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You know you're going to get fucked when you're leasing. You take a gamble of getting fucked harder when you buy one outright. You have to pick your used cars carefully.

LEASING is literally paying not to own something, and you're just going to trap yourself in payments. Used cars will usually have less labor hours than new cars because they were actually designed to be worked on. Find the best 3000 dollar camry, corolla, accord, or civic you can find in manual (old automatic transmissions can be a gamble on some cars, plus manual is anti-theft for free) and buy it. Short of a total disaster, you can also save money by repairing things yourself. 200 dollars in tools can save you thousands in mechanic labor charges.

If you're Euro, go for a used 90's - early 2000's car.
Golf 3, Twingo, Logan, Corsa something cheap and practical. Just be sure you buy wisely, don't just buy for everyone. See if vehicle history is avaible and what previous/current defects it may have.

>>17706840
I didn't buy my own car until I was 24. Just stay motivated, and put half your spending money in a savings-account every month so you can afford something decent a few years down the road when you're ready.
As for understanding this shit, just keep lurking. Maybe watch some car shows or videos. Jay Leno's garage is really informative when they're talking about newer stuff, for example. Make sure you do A LOT of homework and research before you buy a car. You don't want to wind up in a Hyundai Elantra when something infinitely better like a Mazda3 or a Honda Civic is available.

>>17706840

You have to be 18 to post here.

>>17706860
>tfw I understand this shit
>have tried to save multiple times for a car but every time money is stolen away
>learner license can't even drive manual

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>>17706835
These are the best shitposting threads

>vocal LS fangirls nowhere to be found

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>a fucking frogbox won lemans
>but GM never has

>EV renewable at the bottom

it's just america being third world and burning fossil fuels instead of changing to renewables

B-but carbon dioxide

it matters because al gore said so

>>17706566

Teslafags BTFO

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I have actually thought about range extenders in the past, but they're too large and heavy to be contained in a roof box, and too heavy for most trailer hitch ratings. However there are a few companies working on consumer market range extending trailers. And it does make sense if you think about it. Most commuting occurs short distance and in urban areas where electric range is sufficient and where air quality needs to be considered, but most long trips occur between urban areas where running a combustion engine isn't a problem.

It's basically the same principle as in plug-in hybrids, except that their pure electric range is complete garbage.

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>>17706569
Yeah and best of all it would challenge gay virtue signalling smug ass Tesla owners and btfo Musk and his liberal pandering dogma.

Fun fact: the video im posting does not come up when you google bill nye climate change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN5L2q6hfWo

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I don't have experience with it but I'd never drive a car with the steering wheel on the wrong side here. Basically impossible to do country road overtaking especially behind vision blocking box trucks, and I'd have to use the passenger side mirror to check for clearance before Autobahn overtaking which seems far more dangerous than using the driver side mirror and shoulder view. North Americans play it down and there are in fact quite a few RHD cars in Canada, but all their roads are wide, often multi-lane and with low speed limits and low speed differences.

Is it hard to find foreign classics with RHD in the UK? Maybe a Toyota Celica or an Aussie Ford Falcon.

>>17706308
>Anyone have experience with this, vice versa RHD cars in LHD countries?
Yes.

Coming from the US (LHD on the right), driving LHD on the left (St. Thomas, USVI) was much easier than RHD on the left (Grand Cayman). For me in RHD, I wanted to keep looking to the right for the rear view mirror. I think given enough time (more than a week or so), it would have been fine. Traffic circles were not as difficult to navigate as I thought. Making lefts like I normally make rights was a very significant change.

>>17706308
So you won't even TRY to drive lhd? Some people man fuck.

Chinese Manufacturers showing us the future of the car industry, Killing Japan and petrol

>>17706304
It's number 2, was beaten by a Mclaren a couple days later.

Still good though.

>>17706410
nope, the mclaren is slower, NIO did a full lap

Y tho

>>17706158
You don't. The government has mandated that all pre-1990 cars be crushed.

>>17706158
In the US, CraigsList is pretty much it for old stuff that isn't collectible. Pain in the ass to search nationally, or even regionally, though. Aggregators like Search Tempest sort of work but they miss a lot too.

>>17705944
Lol U Mad?

>>17705951
ya

>>17705944
You can't, it has no exhaust pipe or filler cap

fieros with chinese bodykits

Some sort of European Impreza

>>17705773
looks like a tesla mixed with a bmw

>>17705694
What kind of noise? I have the same car.

>>17705706
It's like the sound of the band movement, it starts at slow rates, but when I accelerate it becomes more frequent till the point it became constant noise. Kinda hard to describe.

The car have 63,000Kms on it.

>>17705735
Was it cpo or inspected before you got it? Mine is silent at highway speeds, only tire noise

The cvt fluid is supposed to be lifetime fluid, but you should inspect it anyway

>>17705504
>dad drives car to pick up his at the shop
>adjusts side mirrors
>CANT SET THEM BACK TO HOW I SET THEM BEFORE

Just stop fiddling with it and after 5 minutes you won't even notice anymore.

>move the seat and think I got it fully locked in
>next time I least expect it when braking or accelerating the seat suddenly lurches back half an inch and loudly snaps into position

>>17705515
>adjust side mirrors in my dad's car
>when I'm done I go to move them back but the motors suddenly died

Depends on the kind of pussy

>>17705413

dis

And where you are. Wouldn't look twice at either in So Cal. Bible belt: your ego is safe.

>>17705171
Yet Mercedes and Tesla still share technology.

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Daimler announced that it will build its own battery packs with the cells supplied by SK.

Prior to the partnership with SK, the Mercedes B-Class EV, Mercedes’ only all-electric vehicle, was outsourcing its battery pack manufacturing to Tesla,
>"which itself was sourcing the cells from Panasonic."
https://electrek.co/2016/02/18/mercedes-select-a-li-ion-battery-cell-supplier-for-its-upcoming-line-of-electric-vehicles/

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$55,382.07 to $59,884.67 US + $16,509.56 city of Beijing, subsidies.

>>17705181
Tesla let go of their patents, anyone can use them. Do you see any takers.

>>17705007
>before the end of the day i got the hang of driving manual.
Goodbye clutch

>>17705007
About a couple hours as well, then I was adequate at driving manual (still not very smooth though)

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>>17705023
Well, in all honestly I got the car around 6 PM and got used to driving around within the hour. It stalled on me at my first stop sign.

>>17705039
I can shift pretty smoothly now, just not when in first to second gear, I'm going to keep trying however.