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MrYenko posted:It’s mostly the loving retard in the drivers seat. Tampa is horrible for this. Motherfuckers, you are in the city. If you can't drive at night without 3000w of LEDs, you can't drive at night. Sheriff's dept. cracked down hard on that poo poo, thankfully. Oh, special shout-out to the newspaper delivery guy who covered his entire SUVlet in led panels, "GO gently caress YOURSELF!" Dude's car made me hate TRON, and I like TRON.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Well if there's one thing that's good about the future it's that cars are now starting to come out with laser headlights and such that can 'see' oncoming cars and selectively cut that part of the beam so you don't blind the other cars. S class I was in recently had it, it seemed to work fairly well. Doesn't even need laser headlights, many LED models have that function. Even some relatively inexpensive cars like Opel Astra.
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KakerMix posted:I'd bring it over for [s]someone[/i], but no I lack the expertise and finesse to deal with ancient rotaries. Do want. Buy this for me. Don't, I don't have any money. MrYenko posted:That car reminds me of the kitchen in pretty much every house from ~1978-1988. It reminds me of all the marketing materials from '78-9. Seems like it was always a green RX-7. Except the demo model usually had not just brown, but brown *plaid*! Elmnt80 posted:Probably a good thing since with that low of mileage, theres a chance of the seals sticking to the housings due to sitting for way too long and losing compression. A more rotary inclined person could probably comment more and say all the ways to fix it. (Atf in the rotor housings, awww yeah.) Presumably, it drove into the phot garage.
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MetaJew posted:My brother's 2008 STI hatch had this adjustment, and my 09 MS3 also has it. Huh, I guess it's more common than I realized. Looking into it a little more, it seems ECE regs that everyone else in the world adheres to requires it, but it isn't required in North America. So I guess if the car is sold and/or built outside North America, they probably just leave the system there, but for domestic market cars they can probably save a buck or two by not installing a not required knob and stepper motor in the first place.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Isn't the deal with SUVs and trucks and such that the lights are always badly adjusted from factory as well as the fact they're at rear view mirror height for 'normal' cars? It's more North American vs European laws for low beams. NA laws require that headlights be at a specific angle. European laws require that they throw a max distance. Given that it's easier to set an angle than a distance, they don't even bother with checking the distance for USDM cars.
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And now that the IIHS is measuring and rating headlights as safety devices, maybe we can finally start to have a discussion about fixing our hilariously antiquated headlight laws in the US. Because almost every car the IIHS surveys has piss poor headlights.
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The visibility in my Toyota is great, never driven anything with better range on unlit rural roads, can easily do 55 and stop before I hit a deer planted in the road. Our Subaru comparison is garbage, feels like 1980's headlights and I got no confidence. Both cars are stock. That said once in a blue moon someone flashes their high beams at me in the Toyota so they might just have poo poo alignment. I did ask the dealer to double check for me once and I verified on my own and everything seems fine. 
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S2000 has great headlights..... 8th gen Civic Si does not. Guess which one I drive all the time.
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I haven't driven too many newer cars, but I got a rental Subaru Legacy with steerable HID headlights, and the lighting was amazing.
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Anyone got £60k and a lot of less than car friendly terrain?? http://www.lrmotors.co.uk/used/land-rover/series-ii/1958-cuthbertson-classic/thirsk/north-yorkshire/18116716#top-image quote:We are delighted to offer this very rare 1958 Land Rover Series 2 Cuthbertson tracked vehicle. Cuthbertson was an early manufacturer of rubber tracks, dating back to World War 2, and designed the first endless rubber belt. This led to many further developments based on applications for his invention. Including half tracks, the unique 'water buffalo' and the Land Rover conversions specifically for farmers forced to work in an uneven and hostile landscape.
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hoooooly poo poo yesss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99qHoM-ef10
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BraveUlysses posted:hoooooly poo poo yesss jebus that car control YES
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thechalkoutline posted:jebus that car control YES I’d love to take credit, but it wasn’t me, sorry.
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BraveUlysses posted:hoooooly poo poo yesss Where's the fukken roll cage? No wonder so many Group B cars killed people.
