Mexicans are White, so why can't they build good cars?

>>28994410
isn't the latest BMW that finally can somewhat hold a candle to the mighty camaro, the greatest handling sports car ever made, designed by a mexican?

>>28994410
some anon posted a pic a while back showing that the qc of the mexican bmw factories was better than the german ones

>>28994445
being a manufacturing worker is a very prestigious thing in mexico that the average mexican can't get into. in first world countries, manufacturing is looked down on like most blue collar work. manufacturing in america and europe is for people who didn't go to college. in mexico, manufacturing is for the upper middle class of mexicans.

>>28994403
the same is true in most countries though

>>28994407
>The United Kingdom's ONLY openly gay car journalist
What about Hammond?

>>28994408
who?

>>28994413
hamster

>>28994426
???

>>28994428
The short one

>>28994206
did you even read the post i was replying to?

>>28994182
>never change transmission fluid
>speed to red lights and brake hard
>stomp on the pedal as soon as it turns green
>throw it into park when still moving
"wtf this transmission sucks"

>>28993753
>Cali
No one calls it that apart from people of crime

>>28994182
If you actually read the chain you were replying to, you'd see that his Altima is the last WITHOUT a CVT. I owned a Sentra since new where the transmission blew out on the highway, and my girlfriend owned a Rogue that overheated the tranny oil on any drive over 40 minutes. I'm very particular about my cars and those were both maintained by the book and driven calmly. The Jatco transmissions were well and truly dogshit.

>>28994397
well yeah but in my second reply i was asking about the jatco in the suzuki

>>28994466


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>>28994500
kill yourself tripfag nigger

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>OG in the house
Yalls thread got pruned lmao. Bring it back up
>jannies are fsggier than ever

>>28994504
i think he deleted it himself upon learning that he neglected to put /dbt/ in the subject field.

>>28993933
Having the gps screen up but not giving directions is great for building your mental map

>>28992841
yeah no you need studs for bend
blizzaks are performance tires, not ideal
nothing works on ice like metal spikes
hiking, biking, driving

>>28992877
Problem is you get winters like this last one where it's clear and warm for weeks on end and your studs wreck themselves and the road and make highway driving miserable. Also ice and even potential snow season here lasts longer than legal stud season. Honestly a lot of people get by just with 3PMSF-rated all terrains and I did it in 2024-25 but I was commuting to Redmond everyday this last winter so it was worth getting studless winters, and they worked out fine. Studs might be more necessary on a 2WD car or if you go up into the mountains a lot though.

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>>28992846
Thankfully basically no jeets here but we've got a shitload of people from Portland, Seattle, and California who have no ice or snow driving experience.

The weird thing with the freezing fog was that it happened with zero snow on the ground, so it looked like a video game where shit bugs out and spawns all the winter plant textures but not the ground ones.

>>28992716
2015

Lights look like chinamen eyes

>>28992634
My wife has a 2020 Trailhawk.

It’s been a reasonably good car all things considered. 100k miles of ownership, the water pump failed but that was covered under warranty. Other than that just standard maintenance items. Oil changes every 5k, brakes, tires, new battery, coils and plugs, coolant drain, trans fluid drain. There’s an open transfer case recall, we’ll probably get a new tcase out of it. I’m a little worried about the 9 speed’s longevity but we’ll see.

It’s loud with the A/Ts, the trunk sucks, and the black interior is almost never clean. It gets like 24mpg highway, awful. But it eats up two track trails and sand dunes like nothing, it’s great in the snow, and it can haul our kayaks around. I’ve enjoyed my 5 years with it even though I tried to talk my gf at the time out of it.

Is it a real offroader? No, but it can get you deeper into the woods than most other crossovers in its class and price range.

>>28992369
Trump killed the EV incentive so then the thing ended up costing more than a Maverick despite being a barebones piece of shit.

>yeah, let me pay more money for this truck that doesn't have AC and can't tow as much as my wife'd Rav4

>>28993573
By definition a "kei" truck is limited to 660cc max.
Your chassis is not a kei chassis. It may appear similar but its nit interchangable.

