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Raw_Beef posted:I have to assume the drivers in the truck video were drinking. I hope they got busted real good. I think she says 'What the gently caress, that's hosed up!', but it does kind of sound like 'that's muh-Dodge'.
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Captain McAllister posted:I think she says 'What the gently caress, that's hosed up!', but it does kind of sound like 'that's muh-Dodge'. Ya, that's what I heard too. IF you read the youtube comments one of the bros involved claims 1 bro was talking poo poo to the other bro and got his rear end handed to him. Broken tie rods and 4 flat spotted tires and it had to be towed home. Stupid asses.
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Dec 17, 2012 15:27
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I think there comes a point when the Chevy bro should have realized he was just going to go for a ride, and popped it into neutral.
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Dec 17, 2012 15:54
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Safety Dance posted:I think there comes a point when the Chevy bro should have realized he was just going to go for a ride, and popped it into neutral. You see, the problem is that requires intelligent thought. And I don't think there was an intelligent thought among the lot of them
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Dec 17, 2012 16:20
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veedubfreak posted:Ya, that's what I heard too. IF you read the youtube comments one of the bros involved claims 1 bro was talking poo poo to the other bro and got his rear end handed to him. Broken tie rods and 4 flat spotted tires and it had to be towed home.
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Dizman posted:Being the owner of a Corvette and knowing some Corvette guys... he's not trolling. I know this is a bit late, but as someone who once owned a c5 z06, I completely agree. After I had purchased the car my girlfriend mentioned it to a coworker Girlfriend: ya my bf just bought a corvette coworker: are you dating a 50 year old man? When I lived in Pensacola everyone thought I was making millions driving(at 26 years old) a 10 yr old car I purchased for 19k. GM service advisor asked if I was a doctor, other engineers astounded I would track my "60k dollar car". And the worst was the only vette specific shop run by some overweight misplaced new york italian. He claimed getting a custom dyno tune w/ HPTuner was a terrible idea, Vararam made a terrible intake and I should instead use a diablo handheld tuner. There was only one ray of shining hope when it came to vette owners and I met him at a small road course in Louisiana. I think his name was wayne, he was an old guy who smoked cigs, ran absurdly quick times on a stock setup and talked about how he transplanted some sort of camaro suspension into his son's 50's pickup truck. The whole point was to troll drivers at autox's since everyone was convinced a truck couldnt autox.
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You'd be surprised about truck suspension these days, there are a lot of drop-in IRS kits available.
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So this isn't a picture but today at the salvage yard, while waiting on my parts to be pulled (I hate places that don't let me get my own poo poo), a large Hick comes in, dressed literally head to foot in mossy-oak camo. He starts chatting with the counter dudes, and mentions that he's looking for a 1965 Lincoln Continental hard-top. I love this gen of Continental, so I mention how rare they are, and how difficult it tends to be to fix them up, hoping to strike up a conversation, but no dice. Counter guy asks if he plans on dropping a 460 in it, and the Hick replies, "poo poo no, I'll just throw an SBC in it!" Counter guy then asked him just what he planned to do with it if he found one, and the Hick says, "Demolition derby! Those old Lincolns are tough as nails, they've got a double lined floor pan, reckon I could do some serious damage with one!  " gently caress I hate ignorant rednecks.
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Dec 18, 2012 06:23
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Infinit recently hired Audi's former North America boss to be its boss. His first thing is to revamp the whole naming system.  People who buy luxury cars are really inscrutable.
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Throatwarbler posted:Infinit recently hired Audi's former North America boss to be its boss. His first thing is to revamp the whole naming system. I am honestly going to call up Infiniti North America tomorrow and tell them this is an awful, awful idea. My family has had several Infinitis over the years and I cannot make heads or tails of this new naming scheme. I understand why they're doing it - to hide the fact that if they stick a 2 liter turbo into a G it would be a G20 and 20 is less than 25 or 37 so therefore worse. This is just madness though. They're obliterating all their brand equity and recognition.
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Why is this dumb? If you were placed into a company that was having middling sales the first business tactic would be to differentiate your product from those old poorly selling models (even if they're the same). I doubt the guy is concerned with what random internet goons think. His primary thought is "well, BMW does this kind of thing, why can't we??".
