>RWD>hybrid engine>women will buy the shit out of it
>>24400395So fucking what if it's a fwd awd. You aren't gonna be drifting a truck.
>>24400709>t. faggot soilord tranny
>>24400709Just wanted to correct the error. FWD actually makes sense for empty-bed commuting in the winter.
>>24400340Think I could haul a motorcycle or two in the bed and pull a utility trailer?
>why yes, we drive a maverick, how could you tell?
Fiat ruined the Dodge Challenger when they put the VVT transmission in it this is why I buy Volvo red blocks ford owned them for a while and they made some big advancements for them but they also almost ruined them. Post red blocks.
>>24399103are you ok anon
>>24399103Yeah
>>24399103COURTESY OF HAZEN KUSTOMS
>>24399103Ford made advancements for ford? What advancements?
>>24400964*Volvo
What are the benefits of trucks vs vans?Seems like a van is just a truck with an enclosed bed.
>>24400842>>24399010
>>24400758Borrowing a pickup truck to haul things is a popular meme so it won't occur to people that they can use a van to do the same thing in many instances.
Keeping it simple: urban vs rural. Vans protect your gear from casual thieves and the homeless, but are useless against a redneck that will just tow your shit himself. Pickups, especially in a flat/stakebed configuration, give you far more space to work with vs a van. P/Us can take higher freeway speeds as they are equipped with bigger wheel diameters, however the low floor vans have will save your back when loading large (but not oversize) items. Vans can parallel park easier when p/us can't. That's all there is to it. Where you work and how you work matters more than anything else.
>>24400855By the way if this is a legit work truck then consider pic related as well. The higher up-front cost will pay off with the greater load capacity, parking ability and general usefulness against a normal van/truck. Especially ones with duallies, as they can take much greater loads that comparable dually vans/pickups.
>>24400862>By the way if this is a legit work truck then consider pic related as well.NPR has no sex appeal so pickup truck buyers won't like it. It's too much truck for van drivers too. However these things are amazing if you just need to do ALL the truck things and jump start the eternal storms of Jupiter in one trip.
What were the biggest OH SHIT moments you had while driving?
1 of 2>on a road trip in an NB miata>to get to a campground had to take a gravel road>not a big deal for the first 5 miles>out of nowhere the road gets extremely bumpy even the SUVs are rocking>all my electronics cut out repeatedly including the dash>turn around and drive for an hour barely going 5mph because if I drove any faster the shakes caused the car to cut out>eventually get back to pavement and drive to a gas station>open the trunk and remove the wooden board covering the battery>it’s completely black>tap the metal bracket holding the battery down and it sparks>the plastic covering the terminal melted and the bracket is shorting the battery but there’s just enough melted material blocking it from going full retard>grab a wrench and start undoing the metal bracket>retard me didn’t disconnect the negative terminal for some reason>as I’m undoing the bracket the battery sparks like an angle grinderComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
2 of 2>drive home at midnight from gfs house>two lane country roads>enter a wide 45 mph turn>Lincoln MKx enters turn going the other direction the same time as I enter>see bright ass LED headlights shining into my eyes>the retard in the MKx turned into my lane>immediately swerve onto shoulder and around them>still hate Lincolns to this day>got off of work at around 1am during an insane blizzard>driving an IS300>going 30mph on the highway in the middle lane>see retard in a 3 series drive past me going 50>he spins out ahead of me and into the right shoulderComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24399543>peopleWomen. They can't hold their piss worth a damn
>>24400648>Women. They can't hold their piss worth a damnthey hold them it in and pretend it doesnt bother them cause theyre busy thinking about their stupid woman bullshit until all of a sudden>YOU GOTTA PULL OVER RIGHT NOW, I NEED TO PEE
>>24393277https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AC1FoIQVV0
Please explain this concept of "ghost riding the whip".
>>24399057You get out of the car and let the car roll on it's own.
>>24399063Chupa mi verga
Automatic drivers are idiotas.
>>24399063Bruh, here is the whitest, stereotypical post-WW2 American white man ghost riding his futuristic whip https://youtu.be/Y_ZS_EfoYpA?t=57
>>24400951absolutely baller
>tfw I dont have 73k to waste on a unmolested 93 SupraIts just not fair br/o/shttps://www.edmartintoyota.com/used------JT2JA82J6P0003235?utm_source=cargurus.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=cargurus_listings
>>24400130For the supra its really not all bad to have a auto, especially if youre just going to take it on the street and go straight with it.
>>24400177- for supra loving, validation seeking, hero movie watching, and lonely techies with nowhere else to spend money on, yes. auto supra would only add to their comedy, that is, their life.
>automaticyikessorry bud gonna have to say no
>>24400177anyone whose clueless about turbo cars will lol at automatics... but theyre fantastic for no loss of boost from lifting throttle and it's just too easy to own other shitboxes. >muhfeelz
>>24400121>muh soopra
Watch trucklets seethe edition.>post trucks>post mods>post seething truckletsAny and all trucks welcome.
>>24400165I like the Colorado but didn’t it have transmission issues that got swept under the rug in court? Really turned me off from trusting it mechanically and trusting the honesty of gm
If tuning an Ecoboost can get you 75 extra free horses, why doesn't Ford just tune it as such from the factory? Obviously, the engineers at these little tune shops aren't smarter than the ones at Ford, so what gives?
>>24374962Ford is discontinuing their 3l for the f150 and the ecodiesel is unreliable at best.
