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I thought this was entirely normal. I've seen terrible Engrish swearing, Japanese symbols that were probably pretty crude and obscene graffiti* on the inside of bumpers and things like fuel tank covers on Mazdas. Even straightlaced Japan likes to have fun where no one who counts/cares will ever see it. The ones that came in from Malaysia never did though, not sure why. *cartoon penises etc
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DropShadow posted:Whenever I see that, I assume the car has been in an accident and whoever rewired the rear taillights had no idea what they were doing. Or it was a late 70s/early 80s Holden (Isuzu) Gemini and the reverse light switch sometimes got tripped when you put it into 5th gear.
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I want to say you're in the wrong thread, then I look again and wait I don't know what the gently caress.
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This is the thread for posting terrible Evoque poo poo, right? Took that shot walking home from the pub last night. Yes, those are diamante highlights on the base of the "lashes".
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atomicthumbs posted:Who needs a trailer? Holden Torana Hatch Hutch. This was sold by the factory, to take advantage of the inexplicable Australian fascination with camping. 
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RuPaul Levesque posted:
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Nov 10, 2012 02:20
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Kangaroos are the absolute worst for jumping in front of your car in the middle of the night. I've only ever hit one, and I was in an old troop carrier 'Cruiser - big bullbar, very high bonnet (hood) so they tend to go under instead of over. I swear I was just driving along at around 30kph on this dirt track and it bounded along beside me for a while before just jumping to its doom in front of me. Apparently, before all the Australian megafauna was killed in the name of good eating, the main predator of kangaroos would run parallel with them and then take them from the side, so kangaroos that were capable of jumping in front of their predators were the ones that survived. That doesn't work so well with a couple of tons of steel bearing down on them.
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Nov 10, 2012 09:23
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BoostCreep posted:Saw this today. I think it belongs here.
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Nov 13, 2012 10:13
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Shifty Pony posted:Nope! This is *maybe* a $1000 dollar car in Australia, and everything here is at least twice the price of everything there. Here is one that looks like about the same. More mileage on it, and I would prefer a manual in one of those but I would 100% drive that for puttering down to the supermarket.
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Nov 15, 2012 01:12
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Actually dissss that's something I've wondered about NZ - do you guys need to salt the roads because of snow? Obviously we don't have problems with it here (Hobart doesn't count), but I figured over the Tasman you might need to deal with snow in that way.
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Nov 15, 2012 09:08
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My first thought is that the front end of that car looks like a 350Z that's been kicked in.
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Dec 7, 2012 09:20
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MonkeyNutZ posted:It's this video: Someone tell me who won, because from what I can tell, everyone there already lost a long time ago.
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Dec 28, 2012 06:01
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Brigdh posted:Is that a 2x4 that supposed to be reinforcing the rail? Not reinforcing. Is.
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Lightbulb Out posted:
At first glance I thought for sure the blue hose was covering a braided steel hose. It's not, is it. 
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Jan 9, 2013 12:24
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What VW Phaeton Owners Complain About - Hooniverse It must be amazing to have the kind of money that you have spare time to give a poo poo about whether the ashtrays under the audio system in your car pop out at the same speed.
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Code Jockey posted:I like how they did the exhaust ports on that truck, does that make me a bad person?
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Jan 31, 2013 11:54
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Geirskogul posted:The nissan isn't the most interesting thing in that pic. Is there a person sitting backwards on the motorcycle in front of you? I see an exhaust pipe, but the arm is bent towards the camera. And, if that's the case, why is the shoe pointed away? This is pretty much par for the course in Southeast Asia. When I was in Cambodia last year, the record was 6 people on a moped, 5 people in a single-cab Hilux and four people on a pushbike. Actually, the Hilux might have been in Thailand. Either way, no-one cars about minor traffic violations like having your entire extended family on your moped.
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Attention all douchebags, your Lord is in attendance. Click for big, if that floats your boat.
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General_Failure posted:Why not. My VW had an "ELITE" badge from a Mitsubishi and a "VULCAN" badge from a bar heater. I learned to drive in a 1985 Holden Camira* that had a crack in the firewall that made it flex when you pushed the clutch in, making the friction point vague at best and optional at worst**. Someone decided they would put a big blue oval badge on the back of it shortly after I took possession of it and drove it to Melbourne for the first time when I moved here. *your pity and derision are warranted **this might have been standard
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Feb 18, 2013 09:35
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dissss posted:Ruined Evo 5
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Feb 23, 2013 09:59
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Crustashio posted:There's a horribly riced out NSX around here (think the level of those aussie MR2s) and it makes me so sad everytime I see it. Hey. Hey. New Zealand MR2s. We only claim ownership of New Zealand things when it suits us (see Phar Lap, Russel Crowe when he's not throwing phones at people). Having said that, there are plenty of those miserable Intruder body kits over here as well, they are just more likely to be on auto-trans, front-drive shitboxes like Camrys. At least an MR2 has some manner of driving cachet.
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Feb 28, 2013 04:23
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Dammit, don't you hate it when these things overflow? Bloody apprentice didn't empty it this week. Oh wait, no, he was emptying it, he just didn't close off the valves properly  
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G-Mach posted:Oh my God. Also keep in mind that this choice is infinitely superior than what most people who just bought a new tractor do: drive it home at 9 miles an hour on the freeway.
