The New Car Fanatic Thread

[Goofyboy 3,432]

I like the Q8. I do not like the Lambo.

[TwiceHorn 32,076]

41 minutes ago, Goofyboy said:

I like the Q8. I do not like the Lambo.

Racist, imo.

[Fuck Tim Beck 3,904]

11 hours ago, royiv said:

Lamborghini Aztek

This. Or a stealth fighter raped a new chevy trailblazer 

[Prepuce of Doom 21,285]

Jealously gaze upon my likely obsolete and definitely unreliable McIntosh head unit. 

 

[TwiceHorn 32,076]

46 minutes ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

Jealously gaze upon my likely obsolete and definitely unreliable McIntosh head unit. 

 

Subaru had OnStar?

 

I guess that goes back to the Subaru Saab.

Edited September 10, 2020 by TwiceHorn

[G650 14,437]

57 minutes ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

Jealously gaze upon my likely obsolete and definitely unreliable McIntosh head unit. 

 

What in the fuck is going on all around your obsolete McIntosh.

[conVINCEd 21,477]

16 minutes ago, G650 said:

What in the fuck is going on all around your obsolete McIntosh.

The post-it with the radio stations is fantastic.

[tbone_ 14,442]

Probably just needs new tubes.

[Pato del Muerto 53,473]

Your passenger floorboard appears to be a dumpster. 

[Prepuce of Doom 21,285]

35 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Your passenger floorboard appears to be a dumpster. 

Correct. I generally don't have passengers in that car, it has 214,000 miles on it, no muffler, no e-brake, bespoke oxidation, so many quirks and idiosyncrasies that nobody else could drive it without error/inconvenience, and was purchased for the primary purpose of abandoning at a desolate train station parking lot all day as well as for driving in Chicago winters. 

The post its have radio stations listed so that reprogramming is easier when the battery drains in the winter or when other gremlins fuck up the presets. Other post its have CEL codes and other miscellaneous notes to myself. 

I guess I can remove the post it with the CD changer contents since the CD player only works as a disc confiscation device now. I'll remove it, crumple it up, and throw it in the passenger footwell at my earliest convenience. 

Edited September 10, 2020 by Prepuce of Doom

[52-80 19,377]

fucking mcguyver

 

 

[Pato del Muerto 53,473]

Grocery getter

 

[BNB 100]

I feel like I created a Car enthusiast.

I gave my nephew lots of Car Magazine Subscriptions when he was growing up.

He was a Valet in HS, and purchase a nice $30k Lexus coupe when he graduated.

He is just started school for Journalism in North Carolina at A real good school, Elon and wants to be a Car Journalist. He is already a member of a car club there.

His little brother said they went 150mph one time. Ugh.  I still remember trying to teach him to drive in a Tahoe and almost getting sideswiped pulling out.

I follow Stradman, DDE, Hoovies Garage, Doug Demero on Youtube.

Crazy Stradman just got a Buggati after just a few years of youtubing.  I'm doing it wrong.

 

Edited September 12, 2020 by BNB

[52-80 19,377]

2 hours ago, BNB said:

I feel like I created a Car enthusiast.

...

I follow Doug Demero on Youtube.

🤮 why would you do such a thing

[ChiTownDoc 21,345]

On 9/9/2020 at 6:30 PM, Anton Chigurh said:

When you actually look at the details, it really is ugly as hell.

You don’t really need to look at the details.  Just take a quick peek and you get the gist.  

[ChiTownDoc 21,345]

37 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

🤮 why would you do such a thing

Demero? 🤤

[Chewbacca 7,829]

Demero?

He's a big fan.

[ChiTownDoc 21,345]

8 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

23 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Demero?

He's a big fan.

He’s enthused.  

[Prepuce of Doom 21,285]

13 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

28 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Demero?

He's a big fan.

I demur. 

[Gravy Train 975]

21 hours ago, BNB said:

I follow Stradman, DDE, Hoovies Garage, Doug Demero on Youtube.

 

"I bOuGhT tHe ChEaPeSt Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais Quad 442 oN tHe InTarTaRdS!  "Now, watch me change the oil, point out a few quirks and features, and otherwise not accomplish dick with it."

Do you layer a tee shirt under your tee shirt as well?  All these YouTube celebs are dipshits... except for maybe Rich Rebuilds, because he has balls, actually works in his garage (with seemingly zero training or specialized tools) and told Tesla to fuck themselves.  

[TwiceHorn 32,076]

15 minutes ago, Gravy Train said:

"I bOuGhT tHe ChEaPeSt Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais Quad 442 oN tHe InTarTaRdS!  "Now, watch me change the oil, point out a few quirks and features, and otherwise not accomplish dick with it."

Do you layer a tee shirt under your tee shirt as well?  All these YouTube celebs are dipshits... except for maybe Rich Rebuilds, because he has balls, actually works in his garage (with seemingly zero training or specialized tools) and told Tesla to fuck themselves.  

1983 Cutlass Calais was the first car titled in my name.

[Anton Chigurh 3,335]

I don’t watch any of those channels, but I get almost all of my car content and news from the various TFL channels now. Those guys are great.

[Gravy Train 975]

Savagegeese is great for specific car reviews, especially established and older models.  I dig the segment where they discuss particular design flaws and get the car up on the lift to dissect suspension and drivetrain components.

[Prepuce of Doom 21,285]

An Olds Cutlass 442 ("Flat Out 442") Hot Wheels is one of the few Hot Wheels cars from my childhood that survived both the many driveway impromptu ball-peen hammer fabrication/modification sessions as well as the many paint shop endeavors of my youth. 