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Holy poo poo that rules. Makes me wanna go practice shifting, though, and I've been doing it for nine years. 
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wikipedia says the car has an integrated rollbar lmao
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Coworker suggested this instead: would https://giant.gfycat.com/HatefulEquatorialAztecant.webm
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The Prong Song posted:Where's the fukken roll cage? No wonder so many Group B cars killed people. quite well hidden and intergrated into the shel. You can see it disappear into the A-Pillar.
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The Prong Song posted:Where's the fukken roll cage? No wonder so many Group B cars killed people. It's built-in so it's hard to see, but it's there, e.g. you can see the front roof tube at 0:14. No, it's not a great roll cage:  I'm not a roll cage expert, but I always had my doubts about the Lancia Rally cage, too: 
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A good roll cage is a triangulated roll cage. *squints* These are not good roll cages.
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The terrible thread is talking about Honda odyssey, but the JDM odyssey was anything but, so I'm posting it here. (pics stolen from Speedhunters)   Can't post JDM without posting hard parked JDM.
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tuna posted:A good roll cage is a triangulated roll cage. If you use the vehicles panels as shear plates, the cage becomes a lot stronger. An integrated design very well may.
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wow, I'm surprised they didn't just use old toilet rolls wrapped in aluminium foil to really save weight.
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Finger Prince posted:The terrible thread is talking about Honda odyssey, but the JDM odyssey was anything but, so I'm posting it here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3gnoYloeOU&t=740s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC-iZ5J8i6Q
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slothrop posted:wow, I'm surprised they didn't just use old toilet rolls wrapped in aluminium foil to really save weight. Not flammable enough.
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hackbunny posted:It's built-in so it's hard to see, but it's there, e.g. you can see the front roof tube at 0:14. No, it's not a great roll cage: We have FIA roll cage building certification and my expert opinion is... About on par for the day, loving terrifying otherwise. (The Lancia cage was TBH actually pretty loving bad for the time as well) um excuse me posted:If you use the vehicles panels as shear plates, the cage becomes a lot stronger. An integrated design very well may. The panels arent very strong in a Group B car...... slothrop posted:wow, I'm surprised they didn't just use old toilet rolls wrapped in aluminium foil to really save weight. You should have seen what the Lancia's bulkhead / firewall was. Alloy foil would have been stronger (It was an asbestos blanket)
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:You should have seen what the Lancia's bulkhead / firewall was. Alloy foil would have been stronger (It was an asbestos blanket) 
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:We have FIA roll cage building certification and my expert opinion is... Why bother with a cage when surviving the crash means you have mesothelioma. poo poo why not make the car nuclear powered?
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slothrop posted:poo poo why not make the car nuclear powered? I mean I've heard the phrase "bombing down the straightaway" but that seems a bit on the nose
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slothrop posted:Why bother with a cage when surviving the crash means you have mesothelioma. poo poo why not make the car nuclear powered? I'm with this feller. Nuclear cars now.
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Atomic cars look like arse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon
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um excuse me posted:If you use the vehicles panels as shear plates, the cage becomes a lot stronger. An integrated design very well may. https://youtu.be/5vVkPnpxSWY?t=9
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Platystemon posted:Atomic cars look like arse. Uh, but that looks awesome...
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slothrop posted:Why bother with a cage when surviving the crash means you have mesothelioma. poo poo why not make the car nuclear powered? Yeah well... about surviving that crash. The fuel tank was thin walled aluminium that partially went under the front seats. And the transmission was not that far away. And also so was the engine. And you were surrounded by composites. With a lot of magnesium ... like the gearbox ...... that was right next to you. And these cars got REALLY hot. Have I painted the picture well enough just how lethal a S4 would be in a big crash? Well the crash that killed Group B was an S4 and basically Henri Toivonen's S4 exploded when it crashed and the fuel tank was split..... given all the composites and magnesium it would have been impossible to get out fast enough. The crash was probably survivable otherwise but still, by the time anyone got to the wreck all that was left was a space frame and some piles of ash where the driver and co-driver had died. Not that other Group B cars were any better (Warning - co-driver died) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYUILo6MmkA
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