I drive pic related, and I use it for everything. My criteria are that it must have leather seats, a manual tranny, a big trunk, get tolerable fuel economy and must still look nice/cool to me. Just yesterday I hauled 500kg of tiles in it. I appreciate the extra stuff like cruise control but I feel I could go without it.
>>29058417rip transmission
>>29058417Real wheel driveUp to 3400 lbs
>>29058429It’s the N22A diesel
>>29058417>blocks your path
>>29058417You actually want leather seats?
>>29058452What about Fake wheel driveUp to 5000 lbs
>>29058563Cloth seats are for goyim
>>29058558Yeah but no but I would end up driving it away.Because Godzilla.
>>29058417Rear wheel driveLiftback trunk250hp+Nice lookingDecent space in the backseatsNice speakersPreferrably electricQuiet ride
>>29058558Muh dick…
>>29058579>Muh dick…Haha.This ain't no Altima.
>>29058417It has to have one of these
>>29058573>Nice lookingUhh, not with that Beltline...Where's the flood?
>>29058558It’s all over the screen…
>>290586072slimey if xe was white
>>29058608Happy now, pussy bitch?And yes, Autech is an official subsidiary of Nissan, which then merged with NISMO.
>>29058612They’ve been doing this since 1986 and only merged in 2022, why take so long?
>>29058617>why take so long?Good question.No idea.
>>29058417for me it's>v8>manual>4 doors>sedan or wagon>cloth/wool seats
>>29058635fuck i forgot>must be a pre-2000 model, 2005 at most
>>29058635E39 540iB6 S4 AvantC4 S6 AvantW124 400E (5/6 speed swaps are common and documented)VT-VY Commodore SS/HSV ClubsportFalcon XR8/FPV GTCTS-V (cloth seats bolt on from the base CTS)
>>29058635>cloth or wool seatsWhat makes them special to you? Is it that they aren’t affected by the temperature?
>>29058651i've always been wary of yuro marques because of the whole repairability thing, audi timing chain would filter me unironically. did the bmw and audis come with a manual v8?>>29058664yeah. im in aus, a sun shade helps immensely but vinyl or leather seats can still get scalding hot in summerwool is supreme; it's warm in winter but also somehow stays cool in summer
>>29058531my bad, your diesel honda should be just fine
>>29058679yes that's why I listed themsedans/wagons and cloth seatsGerman is going to be the majority of options that fit your criteria
>>29058679>>29058934but as an aussie you do at least have falcons and commodores as an optionif you're looking for Japanese with those criteria your choices are slim to none unless you're willing to manual swap a Toyota Century or LS400
>>29058683It’s cool man, but I love this thing so much. It is exceptionally quiet for a diesel especially with the windows up. It has a cd changer so I don’t need to pull over at a gas station when on a road trip to swap out a cd either. What do you drive and like about it?
>>29058985It's the year of Our Lord 2026 and people out there are still using CDs.
>>29058989It is one of the best ways to listen to music in a car. It is much better than a usb stick or aux since it’s not bottlenecked or compressed, and only on the same level as streaming FLAC or lossless audio from Streaming. Also it forces you to not be a tech illiterate retard so if you want to play something special you have to burn a cd-r of it yourself with Imgburn
>>29058999So not only are you using CDs, but also burning them as WAVs so you can only fit like 10 songs per CD? Yikes.
>>29058417>tons of cargo room>ton of payloadThat's basically it. So a minivan or a SUV that can tow handles the job fine.
>>29058989Chicks would peobably go wet for a guy that "retro".
>>29059053no they wouldn't you're just old and delusionalthey might drop their panties for a working tape deck but CDs are passe already
>>29059000Im not saying cds are more practical than usbs, but they have better dynamic range and sound better. You’re either limited by space (1gb) or run time, which is 80 minutes and longer than most people’s entire playlists. I got 21 tracks on a cd. I also have a usb dongle plugged in if I want to use one but I almost never do.
>>29059281You cannot hear the difference between a high quality mp3 and FLAC, especially in a car driving down the road
>>29058558volvo lookin better these days
>>29058417Needs to have LPG, at least 2l displacement, at least four seats and a towing hitch.
