I know the B48 is considered far more reliable than the N20 but which BMW I6 engines are considered gems and which are considered worse?Does the N55 also have a bad reputation compared to the B58?Driven 3, 5 and X3s at work and considering one now.
>>28951076They're all made of plastic, good for 60k
Thanks to recent events I have begun to reconsider my stance on 1) nose men and 2) carbureted v8 land yachts. I, however, am unwilling to give up the aesthetics and ride comfort of these old girls I love so. Can I afford the 15 mpg of my current yacht? Yes. Do I want to? No!Enter: the chrysler lebaron. Small, cheap, reliable, easy to park, reasonably stylish, and 26-40 miles to the gallon. Now here's the rub: where in the hell do I find one of these? The vast majority of surviving Ks are verts. Those are cool and all, but here in texas I'd be more inclined to describe 'em as uncomfortably hot. And of the very few (surviving) non-vert Ks, an infinitesimally small fraction have the manual transmission.SO, to the oldfags/heads/nigs/whatevs here, I have a task for you. Find me one. Find me a coupe/sedan, even wagon, under 7 grand, good condition, AC, manual, 2.2L (NOT the shitsubishi 2.6) fuck it, I'll take a reliant or aries. Ask your grandpappy. Ask your buddies. Ask your wife's sister's boss's dog's friend's owner's brother's electrican's mechanic. Please, I beg of you all. For the sake of this anon's wallet and sense of aesthetics. I can even bread the car when we're all said and done. I can take us all on virtual road trips. pls
>>28951070I’ll just walk
>>28951070>where in the hell do I find one of these?probably rotting in trailer parks and back alleys around the US
>>28951090If you don't virtually hop in for my virtual road trip I will non-virtually rape you
chrysler lebron
are you Nvious /o/?
>>28950826>Opinions of a based v6 mustang driverYou're most of the way to a used base C8 Corvette for the price of a fucking CT-R. It's absurd.
>>28950826it-it has civic reliability too bro trust me you can't spend 50k on anything better than this
>>28949810nope because I got myself one the other week. I dont think you should have bought new though. definitely
>>28951097post got cut offDefinitely a better deal than whatever scams the Germans and japs are pulling these days with the golf r and ctr. gli, gti, and si arent even in the same class as the elantra n
>>28951060Lmao the current ShartStream 2.5 liter engines have the exact same fucking problem as the Theta. Hyundai hasn't fixed shit.
Can someone that knows what they're talking about tell me if this is right?Looking at finally getting a M240i Coupe. Been wanting one for a long time and finally in a place to get it. A friend of mine has a BRZ and is telling me that I'm wasting a lot of money because the BRZ and the GR86 are better cars and I will be wasting money on this. Someone else I know at work, not a friend, drives a Miata and tells me he would never buy a BMW.Now I'm a bit hesitant. I've test driven the M240i a few times now and it feels amazing to drive. I've driven his BRZ and I don't really think they're comparable when it comes to power.Some /O/ anon can tell me straight.
>>28948325the biggest problem with the mlites is the lack of LSD makes them kind of dangerous.
>>28948503Yes but they don't sell them to poorfags anymore. On the zupra it's like a $7k option. Otherwise I think it's only available on the M cars.
I had my GR86 for 3 years and it's a ton of fun to drive, far more "connected" than a wannabe M car. They are a stupid good value and despite what people say it's actually a very reliable platform, people blowing up engines from oil starvation was completely overblown, they're also very cheap to maintain.But I think it's also overrated as a daily, people put up with way more shit than they should. It's perfectly serviceable, sure, but you're really going to get annoyed by the compromises in the long run. If you're already cross shopping something far more comfortable, it may not be the car for you. I would say at a minimum for a GR to be half as pleasant as an M lite you would want off the PS4 asap and go up to 225/40 for additional sidewall; putting on DWS06 made a huge difference for me for my non-summer set, new dampers,I'm a bilstein fag so I'd go with them, and then additional sound deadening along the wheel and trunk.If this is a second car, ignore everything and just get the 86
>>28948325I think I'm pretty qualified to talk about this specific topic. I've owned a First Gen BRZ, Just finished Reviewing a Yuzu GR86, and family owns a F87 OG M2, and I currently own 2 E46's.If I were you, throw the idea of the F22 M240i out the window. They are not good "sports cars" People who bench race saying they can make an M240i as fast as an M2 are just coping. Sure in a straight line you can build the B58 to do crazy drag passes, but the amount of money needed to sink to get the suspension to a similar level as the M-car is unreasonable, and you wont even get the widebody. I've just had this argument with my family over M240i vs an M2. OG M2's have tanked in value because the comp exists, I dont know about your market, but for us it was a 5k difference between an 6 speed M240i vs a 6 Speed OG M2, and you get a whole lot more car for the money for 5k more, and when the time comes, the M2 will hold better resale value in the future. The N55 is reliable as long as auto-start stop is disabled and for the most part is cheap to maintain for an "M" car. The M2 N55 has most of the S55 goodies minus the air to water intercooler anyways, and sounds way better, Even brakes arent expensive as long as you're willing to convert to solid blanks over the factory 2 pc rotors. Its the best "bang for buck" between an M240i, OG M2, and M2C.But as someone that used to have a first gen BRZ, and now just finished reviewing the GR86. Theyre the better cars for "fun" at reasonable speeds, and driving the GR86 made me remember why i loved the BRZ to begin with. Gen 2 in my opinion has the PERFECT amount of power and anyone that says otherwise is bench racing. God If i had it for longer than a week, i'd definitely be in jail right now. The limits of that car are so so low that you're pretty much going into every single turn sideways at a reasonable speed. Its so easy to slide with the LSD I couldnt stop giggling. The M cars and M lites will punish you if you make a mistake.
