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>luxury cars are for niggers maymay
At least call me a 90+ year old grandpa or something.

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>>17097214
>how do i drive up hills
the same way you drive everywhere else
>why do i have to go back to 1st
you dont have to. in fact, since its your brothers car, you can start all the way up to 3rd gear if you want!
>clutching in too far makes the car stall
lol no it doesnt

you dont have to like manual. manual is the DUDEWEED of automotives

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I'm just going to leave this here

>>17097176
>crown vic
>engaging to drive, ever

it's a fucking automatic boat

nothing engaging about it, one of the worst cars i've ever driven, feels like an SUV

>>17097197

but it was comfy as a motherfucker

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>>17097176
Hyundai shitbox sports cars like the Genesis and Veloster. They'll be hella cheap and likely still running despite what /o/ thinks

You could buy like 4 Corvettes instead or 20 3k civics

You could get a BMW M2, ATS-V, or Camaro SS 1LE for that price. All of them are better.

u can by a dozne NB miatars and duct tape them together for zoomzoomx12!!! wow

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I hate twingos. |:0

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>>17096799
CARS ARE FUCKING COOL HOLY SHIT

CARS

>>17096798
I think we had this discussion a while back.

general consensus was the Volvo 240. A rugged, dependable car that attributes its reliability to simplicity and can easily be made better.

A Corolla. Simple, loose tolerances, reliable and extremely average across the charts.
Then you realize that it's a bit too average, has shitty performance and is just in general a boring piece of shit. 3rd world countries run them to the ground then pass them on to be run on the ground some more.
It still does what it was intended to do, just that there are much better ones for that job too if you can be arsed to get involved even a bit.

>>17096842
>loose tolerances
>reliable

those are mutually exclusive.

>>17096502
downgrade from luxury and upgrade performance. do you know what price range they are willing to give you?

>>17096529
They didn't say a price range but based on what I know of our finances as a family, I'm thinking right around the 40-50K range.

Also, they are pushing me to a german car as both my parents drive MBs and really like them. I like german cars as well and just want to get a practical sedan thats on the nicer end so I don't really care about performance.

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>TFW grad med school and had to buy my own car

Get a 4matic C300 certified pre-owned. 240hp is fun enough performance wise and more power than 90% of O. It will have a nice smooth ride you'll like but that comes at the price of sportyness.

Fuck Scotty Kilmer too. That stupid asshole shits on mercedez for having too many motors to break and computers or whatever in one video than praises the Ford Mustang Ecoboost for having computer controlled electronic power steering, and all other powered little motor features.

I also like the Audi SQ5 my senpai member has. Interiors are great, trannys are great. But they are currently having more issues than Mercs.

>>17096166
3000GT would be good if finding one that hasn't been riced to death with 200k miles and not taken care of wasn't hard.

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>>17096166
RX-8 with a new/overhauled engine.
>more power than GT-86
>less weight than GT-86
>actualy NEEDS to be redlined daily
>50/50 weight distribution
>suicide doors
>BRAPBRAPBRAP
>can get even more power with ordinary tools
>when ported 300hp+
>and even more brap

>>17096335
>new engine
>rotary
>new rotary engine
>cheap pricetag

Drove for an hour in a whiteout snowstorm with 0 visibility on the highway. The drive normally takes 20 minutes.
I cleared off my windows before I left but by the time I managed to get out of the parking lot they had mostly already snowed over, the only thing I could use to see to my rear was the passenger wing mirror

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>>17096165

The 101 in the carpool lane at night.

>>17096165
Drove around with this going on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95tmYmeHf84

Vid not mine.

No trees, blind corners or elevation changes. That track is nothing more than
an oversized go cart track

>>17096013
>No trees, blind corners
How will that help the car? if anything that just creates artificial gaps with drivers.
>elevation changes
Laguna Seca has that. id say this and Laguna would be the perfect combination.

No, because it's an uninteresting track with no challenges except for how well you can corner or how well your car can cool itself

No elevation change, no trees to block sight, no history, no infamous corners, no real challenges. It's like those stupid "perfect track" ideas where they take famous corners and string them together and they turn out to be shit because the whole is not equal to the sum of its parts.

And that's exactly what this will be. Boring, flat and not particularly challenging.

Not to mention, it's located in a private club that has membership fees to access and use so no motorsport events will actually be held there, just rich men in their super cars who want to feel special because they "race" real "race cars". It's a country club for rich men who like cars, that's it.

>>17095816
Leave them a polite note with their child's hair taped to it.

SUCK HIS DICK

im sure you're used to it since you are a bitch anyways

>>17095819
Oh baby you sure got him, ZINGA.

