The New Car Fanatic Thread

[tx 3 putt 75883]

5 minutes ago, Thujone said:

Maybe but I'm getting one.

LuLz 

[Loco 3752]

9 minutes ago, Thujone said:

Maybe but I'm getting one.

Are you a geometry teacher?

[Anton Chigurh 3318]

All eight people who bought one agree.

I should say cool looking *. It was not practical and it was an Isuzu.

[Loco 3752]

Complete the set...

[TwiceHorn 30987]

4 hours ago, Anton Chigurh said:

 

You are right and I also do not know how specifically it compares. I have not been able to find much on the subject. I would like to learn more on it to see if it’s truly comparable. One thing though is that they won’t have the supremely low wheel speed modulation that the lower gearing allows to crawl over objects. Nobody is going to be rock crawling in this thing though so it probably won’t matter.

But, this has 3 motors, which is why I assume it will have the traditional drive unit in the rear, which will mean it cannot take advantage of that torque vectoring like the Rivian can (except possibly in the front).

 

I think mechanically or dynamically, it will be able to crawl just fine.  But the throttle response would be soo different from a combustion-engine 4WD vehicle.  But, again, software could come to the rescue there with a different throttle-response curve.

[Speedtrucker 2060]

Some of my favs I’ve seen:

[Prepuce of Doom 20952]

Has anyone seen pictures of the visibility from the driver's seat? Those A and C(ish...) pillars (vertices?) look like tremendous obstacles for actual driving. 

[G650 13791]

[Hawndoh 2376]

45 minutes ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

Has anyone seen pictures of the visibility from the driver's seat? Those A and C(ish...) pillars (vertices?) look like tremendous obstacles for actual driving. 

It drives itself. Who needs to see!

[Pato del Muerto 52215]

1 hour ago, Loco said:

Complete the set...

Is that Dangerboat?

[Prepuce of Doom 20952]

Some entertaining ideas in the thread. 

[Loco 3752]

3 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Is that Dangerboat?

118 Wallypower  Just a smooth $33 mil or so...  does also come with Autopilot

 

Edited November 22, 2019 by Loco

[TwiceHorn 30987]

28 minutes ago, G650 said:

I'll buy that for a dollar!

[Pato del Muerto 52215]

Well here’s dangerboat. 
 

[A-Tex Devil 2442]

They should have had Barry Bostwick dressed like Ace Hunter climbing out of that thing.  I love it.  It needs a flamethrower, though.

[G650 13791]

I've been buried so I wasn't able to check it all out, but the DBX was officially unveiled this week.

The red color was meh, but I love this blue.

[Prepuce of Doom 20952]

There's something very Clownshoeish about it, though likely just the camera angle. 

[Buzzrock 14796]

Fucking lol



I’m still not sure if this whole thing is a troll attempt.

You can’t set your coffee on the roof, it will slide off.

[ChickenSandwich 9782]

6 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

I'll buy that for a dollar!

The 6000 SUX is a way better name than Cybertruck

[Okie State 3736]

I was too distracted by the shitty design to think about the shitty name. It may be shittier than the design.

[Pato del Muerto 52215]

2 hours ago, Thujone said:

No need. It injects the coffee right into your heart.

You sued the last company that made something that did that. 

[Pato del Muerto 52215]

23 minutes ago, Okie State said:

I was too distracted by the shitty design to think about the shitty name. It may be shittier than the design.

Not too late to change it to the Trig

[Prepuce of Doom 20952]

Forward and rearward visibility even more compromised than I thought. 

And a dumb steering wheel. 

I don't know what to make of the "is the dash real marble?" comment - seems like it's an imprudent substance to make a dashboard out of, whatever it is. 

 

Edited November 23, 2019 by Prepuce of Doom

[El Diablo 4232]

9 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

Some entertaining ideas in the thread. 

 

[Pato del Muerto 52215]

[52-80 19033]

If you're not sick of my car sagas, more hijinks continued.

After a long lull in any new cars appearing in inventory on the Tesla website, a handful of them appeared yesterday.  As I've been waiting 2 months for a gray one with no known delivery date, I said fuck it and decided to snap up the available blue one instead.  Clicked on the Buy button, paid the deposit, and saw the new blue vehicle appear in my account (alongside the original gray order).

Flash forward this morning, I logged back on the website and the fucking blue one disappeared.  Credit card still shows the deposit charge. 

Took a trip to the store where they explained, based on their record, someone tried to buy that same blue car in the morning, their deposit had some issues, and it was eventually resolved and thus assigned/sold to that person.  great job of inventory management, guys.  Whatever.  They said sorry and to keep on waiting.

