What killed America's domestic auto industry?
>>28067497I was going to say the dodge brothers, but >>28067527beat me to it.
>>28070434https://www.jta.org/jewniverse/2015/why-dodges-original-logo-was-a-jewish-star
>>28067553Is that a wage cage™?
>>28067497Russianas, Jews, Chinese, Europoors, Pajeets, Niggers and Spics
>>28067974*ahem*
*blasts cardboard into your crankcase*
>>28071997>heh, I'm not like you plebs who take care of your things>WHAT WHY DID MY ENGINE BLOW UP SAVE ME NIGGERMAN THERE WAS NO WAY TO PREDICT THIS!
>>28071997Morons like you are why I can't trust reliability charts
>>28071911ffffffuuuuuuuucccccckkkkkkk
>>2807199741 %
>>28072078they're easy to understandreliability = higher tolerance for neglect
>back-in park>tail gate people doing the speed limit>tinted>lowered>fogged out lights>you're under 30 driving a german car>doesn't know how to use a roundabout>turn signal after starts to change lanes>merges at the last minute>doesn't know what a zipper maneuver is >crosses solid yellow lines to overtake>political stickers>offensive stickers>offensively bright headlights/misaligned headlights that blind youComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>28061095>This. So much this.>My car is an "it," thank you very muchGo back.
>>28060856You’re going to have to back in or back out which difference does it make? The real reason I don’t back in is laziness
>>28070083Isn't it obvious? It's the first thing OP lists so clearly someone in the real world laughed at him for taking too long or laughed at him because OP can't do it. All the other things he listed is just filler and really the thread was made so OP can feel better about himself.>proof?Simple just look at the posts where OP has an autism argument with another autistic anon over parking.>what if it's baitThen he succeeded in convincing everyone he's retarded ironically making him a bit of a tard.
>>28062702because 99.9% of cars with aftermarket coilovers never see the track and just make the ride unbearable on actual roads. akin to installing super stiff motor mounts.
>>28071877>Who the fuck is tinting their front windscreen, retard?Mexicans.
Highest performance to cost ratio of any car, period.
>>28070077You need a mile of runway to reach >1/2 mile of free runway to reach that and there is no other car under 2 million that beats it.
>>28066767Not even close. C4 corvettes are as slow as a new brz and cost as much (not in JUNK condition) as an E36 M3.
>>28072292In what world do they cost as much as E36 M3s? E36Ms have gone full crack pipe and cost as much as a decent C5, with mint and rare specs costing as much as a C5 Z06 at low $20s. And that's with them being as fast as a old BRZ (210-220whp in a 3100lb car) and honestly being built like shit even by BMW standards.New BRZs are pretty damn fast for what they are so that's actually a decent benchmark. They're like 210-220whp in a 2700lb car. A C4 LT1 is like 230-250whp in a 3200lb car so checks out, but you can buy 3 92-96 Corvettes for the price of a base model new BRZ
>>28072336>but you can buy 3 92-96 CorvettesNo you can't they're 15-20k for a manual which is c5 z06 price>>28068032
>>2807243415-20 for a manual with 10k miles perhaps, you gotta go higherMany 200k C4s really need an engine rebuild to run right so go for 100k miles and boomer/hairdresser owned
If you were a cute slender teenage boy who could be persuaded to wear women's underwear during intimate moments what car would you be most impressed by?
>ifMotherfucker I'm gorgeous.
>>28072432how difficult would it be to persuade you to wear women's underwear during intimate moments? and what car would you be most impressed by?
>>28072439Whoa whoa whoa I said, I'm gorgeous.I'm a balding middle aged flabby fat man covered in hair that somehow still has not stopped spreading.
>>28072444you should read the whole of a post before you reply to it
>>28072451I dont recall stating I didnt read it, nor that I cared.
What is the best sedan on the market currently?>no hybrid>no EV>no CVT>FWD, AWD permissible, RWD preferred >mid size preferred My top pics are:>Lexus ES>Cadillac CT5 >Audi A4/A5
>>28072382Because I want to have fun all the time. I always daily drive sports/sporty cars. I hate driving boring cars.
>>28072387Then you're going to have to deal with all the shortcomings of daily driving on gas. There's a reason EVs are praised for their daily drivability. They simply dominate that field.I believe Unplugged Performance makes a suspension kit for your Model S if you want a full sports car experience.
>>28071757BMW 3/4 series, easily. Bulletproof drivetrains, efficient as fuck, and you can find them lightly used for decent prices all day since everyone just leases them.
>>28072406More like 5 series since I want a mid size sedan, but yeah also a good choice
>>28071757W126 560SEL
Why is the Corvette so successful when every other sports car nowadays seems to be a flop?
>Quick>Relatively reliable (depending on the model)>Good handling characteristics>Looks good>Doesn't cost an arm and a leg to get one>Every Chebby dealer in America can service oneGee I wonder why
>>28069748I suspect this is fabricated and homosexual in nature
>>28069763Naturally, a good car will be talked a lot. It’s a board for automobiles after all. Sorry we aren’t talking about your japscrap pushing 90s HP figures or german lease bait for achmed.
>>28069760@?
>>28069583the Corvette is the embodiment of the american dream. japscrap is for incels and euro shit is for serfs to look at as their local aristocrat pulls out of their driveway
>ywnbaj
>>28071049And that's a good thing.