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>>28993642
>Your chassis is not a kei chassis. It may appear similar but its nit interchangable.
The Super Carry with the 1300cc engine isn't a kei truck, but they did sell a kei Carry with a 1l engine badged as the Ford Pronto in Taiwan

>>28993573
>1300cc Suzuki
Based Hayabusa swap

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>>28993642
>Your chassis is not a kei chassis
I didn't claim it was, but they're almost identical. I buy Japanese body and interior parts and accessories for mine.
>>28993729
>Hayabusa
Better off doing that to a 660cc truck. It's the G13BB so the twincam head from the Swift GTi is the hot option, but I'd be more likely to choose the B16 swap for the extra torque. Not doing anything right now as it's fine as is. If the engine dies, I'll consider my options then.

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Just copped this PA Challenger for 2K AUD from an 85 year old pensioner. It’s completely stock and all it needs is a couple of windscreen chips repaired and it’s ready to roll. Pretty chuffed. Gonna give it a good service and do some light mods to turn it into a camping rig. It’s honestly easy to forget these existed, although I still see them getting around here and there. Everyone’s insistence that nothing but land croozer will do makes them good deals.

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>>28991008

Got to do some urban wheeling. Drove up some riprap retaining walls. Scared the women with some offcamber paved hill.

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>>28991008
based

>>28991008
Absolutely choice deal. The thing looks mint.

>>28991894
100 bucks says this faggot inherited half the shit he claimed to have built or bought himself

>>28992556
10k I dont have on it being bait

>>28974919
Clear ragebait.
In these videos the boyfriend/husband is always someone with a variation of "smith" or "alan".

>>28991894
it's obvious bait but i still got mad because i know people who are like this unironically

>>28982136
>I see people riding their bikes,
Isn't that against HOA policy?!

>>28993958
They almost never go for 40k. Only the lowest mileage ones in the country sell for that much. Most are 25k.
>beats it in performance
Well that's just not true.
>tech, and ride quality
Gay.

>>28993977
unless you're not in the US from what I'm seeing anything that's less than high 30k to 40k is at a mileage where you start seeing problems or has clear evidence it had the everliving shit beat out of it
if it's not a 2018 then you have to spend more on top to put in the LSD to bring it up to par of a 2018, more if you want to retrofit on the euro features the US model was deprived of

>>28993977
>Well that's just not true.
against a mk7, sure
against an mk8?
again sure, the 6 speed in the R is pretty damn mediocre even in the mk8 but if you're comparing prime against prime the mk8 Golf R with the DSG, even if you want to call it souless vs a 6MT, blows the doors off the Focus RS

>>28989745
>100 horsepower per cylinder brah!
actually pretty implessive, ngl

>>28994034
I'm sorry for giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming you wouldn't be acknowledging the existence of the automatic one.

>>28991741
Well it’s pronounced Poo Joe for a reason

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Which one is the worst?

>>28992687
same stellantis shit

>>28992688
Stellantis is rather new in those companies history. They may be the new BL, where good companies go to die.

>>28992687
fiat. peugeots are shit but at least they were cheap. fiat has always been a meme brand for retards who want to look like they spent lots of money on a cute import

>>28993624
No kidding the towelhead sikhs are the biggest toolbaga they have so much to prove, even worse than whore cops

not a big fan of the government

>>28991853
jeets are terrible but boomers and genx have been refusing to signal since the 50s

>>28994036
I don't signal if there's no one around to signal to because if a tree falls in a forest and there's no one around to see my indicator then why bother indicating.

>>28994051
what if there was just someone you didn't see?

>>28994061
But I see everything and everyone because I'm hyperalert and have no pillars on my motorcycle that create blind spots.

it's not about being smart enough to not kill yourself
its about being lucky enough that other people dont kill you

>>28992452
>How long should I drive a car with no accident to know I'm smart enough to buy a bike and not kill myself?
You shouldn't drive recklessly besides if you have had accidents or not, bikes are really prone to accidents since the more minuscule pebble on the road or a pothole can send you flying, so always ride a bike in a way that doesn't exceed your own ability levels.

>>28992452
If you get stuck in these thought loops, you'll never get out there and ride. Go do a motorcycle safety course, and see if you like it. They're only a few hundred dollars.

