Comments by "afcgeo" (@afcgeo882) on "Doug DeMuro" channel.

  1. Paul Nieder Are you saying this car won’t put you to sleep?
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  2. It was a great car. My neighbor is from Montreal and drives a B250. It’s a fantastic car. Wish we had them.
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  3. Which is what people did. Which of them is still sold?
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  4.  @ssuperstar8989  Opel, Vauxhall, Isuzu, and Hummer are still existing and active brands. I think the brands you’re looking for are Oldsmobile, Geo and Pontiac. McLaughlin was never a brand under GM. When GM acquired it, it immediately became General Motors of Canada, which it still is. Also, Isuzu was never a GM company. They had a long-standing joint venture, with each owning a substantial share of the other. Isuzu also had a similar relationship with Fuji Heavy Industries (Subaru) at the same time. This is how Subaru bought out Isuzu’s share of the Lafayette, Indiana plant when they pulled out of the passenger market.
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  5. We had 505 taxis in NYC for a while. 505 wagons were common sight until about 10 years ago. Diesel, of course.
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  6. Doug is the kind of guy to cool it down to room temperature before putting it into two ziplock bags and into the freezer.
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  7. Except every other minivan doesn't do it. There is no minivan on sale that can carry 7 passengers plus the driver.
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  8. Right… what you need is a small CUV that drives like a car, but has space to fit all the shit once in a while. Like a CRV or something.
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  9. Willi Bergman Celcius isn’t “metric”. Celcius is Celcius.
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  10. SouthJerseySound The problem is that you don’t understand one bit about statistics. Answer this: How many unbroken cars do you tow to the dealership, so you can compare? The answer is: NONE. Unless you know what percentage of cars break against those that don’t, you will NEVER understand how often cars break. Research is showing that the current new car failures in the first 3 years range from 8% for the worst model to 2% for the best. That is the average percentage. It cover ALL mechanical failures. That means that even for the worst car brand on sale in North America today, only 8% of their cars will break down in some way, in the first 3 years. Those are the facts.
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  11. Jose Vega nothing is more reliable than an EV. Any EV. They simply have a lot fewer complex, moving parts. They’re not perfect, but as commuter cars, if you have access to the infrastructure, they’re a solid choice. Just watch your electrical rates. They don’t make the same sense everywhere.
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  12.  @Sheridantank  The reality is that the limber industry was giant in the US before the metric even existed. They considered changing the standards, but all the small businesses said the expense would be just too high.
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  13. That's because it has NOTHING in common with the original 124 Spider, which actually was a superb car.
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  14. The general market? What’s that? The North American market certainly doesn’t, but where is this “general”? Toyota sells less than 50k CH-Rs in the United States per year. The Rav4 sells 450k per year.
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  15. This is Doug. He drinks water from vases.
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  16. Sock Twister There is NO $31k Tesla. Never has been. The cheapest Tesla 3 on sale is listed at $39k.
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  17. Literally a feature on MANY cars.
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  18. One engine, yes, but everything else has been replaced multiple times. Anecdotal winner!
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  19. Barik Singh Not in Antarctica there weren’t. Only two vehicles: one a heavily modified Hilux and the other a modified Land Cruiser. In other parts of the expedition there were. It’s all in the videos!
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  20. My 2005 Camry will see more off-roading than this $50k monster.
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  21.  @DougDeMuro  Volvo is hanging onto that orange with the XC40 interior trim!
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  22.  @tolgahk84 I’m glad they didn’t. There aren’t any parts for them. They were sent to the US with a loss on each car due to Holden’s union contract that required a gradual draw-down. Holden killed all production lines aside from this Commodore, but needed more units sold, so GM subsidized them and shipped these over.
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  23.  @jamesgizasson  Not an issue of lasting at all. You can’t import something not approved by the DoT or the EPA until it’s at least 25 years old. If you’re okay with a 25 year old example, you can import it.
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  24.  @jamesgizasson  The import law has been around for many decades (the 1980’s) and there hasn’t been a reason to change it. The cost of importing is still high and finding a good example is difficult. Your best bet is looking in the Middle East to avoid rust issues. I’d recommend the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar or Bahrain. Cars are generally well kept there, and the roads are mostly flat.
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  25. Unfortunately, Peugeots are known for very shoddy reliability in Europe.
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  26.  @EJ205T  Ты знаешь… нет. Конечно есть некоторые отдалённые регионы, но нет регионов без быстрой скорой помощи. Все посёлки и деревни имеют полные станции скорых и пожарных, даже если они волонтёры.
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  27.  @sergeykonovalov1090  Не очень. Дело в том что таблетки не скорая помощь. Тот-же самый активирований уголь для отравлений может сделать больше вреда чем пользы.
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  28. Oh okay Karen.
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  29.  @Newyen6MT  WTF are you talking about? Ford bought Volvo in 1999. The whole color combination was a Ford idea.