>>28951072I know plenty of people do it, but did you have more "oh shit" moments in your area in the BRZ over the M2? I'm in the PNW and RWD year round is fine, but I've had more than a handful of unintentional sketchy moments.
this is the best sports car Japan ever produced
>>28949703what's the thing it's under? definitely not a hoist...
>>28950924Are you talking about the support beam in the middle of his garage?
>>28950928oh yeah that. forgot that some garages might have that lel
>>28950924That's a fan, anon
>>28944996i like the half doorsliked em on the rx8 toomazda should drop body style down and sell a turbo skyactive hatch, the current 3's rear seats are already so cramped adults can't really sit in them. so just cut the door down and make the back seats vestigial
Kia is quickly rising as the best car company in the world. Their basic cars feel premium, and they make the best EVs. The upcoming Tasman-based SUV is elegant, rugged, and truly exciting; and their upcoming truck will make Toyota weep.Just as Korean pop music has captured the American imagination, the quality and expressive modern machines made often in America are capturing the hearts of the vital American public.
kia chads stay winning
Kias would be nice if they didn’t have the kia boys reputation from the pre-immobilizer days. Niggers still think they’re easy to steal so insurance is still insane
>>28951024>Kias would be nice if they didn’t have the kia boys reputation from the pre-immobilizer days. Niggers still think they’re easy to steal so insurance is still insaneIs that why the engines don't last? And why that company has so many fire related recalls? Because of tiktok videos?
>>28950900lmao this stupid image gets changed every week it seems. Always makes me laugh how dumb it is.
>>28950900Should be a accent hatchback
Does your car have fat tires from the factory or do you drive an estrogenic car?
>>28950562>Inshallah habibiI don't even know what you are talking about
>>28949938OP doesn't own a car period
These niggas out here ridding around on bicycle tires
i can't afford the factory width so i got some different wheels
>>28949937Somebody put 8 inch wides from a charger on my piece of shit so I've been running 245/45r18s when the stock is 225/50r17
are JLR products actually that bad?
Had a Discovery 4 as a family car for a long time. 2.7 TDV6. The 3L V6s blow up cranks with no reason. The 2.7s the torque converter fails. Myriad electrical issues. Hard on suspension bushings too, they're heavy cars. Every service was expensive due to required maintenance beyond a regular service.Absolutely phenomenal car to drive, so comfy, good power, towed easily. Were it not crashed into we'd still have it.It's the sort of thing that if you get a good one, it's pretty good, but still more maintenance than most other brands. If you get a bad one it'll send you broke very quickly.
Yes.
>>28951061They're a poo-in-loo company now. Yes, they really are that bad.
Post your commuting experiencesThe events today that inspired this thread:>work near an airport>this means that there are dozens of logistics companies, federal offices, post office branches, essentially lots of black people jobs around me>their driving abilities are super naturally poor>just today>driving down an access road alongside a major highway>this is a very busy junction>traffic is merging from the left, traveling at 55-65 MPH>you're coming from the right traveling at 45-55 MPH>everything funnels to a stoplight>between 50-100 cars can wait at this stoplight during a cycle>driving towards the stoplight, a brand new LX700 comes to a complete stop in the middle of this junction about ten car lengths back from the car in front of them>realizing I'm about to be pinned right at the merge I swing around themComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>22 minute drive to work with normal road conditions>slight drizzle>33 minutes>snow or fog>44 minutesIt's all down to retarded retired boomers deciding they need to go drive to store during morning rush hour for some fucking reason.Also at least once a week I get one of them cut infront of me without even looking and driving 20 under the speed limit. Almost died 5 times so far.
i walk
>>28945358I once commuted up and down a winter wonderland at my job at Mt Spokane in my rwd white Toyota
I work night shifts, it's nice being in counter traffic. The people who ruin my commute are the cyclists who refuse to cycle in their protected reserved path only feet away from the road they decide to ride on instead, and the crazy Eastern European taxi drivers who speed, cut people off, and don't use their signals.>>28949844Same problem. The retards on the road freak out with a sprinkle of rain or snow.
>>28945525This. I basically feel like screaming the old VB "I have plastic knees you sonofabitch!" with my Tracker.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFz6apu0570
for context it's the little electric fan installed near the dashboard of an LLV, they don't have air conditioning at all. i was actually thinking about getting one in my vw beetle as a stopgap solution (since i don't have the money for a $1,000 alternator replacement yet). apparently they run on standard 12 volts DC, so it wouldn't be hard to power one.
have you ever used a fan before?
make you feel like your flying a russian helicopter
>>28950832>this guy dun know how fans work
>>28950832Hot days you'll be driving around with the doors slid back so you might not notice much from the fan when you're moving. Stopped, or low speed, and it'll be a lifesaver. Same when it rains. You might want more than one angle too depending on available mounting areas.
