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Sir Cornelius posted: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. They used it on Australian model Fords too like the Laser/Telstar/Fairmont/Territory
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dissss posted:They used it on Australian model Fords too like the Laser/Telstar/Fairmont/Territory Fairlane Sportsman Ghia. Hell of a model name. Especially because I don't know of any non Ghia Fairlanes. Fairlane is for the LWB package. Ghia includes... I have no goddamned idea because there are no hard and fast rules. Fairmont is the model that replaces Falcon when the Ghia suffix is added. Then there is the the LTD which is a Fairlane again with a different set of particularly gaudy options. Oh can't forget the XR6 and XR8 Falcons with the go faster bits (The Fairlane Sportsman in I6 configuration got the XR6 motor. The V8 I think got the same as the LTD). What have I missed. The GL is the poverty pack with barebones trim and crappy green backlit gauges. That's something else. Depending on the trim type the gauges are backlit a different colour. The Aussie naming conventions are a bloody mess.
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Faithiest posted:The original BMW 3 series was a two door car exclusively. As much as Jack Baruth is a miserable, whinging, pompous, overstuffed anal wart of a human being, he's absolutely right in this case. People look at me weird when I say that the 3-Series should only be a coupe, and that it was orignally just that.
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MrChips posted:As much as Jack Baruth is a miserable, whinging, pompous, overstuffed anal wart of a human being, he's absolutely right in this case. Every time I see someone quote TTaC, I cringe a bit. Thanks for giving me faith in humanity. Baruth still shits me, though. His GT-R BAD FOR NISSAN still annoys me, even though I'll never own one.
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InitialDave posted:One of my favourites was the rowdy little Daihatsu kei car, the Mira Avanzato TR-XX R4. Nothing like a few Rs and Xs to let you know we popped a few chillies into the mix for this one. My personal favorite is the 1994-6 Honda CBR250RR(R). I guess when your entry into what most people consider the entry-level motorcycle displacement range has a 16-valve inline 4 with a 19,000 RPM redline, you gotta indicate that somehow. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Dec 19, 2012 |
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This poor poor NA Miata. This is the last car I expected to ever see with lambo doors. I really wonder if the odometer is even hooked up, the trip and overall both show all 0's. It's kind of illegal to sell it like that right? http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/ctd/3487603358.html 
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Dec 19, 2012 06:34
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Love the overspray from painting the calipers on the car It's a shame, the engine seems reasonably well done, but every cosmetic decision they made inside and out is just poor.
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Dec 19, 2012 06:45
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Chickenbisket posted:This poor poor NA Miata. This is the last car I expected to ever see with lambo doors. I really wonder if the odometer is even hooked up, the trip and overall both show all 0's. It's kind of illegal to sell it like that right? It's legal if its documented somewhere on the car what its mileage was before the cluster swap, and of course the new one works.
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Dec 19, 2012 06:46
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cynic posted:'I drive a G Sedan -vs- I drive a QX' means nothing to me Except that what they're calling the QX60 is actually larger than the QX70.
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Dec 19, 2012 06:49
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 Vents? gently caress that, GAUGES. This is the only photo that shows all the vents, but you can see how they're all stopped up. I've seen people do one or two in a pinch, but never all four. Don't bother ever turning the A/C on.
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Dec 19, 2012 07:02
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einTier posted:Vents? gently caress that, GAUGES. The cupholders are also full of gauges, just in case the oil and fuel level on the dash were too convenient to look at.
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I called Infiniti America today and apparently they have been getting quite a lot of negative feedback on the new naming scheme. I'm glad to hear that their customers are also calling them on their madness.
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Dec 19, 2012 07:19
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dissss posted:They used it on Australian model Fords too like the Laser/Telstar/Fairmont/Territory Just realized that there's even a Ford Ka Ghia. What the gently caress?
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Viggen posted:Every time I see someone quote TTaC, I cringe a bit. Thanks for giving me faith in humanity. Baruth still shits me, though. His GT-R BAD FOR NISSAN still annoys me, even though I'll never own one. Jack was better back when he was just the weird guy who autocrossed a phaeton and got it to lift its back wheel (proving that it was in fact, just a VW). 
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Dec 19, 2012 07:58
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einTier posted:
You assume it still has a working A/C.
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nm posted:Jack was better back when he was just the weird guy who autocrossed a phaeton and got it to lift its back wheel (proving that it was in fact, just a VW). Proving that the VW Phaeton is just a VW? What?
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Dec 19, 2012 16:50
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I like that Miata's hot air intake too.
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Throatwarbler posted:Proving that the VW Phaeton is just a VW? What? VAG products have a habit of tripodding when driven hard:    The Phaeton, despite it's decidedly un-Volks price, is still a VW at heart.
