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Platystemon posted:Atomic cars look like arse. you got something wrong with your eyes boy? CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Yeah well... about surviving that crash. and all that asbestos didn't save them? but seriously, as much as I love the insanity of group B, I'm glad we have much safer motorsport. I would be MUCH more excited if we saw mid engine/2wd/kei cars and other weirdness come back.
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BraveUlysses posted:hoooooly poo poo yesss He is obviously cheating with a water bottle instead of an open cup. 
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slothrop posted:but seriously, as much as I love the insanity of group B, I'm glad we have much safer motorsport. I would be MUCH more excited if we saw mid engine/2wd/kei cars and other weirdness come back. the way people have been 3 wheelin those old volvos and 131s in recent years is surprisingly 
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The new WRC cars are Group B reborn. Plus now there is a huge allowance for National cars and other piggyback events that follw the main WRC field. Thence at Coffs Harbour WRC you saw - A dozen wild winged WRC Dozen odd WRC2, usually Skodas National ARC (STI/EVO, Fiestas etc) Commodore VE V8 Bone stock BA Falcon (Just add roll cage, even was a single spinner diff. Even had an auto) Datto 180 SS Mk II Escorts Commodore V8 UTE Audi S1 (As in Group B car) So I mean...... how much weirder and more variety does anyone need? Let alone the huge allowance now for G4 cars that you can build some real oddballs and gain entry under national waivers - that certain AWD BRZ is WRC legal with the waiver. The real problem is the crowds and wider fanbase turned off because of S.Loeb and Citroen's immense budgets = no real cometition + not particularly interesting cars. Thats not the case anymore
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A couple of mini mad machines modeled from the real mad machines and signed by the mad man himself [IMG]  [/IMG][IMG]  [/IMG]
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:The new WRC cars are Group B reborn. Plus now there is a huge allowance for National cars and other piggyback events that follw the main WRC field. Thence at Coffs Harbour WRC you saw - France has interesting regulations too. They have Group F: obsolete cars with expired homologations can be turned into one-off prototypes      They have group T (AFAICT, unrelated to the FIA class of the same name), a silhouette dune buggy class. You probably remember Vincent Foucart's rotary-powered weedwacker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHnkqAxLjaY In Italy, we have the Ape Proto class: three-wheeled prototypes with a Piaggio Ape front, a custom back and a motorcycle engine. They have their own races but they're sometimes invited to stage rallies as "exhibition" entries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3AawCkNpWs However, I doubt we'll ever get back to the levels of craziness of the seventies, where rallies accepted group 5 entries, usually kit buggies:  (race officials couldn't find any documentation on this thing - no wonder - and the manufacturer had to make it up on the fly. DNF)  (2nd place overall!) ... but in some special events, real actual honest-to-god group 5 track cars   
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hackbunny posted:Cool rally poo poo I didn't know about the Group 5 rally cars, and went looking for info. i found this pretty cool article on the Stratos Turbo in the automotive Giro d'Italia. https://www.carmrades-blog.com/all-articles/2017/6/12/reluctant-racer-1976-lancia-stratos-hf-turbo-group-5
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Humbug posted:That's an awesome post. Rally is great.The fact that the cars are (mostly) road legal makes them somehow even cooler to me Mind you, the "road legality" of the Giro d'Italia group 5 cars consisted in bolted-on headlights and "test drive" plates. A little like how the Targa Florio didn't officially have a practice day, so teams just made their race cars "road legal" for a day... to practice the course in the middle of regular traffic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Albnb3xQdo
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This is ridiculous. I still want one, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPCjYtp7q2k
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hackbunny posted:
Wow this is incredible. Killer fuckin bees man.
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supermegaultra posted:A couple of mini mad machines modeled from the real mad machines and signed by the mad man himself Oh. Uh, are those customs, or actual Hot Wheels? Any clue if they are available in the US? I need those. At least Madbull.
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Custom built V12 5l drift car technical walk through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZPQyedvEQY
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BlackMK4 posted:Custom built V12 5l drift car technical walk through There were two Toyota V12s there that weekend.  http://www.speedhunters.com/2017/06/rolling-double-six-v12-toyota-mark-ii/
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Dec 11, 2018 11:28
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We need to go back. We hosed up car design. The past had a better idea about the future than the present does. We went wrong somewhere.
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Blame engineers and the NHTSA for their function over form doctrine. Put the artists back in charge and cars would look sexy again.
