Post B2et5XYkathAzwaghE by Logan_5@noauthority.social
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(DIR) Post #B2eqwgr2Sz2jJMnU7U by PNS@noauthority.social
2026-01-25T22:58:57Z
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Driving China’s Cheapest EV in the U.S. Explains Everything - YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I1Em2qDo2oCanada needs to brace itself for Chiner EVs with Mandarin badging.
(DIR) Post #B2erDZEy1phMcU2Mdc by magicalthinking@noauthority.social
2026-01-25T23:02:00Z
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@PNS the first, "smart car" I ever saw was in Montreal and I laughed all the way to Ottawa. Stupid fucking thing...
(DIR) Post #B2es6LW4kvE9yy9ymu by MSP_SMIMSA@noauthority.social
2026-01-25T23:11:54Z
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@magicalthinking @PNS Chinese subsidies can wreck economies.
(DIR) Post #B2esSj3LvYydLpOdii by zephyrotv@noauthority.social
2026-01-25T23:12:05Z
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@PNS that car sucks!
(DIR) Post #B2esSkNF16TpRni2MK by zephyrotv@noauthority.social
2026-01-25T23:14:33Z
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@PNS that’s slightly better than one of those Barbie cars that kids drive on the sidewalks.
(DIR) Post #B2esSlCHxJJU07anvU by PNS@noauthority.social
2026-01-25T23:15:55Z
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@zephyrotv The plan is very obvious in Canada: depress the economy continuously until it make financial sense to buy a $5K Chinese shitbox and forget what range beyond 100km was like.
(DIR) Post #B2esetjG3oVjw8nkie by MountainStateNomad@noauthority.social
2026-01-25T23:18:09Z
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@magicalthinking @PNS You ever see the videos where they swap in a crotch rocket engine into them tho? Pretty wild
(DIR) Post #B2esnencwBeAEw1PPs by MountainStateNomad@noauthority.social
2026-01-25T23:19:44Z
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@PNS I mean, a mediocre used side by side ATV will cost as much as one if these.
(DIR) Post #B2esqIiJVYqIbwnTu4 by PNS@noauthority.social
2026-01-25T23:20:12Z
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@MountainStateNomad @magicalthinking You'd have to reinforce everything.Had a friend swap a big Chevy engine into his Vega Cammback and twisted the whole frame. Split his windshield.These things? Like crushing a beer can.
(DIR) Post #B2et5XYkathAzwaghE by Logan_5@noauthority.social
2026-01-25T23:22:57Z
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@PNS I lost the count of how many times she says the car "is cute". Which seems to be important to her.
(DIR) Post #B2et7i4cTSoABaX1yS by MountainStateNomad@noauthority.social
2026-01-25T23:23:21Z
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@PNS Idk about that. Those engines arent high torque. They are very short stroke, low torque, high HP when wound tight. Chevy v8 produces a lot if torque, and that's what will twist a chassis. The smart car was supposedly relatively rigid because of the arched roof. I've never loomed at one closely tho, so I could be wrong
(DIR) Post #B2etTMPbgwzNNIfk0G by MountainStateNomad@noauthority.social
2026-01-25T23:27:16Z
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@PNS @magicalthinking https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ0MqQEEtZI&pp=ygUec21hcnQgY2FyIHdpdGggaGF5YWJ1c2EgZW5naW5l
(DIR) Post #B2etWzcqLyGfrVazNA by Smeetoo@noauthority.social
2026-01-25T23:27:55Z
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@PNS Speeds by US having safety regs, and it's 137 mile range.I wanna see it go over the Golden Gate bridge on a windy day
(DIR) Post #B2etaFMAK2x5WHLWQC by PNS@noauthority.social
2026-01-25T23:28:30Z
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@MountainStateNomad @magicalthinking A SmartCar has sufficient girding, design-wise. Germans made them.These shitboxes are shitty Chinesium sheet metal.
(DIR) Post #B2f06taorLWZIn9TLk by MountainStateNomad@noauthority.social
2026-01-26T00:41:37Z
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@PNS @magicalthinking As if a 10k+ side by side is much more than a tube chassis and plastic?Were getting fucked by auto makers in the us, and have been for a long time. When free trade kicked in back in the 90s, american corps leaped to build vehicles for fraction of the cost down in mexico. Prices at our dealships went up. 2 decades ago, we still had to bail them out. I'd gladly drive a 10k Chinese shitbox that's equal to the US offering at 50k
(DIR) Post #B2f0Ef8SUnEamPad3w by PNS@noauthority.social
2026-01-26T00:43:03Z
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@MountainStateNomad @magicalthinking Agreed. Mercedes stopped selling SmartCars because the Safety regs were too costly.
(DIR) Post #B2f0oNSXgyosNq0vkO by magicalthinking@noauthority.social
2026-01-26T00:49:29Z
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@PNS @MountainStateNomad maybe they'll come back now that Trumps in charge?
(DIR) Post #B2fD5U6VRL4RMdd9NI by weeniewawa@noauthority.social
2026-01-26T03:07:03Z
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@PNS They can make them cheap because of junk materials and using slave labor.
(DIR) Post #B2fHT3l5RWmYQD6ngm by amerika@annihilation.social
2026-01-26T03:56:07.909334Z
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@weeniewawa @PNS More like fully automated factories