, which made 150 horsepower in a car that weighed 3000 pounds.

[glad mantle]

I think it's definitely got a much more muscular look (in a good way, to be clear)

My big thing was just Fiat parts availability vs Mazda

I know it's a small gripe but it's quite bad here in canada

[solar rapids]

I think you can get Fiat parts at Dodge dealers.

[undone sorrel]

@full prism its 99% done, all i gotta do is retune it, reduce the chain by 1 link and then clean off the dirt

[undone sorrel]

That's a game

[harsh ember]

yeah i saw someone else post ss? so i assumed everything car was allowed

if its not sorry

[undone sorrel]

I mean, i think it's allowed, but normally ppl talk about irl vehicles

[harsh ember]

ahhh ok gotchu

[winged raft]

Look, Doordash said get people their food on time, I said say less, anything else is lost in translation 😂

[jagged wagon]

So what you're saying is... you deliver people's orders with speeeeeeeeeeed...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTemcPZw8Eo

"Playing this while driving caused me to astral project my entire vehicle to my destination"
"Sir, you were going Mach 3.2 in a Toyota Tacoma. What the fuck?" -- "its stock officer"

[winged raft]

I personally prefer the original

[lyric tide]

I finish strong

[full prism]

how do u tension that chain

[full prism]

i did yes, u should try low fov photos

also when i do, i try to do it on-topic
usually not off topic cars etc

[undone sorrel]

Chain tensioner or shorten the chain physically

[full prism]

damn

[fresh island]

Miot Miot Miot

[full prism]

https://media.discordapp.net/stickers/1264193651572080650.png?size=160&name=wowoooo

when the daddy hilux and mommy miot marries

[coral spire]

is that yours????

[full prism]

i wish

he wish

we wish

you wish

[fresh island]

I wish it was

[solar rapids]

Okayu spotted.

[full prism]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1198727661783093318.webp?size=48&name=Necoarc_Stare

just heard that name

[stable eagle]

Anybody here know much about yamaha r3s? Looking to buy one for my first bike and not too sure about this listing I've found

[coral spire]

same

[lone storm]

Hey look! A $500 shitbox

[full prism]

https://media.discordapp.net/stickers/1040796505428217876.png?size=160&name=My+reaction+to+that+input+osak

a mazda too, would eat

[lone fern]

I love 500$ shitboxes

[lone storm]

It only needed a battery lead to run

[wraith rivet]

@lone storm is that a Mazda 6?

[lone storm]

Yes

I want to turbo it

[wraith rivet]

Haha nice I recognized my car in the body lines I have a 2015

[lone storm]

This is a 09

[wraith rivet]

Dude same it would be the perfect car if it just had more power. my brother told me apparently the internals aren’t the strongest though?

[lone storm]

Mine has more lights that stay on 😅

[wraith rivet]

nooo

get them fixed 🫡

[lone storm]

I'll just pull the bulbs and get some tape

And that's what really grinds my gears

[wraith rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/grinds-my-gears-peter-griffin-seth-mc-farlane-family-guy-gif-1236149375205084885

People mistreating poor Mazdas 😔

[lone storm]

It was $500

I can sell it to scrap for the same amount

I technically saved it

[wraith rivet]

Damn 😭

True

that’s valid reasoning, maybe it wants to go out as a rally car 🤔

[lone storm]

Is this decent?

[bleak swallow]

The best

[wraith rivet]

Idk haha probably not an automatic, I really don’t like mazdas transmissions they’re just lazy

A manual one with a turbo honestly I could see it

put in a hydraulic handbrake

[lone storm]

It's an automatic sadly

[wraith rivet]

You could flip it for profit and buy another cool car 😎

[full prism]

lol

[full prism]

its a positive side if youre going to daily that car in high density traffic where u stop and take off a lot

[lone storm]

I'm in the middle of cornfields

We don't get traffic

[full prism]

manual swap it frfr

[lone fern]

Guess i gotta pay my tolls 💔💔

Thanks scammers for this cool text message

[jagged wagon]

Wow. Your vehicle must've been travelling very slowly if it was in the toll facility for the entire month of February. Also, they must have some kind of time machine, since February is only half over!

[lone fern]

Isn’t it crazy?? Time: February

I knew my car was slow but damn

Didnt have to do me like that

[jagged wagon]

"When in February, 2025?" -- "YES" -- Right, sure, that makes sense.

[lone fern]

Perfect sense

“Dear motorist”

Really pulling on the heartstrings

Copyright 2025 toll enforcement authority 😂😂

[winged raft]

At least they tried

It could've been this bad

[stoic ledge]

Best to check with the authority’s

[lone storm]

Angry Horse

This is what a $200 car sounds like

[stark kestrel]

I think you could let it prime a bit longer and it'd fire up happier

My shitbox this morning

[full prism]

took long enough

wtf wheres the exhaust

[lone fern]

Yep gonna give the authority’s a call

[lone fern]

Wow i love when the IRS gives me money via text

[wanton arrow]

I got of those also

[undone sorrel]

Tolls are stupid, I'm glad they don't exist in my area

[lone storm]

Exhaust is for Püßßys

[full prism]

https://media.discordapp.net/stickers/891904855348764713.png?size=160&name=Fox+Blush

[full prism]

so true

[undone sorrel]

Also, i tuned the bike yesterday, rides like a dream, i also have an engine riser mount so I can install my torque converter

[full prism]

gyat

im so jealous

[undone sorrel]

Still gotta do the other things I mentioned tho

[full prism]

like getting a stark varg drivetrain

[undone sorrel]

Lol

Iv also never ridden a motor bike before so it's super weird lmao

My body needs to adapt to the Turing style lmao

[lone fern]

Same here lmao no tolls here to speak of in michigan

[undone sorrel]

Lmao, good

[snow otter]

such sexy car

[full prism]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1198727661783093318.webp?size=48&name=Necoarc_Stare

would eat

[stark kestrel]

I don't mind the Florida turnpike because it's one of the nicer highways down here, but damn if it isn't expensive without sunpass/epass.

[undone sorrel]

😦

[gentle thicket]

Turnpike meh - allegator alley is pretty much mandatory tho

[stark kestrel]

If we are talking old Florida, backroads all day long, but when you gotta get from nw Orlando to Miami quick, turnpike is the move

I tend to get around the SE lmao

[gentle thicket]

orlando and miami toxic so I try to avoid if I can get away with it.

[stark kestrel]

Outskirts of Orlando, much more peaceful, but still end up in the city sometimes.

Miami is just hell even in the outskirts.

(I'm from Miami and will never live there again, too much of a shitshow)

[gentle thicket]

I've only ever been there for the port.

[stark kestrel]

Yeah, which is one of the busiest areas in the metro, absolutely insane on the mainland side

[gentle thicket]

honestly - with the tunnel they added it's no where near as bad is it used to be.

