talk me out of buying a new S5 RIGHT NOW
>>28803992>talk me out of buying a new S5 RIGHT NOWWhy would you get this over a CT4 or CT5?
>>28803992>Audi
>>28805277
>>28803992>talk me out of buying a new S5Not going to do that. Audi's certainly have a place if you live where it snows.
>>28803998S5 is longitudinal >>28803992Get an RS5 used instead dummy
NARPs welcomeNews:>New Compact Crossover coming. >Gaymen electric may be reengineered for gas engine. Which is odd. The old gaymen was MMB like the 911. The new Caymen is supposed to be pure electric. I have had strong suspension that ‘new’ platform is more like the 944/968 ‘new’ platform and that the Taycan is really a modified Panamera and this new electric Caymen is just a modified MMB. >Cayenne and Panamera will continue on into the next decade >911 Turbo S coming in 2026 will be hybrid, 700hp Post your Porsche and your rennbow and why you picked it. Mods have confirmed they will ban any BMW posting.
>>28805080I hesitate replying to you because you're repulsive but both those cars have their place. I was just saying how I expect most Panameras to have comfort oriented specs over performance. I just wanna make it clear that I have nothing against Panameras, V8 Porsche's are nice
>>28804969PASM is standard on every Panamera but the air ride is an option. Has a combined hydroelectric air damper. They all have 4 buckets with the exception of the sport turismo which can option a bench which is extremely rare. Most cars don’t have adaptive or cameras from my experience shopping. Honestly they’re spaced pretty similar to 911s as a group. Pretty clear they exist because Porsche didn’t want to lose sales of people who wanted a 911 but wanted four doors. The macan and cayenne usually have it all.
>>28805135Just get an S-Class already godsDAMN
944 gang wwa
>>28805330I want a 928
>"nice forest you have there, be a shame if something happened to it"Why do they ruin everything?
>>28805297H982FKL
>>28805302>>28805305LoL, they're still salty from losing the Falklands war. I love Milei, with we could import him to Oz.
>>28805311milei literally needed a government bailout from a foreign country
>>28805317
>>28805317many such cases
>For Classics made from 1979 or older, with few exceptions.>Everybody has their own taste, but some tastes are wrong. If you aren't sure if your car is classic or not, it's not.>Your Honda Miata doesn't belong here.>US, Euro, Jap, or whatever.>Post your classic, your work on it, your hackery, and get advice.>Any and all discussion about classics welcome, but may not necessarily generate responses; don't get butthurt.>Period correct performance > cosmetics.>Metal > plastic.>Classic shitbox > modern shitbox.>JBweld and RTV can fix anything>If you see rust there is more.>Rust and bodywork are the most difficult thing to repair.>Electrical work is difficult until you stop reading forum posts and buy a multimeter.>Low oil pressure? Worn mains and rod bearings. Use lucas and 15W40 until you afford a rebuild.>Do NOT buy a classic and plan to pay someone to work on it. You need to be able to do 90% or more of the work or you will go broke.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>28804933GOTTEM!
>>28804983Spottem
Went on a lil 75 mile cruise today. Car is running and driving as it should now, and I have a solid feel for the baseline. As I swap in new parts from the plan I'm going to do this same drive regularly to feel the difference.Feeling pretty good overall for what it is. It's really a solid cruiser. If it had about 50 more horsepower, there would be a genuine case for leaving the current engine imo. With that amount of power a junkyard T5 would last forever too. As is, this engine is just a bit too gutless. Accelerating up even a mild grade from 30mph is optimistic at best. I've done enough reading on them too to know there's really nothing that can be done about it since there are no easily available improved heads and that's the main limitation. As light as this car is though, even a stock 302HO would make this thing plenty fun. The crate motor I was looking at would make it pretty spicy.With the extra windshield time, I'm fully convinced that the priority is suspension improvements. Then steering. Then braking. Once I work through that stuff I can get serious about drive train.
>>28805318Oh, and I got 17mpg. Which, for the 70hp or whatever I'm getting... Lol, lmao. Could be worse I suppose.
>>28805321pretty sure i got around that amount with my old v6 camry wagon with 4 speed slushbox
POV you're a pedestrian who just stepped into the street because the crosswalk is on but a driver in a 3 ton pickup truck thinks they can make a quick right turn on red before you anyway and now you may or may not have your foot obliterated
Based 7.3l or 7.5l destroyer of phone abusing faggots
>>28805240based fellow OBS owner
>>28805240Bet that guy's got the ol 300 6 cylinder in that bad boy...
