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CornHolio posted:Wankel doesn't even count as an engine, it's more of a paperweight that occasionally, when the stars align and the right blood sacrifices are made, makes a small amount of power. Yes the last one was a paperweight, but that's the point of a comeback isn't it? The last one sucked, and it would be cool to see mazda get it right and bring us an awesome performing successful rotary, but in all likelihood it will probably never happen.
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CornHolio posted:Did you jokers not see that episode of Top Gear? Come on, man! There's far more to "the modern car" than the layout of the controls, and that layout being the one that stuck was basically luck. They even said as much at the end of the segment. And they deemed the Austin 7 to be the "first modern car" anyway, who didn't watch the episode now?  Streamlined mass production, economical V8s and the like were all the result of intentional, concentrated efforts to achieve the desired effect. I feel like that carries more weight.
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CornHolio posted:STILL MADE Inline 6s being made: by BMW or various diesel configs. Toyota's? Gone. Nissan's? Gone. Jeep's? Gone. The inline 6's last hurrah was the mid-90s and there's nothing you can say or do to prove otherwise.
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Phone posted:Inline 6s being made: by BMW or various diesel configs. GM made a bajillion i5/i6s until recently.
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Question 11: In previous Sheep Games, we've discussed what makes a sports car a sports car. Let's talk about the opposite - this is the most important feature or characteristic for an everyday car, suitable for commuting, errands and the general Monday-Friday grind.   Question 12: For an everyday car without a performance-level trim, this car is a fantastic driver's car.    Answers soon...
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Dec 28, 2015 22:29
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Wat? All 3 of those have a performance trim if we're just going for models and not years.
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Dec 28, 2015 22:37
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Point of the game is to be sheepiest, not correct! But yeah, Boo if those actually are top pics. I stand by my decision.
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Elmnt80 posted:Wat? All 3 of those have a performance trim if we're just going for models and not years. I have a problem calling the Miata an "everyday car" - it's a goddamn RWD two-seater convertible, every trim is a performance trim. But seeing as you haven't been able to get a Mazdaspeed6 in drat near a decade, or a Mazdaspeed3 since the redesign, I'd say either of those are fair choices. I may have voted for one of those two cars 
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Yet another attempt to ace up in flames.
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They killed off all the mazdaspeeds? I thought they still had them as an option. Never really cared for most of Mazda so I don't pay too much attention to their offerings.
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I don't remember what I said for these answers, but I bet it's ridiculous.
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Bajaha posted:They killed off all the mazdaspeeds? I thought they still had them as an option. Never really cared for most of Mazda so I don't pay too much attention to their offerings. Yeah, the MS6 was a short run, and the MS3 hasn't come back with the current generation. I think it only persisted from 2010 to 2013 because the 2010 Mazda3 was still very similar to the 2004-09 Mazda3 under the skin.
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Question 11: In previous Sheep Games, we've discussed what makes a sports car a sports car. Let's talk about the opposite - this is the most important feature or characteristic for an everyday car, suitable for commuting, errands and the general Monday-Friday grind. Reliability - 17 Freelop literally a fish InitialDave The Locator Somewhat Heroic Alarbus extreme_accordion Tahm Bwady IOwnCalculus leica Motronic KYOON GRIFFEY JR Jack B Nimble CannonFodder NitroSpazzz SFH1989 zundfolge Comfortable/Good Seats - 8 Wrar Mat_Drinks Godholio sadnessboner some_admin LloydDobler Enourmo Elmnt80 Enjoyable - 5 CornHolio Terrible Robot 1500quidporsche cursedshitbox Tomarse Fuel Efficiency - 4 Liquid Communism bolind Ephphatha SharkyTM Four doors - 3 YF19pilot Bajaha ilkhan A good stereo - 3 angryhampster GrantC El Jebus Hatchback - 2 Phone scuz