OT Forgive me, brothers - Car Discussion

[Lefty2SLO]

I NEVER drive with any radio/music. (unless I'm on a road trip). I love hearing the sounds of going through the gears and building up RPM. Very soothing.

AGREED . . . . . . . . . . .

[Lefty2SLO]

We live in an area with old windy blacktop, 4000 ft in the Sierras. I bough a Subaru Forester for my wife. Decent in all respects. The AWD is exceptional. Well worth having. I've had a lot of 4WDs and it's just not the same on snow and ice.

Scarily similar situations - I'm in the San Jacinto mountains above Palm Springs, 4600 ft elev, GREAT roads for driving. I too bought my wife a Subaru (Outlander), and the AWD is outstanding - it's a great snow / ice car. It's funny - everyone in our little community up here has either a Subaru or a Jeep. The first year up here my wife had her Accord and I had a Mustang (we were flatlanders). Very first snowstorm of the year I got stuck in the Mustang coming home from work about 5 miles downhill from home. Nothing like a high powered rear wheel drive manual car for gettin' through a snowstorm . Highway Patrol came by in their SUV's and rescued all of us idiots on the hill.

I bought the Subaru 2 weeks later - suffice it to say we have now adjusted to mountain living . . . . . . . . . . . .

[Lefty2SLO]

Those are imo....very ugly. Im just not ready for an electric vehicle craze. May never buy one but you never know. Ive been intriqued by the self driving car but i think it will be years and years before those are perfected and its a regular thing. Ill likely be dead by then.

These are monsters in real life. You don't really feel the size until you're standing next to one - reminds me of the original Hummers in that respect. The looks are not for me but there's no denying that they make a statement . . . . . . . . . . .

[sonorajim]

Scarily similar situations - I'm in the San Jacinto mountains above Palm Springs, 4600 ft elev, GREAT roads for driving. I too bought my wife a Subaru (Outlander), and the AWD is outstanding - it's a great snow / ice car. It's funny - everyone in our little community up here has either a Subaru or a Jeep. The first year up here my wife had her Accord and I had a Mustang (we were flatlanders). Very first snowstorm of the year I got stuck in the Mustang coming home from work about 5 miles downhill from home. Nothing like a high powered rear wheel drive manual car for gettin' through a snowstorm . Highway Patrol came by in their SUV's and rescued all of us idiots on the hill.

I bought the Subaru 2 weeks later - suffice it to say we have now adjusted to mountain living . . . . . . . . . . . .

I used chains on a RWD PU with a shell and a lot of tools in the back for several years but 4WD and AWD are easier. Though I did get good at chaining up.
4WD need studs for glare ice but the AWD seems to manage fine with M&S tires in good shape if we go slow.

[Riverwalk]

Anybody have one of these? Ran into one in the wild for the first time - yesterday across the street from me. I thought they were all sold with the stainless steel finish. It is massive. They weigh almost 7,000 lbs fully loaded, 2-1/2 times my Prius.

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Yes, i have one. That’s a black matte colored wrap and the color I would get if I do wrap it. Looks fantastic. Factory standard is stainless steel which withstands everything from shopping carts to bullets but not fingerprints. And since there’s no door handles, lots of fingerprints are inevitable. That’s why so many are getting wraps.

Someone else said it’s ugly. No question it’s polarizing but my experience is it gets mobbed everywhere, particularly by young people and they dig the futuristic look.

It’s got 4 wheel steer by wire that makes a shorter turning ration than my sedan. As fast as a 911 and has FSD. FSD is much closer than those that haven’t been following it closely think. The new 12 release is entirely based on the neural network and eliminated explicit coding. A simple explanation is prior versions would see an object and require an If…then…tree of possible actions. That’s been replaced by camera in, action out, based on what all the other cars did when they saw the same thing.

[OG619FrightninLightnin]

AGREED . . . . . . . . . . .

I can't drive around the block without tunes. Been that way for 40 years.

[Lefty2SLO]

I used chains on a RWD PU with a shell and a lot of tools in the back for several years but 4WD and AWD are easier. Though I did get good at chaining up.
4WD need studs for glare ice but the AWD seems to manage fine with M&S tires in good shape if we go slow.

I was an (uneducated) idiot who didn't have chains . . . . . . . . . . . . so now I have a Subaru, with chains, blankets, road flares, cell phone charger, emergency jump start battery, etc.

[sonorajim]

I was an (uneducated) idiot who didn't have chains . . . . . . . . . . . . so now I have a Subaru, with chains, blankets, road flares, cell phone charger, emergency jump start battery, etc.

Good choices! You can't prepare for everything but getting the majority ups your odds considerably. And slow down. There are scars on big trees at the outside of corners going downhill from our place where people hit repeatedly. Going slow beats waiting for a tow truck.

[FoutsFan]

Yes, i have one. That’s a black matte colored wrap and the color I would get if I do wrap it. Looks fantastic. Factory standard is stainless steel which withstands everything from shopping carts to bullets but not fingerprints. And since there’s no door handles, lots of fingerprints are inevitable. That’s why so many are getting wraps.

Someone else said it’s ugly. No question it’s polarizing but my experience is it gets mobbed everywhere, particularly by young people and they dig the futuristic look.

It’s got 4 wheel steer by wire that makes a shorter turning ration than my sedan. As fast as a 911 and has FSD. FSD is much closer than those that haven’t been following it closely think. The new 12 release is entirely based on the neural network and eliminated explicit coding. A simple explanation is prior versions would see an object and require an If…then…tree of possible actions. That’s been replaced by camera in, action out, based on what all the other cars did when they saw the same thing.

It’s fun having an incognito fast car. Driving around in my Durango and it can smoke all but the top super cars. It’s funny getting reactions from people when the unexpected happens.

[sonorajim]

It’s fun having an incognito fast car. Driving around in my Durango and it can smoke all but the top super cars. It’s funny getting reactions from people when the unexpected happens.

A friend bought a Rivian RT1 PU. He says he hasn't put his accelerator foot on the floor but the book on it is 110.8, 11.6 sec in the 1/4 mi. That's muscle car numbers.

[Velo]

Here's one of the five Mustangs I owned in the 1970s-80s. This one was a '69 with a 302. This was 1973 or 74, that is me with the bandages on my hand, I was 16 or 17. I was a busboy at a local restaurant and was learning to be a line cook, when I burned my hands changing the oil in a deep fryer.

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[Boltjolt]

A friend bought a Rivian RT1 PU. He says he hasn't put his accelerator foot on the floor but the book on it is 110.8, 11.6 sec in the 1/4 mi. That's muscle car numbers.

All electric vehicles are probably faster than my Challenger. Id get smoked by a Tesla model 3 but that's ok. Mine sounds better and I don't race it anyways.