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Re: Cars?

Postby ktrout » Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:19 am

I prefer the coupe, myself. I would love a GTM. That 818 project they're working on sounds sweet.
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Re: Cars?

Postby khalampre » Sat Dec 10, 2011 1:13 am

I like the coupe myself, but I am trying to play my cards the right way. I have been lusting after something like a GTM for a while now, but I just do not have that kind of cash. I would love to run across a transaxle like they are using in the GTM. Building a mid engine car would be epic.
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Re: Cars?

Postby ktrout » Sat Dec 10, 2011 1:38 am

There's a salvage C5 Corvette that's been on Craig's List around here for not too much. Would probably be perfect for the GTM. I'm banishing the thought. I have too many other projects.
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Re: Cars?

Postby ktrout » Sat Dec 10, 2011 4:53 am

I'm reading the January 2012 issue of Motor Trend where there's an article about a guy who took a road trip in a Lotus. He had his picture taken under the sign for Rabbit Ear's Pass Great Divide. I had to shout "I've been there on a bicycle, you pussy!"
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Re: Cars?

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Re: Cars?

Postby Kurt » Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:01 am

According to the current issue of Popular Mechanics VW is going to introduce a 4 seat sub-compact that has a 1 liter 3cyl engine with an option for it to run on natural gas. In the USA. Apparently one's home natural gas line can be modified to fill up compressed tanks for very little money.

Something like that could be the solution to our "we don't have the cool Euro-diesels here" problem.
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Re: Cars?

Postby HockeyGuy » Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:36 am

Kurt wrote:According to the current issue of Popular Mechanics VW is going to introduce a 4 seat sub-compact that has a 1 liter 3cyl engine with an option for it to run on natural gas. In the USA. Apparently one's home natural gas line can be modified to fill up compressed tanks for very little money.

Something like that could be the solution to our "we don't have the cool Euro-diesels here" problem.

I went to find that article in Popular Mechanics and came across this.
The top 100 hottest cars of all time. I was surprised how many TVR's we're on that list.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/ne ... pp#slide-1
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Re: Cars?

Postby ktrout » Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:28 am

There are a lot of Ferraris on it as well. I liked Jeremy Clarkson's comment on the TVR. That they would deliver cars before discovering the handling was so bad that it killed people, then go back and start over. I wonder who the stooge was that wrote that list.
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Re: Cars?

Postby coldharvest » Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:30 am

ktrout wrote: I wonder who the stooge was that wrote that list.

Larry?
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Re: Cars?

Postby HockeyGuy » Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:38 am

A heads up... Top Gear has the Top 40 tonite...
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Re: Cars?

Postby ktrout » Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:43 am

coldharvest wrote:
ktrout wrote: I wonder who the stooge was that wrote that list.

Larry?

I was thinking Curly. It would have been ironic if they had picked the Ferrari 348 since a columnist in Motor Trend just called it a low point in the marque, after which a new engineering chief came in and started fixing the company's product line.
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Re: Cars?

Postby khalampre » Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:42 am

Is TG back on? UK or US. Please let it be UK, please let it be UK.
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Re: Cars?

Postby khalampre » Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:02 am

"A heads up... Top Gear has the Top 40 tonite..."

Now that I think about it I am pissed you did not provide a link of some sort. Help a man get his TG fix will ya.

On a related note... The VW dealer called to tell me he found my wife's car (or soon to be car). She will get the keys on the 19th of this month. I have never owned a new car and I am a very happy boy right now. My wife on the other hand is beside herself. We have a nine hour road trip to see my father in Rogers, Arkansas, then down to Soper, Oklahoma to see my mom, then five back down to College Station, Texas. I am really looking forward to the trip in the new car. My wife asked me to let her do some of the driving, but I don't know if I will let her. Not because I do not trust her, but because I really enjoyed the test drive in the car.
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Re: Cars?

Postby Kurt » Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:37 am

Top Gear returns on the 28th.

They go to India.

I cannot find this Top 40 thing yet.
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Re: Cars?

Postby HockeyGuy » Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:51 am

Kurt wrote:Top Gear returns on the 28th.

They go to India.

I cannot find this Top 40 thing yet.

It was their usual spots on mondays...on BBC. They may have a link shortly...
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