Cupholder(s) - 2 stevobob Fjelltorsk ACES: Exceptionally low tire wear - ShittyPostmakerPro Cruise control - Cached Money Truck bed - Blugu64 Champagne cooler. - KozmoNaut Cargo room - Seat Safety Switch A loud horn. - Naked Bear Automatic transmission - Das Volk AMC - Ozmiander Bluetooth - Meatpimp Realising you have no life anymore it's all suburbs, boring job, fat wife and deadbeat kids - CAT INTERCEPTOR HVAC - Deeters Practical interior space - CharlesM Question 12: For an everyday car without a performance-level trim, this car is a fantastic driver's car. Mazda 3 - 7 Wrar Liquid Communism IOwnCalculus KYOON GRIFFEY JR CannonFodder Jack B Nimble CharlesM Mazda Miata - 6 Freelop The Locator Alarbus Motronic SharkyTM LloydDobler Mazda 6 - 4 Tahm Bwady Mat_Drinks Deeters angryhampster Mazda 2 - 3 Phone Seat Safety Switch Enourmo Ford Fiesta - 3 CornHolio literally a fish InitialDave Honda Accord - 3 zundfolge leica extreme_accordion Ford Focus - 2 Fjelltorsk some_admin Volvo 240 - 2 ShittyPostmakerPro Terrible Robot ACES: Mitsubishi Colt - Cached Money Suzuki DRZ 400 E - Ephphatha Every car has a sport trom now wtf - stevobob LaFerrari - scuz F-150 - Blugu64 Any mazda. - bolind FAHV HUNNERT HOSS POWAH - KozmoNaut Subaru Justy - 1500quidporsche Kia Cee'd (gently caress, idk) - Naked Bear Nissan Maxima - Das Volk Hyundai Accent - YF19pilot BMW 128i - Somewhat Heroic Hyundai Genesis Sedan - GrantC Mini Cooper - sadnessboner DMC-12 - Godholio Toyobaru BFRZ - Bajaha Volvo S60 - El Jebus AMC - Ozmiander War Rig - cursedshitbox Ford Fusion - ilkhan Cadillac XTS - Meatpimp Doing a MILF doggy-style - CAT INTERCEPTOR E30 - NitroSpazzz Toyota Aygo - Tomarse SL500 - Elmnt80 Honda Fit - SFH1989 MrChips fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Dec 29, 2015 |
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Scores after question 12: leica - 151 Alarbus - 140 Elmnt80 - 131 literally a fish - 130 Somewhat Heroic - 128 Wrar - 125 Enourmo - 125 SFH1989 - 123 NitroSpazzz - 118 zundfolge - 117 Jack B Nimble - 116 IOwnCalculus - 114 Bajaha - 113 Mat_Drinks - 112 Das Volk - 110 CannonFodder - 106 LloydDobler - 101 angryhampster - 99 Freelop - 98 Liquid Communism - 98 Motronic - 98 CornHolio - 97 The Locator - 97 Deeters - 93 Meatpimp - 92 CharlesM - 91 Tahm Bwady - 86 sadnessboner - 86 GrantC - 85 SharkyTM - 83 some_admin - 82 Blugu64 - 74 bolind - 71 Terrible Robot - 69 stevobob - 65 extreme_accordion - 64 El Jebus - 64 KYOON GRIFFEY JR - 55 Phone - 52 Fjelltorsk - 52 Cached Money - 51 YF19pilot - 48 Naked Bear - 47 InitialDave - 43 1500quidporsche - 35 ilkhan - 33 Seat Safety Switch - 32 cursedshitbox - 31 Ephphatha - 27 scuz - 27 Tomarse - 24 Godholio - 21 ShittyPostmakerPro - 15 KozmoNaut - 14 CAT INTERCEPTOR - 14 Ozmiander - 13 See you all tomorrow for the reveal of Questions 13 and 14! MrChips fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Dec 29, 2015 |
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God dammit i discounted the 3 because of the Mazdaspeed as well, else it would have been my answer. gently caress.
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Whoops, I hosed up my answer to question 12. Can't remember what I originally meant to put there.
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MrChips posted:Question 11: In previous Sheep Games, we've discussed what makes a sports car a sports car. Let's talk about the opposite - this is the most important feature or characteristic for an everyday car, suitable for commuting, errands and the general Monday-Friday grind. 
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Apparently "Ability to jack up the inside rear tire while cornering" got distilled down to "enjoyable"
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I answered Miata as a joke because of the performance trim thing, and... got 6 points.  Also, apparently "a running engine" was distilled to "reliable". Heh. I have completely failed at being at the bottom, or the top, of this game. I am 
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1500quidporsche posted:Apparently "Ability to jack up the inside rear tire while cornering" got distilled down to "enjoyable" That is enjoyable though, right? The Locator posted:I answered Miata as a joke because of the performance trim thing, and... got 6 points. The joke is there has never been a performance trim for the Miata. 
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Really? Noone else for the volvo 240? You're all missing out.
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Mazdaspeed 3/6/Miata, Fiesta ST, Focus ST. Most of the answers to #12 are invalid. Honda Accord as a "fantastic driver's car"?  #12 needed more work, people. Up your sheep game.
