if anything theyre much more reliable than they used to be which is true industrywide
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
The newer BMWs aren’t as nice inside as like a Mazda CX-5 until you’re really climbing up the price list.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 17 June 2022 18:28 (one year ago) link
I've almost never even been *driven* in a luxury car, let alone driven one, but a friend of mine has a Porsche SUV, and even as a passenger I could tell it drove so much better than our Nissan. Of course, $$$, including maintenance, gas, etc.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
The CX-5 is on my wish list.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 17 June 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
I don't think it's reliability as much as safety and durability.
i think the biggest criticism of new german cars which is also true of cars in general is theres just too much stuff too many features too fussy too many little things that can break to much computer shit mediating the driving experience
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, June 17, 2022 2:28 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is crazy talk
I got a CX-5 in 2014 and love it as much today as I did in the first year. I think my enthusiasm on ILX was one of the reasons tipsy mothra got one a few years later.
― WmC, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
Whenever I read any cars reviews (infrequent) they always bring up all sorts of shit I never considered. Engine noise, road noise, how smooth it shifts, etc. I'm so used to just driving utilitarian cars.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
Two of my siblings got violently T-boned in a Volvo 700 series sedan in the '90s, and the state transportation safety board sent investigators to look at the wreck to see how it was possible that anyone survived it completely uninjured. Idk about these days, I haven't kept up.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 17 June 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
Volvo used to have an unparalleled reputation for safety, right?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
basically all cars are safer at least in construction than the best volvo of the 1990s, they way in which theyre not safer is theyre all huge and fast now
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
the tesla interior, minus the dash screens, reminded me of a Saturn lol
― mh, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
interesting blog post https://danluu.com/car-safety/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 17 June 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
i saw someone online say they rode in one recently and were shocked by how theres just nothing in it, said it reminded them of a bachelor apartment with no art on the walls, which makes sense considering their fan base lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
That's def. one of the things one of my Tesla friends likes about it, the cleanness of it all (which somewhat mitigates the cheapness of it all). Which is all moot, because it's only a matter of time before Musk starts selling targeted ads for their touch screens.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link
"For just $5 a month extra, you can use your touch screen ad-free!"
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
ive heard them called minimalist which is such an insult to minimalism
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, June 17, 2022 6:35 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
That's why we had a couple and my sister drives one now. It did get bigger, as caek said--now she has some kind of SUV. But she also has 3 kids, 2 in carseats, which wouldn't have fit in the 740.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 17 June 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
I suppose no passenger car is going to save you when you rear-end a tractor-trailer at high speed.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 17 June 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/1ZEfjXP.png
crazy thing is the usa had been making steady long term gains in driving safety until it just wasnt, a lot of the recent flattening is prob due to increasing car size, but that last lil upward blip might be because the pandemic drove people crazy
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 June 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
can confirm that, I was out driving around town last weekend and thought I was driving bad, then I saw two separate incidents of cars blowing through red lights on the way home
― mh, Friday, 17 June 2022 19:24 (one year ago) link
yeah also the police have been on strike
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 June 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
also the gains stop when smartphones were introduced.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 17 June 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
yeah good call
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 June 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
i don't know how to reveal this to humanity, because it is incredibly bad news, but i dumped all the car fatality data into Numbers and ran a 6th order polynomial trendline on it, and ...we're all going to die next year
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 17 June 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
ah well it could be worse
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 June 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
idk I think the fact there's nothing on the dashboard except the screen is kinda cool
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 17 June 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
until the screen goes dark for some unknown reason
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Friday, 17 June 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, June 17, 2022 2:33 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
The one time I was actively shopping for a car, I remember rapidly realizing that reading any kind of professional car review was completely pointless because they are all written by car fetishists. Would have loved to find some resource for people who need to buy a car because they need to buy a car and just for people who are really into cars.
― silverfish, Friday, 17 June 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
Hasn't happened to us yet! xp
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 17 June 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
xp. they're often reviewed like this guy reviews tools, i.e. without telling you what it is like to own and use them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GTJMhJuL68
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 17 June 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link
Road noise is legit, though. I drove my ex-roomie's Wrangler when I helped her move four hours away and even with a hard top the ambient noise was giving me a headache - and I was driving a utilitarian work pickup at the time.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 17 June 2022 20:51 (one year ago) link
I think Saab actually tested better, but Volvo was more than happy to have people circulate this idea
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 17 June 2022 20:57 (one year ago) link
(I've always had a weird, unjustified love for Saabs, which I'm sure would be dashed if I actually owned one)
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 17 June 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
Saabs are forever associated with the Clickhole "Garbage Sons" article for me now.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 17 June 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link
https://www.classicargarage.com/assets/images/f/saab-sonett-2-1967-two-stroke-red-rouge-rot-rood-02-3162057f.jpg
A 2-stroke 3 cylinder motor? gimme a break, of course I'm in love
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 17 June 2022 21:28 (one year ago) link
not drive my car? xp
― 龜, Friday, 17 June 2022 21:31 (one year ago) link
No, "I don't cry. I Saab"
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 17 June 2022 21:35 (one year ago) link
"FIAT" stands for "Fix It Again, Tony"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 17 June 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
Found On Road Dead
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 17 June 2022 21:41 (one year ago) link
Terrifying Electric Shitty Loser Asshole
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 17 June 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link
The ignition on the floor novelty of slaabs would be lost in an age of fobs what wld they do to bring back the mystique
― Warning: Choking Hazard (Hunt3r), Saturday, 18 June 2022 02:08 (one year ago) link
I admire Elon Musk, but the real People of the Year are the doctors, nurses, first responders, and scientists who have worked so gallantly—there is no other word—to fight this deadly, constantly transforming virus.— Stephen King (@StephenKing) December 21, 2021
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 18 June 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
Lost me at "admire".
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 18 June 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
So how much money has Tesla lost from Musk's Bitcoin investment now?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 18 June 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
~$600m
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 June 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/elon-musk-son-files-change-201451698.html
Happy Father’s Day Elon
― frogbs, Monday, 20 June 2022 23:06 (one year ago) link
the fact he has a trans kid puts an even more dire context on all his bullshitcongrats, not your kid anymore. hope she’s doing great and no one bothers her about the shithead birth father
― mh, Tuesday, 21 June 2022 01:26 (one year ago) link
4 things that deserve each otherhttps://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/sgifcv/elon_musk_jordan_peterson_joe_rogan_and_the/
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 30 June 2022 05:14 (one year ago) link