@NotFifthGear Looks just like a toy car! It’s fantastic!!
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Bad Driving Kills (retd)
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@AreYouObjective
Observing wildlife on UK roads(and now twitter!) Retired CLASS 1/2 ARDS ADI CP TEST NFR
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@___BMA___ @theanarchox Simultaneously calling to remain on topic and calling someone “retarded” because you’ve run out of reasonable debate morally, technically and factually is the kind of narcissistic behaviour that ends intellectual discourse on this passionate topic.
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@VizorIts @theanarchox @AreYouObjective Noise = 10 year old mentality is an pretty retarded take to have
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@theanarchox @AreYouObjective I think you need to remain on topic here. A 118db - 98db noise limit are the norm in most places and are perfectly safe for the precious little children of the nurburg region. Anything quieter and you're outlawing lawnmowers and the proximity bees can fly past your ears
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@MintyGts It’s the motoring equivalent to a pedestrian walking around with an erection.
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@torquespeak If you want but glove friendly mil switches then fit mil switches. If you don’t know how then hire the services of a race team. No one is stopping you. They’ll take your money and laugh at you but you’ll have mil switches in a car you will never enter combat in.
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@torquespeak “Why can’t manufacturers find a way out of the design rut?”
Because manufacturers need to survive, to make money, to continue manufacturing, to remain manufacturers.
They do that by making cars for their customers, not for people who romance after things they can’t afford.
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Once again I say: "mid-range gaming mouse".
Why can't manufacturers find a way out of this design rut?
And before anyone says "supercar should be like a fighter jet", this is NOTHING like a jet.
The car with a cabin most like an F-35 is probably the Ineos Grenadier. Seriously.
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@___BMA___ About 5 weekends per year.
They aren’t compensated.
Turbos remove energy from the exhaust inproving efficiency and leading to quieter cars and fewer stops.
Helical gears don’t typically survive 24hr races. Even V class cars retrofit straight cut 2nd, 3rd, 4th and final…
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@AreYouObjective They've got 360 other nights in the year to sleep. I'm sure there was a way to cope with it for the prior 50 years the event has ran
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@RescueDogJenson @PolitlcsUK Media egging chaos on as usual.
More chaos, more media life cycle.
Calmness for them would be bad business.
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@PolitlcsUK He won’t win. Simple as.
Opinion on him locally is very split, proper Marmite. Some think he’s great, others think he’s rubbish. Don’t forget he wanted to put all of GM in a clean air zone till the public kicked off about it.
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🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham is now odds on to become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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I’ve was offered a MGBGT caged and prepped. I said no. It’s now on for double the money.
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@thealexbear Tbf… these things only do 1000 a year normally for posing purposes. Rarely do they actually get used for travelling outside gumball rallies. Occasionally some of the ultra rich will do 3 laps for photos with an instructor on privately organised days amongst other ultra rich.
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£5.3m for a used but not classic car you didn't spec, at a chunk higher than mortgage rates. Limited to 1000 miles per year. So you can't even really drive it.
The finance co. is making £870k on that deal!!!
I assume they won't actually do that deal and its a marketing thing
Lease4wheels.co.uk@Lease4wheels
6.3% APR is actually a very good rate. Just need to find the £35,000 a month!! @AutoPap @Timoldland
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@cosmograf @thealexbear Swiss watches aren’t for Bob and Sally who can barely afford rent…
Back then, Bob and Sally could buy a crappy hot hatchback, do their dailies and have fun doing it.
Can they do that today or are they stuck with a 1.0 wetbelt on lease?
It’s not like they can afford an M2?
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@thealexbear You only have to look to history to see how this plays out...People made similar claims about quartz watches in 1976 saying mechanical ones were finished. They even survived the smart watch revolution. ICE cars will be the same...still valid alongside EV cars.
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This take is about 10 years out of date in my opinion. Yes there was massive shift to downsizing, evs, away from buttons.
But in the last few years the case for synthetic fuels has got stronger. Manufacturers and regulators are moving back towards engines and buttons coming back
BrenzGarage@BrenzGarage
In 20 years people will look back at this time in the automotive industry as a once in a lifetime event. 2020-2025 is basically the end of cars as we’ve known them for the last 50 years. The transition is occurring and it’s occurring fast. Within the next 5-8 years most of these cars will be unrecognizable, downsizing engines, more hybrid, full EV overhauls. People keep complaining about the prices of some of these cars but are failing to zoom out on the big picture of it all. What’s there is all that will ever be left. The V12s, the V10s, huge V8s. Never again. What’s there is what’s there and the automotive world is deflationary in nature. Crashes, miles, damage. So you can keep waiting for those cars to come down, but in reality they likely won’t and you will be out priced before you fully understand. These cars aren’t just regular production vehicles anymore. They are stamps of a time in history where Cars became something different entirely. The last era of true enthusiast vehicles.
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@thealexbear Is it though?
Is fun and mechanical not currently marketed towards the ultra rich like Swiss watches?
“Cheaper” Toyota GR whatever are suppose to be fun but I don’t personally find them to be as interesting as old Alfas…
Else the rest of German Turbo PlayStation missiles?
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@Rolando_tillit @Timoldland If they are both benched for say a trip to Aldi and back in stationary traffic then yes. They are very similar other than the superior carrying space and capacity of the cayman.
For everything else, the cayman wipes the Evora.
At least in this reality.
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@AreYouObjective @Timoldland It's similar, but stock for stock the Emira is pretty close to the Cayman, maybe not the more high end fully specced out models. But going band for band they perform pretty similarly.
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So the Emira will now get a new Geely-Horse 3.0 litre turbo hybrid V6 - great news! No mention of manual gearbox though. So the one single USP the Emira had - something really important in the US at the moment - is going to be abandoned? <facepalm>
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@Rolando_tillit @Timoldland Specifically nothing specific mentioned at all.
You don’t know my age to make that claim.
I’m going to presume you always depart into an alternate reality when you feel exposed.
It’s not healthy you know.
Try not to do it. It isn’t good for you.
Bad Driving Kills (retd)@AreYouObjective
@Rolando_tillit @Timoldland What are you on? they’re not even the same shape. 90deg hot v6? Not you know 60 compact from a camery in the 2000s?
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@AreYouObjective @Timoldland So no specifics? I've been tinkering with engines for probably longer than you've been alive. Take care.
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@Rolando_tillit @Timoldland Moving the goalpost bud.
If you want to play fantasy engine expert that’s fine.
I don’t see anything intellectually curious here.
Nice chatting with you.
It would be good to have a genuine conversation next time?
Rolando Tillit@Rolando_tillit
@AreYouObjective @Timoldland What's different in the block specifically.
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@AreYouObjective @Timoldland The block itself has nothing to do with exhaust port orientation because that's not where combustion gases leave, that's all down to the head. What's different about the block specifically? Water passages? Cylinder reinforcement semi closed deck, fully closed?
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@Rolando_tillit @Timoldland Same car different frock to make people think it’s a “new” car.
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@AreYouObjective @Timoldland Evora is the older car, Emira is the current one.
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@Rolando_tillit @Timoldland The chat bot is accusing me of being a chat bot.
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@AreYouObjective @Timoldland Sounds copied from a chat bot.
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@Rolando_tillit @Timoldland What are you on?
they’re not even the same shape.
90deg hot v6? Not you know 60 compact from a camery in the 2000s?
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@AreYouObjective @Timoldland What's different in the block specifically.
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