>>28951050Read the post again. He doesn't actually have a mail truck, he's just looking to them for inspiration for his VW.
>*destroys your engine in your path*Heh. Nothin' personnel, kid
>>28948041>>28948194Ethanol fuels are just an excuse for Big Ag to grift American tax payers via corn subsidies. They use fossil fuels to cultivate millions of acres of corn that serve no purpose other than to use more fossil fuel to refine into ethanol fuel to put in your car and fuck it up. Corn monoculture negatively impacts us by destroying topsoil, killing beneficial insects via pesticide use, causes uncontrolled erosion, and takes away acreage that could have been used to grow actual useful food crops. You should avoid ethanol wherever possible.t. grew up on a farm
>>28948194See, we could just be using R99 diesel from recycled animal/veggie fats. We live in a day and age where we can synthetically produce diesel fuel and even petrol but it's not done on scale. Ive owned several mechanical indirect injection diesels that accept everything from veggie oil to used hydraulic fluid with ZERO filtration. Driven countless miles while only spending a dollar or two on actual diesel. My newer TDI won't appreciate running suspicious waste fuels so much but it can still accept a good blend if it's been filtered enough It just seems like as a planet we're dropping the ball on renewable fuel for ICE engines.
>>28948042its about time the farming industry was deregulated
>>28948197"we" have been "voting" for this since the mid 1970's.
>>28948197I didn't vote lmao
>beautiful 24C day >every single npc is driving around with their windows up Wtf causes this?Does the npc just live to smell their own farts?
Seems every other car on the road has a busted cat or dpf so exhaust fumes always smell like ass
>>28948844#alljeetsmustdie2026Did you know the average normalfag in 2026 is on so many anxiety meds they are legally required to have 50% tint to avoid the "fishbowl" alegations?
>>28950110my car was built before aerodynamics took priority, it's interesting being able to fully open the window on the highway and experiencing little, if any, wind buffeting. i end up closing it anyway because the tyre noise from other cars is surprisingly loud.
>>28948972This and there's always construction where I work, so the air is a a mix of >dying fish carcass>stoners smoking their shit>tar>garbage that hasn't been collected in 2 weeks that festered in the sunI keep my windows up in the hope to not smell all that. Not any better air in the exurb where I live, which is full of people starting fires, smokers, and crappy cars with shitty exhausts.
>>28948823The bodylines of modern cars give them dogshit window-down aerodynamics. I had the "great pleasure" of renting a present-gen ford explorer. 30 mph with all the windows down in that piece of shit felt like 70 mph w/ one window down in a 2000's car. Thanks to the laminar flow all these nu-cars try and pull the slightest crack of the windows generates a massive vortex of turbulence, conveniently placed INSIDE OF YOUR EARDRUM, for your comfort and enjoyment of course :)Meanwhile I can drive my 2010 car or my 1979 car with one window open + opposite cracked on the free way at 70 and enjoy
I mog you
>>28950333>Buying catsFor some reason I find this sickening.BACK IN MY DAY you got cats for free, just go to any farmhouse in a 100km radius and ask them to see the kitten haul of the year, you could freely pick a cat for yourself.
>>28949560Based caturday-post>>28950332>>28949568>don't take one glance at the platethis is spiritual pajeetism
>>28949560HELP HELP IM BEING MOGGED
I want a 4 door Jimny so much
>>28950341we fucked up and did that when I was a child and my neighborhood still has descendants of those fuckers 20 years later, we didn't even have any of them but some time in 2023 I found this one in a tree and adopted it and im pretty sure it's just of the long long ancestors of the couple shitasses we brought home.
What are the purpose of these abominations?Super limited and slow, much more fragile and dangerous to drive, often do weird noises, often cannot be used on many roads
>>28942036There is a grey with squiggly graphic Fiat badged one being tidyly quick here.3k down and 70 a month rental so it's their problem when you wreck.IDK.
>>28942085These cars are hilarious, they sound like lawnmowers instead of cars. well it be funny if not on how dangerous they can be, especially when boosted. They have zero protections at all, on the outside and in the inside
>>28942036For teens, my parents initially wanted me to have one before they just bought me a aygoi need to fucking pass my permit holy shit is the french driver permir ASS to pass
>>28942231>ITT: Americans can't grasp the concept of high density living in a compact city built for horses over 2000 years ago.Yeah, no we don't, that shit is fuckin gay
If that global warming crap was realEveryone would have one as a second vehicle to commute withAlso Children and Old peoplehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadricycle_(EU_vehicle_classification)
Who’s more annoying
>Who’s more annoyingThose who shill yt slop
>>28950220The slop suffix is getting old. Start getting more creative.
>>28948713>listening to podcasts on youtube
>>28950243Quit your bitching, fag.
>>28948713doug has a more annoying personality, but people take camisole's opinions more seriously so he's parroted more