I am not from america, but i hear people on the internet say they buy these for "safety reasons". I think that's weird. I would get it if you think trucks are cool. But buying them for "safety" just means you don't trust your driving skills.
>>28645536>I am not from america,Stopped reading there. Your opinion on cars is irrelevant.
>>28645543>I like being able to drive over stuff instead of being trapped by curbs or a stump.In the US, if you need to run over the urban wildlife, just buy a push bar for police cars. Add in the auxiliary bars and you can PIT other cars with minimal damage to your vehicle.
Mutts can't driveMore news at 11
>>28645536>I am not from americaWell there goes the validity of anything you say stupid third worlder
>>28645708t. Doesn’t have childrenBut to your point, you DON’T need an SUV to haul baby gear. A minivan will do that too, and better.
What are some mismatched engine/vehicle combos you think would be diabolically fun to drive?
>>28647477Makes me wanna see someone do a kitcar using a regular transverse FWD setup turned 90°, with Golf R diffs in the front and back because those have a 1:1 drive ratio. DIY baby Murcielago.
>>28647485I see the thinking and why they did it. Maybe they should have paused and consider if they should?
>>28647491>Maybe they should have paused and consider if they should?It was arguably the best Group B car, so it worked out pretty well for them.
>>28647493The people that think outside the box should be rewarded. Good for them.
Iron Duke in a Smart Fortwo
What is it about the CX-5 design that makes every other compact suv look like ass?
>>28646836this but replace "cuckover" with "car manufactured after 2006"
>>28646833Doesn't have any random creases in the bodywork
>>28646833is this joke?
>>28647070flood the country with americans that do 20 over the limit and bring with them a sudden, mysterious increase in the number of destroyed fixed and mobile speed cameras
>>28646988No this is serious. There’s not a single better looking vehicle in its class and the design is almost 10 years old.
There has never been a car with a better sound than the 787b, change my mind.
yeah, nah. the 787 is too weedy and doesn't rev high enough. It sounds like a single cylinder 2 stroke engine revving to around 9k i.e it sounds like a 125cc 2 stroke. Mr Mazda your Le Mans prototype sounds like a twink's pocket rocket with 15 horsepower. More generally rotaryfags should always remember this: Blindfolded no one will be able to distinguish between your "race tuned" RX7 and a 1990s entry level sportbikes so small they can only comfortably be ridden by a 5'5 40kg FEMBOY.If you are into that kind of exhaust note just listen to a 500cc Grand Prix bike with 4 cylinders detonating at the same time singing at 19,000 rpm through 4 separate expansion chamber exhausts.
>>28646897>Audi quattro says hi
>>28647138V-10 FTW
>>28646936>>28647156typical mutts who like old tractor sounds , incest and eating dumpster food
>>28646897People have built working 5-rotors now and those sound absolutely glorious.
i think porsche and bmw both make fine carsand what you should end up buying is based on personal preference and budget
>>28646025Is that faster than the GT2 RS w/ Manthey package or not?
>>28646080>perfectly fine reason>brown son yappin
>>28646013by this analogy only kit cars would be the real driver's carsin theory it would be great if there was a manufacturer that sold supercar parts in modules that you could pick and put together as you like, but that is not ferarri, in any case
>>28646023What 200,000 dollar car is Ferrari selling that is better than a turbo s?
>>28646056This might be most boyracer post I've seen on /o/ in weeks. Neither mclaren bugatti koeniggsegg pagani or lamborghini are nicer to drive than a porsche, and the ferraris that are nice to drive are garage queens you can't enjoy as a daily driver. You just threw a bunch of random names that are not porsche whose primary selling point is how expensive they are.
>all cars ahead of me keep coming to a complete stop >me and all the cars behind me coast at a constant speed behind them all because I am not tailgating When will normies learn that the phantom traffic jams at every on ramp to the freely only exists because they tailgate the car in front and refuse to let people change lanes? One of my favourite traffic jam games is fixing the flow of traffic for me and all cars behind me.Bonus smiles if some normie retard road rages, gets in front of my wide gap and is now starting stopping with the rest of them
>>28647147this, I can't tailgate people because then i need to be constantly having hyperfocus to brake as soon as they do to avoid crashing
>>28647147>v8 (automatic) owner enjoys being in last place Checks out, I'll see you at the finish line
I'll be in Geelong tomorrow. I WILL slash your tyres.
>>28647147It's weird, this is something I did instinctively when I first learned to drive. I just let my car coast around idle in 1st or 2nd depending on speed, and I barely have to touch my brakes ever. How do people that have driven for decades not understand it?
Greetings, poltard here. I picked up a used car with tires so new they still had tire hair on them. Well one tire had a slow leak and I would have to fill it every AM. No visible punctures or defects. Then it just stopped on it's own. Is it likely that it just wasn't seated on the bead all the way and by driving around it settled correctly?
>>28647445Tires lose pressure when it starts getting colder out. Did it leak out completely or just reduce air pressure a bit?
>>28647447It was losing about 25 psi every day
>>28647449Sounds like a puncture to me, I would probably take it to a tire shop to see if they can find the puncture and repair it.
>need new exhaust crush ring gaskets>measure up pipes"ah yep just need some standard 1.5" gaskets and a standard 2" gasket">search it up on google>they come in a million different sizes with no standardization whatsoever >can't search them by sizes, every manufacturer just has their own part numbersWhat the FUCK manufacturers? Get your shit together.
