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On the topic of the Lambo doing 219 on the freeway: This is the stretch of freeway that was on. Santan loop 202 in Arizona. You can see the sign of the Hawes Rd "offramp" (which is funny because Hawes Rd doesn't even run through there - it is a ramp to nothing) at the start of the video. What blows my mind about it is two things - one, that is not a very straight and level stretch of road there. It's hardly the Dragon but it does have a few serious bridges and long sweeping curves, but I suppose the pavement is fresh at least. Two, there is a very real and generally constant police presence there, especially at night - as often as not, there is a cruiser sitting lights out in the center median, waiting for someone to fly by.
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Since I can't think of anywhere better to laugh about these, and they are both automotive and youtube in nature, I present three Super Bowl car-related ads: Bridgestone: Unexpected Obstacles http://youtube.com/watch?v=Eg3T9vZ-rAM Anyone who wasn't rooting for Richard Simmons getting turned into road pizza needs their head checked. Bridgestone: Scream http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fu9ibUWIq8A More amusing than hilarious Audi R8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=2xd0Tw9wOB4
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I really wish they ran more events using the roadcourse at PIR. The Grand Am races they used to put on there were awesome 
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Feb 4, 2008 23:42
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Armco posted:http://youtube.com/watch?v=PwvIRuCLbyg MotherFUCK. After watching that a seven-minute lap of the Ring looks like a walk in the loving park.
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Feb 7, 2008 23:52
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=JJC0nzzm4xk New G8 GT Spy Hunter commercial.
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Ziploc posted:Hay Pontiac. gently caress YOU for having automatics only. TR-6060 six-speed manual coming in MY09 
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Mar 14, 2008 20:40
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West SAAB Story, just for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZWJNqdxaao
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Feb 7, 2013 21:27
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Ahahaha. That's great, especially since the '10+ MS3's torque steer is reportedly quite a bit less than the '07-'09.
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Mar 13, 2013 20:12
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Cat Terrist posted:In the days after the original Mazda MS3 came out there was so many people who proclaimed LOOK NO TORQUE STEER!, even on this forum. Which of course was BS. So I would take claims of less torque steer with a lot of doubt. Well, I haven't driven the 2010+ MS3 so I can't personally comment on how much less torque steer it has than my '07... but I can absolutely say I'm too scared to even attempt that hands-off maneuver anywhere this side of a very large, very empty skidpad.
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Mar 14, 2013 17:46
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There's a cultural thing, too. NASCAR is increasingly moving towards "have at it, boys" where they slap drivers harder for whining about the problems with the new car than they do for blatantly intentional hits on track (and I mean the ones that go well beyond 'rubbin is racin'). Race drivers have been yelling at each other since the dawn of time, no matter what series you're talking about.
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Mar 26, 2013 18:10
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Alexander Rossi in a Lotus 49 at Circuit of the Americas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opzzn9sl1kU
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Apr 5, 2013 17:18
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Phone posted:I saw it this morning, and it's great. Mostly I like it because he found a way to be funny without quite so much of the grunting monkey cheese dishwasher CUMMMMMMMIIIINGGGGGGGGGGGGGAHAHGHAGHAHGHA poo poo.
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Oct 1, 2013 17:16
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mykel posted:Didn't reports later come out saying no bikers were hurt? This is already being discussed to death in GBS, CA, and even another thread here in AI, but there were defninitely injuries on both sides.
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Oct 2, 2013 17:49
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NitroSpazzz posted:I just want to know wtf was going on with the steering, even a lovely stanced car shouldn't steer like that. Spending money to make sure your car is hellaflush is more important than basic repairs. At least, to the idiots that execute the idea so poorly.
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Jan 16, 2014 14:49
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The "wins / loses" bit is funny since the difference in drivers is as big a factor as the difference in cars - whoever was in the S certainly knows how to pull a decent reaction time. The guy in the Corvette was drat near asleep at the light the first time around. Either way... impressive as all hell.
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Jan 29, 2014 04:14
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TheFonz posted:a 2nd Gear Wheelie...Wow. No poo poo, and he loving carried it for a good bit too. Probably helped by the weight distribution but still.
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Feb 24, 2014 23:22
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BigHouseOfBooty posted:short block assembly This video is entirely too good. Also, so far this video seems to be right - I haven't seen it pop up on Jalopnik yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhgMEi5aqmY
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Mar 19, 2014 00:39
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SanitysEdge posted:Horsepower is based on rotation which is why it is misleading for a linearly translating car. You just gave a whole boatload of numbers to come up with something even less relevant than horsepower by itself. You can game that one by gearing, too, but it still doesn't mean much compared to the car's ability to get traction / ability to maintain that acceleration / mass that must be accelerated. At which point we're back to just bench racing 0-60, 1/4 mile, and Ring laptimes, so who the gently caress cares? Stop worrying about the numbers, does the car give you a smile and/or erection when you get in it? Or, make you fear for your life?
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Mar 29, 2014 01:03
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Seat Safety Switch posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcjC00J8FaM I sent this to my wife. Her response? "Oh, I saw that thing on the 101 heading towards Scottsdale, figured it was just some idiots in a piece of junk." Well, she's not wrong there!
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Mar 31, 2014 20:04
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Why did we ever build cars that aren't that one? Because we want them to run for more than about five minutes at a shot, and not be hellishly complicated. BRM engineers were batshit insane in both good and bad ways.
