CVPI P71's for sale near where I live are dirt cheap. I see them range from $700-4000 USD. I would lean towards one that was used by a detective... But that's me. I prefer the 2003-2004 model years.
I kind of agree with @Potato on the whole sedan/coupe thing, at least when it comes to two-door sedans (The defining feature between coupes and sedans is actually rear interior volume. You can have both two-door sedans and four-door coupes). I've owned a two-door sedan and I found it unnecessarily impractical, even though I rarely used the back seats. It's fine if you think two-door cars look better, but I've never had a preference in that regard.
Nah, the newer the better. Finding not beat to shit 03-05 p71 is getting increasingly difficult, and they're aging fast. 06+ are still in pretty widespread use and are much easier to find in all conditions.
Well performance wise they are the best and also has a throttle cable. But yea... It must be nice to have bulletproof doors on the 06+.
'04 is gonna make more power than '03 because of the bigger airbox. After '04 the performance differences through '11 are negligible. I used to be concerned about the lack of a throttle cable, but at the end of the day it doesn't really matter. Bulletproof doors were a pretty rare option. They're probably neat to have, but in reality all they do is add weight.
Except for insurance purposes! Mazda RX-8 how I love you. What about the other way around? 4 door coupes? I'll be honest, I always thought they were dumb until I saw the CLS and BMW 4 gran coupe. Their roofline is very nice and not very compromised imo. What is stupid is the Audi A5 Sportback. Sure it looks nice (like a small A7, and the A7 is sexy) but now you've got a sedan version of a coupe version of a sedan and I just don't get it.
Would you like to lose all your faith in humanity permanently? Then go to YouTube and search up all those videos where people have tried to choose theme songs for their favorite Pokemon (the Eeveelutions are a popular and illustrative subject for such). As soon as someone posts one of those, you know they're 1. female, 2. no more than 15 years old, 3. probably go to public school, and 4. as a result of the above plus bad/nonexistent parenting, are completely unaware of any music outside of horrible generic EDM and even more horrible pop, except for a few semi-classics that are also weak (Ice Ice Baby, Counting Stars). How is this car related? What, you haven't made the scary connection yet? These kids will be driving soon enough, if they haven't had it drummed into their heads that a good citizen always walks, bikes, or takes public transit whenever possible. Given that, if you put a freaking living nuke in front of them, the best theme song they'll be able to come up with for it is a Ke$ha or Justin Bieber song or some generic-sounding electronic music (and not the hard-hitting kind, the kind that sounds airy and trancey like it's trying to capture the feel of a mid-2000s cell phone commercial), I doubt they'll be crying out for muscle and sports cars. More likely, they'll just buy Chevy Spark and Mitsubishi Mirage automatic road urchins while eagerly awaiting the day when we're all forced into shiny happy self-driving Google pods. Sleep well tonight, I guess. Most of the current generation already doesn't get it, the next one to start maybe driving is likely to not get it even harder.
Sadly it is that way and when we get self driving cars i will hold onto the normal cars even if i have to go used and if i arent allowed to drive a normal car i rather walk because if you want to not drive take a bus or a train its sometimes cheaper
Yeah. Here in America, I think the twin dooms of car culture were in 1969 and 1976. 1969 because that's when the "professional" educators started attacking children with left-biased high school curriculum (first Earth Day & etc.), and 1976 because that's when government regulations regarding emissions and safety started to become truly onerous (I take that year because that's when catalysts became mandatory; though those have probably been helpful and you could adjust that date by a number of years in either direction depending on which edict you consider to be the defining moment in the ruination of the performance car). The result was kids raised to believe that the world would explode if they let their environmental consciousness falter for even a second, and new cars that were both too expensive to afford on a young man's/woman's budget and too slow to really be desirable, which also couldn't really be upgraded much (and in many cases still can't) without falling foul of some federal diktat. Not really a recipe for keeping the thriving car culture of the 1950s through the early 1970s going. Even when a young car guy or car girl does manage to escape from the education system without being corrupted by "green" influences, budgetary restraints will likely make sure they end up with some inferior four-banger. If they do manage to get a muscle car, it'll probably be a product of the 1980s or 1990s that's been thoroughly trashed, wasn't all that fast to begin with, and is probably an automatic. Almost all new cars that someone around my age (but not lazy) could even vaguely afford to buy with cash are horrible little short/tall/narrow clown cars, anything the same person could buy with debt is still likely to be an overweight, feature-creeped, automatic-transmission I4/FF, and anything that's actually cool, with very few exceptions, is likely to be out of reach for anyone until at least their late 20s, unless they're wildly successful out of college or build a popular YouTube channel and make a killing