Automotive Addicts V8 Pt. 2 - Real Motors have 8 cylinders and Pushrods Edt. - General

With an AU, you make your own rules

I grew up with my old man having a 1990 GMC Sierra 1500 and a 2000 Chevy Blazer and they were great. My brother owns the truck now and it's still doing good, step sister got the Blazer and tore it up with bad driving / maintenance.

pontiac fiero, isuzu impulse, subaru xt, lincoln continential mkiv, caddilac allante, caddilac cimarron, mr2, buick regal, amg hammer, audi quattro, bmw e30, iroc-z, honda crx, jeep cherokee, mitsubishi starion, porsche 944, porsche 959, need i go on also posting pictures of mazdas is cheating those have always been hideous

Well. I should have ordered the vic tires sooner. One rear one blew on the way to work. I almost died. I lost control since I'm not used to driving that type of car yet, overcorrected, and swerved across all lanes (not sure now everyone legit stopped, spooky shit happened no joke) and smacked a early 2000's f150 fairly good. Luckily the guy saw me and we were both slowed down enough. He was able to drive off ok. Fuck. I really hope the dude I crashed into is gunna not want me to pay up somehow though if my insurance won't do its job. I only have basic car insurance so my savings might be drained from this. Putting all the stress and hours I've been through at work to absolute waste. At least i'm ok and so far only a control arm is fucked up aside from cosmetic damage. Hood might be gone and the whole right front end will need to be did. Luckily no apparent radiator or engine damage atm. I really hope they won't fight me on repairs or want me to trash the car or salvage title it. Similar shit happened with my ex on his car, was not a good process. At least I can hopefully get the homie hookup for paint or whatever from the dudes at caliber collision since my work does a huge contract with them. Fuck. Either way I'm probably fucked up the ass financially now. But I'm keeping the car...... either way still cheaper than new. So bleh. FUCK. LOOK AT THIS SHIT. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/268065/f8ed5f4f-64d7-4ab8-8ab9-71ccaf399eb8/20180623_095152.jpg https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/268065/d0d55326-8dc1-4ed5-a3ea-9883128323d6/20180623_100123.jpg NO WHY CAN I NOT EVER HAVE NICE THINGS. Legit was probably the nicest looking car we had in the driveway except the amx..... fuck.... Weird thing too to tie into the spoopy shit... I had an odd feeling/premonition of this happening, once when I bought the car. Then last night I had the feeling that I would be in an accident but should not take my sentra to work. I almost took the sentra this morning but I was running late since I was up late. Weird.

Frankly, you would probably have totaled the Sentra if you had this had happened to it, but the Vic theoretically should be fine, just the bumper, bumper cover, grille, grille surround, headlight, fender, and hood.

Yeah in my experience when that little voice in the back of your brain goes "hold the fuck up", it's always right. Also vics are body on frame, that doesn't look so bad, the headlight support isn't even out of shape. If you really work at it you could replace all that sheet metal in a weekend. Dig around craigslist, find someone with a front end for sale, i'm sure you could get that thing back on the road in no time.

the 80s corniche stuck with the silver shadow look, not the silver sprint abomination. also I didn't say anything about them being good, I said the era was the peak of automotive styling. you barely even touched on why you think it looks bad. you said its boxy and you think cars have faces

There’s a fairly simple proof for why the 80’s were not the peak of automotive styling: Alfa Romeo, known for producing beautiful and soulful cars from as early as the dawn of the automobile, to all the way up to and including today, thought it was a good idea to stick an Alfa badge on a Nissan Pulsar. If anything, the 80’s were the dark ages of automotive styling.

