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Hello friends. I'm going to get my driver's license soon so I'm learning about cars. It's a lot of fun. All I need now is a job and a girlfriend and I will have reached the maturity level of a 16 year old. Tell me about your car(s), your favourite car(s), how much you pay for insurance on that mobile scrap heap you call a car. Do not post about bikes or walking or other fail transportation.

Some notes:

- I read a bit of the SA threads about cars. They seem pretty mental about cars. They take all the standard stuff about being clever consumers that other parts of the forum have but then apply them to lifehacks about cars. It felt like I was reading reviews by someone that probably also has thousands of wiki pages they wrote about my little pony: friendship is magic. Maybe I'm just cynical!

- I think my insurance for my first car in Ontario might end up being like $3000+ a year or something to start which seems like a lot of money. (I probably won't actually get a car any time soon but yeah.)

- It's amazing how much car advertising I've absorbed despite never wanting to drive before. I was looking at car websites and I could recall a bunch of slogans and shit about each car. Pure ideology.

- In the SA FAQ they frame hybrid cars as not saving any money therefore bad. But shouldn't we be trying to save gasoline so we can use it in tanks when they are sent into Iran?
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Car DOS and DONTS

DO consider your needs. you don't need a "good deal" if you purchase a car within your means and needs. Most consumers only need an "economy car" which is a car that makes you feel like a wuss when you drive it to work.

DONT read the advice of pushing 30 something libertarian computer technicians regarding cars.
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Mike Nelson here.
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Let's all get Volkswagen Beetles and put marijuana plants in the flowerpot.
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DO purchase my old hatchback I can't haul my trailer with and can't take with me to the states, please keep in mind that bluebook is a suggested starting place and frills such as auto start and a CD player may elevate the value of a car by hundreds if not thousands of dollars.
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Keven posted:

DO purchase my old hatchback I can't haul my trailer with and can't take with me to the states, please keep in mind that bluebook is a suggested starting place and frills such as auto start and a CD player may elevate the value of a car by hundreds if not thousands of dollars.

CD player? I'm not Patrick Bateman, I can't afford that.

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Listen. You want to heat something up? This car has a little heated element you can depress to get warm and then pull out to light a cigarette.
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Someone get me in contact with the new left blogosphere and think piece deep web because I want to submit an article to jacobin or the new inquiry thats literally and actually a cracked article in format and content.
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Keven posted:

Someone get me in contact with the new left blogosphere and think piece deep web because I want to submit an article to jacobin or the new inquiry thats literally and actually a cracked article in format and content.

Maybe message deadken on twitter, he's the one raking in huge sell out dollars, living in a mansion funded by vapid pap.

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I dont feel like he'd want me doing that because its kind of his niche already.
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Keven posted:

I dont feel like he'd want me doing that because its kind of his niche already.

Don't be intimidated by failken. I could probably beat that guy up. He's more fit, sure, but I have retard strength.

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cars made in america are fail and stupid because of unions
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RBC posted:

cars made in america are fail and stupid because of unions

this is true buy cars manufactured by glorious nippon if you want advanced features such as:

  • starting even when the ambient temperature is below the threshold that water becomes solid
  • doesn't have vague electrical problems that result in anything from radio wave interference, to not starting to stalling while maintaining freeway speeds
  • lol these fucking wiper blades are only for show and will NOT remove water or debris from your visibility
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Dont Mess With Sucess
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Heads up, if you own or drive a car, fuck you, you sucker
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get an older subaru hatchback, like mid-late nineties. or a very cheap toyota pickup. do not under any circumstances purchase a shitty sedan there is nothing more depressing.
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hot tip: if your pickup only has two seats, it makes more sense that you drive alone
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Poronto
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i am legally banned from learning to drive because i am not cool enough
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Mike Nelson here.
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my mom has a 2006 pontiac grand prix or something like that so i think she will contrive to sell it to me so she can get a new car.

why are shitty sedans depressing?
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swampman posted:

Heads up, if you own or drive a car, fuck you, you sucker

It'd be a lot easier for you to walk your dogs if you just tied their leash to the bumper of your BMW or whatever.

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littlegreenpills posted:

i am legally banned from learning to drive because i am not cool enough

are you epileptic. you could hire a driver i guess.

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remember, if u run out of gas u can always substitute ur own posts for fuel
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i drive for a living in the city, it owns? maybe. i drive a 1993 bmw and wish it was newer so that i could drive Lyft and make the big dollars. ah well, at least i made over a hundred dollars in tips last night
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Kurdt
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peperony and chease
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political car tune
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i'm required to have a car for my employment. no car=no job. my city does not have a population of 8mil tho so i can see that being confusing
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tip: Any emotions associated with cars such as 'depressing' 'cool' or 'girly' are entirely because of marketing and if you use them for you purchase decision youre basically admitting to being a weak minded fool. thats why i drive a toyota sienna.
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cars suck for real though. if you have to get one, just get one you like. that's my advice. thanks for listening.
#27
Mike Nelson here.
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Who posts on this forum and presents as male and isn't weak willed and foolish? This forum is by betas for betas.
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steg speaks the truth, subarus are excellent and last forever. mine has over 210k miles and is still going strong, plus you dont have to worry about image and style because theyre basically just utilitarian and also lesbians love them apparently?
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i have a 2008 civic and it owns and i pay $682/year for insurance
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I drive a 2005 YOLO Ranger and for insurance I pay the Iron price.
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RBC posted:

cars made in america are fail and stupid because of unions



all the good jap cars are made in america in nonunion states

owned, just owned

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even the cheap plebe cars made in the past couple years are like some crazy star trek shit with all the geegaws and gizmos they got crammed in them now

my car wanted to steal my spacephone contact list so i could order a pizza through the steering wheel
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stegosaurus posted:

get an older subaru hatchback, like mid-late nineties. or a very cheap toyota pickup. do not under any circumstances purchase a shitty sedan there is nothing more depressing.


get a subaru outback/forester, they are amazing cars. or a hilux/tacoma cheapass pickup they are the ak-47 of cars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk

or a 1972 datsun 240z

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"1972 or 1792? The Constitution of the Kingdom of the French and Automobiles for the Modern Socialist"
Jacobin / a magazine of culture and polemic
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oh yeah i pay about $1400/ year in insurance, but thats because i live in a town with high unemployment and poverty, so many many people dont have insurance and the ones that do end up paying much more because of it
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Poronto
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why bother having car insurance
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Why bother doing anything really... we havent even met aliens yet, which matters somehow. Fuck. *takes long, LONG, drag on an electronic cigarette by Blu* *exhales a big cloud of data*
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political car tune
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littlegreenpills posted:

why bother having car insurance

because not having it carries criminal and financial penalties that exceed the cost of insurance

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Mike Nelson here.
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wayne said he saw a hummer in toronto once that had a bumper sticker that said "carbon neutral" which is a funny asshole thing to do sorta
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getfiscal posted:


maybe the dude plants trees in an effort to offset the carbon footprint through natural sequestration