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The Automotive Discussion Thread
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You done fucking good son. Congrats.
I can already feel N-Bomb and Yuri seething.
I just built it on their site, car stalking
The 19" rims are ugly as sin though, I like the 18s in the picture.
Hey, I don't really care. Dude can get what he wants
PseudoKirby
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S5 is a fine car, good choice, very envious.
HOT.
BrokenEchelon
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What a strange comparison.
David Incorporated Esq.
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I'm guessing it's because he was on a short track with some tight turns where the R8's better turn-in would help it. He commented several times that he was getting more understeer than he wanted in the 911.
Edit: Also because that particular 911 is a few years old now--I'm sure the results will be very different with the 991.
It's just surprising considering that the 911 has a 200TQ and 200LB advantage over the R8.
David Incorporated Esq.
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It is, but the torque disparity doesn't mean a whole lot when you're on the track and in the powerband all the time, and the R8 has 20HP over the 911.
I'm a big 911 fanboy but the Turbo has never been the racey one, so it doesn't surprise me a whole lot that it lost to the R8 on a short-track.
Clockwork
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Tesla Model S earns 99 out of 100 score from Consumer Reports
Do Audi, BMW, or Benz get these kinds of scores?
#Teslafutar
Do Audi, BMW, or Benz get these kinds of scores?
#Teslafutar
DJ_Lae
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It's orange.
I like that colour on it.
Saw an XV in that colour (or a very similar one) yesterday and liked the shade, although the XV itself is a pretty hideous car.
BrokenEchelon
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They're one interior redesign short of a perfect aesthetic car.
~
In other news, this was part of my day today:
David Incorporated Esq.
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Fuck it that truck is awesome.
shinshoryuken
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I wonder how the new nissan self healing paint works...and how it looks....
do that mean self healing paint doesn't have clear coat?
do that mean self healing paint doesn't have clear coat?
ClassyPenguin
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Most people see driving as a chore, so I get where they are coming from and take into account the futurist tech fetish that this forum has. Though I think some people are deliberately being obtuse in their support of Ferrari.
shinshoryuken
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yeah....for some people a car is something to take them to point A and point B....they just don't understand.
Apparently I need to explain to EV supporters if Ferrari ever decided to make an EV, why it that would be a good thing and why it would help push the technology forward??
According to them, Ferrari is just a badge and they don't do any real automotive engineering.
According to them, Ferrari is just a badge and they don't do any real automotive engineering.
BrokenEchelon
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Just about every car related thread in OT (aside from this one) usually just gives me a headache.
Yeah, well put.
Which I understand. I love cars, but I also love tech (it's why I bought the '89 Riviera). So, electric cars interest me. If I had a way of charging it, I'd be leasing a Volt right now.
Lagspike_exe
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Ferrari was always the car bought for the experience. Their design, their sound and the feel of owning one was always unmatched.
Their track performance was always great, but it's not out of this world insane as it's offten proclaimed. 458 is beaten on a track by a much cheaper GT-R.
Their track performance was always great, but it's not out of this world insane as it's offten proclaimed. 458 is beaten on a track by a much cheaper GT-R.
shinshoryuken
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I remember one time some dude in a thread told me my car was a V8....and was arguing with me when I told him it wasn't....
BrokenEchelon
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Speaking of Ferrari, they're looking to become artificially more exclusive by slowing production:
BrokenEchelon
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From what I've noticed (and this could be totally off) the Chinese seem to have a fetish for all things German and German only. The British are trying real hard to suck their collective dick, but I've yet to hear about how the Italians are faring in the People's Republic.
I know every international student at my alma mater (whose father was a corrupt government official back in China) drove an AMG of some sort or a higher-end Audi.
I know every international student at my alma mater (whose father was a corrupt government official back in China) drove an AMG of some sort or a higher-end Audi.
Lambos seem to be pretty popular in mainland China as well as HK. Singapore has some of everything. I guess those sort of count as German.
After watching the Chris Harris video my interest in the GTR has been rekindled. The new 911 turbo starts at 150k with the turbo S coming in at 185k. Out of my league.
After watching the Chris Harris video my interest in the GTR has been rekindled. The new 911 turbo starts at 150k with the turbo S coming in at 185k. Out of my league.
I think it has more to do with the rich being more scrutinized in places like Italy in terms of taxes. Sales of exotics have dropped off sharply there since the new scrutiny.
<grossgeneralization> Stereotypical Asians seem to prize the status and luxury of a car as a symbol more than its performance or any other kind of factor. They want to show how they're superior to you. A Ferrari is lesser because it's not as 'executive'. </grossgeneralization>
Duracelllll
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jongkookie
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HID bulbs in halogen housing... yes/no?
My NC Miata is almost 7 years old and as far as I know, the PO has never touched the headlights so it's still the stock halogen H7 bulbs sitting in there as it came out of the factory in 2005.
