The top car is a 1956 Astra-Gnome concept car (never actually manufactured for us). Photo credit / more info: https://www.petersen.org/vehicle-spotlights/1956-astra-gnome
The bottom vehicle is a dumpster sold by a wanker.
The future!
The top car is a 1956 Astra-Gnome concept car (never actually manufactured for us). Photo credit / more info: https://www.petersen.org/vehicle-spotlights/1956-astra-gnome
The bottom vehicle is a dumpster sold by a wanker.
50 Comments
outerspace@lemmy.zip · 32 pts · 241d
Reasonable middle ground:
TwoDogsFighting@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 241d
It's a diving sad day when bladerunner looks like a reasonable middle ground.
Fuck you, autocorrect.
outerspace@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 241d
This car will definitely be useful for diving
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 241d
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 241d
tetris11@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 241d
A seperate bubble compartment for the kids, and offroad tires. I mean, I'd buy it. Though $82,000 is still a steep price for a car, even now.
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 241d
It’s the car Bladerunner would drive. You know, Bladerunner, from Bladerunner. By Ridleyscott.
fartographer@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 241d
You know, the original book isn't even called "Bladerunner." It's called "Do Bladerunners dream of running blades?" Ridleyscott changed it based on some Rutgers Howie improv.
hopesdead@startrek.website · 4 pts · 241d
THAT’S NOT THE CHARACTER’S NAME YOU WEIRDO TECH BRO!
Yes I am mad at Elon. Blade Runner: The Final Cut is my favorite movie.
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 241d
Next you’re gonna tell me he doesn’t even run blades.
Raxiel@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 241d
I don't get it, because I can't see enough of the car behind that dumpster to understand the point
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 241d
Um... what is that?
ultrahamster64@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 241d
Still waiting for a KDE steering wheel
perishthethought@piefed.social · 1 pts · 241d
A steering wheel?
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 241d
Keering Keel
ulterno@programming.dev · 0 pts · 241d
A Gnoming wheel?
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 241d
I always wanted one of these
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 241d
What's the concept/name/model?
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 241d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_Hoggar_Concept
ulterno@programming.dev · 1 pts · 241d
Any specific reason for the 2 separate engines?
What's the advantage?
All I can think of is that you might be running a much lower powered, single engine when not in 4WD mode.
Vitaly@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 241d
That one in the top looks like it was created in Spore
genuineparts@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 241d
Thundercugarfalconbird
fartographer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 241d
I understand, and it's wonderful you don't care whether anyone questions your sexual orientation
I care! I care plenty! I just don't know how to make them stop!
I know it's a different show, but... I dunno. Suck a butt or something. At least it's the same car
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 241d
I'm waaaaayyyyy too orange-pilled for this. Both images are wrong.
moonshadow@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 241d
Which pill is orange again?
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 241d
This one: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 241d
FYI this is also slang for "Bitcoin enthusiast".
ultrahamster64@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 241d
The funny thing is that even if cybertruck wasn't absolutely demolished it still wasn't even close to astra-gnome
perishthethought@piefed.social · 4 pts · 241d
Are you suggesting I picked the worst image of a cybertruck I could find? (I did. :) )
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 241d
I'm ok not having the bubble boat car. Of course, having better, more affordable EV options here in the US would be nice. But a lot of people don't like EVs. Not sure why, but if you just gotta have your ICE vehicle, run it on biofuels that are at least renewable. Some of y'all are ridiculous: "Electric car? Biofuels? No, I HAVE to have an internal combustion engine, and it HAS to run on FOSSIL FUELS only!" Why?
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 241d
Big problem with biofuels currently is production. We haven't figured out how to grow enough food AND biomass for fuel.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 241d
And a bunch of the food is more or less fossil fuels turned into corn. Solar+wind+battery with some nuclear power mixed in is probably the way, but long haul transport might be able to work on bio if we could get out of the growth only economy of late stage of capitalism.
I sometimes imagine a world where we make things that last, or can be repaired and our population has leveled off so that we can stop making the line go up and just keep it at some sustainable level. A lot of thing could change and keep us all happy.
Maybe my kid’s grandkids will see it.
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 241d
Then get an EV. Or drive less, or just pay the premium for biofuels, if you absolutely MUST have an internal combustion engine.
We have to stop using fossil fuels. We just have to. And it's not just about the climate, although that should be reason enough. Fossil fuels are non-renewable. Once fossil fuel reserves are depleted, they cannot be replenished on human timescales. And I know, I know, people will swear up and down that we're not in danger of fossil fuel reserves becoming depleted anytime soon, but it's inevitable, even if it isn't imminent.
Plus, we've already depleted most of the reserves that were relatively cheap and easy to extract, so what's left is only going to get more difficult and more expensive to get out of the ground. Oil extraction would have peaked a long time ago if we didn't start using more expensive extraction methods like hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which comes with its own ecological issues.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 241d
I ride a bike and take public transit.
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 241d
Good! Whatever people can do to stop using fossil fuels is what needs to happen.
moonshadow@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 240d
I guarantee getting another 30 years out of my 30 year old car is lower impact than buying a new one because it's electric
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 240d
Look, maybe you will be able to get another 30 years out of your car, and if so good for you, but eventually we have to stop using fossil fuels. That's all I'm saying. The longer we keep using oil, the more impacts on the climate. But also, the more oil we use, the faster it runs out. And once it's gone, it's just gone. Forever, no more. Sure, we probably won't run out in 30 years, but it is a finite resource so we run out eventually. I just don't know why people are in such a hurry to completely use it all up as quickly as possible, especially knowing what it's doing to the climate. I just don't get it.
Reygle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 241d
MrMakabar@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 241d
Past promised pedestrians slasher and present delivers.
toothpaste_sandwich@thebrainbin.org · 3 pts · 241d
I mean, they both look like they would obliterate any unfortunate pedestrian they'd come in contact with... But the top one moreso. It'd cut them in half.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 241d
As oppsed to the deer thay got cut in half by a wank panzer?
toothpaste_sandwich@thebrainbin.org · 1 pts · 241d
I'm just saying the top one would do even more damage. They're both terrible 🙈
Rooty@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 241d
This just shows that personal automobiles are bullshit. A bicycle has not changed fundamentally in over 100 years, meanwhile cars are constantly changing for no discernable reason.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 241d
The internal combustion engine is fundamentally unchanged since invention, so is the electric motor, both well over 100 years old too.
And personal automobiles are still fundamentally the same as a horse driven carriage: four wheels with a box on top for seating and sheltering from weather, and a driver in front for steering. The first mechanically driven carriage even predates the bike by more than 200 years.
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 241d
The bicycle has changed quite a bit in the last hundred years. The modern derailleur was introduced in the 1930s. Moving the shifters to the handles was more recent. Clipless pedals and disc brakes were both introduced in the 70s. Carbon fiber frames reduced their weight substantially.
Their basic shape hasn’t changed much, but everything else has.
nesc@lemmy.cafe · 3 pts · 241d
They are the same picture.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 241d
i think i had that shaver
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 241d
plyth@feddit.org · 2 pts · 241d
Mad Max was also a promise, or something like that.
hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 241d
Imagine a rollover incident in the top one.
RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 241d
Wanted THUNDERCOUGARFALCONBIRD
Got demented rusty swastikar
This is not the future I signed up for