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tuo posted:Looks pretty simple to me: The plebians of the world will never understand how hard it is to be rich. Also, holy gently caress that America mobile.
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I confess I once had an M3 convertible (E93) as a business car with that foldable hardtop (which they got rid of as soon as possible), and as someone who mostly drives 30+ year old bimmers as a hobby, the first thing I thought when I saw all that poo poo in motion was "yeah, that'll be great fun to take care off once this car is 15 years+" (thinking about the Z1 doors). Then found out BMW even had trouble getting that poo poo to work for three years under warranty. Mine once kinda tried to explode when I opened the top and the car was not exactly level. Keep it simple, stupid!
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TotalLossBrain posted:That goes back at least to early 90's Mercedes. poo poo I just realized I stole the first (and only) one in like 1995...drat I'm old.... e: I also never did this, just to make it clear! I did, and I regret it
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xzzy posted:Computer touchers: but space is a delimiter, and we need some way to prevent user strings from loving up our tokenization. In‐band signalling was a mistake, full stop. tuo posted:Looks pretty simple to me: It looks like a dog’s breakfast, but it’s like, a motor, some linkages, and a limit switch? I’m not sure it’s actually that bad.
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Someone help me identify this thing https://i.imgur.com/sYqvfDR.png No no, I mean the car It's not a Diablo, is it? The strakes look way too familiar to be some obscure mod.
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Data Graham posted:Someone help me identify this thing It's a Diablo https://www.mecum.com/lots/CA0816-244612/1995-lamborghini-diablo-vt/
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Ah cool, the strakes are just hard to see in most usual lighting. Thanks (e: and/or there appear to be a drat bunch of different variations on them) Data Graham fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Oct 17, 2020 |
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Oct 17, 2020 04:52
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Trump's '97 Diablo sold on ebay in 2016 for $460,000 with 15k on the clock. Someone added a little inlay badge thing with his name too. Fuckin' killer color though, 'Le Mans Blue'. Apparently the only one made that year. IDK if he had another or if he's cuddling Ivanka in someone else's.
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Ror posted:Trump's '97 Diablo sold on ebay in 2016 for $460,000 with 15k on the clock. Someone added a little inlay badge thing with his name too. That's gorgeous.
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Thumposaurus posted:
This crosses the line several times, weaving wildly between awesome and terrible, before ending up exactly where it belongs.
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Oct 17, 2020 13:53
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having a real tough time believing dimbald trimp can drive a manual transmission
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I doubt it was bought with the intention of ever driving it anywhere - just another background prop to stand in front of.
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Yeah that screams "prop for Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous video shoot."
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Yeah except then I found So like 
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Data Graham posted:Yeah except then I found He should hitch those pantaloons up a bit higher, they aren't covering his nipples yet.
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 You should probably not be, just saying
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Memento posted:
holy jesus I made better welds than this in high school ag shop and probably would've designed a more efficient exhaust system too
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I NEED to know what that sounds like. Besides "like poo poo", which it surely does.
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Data Graham posted:Yeah except then I found god he really has just always been 300 pounds of poo poo in a 250 pound sack hasn't he
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Can't tell if weld or jpeg artifact.
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Remember when I was saying how lamborghini is a villain's car?
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Data Graham posted:Yeah except then I found Holy gently caress loving $1.29 a gallon?!
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Finger Prince posted:Remember when I was saying how lamborghini is a villain's car? They even named it after him! 
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Wasabi the J posted:Holy gently caress Every generation is amazed at how little the generation before them paid for gas!
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wait till you hear what a candy bar cost
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The cheapest gas in US history, in purchasing-power-adjusted dollars, was in Clinton's second term.
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Sagebrush posted:The cheapest gas in US history, in purchasing-power-adjusted dollars, was in Clinton's second term. I still have vivid memories of going with my dad to fill up his Lincoln Continental at our small town Oregon gas station for sub-90c a gallon during this time. I remember breaking $1.00/gal felt like a big deal
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9/11 was a big deal in the Midwest cause gas hit $2/gal for a week.
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I remember a joke about high gas prices in a MST3K episode. The highest price on screen was $1.55/gal.
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isnt there supposed to be cheap gas during covid lockdown? ive been commuting the whole time and i havent seen anything under $3 yet
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Sagebrush posted:god he really has just always been 300 pounds of poo poo in a 250 pound sack hasn't he 
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Raluek posted:isnt there supposed to be cheap gas during covid lockdown? ive been commuting the whole time and i havent seen anything under $3 yet I bought petrol early in April for 89c per litre, which is a price I last saw in 1999.
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Data Graham posted:Yeah except then I found Trump can drive a manual. Didn't see that coming.
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Am I the only one who finds it weird that driving a manual is a special skill only a few have in America? Here it's weird if you can't drive a manual.
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The US domestic market has more options for manual vehicles now than Europe. Europe went full SUV/Crossover retard and auto boxes are a factory tick usually. You can't even get a manual 5 series at BMW anymore. Hell the 318d is the last 3 series they offer in manual. On the other side the engine dynamics are so pathetic these days a manual would just feel horrible aniways.
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Combat Theory posted:The US domestic market has more options for manual vehicles now than Europe. Europe went full SUV/Crossover retard. You can't even get a manual 5 series at BMW anymore. Hell the 318d is the last 3 series they offer in manual. I'm going to need to see your citations because we have a poo poo load of car manufacturers and unless they sell only hybrids most cars are available as manuals with auto as an extra price option.
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Combat Theory posted:The US domestic market has more options for manual vehicles now than Europe. Europe went full SUV/Crossover retard and auto boxes are a factory tick usually. You can't even get a manual 5 series at BMW anymore. Hell the 318d is the last 3 series they offer in manual. On the other side the engine dynamics are so pathetic these days a manual would just feel horrible aniways. It's nothing to do with that, it's more to do with, at least in this country, when you learn to drive you generally have to specify you want to learn on an auto, or you just learn a manual by default.
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"we" have 3 manufacturers left that offer significant chunks of their fleet in manual, that's VW, Opel and Ford. Bmw Daimler and Audi are full automatic except for one or 2 models. New Porsche 911 is also the first one thst doesn't offer a manual in Europe anymore (unless you pay for the unobtainium GT versions) Or said otherwise, you get your econo 3 cylinder vacuum cleaner with a manual because price. The moment you look at something remotely interesting it has an automatic in it. On the other hand you could still get a manual BMW M5 in the US and Canada few years ago which you could not in Europe since the E39. Believe me when I say I wished Europe was still the fortress of manual transmissions and well made smaller cars that it was 20 years ago but we are not. You get generic poo poo box SUVs because that's what sells here now and if you take off the badges you can't even tell if you sit in a BMW, Daimler or Audi. They all feel equally worthless to drive and they will all be equally worthless in a few years but that's what people want here right now. Combat Theory fucked around with this message at 10:44 on Oct 18, 2020 |
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There's still a lot of good small cars available. I generally avoid VAG and German Premium stuff, so not familiar with them too much, but the new Clio, Yaris or i20 are pretty nice. So far we still have a choice between them and z-axis stretched variants.
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