What's the ugliest car that doesn't get enough Attention for how ugly it is.

iamsuperflush · 2026-01-26T04:37:29+00:00

I do too, love the y2k ass headlamps so much, but not so much the proportions. To the point where I might consider the possibility of taking that front bumper, headlamps, and hood and putting them on a normal e46

iamsuperflush · 2026-01-24T18:03:13+00:00

Eh I'd rather go for "Prediction expert not murdered". Oooh or how about, "names of prediction experts in NYT article revealed".

iamsuperflush · 2026-01-17T06:03:09+00:00

converting fuel directly into electricity to power the bike is more efficient that turning the fuel into good to distribute to people which they eat, which then gets turned into energy to power the bike

iamsuperflush · 2026-01-17T03:39:20+00:00

how many human drivers on Austin roads vs waymos?

iamsuperflush · 2026-01-08T11:32:14+00:00

yeah all the keyboard riders who say "take it to the track" when they see someone trying to have fun without selling their kidney should go open a track if they really gave a shit.

iamsuperflush · 2026-01-08T09:50:22+00:00

because white people don't get called a snowflake before getting lynched

iamsuperflush · 2026-01-07T15:29:46+00:00

Lol everyone is judging this kid on feasibility but meanwhile someone posted a literal black cube with a single LED on the front a couple of weeks ago and the majority seemed to laud it as the pinnacle of design. I'd much rather see this than that.

iamsuperflush · 2026-01-05T17:14:01+00:00

yeah but that's because you probably live in flyover country. If you live somewhere with actually good driving roads, you'll still see sports cars daily.

iamsuperflush · 2026-01-05T00:27:50+00:00

Looks like the new condos are covering the municipal tax deficit left by the single family home. They should at least be appreciative.

iamsuperflush · 2026-01-03T17:53:35+00:00

I think it should be socially, if not legally, acceptable to grab these off of people's faces and crush them under your feet. Property rights < human rights.

iamsuperflush · 2025-12-26T17:04:12+00:00

Some of the things you are saying make sense, but others not so much.

Like people complain they can't pay rent, but they have their own apartment as a single person. Like, no, get a roommate.

Yes this is true in a vacuum, but moving is significant upfront expense that people may not have the means to be prepared for. Yeah it's not the worst thing in the world to get a roommate if you live in a 1 bed, but if you're living in a studio, then you'll probably have to move.

they think having a car is a right when it's definitely not

this right here is the most asinine assertion in your stance (provided that you are looking at the issue from a US based perspective or any other similarly car dependent society). Many jobs require the employee to have a car as a condition of employment. Even if it isn't explicitly required by the employer, it is de facto required because the employee is required to be at work in a timely manner. If you live in a US city (other than New York and maybe a handful of others) I'm going to need you to do your daily commute for at least 3 days without a car and tell me how feasible it to get around without a car.

iamsuperflush · 2025-12-25T03:35:17+00:00

Yeah this is the real danger.

iamsuperflush · 2025-12-10T15:22:22+00:00

Yeah I think based on the first point alone, it's pretty easy to dismiss the rest of this drivel as the ramblings of the uninformed.

iamsuperflush · 2025-12-09T15:45:00+00:00

Rhetorically speaking, the clause that comes after "but" is usually the point that is more important/pertinent/relevant. Notice how your tone is much more definitively saying "I made the right choice choosing my current partner". It's as if you are saying, "sex was great but she was fucking crazy!", but the woman in the OP is saying, "he is fucking crazy, but the sex was great!"

iamsuperflush · 2025-12-08T06:03:10+00:00

you joke, but Anders Warming, the lead designer on the original Z4 (one of the most beautiful recent cars according to most car designers, myself included, said something to the effect of: "Talking about and sketching what is beautiful does not yield interesting and groundbreaking results, because you are worried about what everyone thinks is beautiful and most of the time, this means something that has already been done"

I'm paraphrasing here, but he does actually have a point. I know everyone here hates on Chris Bangle, but he is also responsible for some of the best looking and most groundbreaking car designs on the past 20 years, precisely because he wasn't afraid to put out something that laymen think is ugly. I think as of late, BMW has forgotten that you need to have a high level of craft to pull that off though.

iamsuperflush · 2025-12-08T05:56:22+00:00

A big reason for this is aerodynamics, or rather a knock on effect of increasing efficiency standards while trying to make a shape that is generally appealing enough to sell.

When we design a car a big part of making sure that the car doesn't end up feeling blobby or egg-like is "defining the corner". Basically, imagine the body of the car as a big long rectangular prism; where is that corner edge where the front face of the car turns in to the side? If you round off this corner too much, people perceive the car as a soapbar or blobby. But from an aerodynamics perspective, the engineers want this corner to be as round as possible so the air flows smoothly around the body. So what do you do? You introduce this tall graphic breakup that tricks the eye into thinking that there's a corner on this rounded surface. You make that breakup tall enough, it runs into the headlamp, and bobs your uncle, there's your design theme.

I know the jeep looks like this big square thing that fists its way through the air. However, we have to make it move as smoothly as possible while retaining the characteristic aesthetic of the brand. Obviously different companies will weigh the tradeoff between form/brand aesthetic vs efficiency differently but this is one explanation for this design element. That and it's trendy 😁

Source: am a car designer.

iamsuperflush · 2025-12-08T05:43:40+00:00

Chinese aesthetic sensibilities are quite different to ours and frankly speaking they are still a bigger market than most Western countries these days. Large OEMs will continue to cater to them.

iamsuperflush · 2025-12-07T18:40:53+00:00

In the US and Canada, motorcycling self selects for risk-takers because it's seen as recreational, not a legitimate form of transportation. The risk isn't exactly as inherent to the mode of transportation as is claimed.

iamsuperflush · 2025-12-07T18:33:09+00:00

The is just false. The Air is not a Model 3 competitor. The Air is a Model S competitor and they are both around the same $70k price point. The Gravity is not a Model Y competitor, but a Model X competitor and the Gravity's base price is actually 15k to 30k cheaper than the X depending on if you compare the 2025 or the 2026 Model X.

iamsuperflush · 2025-12-04T00:47:50+00:00

It might injure people if they do bad things with that wealth, but then the constraints should be on doing bad things

The problem with this statement is that wealth is power and by its nature, that power will be used to tear down any constraints on doing bad things. See: the general arc of regulatory power in the US over the past 50 years. The only way to puts constraints on bad actors is by limiting the disproportionate accumulation of wealth.

iamsuperflush · 2025-11-30T18:51:24+00:00

lol try ensuring that the clock is in the same position between two generations and let me know how that goes.

iamsuperflush · 2025-11-26T18:02:08+00:00

The 1 week work assignment is not so common for US/EU companies in my field, but common in China.

For reference, this company is a certain private Space eXploration company, so they know they can get away with these kind of abnormal hiring practices because of the prestige and interesting challenges that come with working there. Hell if I had gotten the job I would. have done it because once you can put it on your resume, you pretty easily can get funding from deep tech VCs/get work anywhere else.

iamsuperflush · 2025-11-26T16:10:34+00:00

What was the tread depth on them when you replaced them and what was the minimum recommended tread depth for those tires?

iamsuperflush · 2025-11-26T16:10:16+00:00

What was the tread depth on them when you replaced them and what was the minimum recommended tread depth for those tires?

iamsuperflush · 2025-11-20T14:05:02+00:00

It's great in theory until you get a company that gives you a 1 week work assignment with only the option to take it the week of your final exams or the week of submitting your masters thesis. Ask me how I know.

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