look if we got into that i'd be typing up dissertation tier essays on the nature and meaning of beauty and design, and how consumer styling reflects the philosophical spirit/zeitgeist of the public and the hisorical context of the time. Also, having 12 billion boxes, boarderline identical outside of brand logos, even if that basic shape was gorgeous, is gonnna fuckin' wear the novelty thin. Now make that base shape a godless reminder of bleakness and the barren nature of existance and oh boy we have the 80's. http://autowpaper.com/images/1990-cadillac-allante-interior-1.jpg And from purely 100% aesthetic and quality of life perspectives, holy fuck the interiors are desperate. nothing but kitchy off colour browns, grays and other bleak nonsense. Cram full with functionless and formless noisy shapes. Nothing there directs the eye. Nothing there is a union of form or function (with the possible acception of the gear knob, but i'd assert that's nothing but function) . And what dressing is there is a mound of overly cluttered "oh look at us we have computers!" nonsense. They put a billion buttons in there, because computers are fancy i guess, but didn't take one moment to think about the design. Just a hundred cheap plastic buttons in basic fonts. Squares upon squares upon squares with no flow or purpose, just slapped on without thoght because being a computer is enough. The materials are horrible, the shapes are either non existant or clumps of meaningless noise, the colours are awful, the actual functional design of it is somehow even worse than the aesthetics, and (in that cadillac or other "luxury" cars of the time specifically) everything just bleeds pretention at a time when no accolades were deserved. It's got red carpets because oh that's hypothetically emblematic of fancy shit. It's got pointless computers that do nothing because oh look at us, we can put an 8 bit computer into a 90,000 dollar car that's inferior to the analogue devices it replaced. It's not as pretentious as the malaise era, but they only by that much, and they replaced that egregious pretentiousness of "i have an opera window and not a rolls grille in my land yacht because inhabiting images of sophistication is basically the same thing as being sophisticated right?" of the '70's lincons with a cynical vacuous ineffection of utterly barren boxes without form or function. The 80's is a fucking wasteland of industrial/consumer design. The 80's is the bottom. They couldn't even fuck up right, so they just gave up.

Keep us updated on this. If it goes to shit, I'll be happy to donate some money to help you.

*posts a bright fucking red interior* ALL THE INTERIORS ARE BORING GREY AND BROWN BLEAK NONSENSE look at that shit it looks like a fucking fighter jet in there how joyless can you possibly be

I said bleak. Those colours are bleak, desaturated and not artfully used, which is the biggest problem of them all.

Went to a party today, walked out to my ride to leave and saw a half way decent photo opportunity https://i.imgur.com/HvTKGb8.jpg

i think someone stole your number plate

just replaced the spark plugs, and some ignition leads on order. car feels a lot better now, less misfiring and the fuel consumption is going to improve significantly.

it being cheap isnt the designer's fault, it's the accounting team that did that. I can guarantee the guy at pininfarina who originally drew up the design was not pleased to learn that the bean counters got hold of his masterpiece. remember, I'm talking about the design, not how the product has held up over the years fwiw real wood does nothing either

Well the designs of that era universally suck and the awful material choices are just twisting the knife for good measure.

https://i.imgur.com/cEzxmOG.jpg Come on now, it wasn't all bad...

I'm mostly in agreement with Stev on this topic, but that shit looks like it'd be fun to drive. My only bone to pick with it is that the inset button panels on the right side don't fit with the curvature at all, which is especially shitty given how well it flows on the left side of the wheel.

The Southern states don't require front plates

Rate my generic GTI https://i.imgur.com/r4PzShd.jpg

ill rate it GTI / GTI i love them lol. if the mk7s were a tiny bit cheaper i wouldve probably ended up in one instead of the mazda

Unfortunately, Texas, out of them all, does.

No of course there's a few standouts, but they're exceptions that prove the rule. I like the leading lines on that, i like how the dash cluster lines match the wheel, and how all the lines converge around that cluster/wheel. If all design of the time was that well executed, i could get behind it. But even then that interior is suffering from an infectious case of button-itus and that exact awful cheap plastic as the primary material.

What really pisses me off is that here, any car with a engine bigger than 2l has idiotic registration tax because apparently such a thing is automatically luxury Not to mention the autistic system of doing so and the eternal attempting to take more money out of your pocket Treacherous fucks making the registration cost of a goddamn rebadged Chrysler 300 like 1200 euros per year

makes me glad the rego here is logical. different prices depending on the safety of your car, with the least safe being more expensive. until your car hits 35 years old in that case its a classic and rego is ridiculously cheap. rego for my 30yo mitsi with no safety features is 80NZD for 6 months.

Oh come, there's no doubt that this is one of the most awesome dashboards in the world: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/211377/3293b9bf-34fb-4c86-b72c-2b7c3d0a099a/image.png There's probably even a button to enter hyperspace. Not a sliver of inspiration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNijql5V7s4 This type of starter on airplanes drives me wild. I love that noise. When I build my classic I want to have an inertia (electric motor driven) starter on it, would be cool as fuck.

debating on dropping $500 aud to corksport rear swaybar for muh mazda

Is that the 2 door version?