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What's Your Current Ride(Automobile)? (Page 3)
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1990 Honda Civic LX
60,000 miles
9x HP 1.5L I4
32 MPG
1993 Honda Accord SE
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140 HP 2.2L I4
1986 Trek 2100 Road Bike
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1993 Mazda RX-7
R1
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34,000 Miles
450 HP
10-28 MPG
1986 Mazda RX-7
Sport
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2000 Subaru 2.5 RS Sedan
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Originally posted by the_glassman:
1993 Mazda RX-7
R1
5 Speed
34,000 Miles
450 HP
10-28 MPG
1986 Mazda RX-7
Sport
5 Speed
140,000 Miles
2000 Subaru 2.5 RS Sedan
5 Speed
You better take those racing stripes off before the stripe police come after you and start hissing and honking.
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Originally posted by Zimphire:
You better take those racing stripes off before the stripe police come after you and start hissing and honking.
It's no ACR.
I can't they are painted on, but when I repaint the car over the winter I will be removing them.
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Originally posted by the_glassman:
It's no ACR.
I can't they are painted on, but when I repaint the car over the winter I will be removing them.
A RX-7 was my first car .... in Gran Turisimo... I have never seen one here in Belgium but always liked the big-engine small car look, don't they use one these in the Fast & the Furious ? ....
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Originally posted by the_glassman:
Hey! My 1975 Chevy Suburban 454, 4bbl could do that, without any modification.
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Originally posted by the_glassman:
It's no ACR.
I can't they are painted on, but when I repaint the car over the winter I will be removing them.
A RX-7 was my first car .... in Gran Turisimo... I have never seen one here in Belgium but always liked the big-engine small car look, don't they use one these in the Fast & the Furious ?
Oh BTW those tires a FAT :-)
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Originally posted by the_glassman:
Hey! My 1975 Chevy Suburban 454, 4bbl could do that, without any modification.
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Originally posted by D'Espice:
SimeyTheLimey: That is indeed interesting, didn't know that. All I know is that I love this car and that it indeed has an amazing handling and is well-balanced. Actually, driving around is a lot of fun.
Yes, a very nicely handling car when the going gets slippery. The only thing we didn't like was the automatic transmission shifter (protective details never use manual - too easy to stall). With the Audi 80 and I think the 100, you had to be completely stopped before you could throw it in reverse. Stopping like that made J-turns a bit hesitant, which would be a bad thing if people really had been shooting at us.
On the Mercedes and the BMW you can drop it in reverse just before the car comes to a complete halt. Then you can slam on the gas to go backwards for your J turn. Of course, I wouldn't do that to my Merc!
BTW, guess whose Mercedes we practiced on. It was one of Helmut Schmidt's old armored ones from when he was Chancellor. It was pretty ragged out by the time I drove it, though, and on the second day of school we killed the brakes. Then we just had to use the ordinary S Class.
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Originally posted by the_glassman:
It's no ACR.
ACRs don't have stripes. R/Ts do.
- Ca$h
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Originally posted by NoMoreBanning68:
Right now for oil, I'm using Mobil 1 synthetic.
<snip oil stuff>
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Well, all else aside...
My father-in-law had to change a head gasket on his '94 Mustang recently; he has used nothing in it but Mobil One since it was new. It was the missus' and her sister's car when they were younger, and they were not kind to it. But when he got it apart, he could wipe off the inside of the engine with a paper towel and it looked clean enough to eat off of. Now that's an endorsement for synthetics.
Oh, and I drive a '99 Mustang coupe. 190 HP V6 / 5 speed / crappy shifter that missed third all the time and will soon be sacked in favor of a Steeda Tri-Ax. I just got free fog lamps for it, so I get to visit the junkyard to find a switch and harness for them. Ford ain't gettin' $40 for them without a look for almost free ones first...
I was up in Dearborn yesterday at the last day of the Ford 100 year celebration. Saw a Jaguar XKR. Anyone have $87,000 they can lend me?
--Josh
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I AM the road toad!!! (Anyway, Toad is the only caracter I use in Mario Cart )
Mods :
TB 56.5MM
IceMan CAI
Xeon lights (this was kind of a necessity)
This is my little beast.. I love this car. It has a real good handling!
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Originally posted by Gene Jockey:
But when he got it apart, he could wipe off the inside of the engine with a paper towel and it looked clean enough to eat off of. Now that's an endorsement for synthetics.
--Josh
I had a 1981 BMW 320iS with a 180,000 miles on it.
I redid the head gasket, milled the head, and replaced two valves.
It was also clean enough to eat off of, and had only used fossil oils.
