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Elviscat
Jan 1, 2008

Well don't you know I'm caught in a trap?

Is Motoren not used for both IC and Electric motors in German?

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Combat Theory
Jul 16, 2017

Don't think BMW actually makes the electric ones on their own.

tuo
Jun 17, 2016


Bayrische Motorenlüftungsgitter Werke

e: I mean, they stopped making exhausts for my 30 year old E31 (and still asked a ridiculous amount of money for the ones they no longer have) so gently caress off. Now I'm dealing with Eisenmann which seems to have the whole crew in corona-kurzarbeit so I won't get an exhaust from them either, while the TÜV refuses to care about corona and reminds me of the hole in my current exhaust so I won't get TÜV for now. I love 2020

ee: yeah, I'm loving mad (especially since I just realized I missed the point to stock up on E31 parts... :/ )

eee: I'm basically mad because I'm stupid and BMW is stupid

tuo fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Nov 19, 2020

Combat Theory
Jul 16, 2017

I would just weld it over for the time being and then replace it with an Eisenmann unit when (if) they unfuck themselves.

If EU7 goes through as the unmitigated disaster that it shapes up to be we will likely see the end of any new infernal combustion by 2025 aniways. By that time I should have accumulated enough interesting fuel to noise converters in the garage however to keep myself entertained until I die of (hopefully) old age.

Combat Theory fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Nov 19, 2020

PeterWeller
Apr 21, 2003

I told you that story so I could tell you this one.

Darchangel posted:

Did... did a government agency actually make a Discworld reference?

Pratchett was referencing a Native American creation myth, so they're likely just riffing off the same source as him.

ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind

https://twitter.com/classicsnymph/status/1328055046626545665

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT

Holy poo poo how deep is that river if it's turtles all the way down?

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Pretty sweet graphics on this ride:

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Midjack posted:

Pretty sweet graphics on this ride:


Almost the wrong thread for this.

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
He probably let his kid do that so it rules.

StormDrain
May 22, 2003

Thirteen Letter
His 27 yr old kid.

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

I wonder if that is how Chip Foose got his start.

Dagen H
Mar 19, 2009

Hogertrafikomlaggningen
No, Foose got his start crashing his dad's customer's Rolls.

BOOTY-ADE
Aug 30, 2006

BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

Midjack posted:

Pretty sweet graphics on this ride:


It's like the Monkey Jesus restoration but on an old gator catching van

wesleywillis
Dec 30, 2016

SUCK A MALE CAMEL'S DICK WITH MIRACLE WHIP!!
That looks like something I would have done on shrooms.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


https://twitter.com/BoziTatarevic/status/1330552481974267906

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



The size creep treadmill is one of the most depressing things, but inevitable

I like to imagine a focus group giving feedback like "It's great, I just wish there was a little less legroom"

Literally Lewis Hamilton
Feb 22, 2005



Data Graham posted:

The size creep treadmill is one of the most depressing things, but inevitable

I like to imagine a focus group giving feedback like "It's great, I just wish there was a little less legroom"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8YDpvMYk5jA

Not Wolverine
Jul 1, 2007

Midjack posted:

Pretty sweet graphics on this ride:

Slap that on a Safari or Savanna and you've got perfection. I wonder if you can paint a bison on the side of a bison. . .

Not Wolverine fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Nov 23, 2020

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Data Graham posted:

The size creep treadmill is one of the most depressing things, but inevitable

I like to imagine a focus group giving feedback like "It's great, I just wish there was a little less legroom"

If I can find a Toyota Sera comfy, AND figure out how to have sex in it when I'm 6f3in anyone can drive small cars.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:


"but an original Mini is too tiny!"

Yes, and that's why they're incredibly fun to drive. All car people need to drive a classic Mini at speed round some corners in their lives at least once to understand why these little tin cans are so beloved and why the fat turd that currently wears the name badge is poo poo in comparison.

Lord Ludikrous
Jun 7, 2008

Enjoy your tea...

Folks do realise that the Countryman is the big SUV/crossover MINI and that the MINI Hatch is substantially smaller right?

Like the Hatch is a fair bit bigger than the original but the same goes for all cars.

um excuse me
Jan 1, 2016

by Fluffdaddy
They're a fair bit bigger but that's because they need volume to have crumple zones. The interior remains very cozy, or claustrophobic, depending how you look at it.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



Lord Ludikrous posted:

Folks do realise that the Countryman is the big SUV/crossover MINI and that the MINI Hatch is substantially smaller right?

Like the Hatch is a fair bit bigger than the original but the same goes for all cars.

