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InitialDave posted:Holy poo poo, Skynet can drift: Dear Ford, This is how you do Drift Mode. Or will this be an addon for Teslas?
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iospace posted:I never understood the hate of front plates, aside from maybe "THAT'S HOW THE COPS GET YA". Because they are obnoxious flat squares that have no business being up front.  vs 
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They could have designed the car to incorporate the plate... But US plates are indeed uglier than Euro format
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wayfinder posted:They could have designed the car to incorporate the plate... That's basically my take on most late 70s thru mid 80s US styling.
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Matt Farah's latest Smoking Tire video is a 300SL Gullwing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og940xaqOg8
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I saw a 300SL once. It didn't look that good in person. I don't know, something about it felt off. I think the 190SL looks better.   It looks all right at this angle, though  Also, wire wheels. 
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Yesterday I got to drive a Metro 6R4 and Renault 5 Turbo 2. That was pretty awesome: https://www.instagram.com/p/BT43svJFwXW/
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I can tell you now that you should never drive the standard versions of those. Or maybe you should so you can realise just how amazing the ones you've just driven are.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I can tell you now that you should never drive the standard versions of those. Or maybe you should so you can realise just how amazing the ones you've just driven are. A friend's mum used to have an R5, and I drove the occasional metro back when I lived in the U.K. These ones are waaaay better.
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Interestingly, I experience a similar moment while watching that gif...
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Mclaren P1 probably still has a better rear end imo. And it lowers! http://i.imgur.com/YxQXtWL.gifv
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IronDoge posted:Mclaren P1 probably still has a better rear end imo. And it lowers!  https://i.imgur.com/aVf7zjC.mp4
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I can't believe neither company bothered with the little extra detail of matching the suspension drop with the last couple of inches of spoiler raising, so it looks like the spoiler is static and the car is dropping from under it.
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^^ this. I do appreciate how smooth McLaren's action is though. GT just looks like it's a spring mechanism that's been released, needs to be more classy.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:^^ this. It needs to be more brash. You're going to race mode, motherfucker. It's race time.
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IronDoge posted:Mclaren P1 probably still has a better rear end imo. And it lowers! Another one http://i.imgur.com/csnWAPi.mp4
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I swear videos of LED lights are going to give me siezures one of these days. 
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Seat Safety Switch posted:It needs to be more brash. *in the poshest English accent you can imagine* I'm sorry darling but you have to have a certain level of class whilst shutting down other cars on the track. Composure is everything, if you can look fabulous whilst winning then you've won twice over.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:It needs to be more brash. Yeah it needs to blip the throttle and hit the rev limiter while scootching on down and spitting flames. Its a bit sad that it doesnt sound like a highly strung and angry nest of hornets on crack.
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H-hey guys, can I play?  
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Active spoiler action 1984 style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmTmXajxIA
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DoLittle posted:Active spoiler action 1984 style. A 1984 italian car, i was expecting a video of it hitting a pothole and the trunk popping open.
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DoLittle posted:Active spoiler action 1984 style. I love the idea of active aero on a car with a front end shaped like a cinder block.
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Slim Pickens posted:H-hey guys, can I play? Best watercooled VW ever. RIP Corrado.
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I'm surprised active aero has never made an appearance at LeMons or similar (there's been at least one fan car at such cheap car events, but that's not the same thing). Suspension height sensors from something with air suspension or HID lights to let you measure pitch, and you can probably nail together something vaguely workable from other junkyard kit and an arduino etc to enforce a simple "keep the car level" maxim, plus air brake functions. It might not be a huge advantage, but it'd be worth cool points.
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Doesn't active aero get instantly banned in every racing series the second someone starts taking about it?
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Not going to lie, I'm seriously peeved that outlets like SlashGear got invited to drive the GT and we didn't.
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InitialDave posted:I'm surprised active aero has never made an appearance at LeMons or similar (there's been at least one fan car at such cheap car events, but that's not the same thing). Someone tried that once... using a bowling ball. It was promptly banned. However, there is this:  Which I believe does have active aero!
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iospace posted:Someone tried that once... using a bowling ball. It was promptly banned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPKD85mFbkA
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Yup! That's it. It got banned as soon as they saw it at tech. There's a reason that the "Dangerous Banned Technology" is only awarded in extreme cases, instead of regularly now.
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xzzy posted:Doesn't active aero get instantly banned in every racing series the second someone starts taking about it? iospace posted:Someone tried that once... using a bowling ball. It was promptly banned.  drgitlin posted:Not going to lie, I'm seriously peeved that outlets like SlashGear got invited to drive the GT and we didn't. Most recently it was in reference to the McLaren 720, and I have to say... The only thing I've watched relating to the car is Baron Von Grumble's video, who's not only a YouTuber, but isn't even a car YouTuber, he mainly vlogs while riding a bike.
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Active aero is ok in LeMons. Using a bowling ball, which would probably very easily snap off, was a bit too much on the "dangerous vs safe" scale for the organizers.
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drgitlin posted:Not going to lie, I'm seriously peeved that outlets like SlashGear got invited to drive the GT and we didn't. They probably figured you were a Tesla blog  Or maybe exposure is more important than facts and information these days.
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Powershift posted:They probably figured you were a Tesla blog Can all of those be delivered to my driveway, right this moment? Thanks.
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iospace posted:Active aero is ok in LeMons. Using a bowling ball, which would probably very easily snap off, was a bit too much on the "dangerous vs safe" scale for the organizers.
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