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Yummers posted:I bought the car for performance and to get some respect and breathing room on public roads. Lol drat. Maybe get some training wheels also?
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Hog Obituary posted:
Sorry, *I* only want to talk about the performance, maintenance and detailing of my stomped-on Corolla, nothing so pretentious and boorish as a receptacle for that swill you drink you philestine
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Oct 3, 2012 03:31
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VikingSkull posted:See, case in point. I'm a Mopar guy, and I don't care how rich I ever get or how good their cars are, I'll never own a MB product. It still irritates me that my '02 300m Special says Daimler-Chrysler on the VIN tag, even though it was a 100% pre-"merger" car. I'll never forgive them for quashing the ME-412, the Rebel, the Demon and the Caliber nightmare.
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Oct 3, 2012 03:48
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god i want to change my name to Pussy Shrapnel. Possibly the best thing ever. Also IS and IS-F, kinda a piece of poo poo. No one gets off on a Lexus short of the LFA.
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Oct 3, 2012 03:58
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Yummers posted:When you have a flashy car that attracts attention, people come at you for different reasons under the guise of friendship -- you have to be able to determine which "friends" are fair-weathered. In the case of this story, I was hanging out with some sloppy drunks who don't appreciate other peoples stuff and were pathetically lingering around my car trying to catch pussy shrapnel. Lesson learned/never again/moving on. I'm going to another game tonight with a different group of friends and they're all about taking BART. Those are my people! Don't worry Yummers, I feel you. When I first learned to drive manual, I borrowed my uncles 2004 C5 Convertible 6 speed. He came and picked me up and told me it was mine for a week. Just mine. All alone with the car and all I needed to do was give him a ride home. He asked me to stop at Starbucks on the way back and was telling me how this car would get me lots of attention from the ladies. As we parked and were getting out he said "You know Muffinpox, I know you're young but the kind of girls who come after you for having something like this aren't the type of girls you want to be in-" and then a deafening roar. The antagonistic screams of a thousand woman shrilled in the background "Oh my god that is so cool!", "Nice car, can we go for a ride with the top down?", "Sweet ride" were chanted over and over. The deafening roars of pussy bombs going off, pussy shrapnel flying everywhere. A piece caught my uncle in the leg and he laid on the ground bleeding out. I jumped through the cabin and surveyed the wound, it was bleeding badly. I jammed my finger into the wound and held the artery shut until I could figure out what to do. "We need to get you in a car and back to a hospital" I told him but all he could do is shake his head and say "No.. no.. this is an expensive car do you know what blood will do to the leather? It might have to be detailed twice." I'll never forget being covered in his blood in the parking lot and his last words to me, "Is the 3M clearbra doing a good job against the pussy shrapnel... this paint is... expensive..." RIP Uncle David.
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Oct 3, 2012 04:38
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There are now many times more posts in this thread about the ISF than when the ISF first came out.letgomyAgo posted:Minor paint work for just about any car regardless of color starts in the low 4 figures range. Your paint also isn't a 'special paint job'. It's a factory offered option and really costs a negligible amount more to paint that then the usual tri-coat bullshit Lexus throws on everything. They're just using a FIAT body to test the powertrain like they did with the Dart. The final Jeep isn't actually going to look like that.
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Muffinpox posted:Don't worry Yummers, I feel you. When I first learned to drive manual, I borrowed my uncles 2004 C5 Convertible 6 speed. He came and picked me up and told me it was mine for a week. Just mine. All alone with the car and all I needed to do was give him a ride home. He asked me to stop at Starbucks on the way back and was telling me how this car would get me lots of attention from the ladies. As we parked and were getting out he said "You know Muffinpox, I know you're young but the kind of girls who come after you for having something like this aren't the type of girls you want to be in-" and then a deafening roar. The antagonistic screams of a thousand woman shrilled in the background "Oh my god that is so cool!", "Nice car, can we go for a ride with the top down?", "Sweet ride" were chanted over and over. The deafening roars of pussy bombs going off, pussy shrapnel flying everywhere. A piece caught my uncle in the leg and he laid on the ground bleeding out. I jumped through the cabin and surveyed the wound, it was bleeding badly. I jammed my finger into the wound and held the artery shut until I could figure out what to do. "We need to get you in a car and back to a hospital" I told him but all he could do is shake his head and say "No.. no.. this is an expensive car do you know what blood will do to the leather? It might have to be detailed twice." I'll never forget being covered in his blood in the parking lot and his last words to me, "Is the 3M clearbra doing a good job against the pussy shrapnel... this paint is... expensive..." When I think PANTY DROPPER I think a bottom tier Lexus with a big honkin' engine WOOOOOOO im hard already. LINE UP LADIES PLENTY TO GO AROUND WOOOOOOO
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Oct 3, 2012 04:41
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Apparently the Euro Golf has a bottle opener built into its cup-holder. That's kind of cool. Also, this shade of green is pretty rad: 
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Oct 3, 2012 05:48
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A real man can open a beer bottle at 150mph on a mountain road with his seat belt buckle while steering with his one good knee.