>>28646672While it is the same general principle, exhaust crush ring gaskets are an entirely different thing to crush ring washers.
>>28646746where do they go? are you talking like a doughnut gasket that goes in between the pipes or washers that go on something like manifold studs? If its really hard to find make the dealer order one then when you show up measure it and be like nah that wont fit then go buy one online
>gasket maker chads win againeverything gets the goop
>>28647364Yes they are sometimes referred to as doughnut gaskets.You'd think it would be the easiest thing in the world to just have standard sized gaskets for the standard sizes of exhaust piping which already exist, but for whatever reason that's just not the way it works.
>>28647365If it were matching flat flanges it would already be getting the pepsi can treatment which is still going strong on my other car. But other types of gasket don't work well with these groved flanges.
Why do the ching chang wing wang keep on beating us /o/? Fucking Elon had all the money and time on the world to make the best EVs.
>>28647133>completely worthless in real world conditionsTrue but to be fair here so was the Veyron et al.
>>28647093Heh, wang
>>28647093elon is focusing on FSD
I'm introducing a bill next year allowing people aged 11 to 15 to work at most 38 hours a week in my factories. Having to pay employees's medical is actually bullshit and the reason America is losing. Do chinese companies have to provide medical options directly to their employees? Fuck no. Buuut, they live longer than we do! What's up with that? Eating bats actually boosts the body's immune system. Give me money and together we can save the economy, no - the fate of humanity - together, by hiring kids still on their parents' insurance.
>>28647093Imagine looking at this things absolutely shit exterior design and combining it with the retardly top tier specs, from a country known for routinely lying about this stuff and going yeah, checks out
At how many lbs does your body-weight have a negative impact on your car's performance?
my car is pretty heavy so it's negligible. I also have a vulgar amount of horsepower. Difference between me and a lightweight driver jockey would barely be a rounding error on telemetry.
>>28643838>eurostani once again demonstrates its crippled intellect and how it struggles to understand that more than one measurement system exists
>>28643811The cargo I haul makes my own bodyweight irrelevant by comparison.
>>28643811BMW? More like BMI.
>>28644116gottem!
Which BMW is your favorite?
>>28642449if you are not looking for low mile, garage queen, they can be had for low 20k. avoid the big auction sites for a good deal.
E36 325i. Only because I had one and I still look back fondly on it now even though BMW post E46 seem to overall suck. E30-E46 have all aged well.
>>28642416they did for the US market
>>28647352god bmw interiors are fucking hideous
>>28641793
>produces nothing but garbage for forty years>retards on /o/ still mourn its destructionI don’t get it.
>>28641069aztek was unironically better than the element
>>28646704>still see Elements on the road even in the rust belt at least twice a week>haven't seen an Aztek in almost two decadesThis is your brain on GM.
>>28646716>hipsters that paid 4x over original list for pristine showpieces vs>chads in the great white north putting their working mans car to proper use not my fault you live in san francisco
>>28646716>>28646737I still see both of them all the time and I live in Indiana. You two are retarded.
>>28646716I barely see the Aztec on the road but that's probably because one sold a lot more than the other
Without naming the brand (picunrel), which would you choose for a daily driver?>Car 1>2011>V6 3.5L>65,000 km>$7,000>Car 2>2009>2.0L>30,000 km>$3,000
>km>$car 1
>>28647235is the first vehicle a rav4?if it is then both cars sound gay.you should get a used 2020 widebody scatpack challenger and coast in to work on fumes after getting 4mpg from goosin' it the whole way there.
What you gave isn't enough to make a decision.But if I'm playing along, obviously car 2, it's over half off with over half of the miles.They both sound like soulless commuters you aren't planning to redline every day anyway.
>>28647269heh yeah I did the conversion in dollars to give people the general ideacertainly americans know about what 1km is to miles
>>28647235Car 2. Both options are likely boring commuters so pick whichever option is best at that, simple and cheap with better mileage.
I'm giving my tacoma away after driving it 340k miles and do not want to another midsize truck. I need more space and will most likely be towing things in the future for work. I had an 08 tundra before and regret selling it. I was most likely going to buy another tundra but am curious if there are any better alternatives. I do not want a new truck as I don't trust all the new shit they put on them and only want to spend around 30k. I'm willing to stretch the budget if it's worth it though.
You won't get a full size for that price unless it has 150000 miles on it
>>28646194So long as you don't get the one with the V6, you'll be fine. At $30k, you're looking at one with a lot of miles. The auto market is incredibly lopsided right now and will persist this way for a few years. Given you've driven the Tacoma for so many miles, I don't think higher mileage will scare you away but you will probably have to travel to get a good deal.
What are your golden rules of working on cars? Mine is to always make sure you can get the fill off before you drain. Years ago I drained my transmission fluid, realized I didn't have the right bit to take off the fill bolt, and had to bike like 15 miles to the hardware store to get it. Never again.
main rule that I learned the hard way: most preventative maintenance is a scam for retards who don’t understand how parts fail and the consequences, fixing things when they break is, most of the time, the way to go.
>>28647307Yeah anon changing timing belts every 100k is a scam just wait until it snaps and the valves have sex with the pistons
>>28646717>don't work on cars>does HVACoof my bones. But yeah I agree the last place I want to be on my day off is under a car fixing shit, or sitting in a car on a nice day.
>>28646629I always have three different safety things when working under a jacked carUsually a jack, jackstands and a rim under the rail somewhere
>>28646708So wheel nuts?
