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The absolute best thing about those cars is that they have a 'torque gauge' in the same sort of place a turbo car would have a boost gauge and, sure enough, it goes up as you give it more gas.
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Slavvy posted:The absolute best thing about those cars is that they have a 'torque gauge' in the same sort of place a turbo car would have a boost gauge and, sure enough, it goes up as you give it more gas. A friends Bluebird has a Manifold vacuum gauge which serves much the same function  Like this but with a Bluebird wagon attached.
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Sagebrush posted:The most amazing thing about that to me is that even in loving Russia, a high-speed freeway chase doesn't end with any guns pulled. In the USA there'd be four cop cars, a helicopter, assault rifles everywhere, the driver handcuffed and beaten up with a boot on his face.
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Well executed, but still going with this being the correct thread
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`Nemesis posted:Well executed, but still going with this being the correct thread Somehow make the rest of the grill seem like the cheshire cat. I can grow to like it
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Apr 16, 2016 23:58
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I mean the goal there is to attract attention. Especially if it's a show car. It's not as terrible as putting things on your car to make it seem faster.
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Sagebrush posted:I don't really care what happens to a rich fuckoid middle-manager in Palo Alto who owns an Audi, but man, you gotta at least look for a dash camera, dude http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3542905/Audi-service-tech-goes-high-speed-coke-fueled-lunch-break-joyride-s-caught-dashcam.html Daily mirror got a copy of it before it was set to private. KoRMaK fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Apr 17, 2016 |
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If they were actually doing coke, the rest of the ride would be them just talking utter bollocks and slowing down to holler at anything vaguely female they passed.KoRMaK posted:Car owner missed his chance to extort the mechanic for some free blow and service When this showed up on Facebook, one guy mentioned he had a car in for some body work and they took it for a bit of a joy ride. They didn't know about the telemetry setup he had though, so he phoned the manager and asked why his car was doing 60 down the road outside the shop. Got a red faced apology and the work completely comped, so he was pretty happy about it.
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I don't know how fast you have to be going to do this, but it's gotta be pretty fast.   
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Powershift posted:I don't know how fast you have to be going to do this, but it's gotta be pretty fast. I looked at this 20 times and can't figure out what is going on
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car hit pole, pole broke. pole suspended by cables above, pole now sittin on top of car. And its a Mercury in Russia.
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Preoptopus posted:car hit pole, pole broke. pole suspended by cables above, pole now sittin on top of car. And its a Mercury in Russia. Or maybe the car was parked there for a long time and the pole grew up through it.
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Powershift posted:I don't know how fast you have to be going to do this, but it's gotta be pretty fast. that's not a matter of speed, it's a matter of teleporting at the right place.
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Olivil posted:that's not a matter of speed, it's a matter of teleporting at the right place. Either that or it's the parking lot at Bethesda Game Studios.
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Apr 17, 2016 05:08
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Travelling through Russia ain't like dusting crops, kid. Without precise blood alcohol level we could drive right through a pole or bounce too close to a dump truck and that'd end your trip real quick
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Terrible car stuff: Travelling through Russia ain't like dusting crops, kid. Mods plz tia. My question is: how is the rest of the windshield not shattered?
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So my friend's dad traded in his 87 MR2 towards a new used Camry since he is old and can't clutch anymore. Bob Rohrman Toyota gave him $900 in trade for the car. They just dropped it on the lot for $9000. I get they have to make money but holy gently caress what a bunch of crooks. http://www.fortwaynetoyota.com/vehicle-details/1987-toyota-mr2-base-fort-wayne-in-id-12955861
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Rhyno posted:So my friend's dad traded in his 87 MR2 towards a new used Camry since he is old and can't clutch anymore. Bob Rohrman Toyota gave him $900 in trade for the car. They just dropped it on the lot for $9000. I get they have to make money but holy gently caress what a bunch of crooks. How did this not get offered to you for $900?
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nm posted:How did this not get offered to you for $900? I wasn't even aware he was getting rid of it until I got the FB message saying "look at this bullshit" yesterday.
