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Wolfsbane posted:Very much wrong thread, but this is what you can do to a Smart roadster if you're an insane German tuning house: Twin turbo V6 .... 218hp. Might be the right thread.
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Sagebrush posted:Small Yeah, for me, it's the tiny wheels. That's why I like the Scion iQ - those 15" wheels look positively beefy on that little car. They managed to make it look sporty. And you can get tires for it. The Mirage just looks cheap and dinky.
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FuzzKill posted:Twin turbo V6 .... 218hp. Might be the right thread. I dunno, the V6 has displacement of just 1.4L. The turbo is fairly small too.  Guinness posted:That is how most/all BMWs are, and probably plenty of others, and is quite a good design. It has nothing to do with how they hosed up the car. It might be well executed in a BMW but it felt like total poo poo in the Smart.
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FuzzKill posted:Twin turbo V6 .... 218hp. Might be the right thread. 1.4L, making 155.7hp/L, better than a loving Veyron*. Sure, that's terrible  *8.0L for 1000hp or 125hp/L. edit: still makes it better than the Veyron Super Sport, which is 8.0L making 1200hp, bang on 150hp/L Memento fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Feb 28, 2017 |
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Wolfsbane posted:Very much wrong thread, but this is what you can do to a Smart roadster if you're an insane German tuning house: I feel like in the asylum of Mercedes tuning companies AMG is the one who is prone to fits of violence and occasional window licking but mostly has it under control with medication. Brabus is the one in solitary wearing the straight jacket and Hannibal Lector mask because if they take it off he'll eat his bed and make a new one from the flesh of the other inmates. Or maybe one of these: http://blog.caranddriver.com/the-latest-brabus-tuned-g-wagen-is-predictably-insane/ Disgruntled Bovine fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Feb 28, 2017 |
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buttcrackmenace posted:... or what a couple of insane Austrians can cobble together out of a Smart coupe with a dead engine and a wrecked GSX-R 1000 This one's cute, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnp-PKvNIZk
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Memento posted:1.4L, making 155.7hp/L, better than a loving Veyron*. Sure, that's terrible Output per unit of displacement always has been, is currently, and will forever continue to be the dumbest way to compare engines, since it ignores almost every single aspect of the engine that contributes to whether the car it's in will go fast or not.
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MrYenko posted:Output per unit of displacement always has been, is currently, and will forever continue to be the dumbest way to compare engines, since it ignores almost every single aspect of the engine that contributes to whether the car it's in will go fast or not. Did you bother reading the post I was replying to that was specifically calling it out for being a twin turbo V6 with "only" 218hp, or do you just like the look of your own words on the internet?
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Memento posted:1.4L, making 155.7hp/L, better than a loving Veyron*. Sure, that's terrible I think power to weight would be a much better comparison, in which 215hp would make for a fun car in such a light weight chassis. I didn't realize the displacement was so low on those but just because you can doesn't mean you should - in a production version if it was ever made it it would have likely been <200hp to have an actual service life.
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Memento posted:1.4L, making 155.7hp/L, better than a loving Veyron*. Sure, that's terrible  BMW S1000RR: 199hp @ 999cc, or juuuust under 200hp/L oh, but wait, your 1.4L is turbocharged, right? Kawasaki H2R: 310hp supercharged @ 998cc, 311hp/L
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It's funny, lighten up you terrible nerds. Which incidentally will increase your shitpost/pound ratio...
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Sagebrush posted:
The H2R makes quite a bit more power with just a tune, also.
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dpack_1 posted:I know they're now in the ~*~VINTAGE~*~ age but seriously, 6.5k for a 20 year old import with 150k miles, most of which were probably at WOT, just not gonna happen.
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mobby_6kl posted:Somebody needs to make a huge Segway out of that thing Well, at least a bigger than normal Segway. Let's not get carried away.
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What's that? Oh, just a shop truck with a shark airbrushed on the tailgate.  And a robotic dolphin jumping through flames on the side.
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I feel... conflicted. Applicable to both threads? The mudflaps look dumb. Is that a step to step up into the truck that's hanging down under the driver side door?
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I think that is a step, yeah. The thing was ridiculously tall, those photos were taken from our CR-V.
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Code Jockey posted:Is that a step to step up into the truck that's hanging down under the driver side door? It looks like a tab you'd press with your thumb to open a gizmo. Maybe it pops the bonnet open.
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IOwnCalculus posted:What's that? I know it's en vogue to rail against pickup artists but this one did a pretty good job
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wayfinder posted:I know it's en vogue to rail against pickup artists but this one did a pretty good job "I've painted titty chicks and wizards and titty wizards and all manner of mythical beasts and ARE FREEDOMS imagery, but a robotic dolphin is a new one!"
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IOwnCalculus posted:What's that?
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Memento posted:"I've painted titty chicks and wizards and titty wizards and all manner of mythical beasts and ARE FREEDOMS imagery, but a robotic dolphin is a new one!" It's certainly no Demver!
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IOwnCalculus posted:What's that? I really appreciate that he put the business name on the rear window as well, since I couldn't make out what it says on the tailgate. VALLEY RING SERVIE
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FuzzKill posted:I really appreciate that he put the business name on the rear window as well, since I couldn't make out what it says on the tailgate. My wife said the same thing about that font being unreadable, because even without JPEG compression on a low res shot, it's still poo poo. It's not like there's any accounting for tasteful fonts once you've decided you need a flaming robodolphin and a shark on your shop truck.
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Mar 1, 2017 16:59
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ey its work related so its tax deductable brah
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MrYenko posted:Output per unit of displacement always has been, is currently, and will forever continue to be the dumbest way to compare engines, since it ignores almost every single aspect of the engine that contributes to whether the car it's in will go fast or not. Setright used to argue that BMEP was the only true measure of an engine.
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 Sorry for potato quality, zoom was maxed. I think this is the most stick-on letters I've seen on one panel.
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weg posted:
I'm the dangling spare tire hanger.
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weg posted:
Who is this Heaven Orhell, and why do we care where they are going?
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FuzzKill posted:I really appreciate that he put the business name on the rear window as well, since I couldn't make out what it says on the tailgate. Probably for the benefit of small vehicles and Class 8 trucks in bumper-to-bumper gridlock. No matter how low or high, one can read it. Shark on the back, flaming robodolphin on the side. Needs an octopus holding eight guns firing on the hood.
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The Smart ForTwo pedals are similar in store to the Spyker C8as I recall. I didn't like how it felt either. BMW and Hyundai execute that gaspedal style better. 
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Colostomy Bag posted:Probably for the benefit of small vehicles and Class 8 trucks in bumper-to-bumper gridlock. No matter how low or high, one can read it. At that point, we would definitely be in the wrong thread.
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Il IOwnCalculus posted:What's that? I swear people start companies just to have huge trucks.
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MetaJew posted:The Smart ForTwo pedals are similar in store to the Spyker C8as I recall. I didn't like how it felt either. BMW and Hyundai execute that gaspedal style better. Everything in the Spyker interior makes me unreasonably happy. It's like a luxury Zeppelin!
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  Engineer test driving a new Morgan put it through a wall less than a mile from the factory  http://metro.co.uk/2017/03/02/engineer-writes-off-brand-new-hand-built-car-a-mile-from-factory-6482792/
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Well, at least that's one ebay mini cooper headlight down. now hit something with the other side.
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Looks like the steering wheel was installed on the wrong side; it's no wonder he crashed it! Oh well, that's what these tests are for, I suppose.
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Rude Dude With Tude posted:
And somewhere, Richard Hammond is crying.
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Not as many wood splinters as I thought.
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