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Zorak Prison Pod said:
I hope someone gouges the word 'faggot' into his stupid Falcon with a chisel.
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Nah it would just give him more ammo to complain. What I don't understand is how does a man who spent so many years complaining about women suddenly come out as a full-blown homosexual? Bisexual maybe? But this guy talks like he's been hiding it his whole life, okay then why did you publish diaries where you talked about wanting to meet women?


The more and more he posts the more and more. I just realize he's kind of a loser. It's easy to complain. It's hard to lift up.
 
Google.com said:
I wonder what their thoughts are going to be on Trump personally co-signing and supporting the Kei car.
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Google.com said:
He called them cute and said he wants them in the US asap .


https://youtube.com/watch?v=2Ey5TwGj7Cc:710Timestamp 11:50
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Maori Kiwifruit Growers said:
He's not wrong, they just need to fix the right-hand drive bullshit, lmao.
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I think the real problem with putting Kei Cars on U.S. roads is the 660cc displacement limit, and the short gearing. They're really designed for the Japanese urban environment, and not U.S. highways. I think both of those issues would have to be fixed.

If you've ever seen RCR, or any other other channel, review cars like the Honda Beat, Autozam AZ-1, or Suzuki Cappuccino, they're pretty scary to take on the freeway. Those engines are screaming in top gear just to keep up with traffic.
 
Captain Manning said:
If you've ever seen RCR, or any other other channel, review cars like the Honda Beat, Autozam AZ-1, or Suzuki Cappuccino, they're pretty scary to take on the freeway. Those engines are screaming in top gear just to keep up with traffic.
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Most Americans don't do massive cross country road trips ( I know out west that's different but I am talking costal here). What if you made it a hybrid so it can make highway speeds and still use gas so the buyers aren't "afraid of being stranded"?
 
Maori Kiwifruit Growers said:
Most Americans don't do massive cross country road trips ( I know out west that's different but I am talking costal here). What if you made it a hybrid so it can make highway speeds and still use gas so the buyers aren't "afraid of being stranded"?
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That's true, but it is also true that car purchases are frequently very emotional and not fully rational. Pickup trucks are incredibly popular vehicles in America, and most never haul anything more substantial than their owner's insecurities. It's not about what the car buyer's needs are -- it's about how it makes the buyer feel. Even someone who never goes on the highway might ask: "But what if I wanted to go on a road trip one day?"

Small cars would make a lot of sense for a lot of drivers. Unfortunately, they remain a tough sell.
 
Acoustic Virgin said:
That's true, but it is also true that car purchases are frequently very emotional and not fully rational. Pickup trucks are incredibly popular vehicles in America, and most never haul anything more substantial than their owner's insecurities. It's not about what the car buyer's needs are -- it's about how it makes the buyer feel. Even someone who never goes on the highway might ask: "But what if I wanted to go on a road trip one day?"

Small cars would make a lot of sense for a lot of drivers. Unfortunately, they remain a tough sell.
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Then I think there needs to be a set of "small cars that don't feel small," sort of how a Gen 1-2 Tundra and a modern Tundra are two VERY different sizes.
 
Maori Kiwifruit Growers said:
Most Americans don't do massive cross country road trips ( I know out west that's different but I am talking costal here).
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Many Americans still commute to work on freeways.

Maori Kiwifruit Growers said:
What if you made it a hybrid so it can make highway speeds and still use gas so the buyers aren't "afraid of being stranded"?
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Just put something in it with a reasonable powerband for highway cruising.

When Daihatsu sold the Copen in Europe (converted to LHD), they offered a 1.3L four cylinder option. Still very fuel efficient. The 660cc Kei engine didn't sell well in Europe, and I doubt it would here either.

Thread tax: RCR is an open furfag, and he's getting more insufferable to watch. I prefer Doug Demuro.
 
Captain Manning said:
Many Americans still commute to work on freeways.
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Same here. I wasn't thinking for a second.

Captain Manning said:
Just put something in it with a reasonable powerband for highway cruising.