Pretty much all interstate/highway that way

[fresh island]

My sister's boyfriend car just did that, I am no expert but I dont think thats supposed to be like that

[pure pond]

looks like the shock mount broke/ rusted out

[fresh island]

Not surprysed, that thing is a BMW with more rust than a 1950 truck

[full prism]

did the car live in florida

[bleak swallow]

SUSpension

[stark kestrel]

SHOCKing

[prisma frost]

Car been at dealer for last 4 days for that spring snapping they said it’d be fixed Saturday last week but no calls yet. Hopefully thats bc they realized my auto wipers don’t actually work

GPS tracking shows its been driven so thats good at least.

[gloomy cove]

Not bad for a vehicle that has been sitting for 6 months

[lone storm]

Mine sat for 6 years

[gloomy cove]

If only the transmission wasn’t dying

[lone fern]

Oh god the fucking obs chevy chime kills me every time i drive mine lmao that shit so annoying

[supple anchor]

Better than jeep

[lone fern]

True lol also it’s a jeep 💔

I have horrid experiences with jeeps one left me stranded in the middle of nowhere

[gloomy cove]

I just wish mine didnt sound like a commerical truck you can mostly hear the fan only

[lone fern]

Your jeep or the burban

[gloomy cove]

my suburban I have never owned or driven a jeep before

[lone fern]

Oh yeah the fans on these gmt400’s are loud + the oem mufflers are super quiet especially with a 350/305

I should probably drive mine it’s been sitting for longer than it should

[gloomy cove]

well I do have a big block V8 so it makes sense in my application

[lone fern]

Yeah

I would cut that muffler off and throw another one on it n give it some more big block noises cuz the 454 sounds amazing especially without cats

I’ve got true duals with 23in glasspacks because it sounds fine and also cheap and throatier than stock

[gloomy cove]

mine is bone stock and too bad its the worst version of the 454

[lone fern]

Eh the tbi 454 may not make any power but ya cant kill em

[gloomy cove]

does change the reliability but it produces the least amount of power for what it is

[lone fern]

The vortecs have their own problems with the additional power

Mostly with spider injectors n stuff

Still both very reliable

[lone fern]

You could carb swap pretty easy

If you want more power

Throw 454 vortec heads on it

[gloomy cove]

where I live a carb will not work out too well

[lone fern]

Too cold?

[gloomy cove]

yep

[lone fern]

Cuz you can run em just have to tube them right

Which is a challenge

What was your olan with your transmission?

*plan

[gloomy cove]

rebuilding it is too much so most likely a junkyard 4L80E or 4L85E with the same or lower milage but I gotta fix the leaking caliper and bad rear oil seal

[lone fern]

Nice

[gloomy cove]

despite the transmission only having 2 gears and it reving up to the redline up until its around 20 mph you can feel it wants to put the power down but cant

[lone fern]

Calipers aint too expensive and you can do main seal when the trans is out

Or let it leak like i do

[gloomy cove]

its really bad

as in if I drive for 15 minutes almost all the oil is gone

[lone fern]

Oh thats not good lol

I got a major leak where my crank position sensor had to be jb welded in place but i just keep an eye on it

[gloomy cove]

for me I kinda plan to restore the suburban get the dents out replace the bumper and grind down the body surface rust and paint those spots the frame is easy enough to undercoat

[lone fern]

Nice should be a fun little project

[gloomy cove]

but those have to wait until its mechanically good which it kinda isnt

[gloomy cove]

the entire interior has to be redone too no headliner the seats are horribly stained with the carpet

[lone fern]

My buddy sold his 63k mile 454 tbi burban and bought that

[lone fern]

Mice get in?

[gloomy cove]

nope oil stains and other fluid stains it was a scrap truck for most of its life

[lone fern]

Ah gotcha id keep an eye on junkyard seats or you can get em reupholstered if the stains wont come out

[gloomy cove]

also the truck has two tool boxes and a crane yeah not sure what to do with a crane but it has one

[lone fern]

The junkyard will be your friend cuz theres so many in there lol

[lone fern]

I could think of a million uses for a crane

Also idk how bad your doors sag but cunningham machine sells the best door pins and bushings for these trucks don’t replace them with the junk dorman ones

[gloomy cove]

surpisingly no door sag at all

sadly there is one issue all the gmt400 trucks near me are all 95 or newer I have seen a few 88-94 but they are work trim only

[lone fern]

Dang someone’s probably done about 3 sets of em then 😂😂

[lone fern]

I’m surrounded with them so if you ever need random interior parts or what not lmk and i’ll pull em and i can ship em to you if you want

My buddy owns about ~20 of these 400’s for their farm

And plenty of parts trucks plus the junkyards are full of em here

Plus i got random parts in my garage lmao

[gloomy cove]

I have just considered slapping some 95-02 seats in but the junkyards in my state have crushed most pre 95 gmt400 trucks

[lone fern]

Man that’s tragic

Yeah i like the 95-02 seats the best honestly they’re more comfortable but if you’re going for stock look then 88-94 would be what ya want

I still see so, so many of these trucks bombin around town

But i do live in a l ag/rural area so that might do it

[gloomy cove]

thats true all though my suburban is no where near as rare as one truck I have and its a duramax but there is two special things about it care to guess

[lone fern]

Is it a duramax van or smthn

[gloomy cove]

Nope ZF6 manual transmission and a mabual transfer case which I have not seen in any other duramax personally

[lone fern]

Damn that is rare

I’ve seen one maybe two in person in my life but i want one bad

[gloomy cove]

97,000 original miles extended cab 8ft bed

[lone fern]

I currently got a 2500hd with the 8.1 looking for a manual tcase for it though cuz the auto one shit the bed

[lone fern]

Jeez got any pics??? I’d die for one

[gloomy cove]

look in dm in a moment

[lone fern]

Ok

[limber whale]

If these valves aren’t rusted shut I will be fucking impressed

[undone sorrel]

oh my god

[winged raft]

You gotta be kidding me

They're still going with this kind of design for the next 3 series?

BMW is dead

[native ermine]

i mean... it looks way better then the buck teeth goofy ass G80

interior looks pretty neat, very driver focused

[winged raft]

It definitely does not look better although the lung grille thing wasn't a good idea

[native ermine]

not sure if thats final tho

[winged raft]

I'm glad they learned to improve that

[native ermine]

well compared to other M3's in the past no but at least better then the one before

[winged raft]

Concept interiors are never close to the final but the key details usually are, hoping they don't go for a Tesla interior

I think the G80 is beautiful in its own way, can't speak much for the G82

The G20 actually kept the language which I very much appreciate

[native ermine]

your saying this is beautiful??

the fuck you smoking

[winged raft]

As a BMW? Not really, but I like the look of it

Very aggressive and striking especially in person

[native ermine]

it looks fugly as any car

not just as a BMW

like its objectively bad design

[winged raft]

Well, it doesn't look like your average commuter

Ducktail is a bit small but the rear as well

Too boxy, but emphasizes its width quite well

They fixed the issue of making the M3 look too compact, F80s just look really small from behind

[winged raft]

The F82 looks much longer and more complete despite being the same length

[native ermine]

objectively bad lines and design

[winged raft]

Exactly, maximum aggression, organized chaos

[native ermine]

organized?