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Chickenbisket posted:This poor poor NA Miata. This is the last car I expected to ever see with lambo doors. I really wonder if the odometer is even hooked up, the trip and overall both show all 0's. It's kind of illegal to sell it like that right? Yellow dipstick? You plebs on here don't even understand the SPEED and CLASS that this thing has.
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Dec 19, 2012 18:03
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veedubfreak posted:You assume it still has a working A/C. Ah, that's my Texas coming out, where disconnecting the A/C is practically suicidal. I forget some of you northern folks rip it out and don't think twice about it. Still, even without A/C, sometimes it's nice to just let a breeze flow through the dash vents. In this set up, you're limited to defroster and floor vents. Ick.
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Dec 19, 2012 18:25
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IOwnCalculus posted:VAG products have a habit of tripodding when driven hard: Just about any FWD car with a stiff enough suspension will do it, it's not unique to VWs. Hot hatches in particular all do it when cornering hard.
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Dec 19, 2012 18:39
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French stuff especially. It's cute 
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Dec 19, 2012 18:57
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KozmoNaut posted:Just about any FWD car with a stiff enough suspension will do it, it's not unique to VWs. Sure, but it's just a thing I have stuck in my head pretty firmly as being particularly associated with VWs.
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Why can't I see IOC's last post in this thread? edit: after posting this it popped up. How strange!
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Dec 19, 2012 20:25
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It's a known glitch in the forums, but this is the first time I've seen it in action.
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einTier posted:Ah, that's my Texas coming out, where disconnecting the A/C is practically suicidal. I forget some of you northern folks rip it out and don't think twice about it. Still, even without A/C, sometimes it's nice to just let a breeze flow through the dash vents. In this set up, you're limited to defroster and floor vents. Ick. Or lowering the windows or taking the top down. Probably doesn't matter, the thing barely looks driven. It looks like a show car. A very poor show car. JP Money posted:Yellow dipstick? You plebs on here don't even understand the SPEED and CLASS that this thing has. As far as I know that's a standard mazda thing right? The dipstick in my RX-8 is yellow.
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GutBomb posted:As far as I know that's a standard mazda thing right? The dipstick in my RX-8 is yellow. I've never seen a Mazda dipstick that wasn't yellow.
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I guess noone remembers the mad tyte miata :-(
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JP Money posted:I guess noone remembers the mad tyte miata :-( I remember. I will always remember.
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Terrible Robot posted:It's a known glitch in the forums, but this is the first time I've seen it in action. Yeah, Chooch is working on it.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Yeah, Chooch is working on it. Does it only happen with moderator posts? Sounds like entrapment, to me. 
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Sir Cornelius posted:I've never seen a Mazda dipstick that wasn't yellow. On some cars, different color dipsticks supposedly signify different types of oil needed. For instance, on Peugeots AFAIK a yellow dipstick means it takes mineral oil, an orange dipstick means semi-synth minimum and a red dipstick means fully-synth only. I'm not sure how reliable this is, though, as I've never been able to find any written documentation, it's all hearsay from my mechanic.
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KozmoNaut posted:On some cars, different color dipsticks supposedly signify different types of oil needed. For instance, on Peugeots AFAIK a yellow dipstick means it takes mineral oil, an orange dipstick means semi-synth minimum and a red dipstick means fully-synth only. I think that's completely bullshit. Even for PSA cars. PSA does use handle color codes for oil capacity between engines within the same model though (actually I think the color code really identifies dipstick length).
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Yellow signifies Maximum High Performance (MHP) engines, of which that Miata posted above contain.
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Nocheez posted:Does it only happen with moderator posts? Sounds like entrapment, to me. Hah, no, it happens to us as well 
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Sir Cornelius posted:I think that's completely bullshit. Even for PSA cars. PSA does use handle color codes for oil capacity between engines within the same model though (actually I think the color code really identifies dipstick length). There's only one way to get an answer. A dipstick measuring contest!
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IOwnCalculus posted:VAG products have a habit of tripodding when driven hard: Pfft, three wheeling with the rear wheel up. Call me back when you aren't doing a Jim Clark with the front wheel up in the air all the time 
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National Geographic channel covers L.A. Street Racers for an episode, and it is terrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jky79YsH0mY
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mutt2jeff posted:National Geographic channel covers L.A. Street Racers for an episode, and it is terrible. Oh god this is awful. "FIVE HUNDRED HORSEPOWER!" *heavy metal guitar riff*
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"This mustang will go from 0 to 241 KMH ...in 10 seconds." Who the gently caress decided KMH was the best method to report the speed here?
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