The Car Thread ... !

[D.T.]

Got these delivered today

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Installed. Outstanding

Completely removed [the now worthless] hood prop as well. Really nice lift assist on these, at about 2.5 feet and it kicks in, super slow lift into full up, has a nice "cutover" from assist to none for easy closing.

The only perm change was making a hole in the battery cover, use a Dremel, super clean, looks OEM.

 

[determined09]

Ari, although I do indeed think the DEW-98 was indeed touched by God himself in the design and production phases, and I now think that I'm likely going to have a life-long love affair with MGs, you must also remember my surely unhealthy liking for the Panther platform in all its various iterations. Granted the Town Car is the best of the best, but I am rather fond of the Marauder

I still miss my Father's Old Town Car. My Mother said that they don't make cars like that anymore and I agree.

 

[D.T.]

Had a little get together with some friends, really fun themed-ish bring-a-dish (and bring-some-booze), anyway, STS about cars, spent some time (been a while) in/around a Telsa (Model S 90D).

$100K (several updates)? No thanks, not even close, it's a $50K car with perky electric performance. Funny enough, he loves muscle cars, high performance _gas_ engines, said he's dying to get another Mustang or even a Hellcat Charger/Challenger

Additional 'no thanks': a friend was driving his to Atlanta, had to stop at about the half way point to charge enough to make it there, 50 minutes (@ 201mi per charging hour). He blew it off like that's not a significant time delay. No, I'd prefer not to sit in a strip mall for an hour to continue my trip.

 

[0388631]

$50,000 is putting it gently, going by the interior quality, though. I can't fathom ever wanting a Tesla. Instant torque? Sure, I'd like that. Nothing really beats the rumble of an actual engine and the intoxicating noise it can have if the car's properly tuned like the GT350. I suppose you could add that the addition of exhaust fumes is intoxicating somehow.

 

[bunnspecial]

Instant torque? Sure, I'd like that.

Steam!

Plus, you get a wonderful barrage of sounds and smells to go along with it.

 

[0388631]

Steam!

Plus, you get a wonderful barrage of sounds and smells to go along with it.

I suppose the risk of sudden explosion due to a hairline crack adds spice to the mix.

 

[D.T.]

So I always say I like having one car that is the designated "foul weather / emergency transport", you know, big[ish], can traverse most terrain, etc., but mostly plenty of ground clearance for the rain and subsequent flooding we get around here.

This morning - and this wasn't even the BAD area!



Just to the right is the river, and on occasion, a massive rain combines with a super high tide (like a high tide + full moon) and the water level is higher than the street, so the river actually floods into the street through the drains.

 

[PowerMac G4 MDD]

Yeah, I get what you mean. Although, regarding the part about my posts, I refuse to agree that the majority of my ideas are 'wrong.' AutoUnion just loves to disagree with my notions, even if some things I put out are pure opinions.

Of course, I will have to accept this, being that I am on a car thread. Say one thing and you'll have some lunatic ready to respond. I couldn't imagine how bad it would be if I went on a thread about Fords and said that I preferred Chevys because I feel that they are more solid and I like their driving style better. (Although, something tells me that I will get get a response to that right here! )

For now on, however, I still would like to encourage some people to perhaps consider that not everything I'm wishing to say is something I'm trying to prove as as fact. I mean, my thinking that Quattroportes are cool isn't proving some fact. I personally like them, and if someone disagrees, they shouldn't immediately deem my conversation as incorrect.


Anyway, I will be here to express more opinions. Hopefully things will remain civil.
[doublepost=1475534452][/doublepost]Perhaps my wording wasn't direct enough - sorry. I meant that Hondas have only been relatively cheap, however definitely not the cheapest amongst economy cars in general. They're still economy cars, but they typically cost a bit more than most others (i.e Hyundai, KIA, sometimes VW, etc.)

While they won't necessarily cause someone with a smaller budget to go bankrupt, they are certainly not for the person who is looking for the cheapest new car possible. That's what I was meaning.
[doublepost=1475534722][/doublepost]Just rode in a Nissan Altima the other day. Cloth seats, but I believe a higher package than the bare minimum. To my surprise, the car felt solid for a Nissan, and it felt far more isolated from the road than the Hyundai Sonata that I also recently rode in. Suspension wasn't too bad either. Didn't seem to beat Honda, but it did feel better than what one would get from a Camry.

While I don't care for Nissan, I have seen their design team step up its game with this more recent line-up of vehicles.

 

[0388631]

You see, the issue with AutoUnion is not that he's a lunatic (only some days), but that he's been burned by owning a Maserati before, as explained by Goldy earlier. He's particularly offended because his old headmaster at Exeter would rap him across the knuckles with a paddle by Neiman Marcus when he was younger and more aloof, albeit slightly sinister. So you see, it isn't done on purpose. It's a form of PTSD of the car and brand variety. He also hates phillips screwdrivers and the Philips brand because he used to have a bit of crumpet on the side who went to rival school, Phillips Academy, who as you can figure out, broke his heart.

