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MetaJew posted:Only downside of coupes are the very long doors. Tight garages and rude people in parking lots ruin everything. downside??? give me the longest doors u got
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the lexus sc300 has the best doors of any car
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MetaJew posted:Only downside of coupes are the very long doors. Tight garages and rude people in parking lots ruin everything. What if doors had elbow joints?
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Raluek posted:downside??? Somebody here has a Lincoln Mk IV (maybe III?)
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Humphreys posted:What if doors had elbow joints?  accordion doors
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Wild EEPROM posted:the lexus sc300 has the best doors of any car Don't forget its predecessor, the Z20 Soarer:    Same compound hinges as the Z30 aka Lexus SC300. Plus a bunch of other cool stuff:             https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBxpwbDpKVg  I ended up keeping one thing from the car, the data cassette (!) and mounted it in a shadow box with a not-from-it Toyota wrench. This was a 1988 MZ20 and had every option available at the time besides the cool body kit. joat mon posted:Somebody here has a Lincoln Mk IV (maybe III?) Powershift and those might be the longest doors, the Soarer has to make up for its lack of length with flashy gimmicks 
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Not only are the Lincoln doors over 5 feet long, they open to about 80 degrees. When i park against the sidewalk at my house and open the door fully the bottom very nearly touches the grass on the other side of the sidewalk. I never go the short door preference. When they're both open a small amount it's much easier to get out of a long door coupe. There's a much bigger triangle. 
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Powershift posted:Not only are the Lincoln doors over 5 feet long, they open to about 80 degrees. When i park against the sidewalk at my house and open the door fully the bottom very nearly touches the grass on the other side of the sidewalk. The area of the triangle is irrelevant. The size of the gap perpendicular to the door (the altitude of the triangle) is what determines how hard it is to get out. Swinging your leg around to get out is usually the determinant, and a short door gives more space sooner.
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Yeah your drawing is misleading because the seat isn't that far back on the 2 door, it's in the same place relative to the firewall. Which means it's in the same place relative to the front hinge. The extra length is for back seat access.
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The door hinge on that soarer is wild. Is it kind of double jointed? The coolest doors I've seen were on my friends Aston v8 Vantage that didn't have any detents and could stay open at any angle. That should be standard on EVERY car.
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MetaJew posted:The door hinge on that soarer is wild. Is it kind of double jointed? It's why the SC300 was brought up as having the ~best doors~ because it also has compound hinges meant specifically to slide the pivot of the door away from the body of the car to allow a big coupe door not to have to open so wide:    Of course I also had a 5 speed SC300:    And my cupholder wasn't broken 
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Aaaaaand now I want an SC300. Because of door hinges.
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boxen posted:Aaaaaand now I want an SC300. Because of door hinges.
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When the first big JDM wave hit Canada, 1jz soarers were $3-4k. 2jz-gte aristos were 5-6k and r32 GTRs were 8-10k. I think we even joked about buying up a bunch for when the Americans can get them.
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KakerMix posted:Don't forget its predecessor, the Z20 Soarer: Man that's a good looking car.
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The vehicles I saw on a recent trip to Salt Lake City are the only cool things there. The Delica is a lot bigger than I expected:   I haven't seen a Ford Probe this clean in ages:  I had some time to kill before my flight out, so I visited the Land Cruiser Museum. The lobby of the Land Cruiser Museum:   A 30th anniversary 70-series LC produced in 2015:  An Australian fire service support vehicle:  The 2-doors are pretty nifty:  A support vehicle for a Japanese TV station, with broadcast test equipment onboard:  Tow truck Land Cruiser:        The Prado corner of the museum:   The most basic 100-series LC I had ever seen:  A narrow-body 100-series LC, which I had never seen before:  Tonight!  Fire truck Land Cruisers:    Land Cruisers with truck beds:     A special project Jonathan Ward did for Toyota during the development of the FJ Cruiser:  The distant cousins of Land Cruisers:  Mega Cruiser!   Even the wheelchair is upholstered in classic Toyota livery:  The very first Land Cruisers:  
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Godzilla07 posted:Words do not suffice. 
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MetaJew posted:The door hinge on that soarer is wild. Is it kind of double jointed? They also swing ever so slightly upwards
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Godzilla07 posted:The vehicles I saw on a recent trip to Salt Lake City are the only cool things That is definitely a clean anal probe.
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Godzilla07 posted:The vehicles I saw on a recent trip to Salt Lake City are the only cool things there. Gott im Himmel
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Raluek posted:downside??? In full flight it's a hair over 15 feet. The hood closed is at 35 inches, and fully open is at 78 inches.  Doors so long they need 2 ash trays.  A lot of cars exclude the mirrors in their width measurement. No need here because the mirrors are not the widest part of the car by a few inches. 
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Powershift posted:Doors so long they need 2 ash trays. New thread title
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Powershift posted:In full flight it's a hair over 15 feet. yeah that's the stuff
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Just came across this pic of Steve McQueen in his '57 300 SL, what a gorgeous car.
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Enos Cabell posted:Just came across this pic of Steve McQueen in his '57 300 SL, what a gorgeous car. I would be the worst time traveller. Especially as an Aussie pointing at pretty much every car lustfully.
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Drag coefficient of 0.12  https://twitter.com/midnightdorifto/status/1659545234370592769?t=TJO44RLCghSpP_BRam0Tsw&s=19
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Drag coefficient of 0.12 850cc. 140 mph out of 70 hp 
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That almost looks like Audi (and others) aborted Group S rally cars. Mini Daytona Prototype looking things.
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Friend of a friend bought something cool
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What is this?! https://twitter.com/midnightdorifto/status/1659641068777009152
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A much better looking Lexus GS with a manual? 10/10, would bang (through the gears).
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Seems like the perfect car to buy instead of a C63 AMG. Would have considered it if it came to the US.
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Snowy posted:Friend of a friend bought something cool 1) that thing is rad 2) is the frame supposed to be horseshoe shaped?
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The Germans famously produced unimogs at a teeter totter factory up until the fall of the Berlin wall
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Saw a Tatra 603 in the wild yesterday, probably for the first time actually on the road and not a museum or car show: Unfortunately I didn't have time to  vs this example on Wikipedia:  
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mobby_6kl posted:Saw a Tatra 603 in the wild yesterday, probably for the first time actually on the road and not a museum or car show: Yo! Neat loving cars. If any of y'all end up around Tampa or St. Pete, Fl, I'd highly recommend, Tampa Bay Automobile Museum. It focuses on Tatras and early FWD vehicles, but it has so much more. Dude went ham on collectibles in the early 90's, so they have what you'd expect from that. A fully working Aston Martin Lagonda, a Citroën SM, etc. There's a Tatra truck with Kégresse track system. A Schwimmwagen. A working replica of the Cugnot steam tractor.
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