Stupid Questions That Do No Deserver Their Own Thread
What are some current gen cars that still have a control feature like picrel that sits near the shift knob or gear selector? I just want to be able to control everything on the screen without touching it.I know Mazdas and some BMWs still have a rotary knob, and some Lexuses still have a touchpad. Am I missing any?
>>29063536avoid the touchpad, it's ghastly. Alfa Romeo also still uses a knob in the giulia and stelvio, but not the tonale or (if you even have it in your market) junior
1zz-fe anon back again, does anyone know what this part is called, I’d like to look up proper installation but I’ve no clue what to search for
>>29062304>>29062437My key goes all the way in but when I turn to unlock it just won't budge there
Is it worth getting those sound pads and putting them in the doors only? Will they collide with my windows when I roll them down?
Name one reason why this isn’t a good car for a sporty all year round daily. >excellent awd for the winter time>rwd in the summer time (xdelete)>best gearbox on the market>reliable>quick>excellent mpg>no hybrid slop like the M340i
Stop being a pussy and get a rwd only spec >hybrid slopWhat exactly do you hate about the 340i mild hybrid
>>29064032unnecessarily complicated and heavyalso we get 5 months of snow. RWD is fun and all but sometimes you just want to go from point a to point b without struggling like a retard
>>29064032XDelete makes any XDrive car RWD at the push of a button.
Why isn't the Wankel engine type used more instead of the standard Otto types? Mazda axed it in early 10s IIRC
>>29063087Thats not plebbit tier.Thats just the experience of rotary owners.
>>29062163Torque is just a function of gearing
>>29063518>t. Semi truck with an 800rpm powerband and 18 speed gearbox.
>>29062163More than enough to push the car
>>29062985>Cuckstralia is the only place in the world where an FD is expensive, and even then, these are just numbers pulled from your ass with no data to track averageswew>>29062986>Also no one gives a single fuck about the largest buyer of JDM in the worldholy fucking cope. you rotards are hilarious.>RHD RX3 coupe is a 100k+and yet, there are two that recently sold for 50k. is there a single R34 GTR that has?>FC RX7 is a 40k car those turds are worth about 20k everywhere else in the world. i'm assuming you mean cucked ass australian prices. which does not reflect reality. a fucking basic bitch mustang is worth a shit load of money in australia. do you think we should go off of that as the baseline of what they're worth in general?>>29063087this, there's one nigger who regularly seethes as pushrods, but where is he when rotards climb out of the woodwork to pretend their shit cars are anything but garbage.
Why are Mazda3s so based?
>>29063996You don't get it and that's fine.I would have to spergdump so hard and you'd just not read it or call me buzzwords.
>>29061847Ok a Mazda 3 drove past me earlier. It had to be a 3 because the kick up on the rear door but it had about as much rear overhang as pic. Confused, Ideas. I'm UK.
>>29063950You sound like a Microsoft Excel drone. There's more to life than choosing the most optimal set of numbers for a task
>>29063756>There's no point in buying used manualsguess i need to throw mine away which has been fine for the past 10k miles
>>29064024Cars are about acceleration and handling. Everything else is just autism-stimming.
What automotive uses can you think of for a drill press? I noticed a lot of workbenches have them but I'd always assumed they were mainly a woodworking tool. I think doing rust repairs you could use it for any holes where fasteners, clips etc; are supposed to go. The main idea is that it doesn't slip or move like a hand drill, so you get precision right?
Just got my Mustang yesterday. 2026 GT Premium and the thing is so smooth, hit almost 100 on the highway and barely had pressure on the gas
>>29063918lil bro suffers from rageblindweebs are still seething bout how the corvette raped pride of japan for a decade. it's a big deal to them
>>29063389post a real goddamn picture instead of some bullshit renderwoddafock m8
bread on hood retard
>>29063918>>29063923Poorfag seething
All corvettes are ugly compared to muscle carsStop pretending to be such a tryhard boyracer
Tell me why I shouldn't buy a dodge viper?
