>>28845365the vents are functional dumbass
>>28845631ROMFLAMAHAHAHAH
>>28844943too big, too heavy, not a roadster. it's just not part of this debate. miata vs 86 is it's own thing, s2k vs 86 is just lol.>>28844795>v8 swapthis guy is trapped in 2009. let it go bro, honda's not going to make anything you'll set your imaginary lap times with ever again. nissan, toyota, mazda, even fucking SUBARU will continue to iterate on RWD manual sports cars and you'll get a fwd hybrid CVT shitbox with "PRELUDE" in crayon on the back. to think you have the gall to call anything in this world gay
>>28841148where can I buy a brand new S2K with a warranty?
>>28841148>twink car vs onions car
Thinking of buying pic rel, don't know if it's a good idea though.
>>28846065i don't want a temu car (deathtrap)
I think you're the same type of person that buys eating utensils and mains powered electronics from chinese sites anyway so go ahead.
My mom is in the market for a new car and wants some sort of smallish (but not too small) crossover. Anything around 50k or less is fine. Her absolutes are as follows:>can't be slow, needs to be sporty. Specifically mentioned wanting a turbo.>can't drive like a boat>comfortable interior, she doesn't care about connectivity or anything, just comfy leather seats and a well made cabinCan you bros help me out here?
what a fascinating glimpse into what goes on in these peoples' minds. they all think they're luxopremium tastemakers who will live forever, not status symbol obsessed leatherskins already on their next-to-last chapter.I hope the budget accounts for an inheritance or something, and it's already in an account somewhere that can't be touched. because the elder care industry is poised to take what that would have been away from you in just a few years, and selling the car used won't make it up
Cx-5 with a turbo>>28844662>30mpgBro my giulia gets 20mpg. It only hits 30 when on the highway cruising.
>>28844662Nah get the dodge hornet instead
>>28843968>needs to be sporty>can't drive like a boatjust get an actual car
>>28844573>just get a luxury SUV for carrying around landscaping and gardening supplies
decided to add 5 hp to my shitbox and paint the brake calipers. considering the fact that im not removing them from the car, is it better to use spray can or paint and brush? it is a floating brake caliper with, unlike fixed one, 50% brake pad showing so brush sounds like a good option because of better control, but how much superior is the finish from the spray can?
>>28845292Yeah you right anon, paint loves to adhere to dust an debris
>>28845292Put painter's tape over the hose end.
>>28845249>literally two bolts>>28845292>and the hose>and bleeding>and wire wheelingDo those goalposts come with racing slicks?
>>28845561might as well put new coilovers while there
>>28845561>>28845337
/BMW//Audi//VW//Porsche//Daimler/In an efffort to keep discussions and knowledgeable posters in one place and persistent let’s try to keep a general going.Absolutely NO modified M cars allowed in this thread nor their owners.
NARP patroller is back! >>28842404NARP >>28840054NARP>>28840021NARP>>28838943NARP?
>>28841831W12 Phaeton?
>>28845930Yes. Piech wanted to build the best car ever before he retired so he just made it and didn’t care about the budget
>>28845854>>>28842404>NARPYeah no shit nigger it's a bug
>>28845987K well you seemed a little bit cocky the way you posted that. Needed to let you know
Are used car prices ever coming down?
>>28845649no, you didn't get it because in your head (i know how people like you think) you still believe that vehicles which don't qualify for financing are isolated from the effects of credit induced asset inflation.
>>28844975it's an avalon, not an echo or corolla
>>28845040nice work anon, I got my 03 avalon for 5K over 10 years ago. shes getting old now but its been a fun ride and she will last me until it rusts out. Sadly i havent had a garage to keep it in so the clearcoat is starting to bake out and the gloss sheen is gone but its okay. Honeslty I have no idea what car Id get next when this one goes. I look at early 10's avalons but that gets into the era of built in GPS screens which are effectively useless once there's no longer updates or tracking signals sent. if you start going newer then you get into all touchscreen consoles which I am also not a fan of
>>28843928No... from now on there'll always be less supply and more demand, progress is becoming harder and harder to achieve and people are more replaceable by the day, we'll always have less money and things will get more expensive.I hate living.
>>28843928>will inflation ever stop?
You need more?
>>28845887I need much, much less.Give me a 2010's era car without all the silly and expensive 'features'.
>>28845887Yes
Sometimes less is more. for example; two wheels is greater than four.
>>28845909>crash because you can't see out of it
>>28845956Don’t be a manlet. Problem solved.
For me in terms of looks it's Miura>Murcielago>Diablo>Countach>Aventador>Revuelto but if someone let me drive one of them, I would choose Diablo
>>28839699Glad to see another man of culture. Everybody jacks off the later Countach with all of its plastic bullshit but the early ones are peak.I'd put the pre-facelift Aventador in 3rd place though, I think it was a much better and cooler looking car than the Diablo or especially the Murcie. I think people are rating it lower than it deserves because the later ones looked way worse.
>>28842600I saw that in person at Pebble beach. Absolutely wild IRL.
>>28839659Diablo VT 6.0 is where it's at for me.
>>28845889I can't decide if I like the 90s Diablo or this refreshed Diablo, they both look peak and have great colors
>>28845893I love the headlights on the refresh, despite it literally being from the Nissan 300ZX.
Do you have a car phone in your car?Does it still work?
I do and probably, but the card is dead. If I stuck a new sim card in, it'll probably work
I'm really interested in a way to use old carphones via Bluetooth devices complete with punching in numbers, answering/hanging up, and possibly even address books or saving a couple favorites. The plan would be to take the buttons from the existing car phone and wire them to a third party bluetooth device. I just haven't found a third party bluetooth receiver that has a screen and/or supports manually dialing numbers, they're all basically just bluetooth headsets that rely on the phone for everything.A plug-and play solution allowing to use even just the handset for all mercedes or all BMWs would probably sell pretty well on forums. A lot people are interested in this LARP.
