Honestly the consumable culture we’ve created with cars is far more environmentally damaging than a 100+k SUV. A tiny percentage of the population can buy or lease this. Yet everyone and their mom seems to be able to swing a lease payment for a new Infiniti, Honda, Nissan that gets replaced every 3 years. The x5 m…

Bud. You think Lemons cars have great structural integrity? Then you’re right, because each and every one of them has a full cage welded into the frame. It’s mandated by the rules. And for the power than most Lemons make, you really don’t need much rigidity.

I feel like you’d have to be *really* bad at manual transmissions and also an extremely slow learner to do any actual damage to the car. I learned on an almost brand-new Civic back in the day and aside from some stalling and less-than-graceful starts it was really no big thing. If you want to drive manual just buy one…

I do have to wonder why people think driving a manual transmission car is some dark, treacherous magick that will make a crater a mile wide if you do it wrong. It’s absolutely not hard or dangerous at all, and the worst that can happen is that you stall at an intersection or get an unpleasant grinding noise once or…

The tetanus shot he would need when he accidentally brushed up against it would probably cost more than $400.

Cool museum. If they run out of floor space, there is plenty of room to park a few cars or a bus in the Beskid’s panel gaps.

Well. nobody is “forcing” us to buy new cars (the conspiracy theorists next door would say different), but there are some factors that come into play here:

Unless there’s a common problem with the design of the car, I think if you buy 3 or 4 of these $100 cars you’ll have every part needed to put together one that will pass, no?

But what if the honest intent at the time was to actually race them?  Like maybe pick two of the roughest ones and have a bi-annual one lap around a dirt track event?

Yes. Most of the €100 examples won’t pass TÜV without repairs. Even repaired, there are emissions related reasons these are being made more difficult to register. Plus, they were crazy cheap to begin with, so there’s that.

Are these cheap for similar reasons that JDM cars are cheap in Japan, i.e. they’re more expensive to register than they’re worth because the government is trying to force people to buy newer cars?

Start an American Twingo race series and import these as the race cars. Store all the Twingos in a warehouse while the series mysteriously disappears. Five years later return to your treasure trove of Twingos and cruise around town in your shitbox legally like a king.

IMO, it’s not bad for Hyundai to have tech that only Mercedes and BMW use.

Sure they have. Volvo, Mercedes and others use it on trucks too. Thing is, the article doesn’t mention GPS anywhere. This is a predictive system based on analysing the road ahead and eventually using vehicle to infrastructure communication.

GPS probably doesn’t—or isn’t accurate/fast enough to—provide real-time road surface conditions nor its angles.

*System scans and identifies the edge of a lift bridge:

The world is plagued by a bunch of interdimensional monsters and humanity is on the verge of collapse. Why is one guy in a hut in the middle of nowhere doing cosplay exactly?

Irmemeber leaving his area and seeing a few giant mounds and thinking “fuck it, might as well” and adding my own 1000mL creation to the garden

I think ascribing this to some sort of dislike for Conan O’Brien is overthinking it a bit.