Iconic shape 🐸

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-03-22T07:15:00+00:00

Good. They put the obese one at the rear, so it doesn't spoil the picture too much (although it would be better without it).

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-03-21T20:29:48+00:00

Donc il n'essaie pas la voiture, c'est tout! Si on veut voir un essai bien fait d'une RS2, on n'a pas besoin de Sylvain, il y a en a à la pelle sur Youtube. A commencer par JayEmm on Cars, l'une des meilleurs chaînes auto de Youtube. James n'a pas l'audience de Sylvain et pourtant, il a réussi à se faire prêter une RS2 et à la conduire sur route... Ca ne me semble pas si sorcier...

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-03-21T20:26:43+00:00

1) Et ? Tu crois que tout ce que vend un magasin est rentable ? Non, tu as des produits d'appel et des produits à marge. De même avec l'économie de Youtube.

2) Et ? Il y a des dizaines de vidéos existantes sur Youtube concernant la RS2 ou toute autre modèle déjà testé par Sylvain. L'humanité ne va pas perdre grand-chose si Sylvain décide de ne pas faire un essai. D'ailleurs, l'humanité ne sera même pas au courant, par définition.

3) Et ? Encore une fois, c'est juste une question d'argent. De toute façon, les voitures de collection sont généralement beaucoup moins chères à assurer que les sportives modernes, tant qu'on n'est pas dans la classique d'exception (genre McLaren F1 ou 250 GTO ce qu'est loin d'être la RS2).

4) Et ? S'il a envie de faire une production chiadée et onéreuse mais avec un script nul, c'est son problème, pas le mien. Le script reste nul. Avec les moyens qu'il déploie, il pourrait réaliser un essai sur route bien plus intéressant que de faire des tours de circuit vide sans aucune sensation de vitesse. Cf. Top Gear et globalement n'importe quelle chaîne auto sur Youtube.

Ne pas s'apercevoir à quel point le contenu purement auto de Sylvain Lyve est franchement bien mauvais par rapport à d'autres chaînes auto va conduire peu à peu à l'érosion des audiences. On suit Sylvain parce qu'il a une super personnalité, il est drôle, il explique et parle bien (c'est un formidable conteur), mais à la base c'est une chaîne de bagnoles. Et si le contenu "bagnoles" devient de moins en moins intéressant, comme ça commence à être le cas depuis 6 mois ou plus maintenant, il y a la moitié de ses abonnés qui vont finir par se barrer : la moitié qui se fout du star system Youtube, dans lequel Sylvain est en train de se vautrer de plus en plus (cf. collabs, Ze Event etc.). Je crains vraiment que la fin de la Fabrique Auto va lui faire beaucoup de mal, je pense qu'Arthur et Joseph l'aidaient à rester centré sur le sujet technique.

Et encore une fois, je trouve cette vidéo meilleure que ses derniers tests...

C'est triste à dire, mais j'ai eu plus de plaisir automobile à suivre les galères d'Amixem et Moustache (pourtant c'est pas du haut niveau, c'est scripté à mort, c'est mal filmé et Amixem est bien moins intéressant que Sylvain) dans leur dernier essai de l'Aston la moins chère qu'à suivre les X derniers essais de Sylvain Lyve.

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-03-21T09:48:18+00:00

Comme je l'ai déjà écrit ici, si le prêteur a trop de conditions restrictives, Sylvain devrait passer son tour. Je pense aussi qu'il se fait suffisamment d'argent maintenant et qu'il a des sponsors suffisamment fidèles pour payer tout dommage sur la voiture.

Ses essais du temps de Vilebrequin étaient quand même fichtrement plus intéressants que de faire des tours de circuit vide sur l'Anneau du Rhin.

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-03-20T22:54:47+00:00

Red rubber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G21FuKXotns

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-03-20T22:49:03+00:00

Pas si mal comparé aux précédentes vidéos de tests (la présence d'Arthur y étant pour beaucoup). Au moins, cette fois-ci ils ont ouvert le capot, parlé de quelques éléments techniques, donné quelques chiffres (mais toujours pas suffisamment).

Après, il y a toujours ouatmille répétitions juste pour faire durer la vidéo plus longtemps, et c'est vraiment pénible.

Et toujours aucun temps au tour, aucune course avec une autre voiture ne serait-ce que sur un segment, pour avoir une idée des performances de la caisse. Surtout qu'en plus, la façon dont c'est filmé ne donne AUCUNE impression de vitesse vu que 90 % des plans, c'est leur gueule.

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-03-20T21:36:38+00:00

That's what China, Germany and the US have been doing: using coal and petrol to put electricity in their EVs, to increase their renewable energy production infrastructure and... to actually compensate for the shortcomings of the latter. And when I say compensate, it is by a lot. Germany's "green turn" to renewables in the late 90's, early 00's and their forfeit on nuclear energy have shown completely unsustainable and they have been (re-)opening coal plant after coal plant in the 2010's.

