General Car Discussion

retro modern, it looks like a kei car but it doesnt look like a toaster

 

I personally don't get an ugly, I think it's just a cute little snail

 

My dad just got the recall letter... turns out his Astra uses Takata airbags. He's been driving with a claymore aimed at his chest

 

I love when these issues are only discovered after these airbags have been installed in cars for multiple years. Really makes it easy to just recall these things. /s

 

Right? This doesn't put pressure on dealers at all, they surely won't have a two-month waiting list for appointments while working on a dozen cars a day

Spoiler alert: they do.

 

Did you replace a good factory exhaust with $400 aftermarket junk?

 

Hyundai is making the Covet Turbo irl lol
It's probably going to be hydrogen fueled like the N-74

 

Ah, the Nissan Pike cars. I love those things. RCR's review of the Pao remains one of my favorite car reviews of any genre.

I know EVs aren't a popular topic around here, but this, tentatively, seems to be a step in the right direction IMO: https://www.wired.com/story/slate-auto-electric-pickup/ No-frills affordable vehicle built for customization and devoid of a godforsaken touch screen? About damn time if you ask me.

 

Literally everyone: "Can we please just have an unadulterated Hilux already?"
These guys: "Best we can do is a no range having electric shortbed that tows less than some family cars, sorry"

Trying very hard not to get political here but the people who designed this clearly thought the world was going to go in a different direction than it actually did. Still trying to promote 2014's idea of the future in 2025

 

I don't think I'll ever own a electric car if I have the choice but it is still a decent concept I guess.

 

This would have been an amazing offering with a diesel generator and functioning as extended range ev

 

I might be dumb, but does that not just make it basically a hybrid?

 

Yes a Diesel-Electric hybrid similar to Edison Motors trucks.

 

Basically a reverse hybrid, in this case the electric motor is the propeller instead of ICE

 

That's called a series hybrid and I hate them too

 

I would like to see someone just use an existing chassis from a pickup no longer (or even currently) in production with liscencing, I'm sure there are some issues I am unaware of but it seems like a decent place to start.

 

Regulations. Somehow, crash standards have worked out in such as a way as to allow, for example, GM to use the same frame since 1999, but emissions & fuel-economy regulations have created a near-impenetrable maze of idiocy that forces things like turbo-four half-tons that no one wants to exist.

Although, for the Hilux specifically, I think that might actually be an issue of safetyism, because apparently the Hilux has or at one point had a much stronger frame than the Tacoma despite being outwardly very similar.

 

What's up with the two-step verification for files? Is it because of the American Roads thing?

Anyways, I saw a 1994 S10 for sale recently with one of the weirdest swaps I've seen: a rotary engine. Really interesting stuff. The guy also owns a Myers-Manx beach buggy.

So that's why I see Cateyes with 2019+ rear bumpers. Looks terrible.
Kinda crazy GM's still using the same frame that my 2000 Z71 uses.

 

Wouldn't that be better though?

 

Depends on the type of crash. If the frame doesn't give, then your crumple zone is either the other car or your face, depending on whether there is another car