Why do people still defend the rotary engine despite it having literally zero useful applications in a road car?
They get unbelievably terrible fuel economy regardless of how you drive them, they sound awful, they burn oil, they are more difficult to work on, they self destruct if you don't let them heat up and cool down properly and they are just generally unreliable pieces of shit. It's a meme engine at absolute best. Driving around in a rotary is just like driving around in an old piece of shit Soviet car, it's complete garbage and you hate it, but you do it anyway just because you're an edgy faggot and you tell yourself you're cool because it's unique.
The only advantages anyone can ever come up with are that the are ever so slightly lighter than an engine producing comparable power, and that being small displacement, they are sometimes cheaper to insure. That's literally fucking it.
why do you get so assmad you have to make a thread
>Why do people still defend the rotary engine despite it having literally zero useful applications in a road car?
It can power a road car. That is literally the only thing that matters :^)
>They get unbelievably terrible fuel economy regardless of how you drive them
20mpg combined aint too bad, a 30 year old v8 gets much worse economy and isnt faster :^)
>they are more difficult to work on
what
>they self destruct if you don't let them heat up and cool down properly
go limiter bash an ls1 from a cold start see how long it lasts (protip: it wont be long) :^)
stay mad and stupid pistoncuck :^)
>more difficult to work on
What? This is just piss poor bait. Heres the (you)
What are your personal experiences with da illest JDM af crowd /o/?
ur h8 only makes us stronger xD
the lack of posts itt just show that no one here has any experience and simply talks out of their ass
>>16242155
Probably, what if everyone is just as bad as GS400guy? Would be pretty ironic desu
Sorry you wasted your money on a snow wolf
do you do your own tune ups?
what's a tune up
A Red Mazda Miata MX-5 ND - RF out in the sunlight.
What do you think?
I dig. Any pics with the top up?
>>16241921
I'm sorry but this is the only pic I found online.
I'll post if I get any.
>>16241914
It looks nice, but who the fuck is buying a 35k miata?
I bet it's near impossible trying to get a roll bar into that thing.
BRZ with performance package is the better car IMO
Can someone red pill me on the various nuances of All Wheel Drive systems between manufacturers?
For example, I always hear people hailing Subaru as "True AWD" whereas some people call BMW's X-Drive or Volkswagen's 4Motion a Meme version of AWD
Subaru's AWD system can send any amount of power/torque to any wheel.
VAG uses Haldex, which is FWD until the computer detects slip from the front wheels, at which point it'll send up to 50% of the power to the rear wheels.
Basically any """"""""AWD"""""""" VAG car is FWD until it detects slip, and handles like a FWD car with more weight to haul around. This means understeer, understeer and more understeer.
The Audi R8 pretty much uses the same system in reverse (RWD until slip occurs).
TRUE AWD in most peoples eyes means it can bias equally between front and rear and isn't a FWD or RWD bias setup adapted to AWD. It's hard to classify a system as totally symmetrical, layout will always favor the front or rear, most transverse engine AWD cars are FWD bias.
>>16241690
Audi R8 isn't like ATTESA. If you read any paper on the system you would know this. The center diff sends between 10-35% of the engine power to the front wheels.
ATTESA and Porsche's AWD are basically Haldex in reverse. The rear wheels are always driven and lock-up of the front wheels can occur so that the front wheels receive half of the engine torque.
any other guys here like HD bikes but never own one? get in here. HD pleb miring thread.
Had a V-star 1100 a few years back, had to sell it. Always wanted a street bob. Someday...
>>16241675
ive noticed metric cruisers are either HD copycats or their own entity as in magna vs shadow nahmsayn?
I've always preferred cruisers but never wanted an HD. I just can't stand that much vibration.
Are there ANY redeeming qualities to the Northstar V8? Any at all?
umm it's a fucking V8 at the end of the day.
>>16241335
No.
>>16241351
I feel like there's enough cons as well as pros with being a V8 that it's not a good thing by virtue
what are some things i should know about driving in michigan winters? do i need winter tires? should i disable my abs?
im from alabama but currently in michigan for school. i drive a 2000 328i which ive heard is really not good for winter
Good snows will make a night and day difference.
Just use common sense and stay alert. It's the other drivers you need to be aware of.
>>16241234
Have good tires
Leave ABS on
Let jesus take the wheel
also the webm i posted is from /r/roadcams and the were talking about how good his countersteering was..but i was like..he was still in the wrong lane if someone was there he would have got hit
i dont want to deal with snow fuck michigan
Is /o/ one of the cool 4chan boards? I feel like if my IRL friends ever caught me browsing 4chan, I would be less embarrassed because I only browse 'cool' boards like /o/ and /sp/.
none of us are cool
>>16241024
This. /o/ is just easily explained.
/k/ is kooler. We dont have too much weeb shit going on here other than intial D memes
That being said half of us are busriders and the other half is daddies money.
>1990's
>economy cars are depressing trash
>supercars are god tier
>2010's
>economy cars are pretty decent
>supercars are depressing trash
What the fuck happened?
>>16240883
>Fiesta ST
that's the official car of my rich daddy bought me a car
>>16240883
easy credit and the new rich took over
>>16240899
Take into account inflation and a Fiesta ST isn't much more expensive than a Ford Ka would have been.
[ D a i l y M e m e B i k e T h r e a d ] - /dbt/
>Memebike questions and answers
>GS500 pictures and discussion
>Ninja 250 pictures and discussion
>WR125 pictures and discussion
>DR-Z400 pictures and discussion
>YZF-R3 pictures and discussion
>SV650 pictures and discussion
>/dbt/ map
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?msa=0&mid=z7CKLSFiJH_M.kMZoQpBOKipI
>6 pages about why you shouldn't start on a literbike:
>>10361928 ?
>Webms with sound
>>>/wsg/1407025
>Previously on /dbt/
>>16237748
first for drz
Fuck you dirt squirts.
>Lets ride tiny shitbikes in a circuit for fucking hours on end and not get anywhere.
Get out on the road, plebes.
ITT: cars with gud visibility
>>16240763
E30s are have no blind spots imo. Not good if your smoking or something tho
>>16240812
fuck off literal reddit
imagine putting a fucking reddit sticker on your car
how much would a trailer like this cost and what would the smallest truck you could use to trailer it?
bout three fiddy
ranger should pull it fine
trailer~$15000
the smallest truck depends on what you're hauling in it
>>16240772
$15k for an enclosed trailer that size? Maybe a sued beat to fuck one.
It's not even practical in the first place.
Old vs New
Which one is better? Why? Discuss.
>>16240438
Literally none of these have improved in the aesthetics department
>>16240438
>US trash
>>16240456
Cmon. Muscle cars are pretty bad ass. You gotta admit.
In your opinion, what's the classiest car ever made?
Mine would definitely be this. Fucking GPS, CRT touch screen, and everything in the early 90s! Crazy. Also, one of the smoothest rides ever due to the fabled perfect power transfer of the three Rotor engine.
Variable power steering, hydropneumatic suspension, self-leveling and swiveling headlights, Maserati V6.
Insane comfort and it looks like a goddamn spaceship.
Boogatti
>>16239709
/thread