Most of this isn't remotely true but the beer I'm consuming at the moment has made the cells in my brain dance around to the tune of terrible 90s pop music. There was a period in Neiman Marcus when they used to sell these little zippered leather containers which were great for those bored housewives who had nothing better to do all day than snort cocaine or the personal massagers the company used to sell a great time ago, which is a silly upmarket name for... well, I'll let you lot piece that together.
[doublepost=1475540490][/doublepost]http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/future-cars/news/a31022/bmw-m5-all-wheel-drive/

 

[iLog.Genius]

http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/future-cars/news/a31022/bmw-m5-all-wheel-drive/

I don't think we can call it speculation anymore. The GXX M5 is going to be xDrive but likely tweaked to be rear biased. It's like throwing in a turbo in M cars. People were complaining that it would no longer rev, so what does BMW do? They tweak the engine enough so it revs a bit past 7,000 RPM and call it high-revving.

 

[0388631]

I don't think we can call it speculation anymore. The GXX M5 is going to be xDrive but likely tweaked to be rear biased. It's like throwing in a turbo in M cars. People were complaining that it would no longer rev, so what does BMW do? They tweak the engine enough so it revs a bit past 7,000 RPM and call it high-revving.

Right. It must have been the M6 someone posted about in here. The people who complain about turbos are worried about the lag and sound. I believe the next generation of M cars built from the ground up will use electronic motors to keep the turbos spooled up, water injection and electric drive motors. In other words, mental performance. That said, I can see why people are concerned with the lack of growl in turbo'd M cars or turbo cars in general. The M5, for example, even when fitted with a stupendous aftermarket exhaust system still sounds like an asthmatic Welsh sheep being bummed by a Welshman and letting out a grunt. Suffice to say, it's nothing like the high-revving engines of yesteryear. But we all have to do our small part in appeasing a bunch of useless schmucks at various environmental agencies and their Prius driving cohorts which may as well be chimpanzees with half their brain removed during a lobotomy.

I'll do my part to recycle as much as I can but damned if I'm forced to drive a little clown car that resembles a clown car on a daily basis.

 

[0388631]

Matt Farah did a special with "Cody." I enjoy both their YouTube videos. I don't recall his specialty, but the guy going by Cody is a high paid specialist surgeon who was more open on various car forums before he became YouTube famous. A lot of those sites scrubbed his profiles out of respect and privacy. Anyway, I'm not the biggest Lamborghini fan, but I thought this color was quite nice and sane. Personally, I think the new R8 V10+ is nicer. I didn't watch the entire video, but I really do admire the paintwork on this car.

 

[D.T.]

So this has been skulking about, prototype special edition Hellcat (I guess that's a special-SPECIAL )

Check out the rubber on this beast:

Obviously, the eventual production design is some kind of wide-body variant ...

 

[iLog.Genius]

So this has been skulking about, prototype special edition Hellcat (I guess that's a special-SPECIAL )

Check out the rubber on this beast:

Obviously, the eventual production design is some kind of wide-body variant ...

Rubber for daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaays!

 

[2298754]

So this has been skulking about, prototype special edition Hellcat (I guess that's a special-SPECIAL )

Check out the rubber on this beast:

Obviously, the eventual production design is some kind of wide-body variant ...

I wonder if the rumors of an AWD HellCat are true.

 

[quagmire]

One of the biggest downfall of the Hellcat was the skinny ass tires FCA put on it. " Oh lets put 700 HP through these Prius like tires...."

Now with these wider tires, it should be able to put the power down better.

 

[D.T.]

Big Ol' Tires™

They also look like NT05s, which is a _serious_ performance tire.

When tires start getting that wide, they start looking square From my own collection of many wheels ~n~ tires:

(Those soon had those street tires removed and replaced with some dedicated track rubber ...)

 

[2298754]

http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/future-cars/news/a31022/bmw-m5-all-wheel-drive/

AWD should've been standard on the F10 variant. I see so many more E63 AMGs and RS7s... probably because of xDrive.

Definitely a great way to improve sales in regions where BMW already has a stronghold.
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I don't think we can call it speculation anymore. The GXX M5 is going to be xDrive but likely tweaked to be rear biased.

Well, xDrive (and torsen Quattro) have been RWD-biased for a very long time. As long as BMW uses torque-vectoring (like Audi's sport diff), they should handle well!
[doublepost=1475608556][/doublepost]

Right. It must have been the M6 someone posted about in here. The people who complain about turbos are worried about the lag and sound. I believe the next generation of M cars built from the ground up will use electronic motors to keep the turbos spooled up, water injection and electric drive motors. In other words, mental performance.

