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Enos Cabell posted:I wish I had a better pic handy, but my buddy has an M5 in "snapper rocks blue" and it's one of the best colors I've seen in person. 
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Hadlock posted:VW SP2 out of Brazil. Factory design, not a kit car Dick and balls e-brake handle. Better times.
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Collateral Damage posted:But does it have a rotary? According to that press release quote:Mazda unveils world premiere of sports EV “Iconic SP” equipped with rotary engine
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Data Graham posted:In a world where every formerly idiosyncratic carmaker is converging on making 9 different sizes of barely differentiated SUVs, I welcome anyone who keeps doing weird poo poo I guess you have to pay for weird niche car projects somehow. If companies have to sell millions of grey burb beaters so that I can still buy sports cars, fine by me. Collateral Damage posted:I guess technically an electric motor is a rotary. I'm simple, if it's spinnin' I'm grinnin'.
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Data Graham posted:In a world where every formerly idiosyncratic carmaker is converging on making 9 different sizes of barely differentiated SUVs, I welcome anyone who keeps doing weird poo poo
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mobby_6kl posted:
Holy poo poo, I missed the pop ups! Niiiiiiice. Mustache Ride posted:So awesome. Please call it the RX-9 and build it, you'll sell at least *counts heads* 5. Or 6. Accurate. Safety Dance posted:Leave it to Mazda to figure out how to fit apex seals in an EV. lol. For real, though, it’s a single rotor ICE range extender.
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Darchangel posted:For real, though, it’s a single rotor ICE range extender. So you're saying it should be called the REx-9?
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Safety Dance posted:So you're saying it should be called the REx-9? edit:  I just assumed it was like the MX-30, but actually, upon reading the article it's a 2-rotor/electric combo, with the rotary running off of "carbon neutral" fuel. So, maybe a series hybrid? Running... alcohol?
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Wasn't mazda aiming for hydrogen fuel at some point? Rotary nut mate of mine keeps going on about it.
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Darchangel posted:For real, though, it’s a single rotor ICE range extender. The rotary in the Iconic SP is a twin rotor for a hybrid. ili posted:Wasn't mazda aiming for hydrogen fuel at some point? Rotary nut mate of mine keeps going on about it. Rotarys run quite well on alternative fuels. One of the oddities of them is that they run best either with stupid low RON or really high RON - ICE of coruse doesnt handle low RON well at all and thence engineer a fuel system to deliver hydrogen and it works. Mazda has had production fleets of rotary powered hydrogen fuelled cars for 2 decades. Also Mazda have been blue ballign for years with beautiful concepts. Either poo poo or get the gently caress off the pot Mazda, sick of this edging bullshit.
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Collateral Damage posted:I guess technically an electric motor is a rotary. It spits out pieces of the motor brushes out of the uhhhhhh uhhhhhh......... The back somewhere.
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https://www.roundcat.jp/roundcatrally I posted about this in this thread earlier in the year but the kei car rally I went to in April put on by my buddy Clark finally got it's fancy video and website up. His idea is to put on one every year (or maybe twice a year) focused on driving Japan-normal cars (specifically keis but it isn't a hard rule) through the Japanese countryside. He's not exactly sure where it will end up but he wants to avoid the high end that all these sorts of tours end up becoming, we'll see if he can keep it away from that. This was the first one, we hung out with the Built By Legends guys and the joined us for the first part along with Spoon sending along a modified N-One (the yellow one). Japan is a very gorgeous place and this sort of stuff is very much my jam. EDIT My car was the green Jimny
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The company that makes die cast models of silly cars made one of the Fageol TC and Chevy Turbo Titan III   They've made some other neat stuff this year, too. https://www.autocult-models.de/models/
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mobby_6kl posted:
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Mr Lanternfly posted:I still think the Furai was Mazda's coolest concept car. "Although the car's remains were initially taken to Mazda's Advanced Design Studio in Irvine, California, the ultimate fate of the Furai's charred remains is not publicly known." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_Furai IT MIGHT YET LIVE
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Jonny Nox posted:Wouldn’t that make it Mazda’s hottest concept car? For a time, yes
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Olympic Mathlete posted:https://twitter.com/blakesley_/status/1669127765533024257?t=CENiofEe8QZnC62DgkV0Bg&s=19 Trisomy XX but in a car
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Speak no I'll of the vehicross. A lovely car before it's time.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:The rotary in the Iconic SP is a twin rotor for a hybrid. Yeah, noted that when I had time to read the full article, and followed up above quote:Rotarys run quite well on alternative fuels. One of the oddities of them is that they run best either with stupid low RON or really high RON - ICE of coruse doesnt handle low RON well at all and thence engineer a fuel system to deliver hydrogen and it works. Mazda has had production fleets of rotary powered hydrogen fuelled cars for 2 decades. There are anecdotes of folks running the '70s 13Bs on Kerosene in the Yamaguchi RX-7 book. Basically runs on anything flammable that you can stuff through the carby!  on the blue-balling... Build it, Mazda!Powershift posted:The company that makes die cast models of silly cars made one of the Fageol TC and Chevy Turbo Titan III Aw, man, I want that Titan, but 190 Euros, and who knows how much by the time it gets to the US.
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Are there ways around the 25 year rule for alternative fuel vehicles? There's hydrogen fill stations relatively close to me
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The Door Frame posted:Are there ways around the 25 year rule for alternative fuel vehicles? There's hydrogen fill stations relatively close to me Not in any way that's practical, no. It's always a time frame or special type of vehicle and they all cost $$$$$$$$$$.
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Ferdinand Piech's personal E39 M5 that had a VW W10 engine swapped into it: 
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Watching the cinematic masterpiece Rollerball(2002), and among the sea of awesome vehicles, i noticed one i never really caught before.  An Olds Aurora on super chonky tires with side pipes. I was probably distracted by the jeep on the other side of the screen. 
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I watched Car with a friend last night, the one with a killer car. It was the second film (after I Let You In, which I highly recommend) and we maybe should have called it quits even if it weren't for the wine, beer, whisky, and weed. We'd both doze off during the interminable 70s dialog then wake up for the car murder, thanks to the sudden noises, engine roar, murderous honking, etc. It's a hell of a way to watch a movie
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Powershift posted:Watching the cinematic masterpiece Rollerball(2002), and among the sea of awesome vehicles, i noticed one i never really caught before. I had the same color Aurora for a while. Muffler failed almost as soon as I got it and payday was a week away. The 4.0 Northstar sounds mean as hell straight piped. HOA disagreed to the tune of $300 in fines. Philistines.
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Great series, but you have to watch out for hop ons https://twitter.com/norramot/status/1717948229646475407
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