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I'm tired of overtly complex engineering, designs, and safety features. These should be optional and reserved for luxury or higher-end vehicles, but not the industry standard for even the most basic of shitboxes.

I'm right and I'm tired of pretending I'm not.
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>>27052579
>I'm right and I'm tired of pretending I'm not.
You'll never get those cars because people have unlimited desires.
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>>27052579
Get a Vespa then faggot
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>>27052579
Go buy a VW beetle or a model T then. a car really isn't more simple than that
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>>27052952
>>27053016

Fags.
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>>27052579
Hmm good point but I disagree completely

>DETROIT (AP) — Hyundai and Kia are recalling nearly 3.4 million vehicles in the U.S. and telling owners to park them outside due to the risk of engine compartment fires.

The recalls cover multiple car and SUV models from the 2010 through 2019 model years including Hyundai’s Santa Fe SUV and Kia’s Sorrento SUV.

Documents posted Wednesday by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration say the anti-lock brake control module can leak fluid and cause an electrical short, which can touch off a fire while the vehicles are parked or being driven.

The automakers are advising owners to park outdoors and away from structures until repairs are done.
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>>27052102
>Seems like all of the recalled vehicles are the ones made in GA and AL. Seeing how they'd show up high and drunk off their ass every day, I'm not that surprised.
Is that where the Australian cars are made? Because it isn't where the Australian cars are made. But Australia is having the same problems despite not getting cars made by those who "show up high and drunk off their ass every day" in GA and AL.
https://www.drive.com.au/news/hyundai-and-kia-hit-with-class-action-engine-fires-failures-500000-cars-affected/
https://www.9news.com.au/national/car-giants-hyundai-and-kia-face-compensation-claims-over-fire-hazard/3b4065a1-1b14-433c-bf8c-a9b2c304175b
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-18/kia-car-recall-sportage-stinger-australia-fire-hazard/100146544
Now it's time to blame the customers for not changing the oil instead of admitting it has always been, in entirety, a series of serious shitty design flaws.
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>>27052090
>only evs spontaneously combust
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>>27052093
>Ford
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2022/07/09/ford-recall-suv-owners/10015493002/
>GM
https://wacotrib.com/news/national/gm-recalls-1-5-million-vehicles-over-fire-concerns/article_3425c3fc-6e3e-59e1-8033-d303f1457cc3.html
>Stellantis
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2023/05/16/stellantis-recalls-nearly-220000-jeep-cherokee-suvs-fire-risk/70223210007/
>BMW
https://nypost.com/2022/03/09/bmw-recalls-over-900k-vehicles-over-persistent-engine-fire-risk/
>Volkswagen
https://cleantechnica.com/2022/04/04/volkswagen-recalls-more-than-100000-phevs-for-fire-risk/
>Toyota
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/toyota-recall-tundra-fire-risk/
>Honda
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/honda-recalls-1-4m-u-s-vehicles-for-multiple-flaws-including-faulty-software-and-fire-hazard/
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>>27054188
>7 incidents where cars have serious problems that are quickly addressed by responsible manufacturers
>That's totally the same as one manufacturer having the recall for engine fires end up causing even more engine fires. Also the same as one company having an unbroken line of self igniting problems stretching a full decade. Look at everyone else, they occasionally have a problem. It's all the same.
Since you can obviously tell the difference between normal companies fixing problems in a timely manner and Hyundai doing the opposite, are you paid or do you have Stockholm syndrome?
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>>27052143
They used to get flamed right away like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH_brtZxVGg

But they seem to have sorted it out.
>1:32
https://youtu.be/vSWKInORSRc?si=eTAnXmpJubimGa-V&t=92

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post vehicles that you would find in a Bri'ish council estate
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>Ahahaa jus nicked ya mums Cavalier

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You vill eat ze bug , you vill drive the babyshit green GS

This thing is ugly and not in the wonderful way the previous models were, its just dull like a v-strom now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcwVYYWpsgo
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>bro ewan mcgregor went the long way round!
>>27054449
It's a touring bike. I think it would be neat if they made a smaller boxer for offroading like the original bmw gs1000, but it's fine.
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>>27054449
>GS legacy ruined
How so? The GS had became so huge and pig-fat, the new one looks much slimmer
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>>27055453
theyre making a bigger 1400gs
also that's a GSA which is bigger
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>>27054449
What is the best GS? I always liked them but never got one.
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>>27054449
>an offroad bike that's too heavy to offroad
They were always dogshit boomer barges

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>base price: $350,000
What did Government Motors mean by this? Does it qualify for the $7,500 tax credit?
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>celestiq
Can I get an extra long wheel base version with a stripper pole in the back?
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>>27054687
>A luxury car is expensive
It's like you think a Cadillac should be affordable.
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>>27053041
I’d rather buy a Lucid Air Sapphire for 100k less
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>>27055353
This. A Chevy is more in anon's price range.
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>>27054687
rich v poor gap is increasing so that’s why you’re seeing surges of luxury good sales.

