[maxyedor]

I've been to enough races that very few stand out, and these days I hardly care anymore because racecars just look like giant headaches after wrenching on them long enough.

However, and it's a big however, Can Am cars at Laguna Seca on non-noise restricted weekends, holy fuck! Absolute madness, only thing that's been in the same ball-park sound and spectacle wise was when Toyota showed up with their F1 car to try and break the lap record.

It's cliche to swoon over Can-Am cars, but they really were swoon worthy. No rules and pre-dated any kind of computer design or modern production techniques, just a bunch of shit some guy drew with a pencil and built by hand that was fast as shit.

 

[eric strt6]

I saw the GTP , GTO, GTU cars, The Indy Cars and The F1 cars race at Laguna Seca over the years. Nothing more fun than being on the hillside on the outside of the Corkscrew during a race

 

[jimmydean]

I would have used it to GTFO, but that's just me.

Owner Loses Beautiful McLaren P1 To Hurricane Ian Just One Week After Buying It

The owner also lost a Rolls-Royce Ghost.

carbuzz.com

 

[Jm_]

I would have used it to GTFO, but that's just me.

Owner Loses Beautiful McLaren P1 To Hurricane Ian Just One Week After Buying It

The owner also lost a Rolls-Royce Ghost.

carbuzz.com

Its Florida, he probably used the Chiron for that.

 

[canadmos]

Its Florida, he probably used the Chiron for that.

Thats a lambo dude!

 

[boogenman]

MSRP is 52k on this ioniq 5. Currently on sale for 57k. Used, by the way.

Asking $57k on the used market is not dealer markup, it’s current market value. They paid over MSRP to the previous owner for trade in value. The used market just started to cool off over the last 4 weeks, hurricane Ian is going to fuck that up for a while. Expect to see used values rise once again.

 

[jimmydean]

Asking $57k on the used market is not dealer markup, it’s current market value. They paid over MSRP to the previous owner for trade in value. The used market just started to cool off over the last 4 weeks, hurricane Ian is going to fuck that up for a while. Expect to see used values rise once again.

Imagine trying to flee a hurricane in Florida in an EV.

 

[boogenman]

Imagine trying to flee a hurricane in Florida in an EV.

A small generator and a 5 gallon jug of gas in the trunk will get you another 100 miles of range

 

[jimmydean]

A small generator and a 5 gallon jug of gas in the trunk will get you another 100 miles of range

I just remember landing in New Orleans 3 days after Katrina and nobodies phone worked. None of the payphones worked. It was nuts. There was one random carrier that had spotty coverage and I used a dude (from Chicago) working at Home Depot's phone to call my fam so they knew we arrived.

 

[jimmydean]

This.

Superfast Matt’s Tesla-powered Jaguar – On Air!

Matt Brown, best known as Superfast Matt, just installed Ridetech Shockwaves on his Tesla-powered 1950 Jaguar Mark V.

www.ridetech.com

 

[Montana rider]

The Rivian R1T Is the Best Truck I’ve Ever Driven

We took the new rig on an off-roading backcountry camping trip. You could say it went well.

www.outsideonline.com

$100K "luxury" e-rock crawler what could POSSIBLY go wrong?

#CrosspostDarwinThread

Most of the R1T’s reservation holders—up to 70 percent, Rivian’s senior product designer Matt Gaskin told me—have never owned an off-road vehicle before. For these drivers, the easy confidence the R1T inspires on dirt will be appreciated. The newbies are also in for a startlingly comfortable off-road experience, since the R1T’s suspension system automatically adjusts ride height, changes damping rates, and minimizes body roll on the fly.

 

[SkaredShtles]

The Rivian R1T Is the Best Truck I’ve Ever Driven

We took the new rig on an off-roading backcountry camping trip. You could say it went well.

www.outsideonline.com

$100K "luxury" e-rock crawler what could POSSIBLY go wrong?

#CrosspostDarwinThread

Most of the R1T’s reservation holders—up to 70 percent, Rivian’s senior product designer Matt Gaskin told me—have never owned an off-road vehicle before. For these drivers, the easy confidence the R1T inspires on dirt will be appreciated. The newbies are also in for a startlingly comfortable off-road experience, since the R1T’s suspension system automatically adjusts ride height, changes damping rates, and minimizes body roll on the fly.

 

[stoney]

I would have used it to GTFO, but that's just me.