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dev null posted:I really wish I could buy a NEW small pickup truck in the US, that's terrible car stuff right there.    
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Nov 2, 2014 23:39
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Seat Safety Switch posted:What even is it, a 200SX? Can't be, those have a longitudinally-mounted engine.
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Nov 5, 2014 07:48
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PhoenixWing posted:The last 200SX in the U.S was based on the Sentra platform and came with a transversely mounted GA16 or SR20 What? No, you're mistaken my friend, a 200SX came with 250hp and a six-speed manual. They were great cars, emissions laws killed them off but you can still get them used. Plenty of performance parts can be had for as mild or wild a build as you want. Here, check it out: this is a 2001 Spec-R in white.  Wow they buttfucked that badge for all it was worth, didn't they?
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jamal posted:You must not be in the US. We didn't get that car. Yeah I'm Australian. Also I'm in denial about what lows car companies will stoop to in order to make a buck off a previously prestigious model name.
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Nov 5, 2014 08:29
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Slavvy posted:I've driven a pulsar hatch with an SR16VE. Diabolical and hilarious! Oh it's a Pulsar. Yeah, gotcha, they weren't so bad. A friend of mine had a GTI-R a few years back that would chew the hell out of front wheel bearings for some reason, but was a bunch of fun when it was on the road. We used to tear around the place when I had my Familia.
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Nov 5, 2014 09:50
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dissss posted:Blade Master G Didn't he rap on Liquid Swords with The RZA?
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Nov 10, 2014 09:22
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Slavvy posted:That's a respectable figure for the 80's. BMW's first 4.0L DOHC v8 made 280hp in 1993. You could reasonably expect around 150-200hp from a NA Japanese ~3.0L engine of the time. Especially with American emissions standards and petrol of the day. Yeah the 5.0L Holden engine of the early-mid 90s made 185kW, or about 250hp. Bigger engine for even less power than the BMW!
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Fo3 posted:That was the clubsport version wasn't it? Standard 5L v8 from holden and ford only had 165kW. The ford stock standard 4L straight 6cyl had 157kW by the mid 90s, with more to come. Yeah, SS had 165, Clubsport had 185 and GTS (lol) had 215. Boat meet anchor.
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Uthor posted:A coworker was complaining about a clunk every time he shifted his MS6. He took it in and they gave him back the random light bulb that was rolling around under his seat. Back when I was working for Mazda Australia we had a '98 626, less than a year old at the time, come in from one of the dealerships with a weird kind of clunk. Every time you took off there would be a strange rolling noise that would then occur again on coming to a stop. It wouldn't happen on acceleration or braking, unless you were taking off from or coming to a stop. The noise was coming from the bottom of the car but was very hard to pinpoint, and the dealership had spent 30-odd hours taking various bits of the car apart only to come up empty. We put our chassis microphone system on it and determined the noise was coming from the sill underneath the driver's door. We used a very expensive (for the time) camera-on-a-stick that we inserted into one of the holes that the trim cover pins in to, to discover a single dollar coin rolling backwards and forwards along the bodywork. We thought about cutting into the sill to get it, but in the end we just sprayed some expanding foam into it and called it a day.
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Fucknag posted:My point was that "a big suv is safer than an old compact" isn't true at all because big suvs and trucks can be hilariously unsafe just as often. No but you see if I draw the target on the side of the barn after I've fired at it, every one of my shots will be bullseyes!
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Darchangel posted:
Yeah the first time I ever drove an Integra Type-R I thought it was a piece of poo poo with no guts. My mate that owned it pointed out that the tacho goes to 9k and that you have to wring its neck to get anywhere. Still a piece of poo poo though, but for completely different reasons. 1500quidporsche posted:No clue where that wing is from but I throughly enjoyed "Queensland - The Smart State" being on that car's plate The biggest, nastiest lie I've ever seen on a car.
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Slavvy posted:Did aussie get ITR's?? Yep, it was fairly late in their life cycle but we did get them. And they were actually pretty good... Maker Of Shoes posted:I thought ITRs were fairly accepted as an extremely capable FWD car. ...except for that particular one which had been purchased second hand from someone who owned it for two years and really didn't look after it. As I'm sure everyone reading this knows, VTEC really doesn't like when you miss oil changes. This one didn't like it to the tune of a broken camshaft at the pulley, which resulted in the car no longer running, and I don't think those are non-interference engines. My mate took an absolute beating on that because of the price difference between what he paid for it and what he sold it for. The guy he sold it to was also a friend of a friend who was far smarter about this sort of thing. He sorted out the engine, pulled the running gear out and put it in a Leyland Mini for track work.
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If I wanted one of those 1" drive 6000ft/lb monsters, what should I be googling for, and what sacrifices will I need to make? Just a goat, or are we moving to actual human sacrifice territory?
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Git Mah Belt Son posted:Maybe it's just in the Northeast, but I thought that simcon roofs died off in the 90s. Apparently I was wrong. Wait what? That car isn't a convertible? What the gently caress?
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Zochness posted:Saw this the other day: Dress for the job you want, not the job you have?
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