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The terrible car stuff is your friend and/or his dad agreeing to a $900 trade in on a mint condition MR2, not anything the dealer did.
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Also doing business with anything under the Bob Rohrman umbrella. Their ads make me want to pound nails into my ears. If I never had to watch an ad for a regional car dealer ever again I think I could die happy.
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Cal Worthington was the peak of television anything. Make the cars spin, add a live tiger, a man in a cowboy nudie suit and a damned catchy theme song and you have high art.
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Worthington ads confused me in a big way as a child. His ads always seemed like they were showing off vehicles that were up for sale in my area. Problem was, I spent the first handful years of my life around Seattle and was buried in his ads, then we moved to Alaska and still had to endure them. I couldn't figure out how it had worked out that a car salesman had moved from Seattle to Anchorage around the same time my family did. It wasn't until much later when the internet existed that I realized he had a massive chain spread all up and down the west coast and the specific cars he was hawking weren't actually available.
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Apr 18, 2016 18:09
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Well this happened Thursday. Pretty terrible if you ask me.
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xzzy posted:If I never had to watch an ad for a regional car dealer ever again I think I could die happy. As someone who lives in upstate NY's capital region, I couldn't possibly agree more with this. HUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE 
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veedubfreak posted:Well this happened Thursday. Pretty terrible if you ask me.
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xzzy posted:Also doing business with anything under the Bob Rohrman umbrella. Their ads make me want to pound nails into my ears. Nitrox posted:It would be terrible if you're not insured against this sort of thing. Also, why tow? Push it! Pull it! Tow it to Golf Mill Ford! 
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Nitrox posted:It would be terrible if you're not insured against this sort of thing. Also, why tow? 1) the door had to be kicked open and won't close again. 2) she don't drive straight no more 3) Ain't my insurance gonna be paying The car is still stock ride height and barely made it on to the rollback without scraping.
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In just two years of living in my house we've had 4 people crash into cars parked in front of my house or my immediate neighbor's house. After two of my roommates independently had their cars hit we learned to park in the driveway no matter what, but our neighbor apparently has not learned this lesson. At least this time everyone in the area was home and awake when it happened so about 20 people came running outside in time to see the guy back up and drive away so we got the plate number and description of the driver, plus he left pretty much all of his coolant in the road so I don't think he got far. I suppose it was a fools dream that living across from a school would mean people would not text and drive or drive 40+ mph. I was also surprised how well the neighbor's 300 held up, just a dented trunk (don't know if there was any underside damage to the exhaust). The front of the hit-and-run driver's Blazer was all kinds of wrecked. 
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I'm not excusing the act of running into parked cars but that street looks way too narrow to street park.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:I'm not excusing the act of running into parked cars but that street looks way too narrow to street park. Hahaha, our street's narrower than that, no sidewalk on both sides like that, and all we have is on-street parking aside from like two houses. with small garages
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Maker Of Shoes posted:I'm not excusing the act of running into parked cars but that street looks way too narrow to street park. I don't think that's a thing.
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Gotta love communities that establish colossal easements.. and then never do anything with the space.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:I'm not excusing the act of running into parked cars but that street looks way too narrow to street park. The government mandate for all cars to be self driving only can't come soon enough to get you off the road.
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neonbregna posted:The government mandate for all cars to be self driving only can't come soon enough to get you off the road. I'm in my thirties and have never caused an accident.  tbf I do most of my driving in urban sprawl so I guess those kinds of streets are just way wider.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:I'm in my thirties and have never caused an accident. What city do you do most of your driving in? It can't be my city.
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PCOS Bill posted:What city do you do most of your driving in? It can't be my city. Phoenix. e: the subdivision I live in could easily fit each way traffic with both sides of the road having street parked cars. Just looks odd to me.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Phoenix. It is odd because that street is probably very old. I don't hit cars either and I find narrow streets with street parking to be incredibly annoying. Particularly when the parking is in both directions and you have very little clearance on either side and oh no here comes a dipshit going the wrong way down this one way street.
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Look at this terrible derail I started. Here's a thing from a GIS of "dumb car thing" Discuss
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Discuss Looks like it would be too hard to street park.
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