General Car Discussion

Discussion in 'Automotive' started by HadACoolName, Mar 6, 2015.

  1. nosraenyr kcirtap kcin

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    Than just buy a early 2000's truck.
     
  2. Bubbleawsome

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    Honestly a fullsized suburban/expedition EL or chevy van are probably your best bets. Maybe an excursion?
     
  3. Glitchy

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    I am thinking of buying this car. It's a 2015 Mazda 3, cost around $9000, and used. Not sure about the miles. It is for sale outside a local gas station. I have always liked Mazda 3's and I have only heard good things about them. This would be a great car for getting back and fourth places. Does anyone have any experience with these cars? If so, I would love to hear what your experience with them was.
     
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  5. aljowen

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    This Rimac is super cool. Hoping they can beat Tesla to the punch on their supercar.


    While I'm not the biggest fan of opening the doors using facial recognition (what was wrong with a latch?), a car with that much power, performance and level 4 autonomous driving is insane. I really hope they get some more processing power under the hood for their menu's though, they look incredibly unresponsive.
     
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  6. opkraut

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    It's a shame it's not going to have a manual though. That nose is also a bit ugly for my taste. It looks like a few of the old Panoz street cars, but worse.
     
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    What? Such car without a manual is like a minivan with four seats. And BMW engine...why? Toyota, what's wrong with you?
    On the side note, I thought lifted truck trend had spared our country, but today proved me wrong. I saw a horribly modified Ram with a lift kit, huge black rims, custom grille with extra lights, a star ornament around the logo and whatnot.
     
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  8. General S'mores

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    Eye-bleeder's back in Panamera from!
     
  9. VeyronEB

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    I like that the headlights almost look like a set of rectangular sealed beams

     
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  10. General S'mores

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    I'm atleast happy that they made the bumper more tolerable.
    Also, it's literally the same headlights from the original Mission E.
     
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    I thought the same thing... my bet is that it just needs some more work on the coding side rather than the actual hardware side. You know... like how BeamNG got more efficient over the years? Kinda like that... it doesn't look like a car that they would have skimped on anything... including hardware for the menus. Everything seems to be there and fully functional, even for a test car, so I am guessing it is just programing that needs work... that being said though... for a car this high class, I hope they get some top notch programmers on the job, because a car like this CAN NOT have lag in the menus.... thats just unheard of.
     
  12. aljowen

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    I'm really liking the Jaguar I-Pace
    Yeah, optimisation is certainly a thing. They are either using horrifically inefficient code or they have too many high resolution displays for their processor to handle (with the UI they are trying to achieve). Whichever approach they take, they need to do some serious work. Because when something is running that badly, you start to wonder whether its a couple functions that need some optimisation, or whether it is spaghetti code that calls all of the API's to do something simple. At which optimisation becomes a very big/difficult task.
     
  13. Bakasan

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    Yeah I don't really like the way the nose is done, but I guess by modern standards it's pretty good looking overall
    That said I rather like that livery!
     
  14. MisterKenneth

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    Times change I guess.
    That is just the racing model. We have yet to see the standard production vehicle. They might go for something different.
     
  15. Bakasan

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    for better, or in this case for worse;)

    I imagine it will look like the racing one but without a livery and wide fenders/aerofoils

    maybe like this for example
     
  16. aljowen

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    They do it on all of their Gazoo racing cars. Its kinda neat.

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    I think the GT86 is supposed to be the raw drivers car in their lineup, while the supra is more of a fast car. And at the end of the day, modern dual clutch systems are faster than manual ones.

    Not that I wouldn't have liked to have seen the option for a manual.
     
  17. MisterKenneth

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    Perhaps. I've seen a couple of concepts for something like that. I think they look okay.


    They could've used what I like to call the "screaming" styling on it, and I think that would've not looked as good.
     
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    I really doubt that the new supra will come with a manual. It really sucks. I hope the auto is at least worth getting like the Porsche PDK.
     
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    now do you see why gtr's hate supra's that looks hideous
     
  20. JetPoweredMacintosh™

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    How can a car hate a car? :confused:

    I can't wait for the Supra. It's sad that it's not coming with a stick, but I'm sure some aftermarket performance company will shove one in it.
     
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