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I think I'm going to be in the market for a new car next year (I've had my Honda for 10 years, but I would like a better infotainment system and AWD) and I just found out that Subaru is discontinuing the Legacy. That's a bummer as it was between that and the Honda Accord when I bought the Honda in 2016. I guess a lot of car companies are going towards the SUV brand, at least with AWD.
I'm thinking this is probably a thread I will be checking a lot for ideas. I'm not really interested in an EV, but I am interested in the Hybrid.
I'm thinking this is probably a thread I will be checking a lot for ideas. I'm not really interested in an EV, but I am interested in the Hybrid.
I think I liked the Prius for about a week. Then I realized its such an ugly looking car and I want no part of it.
A lot of taxis and Uber drivers here use Prius - ugly yes but as I only occasionally use them it makes little difference to me.
Toyota makes a few AWD sedans, including the Camry models. As for me, I would prefer the normally aspirate Camry AWD than the hybrid, since I don't need the extra torque of the hybrid engine provides, especially since the roads in the interior of Alaska are covered with ice most times during the winter. This morning when I looked at the outdoors thermometer it pointed to -32º F (or -35º. C).
Also, I would prefer the normally aspirate V6 in the FWD Camry of a few years ago. Even driving on icy roads a FWD car does quite well on ice and snow as long as it wears the right tires for road conditions. I have driven FWD Honda and other small cars for quite a lot of years in slippery conditions (ice, and so on) without any problems, even cars that didn't have ABS, traction/stability controls, and so on. I drove a 2012 Corolla through a few seasons: during the winter it had a set of 4 Blizzak stud-less winter tires, and All-Season tires the rest of the year.
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Argh, the Peugeot driver here at 4:25:
Expensive taking out a 7.0L V12 Jaguar and the Peugeot itself is very expensive.
That Jaguar is so quick in a straight line, it was back in the old days as well - it had very effective aerodynamics and ~750hp in 24 hour race tune. Even the Sauber V8s (Mercedes M119HL engine) were not that powerful in race tune.
Expensive taking out a 7.0L V12 Jaguar and the Peugeot itself is very expensive.
That Jaguar is so quick in a straight line, it was back in the old days as well - it had very effective aerodynamics and ~750hp in 24 hour race tune. Even the Sauber V8s (Mercedes M119HL engine) were not that powerful in race tune.
Anyone driving one of these in winter temps?
Last pic is the day the car arrived here. Much has changed!
Last pic is the day the car arrived here. Much has changed!
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Well, at least not in the interior of Alaska (Fairbanks and vicinity). This week the temperatures at night should be from -28 to -40 degrees F. Better have at least a V6 engine, and better yet a V8 that is capable of deliveing lots of hot air to the cabin. I do like the looks of that car, and would live to drive it the rest of the year.~Just kidding with you about winter driving
That would be a bit treacherous in snow surely? What is it, 600kg weight? Would imagine it would skate about.
Salt on the roads probably wouldn’t help it either?
If I were single and in my 20's, I would love to have something like this one, a 4-wheel CanAm Riker. My reasons would be to please my wants, first, and that it would cost me over the $14,000 base price to perhaps $25,000 USD by the time I 'built it" to my liking., depending on the powertrain I choose between 80 to perhaps 120HP engine. It is not a powerful sports car, just one that is fun to drive. It incorporates a few more perks in the 2026 model:
2025 Can Am Riker
Please accept my most sincere apologies, car forum members. The video above was a fantastic dream I had. I don't think it is real at all, but it would have had so much fun driving that little car in my 20's
2025 Can Am Riker
Please accept my most sincere apologies, car forum members. The video above was a fantastic dream I had. I don't think it is real at all, but it would have had so much fun driving that little car in my 20's
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Then the wife asks you to go pick up some timber………If I were single and in my 20's, I would love to have something like this one, a 4-wheel CanAm Riker. My reasons would be to please my wants, first, and that it would cost me over the $14,000 base price to perhaps $25,000 USD by the time I 'built it" to my liking., depending on the powertrain I choose between 80 to perhaps 120HP engine. It is not a powerful sports car, just one that is fun to drive. It incorporates a few more perks in the 2026 model:
2025 Can Am Riker
Please accept my most sincere apologies, car forum members. The video above was a fantastic dream I had. I don't think it is real at all, but it would have had so much fun driving that little car in my 20's
You know if you had that in your 20’s you’d have put it in a ditch. I’m so glad I didn’t have the acceleration I have now in my teens and 20’s. I’m not sure I’d have seen my 30’s.
Bugatti Bolide being tested by SportAuto in Circuit Paul Ricard:
Holy heavens - it is just brutal. The sound is apocalyptic - a deep thunderous roar.
The acceleration and gearshifts are so smooth and fast, it just seems to be an endless supply of instant torque and power.
