The Subaru XT Turbo was a nearly as weird futuristic car that they actually made. I had one and it was fun… a great little sports car with a futuristic design, that with the touch of a button lifted high in the air and was also great offroad- with real center diff lock 4WD.
The 1986 Oldsmobile Incas Dashboard (2020)
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#32The Subaru XT Turbo was a nearly as weird futuristic car that they actually made. I had one and it was fun… a great little sports car with a futuristic design, that with the touch of a button lifted high in the air and was also great offroad- with real center diff lock 4WD.
Similarly, the Citroen GSA actually existed: https://www.autoevolution.com/cars/citroen-gsa-1979.html#aga...
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#33This headline would be much less effective if it told you the truth, that the car never existed: “Unfortunately for us, Oldsmobile never went ahead and produced the Incas. They made a slew of other wild concept cars as well, but none of those saw the light of day either […]”
How does "that you've never seen" not convey that sentiment? Sure it is hyperbole but that hyperbole seems well founded since the only people who have likely seen it are those which followed concept cars of the 80s or stumbled onto an article like this one.
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#34US auto manufacturers could coast for 50 years on reissuing the classics upgraded for fuel efficiency and crash safety. Instead we get soulless, gaudy, plastic bullshit that falls apart the moment the warranty expires.
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#35This headline would be much less effective if it told you the truth, that the car never existed: “Unfortunately for us, Oldsmobile never went ahead and produced the Incas. They made a slew of other wild concept cars as well, but none of those saw the light of day either […]”
How does "that you've never seen" not convey that sentiment? Sure it is hyperbole but that hyperbole seems well founded since the only people who have likely seen it are those which followed concept cars of the 80s or stumbled onto an article like this one.
I thought it was a very rare car, meaning most people have never seen it.
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#36I'm no car guy at all, but even I can see the faults with the doors (driver gets wet when the passenger jumps in while it's raining), and with the steering wheel (imagine trying to do a hand-over hand turn without accidentally pressing one of the buttons!) More car makers are better, and engineers should be allowed to have a bit of fun, but concept cars are almost laughable sometimes in their basic flaws.
Maybe they wanted to "solve" the hand-over-hand turning problem with insanely quick-ratio steering
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#37If you like this sort of stuff this BERTONE video always inspires me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynDCCXNg0Cc Wonder if there are any css/ui kits for this sort of analog retro style?
Bertone seems to still be offering cars
https://bertone.it/
price point is a little higher than the cybertruck, but hey, probably worth it.
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#38One of my first cars was a 1986 Oldsmobile Riviera
The Riviera was one of my favorite cars, had a touch screen to control most things in the car. Basically the Tesla of 1986.
https://www.carscoops.com/2021/10/the-buick-riviera-had-a-to...
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#39Oldsmobile has some really terrific engineers. I know because I attended schools in the Lansing area with their kids. What killed the brand was a series of general managers in the late nineties and early two thousands. Until then Oldsmobile outsold Pontiac and Buick.
What about the managers killed the brand?
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the upcoming version you'll have to argue with an LLM over voice about the optimal temperature, before threatening to drive into opposing traffic unless it sets it to 70.
There's no way to win that argument, the LLM will take control of the vehicle and refuse to let you make any decisions at all after that point. If you're really unlucky, it will really go rogue and make its own decision to veer into oncoming traffic.
Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy had intelligent elevators, but they just got depressed because they hated their job...