I'm currently leaning towards getting a conversion kit instead of going full retrofit as many of the threads in the various Miata forums suggest that the retrofit kits are iffy when paired up to a current gen Miata and they're simply not worth it. My other option is to find HID headlight assemblies from an NC or an RX-8 but they're impossible to come by. Also, the most expensive conversion kit is at $150 from TRS and there's other places that sell it cheaper, meanwhile a full retrofit starts at $290.
If nothing else, I'll just get one of those bright ass halogen bulbs and stick in there haha.
My NC Miata is almost 7 years old and as far as I know, the PO has never touched the headlights so it's still the stock halogen H7 bulbs sitting in there as it came out of the factory in 2005.
I'm currently leaning towards getting a conversion kit instead of going full retrofit as many of the threads in the various Miata forums suggest that the retrofit kits are iffy when paired up to a current gen Miata and they're simply not worth it. My other option is to find HID headlight assemblies from an NC or an RX-8 but they're impossible to come by. Also, the most expensive conversion kit is at $150 from TRS and there's other places that sell it cheaper, meanwhile a full retrofit starts at $290.
If nothing else, I'll just get one of those bright ass halogen bulbs and stick in there haha.
It's not even that - there's nothing wrong with thinking that a car is just a point A-to-B tool. These threads are so bad because the OP (usually) and EV supporters are pretty much clueless about anything else about cars beyond what they read in whatever article that prompted them to create a thread for the Tesla/Leaf/whichever EV and gets their lunch handed to them by autoGAF, at which point the thread just dies. Then it starts all over again whenever there's a new piece of news.
Then you have a couple of posters that are so fervently anti-ICE that there's just no having a discussion with them.
David Incorporated Esq.
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I just want everyone in the world to get to do an autocross or a track day in a sports car so they can get how badass cars are. Of course if you grow up in a city always driving in traffic you'll hate cars, cars suck for that, but what kind of weirdo could take a sportscar through a twisty mountain road and say at the end "Well that sucked."
Well, someone who's prone to motion sickness probably wouldn't enjoy it, but other than that, definitely.
I grew up living 30 miles away from school, which probably contributed to me favoring big comfy highway cruisers. Driving through a twisty mountain road sounds like a blast, but those don't really exist here in the south. Just big straight open highways. I loved every minute of the Jaguar driving event I went to. I need to do something like that again. Maybe with BMW. I've never driven a BMW and I'd like to.
Forged Performance - heard mostly good about them but it seems like eventually every shop has one of these disasters, usually for a massively expensive build.
DEFINITELY NOT. Retrofit it properly or don't do it at all. You'll dazzle oncoming traffic otherwise. Halogen housings, even if they're projectors are NOT designed to accommodate the HID output and beam pattern.
Yes. 100% agree.
It's a single lap...anything can happen. I'm sure the 911 would be faster if he took the average of 10 laps in each.
He does multiple laps and uses the most representative times.
And this is why you get HID's from the factory. Shops can't be trusted.
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
*fapfapfapfapfapfap*
David Incorporated Esq.
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"Let's paint the top black and hope everyone thinks it's a convertible!" lol
Going to be one sexy car.
Mattlikewhoa
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I'm deathly scared of large builds. Modding your car is already expensive enough. You leave your car, parts, and hope that the outcome is as good as they promised.
I'm still dredding the thought of finding a shop to handle my engine build locally. For every one or two people who say that they are the best at what they do, another person has a "story" about them that makes you worry...
Good times people!
http://www.autoblog.com/2013/05/10/more-next-gen-audi-tt-details-revealed/
Oh man. 2014 is going to be a good year.
These are some speculative sketches of the next TT:
/nods
The current TT RS weighs 3300lbs, and Audi is looking to shed some weight off of that, too. Imagine 380HP at 3100lbs with Quattro *drool*
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
I always figured the Quattro concept would become the new TT.
Forsete
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Isnt that also illegal? Retrofitting HIDs in halogen housings I mean.
At least here it is. In fact, retrofitting HIDs is illegal full stop, IIRC. Like I said, where I live.
The last DDR-state.
Isnt that also illegal? Retrofitting HIDs in halogen housings I mean.
At least here it is. In fact, retrofitting HIDs is illegal full stop, IIRC. Like I said, where I live.
The last DDR-state.
"In Europe and the many non-European countries applying ECE Regulations, even HID headlamps designed as such must be equipped with lens cleaning and automatic self-leveling systems, except on motorcycles.[33] These systems are usually absent on vehicles not originally equipped with HID lamps."
I've heard of people here who had Xenon installed by the dealership right after delivery because of tax reasons, only to have their car fail the mandatory yearly technical inspection 3 years later because the dealer used cheapo-non-leveling lights
(cars less than 3 years old are exempt from inspection)
http://www.autoblog.com/2013/05/10/more-next-gen-audi-tt-details-revealed/
Oh man. 2014 is going to be a good year.
These are some speculative sketches of the next TT:
/nods
The current TT RS weighs 3300lbs, and Audi is looking to shed some weight off of that, too. Imagine 380HP at 3100lbs with Quattro *drool*
Safe to assume they changed their minds on making the next rs3 a 2.0t then? Release in 2014 would be a nice change from the eternity that the a3 is taking.
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