>pedestrianNo such thing in the US of A, that's why the population is so fat
Miata bros, it's time to finally admit that the best Miata is the NC3It's like an ND2 but has Hydraulic steering with actual feedback unlike NDs dead steering and it's not a tin can like the NA/NB which if you crash at 30mph you insta-dieNC2 is great too but it's uglier so 3 wins
>>28804000Worthy successor? Im pretty sure its better than all the stock british roadsters. There have to have been more miata scca race cars than MG spridgets, and all the others, by this point. The Miata perfected the cheap roadster.
>>28804088The Saturn Sky looked better.
>>28804088Solstice feels like a car that wanted to have a turbo V6 but got saddled with NA fours because Corvette supremacy shall not be infringed on.
>>28804333The redline and gxp trims got a turbo 4cyl making 260hp and 260tq. Gm had a factory kit and tune that bumped the hp to 290 and tq to 320. It was warranty safe. It also added a no lift shift feature.
>>28804088this would've caught on if you didn't have to essentially gut the interior to install a rollbarthat dq'ed it from getting any amateur motorsports popularity because you can't run it at a lot of racetracks that and its a gm product so it feels half baked
piece of shit waiting to happen or actually good for $37k?im not really a new car person but i feel like this car is calling out to me like a siren, but i'm trying to keep myself on track for a lancer. am i just coping?
Hyundais are miserable Redditmobiles
>>28805287>The theta-II engine is rock solidAre you even trying?
>>28805295go ahead and tell me your nightmare story about your theta 2 blowing up
>>28805291N55 > N54
>>28805308>go ahead and tell me your nightmare story about your theta 2 blowing upNot surprising for a shill here to suggest a warranty ending remap on the motor that just got a court ordered extended warranty due to the engine being too shitty.
>>28804894very nice
>>28803738Damn, how do I get Winter-chan back onto the board of directors?
>>28804545>be russian>doesn't give a fuck>other russian forces him to give a fuck
>>28804817lol, algerians here wear slides in the winter also
>>28802202Least porn-brained anon
I always hear bad things about them, but aren't the asian ones at least normal and just legitimately into cars?
>>28805222could just be a freak accident. like those people that could run a marathon in their sleep and then one day out of the blue they just drop dead.
>>28805206I was expecting to read "we broke up", "it didn't work out", "I was being an idiot", or "she bitched out and I dumped her cunt ass". Felt the pain from Paragraph 2 all the way over here and nearly broke out a tear.Don't be ashamed or "too mature and grounded" to say she was the one. She left something permanent inside you, and that's normal. You don't have to return to how you were before you met her and got to know her, before you can move on. Also, moving on isn't disrespect toward her memory. Own your feelings, all of the happiness you had and all of your grief. Don't let them own you.>>28805222You'd be surprised how fragile the human body can be when you want it to last. It's frustrating – the human body can survive some horrific injuries, and at the same time, it won't heal comparatively minor deformities if they're chronic. It's not even funny, it can drive you mad
>>28805222She was 26 at the time. Pretty healthy, not overweight at all, pretty much ideal. We went out for lunch that day and nothing was out of the ordinary. Texted her a few times in the morning she never answered back but neither of us texted back much when it was just shit like "remember such and such is today." she didn't show up to work which was out of the ordinary but her work didn't contact anyone, next day I called her mom and she went over to her place and found her dead in her bed. Coroner said a bleed that size it would have been instant.
>>28805270fuck man i hate to say it but did she have a history of any of this or family side? If not it was definitely the vax or some sort head injury
>>28805270dam my condolences man. that's super young for such a crazy medical thing
What are your thoughts on Chinese cars?
>>28801640Why do they make them look like they're melting?
>>28802513>fag-wheel drive
>>28801640that is the ugliest grill i have ever seen
>>28802649>They don't make a single sporty car.
>>28801640I think their EV are better than any europoor car makers
Last one>>28657447Looking at buying a Honda? Post here and we'll tell you our elitist asshole opinions!Need help identifying a chassis?http://www.superstreetonline.com/how-to/chassis-suspension/1312-honda-chassis-code-checklist/
>>28801469It's a noticeable change, especially from a dead stop. Have had one in my FK7 for the past ~2 years as a replacement for the 27Won street RMM
Can anyone with a type R redpill me on the 2nd gear grind issue and the maint routine of the FL5? Is it really the usual>Oil & filter>Pads>Air filter>Spark plugs etc.Also what is the turbo longetivity? I read the fl5 has 25 psi of boost, thats quite high.Currently daily a ND2 Miata and looking for something bigger to also transport my bicycle and other shit in. It's a tossup between the GR Yaris and the FL5. Thanks to my country's retarded co2 emissions tax laws a new FL5/GR Yaris will cost 95k euros. So I wont be buying any of these new but second hand when they are closing in on the 40k price range in a year or so.