>500$
heres the rules of buying a 500$ car

>does it start
>does it go into gear
>can it drive atleast 10 miles in one go

if yes to all the above buy that shit and put absolutely 0$ into fixing it, just drive it until it catastrophically ends itself

it's 500 fucking dollars, dude

get the barge

love the barge

be one with the barge

>>17095217
>>17095149
Thanks guys, I'm going to yolo out and just buy it. I figure the rust free body is probably worth at least 500 to someone, should be a funish comfyish car to beat up, 15mpg be damned.

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>>17094845
No anon.Rock. Rock SOAR.

Human no learn cave secrect yet. I will teach

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>>17094845
holy shit i never thought of it like this, they literally could have just walked faster lmao

>>17094845
t. Poorfag that had to walk because he couldn't afford a luxury barge

>>17094842

In response to Jarlstrom's exercise of his First Amendment rights, the Oregon state engineering licensing board opened an investigation. Unsurprisingly, it arrived at the conclusion that it hadn't handed out an engineering license to Jarlstrom. Surprisingly, this effort wasted nearly two years of taxpayer time and money.

“According to the Board, Mats _illegally practiced engineering without a license_ every time he “critique[d]” the existing traffic-light system and shared his ideas with “members of the public.” Even his e-mail to the creator of the original formula was ruled illegal. So was his correspondence with local media.”

Weird. Stupid. But at least the licensing law is narrowly-tailored, right?

“The practice of engineering is defined to cover “any . . . creative work requiring engineering education, training and experience.” And the law is just as sweeping as it sounds. Even the Oregon Attorney General’s Office has admitted that it’s “a broad definition which may have a particular meaning to those persons trained and knowledgeable in engineering but may be unclear to anyone else.”

Having found something to use against a critic of outdated traffic light measuring systems, the Oregon licensing board went all out. It told Jarlstrom he could no longer refer to himself as an "engineer" (despite his BS in electronic engineering). It compiled a list of nine violations and fined him $500.

It also nailed down something else: the starring role of defendant in an upcoming civil rights lawsuit, as the Institute for Justice reports:

“Today he filed a lawsuit against the board in federal court challenging the constitutionality of the state’s requirement that citizens must obtain an engineering license in order to publicly debate anything involving “engineering.”

cont.

>>17094849

IJ points out the board's regulation of speech is not just unconstitutional, it's ridiculous.

“Criticizing the government’s engineering isn’t a crime; it’s a constitutional right,” said Sam Gedge, an attorney at the Institute for Justice, which represents Mats in the lawsuit. “Under the First Amendment, you don’t need to be a licensed lawyer to write an article critical of a Supreme Court decision, you don’t need to be a licensed landscape architect to create a gardening blog, and you don’t need to be a licensed engineer to talk about traffic lights. Whether or not you use math, criticizing the government is a core constitutional right that cannot be hampered by onerous licensing requirements.”

In essence, the Oregon board fined Mats Jarlstrom for doing math and then talking about it. Apparently, no one's allowed to do their own math and speak publicly about it without the express, licensed permission of the state's regulators. While the board is there to prevent non-engineers from harming the public by building faulty bridges and buildings (or, more to the point, fiddling with traffic light timing to drivers' detriment), it shouldn't be able to keep anyone from discussing their own research or referring to their engineering background and expertise.

cont.

>>17094855

Jarlstrom simply wanted his findings to be considered. He had no power to alter traffic light timing or otherwise pose some sort of safety risk to Oregon drivers. And yet, the licensing board subjected him to a lengthy investigation and told him what he could and couldn't discuss publicly. Apparently certain topics of discussion are off limits to the general public unless the government ok's it through a very long and expensive process.

Like many government things, the underlying concept is good, but the execution is horrible. And, in this case, the government was less concerned with the safety of the public than with shutting up a critic poking holes in long-held government theories.

FIN

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Genesis Coupe

350z + cheapest bolt on turbo kit available running low (8-9lbs) boost = 350ishhp reliably for $12-14k excluding labor

>>17094853
>universally praised, treated as the magnum opus of modern affordable sports cars
Have you ever been to /o/?

>>17094680
Careful, if you spend too much time writing this shit up you might miss your bus.

>>17094718
>le busrider meme
I drive from germany to the netherlands once and back every week.
When I drive, there is usually not much traffic and no speed limit.
My shitbox does need about 8-9L/100km when going fullspeed due to beeing a econobox only marginaly taller than a kei car.

>>17094742
Is your bus ride about over yet? You seem very bored, must still be going.