When Daihatsu sold the Copen in Europe (converted to LHD), they offered a 1.3L four cylinder option. Still very fuel efficient. The 660cc Kei engine didn't sell well in Europe, and I doubt it would here either.
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I think it's more of a style thing the us market wants. Give it a few basic features like highway speeds, cupholders, comfort, "truck/blue collar items" and inject it with a little testosterone, style and class and Americans will buy it. Tbh a cheaper non lesbian Crosstrek/outback come to mind


Captain Manning said:
Thread tax: RCR is an open furfag, and he's getting more insufferable to watch. I prefer Doug Demuro.
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Thread tax: how much longer till we find out he's fucking some.twink? Or getting ass fucked
 
I stopped watching the guy's new videos when he fully outed himself as gay and a furfag too, the fact he hangs out with other furfags and troons makes it worse. Roman, idk that much on roman, I don't know if he's as bad as Brian, his music's shit. Screw Brian and his troon friends and troon/furry audience, eventually he'll troon out and i hope his channel will go down.
 
Zorak Prison Pod said:
I hope someone gouges the word 'faggot' into his stupid Falcon with a chisel.
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I thought he got rid of the orange falcon and replaced it with one of those jdm cars? I know from reading the thread that he now has a 63 Ford galaxie convertible that looks like a taxi (for some reason?), I do agree that someone should key that thing, because he drives it at furfag conventions, lord knows what stains are on those seats if you were to shine a uv light on it.
 
Bom Taker said:
I thought he got rid of the orange falcon and replaced it with one of those jdm cars? I know from reading the thread that he now has a 63 Ford galaxie convertible that looks like a taxi (for some reason?), I do agree that someone should key that thing, because he drives it at furfag conventions, lord knows what stains are on those seats if you were to shine a uv light on it.
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He bought it because of some '90s video game. The fucker never moved on.
 
Bom Taker said:
I thought he got rid of the orange falcon and replaced it with one of those jdm cars?
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Oh I don't know; I haven't watched his stuff in years. If he traded in the Falcon, that's surprising, because I remember him being on the verge of tears when he was told it wouldn't be ready to drive in time or something. It was his first face reveal video.

Even back then when I liked the guy's content, I was like, "lighten up you weeping pussy. You act like your dog died."
 
Maori Kiwifruit Growers said:
Then I think there needs to be a set of "small cars that don't feel small," sort of how a Gen 1-2 Tundra and a modern Tundra are two VERY different sizes.
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Tangent time, because this thread is dead and it's car related so why not?

This is actually the basic design philosophy behind the (in?)famous AMC Pacer. Let's set the stage: It's 1973, gas prices have quadrupled in a matter of months, and a compact import like a Honda or a Volkswagen suddenly looks far more appealing than a V8-powered Detroit land yacht. However, those things are small. Very, very small, especially for an American market that was accustomed to wide bench seats and acres of brown velour upholstery. So AMC's basic idea was, instead of just making a compact car, they made a car that was much shorter and lighter, but also make it as wide as contemporary full-size sedans in order to not compromise on passenger comfort. They went all-in on this idea, especially in the marketing:

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They sold them outside North America, too, which is where this somewhat iconic ad comes from. I guess it's the perfect car if your French wife has a fat ass or something.

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The Pacer was 77 inches wide, a full foot and a half wider than a 1975 Honda Civic. That goes quite a long way in terms of passenger comfort and seating. The Pacer was an innovative and interesting vehicle, but its production was fraught with issues and AMC didn't have the resources to execute their ideas more effectively. Despite ostensibly being an economical compact car, AMC made the fateful last-minute decision to cram a 232ci (3.8L) straight 6 under the hood of this thing. Resultingly, the Pacer returned a paltry 16 miles per gallon in the city, which was pretty shitty for something that was built to compete with four cylinder Hondas and Datsuns. Thanks to its aerodynamic shape, though, you got about 26 miles a gallon on the highway which was at least respectable by 1970s standards.

