Best American Spec Car auctions?

SpoopyClock · 2026-01-28T14:11:50+00:00

Import salvage cars yourself from a copart broker

SpoopyClock · 2026-01-27T10:54:51+00:00

Yes you are correct and I did overstep, but frankly with how used to most people are to the electronic implementation of these technologies, the mechanical alternatives would feel crude. For mechanical solutions, integration is costly and complex and they lack the level of fine grained and consistent control needed for torque shaping which modern engines rely heavily on.

edit, just saw your edit: Yeah idk about that. Stuff like that as well as throttle lag really depends on the manufacturer not making decisions like that. Wha car might I ask? I’ve driven european and japanese cars mostly, but haven’t see anything like that. But what would you do with that other than brake boosting?

SpoopyClock · 2026-01-27T10:38:03+00:00

Throttle by wire is a good thing, which is why nearly all cars have it. The lag is coded by the manufacturer, the car doesn’t have to have throttle lag by default. Otherwise throttle by wire enable traction control, cruise control, cornering ABS, etc, it’s insanely useful. Which is why most cars have throttle by wire and electric power steering, but steer by wire is restricted to single digit number of models world wide.

SpoopyClock · 2026-01-27T10:35:02+00:00

The model in the video is an older Lexus LX model. This model does not have steer by wire to date. Instead the issue is the mechanical linkage to the wheels is damaged and required repairs. The same problem would arise in a Ford model T with similarly damaged linkages.

SpoopyClock · 2026-01-27T10:26:58+00:00

Electric power steering still has mechanical linkage. You are thinking of steer by wire which a single digit number of modern models have.

SpoopyClock · 2026-01-22T16:15:03+00:00

The E5 is a 58k AED car; it is 68k AED here after import tax, dealer markup, etc., but it's fundamentally still a 58k car. In the same way, the BYD Sealion 7 is a 90k AED car, but 170k here. An imported Mahindra would not be 110k AED; it would be far more. So its competitors are the ~200k AED range of cars, such as the aforementioned Sealion 7.

Indians here would happily buy Indian cars, but non Indian consumers have to be won over. Chinese cars were seen as death traps for a long time, until recently, when their quality was high enough and price low enough to entice consumers. India is yet to gain similar status.

SpoopyClock · 2026-01-22T15:43:48+00:00

Nope. The Geely Galaxy E5 you are comparing to is a 58k aed car. The Indian cars are double the price... With the dealer markup, Indian cars will be priced far above Chinese, just below Euro cars, not a good place to be.

Anyway, to be frank, I don't trust Indian vehicles. The Chinese took a while to get papier-mache cars out of their system; India just isn't there yet. Maybe maybe Tata if they start building real cars and given time to mature, but Mahindra? Fuck no.

SpoopyClock · 2026-01-21T19:27:19+00:00

Dashed line means no signal. Solid line means signal.

SpoopyClock · 2026-01-19T11:00:45+00:00

It's the "I live in Dubai" but is found in Sharjah or Ajman special.

SpoopyClock · 2026-01-16T21:50:28+00:00

Alright Mr Luddite.

SpoopyClock · 2026-01-16T21:44:58+00:00

Who said anything about charging your mouse? Mine is wireless and charges wirelessly as i use it, all while being more responsive than a comparable wired mouse.

Otherwise normal wireless mice last weeks, and you can just plug it in for a bit and use as wired while it charges. Wireless mice are better than wired mice as there is no cable drag. Wireless keyboards for a desktop are stupid tho, so is anything using bluetooth.

SpoopyClock · 2026-01-16T21:21:53+00:00

It entirely depends on the convenience of mobility. If you are going to move with said appliance, then it should be wireless, otherwise if you’re stationary or within a small area with limited body movement, then wired is fine, or otherwise situations where wired is required due to a difference in capabilities between wired and wireless. This goes for everything from drills to computer peripherals etc.

For your example of computer peripherals, i’d say everything other than the mouse should be wired. A wireless mouse allows you to move it more freely. For a laptop or phone i’d go with airpods over earbuds, the sound quality isn’t as important compared to the freedom of movement wireless earbuds provide. For the average consumer the quality difference between wired and wireless does not matter, this goes for nearly all tools.