[winged raft]

If you think the designers drew random lines, you don't know how car design works

[native ermine]

are you sure?

cause you see some of the shit that comes out today it kinda looks like they just throwing whatever at the wall

[winged raft]

Grrrr right?

So imperfect!

[native ermine]

design used to flow

it used to make sense

[stark kestrel]

https://tenor.com/view/google-gif-spin-logo-gif-16963409

[native ermine]

you can't deny that desgins now aren't what they used to be

[winged raft]

And designs that used to be were different than they were before

[stark kestrel]

Meanwhile, every car now has stoned looking headlights

[winged raft]

Companies have design teams now that work to cater to complex sciences and marketing, it doesn't produce better or worse designs but it sure means they're going to be different

[native ermine]

my point is that you can't deny that shit has gotten a lot worse when it comes to visual design

[muted bough]

Generally cars look better than they did 5-10 years ago, but worse than they did 15-50 years ago

[stark kestrel]

This

[native ermine]

i argue there worse and there evidence to support this

[winged raft]

It's executive decisions that I disagree with, this is obviously a decisive company direction and I don't agree with it

[native ermine]

they trying to appeal to a more Asian market but a lot of the shit you see it like China these days looks like ass

[winged raft]

Hence the G60 and G70, which are not selling well elsewhere

[native ermine]

like don't tell me this was well thought out

[winged raft]

Why wouldn't it have been?

You're not the market

[native ermine]

or this

[native ermine]

no but good design is universal

[winged raft]

Very, very untrue 😭

[stark kestrel]

Nissan quest vibes

[native ermine]

its about properly communicating something to your customers no matter who they are

[winged raft]

But, you're not their customer lol

[native ermine]

i disagree

[native ermine]

what is this trying to communicate

other then BIG GRILL GO BRRRRRR

[winged raft]

Guessed it

[native ermine]

well in that case its a stupid message

[winged raft]

Road presence and status are important marketing points in China

[native ermine]

theres no elegance anymore

[winged raft]

Is a LWB C-Class a stupid idea?

[native ermine]

thats more elegant then the G80

flows nicer

good curves

pleasing lines to the eye

[winged raft]

It's quite old and I'm not sure what it has to do with the G80

[native ermine]

just comparing

[winged raft]

But you wouldn't buy it, you're not able to, because in China most people that would be purchasing vehicles, even the working class, have personal drivers because of the congestion

[native ermine]

this shows more of a status symbol then that stupid looking van

[winged raft]

LWB C/E classes, 3/5 series, are available there because the culure and market are very different

[jagged wagon]

"Good Design is Universal" is not that simple. There are many types of design in the world. Some are purely functional. Some involve matters of taste. It really boils down to what a given design is trying to communicate.
https://medium.com/@jlantunez/what-is-design-c4be733141f1

[winged raft]

Think that I guess, but again you're not the market or the customer in this case

[native ermine]

right but people that are have bad taste

[jagged wagon]

I highly recommend this series if you're genuinely interested in how design works. https://www.netflix.com/title/80057883

[native ermine]

i didn't say it was simple

[jagged wagon]

I know - I did. S01E05 of the Abstract show linked above actually covers how automotive design works.

[winged raft]

Wild to push objective opinions on what are probably hundreds of millions car-purchasing individuals in China

[native ermine]

however a good design can transcend cultural differences

[native ermine]

im not

thats just my opinion here

however my point still stands about good design

its called nuance

[winged raft]

But they have bad taste?

I wonder how you'd feel about the obsession with Chevy Cruzes in Turkey

[native ermine]

gross

next question

terrible car

[stark kestrel]

Why do you think gm has been obsessed with crossovers replacing suvs since the 2000s

[native ermine]

because GM is shit

im a MOPAR girl

https://tenor.com/view/dodge-charger-mopar-spin-out-donut-gif-17668635

[winged raft]

You should see the builds they make, they fill entire lots with them at meets there

[stark kestrel]

I hope you don't fully trust stellantis...

[native ermine]

no gods no

anyways i drive a 2000s BMW and Jag so idk

[winged raft]

Some people are just stuck in the past

[native ermine]

at least my cars don't snitch on me

:p

[stark kestrel]

Ford parts or..?

[native ermine]

ye

[winged raft]

If my cars snitched on me I'd be in jail rn 🤭

[stark kestrel]

Ah so you got the variant where they forgot to circle the problem

[stark kestrel]

My onstar box hasn't had service in 3 years, 12v in 4 years

[native ermine]

[stark kestrel]

🏴‍☠️Star here

Fun fact, gm hosts their icons at http://www.cadillacdemo.com

[winged raft]

Honestly I thought I could get behind the G80/G82 hate but nah I would totally pop one of these

Doesn't look quite as good as the F92

[sudden pecan]

my mom bought one as a mid life crisis mobile its nice though

[lone fern]

I need a midlife crisis mobile

My grandma keeps pushing me to buy her damn 03 chrysler sebring with a convertible top and I’m not quite sure how to tell her it’s just a piece of shit despite having ~30k miles on it haha

[sudden pecan]

https://pp.rage.dev/allokinetic-retentionist-guaranteing-opthalmophorium.png

[prisma frost]

Well I picked up my car today and when I started to turn I already had a weird noise so they took the car back and did some stuff then drove back home and the same banging noise I had came back just a lot more quiet so turned back and now I gotta wait 2 weeks to get it inspected again since im going om vaca with the car this Saturday

I left at 11:00 in the morning and arrived home 6 hours later

[charred depot]

I hear alot of stories like this with dealer cars, it makes messing around doing stuff yourself seem convenient

[lone fern]

This is why you don’t let folks who’ve never towed a car out of the snow to pull ya smh

[stiff bloom]

that's hilarious

Also the number of G8X apologists is rising and it's deeply troubling

But speaking of beem

https://www.bmwgroup.com/content/grpw/websites/bmwgroup_com/en/news/general/2025/bmw-vision-driving-experience/_jcr_content/newsarticle/newscontentparsys/youtube_copy.coreimg.82.1920.jpeg/1739777020449/heart-of-joy-1280x720.jpeg

:D

https://www.motortrend.com/files/67afa3d4a003db000804b63c/bmwvisiondrivingexperience9.jpg

D:

at least they got half of a good design in there

[gentle thicket]

or hook up their jumper cables.

Had some asshat that couldn't get red to red correct melt my cable

[white heart]

Yo dead ass

Why does the front

Remind me of a Skoda

[stiff bloom]

cuz SHARP

[white heart]

Prolly the grill idk

Or idk how you call calandre in English ?