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AlmightyPants posted:I am honestly going to call up Infiniti North America tomorrow and tell them this is an awful, awful idea. My family has had several Infinitis over the years and I cannot make heads or tails of this new naming scheme. I understand why they're doing it - to hide the fact that if they stick a 2 liter turbo into a G it would be a G20 and 20 is less than 25 or 37 so therefore worse. This is just madness though. They're obliterating all their brand equity and recognition. Audi (where Infiniti's new head DeNyschen came from) has actually done this in China now. Instead of the model designation followed by the engine displacement, they just use arbitrary numbers, so the A6 with the 2.0l turbo is called the A6 25, the lo-po 3.0l supercharged is the A6 35 and the hi-po 3.0l is called the A6 50, or some poo poo like that. This is all in China though, and since VW/Audi is the worst carmaker in the word and CHina the worst country in the world( and VW/Audi's biggest market) who cares. Infinti's world wide headquaters is now in Hong Kong though, so maybe they are trying to pull a similar thing. JP Money posted:Why is this dumb? If you were placed into a company that was having middling sales the first business tactic would be to differentiate your product from those old poorly selling models (even if they're the same). I doubt the guy is concerned with what random internet goons think. His primary thought is "well, BMW does this kind of thing, why can't we??". Well I know I am just a random internet goon so that's why I said these people were inscrutable. Also BMW didn't use to do it like that, their name scheme actually made reasonable sense, but now BMW has gone off the rails too, with the new "4 series" and all that stuff so yeah, inscrutable.
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As someone from the UK who has virtually no exposure to the Infiniti brand (they sell them here, but I don't think anyone actually buys them), the new naming structure seems far, far more sensible to me. Q = normal car, the higher the number the more it costs. QX = something that looks like it might have some kind of 4X4 thingummy. The bigger the number, the bigger the car. 'I drive a G Sedan -vs- I drive a QX' means nothing to me 'I drive a Q50 -vs- I drive a QX80' immediately indicates at the very least that the QX80 is bigger better and more expensive than the Q50. The average person buying a car doesn't really care about the actual meaning of the numbers (530i, Defender 110), all they care about is bigger number (and possibly more letters) = better than.
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Throatwarbler posted:Also BMW didn't use to do it like that, their name scheme actually made reasonable sense, but now BMW has gone off the rails too, with the new "4 series" and all that stuff so yeah, inscrutable. BMW didn't change much, they just made the 3 series coupe a 4 series just like the 6 series is a coupe version of a 5 series. The last 2 digits are relative power instead of displacement since they went to smaller turbo engines across the board but didn't want to make all the numbers smaller because it would seem like the new cars were somehow "less" than the old ones. Or something.
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Dec 18, 2012 14:08
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And some lovely BMW content!
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The entire right column of that picture made me vomit profusely. sean10mm posted:BMW didn't change much, they just made the 3 series coupe a 4 series just like the 6 series is a coupe version of a 5 series. The last 2 digits are relative power instead of displacement since they went to smaller turbo engines across the board but didn't want to make all the numbers smaller because it would seem like the new cars were somehow "less" than the old ones. Or something. So at some point, all BMWs will be called 399, 499 etc.? "Get ze neu Bai-Em-Wai 499 hier, just 49,999.95!" Where will they go from there? KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Dec 18, 2012 |
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KozmoNaut posted:
They need that little extra push over the cliff, to make it one louder.
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Try saying all of the new Infiniti model names out loud in a row. QX70... what is a performance crossover?
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So car makers are trying to confuse the gently caress out of people with their naming convention like video card manufacterers eh. Also, VW the worst car maker in the world? You realize they are one of the most profitable car makers right? Also, did you forget that Korea is making cars? Or that Japan makes cars?
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KozmoNaut posted:The entire right column of that picture made me vomit profusely. IOwnCalculus posted:They need that little extra push over the cliff, to make it one louder.  Our model nomenclature is in base 11.
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kastein posted:Can't decide if this is an awesome car thing (because one dumbshit diesel pickup bro gets dragged everywhere) or a terrible car thing (because the other one now feels like king poo poo) but I think the whole concept belongs here. Also, it's a facebook video so good luck getting it to embed anywhere that doesn't allow HTML. I know exactly where this is in Burlington, NC. The building in the background is a bowling alley. This is not a one-time occurrance. This particular parking lot is well-known as a spot where rednecks do truck pulls, even going back to when I was in high school almost 10 years ago.