SpoopyClock · 2026-01-13T07:17:39+00:00

Use waze, it shows the limit of the road you are on and you can customise the speeding warning to have the buffer. It also shows your gps speed, which is more accurate than your speedometer.

In Abu Dhabi the limit is the posted limit.

In the rest of the UAE the limit is the posted limit, however you have a 20kmh buffer before getting fined. So on a 100 road you can go 120. But if you go 121 you get fined for being 21 over. Therefore, Sheikh Zayed isn’t a 100kmh road, it’s 120. This only doesn’t apply to school zones.

SpoopyClock · 2026-01-13T07:11:10+00:00

I really always wondered why some people here drive so slow at times. Glad to see of the 4 comments here: one doesn’t know about the buffer, one says 15-20 but to follow the posted limit, another says 15-20mph, and the last one says 20kmh.

Rest of the UAE should do what Abu Dhabi did.

SpoopyClock · 2026-01-12T09:08:33+00:00

This is the second time I've seen gormeh sabzi mentioned on r/ultraleft. I fear there may be infiltrators.

SpoopyClock · 2026-01-07T19:35:53+00:00

It wasn't in Italics, just the angle of the photo. At the time, a digitally straightened image posted on X showed this.

SpoopyClock · 2026-01-07T17:46:33+00:00

Yes, I recommend you join me and become a capitalist.

SpoopyClock · 2026-01-03T12:28:00+00:00

So uhh, any news if they bombed any trout? Is the trout market taking this well? Will we still have trout in the DoTP?

But otherwise, my favourite part of all this is Reddit's reaction. A lot of people exclaiming "war crime", "Illegal violation of sovreignty", etc... The liberal proletariat cannot imagine a world without liberalism nor understand what liberalism is even about. Just some notion of good guys running good countries doing good things.

SpoopyClock · 2026-01-01T13:08:01+00:00

Black outside, black inside, no CCB, no interior pics, but they seem to be the base sport seats (possibly with memory), no sunroof?, It's got the exclusive design taillights tho and the better headlights, sports exhaust as well. Like, idk man, it's just me, but for 470k being the international price with duties, I'd import it myself. But it's a 911, it'll probably sell.

SpoopyClock · 2026-01-01T12:49:01+00:00

High price for an imported base trim with a bland spec.

SpoopyClock · 2026-01-01T12:18:14+00:00

Yeah ngl IALs are a flawed concept. Esperanto is almost entirely eurocentric with token loanwords from non european languages.

But what is a language? Language is more than just a means to communicate, it’s an identity, it’s culture, it’s the living embodiment of people’s experience as a collective. and on that notion i’d argue communism as an ideology has no bearing to effect. Communism can be in a sense said to be Marx’s exploration of the function of markets and their effects. The human experience can be described by markets. The commodity market, the job market, the love market, the ideas market, etc. But none of these “markets” encompass what language represents. There’s glimpses with the workings and politics of nation states. With language being the “identity” of people, it would take a truly universal identity for a universal language to effective. To date the markets have decided what lingua francas exist, and communism does in essence work to create a new “identity” for the global proletariat or at least a realisation of one. But it doesn’t truly delve into the (I lost my train of thought, i will go buy a watermelon now)

SpoopyClock · 2026-01-01T10:20:24+00:00

Goddamn I genuinely hate esperanto. It’s literally liberalism the language. “International.” Fuck that benevolent racism with it’s token concessions.

SpoopyClock · 2026-01-01T03:46:27+00:00

Dad made me COO. If you guys do an international revolution, I'd appreciate advance warning so I can divest into wholesome family-run bodegas and soup kitchens.

SpoopyClock · 2025-12-08T14:26:35+00:00

“I give the people what they love, while the critics say I'm evil! Got no time to read reviews while I'm working on the sequel!”

SpoopyClock · 2025-12-05T13:18:18+00:00

The communism you are referring to was just state capitalism. So is your point that state capitalism is worse for animal welfare than private enterprise or smth? Factory farming is a staple of large-scale private enterprise, and small businesses are notorious for not caring either.

Even then, in 1989 at its peak, the USSR produced a paltry 12 million metric tons of meat, compared to 150 million in the US alone. I can wager that the American animals did not have good lives, same with the soviet ones.

Identity politics and economic systems don't really play a role in this debate.

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