I have to admit I love the Bugatti W16 engine - it's a magnificent beast of a thing.
Holy heavens - it is just brutal. The sound is apocalyptic - a deep thunderous roar.
The acceleration and gearshifts are so smooth and fast, it just seems to be an endless supply of instant torque and power.
I have to admit I love the Bugatti W16 engine - it's a magnificent beast of a thing.
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🤣 Yes, there is a good chance that you are right! Now, back in my early 20's I was driving a few old cars until my fist marriage, and for some strange reason I never had traffic accidents. The one I liked the most was a 1964 Volvo 122. By the time I divorced a few years later I was driving the worst car I ever owned, a Fiat Strada.
A year after I met my second and present wife: she was driving a Toyota Corolla, and I was driving the Fiat. In 1982 I sold hers and my car, and bought a used Chevy truck that had a small camper top, and drove this truck from Alaska to California on a military move. The next cars were the smaller Honda Civic made in those years, and a Honda Accord hatchback. We drove these two cars from California all across the US to a small town in Northern NY that's located about 40-50 miles from the Canadian border. Then, after selling the Civic we bought a 1987 Civic Si and kept the Accord, drove North to Canada and turned West all the way across Canada's west coast, and then North to the interior of Alaska.
We have two Toyota trucks, and a small Toyota SUV. My wife drives her smaller truck and the RAV4 (I drive them now and then), but I enjoy driving the large truck with the big engine, specially during the winter (the V8 spits fire into the cabin). The kids have their own families, and we have them plus the grandchildren to visit and make noise
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This round of car buying I am frustrated, looking at a Hybrid and made a comment in the EV thread, but this applies to car buying in general. It's been 12 years since I've purchased a new car.
- Ah the good ole days where I could go into the Saturn dealer and fill out a sheet specifying every thing I wanted from paint to trim options. Does that still exist in any form? 🤔
- All the black interiors, 95% of them. I'm not adverse to black outright, both my Cooper and Miata have black interiors. But my Hilander has a light interior and that's what me and spouse want in its replacement. Do 95% want black, or you just end up buying what's available? For the RAV4s, they had one vehicle on the lot with a lovely nutmeg colored seat covering (and not a hybrid) and trim in the car, which looks luxurious, and the rest, black or two tone seats with black dash and doors.
- Trim levels are much more than just trim, to include important features that jack the car up $2-6k or more, and those are marketing decisions. You don't want a sun roof (I no longer do), they expect you to basically buy the bottom or mid level trim package. In the Toyota line, if you buy the bottom trim, they still hand you a physical key in the slot for a hybrid vehicle. The keyfob comes on the middle trim level and above.
- The desirable colors? 90% of the cars are white, black, dark blue or gray, with a very few beiges, greens, or reds.
Some manufacturers do online configuration apps - they give you a code at the end or you create a PDF file of the entire spec. But that’s mostly the more expensive manufacturers of very high end cars, with lower end BMWs probably being the exception.
It just seems with a lot of cars now there just aren’t that many options to have. Paint especially is limited - Polestar I think was an earlier adopter of that trend (excluding Henry Ford of course). I don’t always like the thunderstorm hues of Polestar cars, although I do like the cars themselves.
Too often now you don’t get a sunroof at all, just a fixed glass roof that turns the interior into an oven. I’m not a fan of those and especially not those dimming glass functions they have, it blocks light out but the glass still gets hot.
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Go in and tell them you want to order the exact car you want, and you are going to wait for it. You will get forced into certain trim levels to get certain options you want (this is the way it is), but if you order it with the configuration you want, you wont be limited to the preconfigured options/colors the dealership received.
But in the end, certain options are grouped and there is nothing you can do.
This is why the Tesla sales model is appealing, it is the old “Saturn” style of only having to select a very few options, and the price is what it is (at least when you order it since Tesla changes prices like the stock market). The dealership model plays games with prices, and only orders certain configurations.
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A deep look at the Ferrari F2004:
That is a beautiful piece of extreme engineering. It was extremely effective.
Interesting they drop the revs of the V10 engine (type 053C) by only about 400-500rpm and this doubles the endurance of the engine to around 2000km, and after that it gets a complete strip down and checks. The engine in qualifying tune was 940hp. In the race it had 865hp, this powering a car that was extremely light.
Interesting that the F2004 was below the 605kg weight limit, so they had ability to add extra weight where it gave best effect.
That is a beautiful piece of extreme engineering. It was extremely effective.
Interesting they drop the revs of the V10 engine (type 053C) by only about 400-500rpm and this doubles the endurance of the engine to around 2000km, and after that it gets a complete strip down and checks. The engine in qualifying tune was 940hp. In the race it had 865hp, this powering a car that was extremely light.
Interesting that the F2004 was below the 605kg weight limit, so they had ability to add extra weight where it gave best effect.
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