If Cars Had Honest Advertising

i’m pretty sure the first one is just an international trim of our toyota kijang

WAY too similiar. yes that was also popular, but slowly died, and then replaced by the gran max. which was why i said the more ‘modern’ choice

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#deleteyouraccount
#foreveralone
#muricafuckyeah
#whyareyouonacarforumwhenyouclearlyhatedriving

And with that completely flabbergasting statement you just cemented yourself the title of “forum tool of the week” :joy:

On a more serious note, I live in Melbourne, Australia, bemoan the completely unnecessary proliferation of the Ford Raptor in inner-city environments (because everything else is too small, apparently, and by everything else, I’m sure that means one’s penis). I’m also Asian, stand 5’11" and weigh 176lbs (though granted this does make me a bit larger by Asian standards, but merely national average for all comers… protip: size may be a product of genetics, but it is also a product of climate, nutrition, activity and epigenetics). I’ve also helped my girlfriend move house 4 times in 3 years. What did I use for all those jaunts? A Honda Civic hatchback. Those magic folding seats give you a shitton of room. And unlike a Ford Raptor, I can fit it up a suburban driveway and down a Melbourne alleyway without crashing into everything.

I also don’t plan to not have kids, and I still don’t want an SUV. I’m one of three kids and our family got along just fine with a Mitsubishi Magna/Galant (ok, so it was a complete lemon but that’s beside the point). I pity the poor guys who get forced to buy an SUV just because their SO said they needed one to keep up with all the other idiots who buy one when they don’t need them. As for your rationale of ‘what if I might need it someday’, consider yourself the product of a generational philosophy of wasteful false convenience at the expense of resourcefulness and innovation.

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Back to topic:

Mitsubishi Galant V6: When your mortgage is too high to afford a BMW 530i.

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The Mercedes E-class


Coming to literally every single Nordic taxi stand

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Well there’s nothing wrong with wanting an SUV…

Goodness gracious, I never even thought of it as highly as that :joy:

Next you’ll be telling me there’s nothing wrong with voting Donald Trump for president :stuck_out_tongue:

Well, that’s just, like, your OPINION, duh

When given the choice of a pistol to the head or a cyanide pill… :smile:

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Volkswagen Golf R: “Getting AIDS is more funny than driving this” (Admins: this black humour is permitted?).

Mazda RX7 FC (s4 & s5):

The most f*cking solid and well built car that I’ve ever worked ever (I will talk about them in other post).

“Trochoid and rotors: max power and fun, minimum torque and range”.

Mazda MX5 (ND):

"Hiroshima is proud to sell the only cheap, RWD, under 1100kg (lightweight) and pure car.

Honda CR-X (MK2. As stock):

“Fun to drive, exciting sound, great handling, and it features indestructible engines”.

“Tubular exhaust headers, fully independent suspension, no assisted steering, lightweight, revving engine… and this is from a stock car”.

After those awfully kind Honest Adverts, I can’t help but rag on this:

“We understand that it’s anaemic and overpriced. So we gave it a facelift!”

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I don’t exactly like any Golf myself, but I must ask, what is wrong with them?

I loved the idea that hybrids could be fun and when Honda announced the CR-Z I was actually excited for a hybrid, and then they made it a bit too dull but at least Spoon had a go at making it a bit better, this could’ve been the car that changed my opinion on hybrids

And after a few years, to literally every single Polish taxi stand :smiley:

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Nothing’s wrong with them (dicky notchy DCT aside). It’s just that they’re really fucking boring. That’s why they’re the gold standard among reviewers: they’re competent but also a safe choice for the unimaginative, unquirky person, which, apparently, is a lot of people (alternatively the person who likes paying a bit extra for ‘insurance’ because they know shit all about cars and don’t care).

I’ve sat in one a few times. It’s overwhelmingly grey. Now, if sitting in a grey office cocoon is your thing, it can be nice in that stern, Teutonic way. Not my thing.

Eh, I’m skeptical, because electric motors are heavy so you’d want it to be worth the investment. IMHO the smaller the car, the less point there is having electric motors “augmenting” the driving experience, because, as the CR-Z well proved, all you’re doing is weighing down and augmenting approximately shit all.

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The CR-Z could’ve been an affordable fun hybrid but yeah as you said electric motors are heavy and in a way you sort of lose what you gained from the motor in the first place, at least we still have the i8 even though it isn’t affordable

In terms of “affordable sexy electric cars” I guess we’ll see what happens to the Model 3 huh?

Meanwhile, I’m totally hanging out a decade or so for hydrogen, come onnnnnnn

yeah… we need to question the ‘afforable’ part… though, it is already kinda pushing the limit.

The problem: it cost too much, it drives like a truck (it feels heavy), and it understeers a lot.

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Not mortgage, tuition.

why not both?

god…