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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/SnoozeDoggyDog on 2025-03-09 21:05:51+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/michaeldeng18 on 2025-03-09 20:42:31+00:00.

In my opinion, GM killed the suspension game in the 2010s and 2020s (so far) and produced some of the greatest bang-for-the-buck performance cars that drive equally well on the street and on the track - think Camaros, Corvettes, and Blackwings.

The Alpha chassis is quality, sure, but the biggest reason these cars drive so flat and can easily handle a wide range of road conditions is their magnetorheological dampers. If you haven't driven one, it's quite something - makes most adaptive suspensions feel inadequate.

At a time where performance cars are getting stiffer and stiffer (BMW I'm looking at you), why haven't more OEMs implemented magnetic ride control to get the best of both worlds?

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/KeyboardGunner on 2025-03-07 06:49:02+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/RobertM525 on 2025-03-08 22:04:06+00:00.

It's a section of The New Universities Dictionary Illustrated, published by the World Syndicate Company (which sounds straight out of the X-Files). I found some of it amusingly quaint. Did you know that the emergency brake is for slowing the car down faster? (Excuse me, it's "a device for a sudden slackening of speed.") I didn't! And apparently a "multiplex-cylinder engine" is worth calling out.

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/lifegoeson2702 on 2025-03-08 18:22:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/Sixteen-Cylinders on 2025-03-08 21:54:33+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/Mojo on 2025-03-08 21:41:14+00:00.

When I was 8 years old, I spent countless hours playing Need for Speed: Most Wanted. Although I wasn't very good and it took me a very long time over the summer—One of my favorite memories was beating Ming and winning his Lamborghini Gallardo. Unfortunately the very next day my Playstation 2 memory card got corrupted and I never got to actually use it.

Around that same time, I bought a poster from the Scholastic Book Fair featuring the Gallardo in the stunning color Arancio Borealis. My mom wasn't happy I'd chosen a poster over a book, but that car was the epitome of cool to me.

Fast forward to today, and I finally have my own Lamborghini Gallardo, in the same spec as the poster + with a gated manual.

I've driven newer supercars, (e.g. the Huracan) and while they're incredible cars, they don't have the same raw appeal. The Gallardo comes from the last era when supercars still meant compromise, uncomfortable, loud, and impracticality. But that's exactly what I wanted.

With 14,022 Gallardos produced and less than 1000 specced with gated manuals and my strict requirements. This was a hard car to find and required lots of waiting.

After digging into the data it appears there are less than 100 examples of this exact car worldwide. Once you factor in USA only cars, with more than 10,000 miles, not poorly modded or maintained, no twin turbo cars, no branded titles... It's got to be less than 50 or even less.

The 5.0 engine sounds so much better (imo) than the 5.2. The gated shifter makes all the right noises. It's the perfect amount of speed to really wind out and not be doing excessive speeds. It feels like it revs forever. Going for a drive feels like an event.

Extremely lucky and privileged to cross another dream car off the list.

Pics of the car + poster -

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/Juicyjackson on 2025-03-08 17:56:59+00:00.

The recall affects the following vehicle makes, models and years:

∎ Kia Seltos: 2021-2023

∎Kia Soul: 2021-2023

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/Sir_Sir_ExcuseMe_Sir on 2025-03-07 23:00:33+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/retvets on 2025-03-08 01:02:58+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/Dmacthegoat on 2025-03-07 19:44:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/bleahdeebleah on 2025-03-07 19:37:15+00:00.

Mine is the Porsche 911 being birthed out of the rear of a BMW I8. I can never not see that again.

What do you have?

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/caranddriver on 2025-03-07 19:22:10+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/Juicyjackson on 2025-03-07 17:05:11+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/KeyboardGunner on 2025-03-07 14:24:08+00:00.

Thomas and James are back with another great review. This time reviewing the completely absurd Escalade V. This is one of the best sounding SUVs I've ever heard.

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/hehechibby on 2025-03-07 13:38:36+00:00.

Wasn't too surprised by the result

Toyota can't get that new North Carolina battery plant up soon enough, Siennas are still many months out on most wait lists out there

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/Smitty_Oom on 2025-03-07 12:57:29+00:00.

Semi-old timer here - been around long enough that I'm sure I have shitposts out there on some forum about the release of the original Fast and the Furious movie - thought I'd share thoughts based on what I see here and elsewhere.

Positives:

• Frankly, the sheer amount of information available is insane. You can find a dozen reviews/videos about obscure shitboxes from 20 years ago within seconds.
• Usually, any car-related news is reported on within minutes by multiple different sites/channels. No longer are you waiting until the next magazine to hit the shelves to find out what's coming up.
• Car-related discussion groups are so large and diverse that you can get perspectives you didn't even know existed. You'll get a 17 year old from Australia, a 31 year old from Finland, and a 54 year old from Mexico all talking about the same vehicle/video/etc. It's really crazy when you step back and think about it, and probably underappreciated.
• Knowledge levels are (again) almost hard to believe. Even on this sub, it's almost guaranteed that no matter the topic, someone with way more knowledge than anyone should have will be able to chime in.

Some negatives:

• Spam. So much goddamn spam. I know my view is warped as a moderator and dealing with all the shit that doesn't actually make it to the sub, but sometimes it feels like fully 2/3 of the people that come here are trying to make a quick buck.
• Prolific levels of downright shittery. People treat each other like shit, argue about the dumbest things, and generally act like they have to be "right" all of the fucking time.
• Everyone feels like they have an ulterior motive. So many people are trying to push some agenda (or otherwise benefit from other users) that you start looking at everyone and wonder if they're genuine.
• Zuckerberg, Musk, Bezos, Huffman, etc... it's all trying to be controlled by these folks. What used to feel like the wild wild west now feels like a sandbox that we're all allowed to play in for now, as long as we behave and don't go too far against them (or, more accurately, don't impact their ability to make money off us).

What have you seen?

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/Du_Kich_Long_Trang on 2025-03-07 04:09:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/TPatS on 2025-03-07 01:53:28+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/theJooj on 2025-03-06 22:44:07+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/Juicyjackson on 2025-03-06 17:46:30+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/apandya277 on 2025-03-06 17:11:58+00:00.

YOUTUBE

Entertaining as always. What an absolutely insane sounding engine!

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/HalfFrozenSpeedos on 2025-03-06 16:29:17+00:00.

For me it would be a Lada Riva estate. Terrible car, terrible build quality but for some reason I've always wanted one.....yes I have issues apparently....the idea though of a restomod with bilstein shocks, an LS/coyote swap, good tyres and better brakes to turn it into a Q car /street sleeper is an itch if not for the current warmongering of Russia that id be tempted to scratch. What's your desired car of shame?

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/CortaCircuit on 2025-03-06 15:57:12+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/HawtGarbage917 on 2025-03-06 13:55:17+00:00.