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Oct 3, 2012 06:06
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Bob NewSCART posted:Sorry dude, an LFA is a sports car. A lambo is a sports car. A ferrari is a sports car. A "sport" model daily driver lexus is not. Depends on your definition. Personally I don't think any current Lamborghini or Ferrari fits in the 'sports car' category either
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Oct 3, 2012 06:09
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Cream_Filling posted:Apparently the Euro Golf has a bottle opener built into its cup-holder. That's kind of cool. I wish more cars on the road had brighter colors; it would at least make the drive somewhat more interesting than a sea of beige / white / silver.
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Oct 3, 2012 06:10
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Automotive Insanity: Read about a new cupholder you like? sperg about it here, in the cupholder-thread!
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Oct 3, 2012 06:19
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MikeyTsi posted:Automotive Insanity: Read about a new cupholder you like? sperg about it here, in the cupholder-thread! We need a cupholder thread.
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Oct 3, 2012 06:27
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I'm old enough to remember my Granpa's 1968 Impala that I learned to drive in, it had a cool aftermarket sandbag filled thing with two "cupholders" in it that would sit on the center tunnel/console thing. I think gammy stashed her Pall Mall's and/or Schlitz in there.
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Oct 3, 2012 06:35
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Yummers posted:Yeah whatever..you don't know wtf you're talking about but go ahead and keep thinking you do. Before getting my car I drove an 05 Civic LX sedan so I am acutely aware of how people treated me before and after. I bought the car for performance and to get some respect and breathing room on public roads. I only like to talk about my car in terms of performance, maintenance and detailing with other car people. That was the whole point of my mini rant...to shine a light on people who dig cars for pretentious reasons. And what was the point of your response anyways. I could care less what you think of my "two box" luxury car. I'm not fishing for compliments...but when just about everyone looks and then looks twice when I drive by,my opinion coming from a strictly observational place is that my car is "flashy". Way to obsess over your "two box" luxury car. Admit it, the reason you bought the IS-F over a real sports car is you still gotta take grandma to the doctor and Koi Palace for dim sum on Sundays. No M3 or C63 for you, those hurt nana's back!
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Oct 3, 2012 06:57
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Muffinpox posted:Don't worry Yummers, I feel you. When I first learned to drive manual, I borrowed my uncles 2004 C5 Convertible 6 speed. He came and picked me up and told me it was mine for a week. Just mine. All alone with the car and all I needed to do was give him a ride home. He asked me to stop at Starbucks on the way back and was telling me how this car would get me lots of attention from the ladies. As we parked and were getting out he said "You know Muffinpox, I know you're young but the kind of girls who come after you for having something like this aren't the type of girls you want to be in-" and then a deafening roar. The antagonistic screams of a thousand woman shrilled in the background "Oh my god that is so cool!", "Nice car, can we go for a ride with the top down?", "Sweet ride" were chanted over and over. The deafening roars of pussy bombs going off, pussy shrapnel flying everywhere. A piece caught my uncle in the leg and he laid on the ground bleeding out. I jumped through the cabin and surveyed the wound, it was bleeding badly. I jammed my finger into the wound and held the artery shut until I could figure out what to do. "We need to get you in a car and back to a hospital" I told him but all he could do is shake his head and say "No.. no.. this is an expensive car do you know what blood will do to the leather? It might have to be detailed twice." I'll never forget being covered in his blood in the parking lot and his last words to me, "Is the 3M clearbra doing a good job against the pussy shrapnel... this paint is... expensive..." Sometimes when I read a post I wish I could just find a way to click Like and move on because no empty quote or praise-filled reply will ever do it justice. This post by forums user Muffinpox is one of those posts.
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Oct 3, 2012 07:14
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Yummers posted:I bought the car for performance and to get some respect and breathing room on public roads. I clicked the last page of this thread rather than reading all the way through and saw this quoted on the top of the page without knowing the context. I thought poo poo, that's kind of a douchey way to explain why you bought an ex-cop Crown Vic. Then I went back a page and discovered that you drive a much lamer car than a Crown Vic.
