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hackbunny posted:So what's the deal with the S-FR? They're going to cancel it at the last minute, right? Or it's only going to be available in Japan. Or they're only selling it in diarrhea brown? the production model will be a five-door crossover? engine will be single-cylinder for emission regulations? price starts at 30k for base model? What is the catch? Dont jinx it My fingers are so crossed the index and middle fingers have switched places.
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hackbunny posted:So what's the deal with the S-FR? They're going to cancel it at the last minute, right? Or it's only going to be available in Japan. Or they're only selling it in diarrhea brown? the production model will be a five-door crossover? engine will be single-cylinder for emission regulations? price starts at 30k for base model? What is the catch? It's 2016, the production model will be a 4 door crossover.
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hackbunny posted:So what's the deal with the S-FR? They're going to cancel it at the last minute, right? Or it's only going to be available in Japan. Or they're only selling it in diarrhea brown? the production model will be a five-door crossover? engine will be single-cylinder for emission regulations? price starts at 30k for base model? What is the catch? America won't get it, or if they do you'll get like 11 of them. It's a tiny car with a tiny engine so 99% of the US market will scoff at what could be a fantastically fun little city car that you can take to the windy roads and smash the limiter and run through the gears in. If you get it it'll be auto because gently caress fun and no fucker will be able to fit in it because Japan. I love the thing, that and the S660/S1000 they're hinting at putting out. I'm under no real illusion that it'll surface even in the UK though and we love tiny cars.
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hackbunny posted:So what's the deal with the S-FR? They're going to cancel it at the last minute, right? Or it's only going to be available in Japan. Or they're only selling it in diarrhea brown? the production model will be a five-door crossover? engine will be single-cylinder for emission regulations? price starts at 30k for base model? What is the catch? Think its using a 1.2 or 1.5 liter i4 with 120 hp, so about as much as the other f-rs.
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I am about to make your day at least 100% better.              ...  http://www.blow-net.co.jp/ I think it's time for "Post awesome AI car poo poo: Let's go boogie woogie bus"
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Those are Kei vans converted to look like 80's US vans right?
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I love all of those. Also this deserves being posted here because Paos don't get enough love anywhere, they remind me of little safari cars you'd see rolling around the savannah in my weird fever dreams caused by illness and too many 80s cartoons. 
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Rhyno posted:Those are Kei vans converted to look like 80's US vans right? Yes, and an international truck and school bus. I posted a few of the vans and the pickup here before, but they have an itty bitty international now and a whole bunch of other new ones.
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Powershift posted:Yes, and an international truck and school bus. Oh poo poo, thost are ALL tiny! I didn't even realize that.
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Rhyno posted:Oh poo poo, thost are ALL tiny! I didn't even realize that. The first 2 pics are the real full size thing for comparison. The rest though.. 
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Man I love Kei cars/vans. It's a shame the only tiny cars available in the states are terrible (Miata's are not tiny).
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Powershift posted:The first 2 pics are the real full size thing for comparison. In 1972, a crack mechanic unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly walked through the bars from a maximum security stockade to the Tokyo underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as flat rate mechanics. If you have a blown valve, if no one else can help, and if you would just look down....maybe you can hire The Kei-Team.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:In 1972, a crack mechanic unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly walked through the bars from a maximum security stockade to the Tokyo underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as flat rate mechanics. If you have a blown valve, if no one else can help, and if you would just look down....maybe you can hire The Kei-Team. ...would genuinely watch that show/movie.
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always post dajiban
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Rigged Death Trap posted:In 1972, a crack mechanic unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly walked through the bars from a maximum security stockade to the Tokyo underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as flat rate mechanics. If you have a blown valve, if no one else can help, and if you would just look down....maybe you can hire The Kei-Team. I smell the next YouTube viral sensation.
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So is the S-FR the size of a Suzuki Cappuccino or is that gaping maw throwing off my perception?
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Asked my uncle about his Lancia and he sent this recent pic. Look at the car then spot his doggie
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This is crazy, I just noticed that the entire top mechanism and most of the back seat is all out of a Volvo C70. A-pillars and front header match, the whole tonneau, even the rear speaker covers/panels and front door panels appear to be Volvo. So they either put Acura bodywork/dash/seats on a Volvo chassis or they cut out the center section of a Volvo and welded it in to an Acura. Here, I tried to get the same angle:  Not that anyone but me would care or anything, I'm just surprised at how much they used, not that they used it. LloydDobler fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Jan 19, 2016 |
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Also, they left the Honda logo on the steering wheel despite having rebadged the grille.
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I've posted a picture of an Acura converted to a convertible here in the U.S. It isn't just in Japan. edit: It even had a racing stripe, like this one. http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2013/07/acura-tl-convertible-is-odd-very-odd.html
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LloydDobler posted:This is crazy, I just noticed that the entire top mechanism and most of the back seat is all out of a Volvo C70. A-pillars and front header match, the whole tonneau, even the rear speaker covers/panels and front door panels appear to be Volvo. 
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i am trying to figure out whether they are turning the volvo into an acura, or the acura into a volvo, and failing. which one is improved by this? because a volvo with a V6 instead of an inline 5 is just sad
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I was expecting that to snap oversteer into the crowd at any given second. Basically, it's group B.
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This was posted in the OSHA thread but I think it's pretty drat awesome. http://i.imgur.com/MYGJdvL.gifv
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I know nothing about driving trucks. At what point does that become unacceptable? I mean it looks dangerous sure, but the only thing I can think of going wrong is pinching the trailer. Or maybe tipping over? That doesn't seem likely though.
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um excuse me posted:I know nothing about driving trucks. At what point does that become unacceptable? I mean it looks dangerous sure, but the only thing I can think of going wrong is pinching the trailer. Or maybe tipping over? That doesn't seem likely though. And unskilled or newbie driver would 100% get so stuck trying that manoeuvre they'd need a helicopter to extricate the truck.
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Death is truly unstoppable.
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Linedance posted:And unskilled or newbie driver would 100% get so stuck trying that manoeuvre they'd need a helicopter to extricate the truck. Yeah, this. That guy can probably do it with his eyes closed, but he's the proverbial 1%
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Paper V8 motor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnwndab2ztk
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Kids: "Are we lost?" Bus driver: "Shut the hell up and let me think! Jesus Christ, did we shrink?"
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Jesus. We had to break down and ship a CAT 777F once, and even broken down to the chassis with the outer wheels removed, it required a state police escort in every state it traveled through. I can't even begin to imagine the nightmare of getting that to a job site. That is also apparently powered by an 18 cylinder, 3500hp diesel. 
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