The cars and bikes thread!

[happyscrappyheropup]

Speaking of fun cars, I just ordered a new exhaust for my M3. I put a Dinan on a friend's E93 M3 a few years ago and just never got around to my own car. Should be a nice upgrade for the upcoming top down season.

[Samanator]

Yes! That one and the Smokey and the Bandit car are always the one I picture, I just couldn’t find the right photo.

Truly awful. It looks like someone splattered the roadkill of the animal you named your car after on the hood.

I had a 78 Dark Green z28 with a four speed manual (like the one below)as a tweener car between a string of Celicas (All with five speed manuals). I don't think it had these wheels on it, but I'm not certain.

[happyscrappyheropup]

I had a 78 Dark Green z28 with a four speed manual (like the one below)as a tweener car between a string of Celicas (All with five speed manuals). I don't think it had these wheels on it, but I'm not certain.

Second gen F-bodies weren’t all bad, I liked the early metal bumper cars best.

[Raza]

I would not valet my M3, but I have done it with other manual transmission cars. Always nerve racking.

I do understand that young, minimum wage employees may not have much exposure to manual transmissions. I taught both my girls to drive them, but I can't imagine many people in their 20s and 30s today own, or have one in the family.

I’ve valeted my old Jetta, but never my Z4. These days, though, if I’m going to a restaurant with a valet, I’m probably taking an Uber there anyway.

[Raza]

I had a 78 Dark Green z28 with a four speed manual (like the one below)as a tweener car between a string of Celicas (All with five speed manuals). I don't think it had these wheels on it, but I'm not certain.

Much better without the decals.

[geoffbot]

Speaking of fun cars, I just ordered a new exhaust for my M3. I put a Dinan on a friend's E93 M3 a few years ago and just never got around to my own car. Should be a nice upgrade for the upcoming top down season.

Aw hell yeah

[mlcor]

Opposite here - the more research and driving I did, the more it made sense. Cheaper to operate, less pollution/hassle on a daily basis, and cleaner cradle to grave than ICE even when considering battery production and recycling.



It's a 19" alloy wheel with an aero cover that snaps on for extra range, not sure where the unhappiness would come.



I'm not sure which hybrids or ICE cars you're buying, but I paid under $42k out the door (tax, tags, etc) for a '23 Model Y with less than 3600 miles, full body PPF, clean/1 owner carfax.

If you live where you can't charge at home or you regularly drive more than 250 miles/day to rural places with no charging infrastructure, electric cars definitely aren't for you. For most people who can charge at work or home, they work great. The average US driver puts less daily miles on their car than even the lower range of electric cars.

We still have a lot of work to do to our power grid in the US (especially in certain states), but electrics do make a lot of sense for a lot of drivers. Maybe just not for you.

It would be practical for me right up until the first storm that knocks our electricity out for a few days, making it impossible to charge at home…or I need to take a long trip where I’d have to sit around and wait for an hour to charge up. Assuming a charging station is available and working.

So…hybrid for me at least for the next ten years or so. Which wouldn’t leave me that many more years of driving…


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[happyscrappyheropup]

It would be practical for me right up until the first storm that knocks our electricity out for a few days, making it impossible to charge at home…or I need to take a long trip where I’d have to sit around and wait for an hour to charge up. Assuming a charging station is available and working.

So…hybrid for me at least for the next ten years or so. Which wouldn’t leave me that many more years of driving…

Hybrids are good, for my use a pure electric made more sense. But, if you're losing power for days at a time often enough that it factors into your vehicle planning, I'm surprised you can reliably access the internet.

[mlcor]

Hybrids are good, for my use a pure electric made more sense. But, if you're losing power for days at a time often enough that it factors into your vehicle planning, I'm surprised you can reliably access the internet.

It doesn’t happen often, but usually at least a couple of times per year that it’s more than 24 hours. Home backup generators are quite common here.

As for the internet, cell service and battery devices still work.


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[Henry Krinkle]

The 80's turbo Trans Am had a even bigger barfing chicken. My girlfriend back when these were new had one of these with the T-Top roof. It was not a great car. There was a Camaro equivalent (Z 28 ) to these that was much less gaudy.

Thunder Chickens!