"JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!" (jqj213)
06/17/2015 at 11:44 • Filed to: None
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"JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!" (jqj213)
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Holy blind spot! I always kinda liked the CR-Z but it never knew what it wanted to be. The gas mileage isn’t very good and it’s too slow to be considered very sporty.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
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06/17/2015 at 11:51 |
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Giant blind spot, bad mileage, and not actually that sporty? For slightly better on points 1 and 3, and worse on point 2, I have some options for you...
HammerheadFistpunch
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06/17/2015 at 12:09 |
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You know, I always thought it was impossible to NOT see me in my cruiser on the freeway, but a 350Z proved me wrong today as I narrowly avoided being merged into...must be a similar situations with the Z and CR-Z...is it the letter Z?!
BeaterGT
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06/17/2015 at 12:17 |
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How are the mirrors?
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JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
> HammerheadFistpunch
06/17/2015 at 12:36 |
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Z for zero visibilty!!!
SaveTheIntegras
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06/17/2015 at 12:38 |
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I sat in one at the NYIAS and was rather disappointed. A shame of what could have been...
BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
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06/17/2015 at 12:52 |
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It was a car planned by people who accept the premise that cars are bad, and need to be “managed” into being more acceptable.. and then designed by someone who saw a dust-buster vacuum cleaner and thought the shape was interesting.
A sporty car that isn’t sporty, because sporty cars aren’t eco-freindly... so let’s load it down with a bunch of extra weight, strip-mined lithium for batteries, and a redundant hybrid drivetrain that is completely un-necessary... so now the car isn’t light weight, nor economical, either.
Self-loathing is a terrible premise to start from, yet so many modern cars do, because so many product planners and designers start from the position of accepting the premise that cars are inherently a negative necessity;
They seem to have somewhat lost the chart that cars are something that can be great fun to use, they grant freedom of mobility and independence of use, both in purpose and geography. They can be a social object in a number of ways. Automobiles have inherently done more GOOD in the last 120 years than most things... so much that commerce depends heavily on them, both for supply delivery, and to allow customers a way to arrive, buy, and take finished goods, or arrange for services. Almost everyone in the industrialized world has at least one, unless they live in a very high-density urban area that they never leave... and then they still hire other people to use their cars when needed. Cars are not the enemy, nor a negative aspect to be managed into impact-minimization.
And a dust buster is for vacuuming floor mats, not for design inspiration.
Kanaric
> HammerheadFistpunch
06/17/2015 at 12:56 |
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I had a 350Z the visibility was poor but the driver must have been not paying attention it’s not that horrible.
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HammerheadFistpunch
> Kanaric
06/17/2015 at 12:58 |
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Yeah, thats what it must have been because even with bad viz all they could have possibly seen had they looked over was a sea of “antique sage” and tires.