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Actually good apocalypse cars?
Google likes to think EVs and armored vehicles are a good choice, but reliability and fuel consumption would be a pain in the ass
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>>27055288
Maybe someone will post their wood gas burning vehicle in here soon.
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>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhmTjLZKing
Looks cool, but that start up time..
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Now that the dust has settled
What's better? Biodiesel or wood gas?
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>>27055555
>Undisputed champion for millennia and more to come
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>>27055555
neither, just straight up oil

is it just not profitable for carmakers to build cars that actually last?
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>>27048112
most money is made at point of sale
the profit margin on repairs is farely low
if the company continues to provide spares and repairs that's effort they are not putting into new products

your competitors who make less durable products can sell them more often
if your products are non serviceable and thus disposable you can optimise for ease and speed of assembly
+ you dont have to provide any spares for old products let alone any documentation archive
all the scum bag savings can be put into research and development and make use of the latest advances in technology

>bought to you by
Edward Louis Bernays
Harley Jarvis Earl
Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.
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>>27048271
>>27048315
>>27048388
It's late because the pandemic ruined everything you fucking retards. Be patient, you will get your truck
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>>27051727
Riveting aluminum alloys is one of those things where you either pay a lot for someone who knows what they are doing with a cheap fastener, or pay a lot for an expensive fastener that can be used by someone with no idea what they're doing.

>>27052141
Well, yeah, that's what service bulletins are.
That one is from Ford via Mitchell, but you can find the same SB elsewhere.

It's more about what you bolt to where and how, but yeah, getting all gay with a hole saw on any aluminum alloy without doing some sort of preventative corrosion control is 'tarded.
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>>27048112
Have you owned any stainless steel appliances? They're impossible to keep clean. A SS car would look horrible covered in a million fingerprints and finger smudges.
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>>27051343
didn't read because picrel

The Camaro's a piece of shit. It's built on a goddamn Cadillac fucking frame.

Go look at the dodge challenger.
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>>27052219
This. Enjoy your literal 30 year old Mercedes E class chassis
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>>27055213
"muscle" cars.
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MUSCLE
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>>27052219
Based GM anon. Good luck with your 30 year old e class assembled by some crackhead from Dearborn. Chrysler is big nerd energy.
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>>27055171
Alright the steering might not be worth the cost and effort, but it's definitely possible to swap transmissions for a better shifting experience

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>be me
>learn2wrench
>tranny job
>have to separate lower ball joint to get to axel rod
>uhhh k
>watch vid
>>guy just smacks it with a hammer, and puts a bit of downward pressure and presto, it pops off
>try
>nothing.
>jam some metal in there
>pry for all my life
>nothing
>wtf?
>go back to youtube
>>Trick: jack up wheel, jam metal between axel rod, then quickly release jack

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kek I got stuck on some lower ball joints one weekend. Tried everything under the sun, ball joint separators, wedges, propane torch, caveman sledge hammer. Finally got it out with this pitman puller from amazon and the big milwaukee impact.
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>>27055338
Propane torch?
Jeepers
Did you destroy your ball joint?
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>>27053922
Anytime I do work like that I prep the night before by applying generous amounts of picrel.
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>>27055414
This. Also a really big sledge can be the best tool in the shop.
If all else fails just replace the control arms.
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>>27055512
Also if you're in the rust belt you pretty much need an acetylene torch.

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>last company to make based wagons outside of niche euro models
>86 doesn't look that bad
>ruin them with boxer engines
Why didn't they ever just make an I4?
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Then the engine and transmission would be sideways. I can open the hood ans undo some bolts to pull the engine or drop the transmission on my forester. On my element that's a sub frame drop. Fuck inline 4 pots.
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>>27055187
Are you retarded?
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>>27055079
>>27055187
>>27055247
No pint, these are just place holders until they go EV only anyway, which will make them fast again
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>>27055247
Get that cursed thing away from me

Classic car bros, our time is near.
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>>27052404
The state ended their program but several counties (including Spokane) still have emissions testing. Seems like a poor tax because Spokane isn't big enough nor dense enough to have smog problems.
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>>27050516
conversions tend to be a lot more reliable since there's way less things to go wrong than a new EV with a billion fuckin sub-computers to run the heated dildo warmers
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>>27053558
Very true. Interally we tend to discuss all the shit we hate and wish they wouldn't include, but the designers will never listen. A lot of older people buy these things too and they get really pissed at all the technology bugging out and needing resets.
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>>27048667
The true way of """""""""""""""""""""zero emission""""""""""""""""""""" is to unironically killing self.
Why would you exist to virtue-signal """""""""""""""""""""zero emission""""""""""""""""""""" when you exhale CO2 all the time?
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>>27052454
Miata?