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>>28992537
Not true at all kek

That's like saying you should never drive because you're gonna get into an accident.
>>28992452
They're 2 entirely different experiences, if you do get a bike you need to do a lot of studying and practice in order to deploy strategies that will keep you alive and maneuvers that you can rely on in an emergency (like swerving to avoid a hazard, situational awareness, trying to look as far ahead of you as possible, and being in full control of your motorcycle that you can safely but swiftly brake or accelerate out)

Ask yourself 3 questions
-Am I impulsive / egotistical
-Do I have a good sense of balance
-How do I react under duress? Freeze/fight/fawn/flee etc

Theres no objective right way to ride a motorcycle but there ARE objective WRONG ways to ride one. As long as you actively avoid doing those wrong inputs (stabbing your front brake brake lever for example) you will be fine.
Take the MSF courses, get good gear, approach the machine with respect and leave your drive to prove something at the door when you ride off and you'll be okay OP.

>>28992452
long enough to have some karen T-bone you and realize that on a motorbike you would have died and she wouldn't have stopped

>>28975920
they installed your tires backwards

>>28992050
I asked for this because I only drive in reverse

>>28984326
Taylor Swift used 4chan and she is one of the greatest artists of the century

>>28992465
Lmao keep believing that retard

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>>28992050
Too bad yellow NA Anon didn't listen.

>>28993890
I think its actually on the new STL* platforms, not the old garbage EMP they still use in the Alfa Romeo Tonale, but the reviews of the new STL platforms haven't been kind, either

Why can’t these retards just get out of their own way? It’s like the CEO hates his company and wants to destroy it.
>Wrangler
Hey let’s take our signature vehicle we stole from Willys and made a killing off of for the last 80 years as a bare bones off roader and jack its prices up above 60k. That will bring in a classier kind of off roader instead of the blue collar hicks that have been buying our shit. What’s that? The soccer moms buying our shit are throwing rubber duckies at each other? That’s so cute let’s make it our whole personality.
>Gladiator
Oh hey the Wrangler got too feminine with the rubber duckies so let’s make it into a truck! Just make sure it’s the ugliest mid sized truck on the market with the lowest reliability rating! You know those rednecks love wrenching.
>Wagoneer
You know what? We can build a three row full sized SUV to match the Suburban and Expedition. We’re just as good as them. Just make sure it’s the ugliest of the three and don’t take a dime less than $100k for it.
>Grand Cherokee
Well that thing looks too good. Make sure it explodes.
>Cherokee
You remember those old XJs that had 4WD, could seat a family of four, and had perfect reliability up to 300k miles? Yeah fuck that thing. Make the opposite of that.
>Compass
Bro I was driving around the other day and saw an old Fiat Panda. You know the car that upper middle class European socialists and schizo eco fascists used to drive? We need to rebrand it. The extremist market is thinned out in this politically depolarized time. I’m tired of Subaru owning the lesbian market in the Pacific Northwest. We’re talking about woman drivers here so make sure that it freaks out every time they try to change lanes and throw a CVT in it so that it changes gears 9 times a minute in the highway.

>>28993889
>doomed
This.
Looks like a Saturn Vie ripoff, without the decent powertrain.

I'm sick of the milquetoast shit.

>>28994022
I believe theoretically they are going to migrate the 2 liter 4 cyl from the Jeep Grand Cherokee to the Cherokee but they rushed this new gen of cherokee to market cuz the last gen was so poor selling and uncompetitive and the engine wasn't ready to put in this many shitboxes yet
so maybe 2-3 years later
but the reviews of the 2 liter are not so great
that said, I haven't seen any complaints at all really about the hurricane 6 cyl engine

>>28993926
>remember those old XJs that had 4WD, could seat a family of four, and had perfect reliability up to 300k miles? Yeah fuck that thing. Make the opposite of that.
Great synopsis.
The SRT8 is the only high point of the last 15 to 20 years.

Looks are always subjective and I think modern mercedes design language looks like shit and I will never want to be seen in one.

already a thread
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>>28994024
Why would anyone want this ugly shitbox, when Toyota exists?