Yes but like why bother calling it MINI anymore then.

"Lol they finally made the MINI big enough to compete with all the rest of the SUVs"

It's like a sick joke

randomidiot
May 12, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 11 years!)

Humphreys posted:

If I can find a Toyota Sera comfy, AND figure out how to have sex in it when I'm 6f3in anyone can drive small cars.

1st gen Honda CRX sex. :colbert:

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:


Data Graham posted:

Yes but like why bother calling it MINI anymore then.

"Lol they finally made the MINI big enough to compete with all the rest of the SUVs"

It's like a sick joke

"it's a brand name now"

Yes and it's poo poo because of that.

Deus Ex Macklemore
Jul 2, 2004


Zelensky's Zealots
I had an 05 Mini Convertible S while I was stationed in Sardegna and that was the best thing. From the ferry landing to the airport was 45 minutes to an hour and the longest stretch of straight road was about 1/3 of a mile.

Probably not as much fun as an original MINI but it was still a hoot

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

ERM... Actually I have stellar scores on the surveys, and every year students tell me that my classes are the best ones they’ve ever taken.

there has to be a logical explanation right

like he got a flat but drove on it to the gas station, and that's the full-sized spare he's about to install, but he found that it was low on air as they always are

right

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

STR posted:

1st gen Honda CRX sex. :colbert:

Gotta be someone in the world that got road head in a Mclaren F1.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:


Colostomy Bag posted:

Gotta be someone in the world that got road head in a Mclaren F1.

...from 2 ladies or gents at the same time, right?

ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind

Data Graham posted:

Yes but like why bother calling it MINI anymore then.

can't call it a Maxi

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

Sagebrush posted:

there has to be a logical explanation right

like he got a flat but drove on it to the gas station, and that's the full-sized spare he's about to install, but he found that it was low on air as they always are

right
I haven't observed this personally but I like to pretend that he really just took off the wheel to fill it up

Finger Prince
Jan 5, 2007


Sagebrush posted:

there has to be a logical explanation right

like he got a flat but drove on it to the gas station, and that's the full-sized spare he's about to install, but he found that it was low on air as they always are

right

Changing over to his snow tires in the gas station parking lot and airing them up at the same time.

Deteriorata
Feb 6, 2005

Sagebrush posted:

there has to be a logical explanation right

like he got a flat but drove on it to the gas station, and that's the full-sized spare he's about to install, but he found that it was low on air as they always are

right

How about : the white car on the jack is not his. He just brought the tire from home and the car was already sitting there by chance.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

Lord Ludikrous posted:

Folks do realise that the Countryman is the big SUV/crossover MINI and that the MINI Hatch is substantially smaller right?

Like the Hatch is a fair bit bigger than the original but the same goes for all cars.

The fact MINI or Mini - in whatever iteration from the very moment Sir Alec Issigonis penned the original design right to even the BMW iteration - have a big rear end crossover is exactly the problem here. Mini came in all sorts of configuration from the start but at no point were they big SUV shitboxes.

Mini in it's orginal form did have a crossover of sorts - It was basically still on the same platform as the rest of the lineup and small. The original Countryman in fact was a longroof Classic Mini.

Code Jockey
Jan 24, 2006

69420 basic bytes free

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

The fact MINI or Mini - in whatever iteration from the very moment Sir Alec Issigonis penned the original design right to even the BMW iteration - have a big rear end crossover is exactly the problem here. Mini came in all sorts of configuration from the start but at no point were they big SUV shitboxes.

Mini in it's orginal form did have a crossover of sorts - It was basically still on the same platform as the rest of the lineup and small. The original Countryman in fact was a longroof Classic Mini.



that's adorable

razorscooter
Nov 5, 2008


https://twitter.com/wurp/status/1330918952990552064

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

The fact MINI or Mini - in whatever iteration from the very moment Sir Alec Issigonis penned the original design right to even the BMW iteration - have a big rear end crossover is exactly the problem here. Mini came in all sorts of configuration from the start but at no point were they big SUV shitboxes.

Mini in it's orginal form did have a crossover of sorts - It was basically still on the same platform as the rest of the lineup and small. The original Countryman in fact was a longroof Classic Mini.



This is cool and good.


looooool

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Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:


CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Mini in it's orginal form did have a crossover of sorts - It was basically still on the same platform as the rest of the lineup and small. The original Countryman in fact was a longroof Classic Mini.



My grandad and my dad went off to buy my mum her first car when I was about 4 and brought home a bright blue one of these. I of course loved it, she loving hated it. She kept it maybe a year and then convinced them to buy her a Metro. In beige... :cry:

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