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Mister Kingdom posted:The same company also built a similar model for Toyota. There is one in my neighborhood that I see driving around when the weather is nice. I've never seen it with the top up, either. The car isn't a museum piece, but it looks good for its age.
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Fucknag posted:Wonder no more! Whaaaaaaaaaaaat!  edit: Guys, I really want a Targa. Badly.
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Nidhg00670000 posted:How do you say "mullet" in German? It's called "Vokuhila". Which is shortfor "vorne kurz, hinten lang" which literally means "short in the front, long in the back" Yep, Germany sure has a knack for naming things!
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Shai-Hulud posted:It's called "Vokuhila". Which is shortfor "vorne kurz, hinten lang" which literally means "short in the front, long in the back" The US gets "Baseball, hotdogs, apple pie and Chevrolet", Australia has "Football, meat pies, kangaroos, and Holden cars", South Africa went with "Rugby, Boerewors, Sunny skies, and Chevrolet". What would Opel's jingle be? "Handball, hedgehogs, mullets, and Manta cars"?
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Artemis J Brassnuts posted:Trying to keep my strong Corvette bias in check here, but the interior was always the thing people whined about, even though the Vette has better performance-per-dollar than almost anything else these days. GM made a $60k, 500hp monster that would eat the lunch of exotics four times the cost and people still whined about cheap "parts bin" switches. I kind of feel like someone at GM just said "fine, gently caress it; here's a beautiful interior, find something new to complain about". From several pages ago, but the thing that I've seen people bitching about with this one is these fasteners behind the door for one of the either looking cheep or not being hidden. The chief engineer pretty much said "they are functional to make it easy to fix and don't add stupid weight making a stupid cover" 
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I like the look of exposed fasteners, I think it makes the car look rugged and utilitarian (said the Subaru owner  ).Only amoral sociopaths that are overwhelmingly concerned with image care about something as trivial as obscuring the industrial origins of a piece of industrial design. I would imagine those guys primarily buy German.
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I'm pretty sure the only people who give a poo poo about the rivets being shown are the geriatric guys who drive to the local ice cream shop 3 miles away to the corvette club meet up.
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KKKLIP ART posted:From several pages ago, but the thing that I've seen people bitching about with this one is these fasteners behind the door for one of the either looking cheep or not being hidden. The chief engineer pretty much said "they are functional to make it easy to fix and don't add stupid weight making a stupid cover" But the most important thing....does the rear fascia move when you push in on it?
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Mighty Horse posted:But the most important thing....does the rear fascia move when you push in on it? I'd be more interested if the panels pop loose on their own after a few months ownership
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Dear Das Volk, please tell us about your C6/CTS experiences
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Fucknag posted:Wonder no more!  That's pretty damned cool. I can see Richard Hammond drooling over this.
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madeintaipei posted:The US gets "Baseball, hotdogs, apple pie and Chevrolet", Australia has "Football, meat pies, kangaroos, and Holden cars", South Africa went with "Rugby, Boerewors, Sunny skies, and Chevrolet". What would Opel's jingle be? "Handball, hedgehogs, mullets, and Manta cars"? Soccer, fries with mayo and ketchup, mullets, and Manta cars (Fuball, Pommes Schranke, Vokuhila, und Mantas). We are a very cultured people.
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Ghost Farts posted:Soccer, fries with mayo and ketchup, mullets, and Manta cars (Fuball, Pommes Schranke, Vokuhila, und Mantas). We are a very cultured people. drat straight! Know any good Manta witze? 
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Ran into this cute little thing back in 2009 in Feyzabad. The Germans kept it for snow days. 
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This just might be the greatest invention ever... lost in time... (if I'm correctly understanding what I'm seeing here)  pass the f*** out in the back seat, legs fully stretched out through the front passenger side seat... Wow. 
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Hot drat, that'd also be handy as hell for carrying long cargo (even more so if the rear seats open into the trunk, though I don't think they did such things back then.)
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Fucknag posted:Hot drat, that'd also be handy as hell for carrying long cargo (even more so if the rear seats open into the trunk, though I don't think they did such things back then.) ohhhh you might be right that may be the reasoning behind it... Oh well a man can dream
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I found a huge gallery of various Motorsport pictures from Germany (mostly Nurburgring and Hockenheim) and a few from Zolder in Belgium. http://www.fotocommunity.com/photographer/hartmut-schulz/photos/motorsport-alt/322401?time=1171180584&lastId=7932698 Some examples:    
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drukqs posted:ohhhh you might be right that may be the reasoning behind it... The early Fit lets you collapse the front seats perfectly flat so you can sleep in your car, which is probably a popular Japanese pastime.
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Farmland Park posted:I found a huge gallery of various Motorsport pictures from Germany (mostly Nurburgring and Hockenheim) and a few from Zolder in Belgium. http://www.fotocommunity.com/photographer/hartmut-schulz/photos/motorsport-alt/322401?time=1171180584&lastId=7932698 Some examples:  Holy moly. Websites don't come more proclick than this. More samples:      
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Keep meaning to post this - see it parked in the same street during the day a lot. 
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Not sure if this qualifies as "awesome", but another one for the "never thought I'd see one again" folder. A Ford Orion! How many of these can still exist? This one was barely existing, you could see holes in all the flanks and the owners looked to be in about the same sort of condition.
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echoplex posted:Not sure if this qualifies as "awesome", but another one for the "never thought I'd see one again" folder. Not many by the looks of it, though I have no clue what trim level that once was.
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I wonder if they had any idea that their car is so hilariously rare by virtue of it not being completely dead yet. e: On a slightly less grim note, this ancient 205 Rallye is owned by an old lady and I see it very regularly in 4 places in town - on her drive, outside the local library, outside the local Tesco, and in our local garage about once a month without fail. Well looked after and loved, probably due to sentimental value. The fact that the graphics are in such good nick makes me grin.  e: wait, if this is right, I was driving the last registered GTX... 
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Punch in Maserati Biturbo for additional hilarity.
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This site cannot be correct, as there is no way I own 3% of the remaining UK stock of Saab 99 Turbo's!
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GOD IS BED posted:
Oh wow! What formula is this? 
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meltie posted:Oh wow! What formula is this? Edit:  According to the caption, he wanted to annoy his wife. 
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Slavvy posted:Punch in Maserati Biturbo for additional hilarity.
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InitialDave posted:Looks like a Kent-engined Formula Ford.
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 Right that's it, I'm leaving you. How?
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Fucknag posted:Wonder no more! Awesome that they filmed that in front of the art museum in Milwaukee. 'SCONNIE PRIDE!
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InitialDave posted:
She gets the house. He gets the car.
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AirRaid posted:Keep meaning to post this - see it parked in the same street during the day a lot. That reminds me of the Hummer H1 with the wrought iron frame and accents I've seen in San Francisco several times when I've been down there. Each time I haven't been able to get a camera out in time 
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I can't work out whether that thing would cause or aggressively cure piles.
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echoplex posted:I can't work out whether that thing would cause or aggressively cure piles. I imagine it's like beer: the cause and solution.
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