Owner Loses Beautiful McLaren P1 To Hurricane Ian Just One Week After Buying It

The owner also lost a Rolls-Royce Ghost.

carbuzz.com

Conveniently on ground floor outside? Yeah, that's insurance fraud. Even a functional idiot could get that 3-4 stories up into a public garage without trying.

 

[dump]

I have a somewhat ambivalent attitude towards cars which mostly centers around the environmental impact and a society built around them. I do dig the aesthetic and mechanical aspects particularly of certain older vehicles. Over the last several years, and particularly of late, I'm interested in toe-dipping into this. I am left with the feeling that it's one of those interests where you don't really get to have a proper sense of the thing before you buy the thing. Online, you get a sense of what ownership looks like. Prior to purchase you can definitely get to sit in the thing and look at the thing. The rest though, what it's like to drive it (for more than 10 minutes), how it does in certain scenarios, will it fit over the threshold of my garage, etc... seems like the kind of thing you don't get to experience. How have you all navigated this? Particularly with vintage cars? If I could try a car for a week at a time, it would make the process very easy. I would happily pay for that.

 

[ebarker9]

This.

Superfast Matt’s Tesla-powered Jaguar – On Air!

Matt Brown, best known as Superfast Matt, just installed Ridetech Shockwaves on his Tesla-powered 1950 Jaguar Mark V.

www.ridetech.com

Superfast Matt is great.

 

[junkyard]

I have a somewhat ambivalent attitude towards cars which mostly centers around the environmental impact and a society built around them. I do dig the aesthetic and mechanical aspects particularly of certain older vehicles. Over the last several years, and particularly of late, I'm interested in toe-dipping into this. I am left with the feeling that it's one of those interests where you don't really get to have a proper sense of the thing before you buy the thing. Online, you get a sense of what ownership looks like. Prior to purchase you can definitely get to sit in the thing and look at the thing. The rest though, what it's like to drive it (for more than 10 minutes), how it does in certain scenarios, will it fit over the threshold of my garage, etc... seems like the kind of thing you don't get to experience. How have you all navigated this? Particularly with vintage cars? If I could try a car for a week at a time, it would make the process very easy. I would happily pay for that.

Well with some cars comfort and ergonomics are documented online so some research can be done. I try to imagine it in my mind. Also people drove the shit out of them when new so they gotta be somewhat ok. Also you pay your money you take your chances, and sort it out later.


What kind of vintage car you thinking?

 

[iRider]

 

[jimmydean]

I have a somewhat ambivalent attitude towards cars which mostly centers around the environmental impact and a society built around them. I do dig the aesthetic and mechanical aspects particularly of certain older vehicles. Over the last several years, and particularly of late, I'm interested in toe-dipping into this. I am left with the feeling that it's one of those interests where you don't really get to have a proper sense of the thing before you buy the thing. Online, you get a sense of what ownership looks like. Prior to purchase you can definitely get to sit in the thing and look at the thing. The rest though, what it's like to drive it (for more than 10 minutes), how it does in certain scenarios, will it fit over the threshold of my garage, etc... seems like the kind of thing you don't get to experience. How have you all navigated this? Particularly with vintage cars? If I could try a car for a week at a time, it would make the process very easy. I would happily pay for that.

When talking vintage cars, the ride and handling depends on how well it's been kept up and your expectations of the experience. When I was test driving Corvettes, I was test driving them the way I intended to drive it. I scared the shit out of two different salesmen. One in an '04 Z06 on Skyline road, the other in an '09 ZR1 in the back lot behind the dealership. I had zero intention of buying either, but REALLY wanted to see what they might be like.

But if It m test driving a '66 truck, I expect it to run and drive like a '66 truck unless it's not stock. Then your milage may vary. But my projects are as stock as possible to start so I'm not undoing or redoing stuff.

 

[Jm_]

I have a somewhat ambivalent attitude towards cars which mostly centers around the environmental impact and a society built around them. I do dig the aesthetic and mechanical aspects particularly of certain older vehicles. Over the last several years, and particularly of late, I'm interested in toe-dipping into this. I am left with the feeling that it's one of those interests where you don't really get to have a proper sense of the thing before you buy the thing. Online, you get a sense of what ownership looks like. Prior to purchase you can definitely get to sit in the thing and look at the thing. The rest though, what it's like to drive it (for more than 10 minutes), how it does in certain scenarios, will it fit over the threshold of my garage, etc... seems like the kind of thing you don't get to experience. How have you all navigated this? Particularly with vintage cars? If I could try a car for a week at a time, it would make the process very easy. I would happily pay for that.

