Pulls away lovely
I sort of know what a CVT is, it’s “continuous variable transmission”, the gearbox of the car sings, it “transmits” a beautiful song to the engine? I am a car nut now. A petrol head.
STEEPLE – A Scary Go Round Comic
by John Allison
I sort of know what a CVT is, it’s “continuous variable transmission”, the gearbox of the car sings, it “transmits” a beautiful song to the engine? I am a car nut now. A petrol head.
My friend worked at a car dealership for a few years and I got to meet some of the higher ups. Always tried to get them to let me sell a car, but they wouldn’t budge.
Shame.
I suppose trying to persuade a used car dealer to let you sell a used car for them is probably a good trial run of your aptitude at being a used car dealer. So if you would’ve been good at it you would have persuaded them to let you have a shot at it. Now there’s some circular reasoning for ya!
Uh oh. This guy’s good. Get him to lower his guard, than swoop in for the kill.
My tractor has a hydraulic CVT. It’s handy because it means I can keep the engine throttled up to keep the speed of the mower blades up, while controlling the speed of the actual tractor by smoothly varying the transmission ratios. I have no idea what good it would be on a Volkswagen Bug.
Amstrad makes cars now? Or is that just the brand of the aftermarket spoiler or something?
I think it’s been established that in the Bobbinsverse, Amstrad makes pretty much everything you can think of. And if they don’t make it yet, they probably will soon.
Our Nissan has CVT, which was the source of one of our horrific dealership experiences of this millennium, as they showed my wife (and had her test drive) a car WITH CVT, but switched it out and SOLD her one WITHOUT. And since she drove it off the lot without noticing, we had to sell it back to them as a used car to do the exchange, costing us a cool THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS. And Georgia, alas, offers basically NO consumer protection which would have helped us out. 🤬
Good car, though, at least.
The Amstrad sticker is for the sound system. This is that kind of car
Aaaaaand the Rev fails his roll versus persuasion, if not outright deceit.
At some point all of us will encounter a psychopath. Fortunately though (or unfortunately) they are far more likely to be used car dealers or stock brokers than serial killers.
Honestly, I think I’m better-equipped to handle a serial killer than I am a used car dealer.
I think that’s true for most of us.
I believe this guy is what the British call a “spiv.”
Is it just me or does it seem a little odd that the dealer didn’t get the Rev’s denomination right?
I’m no expert, but I believe the Church of England does in fact use communion wafers.
In the UK, I don’t think it’s odd that someone wouldn’t be able to distinguish different branches of a church.
You’re now a gasoline cranium? That’s cool.
I know all the cars, Ford, Citroen, Madza, Portia, all of them
Is Portia a Shakespearean sports car?
“The all-new Mercy, from Portia. Quality… that’s truly unstrained.”
Named for the rich founder of the car company. She got her big break making caskets for the government in WWII. Gold, silver, lead; she made them all. Just needed to fit wheels and an engine, and an easy pivot to those boxy automobiles of the late 40s.
Ah, “A Fish Called Wanda”. Kevin Kline at his most differentist.
Citroen Kane?
Is that the fabled Amstrad C6 electric car?
I have to go until MONDAY with a cliffhanger like that?! Is the cruelty the point?
This car’s gonna be haunted isn’t it? Or a werewolf.
Or?
Worse. It’s a Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man. You can see him lurking in panel 1…
I don’t even have to go back and look. Upper left corner.
Wacky? I hope it’s one of these… https://images.mubicdn.net/images/film/224530/cache-398457-1545263388/image-w1280.jpg
He got Penrose so easily. The car will likely be a strange prototype and have a conscience. So they and the reverend will be able to talk about the souls of objects and other philosophical questions.
Let’s hope so!
A bit special like the car Clark Griswold got at the start of National Lampoon Vacation.
“And I’ve named all of the cars on my lot. There’s Reg, Monty, Alf, Lady Montague, Rishi, Bojo, Maggie the Iron Sedan. But the special one around the corner is named . . . CHRISTINE. Wait, did I say Christine? I meant Fiona. Kind of an anticlimax, actually.”
So the car needs to be exorcized! That should spark up the Rev’s day! 😉
Spoiler downforce at traffic lights! An excellent subtle joke.
If anyone doesn’t know what I mean, spoilers are aerodynamic devices like a wing; they generate force from airflow across them. When stopped at a traffic light (or at low speeds when just starting off after the light changes) the spoiler’s only downforce generation will be its weight. You’d do just as well with a bag of groceries in the back.
And at most civilian speeds, wings are not really all the effective. Maybe 15% of the time on an open highway, certainly none of the time on surface streets :}
We’ll be ok when we half a ton of batteries in the boot.
The only use the spoiler on my old Honda station wagon ever saw was as a perch for a Great Horned owl while I was trying to sleep in the back.
Reverend Penrose really should have brought Mrs Clovis along for this. Her suspicious nature, plus her general disapproval of pretty much everything, would render her immune to these tactics.
I’m now picturing now with Clovis’ mug upended over his head, oat milk dripping down his face.
*picturing Simon
A special car…? Special…?
W e e ell, there’s this Lada Samara here – the sports model* finished 5th in the 1991 Paris Dakkar rally, really quite a car…
I’ve got a soft spot for Ladas. The Lada Niva’s a great off-roader imo.
Ahem…
*Bearing in mind that particular example had more Porsche parts than Lads bits
Lada dammit, not lads.
Funny how easily the words Lada and dammit fit together, even after all these years
I do NOT trust that wavy guy in the background.
Gearhead, we call it here in America. 🙂
The Rev is on the hook, time to reel him in…
CVTs use (cut) conical gears, so you can grind the transmission BETWEEN gears. I’d also speculate they literally use more oil because there is more potential contact surface, but idk
The Nation, the Continent, the culture… No matter where you are, a Car Salesman is the same. The only thing that’s ever different is the language and the angle.
Also if I understand Tredregyn well enough by now the damn thing is probably haunted.
Better than Tackleford though, I suppose. May not be haunted by SOMETHING it fucky about it to the point of bending or breaking reality.
Better than Tackleford? I don’t know… Us readers have primarily seen the weirder side of Tackleford, but it’s still ‘normal” enough that there seem to be some long-time residents who are completely unaware or that weirder side. Tredregyn literally has sea monsters attacking every night. Not to mention the fact that it’s mostly openly run by Satanists who have actual occult abilities. Remember, Lottie, who grew up in Tackleford, was kind of freaked out by Tredregyn.
At least the fishmen here aren’t on our side.
Noooooo Rev, don’t fall for the “special”
I hear the Dealer’s voice in my head as Mike Brewer…