Things like “Fiat stands for “Fix It Again Tony”” etc.
All American car brands suck
Does that still make me a boomer?
No, it makes you correct
1989 Dodge Caravan came in stick with a turbo. Thing was awesome, soccer mom’s tossing kids out doing 0-60 in 8 seconds.
I drove a Dodge Shadow with a Mitsubishi V6 to two first places in Lemons.
Buick has always been pretty good. The LaSabre drives like a sofa on wheels and the 3800 is a decent enough motor.
I’d also say that Panther body Fords punch way over their weight class.
omg no!
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)
Lol that was lada where I’m from
What do you call a lada with two exhaust pipes? A wheelbarrow
What do you call a lada with a sunroof? A rubbish bin / trash can
What’s the difference between a lada
There’s a raffle at the bar. First prize, a lada. Second prize, two ladas.
How do you double the value of a lada? Fill it up.
You forgot one:
Guy goes to his Lada dealer and says “I want a gas cap for my Lada”. Dealer replies “…that seems like a fair trade.”
A man takes his Lada back to the dealership and says, “This car is useless! It’ll only get to 80 up that hill.”
“Well that’s not bad,” says the salesman.
“But,” replies the man, “I live at number 93!”
From what I have seen they are pretty good these days. I’m the 80s and 90s though…
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
Your innit voice.
Ali G
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.
A boat is a hole in the water into which you throw money.
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
My boss calls Ford: Found on roadside dead
Fix or repair daily
Ya know why Ford started using aluminum istead of steel? So you could push it home when it breaks down
Fuckin Only Runs Downhill
Fucked On Race Day
Backwards: Driver Returns On Foot.
That was always one of my dads favorites.
mine was always, Ford: At least they circled the problem.
FIAT. Fix it again Tony.
Fucked Over Rebuilt Dodge
Forming an uneducated opinion on something based on an anecdotal experience, and then refusing to back down from it no matter how much time has passed or new informationtion is provided, is a boomer way of life.
Fundamentalist mindset. It will make more sense when you realise that.
You can tell a fundamentalist mindset when they start with the conclusions and the backwards logic doesn’t make sense
The idea that the argument “it’s adam and eve, not adam and steve” is as logically valid as “he who smelt it, dealt it” really fucked with boomer’s minds. It makes me wonder how serious they were about the smelt it/dealt it rule.
Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious.
FORD - fixed or repaired daily
source: boomer…
Or: Found On Roadside Dead
In my boomer dad’s case, it’s been sitting dead on the property forrrrrr a few decades?
Fix it again Tony
My Chevy is like a rock, I have to farm around it
I’ve heard GMC as God’s Mechanical Crisis.
My mom shared with me “GMC: Grande, malo, y caro”
“Big, bad (read: poorly made), and expensive.”
Fiat is ‘Fix it again tomorrow’
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”.
Renault is “the car with vulva” in Czech.
I read that most people around the world won’t understand that because the lozenge/diamond shape as a symbol for that is somewhat unique to central Europe.
Wait’ll you hear which one came first
Was a diesel mechanic for a summer, the power stroke is a good motor and I like the f series more than other pickups but they came in the most often for maintenance, take that how you will. Cummins didn’t break much so it was rare to see them but it was damn near a pleasure to work on them, the old diesel rams give you so much room to work with and don’t put stupid shit in the way. If every single GM executive goes to hell exclusively for the Duramax I wouldn’t consider that unjust.
A straight engine does make a difference in the amount of space that’s available on either sides compared to a V but the front end won’t be as easy to work on not that there’s a ton of stuff there except the big accessories…