It's the same ****ing thing with bikes. I takes me 1-2 weeks to dial in suspension in varied terrain, ride the bike in different settings and situations, figure out if I really like it or not or what I have to do to live with it. If I can't ride the exact spec I'm considering for a few weeks, I might as well be pissing into the wind. Test rides tell me fuck all. I can maybe identify something glaring that I see right away, but those things you don't start noticing until a little later then start nagging at you and eating away at you over time as you grow to hate it...

 

[dump]

Yeah, I gotcha. Part of it is I don’t really have any expectations. I remember older cars from my youth and I’ve been in a handful of actually fast cars. Guess I should go and see some, and try to drive them too.

I have some favourites, bit no real specifics. 70s era alfas and porsches of all flavours from 70s-present. Maybe a v1 M3 too.

Kinda looking for something that’s easy to get along with, some minor pep would be cool but not looking to go racer boi. Around town and weekend trips during the summer. Something easy on the eyes with a bit of style. Gotta carry a kid too.

 

[dump]

It's the same ****ing thing with bikes. I takes me 1-2 weeks to dial in suspension in varied terrain, ride the bike in different settings and situations, figure out if I really like it or not or what I have to do to live with it. If I can't ride the exact spec I'm considering for a few weeks, I might as well be pissing into the wind. Test rides tell me fuck all. I can maybe identify something glaring that I see right away, but those things you don't start noticing until a little later then start nagging at you and eating away at you over time as you grow to hate it...

Yeah, this is what I was thinking. Kinda like bikes, but way more money.

 

[dump]

My brother used to have an e30 and I loved driving that thing. Imagine the m3 version would be that to the next level.

 

[canadmos]

Ugh Toyota here is being brutal. I forget how long the AC has not worked in the girlfriend's Tacoma. I want to say it stopped working towards the end of August, maybe mid August or even at the beginning?

It took a while for them to get a new compressor, which is fine. Part shortages blah blah. But then now for two or three weeks they've been saying they don't have an o-ring needed to finish the job.

Come on, an o-ring? Mail one from the USA or something.

I'm also amazed at how much of the truck and components under the body is rusting. Pretty much everything except for the brake lines.

Not a great impression for a truck that is supposedly worth 40 grand. 30, maybe...

There's also something with the hubs and aluminum rims on it. They get like welded together, it's crazy. We woke up to a flat tire and I kicked, wailed, rolled the spare tire full speed into it and the wheel won't budge. Called CAA (AAA) and even that guy is going to town on it. And I had made sure to put some anti seize on the interfaces, as last year we ran into the same thing on two of them when trying to swap to winters.

 

[Poops McDougal]

Ugh Toyota here is being brutal. I forget how long the AC has not worked in the girlfriend's Tacoma. I want to say it stopped working towards the end of August, maybe mid August or even at the beginning?

It took a while for them to get a new compressor, which is fine. Part shortages blah blah. But then now for two or three weeks they've been saying they don't have an o-ring needed to finish the job.

Come on, an o-ring? Mail one from the USA or something.

I'm also amazed at how much of the truck and components under the body is rusting. Pretty much everything except for the brake lines.

Not a great impression for a truck that is supposedly worth 40 grand. 30, maybe...

There's also something with the hubs and aluminum rims on it. They get like welded together, it's crazy. We woke up to a flat tire and I kicked, wailed, rolled the spare tire full speed into it and the wheel won't budge. Called CAA (AAA) and even that guy is going to town on it. And I had made sure to put some anti seize on the interfaces, as last year we ran into the same thing on two of them when trying to swap to winters.

Tacomas have been stupidly overpriced for a very long time, IMO.

 

[jimmydean]

@stoney

S62-Powered 1999 BMW 540i Sport Wagon 6-Speed

Bid for the chance to own a S62-Powered 1999 BMW 540i Sport Wagon 6-Speed at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #86,428.

bringatrailer.com

 

[6thElement]

Tacomas have been stupidly overpriced for a very long time, IMO.

Everything is stupidly overpriced now.

 

[canadmos]

Tacomas have been stupidly overpriced for a very long time, IMO.

True. One thing that boggles my mind with toyota is that they sell 30-35k cars with steel wheels. Where's the value in some of them?

