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FogHelmut posted:I saw a car that was basically this: There's an SRT Challenger like that around here. Only difference is this guys' Challenger is turbocharged, flat black paintjob (not a wrap), custom red on black staggered 3 piece wheels, and a very aggressive stance. It sounds beautiful and looks even better. I'll have to try & find him to get pictures.
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Detroit and hot-weather states. I've seen a number of vehicles wrapped up here in AZ over the years, usually still with those Michigan "MANUFACTURER" tags on them. Lately the ones I've been seeing have been trucks towing trailers - one was very clearly the upcoming Colorado, and also a diesel given the scrawling over the fuel filler door, while the others all looked like they were probably the latest version of the GM fullsize trucks / SUVs.
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# ? Jun 21, 2013 23:02 |
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ultimateforce posted:It's a test car covered like that to make it harder to identity in photographs. Ah neat. Had no idea they wrapped test cars like that. When I was driving along side it, it definitely looked like a CTS body. Obviously I can't be too sure.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Detroit and hot-weather states. I've seen a number of vehicles wrapped up here in AZ over the years, usually still with those Michigan "MANUFACTURER" tags on them. Lately the ones I've been seeing have been trucks towing trailers - one was very clearly the upcoming Colorado, and also a diesel given the scrawling over the fuel filler door, while the others all looked like they were probably the latest version of the GM fullsize trucks / SUVs. Isn't Arizona where they do most of their extended hot weather tests? I love that they drop it off, leave it in the desert for like 2 weeks, come back, and measure how long it takes the A/C to cool the car down after all that time.
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# ? Jun 21, 2013 23:11 |
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Sypher posted:Ah neat. Had no idea they wrapped test cars like that. When I was driving along side it, it definitely looked like a CTS body. Obviously I can't be too sure. If it looked like the current CTS then it's probably the ATS-V.
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# ? Jun 21, 2013 23:19 |
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Trust me, there's no reason to leave it parked that long here in June They'll just flog cars around town, up and down the freeways, and until a few years back GM's Proving Grounds were here, complete with a massive circle track for high speed testing: They decided it wasn't remote enough for them anymore so it's been in a slow demolition that has had a couple failed-start projects planned for the land since the housing market imploded. They tore up the tracks pretty early on, though they looked old enough I wouldn't have wanted to try and go too fast on them anyway: I do have a storage locker that I bought off of one of the companies demoing the place, though!
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# ? Jun 21, 2013 23:23 |
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Aww that would have been fun to goof off around. Also I kind of think the Challenger looks cool, but I wouldn't want it driving around like that obviously.
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# ? Jun 21, 2013 23:32 |
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IOwnCalculus posted:Detroit and hot-weather states. And cold weather states. I've seen a few wrapped-up testers during winter trips up to north Minnesota.
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# ? Jun 21, 2013 23:48 |
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Fond memories of seeing the SRT-4 Caliber test mule show up in butt gently caress nowhere Arizona and chasing it around with cameras.
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# ? Jun 21, 2013 23:51 |
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DropShadow posted:And cold weather states. I've seen a few wrapped-up testers during winter trips up to north Minnesota. There is also a cold weather testing facility in upper Michigan.
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# ? Jun 22, 2013 00:07 |
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Dick Burglar posted:This is a dumbass question but what car are you driving? Looks like Phoenix metro, the lack of street signs over the intersection and the dealer sticker on that car point to Phoenix. EDIT: misread that as where.
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Scirocco Griffon posted:It's nice that they have the spare strapped up in full view like that so everyone can see how worn the rest of the tires are because they probably can't afford to replace all 6 of them. Maybe i'm insane but I think this is pretty cool.
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# ? Jun 22, 2013 02:01 |
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gently caress it bring that track back and add dirt jumps over the areas where they started destroying the pavement and bring Robby Gordon's Stadium Truck series over for goofs.
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# ? Jun 22, 2013 02:09 |
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Dick Burglar posted:This is a dumbass question but what car are you driving? Sudden Infant Def Syndrome posted:Looks like a Fiat 500 Correct, 2012 fiat 500 Abarth. Also I didn't get a pic but a there was a huge ladder and a bumper wadded up in my lane on the way home yesterday. It was almost the last pic of the fiat.
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# ? Jun 22, 2013 06:01 |
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IOwnCalculus posted:Trust me, there's no reason to leave it parked that long here in June GM still maintains testing grounds about 20 miles outside of Yuma, in an area that's part of the Goldwater bombing range restricted airspace, which keeps people from getting aerial photos of whatever they're testing. Volkswagen and Nissan both have pretty large facilities near Maricopa, and despite the fact that Volkswagen has threatened to shut their facility down due to urban sprawl, I frequently see cars running around the oval track whenever I fly past that area.