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It's my understanding that in the late 80's, the US gov't mandated that every car have a "passive restraint system."
Automatic seatbelts were the cheapest, so that's what pretty much all the companies put in. Then it turned out that people hated them, and that they were not effective. So in the early 90's the law was amended to require an airbag on the driver side. (Only in the mid-90's did passenger-side airbages become mandatory.)
First-generation airbags suffered from excessive strength due to the fact that they still fell under the original "passive restraint system" rule of it having to restrain a large male who isn't wearing his seatbelt!!! This is contrary to airbags' design, namely, of complementing the seatbelt, not replacing it.
More recently, the rules have been brought more in line with reality, allowing airbag disabling switches, reduced-power airbags, etc.
tooki
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Originally posted by SimeyTheLimey:
Yes, a very nicely handling car when the going gets slippery. The only thing we didn't like was the automatic transmission shifter (protective details never use manual - too easy to stall). With the Audi 80 and I think the 100, you had to be completely stopped before you could throw it in reverse. Stopping like that made J-turns a bit hesitant, which would be a bad thing if people really had been shooting at us.
On the Mercedes and the BMW you can drop it in reverse just before the car comes to a complete halt. Then you can slam on the gas to go backwards for your J turn. Of course, I wouldn't do that to my Merc!
BTW, guess whose Mercedes we practiced on. It was one of Helmut Schmidt's old armored ones from when he was Chancellor. It was pretty ragged out by the time I drove it, though, and on the second day of school we killed the brakes. Then we just had to use the ordinary S Class.
LOL bummer dude, an "ordinary S class", you just made me laugh out loud in the middle of math class
Btw, only sissies use automatic transmission, I love to drive stick. I agree that in your case, AT is probably way better but still, you know what I mean
How'd you kill the brakes anyway?
PS: Schroeder still uses some of Schmidt's old armored vehicles, most of'em Mercedes. These cars will probably never brake down, better than any Russian tank ever built
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Originally posted by D'Espice:
How'd you kill the brakes anyway?
Doing bootlegs (AKA handbrake turns).
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Originally posted by D'Espice:
Still got my beautiful 1993 Audi 80, I love that car:
Got some new badass alloy wheels and new tires, probably time for a new photo I guess...
hey, another Audi driver
2003 Audi S3
-- james
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2001 Lexus IS300, drives just as well as the day I bought it. I'll probably drive this one until it breaks.
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A '95 SHO, dark green... '95 was the last year of the Yamaha engine.
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Someone just traded in an S4 around here for an STi.
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You remind me my wife… why you laugh? She dead. | sasper at gmail dot com
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Why? STi> S4 True, the S4 is more refined, but an STi would be a lot more fun to drive.
- Rob
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An S4 has always been sort of a dream car for me. Refined, fast, luxury car.
I'd rather get an SRT-4 instead of an STi. I don't really even consider an STi in the same class as an S4.
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Originally posted by NoMoreBanning68:
V6 Mustang. Hehe.
Yeah, yeah. I know what you think
What radar detector do you have? I've been toying with the idea of getting one, as I'll be moving to the sticks (moreso) soon and I doubt the cops will have that instant-on ladar crap like the fuzz near Indy, so I'll stand a chance with a detector.
And vmarks - how often did you change the oil in that BMW? I'm just curious...
--Josh
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Just got a 2003 Audi TT Coupe. I love it.
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Originally posted by Gene Jockey:
What radar detector do you have?
Fuzzbuster. It's saved my ass a few times, and sometimes not.
The range is messed up. The 'gods' at subaru decided to coat my windshield with titanium for some reason, and it limits radar detectors, GPS, and you just plain can't use that 'iPass' autopay tollbooth thing on an SVX.
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Just got it today.
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Originally posted by Gene Jockey:
And vmarks - how often did you change the oil in that BMW? I'm just curious...
--Josh
every six months, beginning right after the head mill /head gasket/ valve job I did on it when I bought it for $100.
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Unfortunately I have a 1993 Honda Civic . It isn't a bad car, it gets me back and forth to school for the time being.
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Originally posted by Steve:
An S4 has always been sort of a dream car for me. Refined, fast, luxury car.
I'd rather get an SRT-4 instead of an STi. I don't really even consider an STi in the same class as an S4.
the new S4s look awesome - v8 in a car that size, and the engine weighs the same as the v6 turbo it's replacing...
http://www.germancarfans.com/news.cf...id=2021202.001
-- james
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A goddamn volvo 340, I got it from an old lady with very few miles on it (24.500 kilometres for a car from 1991). And I hate every bolt of it !!
look at these specs :
Fuelconsumption : 1 litre every 10 km
top speed : 110 km/h
accelleration : 0-60 17 seconds
I want a towboat, so I can tow this freakin brick into the ocean
EVERY car is better than tis one !!