>>29062952>for the sake of argument, say another shittier car no one cared about had a V10? No one would careexcursion?
Dat V10 is just incredible. the torque curve is pretty damn fat and has plenty of power unless you're at idle.I would like to drive a Viper to compare to my Ram SRT!0. The torque delivery is amazing even though you don't have much weight over the rears. Morons always told me it was a death trap. But I had always driven trucks and it was easy to find her limits.
>>29062910WAOW JUST LIKE JAPAN
>>29062810Looks great but another money pit
>>29063908>money pit Not really, it takes a lot of oil per change, but that's pretty much the only expensive part of ownership. I guess if you crash a lot the costs would add up, but that's true of any car. Only real maintenance I ever had to do on mine was replace the power steering pulley, and that wasn't explicitly necessary, it was mostly for peace of mind.
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>>29064009And that's it for a few webms of todays races
Why are car companies willing to alienate their customers just to save money on button-costs?Literally we are just asking you to keep 10~ real physical buttons for commonly used items.
Because they want you to be distracted and press the wrong part of the screen when you go over a bump so now you have to press more screen to get back to what you wanted to do and they hope you crash so you have to buy another car.
>>29060701Focus groups aren't skewing their results towards anything and no one is being muffled, they take a random sampling of people of all demographic segments that's as representative as possible of the average person and ask them questions. The problem is that the vast majority of people, like at least 95%, are not observant or introspective enough to have a strongly formulated opinion on car interior design. They will say blatantly contradictory statements within a single focus group session sometimes, evidencing their lack of conviction on the topic. Whether a bigger screen is better, or which functions should be reserved for physical buttons, is something they may not know until after they've been forced to drive a vehicle daily for several months that does it wrong. So a focus group often states that "they like bigger screens" while the customer complaints about lack of physical buttons only become available years after the car is on the market and development is finished.
these are the only buttons on the dash that are neededvolume knob with start/pause, defrosters and that's it. fwd/next are for the passenger really, those are on the wheelfucking with climate control, especially during driving, is pure autism
>>29063242>"driving fans" love cars because of all the buttons they can push on the dash
>>29063836bmw has such obnoxiously tiny dials fuck themthere should be at least 4 if not 6 chunky 2 inch diameter minimum dials on every car in the center console
Anyone else find this relatable?Unlike picrel, instead of getting the budget car of a flagship brand, I got a flagship car of a budget brand.
>>29063948what'd you get?
>>29063948A nice car is an essential tool to help out the family.
>>29063948How about you tell us what you got faggot
>>29063970A 2022 Skoda Superb Sportline 2.0TSI. Its trunk is more cavernous than Nickocado Avocados asshole.
>oh look at me, I spent more money than you and floored it>I wonWhat is the fucking point? Biggest athletic-surrogate cope ever.
If a pride organization would fund me a race car, I'd slap rainbows and bad dragon ads all over it.Drag racing is simple fun. Also you don't know about shallow staging with early rollout and bracket racing among other things. And on the road you can brake boost if you've got a turbo in rolls.In bracket racing you claim a time that your car can do. The one closest to the time they claimed wins, going faster disqualifies you.
>>29063830Bracket racing is gayer than actual homosexual intercourse. Just set up some buzzers and have a competition to see who can hit it when the timer hits 10 seconds the most accurately, there's no sense even involving a car. I've never met a single soul that thought drag racing was cool that could drive for shit.
>>29063954>that thought drag racing was coolSee? There it is. You care only about how others perceive things. "What if someone sees me doing this and thinks I'm gaaaaaayyyy? Oh heavens!"I just see it as good clean fun. A cheap thrill. I have never cared if if I won or lost and I've been in easily 200 such races.I much prefer track racing and drifting (solo for fun, not as a sport) but I'm not turning down any chances to wind out the gears.Back in the '00s when the tuner era was going on I'd get in at least 2 a week and I went to the legal test 'n tune on Fridays in the summer. 200 might be a low estimate.The best are the nighttime highway rolls where you know the other car is down to clown and it's not decided until like 130mph.
