What would Cadillac need to do to regain its aura?
>>28964741>regain its auraThe image and prestige of Cadillac is tied to the image and prestige of American manufacturing as a whole. For it to truly ascend back to the top, American industry has to be popularly seen as a vital, competent, and muscular thing again. When a person thinks of Cadillac, the first thing they think of is probably the last news article they read about how GM is closing factories and impotent in front of Chinese EV competition. Why would you spend nearly $100,000 on some shaky company that can't hack it? Americans don't like underdogs, they like winners. GM by itself, and American manufacturing in general, aren't winners to enough people. The general economy also needs to improve enough that relatively young buyers can afford to purchase it. Their image as an old man's car comes from the fact that only elderly people with paid off houses and adult children can afford to purchase one. It's no longer an aspirational product, but an unreachable one. Neither one of those can really be fixed by GM. No VP of something at Cadillac is going to be able to reverse 40 years of America's non-existent industrial policy. The GM C-suite by themselves can't do anything about the financialization of the American economy and how that's choking the middle class to death. Both parties seem happy to walk lockstep with globalized neoliberal economics, so Cadillac is likely stuck drifting on the tides of the American economy and praying that the AI and tech bubbles don't implode like the rest of us.
>>28969973the engines and drivetrains and suspension are more reliable than theyve ever beenyour car is not unreliable because o2 sensor number 1453 is making the check engine light come on
>>28970563Clean yourself up and get in a lac' like a real man.
Art and Science was a quarter century ahead of its time, it is now a quarter century later and the world has caught up, so just build the fucking Cien and Ciel ffsInstead of the soulless minimalist interior every other brand is doing, build interiors with actual fucking luxury and that means analog gauges and metal switches and knobs, no plastic buttons allowed anywhere
>>28964741We have to go back-ack-ack-ack
Why do inline four engines sound so good in bikes and so bad in cars?
>>28968817>>28969003Azur Lane is/was better.The worst part of gacha is it lightly guilt tripping me into playing again and I actually fall for it because I'm retarded enough to feel bad for fictional cartoon characters.
>>28970191this kind of cheap moeshit is not a thing in HSR. the art is miles better too
>>28970231>the art is miles better tooIsn't really an argument because so many different artists are featured in Azur Lane.I genuinely would like to continue this, but I've gotten drunk enough now that the reply box is constantly scrolling up in my vision so I probably won't be able to reply.
cams and exhaust. bikes also have individual throttle bodies or carbs instead of one throttle body or carb
>>28970760>exhaustwhat in a motorcycle's exhaust exactly makes it sound different? the shortness of it? I remember I had a rusty 4 cylinder beater whose exhaust was rusted to nothing, and it sounded pretty cool. not like a super bike, but also not farty like most straight piped four cylinder cars
post cars with sad faces
>>28970101this would be pretty sad if not for this dumb smirk
>>28970101what a smug fuck that car is
>>28964856
>>28970101That looks more like a teen girl smiling awkwardly with her massive braces teeth because she just got called pretty for the first time and doesn't know how to react
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my back is getting better every day and the weather is getting worse every day, what a coincidence.i also got asked to lead another little offroad adventure because there is a rider with a 411 that wants to put it on gravel and dirt at least once before upgrading to a tansalp.i'm going to have to help lift that too from mud next time, right?Shoom senpai i'm going to join you soon after i completely fuck my back up and will be unable to function and ride
>>28971009>>28971009>>28971009>>28971009NEW THREAD NO BIG ENGIEN POSTERS 125CC CUTOFF STAY OUT BUT EVERYONE ELSE COME!!!
>>28970776yeah no I'll for sure do at least helmet glovesjeans maybei'll hate to get $100+ pants dirty at work but it really doesn't matter if it's comfy enough
>>28970669>>28970682also where should I buy gear?I assume not amazon so I avoid cheap chinese shit? I feel like I'd get jewed if I go to a harley store because that's the only store I know that would for sure sell gearsport academy?
>>28971305>if it's comfy enoughno motorcycle jeans are comfy>>28971307>where should I buy gear?maybe say your country because my city is littered with motorcycle stores that only sell motorcycle gear (not motorcycles). there you can try on gear to see how it fits.
Locking car doors and rolling up windows doesn’t seem to do much to prevent theft. However, it did work well for picking up girls when I was in high school we would drive them somewhere at night, lock them out of the car, and make them show us their tits if they wanted back inhttps://www.newsweek.com/bay-area-car-owners-leaving-trunks-open-while-parked-amid-wave-car-break-ins-1660185
>>28970509my cars not insured dumbass
>>28970502>>28970697Confirmed larp kiddie
>>28970509My insurance is on my phone and nothing about my cars would indicate I have any valuables at home and also my house is far away from areas that would have the kind of people that rummage through cars for info. >oh wow the owner of the base model manual transmission Honda Element live 30 miles away >we should go drive out to this small town and rob him of his valuables
>>28970449>Leave bait cars>People break in>Explosive under driver seat detonates when they hit 5 mphThis would solve auto theft overnight but libruhals wont do it
>>28970840confirmed im going to cum inside you
Why aren’t infinitis more popular?On paper they seem like an amazing deal. Any other sportscar brand costs twice as much, even their slow tiny cars. Where else can you get a V8, let alone this cheap?Am I missing something?
They're popular with a specific demographic that people don't want to be associated with.
>>28970618Nissan-lovers?
>>28970618Dodge-drivers?
