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meatpimp posted:Why? 5 years newer, warranty, fuel efficiency, boredom, cost of maintenance, put $ in the bank on the deal. All the above. I am not one to keep cars for over 2 years or so regardless so it was time to get something new. In the near-future plans are CAI and cat-back exhaust, mostly because the car is so drat quiet.
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Here is my car before it goes full clown car    I should start taking my camera places. iPhone will do for now.
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Ignoarints posted:Lmao, I bought a 2013 Genesis coupe yesterday. 3.8 r spec though. This post makes no sense to me. How is a 350hp rwd Genesis slower than a Cobalt?
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veedubfreak posted:This post makes no sense to me. How is a 350hp rwd Genesis slower than a Cobalt? Probably ButtDyno
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A calm torque curve hides power when you are used to peaky, hi-revving forced induction engines. That Genesis will embarrass the cobalt SS, but bone stock the Genesis will feel sedate while doing it.
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Jun 27, 2014 00:00
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Carteret posted:A calm torque curve hides power when you are used to peaky, hi-revving forced induction engines. That Genesis will embarrass the cobalt SS, but bone stock the Genesis will feel sedate while doing it. A turbo Cobalt SS with bolt ons and a good tune can make ~350whp.
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Rye Bread posted:A turbo Cobalt SS with bolt ons and a good tune can make ~350whp. At the wrong end to use it.
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veedubfreak posted:At the wrong end to use it. All the more reason it will "feel" a lot faster. Won't necessarily be any faster, but something that's trying to rip the wheel from your hands and scrabbling for every bit of traction can feel faster than something that just smoothly pulls from idle to redline without the slightest bit of drama.
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veedubfreak posted:At the wrong end to use it. True, I'm not going to argue that.
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Imperador do Brasil posted:5 years newer, warranty, fuel efficiency, boredom, cost of maintenance, put $ in the bank on the deal. All the above. I am not one to keep cars for over 2 years or so regardless so it was time to get something new. Rationalize it all you want.  Bape Culture posted:Here is my car before it goes full clown car I know we don't always see eye to eye (or probation to probation) but please, don't ruin this car.
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Das Volk posted:I know we don't always see eye to eye (or probation to probation) but please, don't ruin this car. I hope he ruins his car and you get realy upset and make posts about it on the internet. Who gives a poo poo its not like they didnt sell a tonne of e46 m3s anyway, I see a shitload of scraggy ones nowadays.
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smelly cabin filter posted:I hope he ruins his car and you get realy upset and make posts about it on the internet. Who gives a poo poo its not like they didnt sell a tonne of e46 m3s anyway, I see a shitload of scraggy ones nowadays.
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smelly cabin filter posted:I hope he ruins his car and you get realy upset and make posts about it on the internet. Who gives a poo poo its not like they didnt sell a tonne of e46 m3s anyway, I see a shitload of scraggy ones nowadays. But but but in 20 years it could still be worth the big buxx!
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SJW. The Ultimate Driving Machine E 
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Sweet Jeep Wife???
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Bape Culture posted:Here is my car before it goes full clown car Roa Island? My family's boat is in the background! Lovely place for an M3 with the coast road.
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365 Nog Hogger posted:Sweet Jeep Wife???
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veedubfreak posted:This post makes no sense to me. How is a 350hp rwd Genesis slower than a Cobalt? It was simply faster. It weighed 400 pounds less and made the same, if not more (dont know actual stock 3.8 dyno), horsepower, and could put it to the ground reasonably well. An example bone stock SS with a $300 off the shelf tune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxtFyOcuZg0 13.3 second. I knew I could get in the 12's assuming driver mod was up to par (26 psi, full exhaust no cats, intake, larger FMIC), but I never got to a 1/4 track. I outran an SRT8 Challenger over and over again as a small anecdote. I am not taking into account how slow the 3.8 feels compared to in-your-face 26 psi curve. The genesis feels far slower but I know its not *that* much slower. But the genesis as it sits simply wouldn't touch the cobalt. Even the fwd suspension was among the best you could get. But it is still fwd. Doesn't really matter though the genesis is a better car. I'd have gotten the 2.0T if I wanted to spank around my old cobalt for a reasonable amount of money. However I just wanted a simpler and overall better car this time around and this one fits the bill quite well. Ignoarints fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Jun 27, 2014 |
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Bape Culture posted:Here is my car before it goes full clown car What's with all the boats, is that a tidal zone at low tide or something? Nice car too.
