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angryhampster posted:I like this more than a person should. Lamborghini's are nothing more than vulgar displays of wealth, I have nothing against making them as obnoxious as possible. If I had one I'd have it in "gently caress the poor" green. There would also be strobes under it.
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Lambo designs are so over-the-top that making one more obnoxious just seems to fit. There exists a Gallardo done up in old-school NYPD trim (dark pearl blue w/white roof & trim), LED strobes in the headlights, tails and corners. It also has a classic NYPD v-shaped lightbar array. This is a private car, owned by a retired sergeant. You can try to hate on it all you want, but you just cant.
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Aug 28, 2014 17:27
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bisticles posted:Any idea what this is? That looks like a Daewoo Matiz with 3 wheels, and I can't imagine that being short one wheel would be drastically cheaper than a Matiz to the point where someone would buy one over a 4-wheeled version. Or a used Spark.
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Aug 28, 2014 19:19
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Cakefool posted:Lamborghini's are nothing more than vulgar displays of wealth, I have nothing against making them as obnoxious as possible. If I had one I'd have it in "gently caress the poor" green. There would also be strobes under it. I commented somewhere else the other day "Lamborghinis are they Harley Davidson of supercars" and the more I thought about it I realized that that might have been somewhat of an insult to HD
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Aug 28, 2014 20:30
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Lamar Smith R-TX posted:and the more I thought about it I realized that that might have been somewhat of an insult to HD I guess you could say in HD's defense that their motorcycles don't have a reputation for spontaneous combustion...
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JaysonAych posted:That looks like a Daewoo Matiz with 3 wheels, and I can't imagine that being short one wheel would be drastically cheaper than a Matiz to the point where someone would buy one over a 4-wheeled version. Or a used Spark. Having only three wheels means it's legally a motorcycle. Coincidentally it only weighs 1410lbs. The manual posted:Excessive Speed
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Aug 28, 2014 22:37
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Lamar Smith R-TX posted:I commented somewhere else the other day There are a gazillion Harleys, their owners value them far and away beyond what the general public does, and their performance is humiliatingly bad compared to even the blandest Honda commuter. None of this lines up with Lambo. The bike equivalent of a Lamborghini would be an Aprilia or MV Agusta, but both of those have more storied racing history.
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Edmund Honda posted:Having only three wheels means it's legally a motorcycle. Coincidentally it only weighs 1410lbs. Yes but how much time does it spend on its side? clarkson_in_robin.gif
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Aug 29, 2014 00:48
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For something different, how about some Reliant Robin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nORCM9rMvBo
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Aug 29, 2014 00:54
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Lamar Smith R-TX posted:I commented somewhere else the other day No, it's insulting to Lamborghinis. Lambos actually have power.
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Snowdens Secret posted:There are a gazillion Harleys, their owners value them far and away beyond what the general public does, and their performance is humiliatingly bad compared to even the blandest Honda commuter. None of this lines up with Lambo. So... Volkswagen is the automotive Harley?
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Fucknag posted:So... Volkswagen is the automotive Harley? Eh, the automotive equivalent of a Harley is a Lincoln Town Car. Expensive, big, slow, and mostly owned by old people who can barely drive.
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Snowdens Secret posted:The bike equivalent of a Lamborghini would be an Aprilia or MV Agusta, but both of those have more storied racing history. What exactly is Lambo's storied race history? All that comes to mind for me are those atrocious F1 engines they made in the late 80s/early 90s that continuously spewed oil out of the exhaust...
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1500quidporsche posted:What exactly is Lambo's storied race history? All that comes to mind for me are those atrocious F1 engines they made in the late 80s/early 90s that continuously spewed oil out of the exhaust... I think that was his point: both MV Agusta and Aprilia actually did racing, unlike Lamborghini.
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Aug 29, 2014 05:14
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If I ever wrapped my car, I'd do it with that super-bright 3M SOLAS retroreflective vinyl. Turn the entire car into one giant retroreflector. You think you can just shine your headlamps on ME??
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HotCanadianChick posted:Eh, the automotive equivalent of a Harley is a Lincoln Town Car. Expensive, big, slow, and mostly owned by old people who can barely drive. Most of the Town Cars I see are the result of pressing a few buttons on my phone. Those however, are always black, always tinted, and never driven by the elderly. It's also nice to have the ability to move the front seat so far forward you have no problems at all entertaining a ladyfriend in them.
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The closest automotive equivalent to a harley is a built-for-me-by-someone-else cookie-cutter t-bucket hotrod kind of thing. They're extremely archaic visually, make a shitload of noise, don't like turning or stopping, are all the same despite their ~*~custom features~*~ and are desperately slow compared to even a basic V6 sportscar. They're also mostly owned by middle aged men who think they're tough/cool/badass and can't drive/ride for poo poo, they go to all the twisty roads on a sunday afternoon and hold up everyone else with their pathetic wallowing, their over-inflated ego preventing them from pulling over. Lincoln town cars are actually pretty cool IMO and are more like a goldwing or similar.
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Aug 29, 2014 07:58
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September chat thread: Goldwings are Town Cars.
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Sagebrush posted:If I ever wrapped my car, I'd do it with that super-bright 3M SOLAS retroreflective vinyl. Turn the entire car into one giant retroreflector. You think you can just shine your headlamps on ME?? That's not a bad idea, I have a spare set of plastics for my bike...