But the grill (I think that's the word) look a lot like skodas

[lone fern]

Goodness i don’t understand how people mess that up lol

Luckily it was a beater and i have three other cars to drive to work tomorrow

[stiff bloom]

ye cuz it's sharp. Also yeah, TECHNICALLY the spelling is "grille" but everyone knows what you mean if you say grill

[white heart]

Aye fair enough

[pure pond]

that wasnt just pulling that must have been with a run up pull

or how ever you call it

[leaden solar]

what the hell is this.

[lone fern]

Yeah he just hammered on the gas without taking tension off, he felt bad and offered to pay for parts + a trailer rental so i csn pick it up. If it tweaked the rear subframe I’m just gonna take the tires off and sell em cuz they got 6k miles on them and junk the rest sadly

I figured he’d towed something before cuz he offered to pull me out and had a strap but i guess he hadn’t

[pure pond]

yeah thats never great to do with that kind of strap

[lone fern]

Yeah i explained to him that ya gotta put tension before gas unless you have a kinetic strap which wouldn’t have broken my car doing what he did. Luckily I have 1300$ into the car plus another two as backups so I told him it wasn’t a big deal

I was being dumb and got it stuck in the first place anyways

[stiff bloom]

its a bmw doiiiiiiiiii

https://www.bmwblog.com/2025/02/16/bmw-vision-driving-experience-vdx-electric/

[leaden solar]

what type of designer was on crack for this one now, I want names

[stiff bloom]

idk but i wouldnt be shocked if a different designer did the front and the back

[winged raft]

We just talked about this 😂

Front and rear suck imo, but the rear is just insane

It's a Lancer

[stiff bloom]

Sorry mayne I can't go over thirteen thousand messages every time I log onto discord

[stiff bloom]

i really like the front, it reminds me what not wanting to vomit every time i see a new-ish bmw looks like

which is a feeling i haven't felt in a long time

unfortunately it's a feeling that swiftly leaves when the car... leaves. And I have to see its pablo-picasso painting-looking ass

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yd_mTezFTnQ/XZOtP2QajzI/AAAAAAAAvBE/zYbTrTCkWzcK8Mn6lcHixdMfALL_yCL_wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/2020-10.jpg

front reminds me a bit of those trans-am kits that people would do to '20+ camaros

https://media.ed.edmunds-media.com/lincoln/mkz/2013/oem/2013_lincoln_mkz_sedan_hybrid_fq_oem_2_815.jpg

or early-'10s lincoln zephyrs

imo, tasty

[solar rapids]

To be fair, saying grille VS grill is like saying you're VS your, though even moreso.

It's better to get into the habit of using the right term before some asshole on Reddit calls you out for it and ruins your lunch break.

[stiff bloom]

To be fair to who?

Akimbo is technically right but I'd argue it's much more accepted of an "error" to say Grill over using incorrect you're or they're.

[solar rapids]

This would be a car grill.

Lmao, why are these so common?

[dull cedar]

7.8 litres of rotary displacement

[winged raft]

It just doesn't match the language, that got left in the 90s

[stiff bloom]

wha

[winged raft]

It's supposed to be a callback to the E30

[stiff bloom]

totally normal, it's a subaru. You just ran outta gaskets, gotta fill er up at every fuel fill up

[stiff bloom]

hmmm. yeah i can see how they were "trying" but no they failed

still think the front is handsome tho

[solar rapids]

Lol, it ended up being my AOS.

[winged raft]

Has to have some "modern twist", never works when manufacturers try

With the exception of Dodge it seems like

[stiff bloom]

a fucken what m8

[solar rapids]

Air/oil separator.

Like a catch can, but it automatically puts the oil back into the engine.

[stiff bloom]

ohhhhhhhh lmao gotcha

[solar rapids]

Ye.

[stiff bloom]

i mean sometimes does. just not when they try to do a "homage"

[stark kestrel]

Let's just call it a front clip and be done with it

[native ermine]

[lone fern]

Update threw the broken car on marketplace and got offered a broken boat and a sewing machine instead of cash 😭

[bitter compass]

Can the next 3 series just be this again

[civic spoke]

Less is more.

[white heart]

i mean english aint my first language lol

[solar rapids]

Yes.

[paper sandal]

The only comfy truck is Volvo

as for Mercedes, I only seen people bring disapointment cough cough teslas cough cough

[civic spoke]

It's alright.
Mine drives really planted. Taller cab is more floaty, but the extra roof you get is so much nicer.

Oh, that reminds me. Someone at work had their Mercedes break. Might have broken the drive axle or something.

[wispy cloak]

[prisma frost]

So automatic wipers actually working and not wiping when dry

Then 10 minutes later they’re wiping again when its dry

I hope this is enough proof for the dealer to see I do have auto wipers and that they’re not working as intended

And not even just the auto wipers. The interval mode isn’t even interval either but is just the mode above it, there is no speed change between Interval/auto and the mode above it

[civic spoke]

You are really stuck on those wipers. Huh.

[prisma frost]

Yes the dealer didnt care but they at least gotta put some effort into looking. I'm going back again tomorrow. Despite them changing the right spring I still have the same banging noise when turning just more quiet

[pure pond]

i can take that polo of your hands i give you 1k for it 🤝

[prisma frost]

I might sell it after this is all over tbh

Just not that low

[civic spoke]

Now I'm just curious what the owners manual says about the wipers.

[pure pond]

you sure had a lot with that car might be for the better

[prisma frost]

Well it says Interval mode = auto mode from what I remember

[prisma frost]

Its a ticking time bomb

Well any car is but

ye

[stiff bloom]

sounds like marketplace to me

[lone fern]

God it’s so terrible selling cheap beaters I’ve had literally 200 messages (and counting) half of the people want below scrap despite saying in the listing I will scrap it myself if it doesn’t sell, the rest don’t respond and a couple want the car but won’t have cash till friday 🥲

Bout ready to just junk it and call it a day

It is literally 500$

[stiff bloom]

yeahhhhhh the lower the price the bigger of dipshits you get offering. When I sold my last car I literally had a guy asking if I could deliver and if i would take a personal check

[lone fern]

For real 😭

This car has 3 out of 4 wheels attached and motherfuckers are asking me if they could drive it home and/or daily it

[stiff bloom]

looks like youre in quite the... pickle

[lone fern]

Despite the first pic being the fact that the wheel is fucked up

[lone fern]

I sure am, dad joke of the week 😂😂

[stiff bloom]

https://tenor.com/view/cool-im-so-tom-cruise-gif-13209253

[gentle thicket]

This exists? I had no idea you could see thse kind of metrics

[gentle thicket]

Put parts car / no title then surprise the buyer with the title if you actually have it. Should weed out some of the riffraff

[solar rapids]

I'm surprised the calipers didn't fail.

I had my rotors get very thin on one of my cars, but what ended up happening is the pistons overextended and the rubber tore.

