The cars and bikes thread!

[Samanator]

Nissan's interior design department is constantly high on something. I've never been in a modern car with an interior so poorly designed as I have been in every Nissan I've gotten into. Even that Armada I drove in Napa was really poorly designed. Everything is where you don't expect it to be, there isn't space where you need it, there's too much space where you don't need it, and the navigation system sucked too. I have little confidence in Nissan/Infiniti designs. Maybe the car they did with Mercedes will have better interior design, but that's kind of a big maybe because even Mercedes can make some strange design choices.

I can’t speak for a Nissan, but a few of the recent Infiniti interior I’ve been in, including my wife QX30 is excellent and fantastic even on an 8+ hours trip. The QX30 is the joint venture with the Mercedes, but other than some switch gear, a steering wheel and the shifter the interior is all Infiniti. We’ve have a friend who has Mercedes version and even they wish they bough the Infiniti which the interior and exterior, ride, and handling (all done by Infiniti) are superior to the Mercedes according them ( and I Agree). It’s actually some of the Mercedes bits like how the cruise works (hers does not have the radar cruise that is by Infiniti ), and how the stupid door lock/door handle work, or should I say don’t work right(Same as the way they were on my E320 a few years ago). I understand Infiniti fixed this now. The nav works excellent and other menus seem pretty easy to navigate. It could use Apple Car Play though. The space foam used in Infiniti seats( and Nissan) is some of the best. Excellent comfort over long mile while not being too hard or too soft.

Not quite equal to the few Jags(5 total) we have had including my current F Type, but very few are. Some recent releases by them (
Including the SUV) don’t look like Jags or at least what we expect from a Jaguar.

Interiors are personally the reason I’ve never owned a BMW. I guess it is what you are use to? Some of the Jag things made no sense at first, but became natural in a week or two.

For SUV the Acura RDX A-Spec had one of the best interiors short of a top end Range Rover when I was last out driving things.

Sometimes our criteria are based on strange requirements. My recent truck search required it to fit in my garage so it had to be less than 20 foot long. I chose the Honda Ridgeline out of that pack since it seems far more in-tune for what I want for our third vehicle. It’s the Swiss Army knife of Trucks.

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[Strela167]

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[geoffbot]

This part of Sydney is just awash with supercars. Seen some ferraris, skylines, and more porsches, amgs and BMW. M cars than you can shake a stick at.

[shameless]

thought i would share this paint finish i spotted today -

[mlcor]

thought i would share this paint finish i spotted today -

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[tribe125]

Came across some old pictures of Lydd Ferryfield Airport, which is near here.




“Just popping over to Le Touquet for some lunch.”


Another picture from the era -




Now that’s what you call motoring.

Ian Fleming, who knew the area well, had Goldfinger ferry his car from here.

[Samanator]

This part of Sydney is just awash with supercars. Seen some ferraris, skylines, and more porsches, amgs and BMW. M cars than you can shake a stick at.

This is quite common where I live, and even for our street. On Christmas day my one neighbor with the Z06 Corvette had a 570S in nearly the same color as my F Type. It was a friend of his and we both drove it around the 4 mile loop near the house. When I first moved here BMW of all pedigrees were the dominant car model in the parking lots. Now they seem to be replaced by Maserati and the BMW are for their kids. There are three Ferraris on our street alone and that is only 18 houses. Strangely not a single Tesla yet, but we have nearly everything else.

[tribe125]

I’d be so tempted to lower the tone.

[mlcor]

I’d be so tempted to lower the tone.

I hear that two-tone is back in style...


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[Seriously]

thought i would share this paint finish i spotted today -