Art kingmudsy has got an arts and craft thread up. If you haven't seen it yet, check it out. It's awesome as heck to have something like that going again because Hubski is legit filled with some super creative people and it's always wonderful to see what people are working on. Cars The other month, I talked about how the third, fourth, and fifth generation Camaros just didn't age well at all, visually speaking. They're all just pretty bland and underwhelming, even with clean bodies and fresh paint. Well, the other day, I was thinking about the Isuzu Vehicross and while it may have been a bit of an odd duck in its day and a bit ahead of its time, it still looks good. I can imagine, with only a few tweaks, the same car could be released today and still fit in. I kind of regret never buying a lightly used one when I had the opportunity. The combination from being a limited run car and from an abandoned brand kept me away, for fear of difficulty getting repair support for it, which is a shame, cause I probably would have loved that car. Ditto for the Pontiac G8. Videogames I recently got the Street Fighter Anniversary Collection and have been enjoying the heck out of it. I'm a bit at a loss though, because with the exception of Super Street Fighter II for the Sega Genesis and a little dabbling in Marvel vs. Capcom 1 and 2, Inever really played Street Fighter, instead opting for The King of Fighters series from SNK (I literally had ever King of Fighters game from '94 to XI, plus games like Neo Geo Battle Colosseum, etc.). So I'm basically in the process of learning to use and fight against characters I'm not too familiar with, with a series of fighting systems I'm not too familiar with, and I gotta say, it's quite the challenge. I like Fei Long in Super Street Fighter II, Ken in the Alpha series, and Sean in III. I think I owe it to myself to do a bit more exploring though. Keep being beautiful everyone.
I had a buddy who went through two Amigos; we were in the unique position of pitching a Vehicross ad to Isuzu in 1999 and came up with an idea blending a bunch of Road Warrior mofos and Joe Isuzu with the tagline "what's your Y2K solution?" They passed. Ever driven a Vehicross? They were sloppy like a truck but cramped like a sports car. I made a serious run at buying one in '02 but it doesn't take long to recognize that they've got the brakes and rolling stock from an Amigo with a really big turbo. They also have a lot of tupperware that bleaches real nice to the point where it looks like a car wearing an apron. It also doesn't take long to realize why the Japanese put a rear-view camera in it (which wasn't DOT legal); the rear-view mirror gives you a great view of the sky overhead and absolutely nothing shorter than an 18-wheeler. Still, I run past one two or three times a week. They're... interesting. It was designed by Shiro Nakamura, who went on to make pretty much everything at Nissan from '05 to now, including the Juke.
I almost wrapped my head around one. There were two problems for me: 1) Between the turbo and the CVT, it feels like a driving simulation, not a car. The connection between inputs and vehicular responses feels a lot like flying a Predator UAV over satellite link. 2) The fact that it's a Versa with a tall body means that it isn't particularly off-road-able, which, for a car that's gonna front like that, is a damn shame. I recognize that 99% of all things with AWD will never so much as see dirt but I really think that if Nissan did a version of the Juke that had some modifiable suspension bits they would have captured a whole bunch of the PunisherPants market. Examples exist but they're so much work.
No. But I can imagine, even with sportier suspension, it would still drive like a truck. I think I'll always be more inclined to like cars, especially performance cars, but I gotta say, there are some compact SUVs that I like, at least visually. The Kia Niro and Toyota CHR come to mind, but I think if I went from driving the FR-S daily to one of those daily, I'd be pretty disappointed in the handling.Ever driven a Vehicross? They were sloppy like a truck but cramped like a sports car.
The CH-R with 6 cylinders and AWD would have been a car. I guess it makes sense that the highest-performance vehicles available are all electric; after all, you get that kick off the line for free. But I really wish the rest of the market hadn't capitulated so heavily.
I remember the day Toyota released the specs for the car and feeling really let down. To give something as aggressively styled as that car such weak engine options, I kind of felt like what some people probably felt like during the malaise era.
Bobcats are part of the lynx family, and pretty nifty too. Wikimedia didn't have any pictures I liked, but iNaturalist has quite a few gems.