BROWN LIKE A TURD!

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    You know, I really don’t hate the idea of buying a car without a finish and then getting a custom job after the fact. If there’s a silver lining on the Cybertruck debacle, its the steel frame that you can do up however you like.

    But holy fuck is that thing not the most “My 4-year-old’s favorite Hotwheels” ass chassis design. An absolute embarrassment of automotive engineering.

    • OwOarchist@pawb.social
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      1 month ago

      You should look into the Slate electric trucks.

      Small electric trucks/SUVs that are intended to be very cheap and barebones stock, but also very modular and very upgradeable, so you add the features you want. Including it being pretty much a given that you’re going to wrap it in the colors of your choice.

      They’re not on the market yet, but I have high hopes.

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          1 month ago

          There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

          If you want to drive a car at all, you’re going to end up supporting some huge corporation. And pretty much all huge corporations are at least somewhat friendly towards fascism.

          (When an open source car project that anyone can build and make parts for gets off the ground, let me know. I’ll be the first in line. Until then…)

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        I mean, I’d like to see you put a mirror finish on an off-the-lot Honda Civic.

        But yes, the truck part of the truck is garbage.

      • Steve@communick.news
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        1 month ago

        Nobody sells cars with bare metal body work.
        Would be a cool look though, with just clear coat to keep it nice.

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      1 month ago

      Not to be a nerd but the frame (edit: unibody actually) is cast aluminum, they just glue bits on top

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      1 month ago

      Well, truck owners are not exactly famous for taste or open mindedness. It’s not a bad design from the interior perspective and the rear cover actually makes this practical. It doesnt have 16ft front blind spots like typical Brodozers. Italian designer Guigaro praised the design. He invented the angular design movement in the 80s.

      The problems are poor build design and quality, and poor safety considerations and poor performance off road, but let’s be serious, 99% of urban pickup owners will never go off road.

  • Imhotep@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    sometimes when I come across a tesla while on foot I do a quick ”roman” salute, with 2 fingers on the philtrum for the stache

    I just want everyone to feel welcome

  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    It is interesting to see the different paint jobs these people come up with.

    I saw one on the freeway a few months ago that was literally a mirror. An iridescent rainbow mirror. It was so distracting I think it should have been illegal, hubble-telescope-caliber spotless immaculate reflections of all the cars & lights & road & sky. It was quite distracting and was holding up traffic until each car driver eventually snapped out of their hypnotic awe and passed the bugger.

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        Oof I’d leave that martyr shenanigan to someone else. My vehicle is everything to me and I would never intentionally damage it.

        • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works
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          1 month ago

          Yeah, I know there’s a lot of flimsy assumptions behind the sentiment…

          Curious question, though: is your vehicke important because of what it enables (maybe lifestyle or just a car-oriented city) or is it a status symbol or some core part of why you are (are you a driver or something?)

          Its odd to me one would be so important but I’ve always ridden bikes as well as seeing them as a tool and been fortunate to live in a small city with token public transport, so I’m just on a different part of the spectrum, really…

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            1 month ago

            I live in a 10 ft tall Mercedes Sprinter RV conversion. It is my entire life and my home. I live at the beach (or wherever the heck I want), I can wake up every morning at whatever appointment or job I have on any given day, I can travel anywhere I want and I never have to get a hotel because I’m always home, I don’t have to pay rent, mortgage, or utilities, I love this lifestyle and if anything ever happens to this van then I will buy another one and continue living like this by choice because this is my favorite lifestyle I’ve ever had in my entire life. And I have 3 bicycles too 😄

  • kadu@scribe.disroot.org
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    1 month ago

    I don’t see the appeal of cars in general, but this is particularly ugly.

    It looks like what you see on a PlayStation 2 game if you’re far away enough from the objects to trigger the low poly LOD version.