Post awesome AI car shit:First time Ive seen a Golf with a hole in one like that

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oxbrain: Aug 18, 2005; Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip and come on up to the mothership.

I get very angry about other peoples styling decisions.

edit:

Photo unrelated.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2012 09:35

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# ¿ May 5, 2024 16:18

oxbrain: Aug 18, 2005; Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip and come on up to the mothership.

Cat Terrist posted:

No, it wasnt.

Believe it or not, this was the at the time best believed setup to work with the technolgy and tyres they had. One of the big things they wanted was a all wheel genuine drift which sticky tyres and heaps of neg camber stop. The positive camber thence allowed the tyres to slip better and allow more throttle response to the drive when it's on a proper drift.

So basically, you couldnt really steer these things with the wheel at full race speed, it was all footwork.

Tracks also were no where near as good as we have now too.

We can laugh at how wrong they were at the time but it did work impressively well with a driver with huge balls.

Close. Bias ply tires were poo poo, but the culprit here is the poo poo metallurgy and steering design. Everything then used kingpin steering, which is bulky and weak. Positive camber puts the contact patch of the wheel under the kingpin, reducing the torsional force on it(and the bearing) and reducing or eliminating bump steer. Wagons had been using this trick for centuries.

And they didn't want an all wheel drift, it was just a byproduct of bias ply tires and their inherent sidewall flexibility. Early car tires would give 20-30 degrees of slip angle at max load, giving the appearance of a slide while actually being in full grip. Think of those slo-mo videos of drag racing tires wrinkling up, only it's the contact patch going one direction while the wheel is facing another. Modern tires still do this, it's basic physics of tire grip, but they only give a couple degrees of slip angle and you don't really notice.

edit: I'm in a really angry mood tonight.

oxbrain fucked around with this message at 10:59 on Aug 29, 2012

# ¿ Aug 29, 2012 10:35

oxbrain: Aug 18, 2005; Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip and come on up to the mothership.

Bitching about differences in aesthetics is not awesome AI car poo poo.

This is,

# ¿ Sep 30, 2012 09:50

oxbrain: Aug 18, 2005; Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip and come on up to the mothership.

Zlatan Imhobitch posted:

Getting trolled by first time thread posters. Woah.

Well when you set it up as perfectly as that who can blame them?

# ¿ Nov 25, 2012 18:14

oxbrain: Aug 18, 2005; Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip and come on up to the mothership.

Hello Spaceman posted:

You suck at operating a forklift. This guy doesn't. Assuming it isn't fake, et cetera and so on.

http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=34305

I've never seen someone try dropping a coin into a bottle with one, but I've picked up coins with a forklift before.

# ¿ Dec 15, 2012 18:58

oxbrain: Aug 18, 2005; Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip and come on up to the mothership.

Over complex, worth it.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2012 08:45

oxbrain: Aug 18, 2005; Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip and come on up to the mothership.

Image spam page!
:regd08:

# ¿ Jan 9, 2013 08:41

oxbrain: Aug 18, 2005; Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip and come on up to the mothership.

Rhyno posted:

I love Oxbrain mega posts.

OXBRAIN SHOULD I BUY A FESTIVA FOR $500???

The answer is yes.

http://youtu.be/9r_d-2cX9Co

# ¿ Jan 9, 2013 22:19

oxbrain: Aug 18, 2005; Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip and come on up to the mothership.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2013 23:07

oxbrain: Aug 18, 2005; Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip and come on up to the mothership.

angryhampster posted:

I found a thing

WE BAD

I don't even

http://www.bikemenu.com/photosuniracer.html

I think you just found my new favorite cause of death.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2013 06:03

oxbrain: Aug 18, 2005; Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip and come on up to the mothership.

Cat Terrist posted:

No, they are terrible cars. They arent even that good as a runaround, which is exactly what they are built for. A lovely Suzuki Swift of all things shows how a runabout should be done and that's still not exactly a good car. But it's a drat good little runabout.

Why would you think that a large four door family car was built as a run around?

A Suzuki swift won't fit five adults plus luggage.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2013 01:53

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# ¿ May 5, 2024 16:18

oxbrain: Aug 18, 2005; Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip and come on up to the mothership.

The megarule should be changed to allow for no more than one post of comments between pictures. If you want to post just a comment, do so, but if someone else beats you to it you get probated.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2013 21:06

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