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who would the cops/insurance find at fault here?
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whoever programmed the traffic light.
if the protected left turn was longer than 2 seconds, people wouldn't feel the need to run the light.
where i'm from people will ALWAYS run the light if an (exclusively) protected left is too short, but I don't outright run it like some people do. people will not tolerate waiting longer than 2 cycles to make that left.
this is under the assumption that the other side of the intersection has a red left arrow now, rather than a green ball. if you have a green ball, you can pull out into the middle of the intersection and wait for an opening to go or until the light turns yellow.
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>>27051867
>The retard breaking the law by running a red light.
correct
>>27051878
>I think they'd split the fault to both drivers. Just because you have a green light doesn't mean you can floor it disregarding whether or not the intersection is clear

actually it kind of does. I was once in exactly this kind of accident. I was the driver proceeding through the green light going straight. I T-Boned someone who was turning left. His car was fucked, my crown vic had tiny dent in plastic bumper. His insurance paid for a new bumper for my car.

Ultimately, because there were cars the left lane turning left, the person who I hit was unable to see me advancing. He didn't even have a red light actually, he had a green light, just not a green arrow. This means it was his responsibility to make sure traffic was clear before he proceeded through the intersection. Because there were cars/SUVs in the lane left of me, which were turning left, he was unable to see me. However, I had right of way because I had a green light and I was going straight.

Also, because of these cars, I was not able to see him turning left initially. Tbh the other driver was a retard. I was kind of driving fast, I was speeding actually, and as soon as he got into middle of the intersection he just stopped and looked at me like a deer in the headlights as I slammed on my breaks and skidded 20-30 feet to hit the passenger door of his new BMW suv. If he just would've hit the gas instead of brake when he saw me, the entire accident would've been avoided
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>>27051858
One driver beat a red light, shouldn't have done that.
The other driver is a mindless lemming who should have their ability to breed taken away from them so their stupid genes are never passed along. Fucking NPC.
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>>27051858
Insurance kikes would make it 50/50 to raise rates for everyone while minimizing payout
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>>27055111
that crawling under the box like it's a damn cartoon kek

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>go to buy German car
>1st character of the VIN isn't W
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>>27054480
>go to buy Japanese car
>coolant isn't Reimu's piss
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>>27054480
3CHADS WW@?
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>>27054496
>engine oil isn’t Yuugi’s sweat
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>>27055181
>>27054496
>>27054480
>2troons erping

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Just dropped of a kiddo for his prom and made easy money for 1h of my time. First time I done it and have another tomorrow. Having a nice car is nice bros!
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>>27054932
wholesome and keep at it anon!
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>>27054932
>prom
It's September... Homecumming?
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>>27054932
People pay for that shit?
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>>27054934
I will! thanks anon!
>>27054935
Na here it is called something else but is basically prom, called it prom so you lads can understand
>>27054937
Yes people do. I just want to drive so I'm probably asking for way less than people expect. Really I just want them to cover fuel but I'll take some extra if I can
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>>27054937
>people
theyre called goyim

ur gay edition

>praying for (you)s
>Undertail exhausts include a heated seat
>Underseat gas tanks are why the f650 is the best adv bike
>nobody posts wrek webms to learn how to not die
>do not reply to zx4 seething from nobikes
>ban scooters and anything under 250cc
>Motorcycle girls
>wear ear plugs


links (must click before posting itt)
>https://msf-usa.org
>https://cycle-ergo.com/

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>>27055029
He looks like he works out
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>>27055115
>>27055115
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>>27054895
i'm buying one next spring..hope there's stock by then
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>>27054656
My nigga
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I'm back, hunting cheap electrics
>NIU NQi GTS
or
>Zero DS (not so cheap)
or
>Sondors MetaCycle

My reqs. are basically +45 MPH, comfortable mid speed preferably with a rough range of +50 miles at that speed.


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