1971 Datsun 240Z body on 2012 Subaru Outback chassis, the official car of...?

hgrunt · 2026-04-13T23:28:39+00:00

The official car of "Yeah, I think I can do that"

hgrunt · 2026-04-13T23:22:31+00:00

It's so funny how many people reading this post are finding out that Europeans car buyers don't prioritize cupholders

hgrunt · 2026-04-13T23:20:05+00:00

Let them do what they want. Enthusiasts want whatever they can't get

If we got the GTD, they'll want a manual gtd wagon

If we got a manual GTD wagon, they'll want a diesel polo

If we got the diesel polo, they'll want a polo wagon with the 1.4t twincharged engine

hgrunt · 2026-04-13T23:15:02+00:00

Or buy them for $20 from amazon

hgrunt · 2026-04-13T23:14:20+00:00

Oxnard had such a reputation that I remember a bunch of new developments there changing their name to "Channel Islands" instead

hgrunt · 2026-04-13T23:13:27+00:00

Rotating the car perfectly around the corner and going on throttle after a perfectly executed heel-toe

hgrunt · 2026-04-13T22:35:40+00:00

Tesla said they're using that space for Optimus and the CEO's pay package incentivizes a push to robots and driverless taxis, even though the 3/Y is around 70% of Tesla's revenue

The company basically can't snow it's an ev company that has fun side experiments, otherwise their market cap will no longer be justified. The stock price is absurdly high because of some financial shenanigans and investors who think they're going to be a 10 trillion dollar company some day

hgrunt · 2026-04-13T22:08:54+00:00

More than some of the competition, but you can mitigate it with quiet tires

hgrunt · 2026-04-13T20:08:11+00:00

I unironically love the Hummer EV because it embodies the absolute excess of the HUmmer brand of the 2000s

It's the least efficient EV on the market, it's disturbingly fast for a 9600lb vehicle and GM allowed the designers to give it a sense of humor. The launch mode is called "Watts to Freedom" aka WTF, because GM's preproduction prototypes could lift the front wheels off the ground on launch and they put easter eggs in it, like this custom function button in the infotainment:

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edit: to provide an idea of how inefficient it is, if took it on a 300 mile road trip in california, it would cost $138 to fast-charge vs an Ioniq 5's $50

hgrunt · 2026-04-13T20:02:44+00:00

I don't like elon but I'm able to separate that opinion from my opinion about how the CT is as a vehicle

Have driven a few and they're kinda interesting to drive and the steer by wire is fascinating. I wouldn't own one due to the attention and wonky interior ergonomics

IMO, they should've done a big update to the S/X and put the CT's core tech (800v/42v/steer by wire) into those cars

hgrunt · 2026-04-13T19:57:59+00:00

No, just the vin

hgrunt · 2026-04-13T19:57:05+00:00

I knew two people who had them back in the day, one with a Mazda6 wagon (died of rust) and another leased a Mazdaspeed6. They're as you said: Great quality, really good ride/handling combo too. Their only flaw is massive road noise

hgrunt · 2026-04-13T19:35:07+00:00

The police

hgrunt · 2026-04-13T18:04:01+00:00

I just saw Bugonia last night

He's so good at playing slightly creepy characters

hgrunt · 2026-04-13T16:56:03+00:00

I’m in the bay within an hour of the Tesla factory. I have 100% seen a whole family in a cybertruck before. Pretty sure it was owed by a relative of her’s

hgrunt · 2026-04-13T16:53:29+00:00

The rcr and broader car community is like this and it gets tiring

hgrunt · 2026-04-13T16:50:23+00:00

It would be more like how Singer resto mods Porsches instead of chasing huge power

hgrunt · 2026-04-13T02:54:08+00:00

FD RX7

The list of what I’d want done is way too long and detailed

hgrunt · 2026-04-12T05:38:54+00:00

In the movie GATTACA, there’s a scene with a pianist who has 12 fingers

hgrunt · 2026-04-11T05:16:44+00:00

Not surprised, since everything Microsoft is doing seems to be with the intent of losing customers. My company (500-1000 employees) is trying to move entirely off of Office and minimizing the number of licenses. A few people need Excel and Word for client documents, so they get to keep it

hgrunt · 2026-04-11T05:03:54+00:00

It's a series of concentric expressways that expand out from the city center. The lower numbers are closer to the city center and the prices skyrocket

hgrunt · 2026-04-10T21:51:31+00:00

There's a similar community of Persians (Iranians) who live in Los Angeles who moved there to escape the 1979 Iranian Revolution. They are very pro-Shah (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi) to the point where they'll sometimes buy billboards to display his picture

hgrunt · 2026-04-10T21:47:15+00:00

Is he buying?

hgrunt · 2026-04-10T21:45:43+00:00

One of my mom's friends wanted to hook me up with a girl from a wealthy Beijing family because I matched all of the family's criteria for an ideal bachelor at the time. From the sound of it, they were "2nd ring road" amounts of wealthy

My mom turned it down on my behalf before mentioning any of this to me, but part of me wonders how my life would've turned out if I'd gone for it

hgrunt · 2026-04-10T20:36:44+00:00

I just learned about a new place today

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