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Apr 7, 2014 19:25
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Fattig posted:The one at 7:25 was kind of funny though. Detroit did it first. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dYsLVKZoJ4&t=165s
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Beat me to it. I haven't even watched it yet but the label alone sold me. Edit: Yep. Awesome, though I feel Freiburger's pain with that fender. IOwnCalculus fucked around with this message at 17:46 on May 16, 2014 |
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The Locator posted:Also, will the range on the E be completely neutered? The S would work for me, as I drive about 110 miles per day, but none of the other pure electrics out there have a hope in hell of making that commute. My money is on it being much closer to the 80-90 mile range cars, which would make it a non-starter for me.   It's the one thing that sucks about electrics, where the people who live far enough away to actually see a real economic benefit from switching, can't do so unless their workplace installs charging on-site as well. I'd have a Leaf already if there was so much as a single 120V outlet I could plug into at work. KozmoNaut posted:Man, Finnegan is an artist with that sawzall Artist, butcher, to-may-to, to-mah-to 
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May 16, 2014 22:09
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The Locator posted:We'll just make a flange, and zeus it back on!  DzusAlthough if that isn't catchphrase-worthy, I don't know what is. Which is entirely possible.
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May 18, 2014 00:50
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KozmoNaut posted:At least the stuff they're shilling is relevant to the show, and if it means more Freiburger+Finnegan shenanigans, I guess I'm ok with it. I actually like to see some of this product stuff since its a good way to see what's out there. That Lokar linkage is actually the same thing I bought for my GMC, nice to see it in use via pictures not taken with a redneck potato phone. And more F+F shenanigans are always awesome.
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"Ahh, I'll try, but it might be kinda hard." That reporter owns, especially for helping deliver a nice dose of karma.
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They kinda hit on it at the end - they filmed that at the same time as Roadkill #29. They're pros at looking Also, they did something with that Camaro that you don't see often on the cable-channel car shows they call out. Any other show would've replaced the clutch and not mentioned it at all. They brought up a very real fact that if your car has some miles on it and you've been hot rodding it at all during that time, the stock clutch isn't going to like an additional 150hp and drag radials. It may not be the unhinged awesomeness that is Roadkill, but I'd rather have Hot Rod Garage and Roadkill alternating every two weeks, than Roadkill alone every four.
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Hello Spaceman posted:I do not know a lot about automobiles but I think somebody needs to contact this gentleman and warn him that there may be a problem with the steering rack on his Porsche racing car. He may also want to see the doctor about the massive solid-steel nature of his testicles. That pass at 2:30 
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Jul 10, 2014 19:32
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VikingSkull posted:This episode owns. Rutledge Wood is hilarious and his truck owns and the guys from Street Outlaws think Frieburger and Finnegan are insane. I about died laughing at Rutledge's last bit in there. Ringo Star Get posted:When I saw that I was for sure you could hear the puckering of Ferrari engineers' buttholes. Nah, that's actually the sound of the test driver's balls dragging the ground, as he kept his loving foot in it.
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Jul 11, 2014 23:31
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Galler posted:One very stuck CV axle: Had that happen to my MS3, and like he said in the video with his Mazda - it just resulted in a new CV and knuckle on top of the fried wheel bearing. Was still kinda spendy, though.
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That "hand forging" was pretty loving crazy. New Hot Rod Garage, ribbed for your pleasure! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iIleaQjIz0
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wolrah posted:I don't think that's accurate, I was waiting for a second video before starting the trial and noticed there was one now, so I did and the number didn't change. It was at 23 before, still there now. It may not be instant but it does match up if you swap it out for, say, RegularCars: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/RegularCars?alt=json pre:{"$t":"US"},"yt$statistics":{"lastWebAccess":"1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z","subscriberCount":"87846",
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Ineptus Mechanicus posted:Give video games some credit, Euro Truck Simulator 2 is a great teaching aid for new drivers on why you never, under any circumstances, cut off an 18-wheeler. Especially when they're barreling through your sleepy little town with a tanker full of gasoline at 90mph. A normal Tuesday night for Nutcup, then?
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Shifty Nipples posted:Roadkill is like the one episode per season of Top Gear where they play darts with cars. Except better, because unlike Jeremy Clarkson, nobody is going to care / worry about the poo poo these guys say and turn it into a big media fuss. And that Rotsun is loving cursed. That's how many engines they've overheated to death? Of course, less 4.3 V6s in the world is probably a good thing.
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mobby_6kl posted:I think their main complaint about the Subarus was stability control, since they couldn't turn it off completely to drive the cars properly (sideways). The 3.6 got a good result on the rally course but it obviously didn't handle like a real AWD rally car. I think they mentioned during the rally school bit that they could have pulled fuses to truly shut it down, but decided to race it as delivered.
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Legdiian posted:I think it was less zoning out and more ignoring the nutcase on the Grom. Yeah, they're both being idiots there. Fine, he nearly merged into you, but now you're stopped for no reason other than to make a point while traffic flies by you.
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Pfft, he's not as fast as a S10, who cares? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMr1p7w5F9I Street legal and runs a 6.16. He even had the drogue chute out when he entered the trap.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x24c-7pJZeM From BringATrailer.
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Where's the goon who works for Bigfoot? I think you've got some work to do. 
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VikingSkull posted:e- not even kidding I think that Mustang might be the coolest car ever built, including poo poo like the 917/30 etc.....maybe people think I'm wrong about that but it would be an honest debate and that alone speaks volumes Look at us agreeing. gently caress the Impala SS, gently caress the Yellowbird, that might be the most evil (and awesome for it) car I've ever seen. And for once, music added to it (just at the end) that doesn't ruin it. 
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