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[God's drunkest driver]

Subaru hasn't made anything good looking, or even just cool looking, since the SVX. In the 60s they made some neat looking little cars. The old Leone is pretty neat too.

Holy shit the new Subaru Outbacks exterior is fucking ugly, jesus.

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Subaru "design language" post 2020: MORE MATTE PLASTIC
I know this is a common trend on SUVs and CUVs but Subaru is running with it. They did it to the WRX too which is a horrible looking thing.

Heres a fun game if your bored.

Go to your favorite insurance auction site. Enter the term Nissan Altima 2000-2019, filter out repossession(In most cases this will be the second highest lost type only beat by front end damage) and see how many pages you can make it till you find an Altima in a condition that makes you pause and think "What the fuck"

Look at this sexy beast(Still runs and starts somehow).

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That's an excellent specimen of rust. I hopped on copart for a few minutes and searched the rust belt for anything like it but nothing impressive just a lot of common crash damage. This however, was an impressive example of semi truck side swipe damage buried way down in page 12.

 

[Probably An Autist]

Finally replaced my ARB bushes with polybushes after putting it off for like 8 months. Really wasn't as difficult as I made it out in my head.

HOWEVER. After being under the car I am now paranoid my rear axel is made of mostly rust and is going to snap (common issue on my civic). The front wishbone bushes and ball joints are also shot and need replacing. As do the rear shocks (i knew that though). Also my front left tyre is almost bald and I probably need an alignment. All in all, a terrible day to have a car.

My new cold air intake arrived though so I can look forward to that.

 

[Google.com]

How does me an actual human being and not a bot created by a script running on a computer in India with the goal of scamming old people use facebook marketplace to purchase a car. I make an account and everything is fine for 4 weeks. I get an alert that a car I want as a project car is up for sale in my area, check it, price is good but I want to confirm some pricing on parts I might need. It's late so I wait till tomorrow to message him, get on and before I can send the message I am suspended for "account integrity" the deal is good enough that I do their gay video humiliation ritual and they still insist I am a robot and "Go fuck yourself we aren't unbanning you lmfao."

I want to purchase this car, how do I become an Indian man so Mark Zuckerberg will let me on his data harvesting machine?

 

[Google.com]

So, the Bezosmobile has been announced.

Car Scoops Archive

The truck is 28k round 20k with rebates. To hit this price they have cut out everything no speakers, no radio, a built in iphone holder, one motor, only grey color option, and the funniest thing to me an EV with crank operated window.



This has to be the most bizarre EV ever.

 

[1994 Honda Civic]

Are we finally at a point that a Linuxmobile is in sight?

 

[anklyscr]

So, the Bezosmobile has been announced.

Car Scoops Archive

The truck is 28k round 20k with rebates. To hit this price they have cut out everything no speakers, no radio, a built in iphone holder, one motor, only grey color option, and the funniest thing to me an EV with crank operated window.

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This has to be the most bizarre EV ever.

The drive can’t help but point out that it’s got a bigger bed than a maverick but is overall shorter.
No fucking shit. It’s only got 2 fucking doors and 2 seats. The Mav also has elecy windows.

 

[Google.com]

The drive can’t help but point out that it’s got a bigger bed than a maverick but is overall shorter.
No fucking shit. It’s only got 2 fucking doors and 2 seats. The Mav also has elecy windows.

They have to be getting that Bezos money, they also have an article about how the car not having any speakers requiring you to buy Bluetooth ones for the mount that holds them as a revolutionary amazing feature.

 

[anklyscr]

They have to be getting that Bezos money, they also have an article about how the car not having any speakers requiring you to buy Bluetooth ones for the mount that holds them as a revolutionary amazing feature.

They do seem pretty desperate. Their article about the VW Golf r not having proper buttons on the steering wheel is pure PR ball fondling.

 

[Sho'nuff]

Yeah, toyota seems to be a "no fun allowed" company. There have been multiple high profile warranty denials

I think you are misinformed, unless there is new issues that have come out.

All the stories that have happened within probably the last 10 years has all been dealers lying on warranty claims or owners lying about the conditions of their vehicle.

Stories that come to mind;
Old gen gt86 had fuel pump or oil pump failure on track. Dealer said denied warranty because the car was on a track. Car is literally sold with track day pass. Toyota got involved and said dealer lied about car usage on warranty claim. Toyota covered repair and almost pulled dealers license.

Current Gr86 has oil starvation issue, the only thing that stops them from covering all the engines are some are heavily modified, but for the most part subaru and Toyota are covering the issue even though it occurs almost exclusively on track.

The Grolla fires. There was 3 that I remember when the story blew up. 1 car was a salvage title with flood damage, the other car was tuned and had been hit by a truck, and the third which was probably legit. Also it wasn't a warranty claim, none of them should have been, because car fires are insurance issues, not warranty. A nothing story. Also just to mention, I did the numbers at the time and cars average a .1% chance to spontaneously combust. Even with just the 4000 sold at that point, 3 cars is under national average. Could you imagine if Toyota was selling range rovers and 1 out of every 5 that rolls off the lot catches fire.

This isn't to glaze off Toyota, I don't even own one, nor have I ever. But so much reporting is BS and watching people dog pile the train for how bad some manufacturers are about warranty, and they don't know shit about the process to even make an assumption, kind of pisses me off.
It also hides how shady some dealers are, for some reason after a story about denied warranty gets run and then it breaks it was the owner's or dealers fault, I never see similar outrage. Guess people scamming is just too common.

 

[God's drunkest driver]

The truck is 28k round 20k with rebates. To hit this price they have cut out everything no speakers, no radio, a built in iphone holder, one motor, only grey color option, and the funniest thing to me an EV with crank operated window.