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  30.  @groggysword33  He’s just a troll who takes the bus.
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  31.  @groggysword33  Why are trucks prominent in motorsports? In motorsports anything with a motor can be raced, even lawnmowers. It’s entertainment. We keep things fair by separating things by category and racing them against each other. We don’t race F1s against Minis or go karts, right? There is a great Road & Track article about this dated August 7, 2018 “When Volvo Went Crazy With Its Wagons.” In basic terms it states, “Using the wagon meant more glass and metal on a longer wheelbase than an 850 sedan, but the Volvo's low center of gravity and mighty five-cylinder engine made up for any lost agility. And while people thought Volvo raced a wagon for aerodynamic benefits, the reality was that it was a PR decision aimed at ramping up T-5 sales.”
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  32.  @matrinezkevin11492  CARB didn’t kill them. CARB didn’t apply to vehicles that size and age until 2020. The 7.3 was replaced because it was a bit thirsty and dated, that’s all. Ford was looking to improve the fuel economy on the Super Duty and squeeze the power out of a smaller engine. It’s the same reason why Ford moved to a turbo V6 in the Expedition and F-150 while GM stuck with V8s. Choices and competition.
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  33. Just one point... it IS the V-Class. The V-Class replaced the Vito (cargo) and Viano (passenger) with the last update. This is the V-Class, but here in the US, it is sold as the Metris in only the cargo and work passenger versions as it is meant to be a commercial vehicle. Doug just doesn't know that.
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  34. The GLI seems like a real upgrade over this and that’s saying a lot.
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  35. James Craig Their condition plays into the price. Remember, the parts will be hard to impossible to get.
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  36.  @JustaPersonTryinToHuman365  And those who can afford, won’t want to buy. There are cars that are SOOO much better at this price point! These cars never sell. They’re kept around by a GM exec as a vanity project, that’s all.
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  37.  @directorjustin  The question is, why do you need them to spin in sync? Locked differentials aren’t aesthetic. They exist to transfer torque to a wheel with grip from one that would otherwise just waste it to spin, by a solid, mechanical connection. An open differential with traction control does the same, but actually better, being able to transfer over 90% of the torque instead of a locked differential’s 50%. When you have independent motors on each wheel, you have no differential because you have no axle. You physically can’t transfer the torque from one wheel to another via an axle, so… why do this? The computer can shut down all power to a slipping wheel. It can, at the same time, max out the power at any other wheel. You guys are arguing about where to attach a horse to a car. This tech is WAY past any differential.
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  38.  @oriole8789  Either that or a tiny reduction gear at each motor, for low drive.
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  39.  @oriole8789  Yes. What you’re suggesting is also a re-design. The issue is not torque production. The issue is torque application. Reduction gears exist to allow a set amount of torque to do more work at lower speeds. That reduces heat and other fault points in your drive system. A simple low gear is a very basic addition to an electric motor that likely already uses a reduction gear of some type to get the power into the wheel. That said, this is going on quite a margin, considering the original comment is about locking wheels, which serves no mechanical purpose in a car without axles.
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  40.  @freezor80  The first aid kit stuff is simple: iodine (typical antiseptic for wounds in Russia in the 1980’s and very effective), rubbing alcohol (this was pre-HIV days, so no sterile gloves), and the pills are activated charcoal, though aspirin would also be found there. I don’t know why Doug laughs at those things. American first aid kit usually have pills in them too - acetominophen.
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  41. How do you mention (multiple times) that the acceleration is good and even surprising, but then give it a 1/10 for acceleration?
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  42. Different chips. Actually, that’s the problem. Car manufacturers are still using old, obsolete chips in car modules that aren’t used in tech anymore. The screens use modern chips similar to what your phone has. There is no shortage of those. Chip manufacturers all pivoted to making those, which is why there is a shortage of obsolete ones for cars.
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  43. You and no one else.
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  44. We were minivan crazed in the 90’s and this, I think, would not have sold, as we were also V-6 crazed too.
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  45.  @ducknorris233  Aren’t all trunks rear?
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  46. Cannot be imported into the United States, so while you can drive it into the United States, it cannot be registered here.
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  47.  @yungboicontigo9278  All of Dodge is discontinued now. It literally has just the Challenger, Charger and Durango, the first two basically being a 2 and 4 door version of the same car. While all of them have performance trims, most of the cars sold are very plain, basic, old crap.
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  48.  @yungboicontigo9278  I would put “performance” into quotation marks there. The net power output is huge, but the cars handle like sacks of shit.
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  49. The “Alarm Occurred” light is there to let the driver know that someone has possibly broken into the car in the rear and may still be hiding there as a trap for your VIP. It would prompt the driver to look into the back.
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  50. Thank you! We’re not calling the Hydrogen Clarity weird now?!
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