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Oh poo poo you can buy a T70/73/76 new... http://broadleyautomotive.co.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBDBDpxOuFk
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they should let us have flip up lights again the bring balance to the insane LED bullshit going on lately
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Thief posted:they should let us have flip up lights again the bring balance to the insane LED bullshit going on lately What? You don't like seeing angry emoticons in your rear view at night?
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Dec 11, 2018 19:33
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I've just gotten used to flipping my mirrors in when people have lovely bright or misaimed headlights at night.
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Could be a cool raspberry pi project to aim your side mirrors directly into the face of whoever's behind you. Hard part is figuring out where their eyes are, from there it's relatively easy math to reflect their own headlights at that spot.
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leverage big data and machine learning ai, big roi
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supermegaultra posted:There were two Toyota V12s there that weekend. I have pictures from that article on the Mark II in rotation as desktops and screensaver photos. I love that car.
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BlackMK4 posted:leverage big data and machine learning ai, big roi Needs more blockchain
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Is that where you whip a length of chain with a brick on the end at the offending LED lightbar?
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redgubbinz posted:Is that where you whip a length of chain with a brick on the end at the offending LED lightbar? 
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Today I saw an Audi A4 Ute. Sadly I was driving and couldn't take a picture.
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redgubbinz posted:Is that where you whip a length of chain with a brick on the end at the offending LED lightbar? 
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BlackMK4 posted:I've just gotten used to flipping my mirrors in when people have lovely bright or misaimed headlights at night. My big problem is the side mirrors, personally. Can't really flip em like the rearview, and some lights that don't reach the latter are still aimed high enough to glare off the sides. I need to install a retroreflector sign on my rear shelf that says "IF YOU CAN READ THIS YOU'RE AN rear end in a top hat"
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That's what I mean, I reach up and flip my drivers side mirror in enough to get the light out of my eyes 
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Wistful of Dollars posted:Today I saw an Audi A4 Ute. https://www.smythkitcars.com/audi-a4-s4-ute
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Mad Dragon posted:What? You don't like seeing angry emoticons in your rear view at night? I appreciate that BMW puts distinctive headlights on their vehicles so I know when there’s an aggressive idiot behind me.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGVQHA-iVBQ Some insanely automated crankshaft production
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yeah there's a mk. 4 jetta around here with that kit that i've been seeing for a decade makes sense, they are a local company
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Fender Anarchist posted:My big problem is the side mirrors, personally. Can't really flip em like the rearview, and some lights that don't reach the latter are still aimed high enough to glare off the sides. The dimmer switch on my 987 rearview dims the side mirrors as well 
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If the car behind you's headlights are in your sideview mirrors you might have your sideview mirrors adjusted too far inward. Most people do. Not to say it doesn't happen, but sideview mirror glare is a problem I rarely have in my low-slung car. The rearview mirror, yes, but thankfully it auto-dims.
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thechalkoutline posted:The dimmer switch on my 987 rearview dims the side mirrors as well This is an amazing feature and really useful for passengers in particular. As stated with properly adjusted side mirrors you should not be getting blinded by anyone directly behind you, it's only on multi lane roads with one of those assholes sitting in the lane next to you that the dimmed side mirrors help the driver. Although it's like that's an extreme edge case, just not as common as the prick being directly behind you.
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I was just reminded, upon seeing a much shittier upside-down-suv-being-attacked-by-a-monster scene because the Goosebumps movie was on TV, that I saw a perfectly accurate Jurassic Park Ford Explorer a few weeks ago. Vista Cruiser roof and all. It was in the TX/LA border town of Waskom, TX on US80. Sadly, no photo (it was going the other way, I only saw it long enough to say "Holy poo poo, Jurassic Park Explorer!" and there person I was riding shotgun with only saw it in the mirror) and I didn't see the plates, but did somebody in Texas or Louisiana buy a movie prop, or did they outdo Boomerjinks in recreating a JP car? Edit: Probably this guy. Chillbro Baggins fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Dec 13, 2018 |
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Guinness posted:If the car behind you's headlights are in your sideview mirrors you might have your sideview mirrors adjusted too far inward. Most people do. Yeah but then there’s that fucker who paces you a lane to the side and a carlength behind.
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 None of these cars is real. They're randomized, computer-generated images
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hackbunny posted:
Doesn't seem like a lot of people are noticing that machine learning is going to change an awful lot of design. It isn't going to be too long where a computer just spits out brand new music, art, design, porn. Kind of like some sort of post-scarcity society but only with digital 'goods'.
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