Blaster M @ Blaster_M @lemmy.world

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Kia/Hyundai makes some cool, high tech and well engineered cars (I daily'ed A Dual Clutch Veloster for a long time), but their cars rapidly disintegrate over time due to low quality materials.

Honda Civic is my choice over the Toyota Corolla, if you want a front wheel drive economy car (I've daily'ed both). The Civic has better handling, and the sedan version has independent suspension, as well as agreat delta of acceleration and fuel economy.

The Corolla will last you for far longer than you will be willing to keep it, but you can't be rough with it.

The Crosstrek is an Impreza with a lift kit. It's decent, and you don't have to worry about scraping like you would with the Impreza.

Also, other than the WRX, it's harder and harder to find a manual Subaru due to the manuals getting phased out.

Older Subarus with the EJ25 are flawed in this way. However, unequal header length does not mean unreliability in any way, as many cars from long ago and even now have unequal header lengths. It just means the engine lumpishly goes brap brap brap at idle instead of clattering rhythmically.

The EJ25 had a few years in the mid-late 2000s where the head gasket was an inferior design, and it would need replacement at 100,000 mi (sooner if you romp on it a lot) as well as the timing belt and water pump, spark plugs and coils. An expensive maintenance.

Any Subaru past 2015 is fine. The new F-series engines use a timing chain and are very reliable. I'm currently running a 5th-gen Impreza with a manual.

Unlike the automatic Subarus, the manual ones have a limited slip center differential, which, while arguably worse for Jeep trails (Subarus are not meant for Jeep trails), it delivers torque more consistently front and rear (50/50, with limited slip bias to the wheels with grip) and handles more consistently than the clutch system the automatics have, turning your car into a rally car.

Also, Mazda uses a clutch system for 4WD.

How does this work? Your car is front wheel drive. When the front wheels start to slip, the computer engages a clutch to temporarily lock the rear wheels into the drive, so you get 4wd.

Subaru's system in the autos keeps that clutch engaged until you are turning, at which it mostly disengages, becoming mostly front wheel drive, until the front wheels slip, then it re-engages becoming fully 4wd again.

As for reliability, mine gets pounded with lots of miles, stop and go driving, and bad roads. I've only needed to replace my front lower control arms at 150,000 mi, which is better than my other cars, which needed tie rods more tie rods and all the tie rods as well as struts and sway bar links.

A lot of people don't like Subaru because of either dissent of popularity, impression they rust to hell (every car in the salt belt does this), or someone skimped on maintenance. What kills a Subaru engine is not checking and keeping your oil topped regularly. If it's 1/2 qt low, you top it off. 1qt low is danger level.

Mazda is a good car tho, but I trust the Subaru 4WD (auto or manual) to do the job much better. A lot of FWD based 4WD cars have issues when there's hills, as their 4WD systems are meant to get the car going on mostly level terrain and otherwise not do anything past that.

As for maintenance on CVT, ignore the manual saying lifetime fluid. This is nonsense. If it has a torque converter or a CVT belt it needs regular maintenance. Change it at 30,000-50,000 just like any automatic, and you won't have a problem.

The Subaru engines have a very wide torque band - anywhere over 3000 and you've got the power, which makes them easy to drive. That and they've managed to squeeze some impressive fuel economy despite being fully (as in all the time) 4wd cars.

Honey needs to die. It steals from affiliates by changing affiliate links to itself.

I would rather run my own model on my own hardware than use someone else's cloud

A new jingle busts through the wall like the Kool-Aid Man

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poorly trained recognizer, looks like

Guess I'll continue not getting Starbucks coffe as I haven't for years

Exactly. Thanks to McDonalds, we have to have this warning label on coffee.

Warning: Coffee is hot

Thanks, McDonalds

OCR is a very, very old AI system that for decades we've scanned documents and saved to pdf with. The old system is far from perfect, but it does work well enough in most cases. If an AI recognition model can do the same job with less mistakes, that is an improvement.

...and I'm not sure about getting an A/C from someone that can't grammar, either

Obvious spam bot reviews using incorrect language words

If your engine blows in a normal car at that mileage, replacing the engine will cost several times the car's value as well. In either case, it's time to replace it with someting new(er) anyway.

The only thing I ask for is VoLTE actually working.

Ah, yes, this song, that takes 10 minutes to end

EV batteries last a very long time when implemented right. Post-2015, and on cars not named the Nissan Leaf, batteries can last 10+ years and well over 200,000 miles. A Hyundai recently went in for a battery at 389,000 miles... all of which were not well maintained miles, as in, overnight to 100 percent, fast charge, drain to empty, etc. Hyundai bought the battery for Science reasons.

As for recycling, a company recently developed a system to turn used ev batteries into grid storage by literally plugging them into a special adapting charging controller.

This is in addition to recycling the batteries.

American Petroleum Institute... and the page is 404

So, basically, the entire gaming industry

Controversial take: FH5 is entertaining, and the weeklys are a challenge to knock out every time.

Except for when The Trial decides to run The Colossus as one of the races. I'll just grind the 5-pointers instead, it's quicker.

Mine doesn't have that capability... battery lasts 5 years. But the cost difference in charging an EV at home versus buying gas... that's real.