[lone fern]

Supposedly my pain will come to an end someone’s supposed to come tomorrow night for it, and I have someone tentatively scheduled friday and another person saturday so crossing my fingers haha

[lone fern]

Yeah you just go to the sell tab on marketplace and you should be able to see all that

[gentle thicket]

I guess it's just been a while since I've been there - either that or it won't show up on desktop and I avoid mobile at all costs.

[midnight lily]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/846912002685009960/1252258975148412969/togif.gif

[lone storm]

My $500 car made a 230mile trip today without overheating

[winged raft]

Work dailies mobbing 😭

[lone fern]

It never ends with a 500$ car 😭

[civic spoke]

If a car is $500.
Then it's shit. And sold as-is. If the bones are decent. Then it's a good car.

[livid sluice]

I got $1250 from a truck in decent shape that I was honest the engine was FUBAR in

[wispy cloak]

Real

[halcyon grotto]

at $500 you should also be charging them per question answered

[lone fern]

Yeah the bones are ok, but these mfers keep asking me if it’ll drive home without a fucking wheel attached like how many damn times do I need to tell you that NO it won’t

I’m just about to junk it myself for less money

[pure pond]

the condition of the window tint 💀

[pure pond]

just say yes, sell it at a parking lot so they come back

[supple anchor]

Boost creep

[supple anchor]

It’s a bit of pressure

[winged raft]

@full prism

You average like 700-900 messages in this server every day

Every time I check this server you're talking

Are you good? 😭

Recently??

You're telling me the average is actually like a thousand?

Idk I just picked random dates cause I was curious

You're always here talking

I just don't know how these numbers are possible

[stark kestrel]

The embed system has been getting so much more seamless

Link/video/voice embeds are easier to do on your own now

Don't have to fight it as much to do a video embed

*external web video embed

[glad mantle]

my welcome gift for my RX-7 finally being delivered by the dealership

battery dies day 1

so it won't start lol

I haven't even driven it once yet

[lone fern]

Bought a new car to replace my old shitbox, bought it for 2600$, it’s a rust free (minus one ding in the front that surface rusted) super clean honda crv with 190k on it

Thing looks super super easy to work on

[wispy cloak]

Is your table intact

[worldly oasis]

can i buy the table

[lone fern]

Very pristine

[lone fern]

My table isn’t for sale but i do have another one that might be

[worldly oasis]

any crv table is good

[lone fern]

Alr i’ll send some pics of it to ya tomorrow

It’s in my shed and I am not home at the moment

[worldly oasis]

im joking i dont have money rn

ill annoy you if i can aford the crv table sometime tho

[lone fern]

Haha me neither lmao ive always wanted one kf the tables and i bought one from a parts car, wrecked my daily and now own another table but this time it came with a car

The car is due for a timing belt and valve adjustment though

[turbid pebble]

\o/ night wheeling in snowmelt 🙂

Burry photo is blurry.

[winged raft]

Someone get this man van a single yellow sponge at once

[solar rapids]

Ah, that's not too bad.

[prisma frost]

They replaced the stalk and said it works again. I’m on my way so lets hope this isn’t another 4 hours wasted

[stoic ledge]

Had that with the AC in my car, 4x 220km (one way)😭

Fixed now, everything is replaced

[civic spoke]

INB4 you just have wipe/no wipe.

[prisma frost]

Well ye ig

I told them it didnt work last time I was there and while they were looking it suddenly started to work so they said they couldn’t do anything

This time I showed the mechanic with his own 2 eyes and he finally said smt wasnt right

They replaced some rubbers or smt and the banging noise should be gone but train decided to cancel

[supple anchor]

It’s fine for the engine but not the transmission

Stock boost is 7 ish psi

[prisma frost]

@civic spoke

[civic spoke]

👌

Hopefully it works as it should now.

[prisma frost]

Lets hope so as well. The banging noise when steering is also gone

My warranty ends in a month

Glad its ending bc its just so far away

[civic spoke]

At least it's under warranty.

[solar rapids]

What transmission do you have?

7 to 16 PSI is definitely decent jump, lol.

[supple anchor]

One that has been rebuilt 3 times

It blew up in a naturally aspirated engine

Volvo m47

They do this

[brittle totem]

🤡 🛻

[magic zinc]

what do yall think about duckbill spoilers

[magic zinc]

I am ashamed that the company I work for produces parts for this piece of dogshit

[gentle thicket]

Unrealistic. It's not rolling away and hitting the crowd.

Well, I guess the snow and incline is missing

[prisma frost]

Was merging but truck beside me so I give gas but stupid Nissan infront of me decided to merge going 80kmh. U can only see the shadow of the truck though

[brittle totem]

Good thing that it most likely never be legal here.

[solar rapids]

Synchros shear?

Is that a common problem, and is your clutch working properly?

[supple anchor]

Mostly

[supple anchor]

Teeth just tear off

[solar rapids]

Wack. Are there no upgrade kits?

[gentle thicket]

Weird. Not sure how it works there, but here it's the responsibility of the person merging to yield the right of way and slow down to fit in a gap.

[prisma frost]

Yeah person merging gotta give right of way aka me

I was committed to merging infront of the truck but bc of the Nissan merging slowly I had to brake and then the truck started to catch up to me again and by that time it was too late to brake and go behind the truck

[prisma frost]

I seriously don’t remember ever doing anything to him to do this

[civic spoke]

Nah. I don't fucks with it.
Lip spoilers, sure. But not anything larger.

Unless it's a whale tail on a Porsche.

[civic spoke]

wtf are those headlights of yours. Driver side looks aimed straight into the ground.

[gentle thicket]

This is where driving beaters comes in handy. Free pit manuver.

[civic spoke]

US regulations. Stop it with your stupid bumpers on your cars.

[solar rapids]

It can look really good, depending on the car.

[civic spoke]

I hate seeing old supercars with their US bumpers.

[magic zinc]

I want to take the stock spoiler off my car and replace with a duckbill, then get a lip + diffuser

[civic spoke]

Example - Look at the rear with how stupid it looks...

Now I'm curious.

[magic zinc]

here's a duckbill on an Elantra N. thoughts/opinions?

[solar rapids]

That works well.

[solar rapids]

I think it works well on that car. Plus, that actually helps cool the engine.

[civic spoke]

I IMPROVED IT.

Or idk

Removed the US bumper at least.

I think the magic eraser removed too much

[magic zinc]

blacking out the red trim, these mods, new fuel pump, and an ECU tune 👀

[solar rapids]

On 911s without a wing, it looks like the rear sits too low compared to the front. On slant nose models with a wing, it looks like the front sits too low compared to the rear.

[prisma frost]

Ye I kinda fkd them up

[pure pond]

typical volvo driver, its kinda like when you buy a volvo or a vw golf you need to be a maniac on the road

[civic spoke]

I'm laughing at how bad the Cybertruck is in the snow. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JnLRaYvoowE?feature=share

[white heart]

I like that personally

[civic spoke]

Yeah. Tire sux.

I mean.
Tesla's fault for putting shitty tires on it.

