Post awesome AI car shit:First time Ive seen a Golf with a hole in one like that

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grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

beedeebee posted:

First thought after this video: this is awesome!
Then boring-me took over and began thinking: what if all those people have to leave at the same time in the morning? It'd take forever to get out.
Also, it seems like you can't acces your car once it's on your floor. You mean I have to pay 6 million dollar and carry my groceries upstairs because I can't acces my stupid car-storage room from my living room?

It's Singapore; every time I think they can't surprise me any worse, they go and do something like this.

Cars are stupid expensive over there; the taxes and registration fees are insane. I'm just wondering why this is necessary in the first place. Why not just have private parking garages in the underground parking deck?

grover fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Sep 3, 2012

# ¿ Sep 3, 2012 17:08

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 15:46

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Preoptopus posted:

My god, that's beautiful

# ¿ Sep 15, 2012 01:23

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

Saw this in London last weekend. Don't see many of these in the states.

# ¿ Oct 6, 2012 02:20

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

It's almost funny to look at high performance supercars of the 80s and see how they compare to what we're driving now. I mean, when you consider that tire technology has improved dramatically over the last 30 years as well, I'm wondering if a 2013 V6 camry could drive off the dealer's lot and through a time portal and beat an early 80s Lamborghini around a track.

1989 Ferrari Testarossa. 0-60 in 6.2 seconds. 1/4 mile in 14.1 seconds.

1984 Porsche 911 Carrara. 0-60 in 6.2 seconds. 1/4 mile in 14.6 seconds.

1984 Chevrolet Corvette. 0-60 in 6.7 second. 1/4 mile in 15.1 seconds.

1982 Lamborghini Countach. 0-60 in 5.7 seconds. 1/4 mile in 14.1s econds.

No, it's not a dream, it's 2012 and we're all driving supercars!

grover fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Oct 11, 2012

# ¿ Oct 11, 2012 11:24

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some texas redneck posted:

If I flog the poo poo out of my Altima with the a/c on it'll dip to about 17 mpg. And that's winding it out to redline in every gear, WOT or foot off the gas.

It has a 2.4 instead of a 1.4, with slightly more hp/torque (150 hp/154 tq), only 5 gears, and isn't much lighter than a Cruze. Don't forget the 80s engine design, and it's closer to 200k than 100k.

Which is why I'm a bit shocked at 19 mpg from a 1.4. Laggy turbo or not.

I'm not the least bit shocked; engines get loving THIRSTY when you flog them to the limit. I don't mean WOT until you get up to speed limit then coast, but more WOT right up to the brake point, then round the corner and repeat. An engine can literally burn through 3-4x more fuel than normal under track conditions. If his commute lets him drive just a little more track-like than yours, it could easily happen.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2012 18:17

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veedubfreak posted:

I remember this being explained a long long time ago, but remind me why the front tires have negative camber on those old rear end race cars?

They had positive camber because it was the only way they could get the contact patch under the steering bearing.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2012 19:07

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# ¿ Oct 19, 2012 20:49

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Cygni posted:

Hennessey may be a bunch of assholes but the noise that Camaro makes going by is beautiful as hell.

Clearly that road is safe at much higher speeds than posted. Why is the speed limit so low???

# ¿ Oct 26, 2012 21:15

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Throatwarbler posted:

Well the various leagues and whatnot do have rules for it, and those cars are just going up to the limit of the rules like what happens when any racing series gets big. I agree it would be nice if every race was Lemons.

If there weren't any classing or rules, time attack would devolve into who can spend the most money on their car. Not that it isn't like that already, but at least classing puts some modicum of a cap on spending and gives people with modest budgets a chance to be competitive.

# ¿ Oct 27, 2012 13:32

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kill me now posted:

I think a lot of what people don�t get about time attack to that level is, if you're going to spend that much time and money on your "racing" program why aren't you wheel to wheel racing?

Time attack is literally qualifying. You're missing the best part of a race weekend with it.

Time attack and time trials make tons of sense as a bridge between doing trackdays and doing wheel to wheel racing. It allows people to do something competitive without having to go full racecar prep levels and turn a street car into a track only car, but at that level it�s a bit hollow.

Time Attack presents a lot lower risk to your car than wheel-to-wheel racing. A lot of people time-attack their daily driver, or simply can't afford the additional safety equipment it takes for wheel-to-wheel.

