Things like “Fiat stands for “Fix It Again Tony”” etc.
Why do Skodas have a heated rear windscreeen? To keep your hands warm while you push it.
(I’ve owned a few Skodas, they’ve all been good cars)
FORD - fixed or repaired daily
source: boomer…
All American car brands suck
Does that still make me a boomer?
No, it makes you correct
My Chevy is like a rock, I have to farm around it
either lemmy users are overwhelmingly born in the 50s or this thread proves that it’s more than a boomer thing
Yeah, I see nothing but tesla disses on Lemmy.
I recently saw a thread about a cybertruck getting stuck in the snow. Having lived in places that snow a fair bit, it’s completely reasonable that the truck was having issues. By the comments you would think it was only a light dusting.
Well.
I own a 1999 Silverado. It has a manual transfer case, no traction control, no stability control, no terrain modes, and no trick electronic differentials. Its ECU probably has less computing power than your wristwatch. I have never gotten it stuck in the snow, not once in over two decades, even when the stuff was deep enough to be up to the axles.
I’m also certain the factory tires on a Cybertruck are not up to spec for mud and snow. They’re probably low rolling resistance jobbies in an attempt to make the range less abysmal. That does not equate to soft surface traction.
For sure, there’s different kinds of capabilities. I’m not actually sure what the claimed abilities for the truck are, only that the amount of snow this person was trying to drive through was not unreasonable to have problems with, even in a high clearance truck.
I’m pretty sure you’re right about the tires, which is probably the limiting factor for the truck. It’s obviously not a serious truck, which is fine as long as you know what you’re getting. I’d love to see a head to head comparison with the rivian truck.
Edit: I mean I could have looked first I suppose :P
Edit2: god trying to sort through these results is like picking through sensationalist trash
Lamborghini stands for Looks Alright Mostly But Overall Really Grandiose (and) Hardly Inconspicuous Now Innit
My inner voice naturally ended this with a British accent and it caught me off guard
Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious.
Fiat is ‘Fix it again tomorrow’
At least boat owners are unified: Bring Out Another Thousand (bucks)
Can confirm: $1000USD is an ISO standard boat unit. “How much will that cost?” “Only about 20 boat units.”
Source: own and live on a sailboat.
Me and a friend used to make up insulting rhymes about car brands we saw from the school yard.
I only remember one, this was a long time ago…
This was in Swedish, so I will do my best to translate, but don’t expect miracles:
Renault är en bil för två - en sitter i, en skjuter på. | Renault is a car for two - one sits inside, the other pushes.
As for my car preferences, so far I have only had one, I got my license late 2022 at 35, and bought my 2021 Seat Leon PHEV used last summer.
I really like it, sure it isn’t the world most luxurious car, and the touch UI is annoying as hell, but it is comfortable, quick enough and as long as you use the PHEV mode it doesn’t need a lot of fuel.
I almost got a Mazda 3, but if I remember correctly, there wasn’t any within my budget.
Renault had an old tagline - “nothing stops a Renault”. A common joke was to add “not even its brakes”.
I’ve heard GMC as God’s Mechanical Crisis.
But that line about fiat is true.