It came with one of my Criss Cross Crash sets (I wore out my first one, and my parents thought it was such a good babysitter that they replaced it...), along with the Ford Torinos seen here (one of which very clearly stopped by my MAACO franchise).

These are now at home among Doomlet's garage of cars... 

[Prepuce of Doom 21,285]

First picture made me laugh. 

Performative and twee. 

 

[G650 14,437]

On 9/13/2020 at 1:15 PM, Prepuce of Doom said:

An Olds Cutlass 442 ("Flat Out 442") Hot Wheels is one of the few Hot Wheels cars from my childhood that survived both the many driveway impromptu ball-peen hammer fabrication/modification sessions as well as the many paint shop endeavors of my youth. 

It came with one of my Criss Cross Crash sets (I wore out my first one, and my parents thought it was such a good babysitter that they replaced it...), along with the Ford Torinos seen here (one of which very clearly stopped by my MAACO franchise).

These are now at home among Doomlet's garage of cars... 

I had a buddy in HS with a 442 Cutlass

[TwiceHorn 32,076]

On 9/13/2020 at 11:38 AM, TwiceHorn said:

1983 Cutlass Calais was the first car titled in my name.

N.B. in 1983, the Calais was a trim level on the Cutlass that had bucket seats and a floor shifter and V8.  It was not the bastardized Chevy Citation that was the Cutlass Calais of later years.

This (no t-top or wing or vinyl roof)

Not this

They did, however, make a 442 on the latter platform.  WIth an NA DOHC Quad4 pumping out 180hp.  That was damned impressive for the time. 5L pony cars made 200 if that in that era.

Edited September 14, 2020 by TwiceHorn

[fattyflattie 4,640]

On 9/13/2020 at 11:22 AM, Gravy Train said:

All these YouTube celebs are dipshits... except for maybe Rich Rebuilds, because he has balls, actually works in his garage (with seemingly zero training or specialized tools) and told Tesla to fuck themselves.  

That dude is good. Tavarish used to be pretty good.  Finnegan has some cool stuff.  But most of the exotic stuff is hard to consume for me (DDE, Strad, etc) 

[Anton Chigurh 3,335]

That dude is good. Tavarish used to be pretty good.  Finnegan has some cool stuff.  But most of the exotic stuff is hard to consume for me (DDE, Strad, etc) 

Tavarish is a smart guy and I bet his videos are probably pretty good, but he was always so smug in his Jalopnik days that I never cared to follow him elsewhere.

[elfenix 34,749]

new Z car bows tomorrow

 

(Z proto should be very close to production based on how the GT-R proto turned out a few years back)

Edited September 15, 2020 by elfenix

[Anton Chigurh 3,335]

Will it still use the VQ? They need to move on from that.

[elfenix 34,749]

expected to be using VR30DDTT, which is VQ related

[Prepuce of Doom 21,285]

But the real question is, does it sound like diarrhea in a bucket? 

[Anton Chigurh 3,335]

But the real question is, does it sound like diarrhea in a bucket? 

That would be a given.

[tbone_ 14,442]

That white Cutlass above is dope af.

[elfenix 34,749]

[elfenix 34,749]

like pretty much everything but the big rectangle up front.  the video doesn't show off the shoulder sculpting very well

[Anton Chigurh 3,335]

Yikes. I see what they were trying to do there, but there are too many clashing styles.

 

If they at least change the front I do think it could work alright.

[elfenix 34,749]

[Okie State 3,889]

Front looks shitty. The rest looks okay to me. We'll see them weaving in and out of rush hour traffic soon enough.

[Pato del Muerto 53,473]

Needs an Aston or Lexus grill. Maybe even Audi. 

[Gravy Train 975]

31 minutes ago, Okie State said:

Front looks shitty. The rest looks okay to me. We'll see them weaving in and out of rush hour traffic soon enough.

They'll be lucky to move 5000 units annually.  Nobody plunking down $40K for a new FR platform chooses this over a Supra, Camaro or Mustang.

 

[Fuck Tim Beck 3,904]

36 minutes ago, Okie State said:

Front looks shitty. The rest looks okay to me. We'll see them weaving in and out of rush hour traffic soon enough.

Agree about the front. Dimensions don't look right. Looks like a miata smashed into the back of a bus 

[Prepuce of Doom 21,285]

It looks like it's shouting. 

But I dig the rear and profile. 

 

Edited September 16, 2020 by Prepuce of Doom

[Pato del Muerto 53,473]

Rear looks 911y or maybe taycany with the solid light bar across. 

Edited September 16, 2020 by Pato del Muerto

[Anton Chigurh 3,335]

Rear looks 911y or maybe taycany with the solid light bar across. 

 

I was thinking this:

 

 

Plus this:

 

 

With a little of this:

 

[Sam Lin 3,597]

Side profile near matches the F-type, which is not a bad thing. Not a fan of the front, but can't really place why. It just looks like a 350/370Z front with additional bulges to meat pedestrian crash regs. Back is non-offensive. A bit of Polestar, a bit of Lucid, a bit of random unibrow. Gets a solid 'meh' from me, same reaction I gave to the last gens.

[52-80 19,377]

It has good overall shape, but the detailings clash - particular the front vs rear vs general proportions.

The entire thing gives a retro-modern electric car vibe, a la Honda E

 

 

[TwiceHorn 32,076]

The rear, particularly taillights, is supposed to evoke the 90s 300ZX

The outdoor pix look a lot better than the indoor.  

I think all they need to do to fix that grille is shape it a little so it isn't just a rectangle.  Then it will be a bit less of a gaping maw.

Edited September 16, 2020 by TwiceHorn

[Goofyboy 3,432]

They need to add something to the front. Maybe LED fog lights or an additional scoop....