# ¿ Oct 27, 2012 18:00

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

No, the Department of Redundancy Department is at University of Maryland University College.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2012 01:29

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

If you lose it, it turns into a robot crab and runs back home to you. If stolen, it will relentlessly attack the thief.

# ¿ Nov 11, 2012 21:17

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Maker Of Shoes posted:

Me. Its painless, easy and the head unit handles sub folders just fine. Safer than loving with my phone.

Yeah, I use flash sticks in my car for music, too.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2012 01:24

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MonkeyNutZ posted:

So is speed plowing. The near flips and they drift around to make the next passes are goddamn terrifying.

That looks like a video of me mowing my yard. Chores are meant to be done as quickly as possible!

# ¿ Nov 13, 2012 11:54

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Backov posted:

That was awesome.

Why'd the pixelate the guys face though?

Because the Stig's identify must always be kept a secret, even when doing Hot Wheels stunts!

# ¿ Nov 23, 2012 20:11

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

Tanner Foust is The Stig? That's rather awkward.

# ¿ Nov 23, 2012 20:20

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mattmofob posted:

This is a stupid kit on a miata but I still want one.

http://www.simpsondesign.net/index.html

Cobra miata is probably my favorite body kit of all time.

# ¿ Nov 24, 2012 13:48

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beedeebee posted:

^^ no, it had sharper edges. Less curves, more straight lines.

Diablo, maybe? You probably would have recognized it immediately if it was, though.

grover fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Dec 2, 2012

# ¿ Dec 2, 2012 22:21

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mattmofob posted:

Chevrolet Aveo

http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2009/06/extra-terrestrial-vehicle-chevy-aveo-of.html

How do you service the engine? :psyduck:

# ¿ Dec 10, 2012 03:52

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

This '47 Cadillac, right here, is AI as gently caress:

In case you can't read the sign, says "PLATFORM FOR CHANGING TIRES WHILE CAR IS IN MOTION." Dude had a whiskey dispenser mounted in the car, too. And pretty much everything else.

grover fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Dec 14, 2012

# ¿ Dec 14, 2012 18:14

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ultimateforce posted:

How would you get the wheel off?

With an impact wrench, of course!

There's a wheeled jack under the car that lifts the wheel off the ground; let them set world records for non-stop endurance driving from California to NYC and back to California without ever stopping, and then later Alaska to Mexico City, without stopping. One guy would shimmy out on a retractable running board, while another climbs on the hood and sets up the plywood platform on the wheel that needs changing. The guy on the hood then climbs down to the plywood and changes the tire just like you normally would, only the car is still moving at 25mph. They refueled in a similar fashion. Safety was apparently not much of a concern.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT8azxnVAC4&t=390s

grover fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Dec 14, 2012

# ¿ Dec 14, 2012 18:23

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

Yes, it is. I took a bunch of other photos of other awesome AI poo poo they have there, too

1916 Harley Davidson motorcycle, unrestored. Interesting how they did the front suspension; Indian was using stubby little leaf springs about that time. I love the exposed pushrods, too.

grover fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Dec 14, 2012

# ¿ Dec 14, 2012 22:20

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Astroman posted:

I've seen them drive for a minute or so like that over there, but never that long. And how the hell do they balance with people climbing and moving all over the car? It also amazes me that the suspension and axles and tires just hold the entire weight of the car on the tips of two wheels for so long.

It's pretty obviously rigged. They've got a 3rd wheel where we can't see it. They also would have had to have modified the differential and/or brakes, too.

# ¿ Dec 15, 2012 19:42

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Friar Zucchini posted:

At about 40 seconds in, the camera pulls behind the truck going sideways and gently caress if I don't see but two wheels on the ground. It wouldn't be too hard for the driver to be able to feel whether the truck's starting to tip one way or the other and adjust the wheel accordingly, just like if you're riding a bike too slowly for the spinning wheels to be enough to keep you upright.

It's a viral video; they use lots of tricks and trick photography. It's just too smooth and too consistent to be real.

Notice they don't ever show the car going up on 2 wheels in these videos, or coming back down. They always cut that bit out

grover fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Dec 15, 2012

# ¿ Dec 15, 2012 20:32

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Terrible Robot posted:

I don't get it but laughed anyway . Maybe it registered subconsciously. Anyone care to explain the joke so I can laugh some more?

It's not a bug, it's a feature!