I think we will see all of this quite soon. The M4 GTS already has water injection and the SQ7/Bentayga already have electric charging on their diesel engines.
[doublepost=1475608695][/doublepost]

Anyway, I'm not the biggest Lamborghini fan, but I thought this color was quite nice and sane. Personally, I think the new R8 V10+ is nicer.

Yeah, the Lambo is too outlandish for my tastes. The R8 V10+ is 98% the same car for much less.

[doublepost=1475609259][/doublepost]

Yeah, I get what you mean. Although, regarding the part about my posts, I refuse to agree that the majority of my ideas are 'wrong.' AutoUnion just loves to disagree with my notions, even if some things I put out are pure opinions.

Anyway, I will be here to express more opinions. Hopefully things will remain civil.

Here we go again with constant complaining. Why do you continue to post if you don't like the responses you get from us?

I have a feeling you actually love this "attention" because you don't get it from the real-world...

Just rode in a Nissan Altima the other day.

Maybe it's time for us to open another thread to brag about all the cars we've ridden in!

HEY GUYS HERE'S ALL THE UBERS I'VE BEEN IN!!!

I have seen their design team step up its game with this more recent line-up of vehicles.

 

[D.T.]

Anyway, I'm not the biggest Lamborghini fan, but I thought this color was quite nice and sane. Personally, I think the new R8 V10+ is nicer.

Yeah, the Lambo is too outlandish for my tastes. The R8 V10+ is 98% the same car for much less.

Same here. The Lambo might be a little more brand-whore-ish, but the Audi is the same without that overhead.

I think we had the conversation where I said I'd take a Porsche TT-S (Cab please) over a Lambo, someone short circuited

HEY GUYS HERE'S ALL THE UBERS I'VE BEEN IN!!!

Two comments:

1) A truck, really? Ha! I've had a couple of SUVs (and lots and lots of Prius's / Priuii) but never a pickup

2) That G60S is very sexy from the rear

 

[2298754]

1) A truck, really? Ha! I've had a couple of SUVs (and lots and lots of Prius's / Priuii) but never a pickupr

I've had a Tacoma Crewcab as an Uber before, but the coolest cars I've probably had are a JGC SRT8 or 6MT E83 X3

 

[D.T.]

I've had a Tacoma Crewcab as an Uber before, but the coolest cars I've probably had are a JGC SRT8 or 6MT E83 X3

Prius ... Prius ... Prius ...

One after the other, OMG, make it stop

 

[2298754]

Prius ... Prius ... Prius ...

One after the other, OMG, make it stop

Yeah, it's usually a sea of Altimas, Camrys, Avalons, or Prii.

On Lyft, 95% of the time, it's a Cruze or Malibu. I guess GM has a partnership with them.

 

[0388631]

The R8's interior, IMHO, is way better than Lamborghini's. All that alcantara isn't pleasing to my eyes. Call me old fashioned for liking leather in a car if you must. What I will say is when I was a young boy, only cheap cars had alcantara in them. By which I mean econoboxes and mid-level sedans of the time. Matter of fact, you can try finding a 1970s Alfa, provided it's still running, and find that material in it, or a Japanese import of the 1980s that cost $6,000 then and costs less than a hundred now. It's not a special material by any means. It's cheap, ugly and a stain magnet.

On Uber, the majority of SUVs I've had were Suburbands or X5s. I can't explain the X5 because it makes no sense, but the Chevy Suburban and I suppose the Tahoe are fine vehicles. They're real workhorses and built to last unlike the other utter tripe Chevy puts out and calls "cars." Sedan wise, it's been a mix of German and Japanese. Never American, probably because most are built terribly and don't last. A vehicle for transport of that nature needs to last a long time. As a child, I recall taxis dumping Fiats, Vauxhalls and such for basic MBZ vehicles because they lasted and could run up to 18 hours a day or whenever the driver needed to sleep. In my father's youth, he noticed the same thing. The Germans simply built better cars than the English or the Italians could. American imports were popular but only as popular vehicles.

 

[2298754]

The R8's interior, IMHO, is way better than Lamborghini's. All that alcantara isn't pleasing to my eyes. Call me old fashioned for liking leather in a car if you must.

xMillion. I hate Alcantara. It looks and feels cheap. Give me a full leather interior.

http://www.carscoops.com/2015/06/this-all-new-audi-exclusive-r8-v10-is.html

versus this

 

[0388631]

I don't mind the pillar being alcantara like it is in that R8. I think it looks rather neat. Or if the headliner is made of it. But where you touch or sit on? Needs to be leather. Not only is leather better for wear and tear, aesthetics, but it's also much more clean than alcantara, which is practically a breeding ground for bacteria.
[doublepost=1475617286][/doublepost]Forgot to say, I really love the interior on the new TT RS and how it copies the R8. I can't find the new RS3 video, but I believe it copies the interior of the R8 as well. I love the steering wheel myself.