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Hello /o/. I'm a southern boy, and I had an idea. I was trying to think of a job that I'd like that would make a rather fat sum and still be entertaining. I gravitated to the idea of going to flight school and learning how to fly. Seems like it would be a lot of fun, but I'm a little stuck. I was wondering if I should go for learning to operate a helicopter or an airplane? Or maybe even another kind of aircraft job (do you have any ideas?) I live an equal distance from the airport and from the hospital, a handful of miles, less than 20 minutes. I don't exactly know which one would make more money, or be better for a lazy kid like me. Though I do like a little bit of zest and excitement.

I'd love your input.

I'm a bit of a newfag when it comes to cars, but I came onto this board expecting most people to hate crossovers with a burning passion, and I wasn't disappointed. I can certainly understand why. Most of them, especially the modern ones, are ugly as sin, less fuel efficient than sedans, and don't handle as well. They have a little more cargo space than a sedan but not nearly as much as a proper SUV, they have AWD/4WD as an option but generally not enough clearance to make use of it in true off-road situations. Unibody rather than body-on-frame means most don't have the durability to be true offroad vehicles, either. And on top of that, it's the quintessential normalfag body style, which means anons have a duty to hate it out of sheer contrarianism. All that being said, do you think it's possible to make a non-shit crossover, or is the whole class a failure out of the gate? If it is possible, can it be done in the current market, or would it require someone to physically remove all the EPA/NHTSA regulations shitting up the market first?

Personally, I think there's potential, but only if you change the design philosophy. Right now, crossovers are tall sedans LARPing as SUVs, making them a confused mess that doesn't do anything well. Instead, you should approach the design of a crossover as a station wagon for big guys. Focus on the added cargo space for people that need to haul more shit around but aren't construction workers, instead of pretending it's an offroad car. A higher cabin, not to clear debris and terrain, but for tall fuckers that can't sit comfortably in sedans. Maybe offer AWD or 4WD as an option, but not for anything offroad, just for people in rural and snowy areas that could benefit from the extra traction in the winter.

I think picrelated, the 3rd generation RAV4, is a decent example of a crossover done "right." It has good gas mileage for what it is, 22 city/28 highway compared to the same year Camry's 22/32. 73 cubic feet of cargo space standard, which is about as much as other crossovers have with the rear seats folded down. It's 66 inches tall, not obnoxious but enough to give taller people a bit more headroom. And yes, I know you can just bring the seat downward on sedans and the like, but there are comfort concerns on longer drives. If my knees are ever higher than my hips while sPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

I'm an 18 y/o who has saved up some money and is soon looking for a daily car. I have no real stuff to lug around (no cargo, and at most 1 passenger), and I've a big fascination for 80's Japanese cars. Would a 1988 Toyota MR2 AW11 N/A be an unwise choice? It's well within my budget, and I'm looking to test drive one soon.

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New season, new thread. First episode goes up on the 18th but what I found more interesting was that they've made a video game that will release a few days before. It sounds awful, and for $15 they don't seem to be very confident in it themselves. I'm considering buying it just out of morbid curiosity.

I work in Detroit. I currently drive a 20 year old Buick to work. I love this car, but Detroit roads have potholes big enough to hide a body in and it's clearly taking a toll. I know that one day I'm going to hit a pothole in the middle of the night and get stranded in the ghetto.

So I'm really just looking for a vehicle that is sturdy enough to handle the post-apocalyptic roads of Detroit, while also not being nice enough to get carjacked at a red light. My budget is 10-12 grand.

So, being an Ausfag is pretty tough now, since the whole mosque thing, whatever… Since halfchan doesn't allow VPN's, I had to come here. I like the fact that it isn't the cesspool that halfchan was. But, the only real problem I've come across is that /o/ is dying… back when I was on halfchan, it was thriving. I've never really wanted to say this, but I miss the /o/ on halfchan, talking about cars and stuff with hundreds of people that aren't Redditfags. I'd like to thank my ISP for being huge dicks about the whole thing, and banning the addresses. Help me anons.

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>sorry, anon. seat's taken.

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Hi,

I just changed my tire because it had a fucking nail in it. Ever since I took the wheel off to replace it. I couldn't help but acknowledge the frame and nuts. No homo. But this woke me the fuck up. The amount of rust on my pads and rotor is shocking, and thats not all thats rusted to decaying shit.

i want to diy this car now and replace the shit out of the breaks,shocks…well this is all i've acknowledged so far. What things would you check first if you bought a used car, and wanted to boost performance with a budget of 7G? pic related.

(don't really care about body .Engine and underneath components are more important.)

any good reply is much obliged.

Hello /o/. I'm a 20 year old southerner boy who's looking for his first car to buy.

I had a 200k+ Taurus hand-me-down, but too much has gone wrong with it for it to be any useful to repair anymore. All of my motor supports are bad, my catalytic converter is dead, 3 tires are flat and I need to replace the battery, plus it's been hit by deer I think four times.

I recently came into a lump sum of exactly $5,000 (weird how it's exactly the amount for the guide.) I had some noob questions and I hope I won't get bullied for this, but…

I was thinking that I should buy an old 6th gen Civic because it could be neat for use with my family, it could fit all four of us, plus I could go full autist on it someday and smack some shitty turbocharger on it, and change the transmission and give myself an interesting education about how it's done in the meantime.

But then I was reminded that if times are rough for me, perhaps I should look to the future instead of the present. Sure, driving a Civic would be fun, but perhaps I need a minivan or a van. I was thinking of using a car every day for when I go to work, but I have plans to go to a school perhaps. I have a few job offers in front of me, and I could lend the car to my mother for her to use in the suburbs if I am in the city and only using my feet to get to class. And, of course, the final solution is to 14/88 and have many, many children. I was wondering if it would be financially viable to buy a van and keep fixing it until I have children and use it for transporting them.

Basically, my question is, would it be useful to buy a van first if possible, or is the price range of $5000 for most vans not useful enough for keeping it the entire time that I am raising a family of my own? Perhaps due to how vans over 100k or so have issues? (I don't know if they do or not, I am from a place of ignorance.)

And if I do buy a van, which would be the most useful for containing children or my aging family? I was really thinking that the E Series or some such would be what I would look for due to the passenger numbers and size.

Why are there so few biological males in motorsports?

Post anything you faggots are working on right now.

I just got done putting a sound system in my SUV.

Pioneer head unit, Clarion 50W 4-channel amp, Rockford Fosgate components up front, Rockford Fosgate 3-way 6x9s in back. Saving my shekels for a sub.

Quick question for the engineers here:

I'm planning on building a pipe car that uses suspension similar to a humvee, just all independent suspension. Why? Cos fuck me that's why.

So first off… I'm not American. So I can't get a humvee or H1 to look at. But my understanding is this: drive shaft feeds into a drive gear, then into a wheel gear, which feeds into the wheel where there is nothing but the wheel and steering column in it, and the suspension rod close to the wheel gear.

So my question is this: what size rim would I need to get an x factor of 16 inches to accomodate for this?

I love these car movie 😍

Bought a 2001 Subaru Forester for $500 with a blown head gasket, probably will pull the engine out before changing the headgasket and timing belt, pulleys, etc. I'll probably get the heads resurfaced just for that extra piece of mind, anything else that I need to take into consideration? This is going to be my first serious project and I want to take the time to do the proper preparation and check my p's and q's before starting.