/o/ - Auto

Then world peace would be recognized.

>>5378

Ive always wondered why the late 80s ear;y 90s japo pickup makers dont remanufacture thos pickups.

They would sell quick. Who wouldnt want an econobox pickup?

>>5385

Nissan tried to do a D23 in the states and got screwed over by regulations.

QR and VQ suck anyway. The only way they'd have been able to make it good is to put a VK56 in a Hardbody sized chassis.

didn't the G change a lot underneath during its run?

http://www.nissan.com.mx/tsuru/

Yes sir you can buy a 2016 B13 Sentra…

In Mexico…

:C

>>5385

>Easy to repair if they get damaged as it's just straight pieces of metal, durable, and inexpensive.

You just answered your own question.

Too much money to be had in the insurance racket these days.

>having a chat with an old man at work one day

>he used to run an independent tow truck business

>offered dirt cheap towing services to low income people

>started picking up more business when word got around

>all of a sudden, he gets hit with more and more inspections over minor faults

>gets muscled out with noncompliance notices

>eventually has to quit

I'm sure stories like this aren't rare. In an ideal world, people would be sold cars that were simple and easy to fix/maintain themselves (introducing a bleeding outlet for oil that runs from the sump to the side of the vehicle, for example, so that even less abled people can change their own oil.) However, if cars were too easy to fix, that will leave very little money to be had off repairers and insurance cartels.

Mitsubishi is kinda stuck in the 2000s. Does that count?

>>5594

Why do they cost $130,000?

>>5613

pesos…

>>5611

It's kind of depressing to see the Evo still stuck in a time warp from 2007 after all these years, considering that from 1992 - 2006 we practically got a new model every 18 months.

>>5376

They'd still suck, because they don't have such things as driver aids, ergonomics, or safety.

>>5625

>valuing safety and ergonomics (adjustable for less) over driving dynamics and power (need knowledge of car and MAD DO$H)

What are you, stupid?

>>5625

10/10 bait. Incoming spaghetti.

The driver aids and safety features you refer to are nothing but a crutch for people who both don't want to learn how to drive and can't pay attention long enough to drive.

Maybe on a 3 ton truck some of them would be nice, but in an I4 they're just dead weight and alternator load.

Also so much attention has been put into that garbage that I've seen a modern Civic with its hood on the road. This shouldn't be such a common thing for modern cars. Where did all the engineering go? Oh, into compliance with draconian regulations.

At least old cars weren't something straight out of the society in Demolition Man.

>>5629

>The driver aids and safety features you refer to are nothing but a crutch for people who both don't want to learn how to drive and can't pay attention long enough to drive.

not to be that guy, but for a daily I would like to have a certain degree of safety devices because I am aware I can be hit by a reckless/drunk fuckstick.

>>5631

I DD'ed a Volvo with a roll cage for about a year, got hit hard during that time hippie inna 90s corolla rear-ended me at a yellow light I drove away, his car was totaled

1969 Volvo 142, totaled it later that week after finding out how much it was going to cost to unfuck the body

>>5629

Automatic stop and things like that are awesome concepts from a software and safety point of view, but indeed crutches. You don't need it unless you're not 100% in the first place, and drivers should never be at less then 100%.

Also it removes control from the driver and I don't much like that.

>>5376

I'd be all over an FTO if that were the case

Now and then I have these silly dreams of buying an FTO and converting it to awd

>>5659

>If you die or get seriously injured in a crash in an unmodified car produced after 1976 or so, you only have yourself to blame

so if i get killed by a drunk/reckless fuck is my fault? that's tumblr logic, anon.

>>5721

>implying you're not at fault

you need to be in his way to crash.

>>5729

>drifting

how fucking dumb are you

>>5730

please the, inform me what your MS paint truck is doing

>>5731

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackknifing

>>5732

>a truck going 120mph

>in conditions that would allow for jackknifing/trailer swing

>on the wrong side of a 4 lane road

>in heavy traffic

how?

>>5728

like the other guy said, I wouldn't have to. 120 in a truck with a trailer is impossible. Also he appears to be aiming straight for me, so he's clearly got some beef and wants to try and hit me. And who's to say I'm not in a truck as well? Your blocks are exactly the same size.

>>5735

>being in a truck will stop a jackknifing 18 wheeler from murdering you

>>5728

You would have seen it coming from a mile away if you weren't texting at the lights, meaning you could have quickly turned wide right to avoid the oncoming hazard.

>>5736

If your facing the wrong way you can ;^)

>>5659

Re-iterating this point considering the recent death of another victim of Takata airbags

>>5881

>that grille

Kill it.

Everyone seems to forget that nearly everything past the late 80's has just been draconian bullshit

>Pedestrian crash standards

That's like designing a hammer not abble to kill people.

>Fuel standards

While it hasn't all bad as it's made engines way more efficent And powerful everyone still buys trucks and SUV's with big ass engines.

>Driving aids

ABS and Traction control are useful in some scenarios but a lot of it's just shit that's gonna be an expensive idiot light down the road. It also encourages people to drive like assholes because they thing "Oh I don't have to worry, the dealer said it had 'hyper safeties' so I'll never crash" then proceeds to plow under a tractor trailer or drive into the ocean after just following the GPS.

>>5726

>It's clearly the guy's fault, he was walking through a park when that dog attacked him.

You're either dumb or a troll.

>>8793

How come there hasn't been a small econobox pickup made by an american company though?

Saw one of those Fiat pickups irl not long ago, seem rather practical

>>5728

What safety feature is going to save you from an 18 wheeler plowing into you at 120 mph?

>>5618

Don't worry, they're killing the EVO so that won't happen anymore.

>>8797

You sound like a beer-gut dad in a Walgreens parking lot asking questions about somebody's smartcar.

>How much did you pay for it?

>What happens if a big truck hits you?

>What mileage does it get?

>Where are the clowns?

>well, uh, what if a semi truck hits you? What are you gonna do then, smart guy?

>>8803

Read the thread nigger

The Defender until they Canned it

The Pajeets Running Land Rover don't even care about them, they want it to get rid of that part and just become Range Rover

The new Discovery makes me sick

>>5383

What are you talking about, the nips are making more utes than anyone

>Hilux

>Land Cruiser

>BT50

>Navarre

>Patrol

>Triton

I wish Subaru would make a new Brumby though, now that the Commodore and Falcon are soon to dead we'll have no light utility apart from that crappy Proton

>>5385

>Hilux discontinued

That will never happen faggot

>>5625

You can actually fit all that shit in an older chassis, but you wouldn't have to, because limp-brained teenage girls wouldn't want to drive if it meant being so out of style.

>>8794

I believe it has something to do with how they're taxed … it's not profitable to make a small truck because it'll get taxed to death by the USA government. Funny thing is that a full sized truck doesn't get hit as hard with the taxes due to bullshit tax laws (they involve a combination of size and emissions if I'm remembering right)

that's the TL;DR version of what I know regarding the lack of small pickups in 'murica