Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

What's that? A car mouse?

It’s the BMW display key (now discontinued). It allowed you to check fuel etc, preheat the car, lock / unlock remotely and, in some cars drive it forward or backwards without being in the car (for a small parking space or garage).

It was laggy as fuck, massive and shit.

my grandad has this. he can get out of the car and use that remote thing to tell it to bay park. pretty cool

Ungh. I watched that fazerug dude. WHY?

Same. Had to read some Bestgore to cleanse my mind

Whereas now you can unlock and lock your car with your phone, which means if you lose your phone you can't drive anywhere and you can't call anyone to let them know. Geniuz.

The only logo that should ever appear on a seat is with RECARO or SPARCO

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I'm obviously not going to argue over those seats being hideous, nor the size and style of logos being gash AF, but unobtrusive embossed logos in leather seats is a pretty normal sports car thing.

Like I said before part of me does wonder if we're getting old. I mean did adults at the time think the Diabolo was tasteful?

He might have a lambo but his real name is Brian

... and he lives with his mum.

Seriously though, why? I mean I know a lot of young people need to live with their folks but when you're making $250k a month or whatever he makes?

Laundry isn’t going to do itself.

Tell me more about this greasing. Can I do it myself?

Well, now.

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I've no idea. I never do any car tinkering.

i wonder if that would make getting a bike in there difficult, I need to try.

Not very IME but do go ahead and try.

It just makes no sense to me, but then I am quite logo adverse generally

Always liked the look of these but after 1hr 28 mins of this I'm pretty sure I'll never buy one. Great vid though.

https://youtu.be/bRs-4AXb9_U

Ha, was going to post that last week. Fair conclusion.

Did they actively spray salt water on it before painting at the factory? The thing is rotted through everywhere!

PDR guy is a total nutcase, he travels the world fixing hail damage for insurers... He summers in Tornado Alley, told me some great stories...

Long story short, he found soooo many dents, doing the whole lot for $550... Quids in...

Very cool. Can you do a before/after?

Yeah, I'll try... Really big one (not actually that big) on the driver's side door, he said he'd only be able to get that to 95% but the rest are easy, there's only one that's gone through the paint and that one's tiny... Loads of hail damage on the hatch but not anywhere else, weird...

First place I went to told me the big one needed to be filled and painted... Let's see how we go, this guy might be totally shit!

There's a gap in the market.

I had quite a few pages to catch, came across your comment with the Rennsport 911 wtf loved the attitude of the guy! driving like he stole it ha ha ha

Agreed. Nice to see a guy driving them like he always has, regardless of how 911's have rocketed in price.

Exactly! And I understand all the purist thing and everything, for example some of the complete modifications that alter a car and send it miles away from how it was when it went out of the factory, with total nonsense on performances and some technical aspects etc. But I am beginning to lean towards agreement with his mindset of if you will build something, you should build it as you want it and not how others tell you to.
Moreover, they are doing it with considerations to how it was done then (with the example of rear suspension setup), so it keeps the Porsche vibe.
I believe the fact that if there is a problem he can bring his car directly to its shop to fix it so it does help to not feel any culpability driving the car, but I must say he seem to drive like regardless of the value of the car (and push it a bit beyond limits haha) which is great.

Run the fuck away from a 00's allroad, the v6 TDI was an utter dog of an engine, never worked right from new, rest of them look nice but just don't do it to yourself. 5 series that year much more reliable at this age now.
Alfa 1.9 mjtd are fine, hate the gearbox cables, make it feel like a toy car
mk5 gti I like but they rust bad, early mk6 is better in every way apart from looks IMO
e220 cdi are solid enough, check injectors for black death, check it charges and starts OK in all environments. Suspension creaks and groans at the back even when should be perfect lol
Careful with subaru diesels, I think its 200x to 2011 that they had bad crank shaft issues (like snapping in half), check very carefully, seen some dealers pick them and legacy diesels up cheap because they are about to imminently implode, then sell them for strong 'a revised engine' price, even though the defo are not.

Can't beat a honda Jazz!