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I'm a industrial (car) designer. Ask me something if you want
>>14896935
Since it's been discussed in a thread days ago... Do you think your work is art, considering the classic definition of art?
>>14896935
Where did you go to school? Did you major in any mechanics or engineering?
Why is everything you fuckwits design so god damn ugly nowadays?
>>14896367
Whoever designed this has either no self-awareness or way too much of it
I'd buy it.
>reaching your mid 20s and still owning used cars
>mid 20s and still have the first car you ever got as only car
>>14895172
>buying into the "if it ain't new it's garbage" meme
good goyim
>wanting a modern "car"
>not buying an E39 M5 and supercharging it o create the ultimate sleeper
Serfs guna serf.
if it aint broke don't fix it. i'll keep driving well into 300k miles if it'll take me there.
redpill me on superchargers /o/
Sounds like a whining child, looks weird in an engine bay, inferior to modern turbos.
parasitic
lasts longer than turbos
t b h idk pham, im just a measly lil benchracer
>>14888945
Instead of exhaust gas sscavenging, it uses the camshaft to sap power to compress the air into the engine. Its good for lower end power. Its more instant than turbochargers. Usually less of the turbo lag people talk about
Although nowadays turbos are getting better and better.
I know that lots of times when I do my Tales From The Dealership threads, people ask me questions relating to car sales/used cars/car buying/financing, and a lot of times I don't get to circle back and answer them, or answer them in as much detail as I would like
So this thread is to help correct that. This a Q&A and advice thread. Any questions that you've ever wanted to ask me about car sales/haggling/dealerships/financing/credit, ask them here, and I will try and give as well thought out an answer as I can.
If you want advice to a specific situation,...
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>>14871216
I've been selling Toyota for a year and have been doing very well, but my dealership is very crooked (rampant wage theft) and I need to move on. I think my strengths would play well at a luxury brand. From a sales standpoint, which do you think would be the best to sell? I like Toyota so Lexus would seem good, but I imagine Lexus customers being the most difficult to work with (mostly not excited or excitable about cars, lots of Jews and Indians and really old people).
LPG welp can't go to sleep now......
>>14871216
>tfw want to ask something but don't know what even though you're in the market for a used car
I guess I'll just read everyone else's posts like always
/stance/ thread
>stance
>>14891159
you sound jealous of my EG Hatch
it has a few simple mods
>>14891183
thats an ek fgt.
I know how diesel engines differ from gasoline ones in terms of torque curves and mpgs, but how are they different mechanically? I remember reading somewhere they use different compression ratios, but that's the end of my knowledge.
Much higher compression ratios, they dont make a vacuum hence always need turbos or superchargers, built tougher/heavier. example a cummins 3.9L 4bt (baby 6bt out of dodge diesel trucks) are 800 pounds. Compared to 550 pounds for a chevy 350. They dont have throttle bodies, theyre controlled by the amount of fuel. Idling takes minimal fuel... lots of little things are different.
>>14886774
uh, they dont have spark plugs? that is why their compression ratio is so high, the compession causes the ignition instead of using an electronic spark plug. because of this diesel (compression ignition) automobiles are almost always super and/or turbocharged. other than that they are the same. diesels are more effecient than gas engines, but pollute tons of particulate matter. as emission laws become stricter and technology improves the real world difference in economy is getting smaller
>>14886807
diesels exist NA. they do not require FI. they draw vacuum like every engine.
but yes OP in a gas engine you control speed by limiting air intake via throttle body. in a diesel there is no throttle body speed is controlled by how much fuel is injected.
Are corvettes good, proper sports cars?
Do they handle well?
I'm mostly interested in C5s and C6s.
Which one is a better performer for the price?
>leaf springs
>proper sports car
pick one
>>14899773
They're great cars if you can ignore the fact that most of them are owned by obnoxious elderly white men who frequent meets.
How easy is a Corvette to live with as a daily driver? Been thinking about replacing my Miata with one.
>drive 2014 C7 Corvette Z51 1LT
>everybody wants to race you at lights
What are /o/'s pet peeves?
>>14898055
You, faggot
>>14898055
frosty pls
>>14898055
Should of bought a Prius then, faggot.
This is objectively superior to Black Ice
>that smell of hot artificial coconut when you enter the car
>>14896880
How about you fuck off you fucking casual
>I couldn't handle the fresh
>>14896926
B-but I used to buy Black Ice®
>>14896927
Smell doesn't linger long enough and I just found it boring after buying so many.
>I know you gotta put food on the table but have some decency about it.
>One of these fuckers pressured my dad into buying a 2015 S Class when he when in to buy a C Class.
>Don't you just hate these fuckers?
>>14896562
They are the scums of the earth!
They have no fucking morals.
>>14896565
How do they get away with that shit.
I think I'm gonna contact the Better Business Bureau and report these asses.
>>14896562
If you get "pressured' in to buying a car go kill yourself because you are a c.uck
I don't know faggot, why are you asking us?
Or are you baiting for ebin maymays?
s a g e d
>progressive
>doors open backwards and has super badass and cool wheels
r-right
>your country/state
>what kind of cars you see at 'car meets'
>what kind of people you typically see at 'car meets'
Not formal car meets. Just the type of people you see stopped by the side of a country road, or in a car park, lounging about with the bonnets open chatting shit.
>be me UK
>car meets are either teenagers in blacked out Vauxhall Astra's with big bore exhaust, a sea of Fiesta's...
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>Australia
>poofs in lowered GT-T's and WRX
>Colorado, USA
>Lots of WRXs, V6 Mustangs, SXT Chargers/Challengers, ricer Hondas, acuras, old GTIs, and the occasional Hellcat or GTR
>Mostly high schoolers and minorities, lots of vapers, flatbilled swagfags, underage girls who dress like they are 25, Asian exchange students who can't even drive for shit but have 500+ HP supercars, etc.
>>14884190
>Dallas, Texas, (sometimes) USA
>car scene is easily divided into four parts
>swagfags who's idea of mods include big chrome wheels, lowering springs, and love convertibles
>rednecks and their prized mini trucks/mudrunners/mall crawlers
>badgewhore fanboys
>the crazy bastards that do nothing but highway pulls in purpose built...
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Yes or N/o/
>2008 9-3 2.0T
>130K "Mostly Highway" kek
>4200 Doll Hairs
Will post more pics.
Is this a car for fags?
Are these cars easy to wrench on? Any GM parts compatibility?
>>14881011
what an insecure manlet you have to be to ask such question?
Civic Fanboys.
>why do they exist
Please share examples of Civic-driver-idiocy in this thread.
>are some of the engines to ever come out of Japan
>>14894798
Because Civics can be genuine track monsters on the cheap.
>why are there fans of really well built, reliable, and fun to drive cars
Not sure m8
