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Originally Posted by genxer
My frame of reference is no A/C... though I like most of your 2nd example.
Where we differ is, I think many people pick the luxury aspect of a vehicle first, to a detriment. Whether or not they'll admit to whatever degree.
The best driver I know drives around town with a dog box and a heavy mechanical clutch. I have to draw the line easily before that. (But I'd love a next-gen stick with a combination starter/generator/dog-synchronizer, with a dogleg 1st gear H pattern shift.) The best driver I tangentially know, drives a very spartan LS swapped early Miata, (and not the easy choice 'Vette ).
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Well, I mean pretty much every car nowadays come standard with A/C at this point. It might even cost manufacturers to open up extra production lines and make separate parts for cars without A/C. Kinda like how power windows are common enough to make crank windows meaningless when it comes to cost-cutting.
Realistically, unless you have a serious race car or a weekend fun car, you probably want an A/C.
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Originally Posted by mariojas
AC is a heat pump... just one way heat pump. It's just the direction of flow which will determine if you are cooling or heating the cabin. Add special valve to your AC (and control for it) and you have got yourself a "heat pump".
People are so used to combustion waste called heating in ICE that it's sooo weird to "pay" to have heat  I know, I know... ICE have it for free, so why switch. If you aren't ready - don't. If I wouldn't be so obsessed with V8s I would switch now - it's good enough already, especially with current gas prices, where you need to do two transactions to fill all the way up   |
Yep, it just depends on which side you want and which side is waste for a particular situation. You want the cold side on an A/C and the hot side is waste, while the hot side is what you want with heat pump and you dump the cold side.
I think I have read somewhere that a combined heat pump/AC system is less efficient than a dedicated A/C or heat pump. Not sure if that's true.
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