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Well, if it greatly affects its resale then yes, it would be a wrong choice
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Maybe if they started painting them in bright vibrant colours again we might not need all these "safety aids"
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Not much stands out on the roads anymore. Mustangs are probably the only car that comes to mind with a good range of colour choices. |
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and those pokey front lights they call indicator now. Half the stuff out on the road doesn't show up in sunlight.
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If I bought a vehicle new, I’d want it to be “Barbie pink”.
Then I’d demand a commensurate reduction in my comprehensive policy to reflect its conspicuity in use and reduced theft risk. |
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When i bought my boat new in 03, i would have loved to have the option of pink. That wasnt an option. It would be a big dicking myself move as its a ****er boat sort of. Goes fast. Had to settle with a metal flake blue gel coat instead. That looks pretty good still.
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That's a good counter-point on the colours, how did we go from the time of the BA with bright purples and blues and acidic yellows and limes and reds - with choices of colour highlights inside - to end up where we are today? Mustang has the colours, one of the dealers here had a beautiful dark green one, was that you?
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the backlash from buyers stunned the brass who thought it a good idea. Also in a recent interview, Jim Farley mentioned that Doug Field would be exploring possibilities so get ready to be nickeled and dimmed by Ford management on your premium purchases…. |
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I have a deeply conservative uncle who only ever buys white cars, because they are safer on the road don't you know. My response to that is it's pretty bloody hard to miss a bright red Mustang on the road!
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Yeah and you car manufacturers stop changing the heads on screws ......I'm sick of buying new tool kits to undo things you don't want me undoing
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But this reminds me of the new trend to use the headlight or row of drive lights under the main headlight as indicators. A line of white light becomes orange and flashes. So one side stays bright white, the other side now flashing orange. Looks weird to me, like something is broken. |
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Crappy driver aids (e.g. lane assist in the Toyota Corolla) use to annoy me. Until I realised just how bad some drivers are without the driver aids. These days I appreciate how the computer in the Corolla ahead of me, bouncing from left side of the lane to right side of the lane and back again, is doing a far better job than the “driver” ever could.
Ditto, the speed alert. Yes, it sometimes gets it wrong, interpreting a “90” sign as an “80” sign, subsequently beeping in the cabin, displaying on the dash, and in one car I drove recently, issuing a stern oral warning that I was speeding and to drive safely at all times. But it is now clear to me that most drivers cannot read “numbers”. This is something that I blame on our ideology-based education system. Either that, or they miss the speed sign because they are too distracted being a keyboard warrior on Twitter whist driving. So, yeah, rule of lowest common denominator dictates that we really do need this buzzing and beeping in the cabin. What would be cool is for the car to post the speed limit and your current speed into your Twitter feed in an undeletable way. Maybe the, A) the driver will actually see it, and B) be socially embarrassed to take corrective action. The greatest Nanny feature of all is autonomous braking. Sure, it occasionally misfires (like when pointing at the power pole beside the curved road outside Hungry Jacks at Aspley). What would be awesome is if the car’s computer refuses to let the car get closer than two seconds to the car in front. |
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I've had plenty of bright Red Mustang's pull out in front of my big white truck. So I guess you are right.
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The stop start feature must go. Its so annoying.
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We had a 2016 Mazda 6 company car which had it, put it in sports mode to turn it off and it would liven up how the throttle response was - that thing was deadly at roundabouts, **** turns itself off and then takes ages to respond to your throttle inputs.
But then it wouldn't change out of 4th gear on the freeway in sports mode, you change it up two gears then put it back into sports mode and it'd drop back to 4th. So I just drove it on the highway everywhere in 4th while it revved its tits off, saves heaps of fuel this stop start stuff. Stop start can GAGF - they need to make it a function that you can turn it off permanently. Last edited by Franco Cozzo; 31-12-2022 at 05:12 PM. |
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Bloody annoying for other drivers with quick changing traffic lights.
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If they insist on putting a feature like this in a car it needs a switch to turn it on if you would like to use the feature, not the other way around, it seems these features are being forced on us with either no way to disable it or a long trawl through the menus to find a way of turning it off.
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Sounds like this Chromebook I'm currently using, spend time changing setting only for it to revert back to default mode.
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Part of the simulated drive loop during the test is for periods at idle, in theory simulating stopping at a set of lights. If the engine is not running at this stage of the test, then the overall fuel use and therefore final numbers is much better. Because this feature is used to gain those numbers at an official level, the system MUST default to on rather than something that is turned on. In the real world, stopping and starting the engine saves little to no fuel at all.
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Gain those numbers or game those numbers?
The system is fxxxg dangerous. You are at a busy roundabout in peak hour. A gap appears press the throttle just as the engine goes into off because of the stop start bs Result late take off and resulting collision Green waste at traffic lights as a gaggle of cars all take half a second later due to stop start I turn it off at the start of every trip Lane assist and Centreing is permanently off. I have left the park sensor beepers on as while they are annoying they will save my bacon one day The other thing mine does on switch off Is Beep beep check rear seat for occupants beep beep check rear seats for occupants beep beep check rear seat for occupants beep beep check rear seat for occupants Stops when I open the door to get out |
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This will come across as contradictory considering I have a car with one of these on order, but I don't care for screens replacing traditional gauge clusters.
Some do it better than others, in fact the current generation S550 set up is nice becuase it maintains a traditional hooded gauge cluster surround. ![]() However, the new S650 simply has a glued-on screen. ![]() Think of it this way, do you want a digital watch or a nice, clear and beautifully detailed traditional movement watch? I feel the same about dials.......... ![]() ![]() Porsche does the digital dash the best, combining old and new to perfection. ![]()
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I thought we all learnt our lesson here with the XF dash 36 years ago
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