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Oct 3, 2012 08:16
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Throatwarbler posted:There are now many times more posts in this thread about the ISF than when the ISF first came out. I don't think the ISF is a bad car. I've seen a total of one and thought "oh hey one of those, that's an interestingly designed exhaust, cool." But I've never understood why you would buy one over an M3 or a C63 unless you maybe like the weird-rear end look of modern Lexuses or the feel of modern Toyotas (I've never met anybody that enjoyed either). An M3 or C63 is still a BMW and Mercedes as well, so people that don't know what an M3 or C63 are will still think it's awesome. An ISF is a Lexus at the end of the day, and the many people that don't know an ISF from an ES350 are just going to think you're driving a fancy Buick (I think Cadillac has that problem as well with the CTS-V but their design language these days goes pretty far to separate them from Cadillacs of old, I think).
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Oct 3, 2012 13:10
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CornHolio posted:I don't think the ISF is a bad car. I've seen a total of one and thought "oh hey one of those, that's an interestingly designed exhaust, cool." But I've never understood why you would buy one over an M3 or a C63 unless you maybe like the weird-rear end look of modern Lexuses or the feel of modern Toyotas (I've never met anybody that enjoyed either). Once they see the Quad Exhaust Tips they step off.
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Oct 3, 2012 13:39
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R.I.P. Yummers 1984-2012 Died of wounds sustained from pussy shrapnel Son, brother, high-dollar sportscar owner getting respect and breathing room in heaven now, little angel.
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Oct 3, 2012 14:11
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dissss posted:Depends on your definition. Personally I don't think any current Lamborghini or Ferrari fits in the 'sports car' category either
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Oct 3, 2012 14:40
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hifi posted:Once they see the Quad Exhaust Tips they step off. I thought that exhaust was cool until I saw they were just double stacked tips. Thats just as dumb as the fake hood scoops on mustangs. Lame
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Oct 3, 2012 14:47
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Xguard86 posted:I thought that exhaust was cool until I saw they were just double stacked tips. Thats just as dumb as the fake hood scoops on mustangs. Lame The stock hood vents and scoops on 2012 and newer Mustangs are functional, to the point of people spergin' about water intrusion on aftermarket cold air intakes: http://www.mustangevolution.com/forum/f371/t310084/
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Oct 3, 2012 15:16
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I found this thread via the leper's colony and just want to say thanks for the entertainment. I will endeavor to use the term "pussy shrapnel" in conversation. Also, I have a friend who frequently laments that his DB7 lacks cupholders.
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Oct 3, 2012 15:34
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I have a friend who frequently laments that his DB7 lacks cupholders. If you drive an Aston Martin, you can probably hire someone to hold your drink for you.
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Yummers posted:I'm not fishing for compliments...but when just about everyone looks and then looks twice when I drive by,my opinion coming from a strictly observational place is that my car is "flashy". Your car is flashy because you bought it in blue.
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Muffinpox posted:Don't worry Yummers, I feel you. When I first learned to drive manual, I borrowed my uncles 2004 C5 Convertible 6 speed. He came and picked me up and told me it was mine for a week. Just mine. All alone with the car and all I needed to do was give him a ride home. He asked me to stop at Starbucks on the way back and was telling me how this car would get me lots of attention from the ladies. As we parked and were getting out he said "You know Muffinpox, I know you're young but the kind of girls who come after you for having something like this aren't the type of girls you want to be in-" and then a deafening roar. The antagonistic screams of a thousand woman shrilled in the background "Oh my god that is so cool!", "Nice car, can we go for a ride with the top down?", "Sweet ride" were chanted over and over. The deafening roars of pussy bombs going off, pussy shrapnel flying everywhere. A piece caught my uncle in the leg and he laid on the ground bleeding out. I jumped through the cabin and surveyed the wound, it was bleeding badly. I jammed my finger into the wound and held the artery shut until I could figure out what to do. "We need to get you in a car and back to a hospital" I told him but all he could do is shake his head and say "No.. no.. this is an expensive car do you know what blood will do to the leather? It might have to be detailed twice." I'll never forget being covered in his blood in the parking lot and his last words to me, "Is the 3M clearbra doing a good job against the pussy shrapnel... this paint is... expensive..." Amazing post. The IS-F seems to really attract these types. A guy at work has one and all he does is pore over IS forums on his phone and computer, talking about new rims he's looking at and on and on. I don't know why anyone would buy that car. I'd rather have a 335i, never mind an M3. Assuming that the M3 is more expensive than the IS-F, I'm not even sure. I would have to think the big DOHC V8 in the IS-F is not going to do it any favors in spirited driving. I really don't think the dude makes enough to make the car practical, either. AdmiralViscen fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Oct 3, 2012 |
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AdmiralViscen posted:Amazing post. I had no idea that the IS-F stickered at $60k+ until looking it up just now. I new they had big engines, but I was thinking upper 40s - low 50s. Someone I know has the basest IS250 you can get, and I thought it was a fine car for someone who doesn't really give a poo poo about cars but wants something comfortable and a hair better driving experience than a Camry. To get things back on the new car track, I think it's great that Jaguar is doing a real roadster again, although whoever said a couple pages ago that the Jag rep swore up and down that it would sticker at $60k was lied to. http://www.autoblog.com/2012/10/01/2013-jaguar-f-type-pricing-video-configurator/
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You know, the whole start of this derail kinda bothered me to begin with. In PA, it's just as illegal for a passenger in a car to consume alcohol as it is the driver as we have open container laws. So, I read it from the perspective of "passenger is asking me to put my driver's license at risk so that he can drink a beer before the game."