>>24400850emissions, fuel economy, long term stability, heat generation.
>>24399233>Unfortunately, my truck is only 2WDMan that’s the only downside in what sounds like an otherwise awesome truck, but it sounds like you’re sticking to what the scope of the truck is and just making it a nice street machine, too many guys with 2wd trucks make them look like offroad monsters and get stuck in the slightest patch of sand, it would’ve been nice to see you cruising the trails though.
No joke.
>>24399372ayylmaos hate this trick. it turns off the ufo receiver. all the stories you've heard about people being abducted from their cars was because they forgot about this button.
>>24399389>>24399388Then why is the button in the car? Obviously the alarm isn't going to go off when you're in the car (I hope). But I hate car alarms anyway so don't mind me.
>>24399519Because it doesn’t completely disable the anti theft system, only the motion sensors on the cabin.
>>24399519if you lock it and you move inside it will go off, my dad used to let me lock the car with me inside and it would trigger the alarm lol
>>24399372>What's that button do?It prevents alien abduction
A thread where you can ask dumb stuffI'll start: if solid axle is by far the strongest and easiest to manufacture suspension setup would it be possible to minimize it to be the lightest?I'm not saying it should be used in racing, where isolating each stress is more important, just purely as a low cost shitbox technology
Do you think you can find a frame in decent condition at a junkyard? By decent condition I mean not terribly rusted and a metal worker could get it structurally sound without too much effort.
Hi guys, I have a question.My car (4 speed automatic) has an "O/D Off" feature. I virtually never drive on the highway because everything I need is so close.Since I'm not driving at highway speeds, should I leave overdrive off to eliminate unnecessary shifting? I feel keeping it in third, which runs at a 1:1 ratio, is the simplest and would result in the less wear and tear over all.What do you recommend?
My hometown and the surrounding areas are completely flat, no steep slopes of any kind, and this sort of environment is all I've experienced Recently I've been sent out on work to a very "hilly" city, going up and down streets of significant inclines. I've even had to park on these streets.So here's my stupid question. When I'm parked on a steep incline and start my car, when I put it into Drive and let my foot off the brake, why doesn't my car start rolling backwards? I AM VERY THANKFUL THAT MY CAR DOESN'T ROLL BACKWARDS, that would be scary as fuck, but I don't understand the mechanism that is preventing that from happening.
>>24400877I think it's the torque converter that just let's through enough to not slip backwards. If you are on a level road and you put it in drive, you start rolling as well right?T. Manual fag
>>24400921>If you are on a level road and you put it in drive, you start rolling as well right?Yeah, that's right. It will coast forward on its own if my foot isn't on the brake.
NASA rover edition
Post cool badges and emblems>debadge >cool badges >made up badgesPic rel is my new SLO badge. I think it's a made up badge to poke fun at the WRX and Sti cars with a "slow" badge for non WRX cars but maybe it stands for Subaru Legacy Outback? Not sure if I want a subaru badge too or just leave it like it is.
>>24399601>>24399645>>24399578>>24399670>>24399675i hope this is all ironic because it's 14yo-tier humor>>24399562this owns though
>>24400404nice gross-ass patch bro
>>24399719GM thought it was a good idea
Whats the best car and cheapest car to be homeless in?
Just keep living with your parents and get a job.
>>24400238you can get 90s expresses for way less than 1k
>>24400238Stolen Honda Civic
>>24400238ngmi
>>24400238Chevrolet Express/Ford Econoline
So I have a pic related and it's my fourth one. I love these bugeyes. I've had other cars (Lexus, Hondas) but I keep coming back to these. The problem is I think I'm falling into the "repair is always cheaper than a new car" fallacy. I keep throwing 500 here 500 there to keep the daily running and that quickly adds up. Would it be worth it to go into d*bt for a current gen WRX or the generation prior? These bugeyes are almost 20 years old now and they're starting to get hard to find and expensive.>inb4 $3000 civicI actually /need/ awd where I live and the only cheap awd cars are Subarus and suv's
>>24396728>needNobody "needs" anything more than a Mitsubishi Mirage to go get groceries and commute either. I can afford something a little nicer though, so fuck off with your "don't need" bullshit.
>>24396647No. These are the desirable cars. The modern ones value will fall off the face of a cliff while these maintain or appreciate in value. Modern Subarus are for Karens and everyone knows it.
>>24400527>modern WRXs value will fall off a cliffVery doubtful. The FA20 is the best engine Subaru has put in the WRX. It doesn't matter which gen though, WRXs hold their value quite well.
If you’ve gone through multiple WRX’s you’re probably fairly old, and you can’t afford to buy a new one, or even a last gen one? I would get a Kia Rio and focus on your career for a little bit
>>24400848He could have just kept buying them at 150k usually people sell them when they get to spun bearing territory
>>24397719Plastic
Zozzle
>>24397972The fuck those sprinters aren't even that old
>>24385776JFL Arizona is not the rest of the world
Piece of s.....
Golden fork ascension thread edition!>Layin' 'er up>Pickin' 'er down>Backin' 'er out>Slidin' er in >smaller lighter bikes can fit in a backpack>motorcycle dogs and cats>boring webbies>Motorcycle cartoon explosions and lasers and shit>Teal anon can't be stopped, like the Terminator>motorcycle clubs>T.nogf postingScrambly come beak! Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24401048Honda NC750X thank me later
>>24401048
>>24401062this bike is pure soi
>>24401048Anything is better than the memeLR650
Where the cute /dbt/ boys at