>>28970615well since that listing is belgian, between the fuel and the road tax that V8 will probably cost you around 7-8k a year. add maintenance and insurance to the mix and your operating costs will almost match the purchase price at year 1. and people who can afford to burn that kind of money typically don't want to drive 15 year old cars with no apple car play
is a tdi vw the only option if you want a diesel passenger car and dont live in yurop?
>>28970226It's not some deep state conspiracy, it's just an easy thing to campaign on rather than having to actually fix economic issues caused by the 1% to which the politicians also belong.
>>28970226The elites want you crammed in a bus or train with a bunch of primitive worker lemmings while they get chauffeured around in fancy cars. Stop polluting their air peasant, and pay your air tax for them to steal.
>>28969669BMW and Mercedes both also make diesel cars.
>>28969669BMW and Mercedes, Chevy had the Cruze but I wouldn't recommend the Cruze.>Mfw I smoked a Toyota GR86 in my deleted VW.
>>28969669>is a tdi vw the only option...?Nope. Picrel
any of you have experience with homemade bodyparts for your chariots? I am planning to create a lip that will help stabilize the car at higher speeds, and have a few extrusions that I can use to duct the brake disks, to cool them >pic related, it's my chariot with the lip I wanna make out of 3D printing and fiberglassyou guys helped me before with my misfires, guided me to BPES sparkplugs that did the trick.
Depending on how far east you live you might still find a 1st gen Laguna in a scrapyard that you can take the front lip offPeople bolted these to aynthing back in the 90s/early 2000s
Is the 2nd gen Honda Fit the greatest car ever made?
>>28958726Is the 6spd in the 3rd gen worth it or no
No. Here in the UK they are only driven by the elderly and retarded, I have no idea why you lot get such a hard on for them
>>28959948im 6'1 and weigh 300 pounds (and losing!) and i fit in this thing like a glove, i think something's wrong with your fit
>>28961887>not being able to change the direction of your tractionretard wheel drive fans in shambles.
>>28970735obviously because it's the only car that 1) costs you less than 200 a month to own and operate and 2) doesn't feel like a tin can when you drive it on a highway
Literally what are you even supposed to do??
>>28966135bear my teeth so they cushion the blow of my head meeting the dashboard
>>28966135turn off the engine
>>28970596I love the still image right after impact where you see his teeth indentions in the steel dash.
>>28970608i hope the driver sued his ass off for denting his car like that.
>>28970094>That guy who had the rpms drop to zero when the engine stalled indicates to me the ignition wasn't working so the tach didn't have a signal.The ignition was fine, it was a fuel delivery issue. RPM dropped faster than the rpm:speed ratio suggested it would as though the engine and wheels were not linked, and then dropped abruptly to 0, even as I was rolling at 50 or so.
are you guilty of any of these?
>>28965825>i change my oil every 3000 miles with amsoil, original engine for 20 years>i change my oil every 6k with whatever's on sale at vatozone, dad did the same when he bought the car right before i was bornetc.
>>28969544Just stop buying prefilled oil filters then.
this "very light" starting load assumes you have conditions available at the beginning of your route to do so. a merge on to a busy highway less than 5 minutes from my driveway does not allow very light load. if it's very cold out i am going to idle it for a few minutes because of that.
>>28962238winter time is when i let the engine idle for a few minutes, because it's super cold, also the defrost needs to do its thing on the windshield, so i can fucking see when i drive down the fucking road. the only way that can happen is if the coolant gets hot from the engine, & the heater core does its job.
>>28969469You don't believe such an outlandish claim without evidence?
I want to quit my call center job in insurance and I want to become a mechanic. No clue where to begin in the USA. Any advice?
>>28969142Fabricating but that's because you're basically an engineer applying machining, welding, electrical, and painting
>>28968829Thats a lot of shit talking for someone who doesn't have bubblegum.
>>28969260literally just walk into any tire/lube shop and say you know how to turn a wrench and they will offer you a jobbonus points if you can read and write
>>28969442I worked at a jiffy lube in high school. I really wanted to kill the manager and co workers. Thank god for my gf who sucked me off each morning.
>>28970111>thank god for my gayfriend that sucked me off each morning Thats a nice thing for them to do
Kia: Built for the rugged outdoors!
>>28969791the hell is an opel
>>28969815It was General Motors brand in Germany
>>28969829both the mens swimsuits and the car color are hideousthey really chose awful colorsthe red looks the best
>>28969829What was the best Opel of all time?
>>28964612wimp
Inboards because car engines
>>28969691>>28970411but Car engines that arent meme briggs and stratton tier popular boomer junk
>>28970415which is why I excluded chevrolets.
>>28970415REVERSE ROTATION CHRYSLER 440
>>28970497The reverse rotation model is so that you can run 2.Theres also a reverse rotation Hemis
Probably cheaper than what you currently drive so what's the excuse?Bad driver?Not gay?Takes a real man to fuck a man.
>thing about buying a mustang>anything new is stupid priced>used market is 50% full of retards who drove it like chimps and 50% of midlife crisis dads who then gave it to their kid who drove it as chimpswhy it gotta be like that?
>>28967641Riding bikes got me a wife and kid so I had to get a big boy job instead of rorting the system working 6 months a year then getting 100% of my tax back on centrelink for the other 6 months so now I have disposable income
>>28967974nothing actually 'is for' mexicans.they don't deserve more than the shade from a cactus, a wide brimmed hat and a donkey that shits everywhere.
>>28970268Wrong image
>>28968505Cooflation made everything so much worse. Who can afford a $60k car these days