Not to mention the design of the headlights.

Whoever designed it clearly never thought of snow being an issue.

They only give it a "Do it all" look in my eyes.

And to be fair on Tesla. Many other manufacturers have some issues with snow, with headlights being so efficient these days and being unable to melt snow.

Jack of all trait, master of none.
Which is an issue to me. As someone having dedicated summer/winter tires.

That was me driving to work.
Only to get called off after I pick up my material with the truck.

[tepid wing]

Which one is worse:

• A car using the EVSE two spaces away
• Me plugging my car in when I parked in the correct spot regardless

[tepid wing]

Lucky!

[compact grotto]

[winged raft]

An E30 coupe was almost my first car

I would probably still have it today

Real

Very cheap too

I believe it was a 30i for $3000

That or a 28i

Not a whole lot of miles on it probably around 100k

[solar rapids]

What's wrong with the headlights?

[winged raft]

Computer = drive anything you want in 4k 180hz don't gotta pay for gas insurance or speeding tickets 🤷🏼

[solar rapids]

I've just realized having a sim rig instead of a car is like having a Lovense instead of a partner.

[winged raft]

Crazy analogy but true I suppose 😭

You don't get the emotional part of either

For better or for worse

I still don't have a wheel

Honestly I'm stuck on what to get

I've heard that the G923 and G920 are better entry level wheels but I've considered jumping to a Moza bundle like the R5 so that I don't end up having to buy multiple

[solar rapids]

Close, but not quite there. Just like a Lovense.

[solar rapids]

I'd just go Moza off the bat. If you're going to go Logitech, go G29, not G920 or G923.

I made a sim rig for BeamNG and still just drove with a controller 90% of the time.

Beam's feedback is good, but it's still a simulator at the end of the day.

[winged raft]

How would a G29 compare to an R5 or an R3? Like idk if I wanna start dropping cash on a sim setup if I just find out it's not all that I think it is

[solar rapids]

I haven't tried the R3 or R5 personally, but with them being direct drive, they will offer much better feedback than the G29.

[winged raft]

I'll probably just go with the R5 then

I want both the best bang for buck and also the most realistic feel

Trying to get some No Hesi practice started

[solar rapids]

No Hesi?

[winged raft]

Assetto Corsa

It's a modded gamemode

https://youtu.be/yq9psf9ufjk?si=Jp2ZHeiIjFRIQgE6

[solar rapids]

Ah, okay.

[winged raft]

The real pros use it 🤷🏼

[undone sorrel]

@full prism 😀

This thing is a monster lol

[dull cedar]

Brain damage

[low sentinel]

https://youtu.be/qmZfLA5M9iQ?si=3jjPu5jTnmq2uIrh

[winged raft]

This guy can't even handle reckless driving in a video game

God bless this sweet summer child

[winged raft]

How he runs a profit is a mystery

[low sentinel]

real

[lone fern]

Good news the crv i bought is super, and I mean super clean for 2600$ and it being a michigan car

Bad news

It needs a motor

Luckily it’s a super easy swap and can be done in a weekend if I can source a good running motor

Low compression in cyl 3, and it is burning a lot of oil

Time to source a good b20b motor

[winged raft]

Theory: they're all crime cars from the mob and he gets paid to dispose of them

[low sentinel]

hahah

[winged raft]

The black and chrome rolls proves it

😂

[glad mantle]

The V10 has hit 77,777 km

[wispy cloak]

Those are getting harder to find now because of the civic people

[gentle thicket]

It's hard to source a good D series. Stuff is just getting old.

I do wish I had been on a buying spree when getting like 350 for a complete D15B7 swap would have been good. Although there definitely would have been better investments, it's still a solid 1k profit per swap.

[lone fern]

Yeah that has been my experience thus far junkyard was picked clean

[undone sorrel]

Haven't been able to get that fast but it's at least 55mph and it gets there FASY.

It flew out from under my legs yesterday 😭

[prisma frost]

I was merging onto the exit lane and my brakes were a bit too hot…They started to fade and that was pretty scary

My car might be made for 180kmh but the tiny brakes arent

[undone sorrel]

Torque on a minibike/motorcycle is scarry lmao

[charred depot]

Heater matrix decided to go with me having a track day tomorrow, all sorted. Would have taken 2 seconds if the car was LHD. Pesky designers not thinking about us RHD people.

[prisma frost]

Parents took some footage of me driving in Germany lol

[prisma frost]

Ye

Idk ask my dad lol

I think its because I was doing 160 and he thinks that fast

Ye

Dad will be dad

Its so weird to see myself drive

Like its third person

[robust axle]

I purchased a 2007 Saturn Ion as a winter beater, its a rusted piece of shit. but I love it at the same time.

[pale sapphire]

mitsubishi should bring back the evo

atleast bring back the lancer

[winged raft]

Huge market gap for that

New Lancer Evo with the right amount of tech and a proper engine and no EV bs would sell like hot cakes

The original is getting slow by current standards

[dull cedar]

Mitsubishi's car division is too dead to ever do it

[winged raft]

If Mitsubishi Corp is willing to make a worthwile investment

[dull cedar]

They won't because it won't sell anywhere near enough to be a worthwhile investment

[pale sapphire]

i hope honda buys mitsubishi

[pale sapphire]

ye without the subaru wrs sti

[winged raft]

Or Toyota

Toyota seems to be the only company in the game at this point

[pale sapphire]

honda is pretty close to nissan at ths point and honda was trying to get to mitsubishi actually

not nissan

[winged raft]

Everyone else has dropped their interest in public opinion

[snow otter]

i am heckermen

literally running shit from a console on my miata

so now i have this sick digital speedometer on the infotainment

[prisma frost]

we beck

Austrians are very impatient

[prisma frost]

Its only 6C

Ye snow on sunny side of mountain is all melted

Sucks to suck

Go to Austria

Ok then not

[charred depot]

oopsie daisies

[prisma frost]

You saved it gg

[charred depot]

Faster than BMW M2's in the corners :^)

I need a seat uprgade, the factory seats offer zero support so will end up driving from the middle of the car

Maybe BX seats

[prisma frost]

Gotta do 100kmh in second gear sometimes when merging onto the autobahn when its uphill or if the on ramp is short but that means maxing out rpm which hurts my ears

Idk if its actually good for the engine

[gentle thicket]

That screen is the one thing I hate about the design of the car.

[snow otter]

i dont see how you can hate the screen

its pretty great, and doesnt look out of place at all

[gentle thicket]

It looks wildly out of place just sticking up out of the dash like that.

[lucid widget]

vroom

[gentle thicket]

would need to rip out the entire dash and design something that actually integrates the screen rather than has it poke out like an afterthought.

[prisma frost]

I do have to ask. If I hit redline does it cause any harm? I shift immediately after redline but I only do this maybe once per drive or never (Like in NL)

[gentle thicket]

I can't imagine trying to 3d print an entire dash cover. Plus there's airbags in the way.