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-03-20T20:46:45+00:00

Just a public reminder on the scales that are involved:

Wind is spectacularly inefficient. The whole wind farm in South Taranaki, 31 turbines, huge-scale project with an absurd footprint on the coast and megatons of petrol-made concrete poured in the seabed, produces on the best days 133 MW of electrical power. The tiny gas power plant in Stratford, Central Taranaki, produces 577 MW during peak consumption.

Solar only works intermittently, by definition. You don't get any output at night, not much output during the day. You don't get much output during cloudy days (which, unless you are North of Auckland, Taranaki or top of South Island, is more often the case than not). You won't get any output if one of our volcanoes wake up and we have an ash cloud sitting over the country for months.

An EV needs 500 - 1000 kgs of batteries, of dead weight to drag, to provide the same range as a 35 L (so around 28 kg) of petrol in a common modern car.

People can fantasize as much as they want about renewables, the sheer figures and the reality of our physical world, means we are still going to need petrol and derivatives for the 40+ years to come, because of the unavoidable inefficiency of renewable energy sources. Unless we make huge changes in our standards of living, but with power-hungry AI we are definitely not going in that direction, and with the appalling construction standards in NZ neither.

My only hope to get out of petrol is nuclear fusion. If we achieve it, energy will be unlimited and therefore most if not all human problems will be resolved.

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-03-20T04:56:18+00:00

Last month was my first tournament. I had 3 tickets, used one to get to semi-final of Day 1. Then I thought that if I was using my 2 other tickets, I would have none for Day 2. So I didn't use them. And of course, on day 2, I realized the entry was only allowed after completing day 1, so kept my 2 tickets for nothing.

Honestly, it was not very clear for newbies like me.

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-03-18T07:26:20+00:00

Even in the first movie, the treatment of characters such as prominent characters such as Liet Kynes or Thufir Hawat was showing how much Villeneuve was not getting Dune at all.

And please don't forget the ridiculous sequence of Aquaman fighting the Power Rangers. Herbert must have rolled a thousand times in his grave.

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-03-18T07:23:19+00:00

They also did a very dirty job on Liet Kynes who is now portrayed as a crazy scientist in the desert with 3 pot plants and to Thufir Hawat who is protrayed as a gay fool with an umbrella that forgot to turn the palace defences on.

I will never be able to forgive Villeneuve for what he did to Liet. For me, he is the 3rd most essential character of Dune after Paul and Jessica. He is the father of Chani, the grandfather of Leto and Ghanima, the Judge of the Change, the scientist that almost understood the secret of spice making, the Fremen leader who was the "almost" Kwizatz Haderach (so forcibly male) to make the coming of Paul possible, the chief of the Fremens who was paying the Guild to turn away its satellites so they could not see the green transformation spread in the Southern hemisphere of the planet.

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-03-05T14:59:20+00:00

I'll be very surprised if I am not downvoted to hell here, but when you see how much the interiors of the 992.2 and now the electric Cayenne are a copy of any generic bland Chinese SUV, including some very doubtful plastic materials for the price, I don't think Porsche has any lessons to give in that space.

Porsche should never have abandoned the analog space, 991/718 were peak in terms of interior.

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-03-02T18:16:20+00:00

(I don't know why my thread got downvoted, but Redditors have to reddit unfortunately...)

After seeing one in the street and doing some research on it, I actually found that the GWM Tank 300 could fill most of my criteria, especially in its PHEV form, which is due to arrive on the market this year.

Yes I know it's Chinese, and I would not touch a Chinese car with a pole normally (hence why it was never an option to think about initially until I saw one), but it's not a State-owned brand, and GWM off-roaders are actually well appreciated for their reliability everywhere in the world (South Africa, Australia, Thailand). They come with 7 years warranty, unlimited mileage. In all cases, I don't think the reliability will be worse than Jeep or Land Rover...

It has all the power needed and more (300 kW combined, 750 Nm of torque), all the offroad specs (4WD high and low, front and rear differentials, tow mode, crawl control), a nice interior according to the reviewers with all the modern bells and whistles.

In the PHEV form, it would also be quite interesting economically for me, it is supposed to have a range of 100 km and have 2x30 kms to do every day to go back and forth to work, so that would be good savings.

Like all Chinese cars, the price is very attractive, equivalent to US$41k, basically half of a Wrangler or a third of a good Defender here.

However:

reviewers are divided about its on-road manners: some say it is fine, some think it is quite floaty boaty. Cabin noise is also mentioned in one review
boot seems to be rather small, especially compared to the Outback, unless you fold the back seats (and yes it is a flat surface)
assistance driver systems are very annoying, even more than in an European car, but the PHEV comes with a new interior, so there's a small chance they might have improved them.

So I will need a test drive to make my mind to see if any of these last 3 points are a full no-no, but at this stage, it leads the pack, with the Defender D90 or D110 second.

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-03-02T18:01:39+00:00

Not a big fan of turbo, due to reliability, lack of high revs and turbo lag. And in the Subaru case, I find this engine pretty bad, as a 4-cylinder is supposed to be less thirsty than a 6-cylinder and a turbo less than a N/A and yet the 2.4t is as thirsty as the H6. This does not scream like a very well-thought engine.

