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>>15675763
>Buying American
Lel

>>15675862
> Being an autistic weeabo
Wew

>>15675862
>parroting retarded generalizations because you know nothing about cars
Lul

>>15675451
yes and i wish they were the mainstream style because fuck cleaning alloy wheels

>>15675456
You'd have to clean the wheels regardless. Most particulate on a wheel is brake dust.

>>15675456
> wash part of the wheel showing
> drive a bit around
> now have to wash other part of wheel showing

smart thinking anon

>>15675181
If you're that poor, then why do you own a car?

>>15675192
There's no such thing as public transportation here.

>>15675204
I see. But surely there are cheaper ways of transportation?

Bicycle? Moped/scooter?

>>15675103
manual>auto

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>>15675115
Nope.

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>>15675103
Start with this:
https://www.youtube.com/user/EngineeringExplained

Now that the basics are out of the way, now you just need to learn the memes

>every single car is shit

>>15674625
they're shit

long live gas

Americans make the best electric cars

Not viable yet for long drives or more than a few laps of high-performance driving, but I'd take one for city driving and day-to-day duties.

how easy is it to find a stick one?

>>15674587
They're nice looking cars.

Other than the pigfat-ness.

Great highway cruisers until that fiat QC gets you.

>>15674165
Which RX7? They vary a little. But all in all are reliable and well built
But im sure youre trolling

Apex seals

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>>15674173
vacuum lines

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Monday:mkiv Supra TT
Tuesday:2015 viper gts
Wednesday:AE86
Thursday:Challenger RT
Friday: F-type V6
Saturday:GTR-34
Sunday: FF AC Cobra

7 Miatas. Spend the remaining $265k on building a fleet of LS-swapped AWD twin turbo slammed abominations

Seven Kawasaki Concours, 4 being 1000ccs and 3 being 1400ccs. Spend the remaining money on a fuck ton of luxury bike gear.

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Of all the people God could've saved...

tips fedora

OP is a faggot.

>>15673906

Some ships and cargo plane pullers use 16+ cylinders and ~20 valves. There used to be race cars with just as much decades ago when efficiency tech wasn't very developed.

Who knows what's in the future for road cars now, but unless a make goes nuts we won't have anything more absurd since it's absolute overkill. Still, you could technically build something crazy for yourself if you take an airplane motor and slap it in or something.

>>15673906
>Would a fully charged future electric car, beat a fully gassed 20 cylinder car?
>Would the gas run out before the charge?
This would depend on the efficiency curve of the gas-powered car's engine, the size of the gas-powered car's tank, the size of the electric car's battery pack, the efficiency curve of the electric car's motors, and the load put on the engine/motors.

A Bugatti Veyron can drain its 100l tank in 12 minutes at top speed, but a Tesla Model S can only launch at full power a few times before the batteries run out.

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>>15673906
Well, a 20 cylinder is certainly capable of making more power than 16 cylinders and below, however you can get more power than a Bugatti Veyron from a car with an engine as small as an I6, and V6 (Toyota 2JZ-GTE and Nissan VR38DETT) or even a 1.3 liter Rotary engine (Mazda 13B).
The downfall of 20 cyl. engines, is that they have to be very heavy, and thus are mainly used in marine and locomotive applications.

It would guzzle a lot of gas, but I would assume they are diesel, not gasoline powered, but if a car manufacturer used one they would make it gasoline powered I'm sure.

I could see a one-off concept car with a 20cyl. engine at some point coming out, Cadillac made a 16 cyl. concept car in 2003 so that's not far off.

For that electric car comparison, I can't make that comparison because I don't know how fast electric cars will be in the future, so I'll just take the two fastest production cars, for electric, Tesla Model S P90D, for gasoline Koenigsegg Agera One:1, with a V8 engine.

The Koenigsegg would probably be just ahead to 60, but once it gains traction it would decimate the Tesla, it's over a full second ahead in the 1/4 mile and the fastest car to 200mph ever.

The gas would not run out before the charge in a 20cyl car I'd say, my old car had a 5.0 V10, which when really pushing it and getting 6 MPG, had a range of 200 miles, which is what the Tesla has just putting along, and the Tesla actually gets noticeably slower when the charge is running out, even at 70%.

Wall of text over.

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First of all you're gonna start with a eurovan because there hasn't been a custom van scene in the US in 30 years.

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>>15673666
>gay eurocuck van
no thanks

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This guy knows how to pimp out a van

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Poor man's GTR

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ITT we will notice that the poor man's rich man's car ripoffs will systematically come from the US

>55k car
>Poor

Wew lads

>>15673300
>fwd
>the female attention it gets.
they think your gay
>z4
get it

>>15673300
Get an s2000 m8, it's rwd and convertible

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Get a Boxster instead

>similar price
>mid engine
>RWD
>200-260bhp
>true roadster
>2 trunks
>fairly reliable to a simple fix
>easy to work on if you're patient

slam into them or shoot at them

>inb4 OP posted this while driving

The problem with texting and driving tickets is that it's basically very difficult to enforce. You can't make devices lock people out based on speed, as that would lock them out during passenger scenarios or on mass transit. You can't make the devices lock out when a bluetooth (e.g. car radio) is in range, as that again could affect people in passenger scenarios and they could get around it by disabling bluetooth. You then have officers who will give people tickets based on them "seeing" you look at your lap, even if you didn't use the phone, and New York state's standard is something like receiving an email or text within 15 minutes is "proof".

The best bet to get people to stop looking at their phones is to offer bluetooth and basic smart connectivity in all trims of cars (as Ford does) to make it more likely they'll deal with the information in a non-distracting manner. Apple Carplay and Android Auto do this well, as they lock out the main interface of the phone itself when connected, forcing you to use limited functionality through the radio itself (e.g. you can't manually type texts, but you can dictate them via speech-to-text).