 

Tonight an even larger batch of cars popped up on the website.  Like 20 identical ones.  I chose one with the coolest VIN number and put in yet another deposit.  And when I "purchased" it, they actually provided estimated delivery date (around XMAS), which they didnt before.  So if the purchase works...merry christmas to me.  If not.... maybe ill just buy a fucking nissan leaf

 

[ChickenSandwich 9782]

 

Stratus zero

[tbone_ 14016]

Hells yea

[G650 13791]

Elon Musk’s net worth dropped $720 million after Tesla’s botched Cybertruck debut https://t.co/f258bioH4v https://t.co/oGVjoiCs7P

[52-80 19033]

 

[G650 13791]

 

 

[Pato del Muerto 52215]

2 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

 

Stratus zero

New bricklin

[Anton Chigurh 3318]

How about the C111?

[Prepuce of Doom 20952]

^^^very Espada-ish. 

[Prepuce of Doom 20952]

I've seen plenty of the Stingray shooting brake conversions, but never this prototype. Could have been pretty slick looking with curvier hips. 

 

[tbone_ 14016]

That’s dope af

[Okie State 3736]

I was hoping the new Ford abomination was going to be a Mustang shooting brake. Of course not though.

[Buzzrock 14796]

That would be badass

[Chad Fuck 17448]

I got to drive a DB 11 around a week or so for a cousin who wanted to get it out of the snow. It was very nice. Previous owner had put $18k of gold appointments under the hood. No idea why.



The trunk has just enough room for a music stand and evidently the previous owner’s shitty headgear.






Total dick magnet. Must’ve had twenty guys come talk to me about the car. Only chick who cared was best friends wife who wanted to take it around the block. Yeah I said it. Yeah, I let her.

[Chewbacca 7665]

I got to drive a DB 11 around a week or so for a cousin who wanted to get it out of the snow. It was very nice. Previous owner had put $18k of gold appointments under the hood. No idea why.



The trunk has just enough room for a music stand and evidently the previous owner’s shitty headgear.






Total dick magnet. Must’ve had twenty guys come talk to me about the car. Only chick who cared was best friends wife who wanted to take it around the block. Yeah I said it. Yeah, I let her.

Yeah, high school boys are the only ones who have ever recognized my car.

[Chewbacca 7665]

I got to drive a DB 11 around a week or so for a cousin who wanted to get it out of the snow. It was very nice. Previous owner had put $18k of gold appointments under the hood. No idea why.



The trunk has just enough room for a music stand and evidently the previous owner’s shitty headgear.






Total dick magnet. Must’ve had twenty guys come talk to me about the car. Only chick who cared was best friends wife who wanted to take it around the block. Yeah I said it. Yeah, I let her.

Yeah, high school boys are the only ones who have ever recognized my car.

[Pato del Muerto 52215]

2 hours ago, Chewbacca said:

2 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

I got to drive a DB 11 around a week or so for a cousin who wanted to get it out of the snow. It was very nice. Previous owner had put $18k of gold appointments under the hood. No idea why.



The trunk has just enough room for a music stand and evidently the previous owner’s shitty headgear.






Total dick magnet. Must’ve had twenty guys come talk to me about the car. Only chick who cared was best friends wife who wanted to take it around the block. Yeah I said it. Yeah, I let her.

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Yeah, high school boys are the only ones who have ever recognized my car.

[Speedtrucker 2060]

 
Stratus zero

Had a hot wheels of this car as a kid and didn’t like it, only because I didn’t believe it was a real car...

[Chad Fuck 17448]

Yeah, high school boys are the only ones who have ever recognized my car.

You do you, man.

No judgment.

[Cajun 11659]

9 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

Total dick magnet. Must’ve had twenty guys come talk to me about the car. Only chick who cared was best friends wife who wanted to take it around the block. Yeah I said it. Yeah, I let her.

Nothing top apologize for in that.

Now the Ultra?

Well...

Edited November 25, 2019 by Cajun

[Buzzrock 14796]

Wow. 200,000 preorders for the Cybertruck.

[Okie State 3736]

Well, he raised $20 MM in quick cash.

[Prepuce of Doom 20952]

More pictures and details of the (obviously highly customized) build at the link. 

 

[52-80 19033]

14 hours ago, Okie State said:

Well, he raised $20 MM in quick cash.

which is just about how much the SEC will fine him (same as last time), since hes not supposed to tweet about

 

• production numbers or sales or delivery numbers (whether actual, forecasted, or projected) that have not been previously published via pre-approved written communications issued by the Company (“Official Company Guidance”) or deviate from previously published Official Company Guidance;
• projection, forecast, or estimate numbers regarding the Company’s business that have not been previously published in Official Company Guidance or deviate from previously published Official Company Guidance;

[Speedtrucker 2060]

Aston Martin did it as well

The 1980 bulldog