Moskvich 2142 prototype. It's a piece of junk, but I kinda like the styling - it looks like it could have been a Ford or something.
I've been looking at 2010-2012 Ram pickups to replace my 2002 and the heated steering wheel on the newer trucks is probably more of a factor than it should be. Once you've been in a vehicle that has one it's hard to go back.
When I have to drive to the train station at 5am on a January morning when it's snowing and 5°F outside... It's the only thing I want in life.
They have a warranty, and no rust/wear. aka, a lot of people want a car that "just works" with the minimum amount of hassle as possible.
I guess my family and I have just had good luck with used cars but we've never had a major problem with high milage used craigslist cars. Even in the case of someone who sees cars as nothing more than an applicance, you don't need much luck to not have issues with something that's only 5 years old. Obviously the big automakers have done the math to price their cars where enough people will buy/lease them for them to be satisfied, but it's another case of a cycle that seems like it can't continue for much longer. In much of the US car culture is pretty much dead and milenials are just poor. It'll be interesting to see how automakers respond to their own used cars being their main compeition in another 15 years when the bulk of their target customers can't afford anything near a fancy new car. Well, planned obscelecance is already a thing... Aside from all that, a lot of what I was talking about was how much they charge for features in luxury cars now. A $60k car nowadays doesn't have much more usable luxury features than my $2k 2005 Jeep when you consider the price difference.
Now that I've spent some time behind the wheel of a Lexus SC 430, I can safely say that there's nothing wrong with it. The initial asking price was a bit steep for what it is, but now it's probably one of the best values in used cars if you can find one in decent condition. Not to mention it's a Toyota, so it's going to last a good long time. Please, form your own opinions and don't just believe what the "experts" at Top Gear tell you.
Bro you just posted cringe, why did you have to remind me that thing exists? But yeah, there's a lot of people on the internet with pretty strong opinions about cars they've never driven, simply because they watch Top Gear and think they know everything.
Renault Aventime. I admire Renault for taking the risk with it, and I can see what they were going for. I imagine its probably quite a fun/cool car to own thanks to its many quirks. But its not what most people would consider to be a successful car, mostly because its a bit crap --- Post updated --- I guess the Aventimes interior must have served as inspiration for the Tesla Model 3... xD
Dear auto makers: Maybe if more electric cars came from reputable manufacturers... ...and not privacy-invading tech startups or crappy Chinese knock-off brands... ...and if they looked like actual cars... ...instead of politically correct shitboxes... ...and performed more like this... ...and less like this... ...and didn't exploit their eco-conscious image to price-gouge hipster douchebags... ...more people would buy them.
Right, so we have to make sure this never happens. Also, I don't think the price is gouging. Remember that Tesla still operates at a loss.
I wish manufacturers would start using their brains & putting indicators on the right hand side in RHD cars & vice versa. Left hand indicators in RHD cars is the dumbest thing ever. Japanese & Korean brands have figured it out at least.
TIL: In videogames set in urban America, I always see pedestrians crossing at intersections and getting hit by cars. I had always thought this was because the game developers hadn't accounted for this. Turns out, in America, even if you have a green pedestrian light, cars can still traverse the crossing due to the turn right on red laws. On top of that, even though the pedestrian has a green light and the car has a red light, it is still the pedestrians job to not get run over, not the vehicles. Mind = Blown
Yes but cars turning right on red still have to come to a full stop and check for other cars or pedestrians, just like they would at a stop sign. I'm not sure, (it might vary from state to state) but I have always heard that pedestrians have the right of way and, unless it's an obvious case of fraud, the car is always at fault. Of course you still want to look before you cross, otherwise you might end up "dead right."
It's not how the car was awful, but how it was overpriced and made by a company who knew better. The Lexus SC was always marketed as a sporty car (SC for Sports Coupe). The SC 430 was NOT sporty in any way, shape, or form. Had it been marketed as an LC (Luxury Coupe), it'd be a different story.
Looks like if Bertone tried to copy a Ghia design while on ketamine. Might be buying a Pontiac 6000 STE sometime this week as a birthday present to myself. Just gotta find one that's not 84745983475983756 miles away from me.
Yeah, don't be an idiot like me and wind up with a $500 traffic ticket for running a right turn red. And I do realize that I embody both stereotypes of California driver and Subaru driver.
Whoops. I've done it too though, but I live in a smallish town so I have most of the light cycles memorized. I'm not sure if we have any red light cameras.
Another brand new BMW. 2020 X2. MSRP is $40k. Couldn't imagine paying that much. It's kind of a piece of shit, frankly. Same turbo 2.0 i4 as the X3, except the x2 is fwd and seems to have less power and more electronic/turbo lag. It has lots of strange vibrations and such too. Likes to lug the engine. Quite unpredictable torque steer as well. And its ugly. Not a fan. Jumped this one but not quite as dramatically as the X3 I posted. New cars are shipped with the floor mats in a bag. It's quite satisfying to tear the bag open and distribute the mats to their rightful footwells.
