What's the coolest car?

[Captain n00by]

VW Beetle painted in hippie motives?

Two seater sporty roadster?

A van with black windows?

What would you say?

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

Opprinnelig skrevet av danial:

lighting mcqueen

Pssh... he doesn't even have working headlights.

[MinionJoe]

The Cybertruck is a truck for people who don't actually use their truck. The vast majority of the time, you're lifting things over the side and setting them in the bed. That's not possible with the Tesla "truck". I couldn't even imagine having to going all the way around to the back and/or opening the tailgate and getting into the truck any time I wanted to load/unload a bag of recycling.

[Candyy]

Im so ignorant on cars...

[Luis the Uma Loving Wizard]

Any car that doesn't cost much in gas and repairs is cool enough.

[Captain n00by]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

The coolest Lamborghini I've ever seen is the

LAMBORGHINI EGOISTA

https://youtu.be/_Vq2F8ic5Fs

If this was all black it would be batmobile too.

Music sounds like "Icon of Sin" from DooM II.

I guess it got it's name cos it's a 1 seater.

[crunchyfrog]

Opprinnelig skrevet av MinionJoe:

The Cybertruck is a truck for people who don't actually use their truck. The vast majority of the time, you're lifting things over the side and setting them in the bed. That's not possible with the Tesla "truck". I couldn't even imagine having to going all the way around to the back and/or opening the tailgate and getting into the truck any time I wanted to load/unload a bag of recycling.

Lol, that pretty much sums up Elon Musk's raison d'etre, doesn't it?

He sells inadequate promises to people who don't know any better. Like his Borong company that can slash the cost of digging tunnels by doing them smaller (exxept it didn't end up cheaper and now they've announced new BIGGER tunnels).

He's embarrassing.

[RRW359]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

Opprinnelig skrevet av RRW359:

Didn't know that about caps. I just assumed they were like TC's where it only depends on bed size (ignoring stuff like weight which probably matters a lot less on a cap than a camper).

To be fair about range though they will lower your MPG on any vehicle and while it's impossible to charge an electric vehicle as fast as refueling I assume Tesla claims some kind of incredible rapid charge that will at least make it bearable. Ford and other companies coming out with electric pickups probably offer something similar too though.

I think ford recently came out with the "Lightning", and put its range at 300 or 350 miles "Fully Loaded" which NONE of the other electric car companies have done, so with just a single passenger and empty bed it will "possibly" get 500 miles.

Though I think for electric cars to be the "future" there will have to be some amazing revolution in energy storage "batteries" that would make electric cars not only faster to recharge but cheaper and able to go longer distances than gas vehicles... Along with the power grid and infrastructure that would be needed to support them all... The scary part is going to be the power bills since the US power grid is not designed for storage or return power.

For now I'm going to say that HYDROGEN powered cars will be the real future as they would have hydrogen combustion cars and conversions, and hydrogen electric fuel cell cars as well, all able to be refueled in the same time or faster than, and able to go about the same miles as gas powered vehicles, with hydrogen combustion cars being able to run off gasoline as well as hydrogen.

Especially now seeing the monopoly on "rare earth minerals" that communist dictatorship china has, meaning batteries and high tech components needed for full electric cars is a bit shaky at the moment like with the semiconductor shortage we have now.

I feel like Fuel Cells could have succeeded ICE's if they tried early on but they took too long to build infrastructure (nobody wanted to build stations unless there were cars and nobody wanted to sell cars that couldn't be refueled) before batteries became competitive. Since some people could charge from home they bought electric cars, then charging stations were built to make life better for people who had them, now there are enough stations for it to be almost viable for people who can't charge at home. Hydrogen just requires too many changes at once. I don't know too much about hydrogen as a combustable fuel but doesn't Fuel Cell hydrogen need to be kept at a certain PSI meaning you would need two tanks if you wanted Hydrogen to burn?

I know it's on the way out (especially in the US) but that's one reason I'm into diesel engines. Diesel fuel may be terrible, but just like Gas engines they can be modified for Methane, Propane, or Hydrogen. They can also run on SVO (although depending on the engine some modification may be needed to run on it long-term) meaning even if fuel runs out or is no longer sold you can still get and/or make it without outside equipment.

[GamingOnly69 Retreats_To_Cave]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

Has someone already said "The coolest car is one that was crashed into a frozen lake in the middle of winter?"

If not, I want to get in on that dad tier level cringe joke first!

grandpa joke noted and appreciated - well done, very cringey, top tier work

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

Opprinnelig skrevet av RRW359:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

I think ford recently came out with the "Lightning", and put its range at 300 or 350 miles "Fully Loaded" which NONE of the other electric car companies have done, so with just a single passenger and empty bed it will "possibly" get 500 miles.