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veedubfreak posted:So car makers are trying to confuse the gently caress out of people with their naming convention like video card manufacterers eh. It's like Ford used to have "Zetec" as a designation for the cars which had, you know, Zetecs in them. Then it became a trim level.
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InitialDave posted:It's like Ford used to have "Zetec" as a designation for the cars which had, you know, Zetecs in them. Then it became a trim level. Ford is notorious for this. Ranger and Explorer were pickup truck trim levels in the 70s.
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Motronic posted:Ford is notorious for this. Pretty much all the (older, American) model names were trim names if you go back far enough. Heck, go back to the '50s or so and that's all you had, different trim levels on "the Ford" or "the Chevrolet". There was neither the market demand nor the profit opportunity to differentiate cars with so many different actual bodies, platforms, configurations etc. Odd how this is kind of coming full circle.
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The Ford Capri was actually the second use of the name, there was a Consul Capri earlier. VVVV: Hmm, didn't know about that one. InitialDave fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Dec 18, 2012 |
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Actually, the Consul Capri wasn't the first Capri either. In the early-to-mid 50s there was the Lincoln Capri.
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sean10mm posted:BMW didn't change much, they just made the 3 series coupe a 4 series just like the 6 series is a coupe version of a 5 series. The last 2 digits are relative power instead of displacement since they went to smaller turbo engines across the board but didn't want to make all the numbers smaller because it would seem like the new cars were somehow "less" than the old ones. Or something. They've been doing it for years - 1.8/1.9l 316i, 2.5l 323i etc
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Viggen posted:There are no words. (Clicky, clicky - but it's in Swedish) You found it. You found the coolest car.
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sean10mm posted:And some lovely BMW content! There's something about this that makes me a bit angry. As in why are there places where you can get stick-on chrome for BMWs.
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Nice foglight badge. 
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Motronic posted:Ranger and Explorer were pickup truck trim levels in the 70s. Early 80s too - had a 1980 F-150 Ranger XLT in high school. Wikipedia posted:Custom- Mainly Base model with manual locks/windows, vinyl seat, and black rubber floor mat,but could be had with other options. I always thought the trim on the tailgate was gaudy as poo poo.
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Ringo Star Get posted:There's something about this that makes me a bit angry. As in why are there places where you can get stick-on chrome for BMWs. It's called Pep Boys.
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Motronic posted:Ford is notorious for this. There used to be a Ghia trim level at Ford UK that was the deluxe model, so you had Focus Ghia (and maybe others? thinking about it I think I've only seen Focus Ghias) 1.6 or 1.whatever diesel which allowed you to differentiate trim level from engine spec. I can see this not being necessary in North America where the top trim level always has the biggest engine and vice-versa.
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Yeah, they changed the top one to being "Titanium" just recently, though. And yes, it's Ghia as in the stylists.
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Linedance posted:There used to be a Ghia trim level at Ford UK that was the deluxe model, so you had Focus Ghia (and maybe others? thinking about it I think I've only seen Focus Ghias) 1.6 or 1.whatever diesel which allowed you to differentiate trim level from engine spec. I can see this not being necessary in North America where the top trim level always has the biggest engine and vice-versa. There's Capri, Cortina, Granada, Scorpio, Fiesta, Sierra, Orion, Escort, Focus and Mondeo Ghias. It's from the design firm Carrozzeria Ghia that Ford bought in the early 1970s.
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Ghia was trim level on the Mustang during the 70s and 80s as well. Usually well-optioned with either a base or mid-level engine.
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Even as a gullible child with no cynical sensibilities I laughed when I found there's a Ghia X for when Ghia isn't enough.
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Mr. Wiggles posted:You found it. You found the coolest car. And on the other end of scale there's a fairly modern ('90s maybe?) Volvo sedan in my town. Besides the really early ones I never see Volvos except as a wagon. For some reason it holds my gaze every time I drive past it. :edited for missing words. wtf.
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The original BMW 3 series was a two door car exclusively. http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/12/and-then-there-was-four/
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Crankit posted:Even as a gullible child with no cynical sensibilities I laughed when I found there's a Ghia X for when Ghia isn't enough. I had an Escort Ghia X for a while. It was metallic purple with purple velvet seats, wood trim, air conditioning (non-functional) and a 6 CD changer (missing, presumed stolen). Pure class.
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