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I love all of this. Would be a fun and expensive project to actually tool up all that equipment and go to classic carshows/races in full period attire and support.
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The first one there (or at least a similar one, don't know if it was a one-off or several were built. It had different markings.) was auctioned at Goodwood in 2018 and sold for a bit over 400k uk pounds, or around half a million USD.
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Imperador do Brasil posted:I was at the MB Museum in Stuttgart recently and saw this I want to say Jay Leno has something like this.
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Imperador do Brasil posted:I was at the MB Museum in Stuttgart recently and saw this quote:The special high-speed transporter for racing cars was a one-of-a-kind specimen built by the Mercedes-Benz testing department. The racing department used the transporter, also called the “Blue Wonder”, to chauffeur its racing cars in 1955 – at speeds of up to 106 mph. As the original no longer exists, the vehicle was completely reconstructed with the help of documents from the archives.
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klezmer life yo posted:I love that! No interior has ever been better than my MkIV Jetta. Red control accents, blue speedo numbers, just a comforting and whimsical color scheme, all tastefully laid out in nice rectilinear shapes. Everything since then has been gaudy oblique poo poo
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Humphreys posted:I love all of this. Would be a fun and expensive project to actually tool up all that equipment and go to classic carshows/races in full period attire and support. Apologies if I'm being dense and missing a joke, but this is exactly what the Goodwood Revival is. On a huge scale. Three days where a racetrack/airfield in Sussex gets turned into a weird time warp of (heavily idealised) 1940s-1960s petrol-burning. No out-of-period vehicles allowed inside the circuit boundary during the event, including support vehicles/transporters for the racers. Period dress is heavily encouraged and near-universally worn.
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BalloonFish posted:Apologies if I'm being dense and missing a joke, but this is exactly what the Goodwood Revival is. On a huge scale. Yes, as in that I would specifically want to do that sort of thing. I didn't want to bring up Goodwood as a single thing.
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Imperador do Brasil posted:I like: And regular cruise control. My only experience with advanced cruise is Toyota's implementation and it's loving trash and a hard turn-off to the tech. As mentioned, absurdly conservative, aggressive on braking, slow to speed back up, following distances that are almost dangerous in how they entice other drivers to cut you off. gently caress everything about it. Godholio fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Sep 27, 2023 |
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I like Volvo’s adaptive cruise control. And their jet fighter HUD. Well, that’s my story. Cheers!
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Volvo's adaptive cruise is great and I use it all the time. I rented a Toyota something at one point and their adaptive cruise was awful and way too twitchy.
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Chris Knight posted:Saab night mode ftw Man this was my childhood, going home late at night staring at all the green dash lights. No phone or electronics to distract from it. When I got old enough to drive that 900S I definitely did not appreciate what a cool car it was. Manual transmission and FWD that chirped the tires when you really booted it. It suffered a sad death when my older sibling inherited it, took it in for service, didn't notice that the mechanic had forgotten to refill the oil, and drove it hundreds of miles until the engine blew up. 
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Collateral Damage posted:Volvo's adaptive cruise is great and I use it all the time. I rented a Toyota something at one point and their adaptive cruise was awful and way too twitchy. Volvo's is great. Subaru's is pretty good once you make it stop beeping at you every time it acquires a new target. Mitsubishi and Hyundai, I can't complain about. I agree, Toyota's is the worst I've ever driven. In conclusion, adaptive cruise control is a land of contrasts.
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Safety Dance posted:Volvo's is great. Subaru's is pretty good once you make it stop beeping at you every time it acquires a new target. Mitsubishi and Hyundai, I can't complain about. I agree, Toyota's is the worst I've ever driven. I didn't notice much of a difference in the VW CUV I rented a few months ago and my 10 year older Toyota......I liked both of them. They both do the "something is too close and we're gonna brake!" thing on curves especially if you have a semi in the outside lane but other than that they seem to work fine-ish for long highway stretches. I wouldn't want to use them in traffic with any regularity. Perhaps that's what I'm missing from the better systems. Fortunately I'm rarely driving on a highway in traffic anymore so it's not really relevant for me.
