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InitialDave posted:It originated as a gag about people looking for the insurance search site Compare The Market ending up by mistake on Compare The Meerkat, with the website's owner (the aforementioned well-spoken critter) being irritated by it and producing "his" adverts to educate people. That's literally the same way the GEICO Gecko got started. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qc1H2SMK1s Incidentally, that very first commercial had Kelsey Grammar as the voice actor.
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Fucknag posted:That's literally the same way the GEICO Gecko got started. Except it makes even less sense. Why would you go to a site that compares meerkats when looking for car insurance?
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Edward IV posted:Except it makes even less sense. Why would you go to a site that compares meerkats when looking for car insurance?  http://www.comparethemeerkat.com http://www.comparethemarket.com
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Final rallycross of the season got a bit ridiculous, and luckily we had a photographer there.    
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We had an event like that last year. At least 4 or 5 VWs with pond sucker intakes hydrolocked, and a handfull of other cars had water ingestion related deaths. My car got really muddy. 
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Delivery McGee posted:That's how big radials work. Too big to do it by hand (like kickstarting a literbike), pump the oil out with the starter with magnetos off, then turn on the spark and set the exhausts on fire. That depends on the engine; large engines are designed to be cleared by the starter (like the R-3350 in your video), but in a small radial like the R-670 (used in the VW video, and an engine that I know relatively well) the starter is strong enough that it could ruin the engine if it hydrolocked. The manual for the aircraft with the engine in question attached explicitly says to clear the engine by hand only before starting.
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InitialDave posted:It's irrelevant, he had right of way, regardless of whether he was speeding, and he certainly didn't seem to be speeding by enough for it to be a factor. Regardless, it's a bit early in the year for the supercars from the middle east to be racing on the high street isn't it?
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Maybe I'm just getting confused by right hand drive, but don't I see two lanes going the Mazda's direction that it could have potentially merged into? And it chose the far one instead of the near one. In the US at least that's illegal. Very counter-intuitive and hazardous, and the lambo would have been right to be very surprised by getting cut off from two lanes away. We have no evidence that it was speeding, just that it was loud as Lambos tend to be. No wheels lost traction so maybe the guy just wasn't on the brakes like a racecar driver would be. Anyway, eat the rich, yadda yadda. Hopefully it was a car that gets borrowed around and he's not one of those who have 30 more cars like that at home. Happy Thread fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Apr 2, 2014 |
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Windfall posted:Maybe I'm just getting confused by right hand drive, but don't I see two lanes going the Mazda's direction that it could have potentially merged into? And it chose the far one instead of the near one. In the US at least that's illegal. Very counter-intuitive and hazardous, and the lambo would have been right to be very surprised by getting cut off from two lanes away. It's a small single-lane-in-each-direction residential suburban road. The Mazda was pulling out into the lane closest to the camera. In the UK there never would be a four-lane 20mph road!
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Transit van on Bentley rims. 
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88h88 posted:Transit van on Bentley rims. Wrong thread. Those wheels are hideous.
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Nice clean NSX shows up at the office from time to time. 
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Guinness posted:Nice clean NSX shows up at the office from time to time. Those wheels. Ugh. Where are you, looks like a Canadian car with no front plate, so I'm going to guess Alberta. Disregard, Washington rear plate.
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Famous tracks to scale:
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Wanna rasterbate that and put it up on my wall 
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ID on this car? Other than its the tacotaxi 
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El Laucha posted:ID on this car? Studebaker Champion.
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rscott posted:Wanna rasterbate that and put it up on my wall Or support the actual artist: http://www.redbubble.com/people/sirdunny/shop
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madeintaipei posted:Studebaker Champion.
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drgitlin posted:Or support the actual artist: http://www.redbubble.com/people/sirdunny/shop hell yeah thanks for this!
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These are also some great track infographic prints: http://trackography.com/
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dubzee posted:Famous tracks to scale: The Isle of Man track is just absolutely enormous, I didn't realise it dwarfed the nurburgring so hugely.
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Some of these might not be considered "awesome" so I apologize in advance. The "Tron" Aventador some of you may have seen on Imgur/that other site that starts with an R  and its owner =p  pretty decent looking gojira next to it  friends' evo getting a black brushed aluminum wrap put on...  Looks pretty drat good.  roof being re-skinned  the owner of this car was one of the original founders of Napster 
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drukqs posted:Some of these might not be considered "awesome" so I apologize in advance.   
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dubzee posted:Famous tracks to scale: 
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dubzee posted:Famous tracks to scale: I'm happy they have some Australian tracks on there outside of Bathurst. Phillip Island is a brilliant track and should be in all car sims/racing games
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Wasabi the J posted:Yeah the Panamera is never awesome Quite like the standard BBS's without the centres
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Wish there was a decent motorsports park in Orlando. Sebring is a good 2 hour drive (and expensive I imagine), Daytona is.... Daytona, and with CFRC gone (which was a dinky little drift course/ 1/8th mile strip anyway) all we have is Speed World, which features a figure 8 track (great if you don't care about your car, like at all) and a strip with short enough runoff that the really fast cars can't run there.
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Fucknag posted:Wish there was a decent motorsports park in Orlando. Sebring is a good 2 hour drive (and expensive I imagine), Daytona is.... Daytona, and with CFRC gone (which was a dinky little drift course/ 1/8th mile strip anyway) all we have is Speed World, which features a figure 8 track (great if you don't care about your car, like at all) and a strip with short enough runoff that the really fast cars can't run there. What about the track at Disney? Is that ever open to the public, or is it strictly petty that runs there?
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Fucknag posted:Wish there was a decent motorsports park in Orlando. Sebring is a good 2 hour drive (and expensive I imagine), Daytona is.... Daytona, and with CFRC gone (which was a dinky little drift course/ 1/8th mile strip anyway) all we have is Speed World, which features a figure 8 track (great if you don't care about your car, like at all) and a strip with short enough runoff that the really fast cars can't run there. a 2 hour drive is well within day trip range, plenty of people would be thrilled to have a world famous track like that so close.
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Ok you got me, I'm really just pissed I don't have money for track days. Happy?
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drukqs posted:the owner of this car was one of the original founders of Napster Seth Green's car? Yes I know that was a terrible movie.
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Rhyno posted:Seth Green's car? Sean Parker so yeah I'd bet that Seth Green played him haha its been a while since I suffered through that piece of poo poo ego film
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drukqs posted:Sean Parker so yeah I'd bet that Seth Green played him haha its been a while since I suffered through that piece of poo poo ego film The Italian Job?
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That's some awesome AI poo poo right there.
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How rare are the SL63 AMG Blacks? We're not ones to get nice cars in this area, usually.   Click for larger blurry and hazy pictures.
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So I was in Havana the other week and saw some cars.   In particular I am interested in that Esso #2 car. Anyone know if it has some racing pedigree or if it's just a cheap replica ?
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