 

[StiHacka]

Where's the value in some of them?

You have to have one. It's the law.

 

[Jm_]

Everything is stupidly overpriced now.

Yeah, I was just getting a backup tube at the shop. I think tubeLESS is now LESS expensive.

 

[stevew]

german electric 40....

 

[HardtailHack]

Haha, adding German electrics to anything Japanese should be a crime.
I hope it has some sort of fun Siemens fuck logic controller in it.

 

[CBJ]

Haha, adding German electrics to anything Japanese should be a crime.
I hope it has some sort of fun Siemens fuck logic controller in it.

I think he is just saying its a car located in Germany judging by the license plate not that the tech is necessarily German?

 

[HardtailHack]

I think he is just saying its a car located in Germany judging by the license plate not that the tech is necessarily German?

Haha, if I see German and electric I assume the wurst.

 

[CBJ]

Haha, if I see German and electric I assume the wurst.

Would be interesting to see how they are doing with their EV tech. Still look like they are playing catch up.

 

[stevew]

it was from a post on fb....what looked like two 20 german guys built it and it won its class in some ev canonball run in europe or some shit...

 

[maxyedor]

Conveniently on ground floor outside? Yeah, that's insurance fraud. Even a functional idiot could get that 3-4 stories up into a public garage without trying.

It started out inside his garage, along with his paper towel stash.

Dude bought it a week prior, so unless he was planning a fraud based on the loss of a recently acquired car a lot seems like it would have had to go wrong in the week for him to say fuck it and sacrifice his P1 to the gods. He's also not going to get paid out on his loss, a P1 isn't cheap to repair, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper than the purchase price. It would require a lot of Floridian math to get rich buying 1.5m cars to defraud an insurance company for about $500k and still have the car with a salvaged tittle 18 months later when it returns from England.

As far as flooding and the ground floor, doesn't look like many Floridians took the flood risk very seriously, and I'd rather keep my P1 indoors and away from flying debris than in an open parking garage he may also not be able to access for weeks after the storm. His insurance also more than likely requires indoor storage.

 

[stoney]

It started out inside his garage, along with his paper towel stash.

Dude bought it a week prior, so unless he was planning a fraud based on the loss of a recently acquired car a lot seems like it would have had to go wrong in the week for him to say fuck it and sacrifice his P1 to the gods. He's also not going to get paid out on his loss, a P1 isn't cheap to repair, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper than the purchase price. It would require a lot of Floridian math to get rich buying 1.5m cars to defraud an insurance company for about $500k and still have the car with a salvaged tittle 18 months later when it returns from England.

As far as flooding and the ground floor, doesn't look like many Floridians took the flood risk very seriously, and I'd rather keep my P1 indoors and away from flying debris than in an open parking garage he may also not be able to access for weeks after the storm. His insurance also more than likely requires indoor storage.

P1 is carbon. The tub can't be fixed. That is also going to be new electrical and engine. That thing is toast.

 

[canadmos]

P1 is carbon. The tub can't be fixed. That is also going to be new electrical and engine. That thing is toast.

What would there be to fix on the tub, like what is damaged on it?

Considering how low that car is, its not even in very deep water. I'd wager the engine would be fine with being rebuilt. Everything else though yeah would be toast.

Heck the interior is pretty sparse in those. Replace some wiring, the small screens, the few pieces of alcantara and you'd be done - everything else is solid carbon.

Even if its written off, someone will 100% buy it from the auction.

 

[jimmydean]

A very non LS swap? Blasphemy? I think it will be pretty sweet.

 

[Jm_]

It started out inside his garage, along with his paper towel stash.

Dude bought it a week prior, so unless he was planning a fraud based on the loss of a recently acquired car a lot seems like it would have had to go wrong in the week for him to say fuck it and sacrifice his P1 to the gods. He's also not going to get paid out on his loss, a P1 isn't cheap to repair, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper than the purchase price. It would require a lot of Floridian math to get rich buying 1.5m cars to defraud an insurance company for about $500k and still have the car with a salvaged tittle 18 months later when it returns from England.

As far as flooding and the ground floor, doesn't look like many Floridians took the flood risk very seriously, and I'd rather keep my P1 indoors and away from flying debris than in an open parking garage he may also not be able to access for weeks after the storm. His insurance also more than likely requires indoor storage.

Well, not if you buy on a loan you are not actually good for…then buying right before a hurricane would be suspicious/good business if you can get away with it.