>high pressure PS line blew out on CM>get it fixed>exhaust manifold still covered in PS fluid so it's smoking>throws code for P0420>beat the shit out of CM hoping to burn this shit off>it goes awayI guess the evaporating oil had a cooling effect on the CM's precat and it freaks out when the engine is hot but the cat isn't hot enough to work fully, so I guess this is a thing that can happen if power steering fluid squirts on the exhaust, but that scared me for a sec.
>>28750377yes, and fuel consumptionthere's a decent app for this called Car Report too, if you want to do it in your phone. i do both
>>288026352nd gear grind problem is embellished. I've had an FK8 and FL5, neither had an issue. Its people who try to slam 1>2 every single time that scream about it.
If plastic control arms are such a big issue, how come noone's just casting their own out of aluminium? Make a mold out of the original one and ur golden. Even plain beer cans will give you comparable or better strength, not to mention actual duralumin
>>28797835Racist
>>28797314Can you please post an image of a plastic control arm that's snapped? I'm neither here nor there on the issue because only brands that are scams to begin with use them, but I haven't seen any real-world evidence of plastic control arms being bad. What car is even in the OP image? Looks like and audi but I can't find any audi SUV which uses plastic arms
>>28800376it's a chink EV
>>28800376They break all the time on the Ram trucks. Stop defending retarded engineering. https://www.reddit.com/r/ram_trucks/comments/1lnozyq/another_plastic_upper_control_arm_bites_the_dust/
>design a part that is cheaper to make >fails sooner so more are purchased>unserviceable so you can pay techs less time as it's a simple R&RDoesn't sound so retarded to me chud
Is the oil dilution problem with the 1.5 turbo engine in the mk10 Civic even an issue if you don't live in Alaska? I feel like it's been overblown on the internet and if you live in a place with a decent climate (cold in winter, hot in summer) then you'll be fine. Have heard plenty of positive things about this engine from people in European countries for example
>>28803843>You can't blame everything on the darkstrust me little wrenchlet nu-male, you can 100% blame it on your peoole. all these new car engines are machined and assembled so precisely, 100s of digital aids on board designed to keep you, the engine and tranny safe yet somehow it's still blowing up after a Japanese man in Japan puts it together. you're out of your mind or a kike infiltrator.
It depends on a couple of factors:1. Boost on the Civic is only 15psi, on the Accord is 20psi.2. If you drive like an impatient tard, constantly accelerating hard, you'll be stressing it more often.3. You're more likely to run into trouble if you're using 87 octane instead of 91.4. How often you do oil changes will have an effect.But honestly, why would you gamble with this shit engine? If you need to have it fixed or replaced outside of warranty you'll be looking at $10,000-$12,000
>>28802909Just get the base model k20 with a stick shift. Let me guess, you need more? Just let the car be the sewing machine it was meant to be
>>28804502>only 15psi>only 20psiFucking hell. 20psi on my engine is good for over 1000hp at the wheels but I guess this is the world we live in. All that boost to make 150hp in a grocery getter? Yikes. I don't know why people gamble with engines like these. I wouldn't even trust them over a lease period.
>>28805138adding boost to an engine isn't even that stressful to the internals with modern engine control you wrenchlet. adding 15psi to an engine adds only like 30% to the peak forces the internals have to endure which is less than the increase in inertial loads from raising redline from 6k to 7k. everything else just managing thermals to make sure the combustion chamber doesn't overheat and the engine doesn't knock. turbos have been solved, get with the times.
crazy how the corvette continues to dominate bigly c9 prolly outperform f1 cars at this rate
>>28801606Porches spent 100 years mastering nurburgring benchmarking the track for perfromance development.The Corvette, produced in a shed in kentucky, driven by the hands of an AMATEUR driver RAPES every street legal production prosche ON NURBURGRING.And your excuse for this is "buuut muh gobermint tariffs the GODvette :( :( :( ...."???LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLur lucky I don't add even more O's (filter thinks it's spam)
>>28797850>#2 Subaru>#3 Minihhhhahahahahahaaaaa
>>28801599>Want me to post some L88 prices then, double retard?Hilarious and ironic. Your entire post is retarded, and reeks of the larp you dare accuse me of. Keep going, I can't stop laughing.
>>28801106Carts are always driven by weird single white dudes.I tend to stay away from those guys.
>>28805084there probably aren't many white people in your country anyways.
Say something nice about it
>>28804450It literally has a matching 0-60 to an entry level Model 3 for $950,000 more
>>28804870Clarkson is proper motoring journalist you dummy
>>28804870sounds like to me you can't fucking cipher what is comedic banter and what isn't you fart knocking fudge packing assblasted chink.
>>28804441>February 2013Nigga you're about 13 years late.
I THINK I saw one once but the extreme unlikelihood of that being the case makes me highly skepticalthe fact that it barely looks different from the later mass market lexus coupes (inspired by its styling obviously) makes a positive ID out in the wild a lot harder