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bull3964 posted:You know, the whole start of this derail kinda bothered me to begin with. In PA, it's just as illegal for a passenger in a car to consume alcohol as it is the driver as we have open container laws. So, I read it from the perspective of "passenger is asking me to put my driver's license at risk so that he can drink a beer before the game." We have that too, so if he had stopped at that I'd be in agreement.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I found this thread via the leper's colony and just want to say thanks for the entertainment. I will endeavor to use the term "pussy shrapnel" in conversation. The IHSA has a rating system kind of like the NHRA for ET, except in the IHSA case it is short for Estimated Tramps. Any car expected to pull at least 11.5ETs or more needs a pussy scatter shield to protect the driver from the pussy shrapnel. This shield used to take up the place of cup holders in older cars. Muffinpox fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Oct 3, 2012 |
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AdmiralViscen posted:I'd rather have a 335i, never mind an M3. Assuming that the M3 is more expensive than the IS-F, I'm not even sure. I would have to think the big DOHC V8 in the IS-F is not going to do it any favors in spirited driving. I would also be mad if someone asked to open a beer in my car. Open container laws are a bitch. The whining about someone drinking a beer near his car is ridiculous though. If it was an American car people were drinking beers near it on the assembly line amirite?
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PBCrunch posted:The M3 is also powered by a DOHC V-8. Yup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVmKyJXHXRE
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Oct 3, 2012 18:54
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Weinertron posted:I had no idea that the IS-F stickered at $60k+ Don't forget that protecting against flying pussy shrapnel is dangerously expensive.
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Oct 3, 2012 19:04
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Yummers posted:I bought the car for performance and to get some respect and breathing room on public roads. This is my favorite line, right here. Oh man, that bro has a Lexus, MAKE ROOM. I can't wait for his kill story thread.
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ZippySLC posted:Don't forget that protecting against flying pussy shrapnel is dangerously expensive. That's why I opted for the Scotch Guard on my car, inside and out. So I'm not a big fan of the Ferrari FF but apparently they have a new panoramic roof option, and I do like panoramic roofs. 
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Oct 3, 2012 19:21
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Behold, the MINI cupholder: It's quite nice. Up and away from the gearshift, doesn't block anything, but also swings away for some reason. Also has a grahic indicating that stemware is not to be used. However, there is only one so the plebian passenger has to hold his drat drink hisself. There are two more down in the console, but they're currently blocked by my CB radio. I found these though, surely the greatest cupholders available.
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PBCrunch posted:The M3 is also powered by a DOHC V-8. The M3's motor is obviously zingier, but that's not where the IS-F lets the pussy patrol down. It has really great brakes, but far worse dynamics and not a great auto, even with the 2011 revisions. I would get one for track work just knowing that it has some of the most fade-free production brakes out there. I hope Lexus keeps tweaking the product until it's good.
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Personally, I hope that inadequate cup holders are here to stay, so that others may share the same joy that I and my older brother experienced. Years ago on a scorching Summer day, he ran late picking me up and to make up for it, he purchased a King Size coke from Burger King, sitting awkwardly in one of his Wolfsburg's chintzy pop-out cupholders. For some inexplicable reason, perhaps the hand of fate, he launched out of the shopping center while cutting toward the left lane. This sudden and violent movement levitated the large sugary beverage out of its plastic prison, and we watched in amazement as it exploded over me. I have never been so refreshed.
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Muffinpox posted:The IHSA has a rating system kind of like the NHRA for ET, except in the IHSA case it is short for Estimated Tramps. Any car expected to pull at least 11.5ETs or more needs a pussy scatter shield to protect the driver from the pussy shrapnel. This shield used to take up the place of cup holders in older cars. If that's the ET rating of the Aston, then it is really underperforming. In my experience, guys are impressed because it looks like something Bond would drive, but women don't even look twice. He should have saved his money and bought a Lexus with a ground effects kit.
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