off ad rev. Thus, if they want anything that's even slightly interesting or modifiable, they'll be picking the bones of car culture past and working with a steadily dwindling supply of used cars while they wait for their ship to come in. All new cars are too complicated to really mess with like you could mess with an older car, not to mention the raft of emissions and safety garbage you have to contend with in the process. On top of that, shop classes apparently tend to be among the first to go when budget cuts loom. Add it all up, combine it with bad/nonexistent parenting, and you get what I described - kids who'd rather take the bus, and would rather have a fuel sipper (but with an automatic transmission and hundreds of pounds of luxury lard) when they do have to drive, who gush about Generic Electronic Track #12345 while remaining seemingly ignorant of the time not so long ago when musicians played actual instruments and it sounded wonderful, who parrot left-wing talking points without a second thought and seem to honestly believe that the only reason we're still alive is because of the government continuously aiming a regulatory howitzer at anything that even vaguely looks like it might be a problem... Maybe it's time for a gearhead stealth takeover of the education system. It worked for the far left wing, why can't it work for us? It's interesting. On the Japan-centric parts of the car internet, you'll hear some noise to the effect that a lot of Japan's speed shops are stuck in the 90s. But really, when you think about it, that makes a lot of sense, as a lot of their awesome and cool cars are stuck in the 90s too. Maybe that's why LS-swapped drift cars are apparently starting to become a thing in Japan; they're running out of anywhere else to go. The situation isn't that bad here in America, but I don't yet feel comfortable in stating that it won't. All this makes it doubly ironic, considering how badly we've let Japan overwrite our car culture, that the same thing is apparently happening there - desirable old cars are falling to attrition (or a blatantly BS road tax system), few desirable new cars are coming along to replenish the set of cars that could be considered "desirable", few of those are truly affordable, and their youth aren't getting interested in tuning & racing like they once were (which is not surprising when you consider what Japan's heavy social stigma against street racing - or really any form of individuality - could do when combined with toxic doses of climate panic).
Since the new Camry is coming out will this gets updated or are they gonna end it's production? Pretty much a nicer looking Camry with a V6.
They have the gt86 and those things were apparently hugely successful. and if Toyota has done their research (i mean they obviously do or else they wouldn't be the world largest car producer in the world) the Supra might be as well. don't forget us as consumers have the power!
For a small econocar, it almost is. I would hate to have a 4 speed auto over the 5 speed manual in my car.
I agree somewhat. The auto in my friend's focus that I've driven a good bit has never irritated me. That car is fun to drive, despite the "autotragic". But a manual transmission definitely fits a car like that. Something like my Yukon though? I'm 100% fine with the automatic. It fits it. Manuals have their place.
After getting the footage off my dashcam today, I'm finally fed up with it. It's so cheap and rattly the video is basically unwatchable. It also has random framerate drops, the timestamp keeps resetting, and the USB port was broken out of the box. Seriously, just listen to the noise it makes when the road gets even a little bumpy: I taped over all the buttons when I got it which fixed it for a while, but it just keeps getting worse. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like there are many good alternatives in my price range. The Mobius ActionCam seems to rattle too, the Viofo A119 has excellent video but terrible (basically nonexistent) audio, and the Skyview G1, which was the first dashcam I had, has decent audio (a bit of a rattle but not nearly as much) but barely passable video. I'm going to contact Black Box My Car in the morning and see how easy it would be to return the A119 if I really can't deal with the audio, since it's by far the best camera in every other aspect. If not I'll probably have to go with the Viofo WR1, which is bare-bones when it comes to features, but is the only one with passable audio and video. I'll be getting it through Black Box My Car since they're based in Canada, have a reputation for excellent customer service, offer warranties, and have good prices. I made the mistake of buying my current one direct from the manufacturer, so I can forget about getting any help with it.
http://www.techmoan.com/what-is-the-best-dashcam/ He also has a YouTube channel with loads of reviews for different models of dash cam I would also have to ask how you are mounting your dashcam's that might be the issue causing the rattling noises.
I actually just watched his review of the Mobius ActionCam. Almost bought it before watching some other videos and noticing that it rattles too, though not as bad. I know for sure the rattle is within the camera itself. The suction mount is sturdy and you can shake the camera by your ear and hear it. Taping the buttons helped at first so I know they're loose, and I'm thinking the board may have come loose inside now.
If you have no other use for it you may as well take it apart and put a bit of bluetak or something (a thermal pad would probably be a good choice for a more upmarket bodge) into the camera to stop the rattles.