>>29059281What the fuck are you even talking about, CDs are digital storage just like USB sticks, the same file stored in one or the other will sound identical, they're the same ones and zeroes.
>>29059319>volvo lookin better these daysYeah, the 850 Estate cars STILL look good, even after 30 years.
>>29059373Cds store uncompressed, lossless audio at 1,411 kbps (16-bit/44.1kHz) keeping the original signal without data loss. MP3 files use compression algorithms to cut down file size, capping at 320 kbps, discarding audio data. For quality audio, CDs are way better. They have a higher bitrate and full dynamic range and frequency detail, MP3s sacrifice all this shit so no fucking shit can you store 400songs on a usb while a cd holds fewer. High-bitrate MP3s (320 kbps) may sound ok or identical to a cd but this is only if you play them on a absolute shit goy-tier audio system, and my shit is NOT goy-tier.
>>29059398CDs store whatever you store into them, holy fuck. You claim to burn your own CDs and never realized you can burn literally any file on your computer into it and even entire directory strucutures and it'll work, just like any other digital storage medium? Also I guarantee you you've never in your life handled uncompressed audio.
>>29059398Audiophiles are the most delusional consumers of product out there
>>29058563>>29058566Actual seat power rankings:>1. Leather>2. Alcantara>3. Cloth... power gap>1000. Vinyl
>>29058417No features so nothing breaksJapaneseExtremely cheap to both buy and runBox
>>29059426he's right thoughbeityou're retarded if you think mp3s sound good
>>29059443if you really cared about pristine audio quality you'd listen on a $600 pair of studio monitors instead of dumping 10 grand into tube preamps and braided cables that color the soundthe people that mixed the music you're listening to did it with the intent that people would be listening to an ultra compressed mp3 through their phone speakers btwit's ok to like the character that certain things impart, but to pretend its anything other than subjective is absurd
>>29059451mp3s and bluetooth literally have audible compression artifacts, it's not subjective, it's fact. you are a dumb fucking retarded faggot, stop posting
>>29059398I genuinely can't tell the difference between 320kbps mp3 and FLAC files
>>29059456and you believe you can hear those compression artefacts when you're in your car with an aftermarket exhaust doing 100+?it's the kind of shit you only pick up on when you're doing A/B tests on studio gear in a quiet environment, meaning, not the way any normal person engages with musicreally though, there's no substitute for live music and I would much rather keep the money I'd spend on hifi gear for concert tickets
>>29058573>Nice lookingNo
>>29059468Yes ;)It could be slightly lower though
>>29059439>No features so nothing breaks I don’t want to call it early, but my seats, mirrors, sunroof and windows are electric and I also have heated seats and AC, nothing on it ever broke except for a bulb that burned out under the a button I had to replace and that was pretty easy
>>29059462The guy who wants to mod his car for music insulates and deadens the shit out of the cabin, doors etc and never gets a loud exhaust, unless he’s latinx
I kinda have an all in one but I have a specialist car too.All in one:Capable offroaderReliableMechanically simple enough to wrench onNot too heavy on fuelFairly comfortableRoom for 4 or 5 adultsNo electronics to speak ofLooks alrightUnintended bonus is that it can tow and haulMy specialist car:Extremely comfortableBeautifulSimple enough to work onFunGood highway cruiserAutomatic
>>29059497And have you found and drive ann all in one?
>>29059512My bad, I meant to ask what brand and model those cars are
>>29059514>>290595122000 Ford Courier, turbo diesel 4x4, crew cab1978 Ford Fairlane Marquis
>>29059484In my opinion it's like modifying a plane to be a submarine. There are so many other things you could modify your car to excel at.I'm not sitting in my car trying to pick apart the intricacies of a mix, I just want to hear the song, and 99% of music produced in the last 80 years is made with the expectation that it will be listened to over the radio on ordinary car speakers.I guess I just have a hard time understanding the logic of someone who engages with music in a way that they feel they are missing out on anything meaningful if they don't listen to every song in perfect uncompressed quality on hifi grade equipment every single time. I would much rather take a barely noticeable hit to fidelity for easy access to more music.