Which finally brings me back to your comment. Despite the 1970s really being the peak of AMC's cultural influence in America, the company was already beginning to struggle. There are a lot of reasons the Pacer was a market failure, but the basic concepts behind it aren't really one of them. I don't really know why another company hasn't tried to market a wider, roomier compact car, especially one with the resources to execute it more effectively. Even today, the bloated versions of once subcompact cars like the Civic are half a foot narrower than the Pacer was, not to mention the increased thickness of doors and A-pillars in order to accommodate modern safety features.

I can't really think of a good reason why nobody's ever tried to do this again. A lot of compacts are larger than they used to be, but as far to my knowledge, nobody's ever explicitly tried to make a wide compact quite like the Pacer ever since.

Anyways RCR sucks now.

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CFC-12 said:
I can't really think of a good reason why nobody's ever tried to do this again. A lot of compacts are larger than they used to be, but as far to my knowledge, nobody's ever explicitly tried to make a wide compact quite like the Pacer ever since.
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I think the reason no company makes wide cars is that nobody is filling their cars 3-abreast anymore like they were back in the '70s. Less than 10% of American workers carpool , and around 70% drive to work alone (the remainder use public transit or walk or bike or work from home). When you're by yourself or with only one passenger (or even multiple passengers - just none in the middle seats), then any added width doesn't matter. Even the narrowest car currently on the market (the Mitsubishi Mirage) is perfectly comfortable width-wise. Width becomes more of a detriment than a selling point when you look at things like parking (especially in a small home garage).

People don't care about width -- they want height so that they can see over all the other trucks and SUVs in traffic. Now, if carmakers would make some weird tiny but tall giraffe-looking car maybe some Karens would buy it so they could see over the Lindas in their Canyoneros. But even then I'm skeptical because a ton of drivers associate size with safety (and to an extent, that's true -- it's just physics -- but the bigger vehicle isn't always the safer option), so if the giraffe-mobile "feels" too delicate, then many car buyers will simply avoid it.

As for RCR, the fact that he puts out videos like this (never mind the gay furry stuff) means that no one will be able to tell when he starts losing his mind.
 
Forgot to mention this, but Brian and Roman did cameo work on a AMC documentary from Joe Ligo: the guy behind the automoments channel, he previously worked for mpt's motorweek which is how the documentary got on pbs (he had his 1972 AMC ambassador reviewed on rcr) they only did some minor voiceover work for the fourth episode reading at the time reviews on the AMC pacer
 
Bom Taker said:
Forgot to mention this, but Brian and Roman did cameo work on a AMC documentary from Joe Ligo: the guy behind the automoments channel, he previously worked for mpt's motorweek which is how the documentary got on pbs (he had his 1972 AMC ambassador reviewed on rcr) they only did some minor voiceover work for the fourth episode reading at the time reviews on the AMC pacer
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OGGtQpOvSTo
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Last summer when I went home for my usual visit to the parents dad and I watched that week by week. Good times.

Only bad parts were David Tracy being on TV for anything and making Paul Davis be all sorry on TV for promoting good cars.

I always wanted to hear about how they had to scramble to reorient the Pacer when GM's rotary got canned.
 
Acoustic Virgin said:
People don't care about width -- they want height so that they can see over all the other trucks and SUVs in traffic. Now, if carmakers would make some weird tiny but tall giraffe-looking car maybe some Karens would buy it so they could see over the Lindas in their Canyoneros. But even then I'm skeptical because a ton of drivers associate size with safety (and to an extent, that's true -- it's just physics -- but the bigger vehicle isn't always the safer option), so if the giraffe-mobile "feels" too delicate, then many car buyers will simply avoid it.
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Given how back-up cameras are pretty standard on new cars, using that same screen to display a periscope or maybe even a drone might be viable. Last year I was coming off the highway in my honda civic, and a F350 pulls up to my left. Naturally I couldn't fucking see oncoming traffic, so I had to wait for the green light before making a right turn. Only the cunt behind me kept blaring her horn telling me to go, which I wasn't about to do without seeing if it was clear myself.
 
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