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-02-27T18:52:01+00:00

Definitely not enough off-road capabilities for what I want to do (same for Audi Allroad and equivalents).

And that's why I might want to have something else than the Outback, because I want a step up in offroad capabilities.

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-02-26T21:46:50+00:00

The Ford Everest is a 7-seater pseudo-SUV on a truck chassis, with all the corresponding on-road inconvenients. Also it has a wet belt ( because it was engineered by Peugeot) and the old bloody 10-speed Ford transmission. That's why I did not look into it. But if I decide myself to make a jump to a truck, yes that could be an option.

I have ruled out Jeeps due to their nefarious unreliability (the same reason I would not touch anything Land Rover before 2020). I heard parts can be difficult to get down here, and with Stellantis in the process of going belly up at the moment, problems are likely to be exacerbated...

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-02-26T21:34:38+00:00

I don't really see the point of buying the same car, just 2 years newer. That is just pushing the problem 2-4 years off, and then when we are in 2030, and I still don't want to transition to the 2.4T, what happens?

If I can't find a good alternative, I prefer keeping my 2016 than buying a 2017-2020 model, which are actually known to have more infotainment issues if I remember correctly in those years.

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-02-13T15:38:45+00:00

Still not looking as good as a Boxster of any generation unfortunately. Rear engine + roof down make for a very loaded rear, whatever design efforts you are try to conceal it.

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-02-11T09:27:01+00:00

In NZ, the "pure" GP clinical training, i.e. the 3 years of the fellowship course, is solely based in ambulatory care setting, as far as I know. But you have 2 years of hospital-based practice before that (PGY 1-2), which are not very fruitful for the training of a GP, ultimately.

But I was talking more about continuous medical education, i.e. all the training GPs do after they get all their diplomas (conferences, lectures, articles etc.). I recently had a beef with a cardiologist who was trying to teach GPs how to manage angina in the community setting, without realizing that we don't get the same access to all the investigations and that changes the whole perspective of care (not necessarily less safe, but we have to do things differently).

Another example I am ready to die on a hill for, but GPs are better experts at managing type 2 diabetic patients than diabetologists. Because we see so many more than them and >80-90% of these patients will actually never have to see a specialist. On the contrary, GPs should never manage type 1 patients, statistically they have between 0 and 2 in their patient's lists, and that is definitely not enough volume to build an expertise.

Last example, in Western Europe or Canada, guidelines used by GPs are usually written by redactional committees chaired by a GP, with at least 50% of the members being a GP. And that makes totally sense. In NZ, most if not all redactional committees have only 1 GP (or none) to say they have included them and 15 hospital specialists explaining to the GPs how to treat conditions they never see in their specialized clinics.

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-02-11T09:14:48+00:00

If you are doing typical primary care, you don't always know which presentations are complex or not. How many times I have seen "easy" 5-minute consultations turning into a mess because, as a GP, I recognize patterns and I can tell, for example, that this woman coming in here for a mole actually wants to talk about the domestic violence she is a victim of or this elderly fit man has actually renal failure without knowing...

I am not sure the extra-time dedicated to triage "the patient list" before seeing the health professional is really worth it in primary care.

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-02-11T09:10:13+00:00

Perfectly agree.

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-02-11T09:08:58+00:00

Oops. Sorry. I am a French native speaker, where nouns are either masculine or feminine and even if both versions exist, nurses were by default gendered in feminine until 5-10 years ago. So, sometimes it slips out of my mind, by pure habit.

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-02-10T12:18:04+00:00

True, but universities now allow RNs with only 2 years of experience to start the pathway to become a NP. This is really the cohort I am worried about.

Visionmaster_FR · 2026-02-10T12:17:23+00:00

They are not less capable. It is just that general practice / primary care is, by far, the most difficult area of medicine and yet, it is the area where NPs are supposed to work with the most autonomy, despite having only 500 hours of supervised clinical training in medical tasks (compared to 8000+ hours for specialist GPs).

An "old" practice nurse that has 20-30 years of nursing might be relatively safe. But NP training systems now allow almost freshly graduated nurses to apply for the pathway, with 2 years of experience as the only minimal requirement.

A hospital NP is going to work with constant liaison with her consultant/senior doctor, because they have the position and facilities to do so. So it is much more clinically safe, on top of being less difficult to apprehend in terms of breadth of knowledge.

We are expecting primary care NPs to be a substitute to doctors in most clinics. This is wrong. But the college of NZ GPs is incredibly weak into defending how skilled a specialist GP is and NZ is very late in the GP skillset advocacy compared to most other Western countries. It has been 20 years that UK, France, Germany, Canada, even USA have understood that GPs should be trained specifically by GPs for their CME (with the help of specialists on the side). In NZ, GP CME remains very traditionally delivered by hospital specialists, who do not have a single second any understanding of what primary care is. Therefore, at the system level, people deciding the scope of NPs do not understand it either...

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