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I drive a BMW M3. I like it a lot, but isn't very economical.
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Originally posted by cjrivera:
Just got it today.
Nice car.
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Originally posted by cjrivera:
Just got it today.
I hope the garage is new too. Or else you need to get you a hobby and some tools or something. It is just sad to see a garage that clean. I do like the coated floor though. I have been thinking of sealing my garage floor to make it easier to sweep and keep clean. Actually, the keep clean is probably too much to ask, but easier to sweep once I can't stand the piles of sawdust is an idea.
Oh, nice car.
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Originally posted by Kilbey:
I hope the garage is new too. Or else you need to get you a hobby and some tools or something. It is just sad to see a garage that clean. I do like the coated floor though. I have been thinking of sealing my garage floor to make it easier to sweep and keep clean. Actually, the keep clean is probably too much to ask, but easier to sweep once I can't stand the piles of sawdust is an idea.
Oh, nice car.
Thanks.
Actually, this pic was taken by the seller in his garage (for his ebay auction). It was one of the reasons I bought it used. I could tell he was meticulous about things. I looked at the car last Sat. and his garage was cleaner than my house. (However I'd like to see his garage that clean with 2 kids running around). This guy was so compulsive about cleaning, he cleans the underside of all his cars! Literally gets on his back, crawls under, and wipes them down.
Sadly, my garage is nowhere this clean...
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Living in Stuttgart mandates driving either a Porsche or Mercedes. Since my student budget is not big enough for a Porsche, a '96 C280 must do. Hmm.. on second thought I'd rather have a bigger Mercedes than a Porsche anyway
I'm saving up so I can finally have S-LK 1337!
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Originally posted by cjrivera:
Just got it today.
I think that chin spoiler is ugly.
- Ca$h
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Originally posted by NoMoreBanning68:
I think that chin spoiler is ugly.
- Ca$h
I didn't like it when I saw it in the pictures on ebay. It looks better in person. You really don't even notice it. I probably would not have done this mod (especially since that little lip costs $1600), but since it was part of the car, I left it on.
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Looks like it could cut grass if you drove through your yard.
Ricing up a nice BMW isn't that cool. You should just sell it and buy some Dinan parts instead.
- Ca$h
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It's part of the AC Schnitzer body kit. I think he should leave it on.
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Originally posted by seanyepez:
I drive a BMW M3. I like it a lot, but isn't very economical.
Neither is giving a 16 yr old kid a $40,000k car with performance close to a corvette, but hey.
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Originally posted by seanyepez:
It's part of the AC Schnitzer body kit. I think he should leave it on.
I think it's a Hamman Front Competition spoiler. (According to the certificate I got witht he car.)
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Originally posted by seanyepez:
It's part of the AC Schnitzer body kit. I think he should leave it on.
And I think you should get a job.
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Originally posted by NoMoreBanning68:
Looks like it could cut grass if you drove through your yard.
Ricing up a nice BMW isn't that cool. You should just sell it and buy some Dinan parts instead.
- Ca$h
I hadn't thought about that. The Ultimate Mowing Macine!
Actually, I don't think it's "riced". Like I said, it looks better in person. And since I have no mechanical inclination, I won't be taking anything off the car.
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If you have no mechanical inclination, why buy a performance car?
- Rob
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Originally posted by NoMoreBanning68:
And I think you should get a job.
I had thought of taking up an internship this summer with a local company. It turns out that I'm traveling too much. I just got back from New York, and I'll be in Europe next week. Then, I'll be in Peru. After that, I'll be at Stanford's debate institute.
For now, I'm detailing cars for gas money. It's a noble profession, and Meguiar's products never fail to impress me, no matter what they're being applied on.
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Originally posted by NoMoreBanning68:
If you have no mechanical inclination, why buy a performance car?
- Rob
Mechanical inclination isn't really necessary to own a performance car. Performance cars handle better, accelerate faster, and are generally more eye-catching than sedans or trucks. These are some of the reasons why executives and celebrities purchase exotics from companies like Koenigsegg, Ferrari, and Lamborghini. Many compete in rallies such as the Gumball 3000.
I would have bought a 330Ci or a 330i, but I enjoy going fast on the track. While I do consider myself fairly mechanically inclined, no real mechanical inclination is necessary for casual track use. A basic understanding of physics to understand why cars act the way they do under certain forces is useful, though.
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