>>28072301Oh shit my bad, yeah I was thinking of the vitara and mixing it with the jimny. I don't really know jap cars because they arr rook da same
>you will never be a joggerthank you based Jimny for cheering me up :)
>>28072332>americans>not retardedpick one
>>28072421not a shart i just don't like manuals for off-roading. you're not an ice road trucker
Is it disgrace for heterosexual male to have one? It's basically subcompact BMW.
>its basically a subcompact BMW>without BMW handling or finish>FWD only>it's parts do come with BMW premium prices thoughSo yeah, it seems that a mini is the car for you, you gigantic faggot.
>>28072234>without BMW handlingIt's subcompact>or finish?>FWD onlyJust like compact BMW models>it's parts do come with BMW premium prices thoughBecause it's BMW, but subcompact
>>28072197BMW wanted a small FWD car in its product range and now it has one.I'd nope right out of there.
>>28072197I'm okay with it. Doesn't look NPC. Unless it"s pink with a rainbow flag
its a good car. decently well made, good sound systems, good amount of space while still being small enough to park in small spaces. fun to drive, feels sporty and with modifications can be very quick ( or just get the jcw). they look unique in a time where everything looks like the same grey sludge, it comes in lots of colors with customization for the trim that mean you rarely see two minis that look the same. idk if it makes you gay but if OP drives one it becomes gay so keep that in mind.
Thinking of buying a 2013 Audi A7 with 140k miles today. Carfax and service records look good. Priced at $8500. Thoughts?
>>28072321
>>28072321STAY AWAY FROM VW GASOLINE ENGINE MADE BETWEEN 2010-2016.
>>28072323>>28072326It has the supercharged 3.0l, which I've read quite a bit about being one of the most reliable engines Audi ever produced. Is this true or is the entire generation really cursed?
>>28072359if you have the money and patience you can make it good but you're gonna put at least 4k into it. Even more if anything not related to engine is fucked.
>>28072359If you have to ask you can't afford it.Making repairs on used German shit is no different from just leasing a new one
The malaise era is officially over -- GM has annihilated the competition. Germans are going bankrupt. Japs are stagnating. God bless America.
>>28071927EFLs speak with ebonics
>>28071887The malaise era NEVER ENDED it just shifted in form and intensity>begins 1971>intensifies 1973>REALLY intensifies with ~1980 shrinkflation>Thru 1980's performance slowly recovers while reparability and material quality nosedive>Serviceability and material quality stabilize ~1999 and slowly recover while styling fucking dies>high end luxury cars get acceptable interiors ~2005>'08 fucks up build quality for a moment>styling and (finally) interior quality recover ~2014 before nosediving again>Performance apex reached 2019-2023>Nu-overs already getting quite anemic compared to cars 5 years olderPrepare for cars to get fugsloew for a while, there's a chance the C9 is slower than the C8 with how things are going
>>28071891I tried the r35 in assetto the other day and can’t wrap my head around its garbage awd drivetrain. Understeers like crazy but without the nimbleness of a fwd.
>>28071887It's so cool winning all the time at basically everything. Especially all of the cool stuff
>>28071887Still ugly and mogged by the 911
On a scale from 1-100 how retarded is it to leave my car like this for winter. Keep in mind I tightened the lug nuts>inb4 jack standsDidn't wanna leave the suspension hanging all winter
>>28071180>yet somehow the wood is fineReally makes you think
>>28071547>yet somehow the wood is fineFor now.
>>28071180Bro, I'm a structural engineer and have designed more wood apartment buildings than cheeseburgers that you've flipped.Parallel to grain would be perpendicular to the cut edge in this photo and it's the direction that would see axial load if the 2x were oriented as a wall stud on its edge (at which point you're going to see a bunch of reduction factors and for a given unbraced length, buckling is going to reduce that allowable axial capacity such that you're left with the controlling failure mechanism being the stud bearing on the sill plates (compression perpendicular to grain, just like in this image).It looks like it has a decent contact area; something like 2" x 1.5" .. so 2*1.5*405psi = 1215lb allowable, which is reasonable when you think that a car like that is under 4000lbs.>>28071674Nah, compression perpendicular to grain isn't really time dependent like almost all the other properties are. If it's going to crush, it would crush almost right away.You would be right if that 2x was acting like a beam and was stressed in bending and shear.
>>28071723dont care, didnt readthe grain runs along the length of the 2x4, tripfag ricer has his rotor sitting on the 2x4 laying down, not standing up. putting force against the long side of the wood is perpendicular to the grain, thus the wood likely wont fail due to stressperhaps you need to make more apartment buildings for illegals, making me defend retarded ricers
>>28068863just make sure to make a thread in a few months
Anyone tried these yet, perchance?
Bump. Cmon /o/, be useful for once
When it comes to classic vehicles.You could have some who honest and passionate about their abandoned vehicle they still act fucking petty.>no i wont sell it im gonna fixx it.>no you dont know nothing about that car especially when it first came out.This is why a majority of them die with their stubbornness and unhappy life.
>>28072258
>>28072258to be honest vws suck so bad that their only use is to save as a financial asset
post some actually cool cars
>>28070785so you dont know shit about cars. why are you here again?
>>28070720Infiniti M45
>>28071671that is geniuely great car. one of most underrated cars i have sat in if not most
>>28071429>still no argument
>>28070720Rob from aging wheels recently got himself a two stroke saab.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESLvSeXIcJoRed ones are faster.