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Careful, or I'll start dumping all my weird DS photos in the thread again
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Mr Lanternfly posted:Man this was my childhood, going home late at night staring at all the green dash lights. No phone or electronics to distract from it. When I got old enough to drive that 900S I definitely did not appreciate what a cool car it was. Manual transmission and FWD that chirped the tires when you really booted it. Honda hides it really well in press photos and real life, but the speedometer isn't back-lit like the rest of the gauges cluster. I don't know if it helps because it's next to a bright rear end screen full of distracting information, but they kind of maybe tried
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Hadlock posted:Careful, or I'll start dumping all my weird DS photos in the thread again I dare you 😤
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Hadlock posted:Careful, or I'll start dumping all my weird DS photos in the thread again oh no please, whatever you do don't do that do that
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I actually have a bunch queued up I'll see if I can find the time laterHadlock posted:Update Part         
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Collateral Damage posted:Volvo's adaptive cruise is great and I use it all the time. I rented a Toyota something at one point and their adaptive cruise was awful and way too twitchy. Fair enough. I haven't driven toyotas; only volvo, subaru and audi. And my maybe substantive two cents on it is that the thing I really like about adaptive cruise control is that it makes the whole driving experience take less of my attention and effort. Does it take a lot of effort and attention to drive? No, not if I'm on the highway. But it still requires some. And this just makes it easier. You can use it in traffic on somewhere like the BQE but it's not very good for serious NYC traffic which, you know, not really going to hold that against anyone. Two negatives: first, it doesn't slow down for curves. It stays in the lane and generally deals pretty well with cars in other lanes on curves but whatever the speed you set it at is what it's taking the curve at. That's fine if you're following someone who slows down but you can't totally zone out on stuff like that. And, candidly I don't think that's all that bad either. It would be nice if it slowed down for curves but I think for me at least the use case is really just making everything a little easier rather than driving for me. Second, if you live in NYC and your roads are utter trash with tar snakes and potholes and the like everywhere and the lane markings all worn out then the adaptive cruise control can get confused about where the lane is. This is another one I can't really fault it for. Without the context of "there is a very faint yellow line and I know how big this lane is generally" I too wouldn't know where the lane was. But it does make it less useful.
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builds character posted:Two negatives: first, it doesn't slow down for curves. It stays in the lane and generally deals pretty well with cars in other lanes on curves but whatever the speed you set it at is what it's taking the curve at. That's fine if you're following someone who slows down but you can't totally zone out on stuff like that. If you are slowing down on highway curves you should be regulated to use cruise control at all times so you stop screwing up traffic.
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Motronic posted:If you are slowing down on highway curves you should be regulated to use cruise control at all times so you stop screwing up traffic. This sounds like a regulatory scheme that will be difficult to enforce.
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builds character posted:This sounds like a regulatory scheme that will be difficult to enforce. Traffic enforcement will have to do then. Also for left lane bandits. Seriously, you shouldn't be slowing for (unsigned) curves on highways. Their design speed is identical to the rest of the highway. But perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you're slowing for/where.
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It almost look like a TVR with those beams.
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Motronic posted:Traffic enforcement will have to do then. Also for left lane bandits. It does not slow for any curves, whether or not they are on the highway. That is generally fine on the highway but if you're going on a backroad that's 55 there can be curves where the 25mph sign might be off but not by that much and it doesn't slow for those either.
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SlowBloke posted:It almost look like a TVR with those beams. I mean, the daylight between a TVR built in their blackpool "factory", and this thing being built in a personal shop isn't all that much
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I don't think the front is as successful (I think make the opening slightly larger), but man he nailed those rear haunches.
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Well I decided to give full adaptive cruise control a shot through rush hour traffic and it's not bad. A couple of issues with it, a motorcycle in front of me didn't quite register the same as a car, he was riding far to the right of the lane so I had to take over before it got too close. I didn't feel comfortable testing on open roads with that kind of outcome. It also took me a bit to get comfortable with the braking when he road went from majority 60+ down to 20. I opted to take over and slow more gradually than the radar would.
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Hadlock posted:Careful, or I'll start dumping all my weird DS photos in the thread again Do it, monsieur
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Hadlock posted:Careful, or I'll start dumping all my weird DS photos in the thread again Olympic Mathlete posted:I dare you 😤 I chien double dare you! joat mon fucked around with this message at 13:01 on Sep 28, 2023 |
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This is also outstanding. Top & Bottom.