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Sagebrush posted:If I ever wrapped my car, I'd do it with that super-bright 3M SOLAS retroreflective vinyl. Turn the entire car into one giant retroreflector. You think you can just shine your headlamps on ME?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBYy1GQvbDQ&t=13s
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Aug 29, 2014 10:42
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Dear god.  Appears to be a CJ frame and grille with... what's left a Liberty? monkeyfucked onto it. I don't think it's a Liberty looking at the headlights/markers but I can't figure out what it is.   What a colossal waste of most of the things on that vehicle. http://worcester.craigslist.org/cto/4537917787.html And it's only like 15 miles from home. I have a chance of this vehicle exploding and colliding with me if someone buys it and finishes it 
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Slavvy posted:The closest automotive equivalent to a harley is a built-for-me-by-someone-else cookie-cutter t-bucket hotrod kind of thing. They're extremely archaic visually, make a shitload of noise, don't like turning or stopping, are all the same despite their ~*~custom features~*~ and are desperately slow compared to even a basic V6 sportscar. They're also mostly owned by middle aged men who think they're tough/cool/badass and can't drive/ride for poo poo, they go to all the twisty roads on a sunday afternoon and hold up everyone else with their pathetic wallowing, their over-inflated ego preventing them from pulling over. kastein posted:Dear god.
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Believe it or not this was taken yesterday, not 2001-2 I didn't check to make sure it came out not washed out before continuing to leave the parking lot
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anyone want a new av-tag combo ?
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kastein posted:Dear god. 100% sure a Geo Metro Wagon. 
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Whoa, I need this.
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88h88 posted:Whoa, I need this. Why bother? Cars still won't see you.
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PCOS Bill posted:Why bother? Cars still won't see you. It's not cars I've been bothered by this week. One run in with a loving garbage truck who pulled across me as I was exiting a roundabout and didn't see at all, I was going like 30mph and managed to dodge in front of him before he turned. If I'd braked I would've gone straight into him. Another dicklord in a van just pulled out of a side street as I was flying up it and then stopped. One day I'm gonna die travelling to/from work but at least my corspe will be fit. (when they find all the pieces).
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Kidney Stone posted:Not that 3 wheeled cars are bad, but in this configuration (1 wheel at the front, 2 in back) this one isn't much better than a Reliant Robin. It's not having the single wheel in front that causes instability, it's having too much weight on it that does. The likes of Bond minicars are very stable. I think this model has the engine under the seats.
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88h88 posted:It's not cars I've been bothered by this week. One run in with a loving garbage truck who pulled across me as I was exiting a roundabout and didn't see at all, I was going like 30mph and managed to dodge in front of him before he turned. If I'd braked I would've gone straight into him. Maintaining 30 on a bicycle is hard enough on flat ground, how are you doing that through a roundabout? Sounds like you need to watch your own speed anyways and stop acting like traffic owes you a favor for riding a bike.
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Slim Pickens posted:Maintaining 30 on a bicycle is hard enough on flat ground, how are you doing that through a roundabout? Sounds like you need to watch your own speed anyways and stop acting like traffic owes you a favor for riding a bike. It's a medium sized roundabout at the bottom of a loooooooooong hill that you pick up speed just rolling down (road bike, skinny high pressure tyres), even slowing down to check for traffic on my right it's still easy to spin the pedals enough to get up to 30. The trash truck was a good 100ft after the exit from it, it's like the last mile of my ride and about a quarter a mile after that I'm just spinning. I'm not claiming traffic owes me a favour, it'd just be nice if certain drivers would actually use their eyes to see other traffic, particularly when it's oncoming in broad daylight. I genuinely don't understand how some people manage to pass their tests man, there are some loving HORRIBLE drivers out there. Anyway, I still don't understand this amount of camber. 
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That is the ugliest goddamn camber job I have ever seen. Those tires/wheels look awful that way. It kind of looks like a beached whale or something, with its fins splayed out. Camber is spreading like some horrible STD in the northwest from what I've seen. Mostly minor, but some "how does that even drive properly" levels of badness on the 5 and 405 lately. Mostly ruined Miatas, I've noticed, but plenty of 240SXs and VWs.
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88h88 posted:I'm not claiming traffic owes me a favour, it'd just be nice if certain drivers would actually use their eyes to see other traffic, particularly when it's oncoming in broad daylight. I genuinely don't understand how some people manage to pass their tests man, there are some loving HORRIBLE drivers out there. Honestly I think some of it is down to terrible visibility in a lot of modern cars. I've driven a few where the mirror blocked most of my view to the right, the A pillar blocked a significant percentage of the left front, and the blind spots to the rear were big enough to hide an 18 wheeler and an elephant. It's no wonder they're putting in all of these blind spot monitoring and cross-traffic alert systems. I'd rather be able to see trouble coming and have a chance of reacting to it than get blindsided and have to rely on the more advanced safety systems that kept me from seeing the problem in the first place.
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Code Jockey posted:Mostly ruined Miatas, I keep meaning to take a pic of my neighbor's Miata. It's stanced so low with such exaggerated camber that it always parks on the street outside because there is no way it can get into our parking lot. Has a windshield banner on the front stating 'Stance doesn't work'.
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You Am I posted:I reckon V8 Commodore utes are the Harley equivalent in the car world. Driven by wankers who love having heaps of noise and pissing off anyone within earshot. That's definitely a first-gen Metro/Swift on there.
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DarkSol posted:
Looks like beavis.
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Slavvy posted:Looks like beavis. 
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