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Ignoarints posted:I outran an SRT8 Challenger over and over again as a small anecdote. School buses out run SRT8 Challengers. That's not much of a win there.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:School buses out run SRT8 Challengers. That's not much of a win there. It's a bloated cow of a sports car no doubt man, but it's a 12 second car unless you can't drive at all quote:With the revised 6.4-Liter engine, Chrysler engineers cited a quarter mile (~400 m) time of 12.4 seconds at 110 mph (180 km/h) – bettering the outgoing 6.1-Liter Hemi by 0.8 seconds, although that figure has varied wildly between automotive magazines. Car and Driver tested the 392 at 12.9 seconds at 114 mph (183 km/h)[46] while Motor Trend ran it at 13.0 seconds at 111.3 mph (179.1 km/h)[47] and Edmunds' number was far closer to Chrysler's claimed numbers at 12.6 seconds at 112.1 mph (180.4 km/h).[48] These are C&D, MT, and edmunds times mind you
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Ricers used to "outrun" my M3 all the time too.
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Ignoarints posted:It's a bloated cow of a sports car no doubt man, but it's a 12 second car unless you can't drive at all Still a turd of a car, there's much better for less money. I mean, yeah it looks cool, but its over weight, the engineering is still at least a generation behind every thing else.
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Octopus Magic posted:But but but in 20 years it could still be worth the big buxx! It's no DSM!
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Still a turd of a car, there's much better for less money. I mean, yeah it looks cool, but its over weight, the engineering is still at least a generation behind every thing else. Wouldn't stop me from driving the piss out of one. I think they're the best looking car in the segment.
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They look great, I just openly poo poo on the underpinnings is all. I just felt like it was a little rushed
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Speedfreak on Bimmerforums is incredible!  
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Meh, the lovely gen-before-last, way-too-heavy chassis and even the over-criticized, plain looking parts-bin interior of the Challenger just adds to its sledgehammer-like charm. It is what it is and it waves a hearty gently caress you at anyone who doesn't like it. Don't think I'd ever own one but I like what it represents. Also I'm pretty sure it'll be the last holdout of the Mercedes era Dodges, so in a few years time we'll be able to look back on it as a symbol of the time Chrysler was almost good.
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I love posting this picture: Makes my car look tiny.
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voltron posted:Speedfreak on Bimmerforums is incredible! Looks like a pegged HDR slider.
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Das Volk posted:It's no DSM! I already know my car has never been worth anything, and never will be worth anything? 
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BrokenKnucklez posted:They look great, I just openly poo poo on the underpinnings is all. I just felt like it was a little rushed The underpinnings are fine. They ride nice and handle just fine for what they are shooting for. With a bit of work (like nearly any car with an aftermarket) you can make them handle well. I used to track an SRT8 Magnum and with the coilovers and sways that were on it I had no trouble putting down respectable times with it. It would be great if they could make the next gen Challenger lighter and more handling focused but its funny when you say the chassis is a generation behind its competition when they literally just switched the mustang over to IRS for the 2015 model year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjfJntYph_4 god drat do i miss that car.
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Yeah but to be fair, the 2011-2014 GT was putting down BMW-level lap times (3-series or M3, I forget which,) even with the live axle, and the Boss/Laguna Seca were even better in the handling department. Turns out that for pure track times, you can make a live axle work pretty well after half a decade or so of road racing. I mean they're at least comparable, but looking at VIR lap times (from here), the 2011 SRT8 is about a second slower than the 5.0 (even with a nearly 60-HP advantage), a full 6.5 seconds slower than the Laguna Seca, and almost 10 seconds slower than the '13 GT500 (I only mention these last two because they represent, like the SRT, top-of-the-line models; obviously the Hellcat will change things, but that's not out yet.)
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Count Freebasie posted:
God drat, nice score. Looks really really clean too. That would fetch at least 8,000 here.
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I wonder what a bone stock 5.0 fox-body Mustang would be worth. They have to be rarer than hens teeth drat good buy, btw. I've always heard you could get them into wicked 1/4 mile times cheaply, although I have no real world experience with them
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Count Freebasie posted:
Saw one just like this last week. Being driven by an elderly lady. Its was super clean and probably never been above 70mph.
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Posted this little beast already but its seen some action this week so here it is with a matchbox version that is only marginally larger: and here it is after it got punted by a school bus (not full size, a Benz Sprinter):   Seeing that a school bus full of kids was involved in the accident police, ambulance and fire services showed up along with three tow-trucks who tried their best to convince me not to drive the Fiat home. They spouted all sorts of bullshit like 'its got undeployed airbags' and that my insurance wouldn't cover me if I drove it after an accident. They were real cocks about it but all were impressed with how little damage the car took seeing as the bus was not driveable due to undeployed airbags(taped off by firemen) and a busted coolant system. I think it didn't take much damage because although stopped I didn't have the brakes on so it just pushed me out of the way. Got the insurance quote today: $5,800. It's the only thing harder than the headrests. tobu fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Jul 1, 2014 |
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Dr.Caligari posted:I wonder what a bone stock 5.0 fox-body Mustang would be worth. They have to be rarer than hens teeth This one has had some work done on it; cams, lifters, exhaust and ignition, but I love the fact that it's stock-looking (even though you can hear me coming from a block away). A heavier alternator is already in the mail on its way, and brake conversion is up next.
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