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Episode 3 is out. This guy really needs a forum invite if he isn't already an AI Goon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njnF1rvpve4
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madeintaipei posted:I can't quite remember which vehicle I drove that had this (1st Gen Mercury Sable/Ford Taurus?), but it had double sunshades, one nesting in the other, so you could block sun/glare from the sides and the front. My Crown Vic (now) has double sunshades, stolen from a Grand Marquis. Our Kia did one better and had the double sunshades, plus the big one could be slid out on the pivot shaft for when you had it to the side window and sat a little too far back for it to reach normally. I wish the CV's did that. I'm tall and always have the seat slid as far back as possible. I can only imagine that struggling to hit 30 MPH on any kind of grade. Imperador do Brasil posted:I was at the MB Museum in Stuttgart recently and saw this That is some funky glass back there. I've seen pics of this rig before, but somehow never noticed the rear cab glass. builds character posted:It does not slow for any curves, whether or not they are on the highway. That is generally fine on the highway but if you're going on a backroad that's 55 there can be curves where the 25mph sign might be off but not by that much and it doesn't slow for those either. ...you shouldn't be using cruise control and not paying attention on 55 MPH roads with 25 MPH curves, maybe? For that matter, you shouldn't be using cruise control and not paying attention. It's not self-driving - it's cruise control. WTF?
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BuckyDoneGun posted:I don't think the front is as successful (I think make the opening slightly larger), but man he nailed those rear haunches. Yeah no kidding  Would love it more without the aero but it isn't mine so whatever floats your boat my dude 
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Darchangel posted:My Crown Vic (now) has double sunshades, stolen from a Grand Marquis. Our Kia did one better and had the double sunshades, plus the big one could be slid out on the pivot shaft for when you had it to the side window and sat a little too far back for it to reach normally. I'm not? But when you hit the brake it turns off adaptive cruise control. And of course I tested it to see if it would slow down if I didn't hit the brakes. If what you're saying is "yes, this is OK because people who are using it need to still be paying attention and slowing down for corners is part of paying attention" then ok but what if it slowed down for you too? That would be nice. And you should still pay attention even if it did that too. thread content: you can buy toby price's race car. https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/details/2020-custom-race-car-toby-price-motorsport-trophy-truck-manual-4x4/SSE-AD-15918493
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builds character posted:I'm not? But when you hit the brake it turns off adaptive cruise control. And of course I tested it to see if it would slow down if I didn't hit the brakes. Well, yeah, it would be cool, but the car would have to be aware of the road and conditions and that would actually be slipping into self-driving stuff, basically. Adaptive cruise is just a radar sensor (that's typically also used for emergency braking as well.)
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builds character posted:I'm not? But when you hit the brake it turns off adaptive cruise control. And of course I tested it to see if it would slow down if I didn't hit the brakes. Adaptive cruise control is just cruise control that can slow itself down if it sees a vehicle ahead of it. It's just like old school cruise control, if you set it to 80 mph, it will go 80 mph until you hit the brakes or turn it off. The adaptive part just means it can 'see' ahead and adjust itself as to not run into whatever vehicle is ahead of it. It will not, nor can it, adjust for curves up ahead in the road or steer. Various self driving things CAN do that, but adaptive cruise control is its own separate thing that doesn't have those aspects and instead is a part of a larger self-driving package that can handle the manipulating steering part. I am not aware of a system that will slow down for a corner that won't actually turn the wheel itself, though that doesn't mean it exists. If you do want that, you want a system that is more robust than JUST adaptive cruise control. The 2020 Volvo V60 we had could do that stuff and it was pretty great on the highway, just hang your hand on the wheel and it would do a bulk of the driving tedium and maintain lanes, ease up when switching lanes (that you had to initiate with the wheel and signal) while also using adaptive cruise control to maintain speed behind other vehicles. The downside of that Volvo is that it had strange build quality issues, poo poo infotainment that was actively bad to use, destroyed brake rotors, and was already starting to become a maintenance nightmare with 20k miles on the thing. Esspecially when it would just scream an alarm, slam on the brakes, and I am alone on a road with a median separating opposing traffic, also empty, with me looking around going  and there is nothing around that should have triggered it. That happened twice.
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