Comment on May not buff out

• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why would this even be present in a street legal vehicle?

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  • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Money.

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I sometimes wonder why the US even has a government.

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      • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It did, once.

        Before the dark times.

        Before the Empire.

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      • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        An artifact of more sensible times. Besides, without it, how would we even know who our glorious leader was?

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      • ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Incidentally that’s a German car that’s sold worldwide with that feature. Japanese, American, Chinese, British and other cars have that feature too.

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  • Ajen@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same reason Jeeps have more ground clearance and suspension travel than they need to operate on public roads. Some people use their vehicles for both transportation and recreation.

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• eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What the hell, that’s STOCK for a BMW M series?

  That makes skateboards sound safe.

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s been pretty common in high end performance cars for over a decade. Good for Darwin awards.

    Fortunately it’s also noisy enough that you can IMMEDIATELY tell and get the fuck out of the way. EVs need to start making noise like that lol.

    The Grand Tour did an absolutely hilarious take on it, even Clarkson agreed it’s stupid in street cars

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• ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Today, that guy learned as well.

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