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Fayez Butts posted:
Yes, please.
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Fayez Butts posted:
The most nazi car
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Fayez Butts posted:
Definitely wouldn't complain if I got one of these in my happy meal.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:The most nazi car So the transmission will catch fire?
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wargames posted:So the transmission will catch fire? Nah, leaks gas everywhere though.
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Mar 6, 2016 05:25
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It'll blow off it's head.
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Spotted another rare GM release at the World of Wheels yesterday:  As a kid growing up in the early 1980's, I've always had a soft spot for a Trans Am with Turbo Boost. 
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In typical GM fashion they found a thing that would make the car not be a complete slug and then proceeded to not do that thing at all.
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Every GM car I've liked they've seemed to try and discontinue ASAP Turbo Trans Am Grand National Fiero
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Honestly, I just like to imagine gm as a giant preschool with the accounting department acting as teachers. Every now and then, the accounting department stops paying attention and the engineering and design departments get left alone in the play area with the parts bin unlocked and magical things happen. The accounting department comes back and lets them have their fun for a bit before they force them to put their toys away and go take a nap (ie: make a new chevy cruze).
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I love that they finally got around to fixing the Fiero's suspension, and actually ended up with something that could have been pretty cool... And then axed it the NEXT MODEL YEAR. "That's an awfully nice mid engine sports car you guys have built. It'd be a shame if anything happened to it." 
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Mar 7, 2016 07:40
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Sadi posted:So which of you mother fuckers is out here. https://imgur.com/a/sLCOb I was there crewing with the red white and blue Audi Quattro, hell of a fun weekend
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MonkeyNutZ posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEF2Ve80LHA I spent some time talking to who I assume was the owner of that car friday night. Super cool/nice dude.
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Top Hats Monthly posted:Every GM car I've liked they've seemed to try and discontinue ASAP Syclone, typhoon, ZR1, on and on
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GM has a reputation to uphold. They can't be caught having too much fun.
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MrYenko posted:I love that they finally got around to fixing the Fiero's suspension, and actually ended up with something that could have been pretty cool... And then axed it the NEXT MODEL YEAR. See also the Pontiac G8. They were gonna bring the ute over as a new El Camino and were talking about making the entire Pontiac range RWD. Nope. Axed the entire brand.
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Anytime someone tries to do something cool at GM the rest of the company gets all butthurt and squads of accountants drop from helicopters to stop them.
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Mar 7, 2016 17:01
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Them Roadkill boys are at it again. 
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MrYenko posted:I love that they finally got around to fixing the Fiero's suspension, and actually ended up with something that could have been pretty cool... And then axed it the NEXT MODEL YEAR. TBF anyone who wanted a non-lovely Fiero of that era just bought an MR2.
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Collateral Damage posted:Them Roadkill boys are at it again. goddamn you I came here to post that Bob rules e- my wager is Finnegan had some extra boat stuff lying around
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Jonny Nox posted:See also the Pontiac G8. They were gonna bring the ute over as a new El Camino and were talking about making the entire Pontiac range RWD. Nope. Axed the entire brand. Reminder that Pontiac was the most profitable division of GM in its last quarter of existence, as G8GT sales had started to take off and they were marking Solstices down.
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Octopus Magic posted:TBF anyone who wanted a non-lovely Fiero of that era just bought an MR2. Very true, but the 1988 Fiero could have (possibly) finally competed with the MR2 on a serious level, but GM.
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Does the B body Impala SS belong on that list?
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thebigcow posted:Does the B body Impala SS belong on that list? I've always been ambivalent about that car. It's awesome that it got built, but it isn't particularly fast, the build quality is marginal, nor does it handle particularly well. That said, it was a new-build performance car during the darkest days of the nineties, so you can't write it off entirely.
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8ender posted:Anytime someone tries to do something cool at GM the rest of the company gets all butthurt and squads of accountants drop from helicopters to stop them. See the aforementioned Fiero. At least, that's what my knowledgeable-about-Fieros buddy tells me. A bunch of young engineers basically did a bunch of end runs around the entrenched structure to get the thing done cheaply and on time, and it pissed off a of the established bureaucrats. They rocked the boat too much, and then when they fixed the problems caused by designing on the cheap, it was canceled. Of course, by that time, the marketing damage had been done, too, and everyone who wanted one had one. Even better, canceling it turned the '88 into a special snowflake in a lot of ways, with a bunch of NLA suspension parts, for example.
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MrYenko posted:Very true, but the 1988 Fiero could have (possibly) finally competed with the MR2 on a serious level, but GM. The prototype for the 1990 Fiero was so awesome. Basically looked like a tiny version of the Banshee show car, was supposed to get the Quad 4 as the base engine with the 3.4 DOHC V6 as the up option.
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VikingSkull posted:goddamn you I came here to post that I'd wager that that's the exact same stuff they used for the muscle truck boat engine swap, just put on a different engine.
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ishikabibble posted:I'd wager that that's the exact same stuff they used for the muscle truck boat engine swap, just put on a different engine. Naw, they got a v-drive on Bob. The jet boat doesn't have a v-drive, it's a jet pump.
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Q_res posted:The prototype for the 1990 Fiero was so awesome. Basically looked like a tiny version of the Banshee show car, was supposed to get the Quad 4 as the base engine with the 3.4 DOHC V6 as the up option. When I married my wife she had a Cutlass Supreme with the 3.4 DOHC in it. I would not recommend that engine for anything more than a boat anchor.
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MrYenko posted:Very true, but the 1988 Fiero could have (possibly) finally competed with the MR2 on a serious level, but GM. Maybe the first gen MR2, but by '88 the 2nd gen MR2 was on the horizon and was another much better car than anything GM could come up with on the Fiero.
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Not a car but the father (and co-pilot) of one of my friends having 'an incident' many years ago.
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Mar 8, 2016 22:49
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 Finnegan just posted this from their current Stubby Bob project. https://www.instagram.com/p/BCtygDuN27J/
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Pretty awesome land rover thingamabob that I would drive the poo poo out of. http://www.speedhunters.com/2016/02/not-land-rover-land-rover/
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Gish posted:Pretty awesome land rover thingamabob that I would drive the poo poo out of. That is pretty dang cool.
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88h88 posted:Not a car but the father (and co-pilot) of one of my friends having 'an incident' many years ago. Were they sidehacking?
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Indeed, flat track sidecar racing.
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Gish posted:Pretty awesome land rover thingamabob that I would drive the poo poo out of. I much prefer this to chequer plate and one life live it stickers.
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I present to you...the Rocket II Trike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeNLMN_RqSI
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