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Went to a meetup my buddies from the Fish & Drifts YT channel put on. It was off the cuff and was super cool to chat with people whom I know the car but not the owner. Saw some very old friends that drifted apart due to ... well life. My photos are potatoes cos I was really there to catch up and live in the moment instead of obsessing about documenting every car. Although never fear! I will be spotto'd a LOT in the coming youtube video dammit.     Got to see my mates ratrod a bit more up close.   There was also a 'Lure Casting' Competition for the kiddos which was super sweet Humphreys fucked around with this message at 11:15 on Jul 23, 2022 |
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Here's some Italian steel of varying quality from a small meet earlier today: Fiat X 1/9:  Random Ferraris:  Fiat 124 Spider and a very 80's modded GTV:  Fiat Multipla:  Alfasud:  159 SW and Giulia Veloce:  A random GT:  Quattroporte:  Some vanity pics of the Tipo 916 GTV/Spider hangout, mine's the grey at the front:  
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weirdly chilly pussy posted:Random Ferraris: Love me a 599 GTO absolutely bonkers car
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The Hyunday N Vision 74 is just so achingly cool. I don't know who their lead designer is, but I do know they're on point.   
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It's a straight love letter to the 80's. I love it.
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Would buy that car immediately if it were, let's say, sub $50k. Ideally sub $40k but I'm sure inflation or something means that will never happen.
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Finger Prince posted:The Hyunday N Vision 74 is just so achingly cool. I don't know who their lead designer is, but I do know they're on point. They better just make it and win all the prizes.
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Finger Prince posted:The Hyunday N Vision 74 is just so achingly cool. I don't know who their lead designer is, but I do know they're on point. This is one of those rare cars where you buy it and just own it 100% stock until the day you die. I would put down a deposit for this car tomorrow so long as it were not a hydrogen powered model
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Hadlock posted:This is one of those rare cars where you buy it and just own it 100% stock until the day you die. I would put down a deposit for this car tomorrow so long as it were not a hydrogen powered model But just imagine the barn find in 80 years, when some hivetuber tries to figure out how to get the hydrogen system to hold pressure after sitting for 78 years without running!
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Gonna be hard to do that if they bury me innit
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Finger Prince posted:But just imagine the barn find in 80 years, when some hivetuber tries to figure out how to get the hydrogen system to hold pressure after sitting for 78 years without running! So basically Future Vice Grip Garage? Because I'm all for that.
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MetaJew posted:Would buy that car immediately if it were, let's say, sub $50k. Ideally sub $40k but I'm sure inflation or something means that will never happen. We all know after the Supra came out, no one who works a 9-5 will ever be able to afford it, it'll be terrible for what it actually is and youtubers will just swap a 2J into it once it hits the auction market. Large Testicles fucked around with this message at 08:20 on Jul 24, 2022 |
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MetaJew posted:Would buy that car immediately if it were, let's say, sub $50k. Ideally sub $40k but I'm sure inflation or something means that will never happen. The current toyota mirai goes for 49,500$, highly unlikely that a far cooler hydrogen car retails for less than that.
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Finger Prince posted:The Hyunday N Vision 74 is just so achingly cool. I don't know who their lead designer is, but I do know they're on point. I can't remember if it was Kia or Hyundai who has BMWs old designer.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I can't remember if it was Kia or Hyundai who has BMWs old designer. Kia.
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SlowBloke posted:Kia. Oh, I just found out that Kia is an offshoot company of Hyundai.  So they have Peter Schreyer who seems to overlook both as a 'executive design advisor' and there's obviously a split between companies with actual designers from what I can see. Simon Loasby is Hyundai's 'head of Hyundai style' but that could just be a wanky job title. The true heroes will likely never get named. https://www.hyundai.news/eu/articles/press-releases/interview-with-simon-loasby-head-of-hyundai-style.html
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Hyundai comming out with a far truer to the BMW M1 Procar than what BMW could do today is not something I thought I would ever see but drat.
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Oh man this angle. If it's electric and has a launch mode it should make noises like a tesla coil powering up.
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Give it a turbo 4-banger with 280-300ish hp and it stands an excellent chance of being my next new car.
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Godholio posted:Give it a turbo 4-banger with 280-300ish hp and it stands an excellent chance of being my next new car. They should offer it in both flavours imo.