>>29063957Incorrect. I think it's gay as fuck and also wanted to bring in the fact that everyone else that actually knows how to drive that I've met also think it's gay as fuck. I don't associate with faggots, so therefore by process of elimination you must be a faggot to like it.>le cheap thrillIt's not thrilling at all. Straight line acceleration is boring as fuck, and worst of all you have to wait around all god damn day for your 10-15 seconds. Worst waiting-to-activity ratio of all time.>roll racing to 130 mphThat's even more cringe because once you get above about 70~80 there's ZERO skill involved.Just say you suck shit at driving and let's move on. Drag racing sucks and only talentless faggots like it.
>>29061909Drag racing is very gay which isn't a bad thing anymore btw. Nothing wrong with being gay, you know what's ugly and not gay? The corvette. Disgusting.
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>>29061960i hate this thing
I'M WORKING ON IT!
>>29061129>MLK streetThe correct term is "shieeeeeet">>29061133Moldie but goldie
>>29061129>Lets let every brown person on earth into the US>And let them drive cars too>That will work out great
>>29063963>lets give so many people that aren't here legally driver's licenses that we have to make a new tier of driver's licenses so that you don't have literal terrorists able to fly with what amounts to a fake IDclown country
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On the one hand this general is frustrating as fuck because hardly any posts. On the other it's based that everyone is working too much to post.
fuck my stupid fat chud life
>>29063547You're not sliding your tandems right, drivert. warehouse worker
>>29063547What's the problem if u have 40k axles?I mostly haul heavy stuff and never go across scales or fuck with any of that shit so IDK
>>29063672unless theres some boomer magic technique you have to slide the tandem farther forward, you and your cousins will be rearranging my loadt. wasnt born yesterday
i miss 2013 bros..
>>29063357This was an era where all of these vehicles would've been $800-1500 shitboxes, which would lead people to doing creative (yeah, if not often ugly) things to them just to get attention. Worth mentioning that the BMW in particular had caught fire and was already a totaled vehicle, too.Aggressive stance with stupid camber is dumb, but I'd still take this era over the "piggyback tune, rattlecan wheels and temu carbon fiber spoiler" that seems to be what 90% of tuning now is.
>>29063310god I love banded steelies
>>29063390yes mike burroughs is a goat. funny how car clout from 10 years ago looks so different now, as far as divine media is concerned>>29063541you might be the gayest thing in the hobby actually
Based on this pathetic poorfag shit I sure don't.
>>29063856based i love mike. he's a top ladrusty was a cool build too, fuck these autists
TALK TO ME, BABYWHISPER IN MY EARCOME A LITTLE CLOSERDON'T HAVE NO FEAR
>>29063862not if the engine has been rebuilt with hardened valve seats
>>29063862For normal driving, no, only high comp performance engines from 1955 to '72 ever needed leaded gas. A standard grocery getter engine does not.
>>29063786I was thinking more of the Gene & Eunice original than Como's cover.
>>29063862As a general rule, yes, but it can depend on the engine. Engines that use aluminium heads already require valve seat inserts, and a surprising chunk of those inserts are already hard enough to not need an additive, such as in the case of my Rover V8, FIAT 500, and 280ZX engines. Iron headed engines, though, will generally always require hardened seats, as the factory seats are usually cut directly into the head.>>29063866No? Even regular grocery getters can and will produce temperatures that cause seat recession.
>>29063951>>29063866I should add that some engines retain "leaded memory" and will run on unleaded unfazed for a time due to the localised hardening from all those years running leaded, but it doesn't last forever, and if the valves or seats get re-cut or lapped, then they lose that protection and will fail in short order.