$28k is a lot for something that goes so extreme with cost cutting that it doesn't even have power windows or a stereo. I know EVs are more expensive by default because of the battery, but it's still a lot of money.

many word about toyota

I'll give you that, I am definitely biased enough against toyota and to be willing to believe stories of dastardly deeds by them and they don't make a single car I'd buy so I don't bother to research it in depth. I have heard about the blown up GR speeder corolla story, nothing about the fires, a bunch about the failed engines in the tundras, the AC problems in tacomas, and about the issues with stock toyobarus blowing up on a track. I don't like Toyota and I don't hide it. I like several of their cars quite a lot: 2000GT, AW11 MR2, LFA, MK3 and 4 Supra, ST205 Celica, but the rest of their lineup is completely uninteresting or too expensive for what they are to me (i.e. the V8 4runners, old Tacomas, land cruisers).

They do seem pretty desperate. Their article about the VW Golf r not having proper buttons on the steering wheel is pure PR ball fondling.

Link? The Golf R interior changes in the last 10 years have definitely been a downgrade, and touch controls are cost cutting bugman driven cancer. An older golf R is one of the few VAG cars I'd give more than a moment's consideration, but there's still enough about it that I don't like to keep me solidly with the wagon I have.

 

[Sho'nuff]

have heard about the blown up GR speeder corolla story

That's one of the fire ones. He said his warranty was denied because he went over 85 mph. The real reason he was denied was 2-fold, Toyota entertained the thought of covering until it was discovered his GRolla was a salvage title from flood. And like I said, it's a car fire, it's not a warranty claims, it's an insurance claim. The reason why he was trying to use warranty is because even though it was a salvage title, he was still upside down in it and wanted Toyota to be his gap insurance.

Toyota has had some issues recently, but I haven't heard them not covering the issues. They are flush with cash anyway, why risk the bad PR not covering obvious issues like the new 4cyl turbo problems.

Ohh and on the new Golf Rs. When this gen first came out they had capacitive touch buttons and everyone hates them. VW said they were going to make them real buttons and I believe that's what this .5 update is for, among other things.

 

[anklyscr]

Link?

https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-new-vw-golf-r-doesnt-get-the-gtis-steering-wheel-buttons-for-one-annoying-reason

 

[Car Won't Crank]

The grotesque stretched hourglass grille, the pinched front ends, the highly stretched wraparound headlights that look like something from positive canthal tilt meme.

Lexus and Toyota are perfectly described by the adjective "grotesque."

So, the Bezosmobile has been announced.

Car Scoops Archive

The truck is 28k round 20k with rebates. To hit this price they have cut out everything no speakers, no radio, a built in iphone holder, one motor, only grey color option, and the funniest thing to me an EV with crank operated window.

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This has to be the most bizarre EV ever.

I just saw the news about this supposedly cheap EV. We now have 3 EV truck startups slated for the US market, two with major backing; Slate has Amazon/Bezos and Scout has VAG.

Who wants to take bets to see which ones fail into vaporware? My bet is on Telo since its price is in the 40k-50k USD range, which is too expensive for a small truck.

Telo:

Scout:

 

[Google.com]

Who wants to take bets to see which ones fail into vaporware?

All. Also scouts already being sued by VW dealerships because VW won't let some of them sell scout vehicles for some reason.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

All. Also scouts already being sued by VW dealerships because VW won't let some of them sell scout vehicles for some reason.

The VW dealerships won't be able to do anything. If Scout can deliver their products, the dealer network is SOL.

 

[RandomGibberish]

Why is the Hyundai Tiburon / Coupe so underrated / forgotten?

The 3.5 liter V6 seems to be very reliable and a affordable GT car with good looks.

170 HP and a manual seems to be enough as well.

Is there something I‘m missing?

Are there better, cheaper alternatives?

 

[God's drunkest driver]

Is there something I‘m missing?

They weren't good cars. Hyundai still has quality problems, in the 2000s they were garbage. It looks like the last generation of mercury cougar too and nobody liked those, that era of styling has aged incredibly poorly. So the answer to why almost nobody likes them is it's a Hyundai, ugly, and FWD?

I will add that when they were still available new nobody took them seriously. The cheaper sections of the import car meets were full of modded hondas, DSMs, etc and the more expensive ones were the modded RX7s, Supras. If there were any Tiburons there I never saw them. I remember seeing them as riced out used cars in hispanic areas a lot later on though. I don't even think anyone at my high school had one, though they were still new in the mid 2000s and those who did have new cars had nicer ones.

 

[Titanium_Piston]

Sometimes, I envy the British for one thing, they have some decent kit car companies. I would like to buy a Caterham in a box and build it throughout a week.

They even have a Le Mans like car that is road legal, the Ultima RS, another kit car I would like to build and drive.

I know the Ariel Atom, also british, is currently available in the States, but it's not road legal in Canada........... but there is one on the road, illegally imported by a drug dealer, auctioned off by the police and bough by some doctor and made road legal. Wish i knew how they made it road legal.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

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Why is the Hyundai Tiburon / Coupe so underrated / forgotten?

The 3.5 liter V6 seems to be very reliable and a affordable GT car with good looks.

170 HP and a manual seems to be enough as well.

Is there something I‘m missing?

Are there better, cheaper alternatives?

The were overshadowed by the Honda Prelude and later the Accord V6.

 

[CaptainAutism69]

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Why is the Hyundai Tiburon / Coupe so underrated / forgotten?

The 3.5 liter V6 seems to be very reliable and a affordable GT car with good looks.

170 HP and a manual seems to be enough as well.

Is there something I‘m missing?

Are there better, cheaper alternatives?

I used to have one. 2.7L V6 and a lethargic as hell 7 sec 0-60. Catastrophic understeer too. Everything about the car was horrible.