Though I think for electric cars to be the "future" there will have to be some amazing revolution in energy storage "batteries" that would make electric cars not only faster to recharge but cheaper and able to go longer distances than gas vehicles... Along with the power grid and infrastructure that would be needed to support them all... The scary part is going to be the power bills since the US power grid is not designed for storage or return power.

For now I'm going to say that HYDROGEN powered cars will be the real future as they would have hydrogen combustion cars and conversions, and hydrogen electric fuel cell cars as well, all able to be refueled in the same time or faster than, and able to go about the same miles as gas powered vehicles, with hydrogen combustion cars being able to run off gasoline as well as hydrogen.

Especially now seeing the monopoly on "rare earth minerals" that communist dictatorship china has, meaning batteries and high tech components needed for full electric cars is a bit shaky at the moment like with the semiconductor shortage we have now.

I feel like Fuel Cells could have succeeded ICE's if they tried early on but they took too long to build infrastructure (nobody wanted to build stations unless there were cars and nobody wanted to sell cars that couldn't be refueled) before batteries became competitive. Since some people could charge from home they bought electric cars, then charging stations were built to make life better for people who had them, now there are enough stations for it to be almost viable for people who can't charge at home. Hydrogen just requires too many changes at once. I don't know too much about hydrogen as a combustable fuel but doesn't Fuel Cell hydrogen need to be kept at a certain PSI meaning you would need two tanks if you wanted Hydrogen to burn?

I know it's on the way out (especially in the US) but that's one reason I'm into diesel engines. Diesel fuel may be terrible, but just like Gas engines they can be modified for Methane, Propane, or Hydrogen. They can also run on SVO (although depending on the engine some modification may be needed to run on it long-term) meaning even if fuel runs out or is no longer sold you can still get and/or make it without outside equipment.

This was one of the early dual fuel Hydrogen and Gasoline cars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_Hydrogen_7

I love diesel engines. But in America they have a bad reputation dating back to the soot spewing diesel Mercedes from the 1970s and they try to regulate diesel cars to the same standards as gas cars, even though diesel vehicles get much better MPG and last longer.

Companies here also don't like diesel cars because they usually last much longer than the same gasoline car, and they can't push rabid consumerism if people have reliable cars that last for over 400,000 miles.

[WaitandSee]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

I love diesel engines. But in America they have a bad reputation dating back to the soot spewing diesel Mercedes from the 1970s and they try to regulate diesel cars to the same standards as gas cars, even though diesel vehicles get much better MPG and last longer.

Companies here also don't like diesel cars because they usually last much longer than the same gasoline car, and they can't push rabid consumerism if people have reliable cars that last for over 400,000 miles.

In Australia, you can buy Euro 6 compliant diesel cars, but I'm yet to see Euro 6 on Petrol vehicles.

No vehicle since 2015 here has been a soot-blower due to Diesel Particle Filters and/or Selective Catalytic Reduction being mainstream, once manufacturers and consumers (Mainly consumers) got the hang of DPF's, they're reliable and clean.

In Australia, around 30% of all passenger cars are Diesel due to their immense fuel efficiency, power and torque available in quite small packages.

I don't know how Tradies or 4WD drivers in the US could even afford to run those massive aspirated gasoline engines, especially if used in work vehicles. Our Utes (Pickup Trucks in US) have four cylinder turbo diesels as standard, the Ford Ranger has an inline five. Our Landcruiser J200 has the legendary 4.5 litre V8 Twin Turbo, a beast of an engine which couldn't be had in the US, that Diesel engine was so popular, so few buyers in Australia would option the Petrol that they ended up cancelling it and making it a Diesel Only.

The numbers have shown that Australians love their diesels, and for good reason, a Subaru Boxer Diesel Auto (CVT) in the Outback can get 6.3 litres per 100km (37 miles per US Gallon) combined using the Australian ADR method. The Diesel Landcruiser get 8.5 L/100km (27MPG US)Freeway, 11 L/100km City (21MPG) and 9.5 L/100km Combined (24MPG), and it still can do the 0-100 in about 8.6 seconds under ideal conditions.

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

Opprinnelig skrevet av WaitandSee:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

I love diesel engines. But in America they have a bad reputation dating back to the soot spewing diesel Mercedes from the 1970s and they try to regulate diesel cars to the same standards as gas cars, even though diesel vehicles get much better MPG and last longer.

Companies here also don't like diesel cars because they usually last much longer than the same gasoline car, and they can't push rabid consumerism if people have reliable cars that last for over 400,000 miles.

In Australia, you can buy Euro 6 compliant diesel cars, but I'm yet to see Euro 6 on Petrol vehicles.

No vehicle since 2015 here has been a soot-blower due to Diesel Particle Filters and/or Selective Catalytic Reduction being mainstream, once manufacturers and consumers (Mainly consumers) got the hang of DPF's, they're reliable and clean.