# ¿ Dec 20, 2012 04:02

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

Normally, I'd post antics like this in the stupid poo poo thread (or not at all), but I like what he's done to that tractor, and must admit... though youtube has plenty of tractor drifting and burnouts and gimmick poo poo, this is the first time I've ever seen someone actually smoke the tires doing an open-road burnout.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yHl24QynOM

grover fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Dec 21, 2012

# ¿ Dec 21, 2012 18:04

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angryhampster posted:

Not sure if to put here or in CA.

Nonetheless awesome.

That is, indeed, awesome! Where can I get one??

# ¿ Dec 23, 2012 16:35

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IOwnCalculus posted:

Every time I see these, I wonder how the hell they tune that thing to run with the air going into the cylinders at roughly the temperature of the sun.

It's OK, PV=nRT, you can just add another blower instead!

# ¿ Jan 5, 2013 16:48

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Hog Obituary posted:

It looks like it's out of here: http://www.sportauto.de/fahrberichte/lamborghini-reventon-trifft-countach-turbo-extrem-sportwagen-1586368.html?item=33#article_detail

But that particular picture is conspicuously missing ??

When put side-by-side with the Countach like that... it's clear Reventon needs a big fuckoff wing, too. :colbert:

# ¿ Jan 11, 2013 02:33

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GramCracker posted:

With all the computers and technology being implemented into cars today, they will be nerds.

Just wait- soon you won't be tuning cars, you'll be overclocking them.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2013 17:39

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

One thing I find awesome are how affordable some of the fastest supercars in the world are. These are edmunds used car prices for cars that have lapped the nurburgring nordschleife in under 8 minutes, and you can even get sub-7:30 cars for sub-$60k. Though I suspect you might have to do a little track prep if you want to get close to these times with what's otherwise a stock street car...

7:22 Dodge Viper ACR (2009), $59,798 (can't find ACR price, but the ACR is supposedly very similar to the base Viper)
7:22 Chevrolet Corvette C6 Z06 (2012), $59,588
7:26 Nissan GT-R (2009), $45,162
7:48 BMW M3 GTS (2009), $35,546 (can't find GTS, listed price for base M3)
7:50 Porsche 911 Carrera S (2009), $52,205
7:55 Subaru WRX STI (2010), $26,825
7:56 Porsche 911 Turbo (2000), $37,000
7:59 Porsche 911 Carrera S(2004), $30,000
7:59 Nissan Skyline GT-R R33 V-Spec (1996) ~$10-30k in ads, not listed in edmunds or kbb
7:59 Dodge Viper SRT-10 (2005), $38,079

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_N%C3%BCrburgring_Nordschleife_lap_times

grover fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Jan 18, 2013

# ¿ Jan 18, 2013 02:29

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VikingSkull posted:

Was just looking at OVE.com, and we have two 2009 ACR's up for sale, the cheapest being $80k. That's wholesale, too.

$80k for the 4th fastest production car around the 'ring is still pretty damned cheap.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2013 02:41

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Preoptopus posted:

"There are but three true sports--bullfighting, mountain climbing, and motor-racing. The rest are merely games."
-Hemingway

Interesting story about this one:

type550.com posted:

Chassis No 550-08 was assigned the race car number 351 with Herrmann behind the wheel, together with Porsche racing engineer Herbert Linge for the Mille Miglia on May 2, 1954. Shortly after the start of the race on the outskirts of Brescia, another piece of motoring history involving a spyder was written. Whilst coming out of a sharp bend travelling at high speed, the team saw a level crossing barrier being lowered before the fast train to Rome passed through. Driving the very low Porsche 550 spyder, Herrmann decided it was too late to brake, so he knocked on the back of the helmet of his navigator and they both slid deep into their seats, barely passing below the gates seconds before the oncoming train. The Porsche�s amazing average speed of 126.79 km/h (78.78 mph) was a convincing performance for the Hermann/Linge team to win the 1954 Mille Miglia in the 1500 class and 6th overall.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2013 14:45

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Devyl posted:

When I become rich enough to do so, I'm buying about 100 acres and building a dirt track, paved track, and 1/4 strip.

1/4 nothing, you'd better build a full standing mile and invite us all to it! I keep fantasizing about getting the state cops to shut down a particularly straight and level piece of highway for (legal) speed runs.

grover fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Jan 23, 2013

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 15:46

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Sinestro posted:

I wish car companies would start selling preproduction camo as a color option.

You can probably get it as an aftermarket vinyl wrap cheaper than you'd ever get it from the dealer.

# ¿ Jan 26, 2013 21:53

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