>>28845528Yeah technically. You could make calls with the OnStar back in the day. I haven't tried it or the emergency button but I would assume they don't work because they ran on the 2G network which doesn't exist anymore.
>>28845528>Fagie Goodman
Let it all out ITT
>>28843333See the difference is that the Corvette is made from pieces of piss plastic
>City patches a pothole>They did such a bad job that there's now a bigger pothole in the same spot 3 months later>Repeat for 8 years>There's now an 8 foot wide, 6 foot long speedbump in the middle of the road and going over it feels like driving over multiple curbs because it's so tall and lumpy>Rarely have the option of just going around it due to opposing traffic
>>28837662>>28837666>Looking for older exotic car noises to satiate my autism>Have to include shit like -gt3 -turismo -forza etc in the search otherwise it's 40 million videos of 11 year olds recording their laptop screen with their dad's old iphone 6 of them playing gran turismo or whatever
Rust and potholes.
>>28837826>that screen oh no no no noooooo
You *NEED* more.
>>28845640Not a convertible.
>>28844231Man that looks a lot like my area. Oregon somewhere?
Less is more.
>>28844231I need less, actually
>>28845747Three wheels on my wagon and I'm still rolling along the Cherokees are after me and I'm singing this happy song.
Do you have any friends into cars or bikes and if so where did you meet them?
>>28843455Thats a bummer, wish I had a local scene for spec miata
I got some of my closest friends into motorcycles back in college because it was far more convenient and economical than a car. Once I moved away they all sold their bikes though My only friend that rides and is into automotive related stuff I met at a gas station right outside a popular road. I just parked next to him to get fuel and we both happened to have supermotos so we started talking about that. Asked for his social media and we planned a ride. I normally hate riding with other people because it’s hard to find someone that matches your risk level and skill but luckily my friend I met has a similar skill level to me(he’s better) and we both don’t ride very aggressive around traffic. Been friends for 4 years now and he was at my wedding. Really cool dude and I’m glad to have met him
Yes but they are all incredibly retarded >cleaning the chain will destroy it>that 25+ year old tire is fine >the cheap chink shit carb is "already" set and you dont need to touch it>i dont need to change the 10 year old brake fluid anon>check the oil? nah it had oil in it when i bought it last year >temu handlebars, knuckles and bolts? seems perfectly safe to me! What really baffles me is one of my friends completely fucked his back badly in a motorcycle accident as a teenager and all this horrible advice is just dished out to his kid [spoiler]Drunk,high,no helmet,no lights, no brakes, hit a car[/spoiler]
I've met a few people from an owners Facebook group since I own a more niche version of a car with specific parts. And I've helped out at a couple of races where I've met some very nice people, both racers and other track workers
I don't have much of a life outside cars and bikes so naturally most of my friends are into them. I grew up going to the SoCal canyons regularly and met tons of people there, then worked at a race/track car shop and went to the track all the time and met people there, and now I'm in an area with a big off road scene and ride a dual sport and I'm also going back to school for machining and pretty much everybody there is either into 4x4s or bikes. The only real exception are cosplay people, I used to go to multiple cons a year and was active in the cosplay scene so I've got a lot of old friends from that, but I've kinda aged out of them and a lot of the friends I have from there are also into cars or bikes.>>28842741>>28842758iktf. I'm not even bad with women when I get a chance to make an impression in person but I've just bounced from one male-dominated thing to another my whole life. I've thought about continuing school into an ME Tech degree since that transfers more of my experience and credit than regular Eng but I'm sure the school is a sausagefest and I've heard a lot of horror stories about Eng job prospects these days, though maybe Eng Tech does better.
What car brands would you like to see revived?
>>28845393
>>28845320I am absolutely furious that Electric Cars exist which means not every single car needs to look like a faggot aerodynamic egg and yet we cant have an electric pic related
>>28845320Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, Ford, Opel, Peugeot
>>28845721EVs sit on top of thousands of batteries with a crazy cooling system encased in a safety cage. You could make that an EV, but not at the level of modern ones. EVs are awkwardly tall for a reason.
>>28845725I wonder if solid state batteries can change this.Mercedes is already doing real world road tests with an electric sedan that does 750 mi on a charge.
Anon what's your favorite wheel?
>>28844807>$1100 for the wheelsmakes no sense for winter wheelsbuy a set of steelies or cop a cheap set of oem wheels from craigslist, otherwise don't bother
>>28844829>If you've got a spot to keep the spare setset of wheels and set of tires are the same size- the size of the tire
>>28844827Same because they resemble old mangels wheels which I like. I've been looking for these in 5x5.5 pattern, but finding them in Europe is quite difficult and when you do, ridiculously expensive
>>28845507My oems are kinda scuffed already from the previous owner. I was going to buy nice wheels for summer and use the curb rashes oems for winter
>>28845652then just buy nice rims with no consideration for how fast they'll pay themselves off, and keep oems as free winter wheels
Yangwang has to be the best name for a car
>>28841605holy shit i have no clue what the fuck is going on or how the storyline makes any sense but them chinese be driving like mudafackaz
>>28841605Impressive suspension for a production car
China will save the enthusiast car market.
>>28843093lmao no, they are catering 200% towards normalfagsthat's why it's all sedans and suvs, they don't want to show that they're gonna make enthusiast cars, they deliberately do it to show enthusiasts that their baisic cars are now superior and they will be consolidated into normie market whether they like it or not