[gentle thicket]

The problem is that the screen sticks out entirely from the dash. The screen needs to be lower or the dash itself needs to be higher. A bump in the middle doesn't fix the design problem.

[long atlas]

Thought y'all would appreciate this build an internet friend of mine did

That's a 1:6 scale PT Cruiser, the RC functions still work so you can unplug it and drive it around

Just a barebones office machine with a 9th gen i5 and no GPU

[prisma frost]

Well I shift at 2000-2500 RPM if engine oil is under 80C and drive 100kmh on autobahn if engine is cold

[winter viper]

Depend on car .. Some old banger sure ..
Any car i care of .. first 30 min .. Drive it nice

Oil temp aint all .. Engine and gearbox needs to heat up too ..

You learn a thing or two when you haven blow a headgasket or 2 😛

passat 1.8T

twice in a month

[dull cedar]

That's what happens when the gasket gets replaced without fixing the real issue

[wispy cloak]

How

[undone sorrel]

when your piston blows up, replace the head gasket!

[winter viper]

´cold engine .. too many rpm and maby a bit too much boost

[pale sapphire]

what ai gave me when i told toyota laferrari

looks actually decent

[winged raft]

Moreso needs the Lexus badge

Toyota making a supercar doesn't sit well with me

[pale sapphire]

why not honda made one

and they made them goooooood

[winged raft]

Toyota makes low end sports cars at the most

Whereas Lexus has had tons of crazy models

Honda got away with it because the bar to being a "supercar" at the time wasn't very high and they were able to sell it under Acura in the US

Likewise with the newer NSX it was inevitable that it would come back as a proper supercar

[stiff bloom]

no they don't lmao, they outsource it to everyone else

[civic spoke]

What sports cars does Toyota have that are genuine Toyota?
Is it just the Corolla/Yaris GR? If you want to call those sports cars. More like hot hatches.

[winter viper]

supra..celica ..

MR2

[green grail]

Is the mk5 supra low end to you?

costs like 80 grand new

Also Toyota make le mans cars too

[civic spoke]

Current.
Throughout the years they have had a few, but today? Not so much.

[stiff bloom]

None. Only Corolla/Yaris GR

And yeah arguably that does'nt count

[civic spoke]

Yeah. As I thought then.

[winter viper]

GT/GR86 ... But Ok not only toyota

GT86 fun ass hell btw 😛

zero skills needed to make it go sideways .. Just some big balls

[civic spoke]

I would probably replace the tires, knowing my driving style.

[winter viper]

@civic spoke It was a testdrive car from dealer .. Winter tires and icy roads ... And a parking lot

[civic spoke]

For winters I like my winter tires, and skidding in generally reserved to parking lots, where no one but me can get damaged or hurt.

[winter viper]

Yee like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M2EoG2nNKE&ab_channel=oz3bto

[stiff bloom]

cuz it doesn't differ on a platform level from the base corolla or yaris economy car

Can it be fun? Sure. But it wasn't designed that way

[civic spoke]

Hot hatches aren't genuine sports cars. In the same way something like a Coupe is.

[stiff bloom]

lmao no

So a cybertruck with huge fat tyres and weight reduction is a sports car

by all accounts they handle well, so by your definition why not

so they have the same qualities as a sports car, so are not a sports car, but are a sports car?

[white heart]

What is even the definition of a sport car

[civic spoke]

Got it.
So a Volvo XC70 is now a sports car. 👌

[stiff bloom]

my definition is a car designed on a platform level to be fun and/or performance-based

Wikipedia sez :

A sports car is a type of car that is designed with an emphasis on dynamic performance, such as handling, acceleration, top speed, the thrill of driving, and racing capability.

[civic spoke]

Example from me.
I would consider the Mercedes SLK a sports car, but not the SL.

[white heart]

Mhmm

[civic spoke]

By that definition you can throw the GR Corolla/Yaris in there. Which I guess is fair.
But in terms as a platform built as a sports car, that's more rare from the larger manufacturers.

[stiff bloom]

Of note, it separates "sports cars" from "sports trims" tho

So since not all trims of Corolla are sports (only the GR), it wouldn't qualify

[civic spoke]

The true GR products are far enough separated from the 'Sports Trims' in my eyes.

[stiff bloom]

Well but they just aren't tho

Even the yaris gr, which is basically a homologation special, still shares underpinnings with the regular Yaris econobox

[civic spoke]

GR Yaris is wild compared to a normal Yaris. Which isn't even available as a 2-door here, like the GR.

[stiff bloom]

Sure but the platform is the same

The really weird stuff is when you get to stuff like Mustang GTD, which is NAMED the same as Mustang and sold as a "trim" but doesn't ride on the same platform at all

[civic spoke]

Mustang Mach-E

[stiff bloom]

is not a sports car

[civic spoke]

For sure.

I believe the cheapest sports car you can get could just be the Miata.

That one I actually do consider a sports car.

[stiff bloom]

Yeah! By most definitions it is

[civic spoke]

Roadster/Spider if you want to get pedantic.

[stiff bloom]

hmmm tho now that i think about it regular mustang is also a sports car

[civic spoke]

But I guess a vehicle could also have multiple sub-genres, if you want to call them that.
Classes?

[stiff bloom]

how dya figure?

[civic spoke]

I mean like Mustang.
Sports/Pony Car.

[stiff bloom]

o hmmm

[civic spoke]

Maybe it's fair to call them muscle cars.

[stiff bloom]

well like but isn't a muscle car and pony car really also a sports car necessarily?

Muscle car=Car with huge power
Pony car=Cheap car with big power

[civic spoke]

I don't always think so.
Because the old boats could be muscle cars, without being a sports car.

[stiff bloom]

The power part of both categories means theyre designed to be sporty

hmmmmmmmmm

But old boats that were designed to be fast, doesn't that make them sporty?

[civic spoke]

I guess it would be fair to call Hot Hatches sports cars.

[civic spoke]

If you're only going fast in a straight line, is it truly sporty?

[stiff bloom]

I would, but only if the underlyng platform was design for sports

[stiff bloom]

Drag racing is a sport

So is drifting for that matter

[civic spoke]

I'm being reminded of my days playing Gran Turismo 3 and 4.

[stiff bloom]

which really is the opposite if you think about it

and muscle cars are good for that too

[civic spoke]

I would really like a M140i

~340 hp, inline 6. Yum, yum.

[stiff bloom]

ooooooo yes please

[civic spoke]

Did they just slap the M3 dealio onto the M5?

Don't like the new 5 series at all.

[stiff bloom]

Eh while I "agree", only the front is "ugly", I still think the sides and rear aren't good

[charred depot]

handling machine

[winged raft]

Yes, B58

It's a Z4 M40i

[green grail]

So what's mid range for you? A bugatti?

