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Jonny 290 posted:here it belongs here as well as cjs! i just want a late model 635csi or m6
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Cool fact: According to J.D. Power, Audi leads the automotive brand pack for percentage of drivers with a four year degree or higher. Their percentage of drivers with a four year degree is 31.66%. The vast majority of people in expensive German cars have a trade school or high school education.
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Feb 7, 2015 06:20
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Chris Knight posted:i just want a late model 635csi or m6 depending on if I want to put up with iDrive bullshit or not, my next car will be either an e60 m5 or an 850csi. idrive though ughhhhhhhhhsooooooobaaaaaaddddddddd
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Feb 7, 2015 06:21
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Jonny 290 posted:this is the dumbest argument and i'm regexing all your posts to kitten pics in my stylesheet when i was growing up, my cousins lived down the street from a guy who was a former f1 race driver. everyone always asked his kids "omg does your dad have a super fast car i bet he has like 10 ferraris" but actually he owned a diesel jetta because who gives a poo poo, even the fastest street car is nothing compared to his f1 car. when i look at luxury cars, i want something that's a nice riiiiiiiiiiiiiide, who cares if it takes ten seconds to hit sixty, i'll get the go-fastness in my other vehicle
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Feb 7, 2015 06:23
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Citizen Tayne posted:Cool fact: According to J.D. Power, Audi leads the automotive brand pack for percentage of drivers with a four year degree or higher. doesn't only 25% of the country (or less, maybe) have a four year degree in the first place? how do the expensive german car brands compare to toyotas and fords?
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Feb 7, 2015 06:26
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Sagebrush posted:doesn't only 25% of the country (or less, maybe) have a four year degree in the first place? I don't have numbers for Hondas or Fords, sadly, but last numbers I saw said that the "workforce" (ie, excluding retireds and people who ran out their unemployment) is at 37% with college degrees. http://www.mymoneyblog.com/driving-a-bmw-six-figure-salary-and-a-college-education.html
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Feb 7, 2015 06:30
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The important thing about that J.D. Power study I posted, btw, is that it profiles "buyers" and only "buyers." I suspect the numbers for lessees are significantly different, and all of those brands lease a majority of the cars they have in North America.
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Feb 7, 2015 06:33
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the contenders: anabolic steroid pumped four door boat with an 8,250 redline v10 that sounds like the world ending https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oszajd3mlK4 versus vintage 90's coke lord whip with a v12 that's got its own zip code shoved in front of six gears https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIv9-TEUoSY
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Feb 7, 2015 06:33
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Jonny 290 posted:some people are really hosed up about buying foreign cars still, its so loving goofy watching the commercial I was thinking exactly "no way someone who could afford a house like that would drive anything less than an a8 or 7-series" then again, where do the remaining few idiots with a complex about foreign cars live? Detroit.
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Feb 7, 2015 06:44
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Chris Knight posted:the s8 does 0-60 in under 4.1 sec, a8 with tt v8 around 4.7 someone in my building at work has a black s8 v10, it's gorgeous
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Feb 7, 2015 06:50
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Jonny 290 posted:the contenders: v12 sounds better
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Feb 7, 2015 06:51
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it really kinda does
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Feb 7, 2015 06:52
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i really like powersliding like, a lot. it's one of my favorite things ever
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Feb 7, 2015 06:57
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Jonny 290 posted:the contenders: i'm the bottle of code red
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Feb 7, 2015 07:04
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Sagebrush posted:they're barking up the wrong tree if they want good 0-60 times and are looking at luxury cars my 2012 A6 3.0T should get in the 5.5-6 range and my wife's 2.0T A5 gets about 6, and those are hauling around plenty of sweet features
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Feb 7, 2015 07:06
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eschaton posted:my 2012 A6 3.0T should get in the 5.5-6 range and my wife's 2.0T A5 gets about 6, and those are hauling around plenty of sweet features just to piss off jonny, my 1988 honda 650 hovers +/- 5 seconds depending on if i took a poo poo before i ride and it gets 61 miles per gallon a modern 650 can do 20% better, easy Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 07:27 on Feb 7, 2015 |
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Feb 7, 2015 07:18
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eschaton posted:watching the commercial I was thinking exactly "no way someone who could afford a house like that would drive anything less than an a8 or 7-series" You're assuming there's any kind of consistency to commercials or television in general about the cost of depicted homes compared to anything else. a commercial can depict whatever the creators want it to.
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Feb 7, 2015 07:24
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the s5 is the techdouche vehicle of choice in SF if you don't want a tesla
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Jonny 290 posted:some people are really hosed up about buying foreign cars still, its so loving goofy cop cars are always american which is correct because i love american cars and american cops
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Feb 7, 2015 07:53
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lest we forget: the best sounding car in the world is a loving volvo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Vh0eidjUg
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Feb 7, 2015 08:12
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:they didn't pull it off. they got paid less than their parents, and they were much more productive. they didn't get screwed as hard as we are, but they got screwed pretty hard. the 70s slump was brutal. what's important is how people respond actually both responses were the same it was just pre and post civil rights act. both groups were white people helping white people by punishing minorities. social security didn't apply to black people in the beginning. after black people were included as citizens the social safety net was used to strangle and demean them. you can have xenophobic social welfare or you can have racial progress. you can't have both (see Scandinavia vs the U.S.)