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# ? Jun 22, 2013 08:52 |
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m5ind posted:Here's something I got stuck behind today. I like how nobody mentions the 3" of tire poke on the civic.
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# ? Jun 23, 2013 08:10 |
PopeOnARope posted:I like how nobody mentions the 3" of tire poke on the civic. Those are the trailer tires.
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# ? Jun 23, 2013 08:13 |
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Kid did not even look at the pictures in the post, yet posted about it.
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# ? Jun 23, 2013 15:13 |
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Bone_Enterprise posted:Kid did not even look at the pictures in the post, yet posted about it. Welcome to the SA Forums!
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# ? Jun 23, 2013 19:48 |
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Safety Dance posted:If someone were to thermite that truck, it would be justifiable autocide. This is why I enjoy driving a beater work truck, I gleefully park parallel to those fucks about 8-10" from the drivers side so that they STILL can't get into their stupid car without scratching it up. What are they going to do, put a scratch in my dent? Break my windows on candid camera? I have glass insurance, no straight body panels, and the store has security cameras, make my day I would drive the poo poo out of that white Ford, too. The spare is probably in the bed to improve ground clearance, that's where mine is (though it's laid flat and strapped down unless I need the cargo space.) It wouldn't be that clean, though.
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# ? Jun 23, 2013 21:09 |
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Imgur has provided me with one dose of "normal Terrible Car Stuff thread material": Calvin and Hobbes dates from the mid eighties. And one dose of "I don't know what the gently caress":
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# ? Jun 23, 2013 22:54 |
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... Huh. So they tapped Todd McFarlane to do the Turbo Teen reboot.
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# ? Jun 23, 2013 23:04 |
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InitialDave posted:Imgur has provided me with one dose of "normal Terrible Car Stuff thread material": The Turbo Teen segment in "Robot Chicken" was one of the most hosed up things I have seen before this animation.
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# ? Jun 23, 2013 23:35 |
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InitialDave posted:Imgur has provided me with one dose of "normal Terrible Car Stuff thread material": Not to mention the terrible grammar. Unless that person has a parent named Ninety. Cretins.
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# ? Jun 24, 2013 00:01 |
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Kids from the 90s can drive now??!!?? EDIT: Way more when I stop and realize that Nevermind came out 22 years ago. blugu64 fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Jun 24, 2013 |
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blugu64 posted:Kids from the 90s can drive now??!!?? The Super Nintendo can Drink, and the Nintendo 64 can Drive.
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# ? Jun 24, 2013 02:41 |
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blugu64 posted:Kids from the 90s can drive now??!!?? Taylor Swift was writing songs 22 years ago? EDIT: Oh, checked wiki and there's some other thing called Nevermind Throatwarbler fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Jun 24, 2013 |
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Throatwarbler posted:Taylor Swift was writing songs 22 years ago?
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# ? Jun 24, 2013 03:35 |
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Throatwarbler posted:Taylor Swift was writing songs 22 years ago? You were joking, right?
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Throatwarbler posted:Taylor Swift was writing songs 22 years ago? well played kind sir
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blugu64 posted:Kids from the 90s can drive now??!!?? High school freshmen (this upcoming august) were born in 1999.
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# ? Jun 24, 2013 04:11 |
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Frinkahedron posted:High school freshmen (this upcoming august) were born in 1999. I graduated in 1998
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# ? Jun 24, 2013 04:23 |
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I've only got one thing to say, with age comes wisdom. Those who won't be able to remember Kris Kross are doomed to wear their clothes backwards again.
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# ? Jun 24, 2013 04:49 |
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blugu64 posted:I've only got one thing to say, with age comes wisdom. Those who won't be able to remember Kris Kross are doomed to wear their clothes backwards again. I can't wait for this poo poo.
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Edit: gently caress me, I'm trying to figure out how to use the imgur mobile app along with the SA browser Android app..fucks sake. gileadexile fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Jun 24, 2013 |
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# ? Jun 24, 2013 05:33 |
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You Am I posted:You were joking, right? He was confusing her with Miley Ray Cyrus, who wrote the song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" 22 years ago.
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blugu64 posted:I've only got one thing to say, with age comes wisdom. Those who won't be able to remember Kris Kross are doomed to wear their clothes backwards again. Ya know, I think one of the dudes died recently. RIP backwards overalls.
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# ? Jun 24, 2013 08:45 |
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I can't forgive the chick in the backseat being completely disinterested.
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# ? Jun 24, 2013 13:16 |
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Wasabi the J posted:
He has the upgraded Dino Bait package. Also, Wrong Thread.
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# ? Jun 24, 2013 15:42 |
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nthalp posted:He has the upgraded Dino Bait package. Also, Wrong Thread. He's posted it in the right thread as well. The terrible bit is that the woman in the back looks totally bored.
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