[winged raft]

Lmao no

High end sports cars that Lexus has made for instance would be like the RCF and ISF

Price doesn't matter I'm talking about performance

I would even consider the LC500 in the lower end

[white heart]

Nice

[winter viper]

If price dosent matter why choose a sports car when you can have a car with a lot more comfort that will smoke thoos sports cars when you enter autobahn ...

I have tru my job had a chance to drive a lot of "special" cars you dont see every day ..
One of them i really loved .. Bentley continental GT .. Lots of comfort and hell a lot of power... You will do 250+kmh on autobahn .. Thinking you are driving like 150...

Sports cars are fun ... Around a track ..

[winged raft]

I'm not talking in the general sense it was just subjective to the conversation

[winged raft]

@lone fern @white heart update on the Demon 300 it makes over 1k off a tune now 😭

It has a Christmas tree dash and he's getting those tuned off and then giving it back to whoever owns that thing

Insane project

[lone fern]

Oh my goodness

Did ya get to drive it or ride in it?

[winged raft]

I should ask for a ride honestly

Or just to see it in person

But he would never let me drive that thing especially being a customer car 😭

I wouldn't trust me either that's too much power

[white heart]

Gah damn

[winged raft]

Hell no it doesn't

It has multiple maps to make less power cause of that 😂

Now for rolls it's probably king

[white heart]

that shit look like it'd take your soul if you drove it

fire car

[pure pond]

mechanic; what problem do you have?
all of them

[native ermine]

[winter viper]

As we call em here in Denmark "Fejl Og Reprationer Dagligt" ( Fails And Repairs Daily )

[green grail]

fix or repair daily

[worn yarrow]

Ohh a cars channel. Anyone into module programming and such?

[prisma frost]

See manual i guess

[worn yarrow]

canbus failure.

[stiff bloom]

Good God

[stiff bloom]

Collecting warning lights like they're Pokémon

[gusty pendant]

.

[solar rapids]

Anybody notice anything wrong?

[restive scaffold]

its a suburu?

[solar rapids]

Not that, lol.

[glad mantle]

First video I've seen from the shop of my car with the new work that's being done to it. I can't believe how many options there are for PPF nowadays. It feels like just a couple years ago it was basically just black, white, or clear PPF

Like sure, you could get wraps in virtually any color for a while. But this is proper PPF, not regular wrap film

[compact grotto]

Misha hustling an X3M. Chasing down GT3's lmao https://youtu.be/gmPXhORque0

[flint sable]

mystichrome..

it's really cool

[glad mantle]

it is very mystichrome esque haha

I'm so excited for it

The car is getting a full carbon fibre body kit as well

[flint sable]

fenders and stuff?

[glad mantle]

Not fenders for the time being, the car is widebody from the factory so any more is mostly excessive

But an APR Performance wing is part of it

[flint sable]

yeayea

let me look that up

[glad mantle]

https://shop.aprperformance.com/products/tesla-model-s-plaid-gtc-500-71-adjustable-wing-2021-up

[flint sable]

that's pretty neat

[flint sable]

is this your first tesla or

[glad mantle]

No

This is my third tesla

[flint sable]

i remember the BMW you had before

[glad mantle]

I had a base 2019 Model 3, which was my second car I ever owned

Then upgraded to a long range 2022 S

and then the 2025 S Plaid

[flint sable]

a while ago i was looking to replace my mom's dodge journey

we checked out a p75d but it didn't have enough range

it was a cool testdrive though

[glad mantle]

Yeah the older S wasn't as efficient as the newer cars are

[flint sable]

saleen has a color like this that goes from blue to orange it's really cool

[glad mantle]

Even with the wing and the aftermarket forged wheels I am expecting to still get over 300 miles of usable range

probably around 320 to 330

but it will be much more competent at the track

with the upgrades

[flint sable]

im pretty sure the car we looked at only got like 230

[glad mantle]

My LR gets over 400 miles

it's pretty nuts how good they've gotten

[flint sable]

wow

[glad mantle]

Yeah mystichrome is gorgeous

can't really beat it but ford won't ever use it again

[flint sable]

wish more companies would do it

mclaren does it but i've only ever seen two or three cars in it and they were both those "special" series cars

[glad mantle]

To be fair to them, a lot of people don't really want "look at me" car colors

I contemplated not getting the PPF done this way

[flint sable]

true true

[glad mantle]

because I know it will draw a lot of attention

but I'm not doing it for other people

I'm doing it for me

so I said "fuck it"

[flint sable]

yeah

[glad mantle]

I have a vibrant blue RX-7 and that gets more attention anyhow so I don't think a question once in a while with the S would be a big deal lol

[flint sable]

what's the whole list of your collection

im curious

i just knew about the BMW before

[glad mantle]

Currently;
1992 Widebody LS3 Swapped RX-7
2006 BMW M6 White/Indianapolis red
2016 Soul Red Crystal ND Miata
2019 Grey Model 3
2022 White/Cream Model S LR
2025 Black/White Model S Plaid (which I am building for track use, aside from keeping the interior)

I am trying to trade the Model 3, Miata, and M6 for a Lotus Emira right now though

[flint sable]

the emira looks really good

[glad mantle]

It does

But it drives amazingly

It's how I dreamed supercars would drive

[flint sable]

doesn't one of the throttle house guys have one

[glad mantle]

I drove a Lamborghini Huracan two months ago and I was unironically extremely disappointed by it

It was a bad "meet your heroes" kind of moment for me

The only things it really had for me were the looks and the sound

The driving experience was meh

The plaid is more exciting and I mean that wholeheartedly

and it's a fairly boring car to just drive around

[flint sable]

yea

[glad mantle]

The Emira was what I thought the Huracan would be like

[flint sable]

I'd like to see what a gallardo is like

the look has really grown on me

[glad mantle]

Me too, actually

I think the Gallardo would probably be more fun

DCT transmissions are "better" but like. They lack character

[flint sable]

and they're pretty reasonably priced

[glad mantle]

they're so fast that there's no meaningful feedback with them

[flint sable]

yeah our only DCT is the M5

yea

i also. really want an espada

it probably drives like a lawn tractor

but i don't care it looks so neat

[glad mantle]

It's such an attractive weird thing

reminds me of how like

back in the 2000s

the urus was rumored to be a sedan

and then it ended up being an SUV

and so many people in forums were disappointed

[flint sable]

so much character

[flint sable]

they had that one concept car right

[glad mantle]

The Estoque

yes

[flint sable]

hmm

[glad mantle]

which like

[flint sable]

i actually think the urus looks better

[glad mantle]

honestly

I think that if they refined it a bit

[flint sable]

the front end feels out of place

[glad mantle]

it would've been very attractive

the front end is fine

just not on that body

[flint sable]

the sides are pretty plain

[glad mantle]

exactly

like it needs more angles elsewhere

[flint sable]

like this guy's edit

that kinda works

[wispy cloak]

Lincoln continental length

[flint sable]

Those who boat

[stoic ledge]

Bro just copy-pasted Lambo elements on a Lagonda Taraf