>>29059469>a 2026 AztekHard Pass
>>29059524Very nice fleet anon
>>29058936i may soon have the tools to be able to fab up stuff like pedal boxes and maybe even crossmember mounts, so manual swapping on that level isn't completely out of the question either. If they do what toyota does and use the same chassis so it's simply a matter of collecting the appropriate parts then bolting in i definitely can do that. At that point the next concern then is ease of getting service parts for the car in general.
>>29058999>>29059281geez. you're going on about compression, quality etc. in a CAR. one of THE absolute last environments to be concerned about audio quality on that level.
>>29059539Understandably cars should be tuned for power primarily but audio is for enjoyment and long trips somewhere (at least for me). You said you were fine with just hearing the song, but imagine you had a song you really liked, wouldn’t you rather be able to hear it clearly while driving, and not have it sound like it’s playing on a toy phone? Especially if you’re sitting in the car for a while? My biggest problem is music sounding flat, like it’s a mono wall. So good tweeters and some woofers that play stronger mid bass frequencies make it sound deeper and more full to my autistic ass, but you have to figure out speaker placements so the frequencies don’t cancel each other out as well so you don’t get that mono wall again. Frequencies and sound waves of certain lengths also really affect the mind of people, that’s why extremely loud long wave noises like wind tire them out. If you manage to insulate your cabin well you don’t need to crank up the tunes as much just to hear it over the engine/road/wind noise and for me this makes all the difference when on a long road trip as it reduces fatigue. Car audio is about comfort, and I want to be able to sit for hours in my car on the highway. Not everyone cares for that comfort and that’s ok
>>29058999road noise is undoing any attempts at hifi in the car. its literally 60db of self noise added to whatever youre listening to
>>29059808I'm pretentious about music like you wouldn't believe. Genuinely a massive fucking snob, a true believer in the healing power of music and all that, but I've never been in a car listening to the radio thinking>This just simply will not doI'm also kind of able to just play back a song in my mind, so maybe I'm filling in the gaps or something because I already know what the song sounds like? idk
>>29059443The argument was not that mp3s sound good or not, but whether CDs have magical properties that make audio files stored in them sound better.
>>29059859No I was 100% arguing that anon is not hearing the difference between MP3 and FLAC on his car stereo while driving down the road. It's hard for trained ears to pick up on the difference when you're A/B testing in an ideal environment.
>>29059862I don't care what you're arguing, the original argument started because the "audiophile" guy insisted that music stored on CDs sounded inherently better than that same music stored on an USB stick. Also arguing about mp3 vs flac is stupid, he probably cannot tell the difference but also it doesn't fucking matter, storage is cheap enough that carrying flacs around isn't an issue.
>>29059870>storage is cheap enough that carrying flacs around isn't an issueunless you insist on carrying them around on CDs lol
>>29059844You must have driven many cars with good radios then
>>29059874Now that I think back on it, I think every car I've lived with long term has had whatever higher end factory sound system. That said, my first car had a blown tweeter in the door that would crap out if you had the volume too high and I listened to mp3s off my phone through an aux to cassette adapter. Loved that car, beat the absolute piss out of it for years. I'm really not picky when it comes to that stuff.
>>29058999>>29059281I've seen a lot across all these boards, but this is the most incoherent bullshit I've ever read. You do understand that the storage medium isn't the player? A FLAC file on a CD isn't any different from a FLAC file on a USB or played from your phone. 1gb USB sticks? Did you just wake up from a 20 year coma? I have 128gb on a stick that's about 1/2" long. What's next? You're going to upgrade to blueray disks?
>>29059539>my opinion it's like modifying a plane to be a submarineAs a former submariner, you're not going to believe this, they are piloted exactly like a plane nowadays. >688 and boomer fags need not comment
>>29060881That does make sense, but you're still not taking a plane underwater and you're not putting a submarine in the sky
>>29060877Wow, skipping DVDs just like that.
>>29060877>1gb usb sticksNo, CD-R discs hold 900mb/1gb of storage, on average usbs hold 16gb or more. My apologies anon, I should have clarified WAV/FLAC is better than mp3 but as most head units cannot handle FLAC or any other file than mp3. This is why I was saying cd > usb as they are guaranteed to work on all systems with a cd slot. I still prefer them out of retarded nostalgia but no problem with USBs provided your system can read their files.
>>29060930i'm a fan of laserdisc