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honda whisperer posted:Oh man this angle. https://www.bosshunting.com.au/motors/electric/hyundai-n-vision-74/ So it's RWD, two electric motors, nominal 670 hp hybrid featuring both hydrogen fuel cell (Which is claimed to be 4.2kgs and able to be refilled/recharged? in 5 minutes) AND battery thats about 60kWh No chance it'll be production esp with crash regs as they are but that fuel cell / battery hybrid, that's something I can see making it to a production car
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Finger Prince posted:The Hyunday N Vision 74 is just so achingly cool. I don't know who their lead designer is, but I do know they're on point. i feel that i should know this and i'll probably feel embarrassed upon someone answering, but what is that beautiful wedge behind the n vision 74?
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I'm gonna laugh if this is the car that makes the US develop hydrogen infrastructure.
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Gomi Day posted:i feel that i should know this and i'll probably feel embarrassed upon someone answering, but what is that beautiful wedge behind the n vision 74? It looks like a italdesign Pony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Pony
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Gomi Day posted:i feel that i should know this and i'll probably feel embarrassed upon someone answering, but what is that beautiful wedge behind the n vision 74? its a coupe concept called the Pony by Giorgetto Giugiaro from 1974 that was the basis for the Hyundai Pony 5 door.... and eventually a certain DeLorean https://www.hyundai.com/worldwide/en/brand/an-icon-from-the-past
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SlowBloke posted:It looks like a italdesign Pony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Pony CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:its a coupe concept called the Pony by Giorgetto Giugiaro from 1974 that was the basis for the Hyundai Pony 5 door.... and eventually a certain DeLorean  i'd take that pony for a ride.
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The heritage series of restomods is also a proclick, esp the grandeur https://www.hyundai.com/worldwide/en/brand/heritage-series-grandeur
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Dudes rock https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1548356788885635072?t=WcGd-nj-fTRPzP1UXkPv2A&s=19
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81miles  https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1987-buick-gnx-35/
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Finger Prince posted:The Hyunday N Vision 74 is just so achingly cool. I don't know who their lead designer is, but I do know they're on point. yes
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I feel like there's an endless supply of super low mileage I find them incredibly uncompelling. They were grandpa cars even when released.
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There’s a seemingly endless supply of clean GNs and Turbo-Ts yes, for exactly the reasons described. They only built 547 GNXs though. They’re rare even accounting for everyone squirreling them away with sub-100mi odometer readings. The entire turbo 3.8 line is fondly remembered for a reason, too. They were legitimately fast outliers in the depths of the power doldrums.
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Plugged the sticker price ($29k) of a '87 gnx into a historical investment calculator pegged to the DJI (stock market) and it spat out $545k Looks like the 81 mile GNX is going to fetch $150k I've never been much of a fan of that car either Somewhere, somebody has a 12 mile 2000 Mercury Marauder convinced they're sitting on a gold mine
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MrYenko posted:They only built 547 GNXs though. 1/4 of that is an endless supply for such a turd. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Hadlock posted:Plugged the sticker price ($29k) of a '87 gnx into a historical investment calculator pegged to the DJI (stock market) and it spat out $545k lmao AUCTION RESULT High Bid USD $170,000 (Reserve Not Met)
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I think I saw the GNX Barrett Jackson in Feb. The seller is on crack.
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My dad has an '87 that was my mom's daily driver in the mid-late 90's and I did some Friday Night Drags in it in high school. I think it has about 60? thousand miles on it and is on a salvage title/VIN at this point after it got stolen and returned to us. I don't understand keeping these (or really any) car as a garage queen. They're meant to be driven and enjoyed, and if they sit you still have to perform maintenance so why not use them?
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What a loving waste of a car. Someone will buy it and hide it away or put it in a museum. Cars like this were meant to be driven.
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The classic/collector market is correcting itself and a lot of people haven't gotten the memo.
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Well I think also it's a Buick, which has name recognition, as mentioned up thread, as a grandpa car brand (except weirdly in China) and the market for factory Buick 1980s hotrods has got to be vanishingly small, especially at that end of the market The GNX that sold in February for $500k was the very last gnx, also the very last car built at some factory, signed by what looks like every guy who worked at the factory. This one is just an overpriced, mostly failed marketing gimmick from the 80s (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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