In Australia, around 30% of all passenger cars are Diesel due to their immense fuel efficiency, power and torque available in quite small packages.

I don't know how Tradies or 4WD drivers in the US could even afford to run those massive aspirated gasoline engines, especially if used in work vehicles. Our Utes (Pickup Trucks in US) have four cylinder turbo diesels as standard, the Ford Ranger has an inline five. Our Landcruiser J200 has the legendary 4.5 litre V8 Twin Turbo, a beast of an engine which couldn't be had in the US, that Diesel engine was so popular, so few buyers in Australia would option the Petrol that they ended up cancelling it and making it a Diesel Only.

The numbers have shown that Australians love their diesels, and for good reason, a Subaru Boxer Diesel Auto (CVT) in the Outback can get 6.3 litres per 100km (37 miles per US Gallon) combined using the Australian ADR method. The Diesel Landcruiser get 8.5 L/100km (27MPG US)Freeway, 11 L/100km City (21MPG) and 9.5 L/100km Combined (24MPG), and it still can do the 0-100 in about 8.6 seconds under ideal conditions.

I wish we had more Diesels, especially the little ones out here in the States, but then companies couldn't sell their stupid "gas hybrids" because many cheaper diesels would get better MPG than said gas hybrids.

[Devsman]

Opprinnelig skrevet av RRW359:

How are Truck Campers and Canopies going to work with the slanted bed? I'm sure new cybertruck-compatible versions of both will be made (that probably won't work on other trucks), but anyone who wants to buy used equipment or transfer their old stuff won't buy it.

What makes you think anybody is buying a cybertruck for outdoorsing? Most people who buy non-gimmick pickup trucks don't even use them for outdoorsing, lol.

[RRW359]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

Opprinnelig skrevet av WaitandSee:

In Australia, you can buy Euro 6 compliant diesel cars, but I'm yet to see Euro 6 on Petrol vehicles.

No vehicle since 2015 here has been a soot-blower due to Diesel Particle Filters and/or Selective Catalytic Reduction being mainstream, once manufacturers and consumers (Mainly consumers) got the hang of DPF's, they're reliable and clean.

In Australia, around 30% of all passenger cars are Diesel due to their immense fuel efficiency, power and torque available in quite small packages.

I don't know how Tradies or 4WD drivers in the US could even afford to run those massive aspirated gasoline engines, especially if used in work vehicles. Our Utes (Pickup Trucks in US) have four cylinder turbo diesels as standard, the Ford Ranger has an inline five. Our Landcruiser J200 has the legendary 4.5 litre V8 Twin Turbo, a beast of an engine which couldn't be had in the US, that Diesel engine was so popular, so few buyers in Australia would option the Petrol that they ended up cancelling it and making it a Diesel Only.

The numbers have shown that Australians love their diesels, and for good reason, a Subaru Boxer Diesel Auto (CVT) in the Outback can get 6.3 litres per 100km (37 miles per US Gallon) combined using the Australian ADR method. The Diesel Landcruiser get 8.5 L/100km (27MPG US)Freeway, 11 L/100km City (21MPG) and 9.5 L/100km Combined (24MPG), and it still can do the 0-100 in about 8.6 seconds under ideal conditions.

I wish we had more Diesels, especially the little ones out here in the States, but then companies couldn't sell their stupid "gas hybrids" because many cheaper diesels would get better MPG than said gas hybrids.

In Europe they actually have Diesel PHEV's. There have only been a couple of models and they've all been SUV's/crossovers so not really something I'm interested in but I'm still jealous.

[RRW359]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Devsman:

Opprinnelig skrevet av RRW359:

How are Truck Campers and Canopies going to work with the slanted bed? I'm sure new cybertruck-compatible versions of both will be made (that probably won't work on other trucks), but anyone who wants to buy used equipment or transfer their old stuff won't buy it.

What makes you think anybody is buying a cybertruck for outdoorsing? Most people who buy non-gimmick pickup trucks don't even use them for outdoorsing, lol.

Because some people will want electric trucks for things like Truck Campers and all the others coming out are 1/2-ton. The pickup capacity of the Cybertruck actually makes it equivilent to a 3/4-1 ton truck but it won't work with TC's.

[Devsman]

Opprinnelig skrevet av RRW359:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Devsman:

What makes you think anybody is buying a cybertruck for outdoorsing? Most people who buy non-gimmick pickup trucks don't even use them for outdoorsing, lol.

Because some people will want electric trucks for things like Truck Campers and all the others coming out are 1/2-ton. The pickup capacity of the Cybertruck actually makes it equivilent to a 3/4-1 ton truck but it won't work with TC's.

Electric truck, sure.

Cybertruck no.