justphil
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justphil

That lead image, that’s what I see when I look at modern cars. They all look the same. Give us an outline of any modern car and I bet very few will be able to identify which it is. I know old guys have been saying this for decades already, but all cars look the same these days.

I can only imagine what the guy with a F-150 Harley Davidson edition paid to get his truck in Australia. I actually saw one in Sydney of all places.

...the 2019 will be a good little truck, but it will not be the cheap and tiny pickup you remember from ten years ago.

As optioned with a six-speed automatic transmission, 3.2-liter inline-five-cylinder engine and four-wheel drive this truck would retail for AUD 62,789 which translates to about $47,000 American.

Why can you tell it’s a cheap car just from that front picture? Is it the gap Hood/headlight? BMW has it. Is it the fake opening grilles? McLaren has them. Maybe this one has a tad bit too much of darkness?

When I was younger, (sub 10) , if you asked me to draw a Car I would probably give you a crayon scribbling of an 80's caprice or a Chrysler K or something similarly proportioned. Square front,square roof square trunk. What does a kids drawing of a car today look like? I’m sure this would give insight to what the

The Chevy Cruze is the most average car apparently.

amazing. very impressed. a profile view may be a little messy in comparison, but would be interesting to see.

How perfect. That mean average outline looks exactly like a Chevrolet SS.

“I used two methods to generate the image, both harnessing the raw computing power of the Jalopnik Mainframe, a massive array of 200 Commodore PETs with their 1MHz 6502 processors running in parallel, all housed in a kiddie pool in Barry White’s basement.”

This is an average car. This is an average car on drugs.

This makes me extremely uncomfortable. A few months ago we were talking about how dangerous it was for Trump to be questioning the legitimacy of our democratic process, and how it undermined our entire system of peaceful power transition.

Trump is not a legitimate President. He’s a highly trained KGB assassin. Impeach while you still can. Stand with Rosie.

Nah. The EPA is forcing innovation. Would we have eight or ten speed transmissions in cars without them? A turbo’d V6 in a performance F-150 capable of whooping up on all the V8s (and a version of the engine in Ford’s supercar redux)? Would we have smaller displacement, higher horsepower, better mileage?

well shit. Was planning on buying an ecodiesel RAM in the next year or two...

You wouldn’t put an E30 M3 on the track? And he is the heathen?

Why not do a compression test on the car for absolutely no reason?

“Then there’s the weird twisted pair of wires hanging out of the dash left of the Momo steering wheel. What’s that all about?” Ghetto ignition switch.  Crack Pipe!

This car is boy-racer nostalgia gone wild. A 10-year-old WRX will eat an E30 M3 for breakfast in every imaginable way and cost all of $6K. I know, I hate these types of “comparisons” too, but good grief, these E30s are out of control. This is buyer’s remorse just waiting to happen.

At $12k it would be a worthwhile restoration or track car, at $28k I almost shot coffee out my nose.