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MrChips posted:That is enjoyable though, right? I suppose, I've had some major misfires this game so I'm hoping to just cause havoc for others at this point.
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I misinterpreted the questionquote:Question 12: For an everyday car without a performance-level trim, this car is a fantastic driver's car. as quote:Question 12: For an everyday car without a trim, this car is a fantastic driver's car.  e: I'm steadfast in my answer though, all you other motherfuckers need to learn how to read.
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MrChips posted:The joke is there has never been a performance trim for the Miata. Monster (Aftermarket wasn't specified)
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Holy moly this might be the highest position I've ever had in a sheep game given the amount of aces I've gotten this is a hollandaise miracle
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meatpimp posted:Honda Accord as a "fantastic driver's car"? Honestly it's the only car I could think of without any performance trim with a manual that would be close. The mazdaspeeds threw me off, and the Fiesta and Focus obviously have performance trims so I dunno. Also lol at the Miata being an everyday car. MrChips posted:The joke is there has never been a performance trim for the Miata. Mazdaspeed Miata
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MrChips posted:Question 11: In previous Sheep Games, we've discussed what makes a sports car a sports car. Let's talk about the opposite - this is the most important feature or characteristic for an everyday car, suitable for commuting, errands and the general Monday-Friday grind. I knew this one was going to ruin my score. 
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leica posted:Mazdaspeed Miata That's like, two chiles to the Miata's one chile.
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ShittyPostmakerPro posted:Really? Noone else for the volvo 240? I put in the 240 but I wrote it as a 244 specifically (because that's what I drove) and I guess MrChips didn't notice they were the same basic car. 
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Oh poo poo, I didn't even notice. Well, better for me, I'm still in 2nd place.
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Fixt. Now you can touch your Volvos together.
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meatpimp" posted:Mazdaspeed 3/6/Miata, Fiesta ST, Focus ST. Most of the answers to #12 are invalid. Honda Accord as a "fantastic driver's car"? Car mags always talk about how nice the Accord is to drive, Car & Driver especially, and like leica mentioned it's one the few mainstream sedans you can still get with a manual transmission, which is also highly praised. It's also one of the few cars that I can think of that's never had an explicit performance trim in its lifetime as a model-by that standard even the Volvo 240 is out because of the 80s Turbos.
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To be fair to the accord isn't the only other midsized sedan you can get in a manual now the 5 series?
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MrChips posted:Fixt. Now you can touch your Volvos together. I regret my recent posts in this thread.
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The only reason I even thought of the Accord is because I have been looking for a good modern(ish) DD with a manual on a low budget, and the newer manual Accords are super cheap because apparently no one wants a manual Accord. Even cheaper than or right on par with manual Civics of the same years. I haven't driven one yet, but I imagine with the V6 or the even the K series and a manual would be a fun practical ride.
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1500quidporsche posted:To be fair to the accord isn't the only other midsized sedan you can get in a manual now the 5 series? Yeah but the M5 is a thing. Worst case for Honda is the HFP kit which is essentially wheels and non functional aero junk. Thought the BRZ/FRS twins would be more popular since everyone bitches about wanting more power out of them, and the Toyota only has an appearance package trim for the "sporty version" Agreeing that it's crazy how everything has a "performance" trim nowadays, trim it down to something that's still enjoyable and it's a short list. gently caress, even the drat Juke can come with recaro buckets and "nismo" bullshit.
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I'm tired of cars with manuals having to be "events" You used to be able to get a Chevy Astro with a manual for christ sake. Is it really that much of a sin that you can get the Accord in a manual?
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I was going by Mazda's lineup over the last couple of years, and neither the 6 nor 3 have had a hotter model. They're both really delightful cars outside of a straight line.
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ShittyPostmakerPro posted:Really? Noone else for the volvo 240? I had one, in about as non-performance of a trim as they got (NA 2.3L and automatic). While it was not bad with some sticky rubber, the base Mazda3 shits all over it in terms of fun to drive. zundfolge posted:Car mags always talk about how nice the Accord is to drive, Car & Driver especially, and like leica mentioned it's one the few mainstream sedans you can still get with a manual transmission, which is also highly praised. It's also one of the few cars that I can think of that's never had an explicit performance trim in its lifetime as a model-by that standard even the Volvo 240 is out because of the 80s Turbos. The Accord is a solid choice too. I'd still pick the 3 over either, but both of the Accords I've driven ('98 4cyl manual, '14 4cyl CVT) were remarkably tossable cars. I'd probably take either over a stock Volvo 240. IOwnCalculus fucked around with this message at 04:52 on Dec 29, 2015 |
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