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Feb 7, 2015 10:33
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i too prioritize zero-to-sixty performance, sweet power slides, and loud vroom-vroom noises in the cramped metal box that conveys me down tight, crowded city streets at 30mph with frequent stops and an occasional jaunt onto the highway where everyone drives either 40mph or 80mph, never gives any sort of signal before abruptly changing lanes right in front of you, and the traffic randomly slows to 20mph for no discernible reason every twenty minutes
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Feb 7, 2015 10:48
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Feb 7, 2015 12:35
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the only thing I don't like about the mazda3 is the stupid tablet display infotainment bullshit great car otherwise though
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Feb 7, 2015 13:42
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Jonny 290 posted:i think there are some italian or german luxo flagship whips that cost more than the entirety of Detroit would right now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHZRHEJHS2k&t=27s
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Feb 7, 2015 14:19
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Main Paineframe posted:i too prioritize zero-to-sixty performance, sweet power slides, and loud vroom-vroom noises in the cramped metal box that conveys me down tight, crowded city streets at 30mph with frequent stops and an occasional jaunt onto the highway where everyone drives either 40mph or 80mph, never gives any sort of signal before abruptly changing lanes right in front of you, and the traffic randomly slows to 20mph for no discernible reason every twenty minutes this is why I bought a hatchback crossover instead of an m3, right here. SF is a terrible terrible place to drive a car:
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Feb 7, 2015 16:58
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Main Paineframe posted:i too prioritize zero-to-sixty performance, sweet power slides, and loud vroom-vroom noises in the cramped metal box that conveys me down tight, crowded city streets at 30mph with frequent stops and an occasional jaunt onto the highway where everyone drives either 40mph or 80mph, never gives any sort of signal before abruptly changing lanes right in front of you, and the traffic randomly slows to 20mph for no discernible reason every twenty minutes hahaha, car commuter spotted. Take the bus, dumbass. save the car for the weekends
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Feb 7, 2015 18:29
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i remember when we were supposed to have light rail in florida but governor skeletor decided a $2 billion federal grant would be cooperating with the enemy and rejected the obama welfare handout
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Feb 7, 2015 18:34
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Luigi Thirty posted:i remember when we were supposed to have light rail in florida same people will turn around and bitch about sherman's neckties and demand reparations for their paw paw's plantation, too i'm like ok guys, there it is
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Feb 7, 2015 18:36
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Luigi Thirty posted:i remember when we were supposed to have light rail in florida at least you drug tested those welfare recipients
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Feb 7, 2015 18:37
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SXSW stories starting to ramp up... DC spending $500k to "get noticed" or some poo poo quote:District officials are slated to spend more than $475,000 during their visit to South by Southwest in March — nearly triple last year’s budget — making the five-day trip to the music, film and innovation festival one of the city’s most-expensive technology outreach initiatives to date. lol they are just paying for a bunch of 'treps to have internet and get drunk 
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Feb 7, 2015 18:51
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ayn rand hand job posted:at least you drug tested those welfare recipients that was different, that was a handout to his wife's medical company. that's perfectly okay and he said it himself, he runs the state like how he runs his business. quote:On March 19, 1997, investigators from the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Health and Human Services served search warrants at Columbia/HCA facilities in El Paso and on dozens of doctors with suspected ties to the company.[7] Following the raids, the Columbia/HCA board of directors forced Rick Scott to resign as chairman and CEO.[8] He was paid a settlement of $9.88 million and left with 10 million shares of stock worth over $350 million, mostly from his initial investment.[9][10] In 1999, Columbia/HCA changed its name back to HCA, Inc. HCA also admitted fraudulently billing Medicare and other health programs by inflating the seriousness of diagnoses and to giving doctors partnerships in company hospitals as a kickback for the doctors referring patients to HCA. They filed false cost reports, fraudulently billing Medicare for home health care workers, and paid kickbacks in the sale of home health agencies and to doctors to refer patients. In addition, they gave doctors "loans" never intended to be repaid, free rent, free office furniture, and free drugs from hospital pharmacies.[11][12] scott escaped jail by pleading the fifth something like 70 times during the investigation
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so do people in florida just shrug and go "eh, florida" like everyone else in the us?
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Feb 7, 2015 19:03
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well he won re-election against a guy equally as slimy but politically instead of morally so probably
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Luigi Thirty posted:that was different, that was a handout to his wife's medical company. that's perfectly okay and he said it himself, he runs the state like how he runs his business. seriously can we have that revolution sooner rather than later, please? i'll make the wiki
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Shifty Pony posted:SXSW stories starting to ramp up... it's pretty funny how fundamentally the guys pushing these initiatives are misunderstanding everything. we already have shitloads of tech workers here; what determines what they do is the city itself. so in DC everything is defense contracting, consulting, etc and there's a shitload of money to be had. you're not gonna override east coast suit & tie corporate culture with a few Internet cafes and a half-hearted tax break to poor college kids. actually now that I think about it I don't even think these guys even know what it is they're trying to accomplish.
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Necc0 posted:it's pretty funny how fundamentally the guys pushing these initiatives are misunderstanding everything. we already have shitloads of tech workers here; what determines what they do is the city itself. so in DC everything is defense contracting, consulting, etc and there's a shitload of money to be had. they want to snag the tech workers smart enough to parse the technical terms but dumb enough to buy into the social/culture potemkin they've set up. good docile MIC code monkeys that are in too deep by the time they realize the frying pan's hot. anybody that sees through the bullshit wouldnt be a good brown-killing drone coder
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Necc0 posted:it's pretty funny how fundamentally the guys pushing these initiatives are misunderstanding everything. we already have shitloads of tech workers here; what determines what they do is the city itself. so in DC everything is defense contracting, consulting, etc and there's a shitload of money to be had. I think they fully understand that they get to party in Austin for two weeks on someone else's dime.
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Feb 7, 2015 19:12
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if you can believe it there's people trying to do bay area/sf promotion and outreach the same way, I assume funded by real estate developers because they're the only ones who benefit from trying to cram more people in here
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wait people are representing the bay area at sxsw? do these same people go to towns near the Sahara and talk about how great water is?
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