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26 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Don't lump me in with them. I'm an enthusiast of mechanic design, be it engines, weaponry, or productive machinery. Not a guy with a wrench that reads the marketing garbage AFE/insert other "enthusiast" brand that can't legally warranty half of their products.

 

I fail to see a correlation between people screeching variations of "forced induction is more efficient!!! Reclaimed energy!!!" and anything I've said.

If you can't be civil. Please leave

 

Edit. That goes for everyone in the thread

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15 minutes ago, ImadKnight said:

there is... the other way... of getting games 

i like to get workshop and dlc and updates without having to redownload my game every time. but most of the games i get run like shit on my pc anyway.

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2 hours ago, IAR117 said:

Nice. I've always loved little French cars. I suppose it's because of how light they generally are

Yeah, 125hp in a car that weighs about 1070kg. And has short gearing, good fun

Needs money for car parts :P

 

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Lotus bought by Chinese company "Geely"

 

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/24/autos/lotus-geely-china-proton/index.html

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I've only cleaned my car once since I bought it, and that was like, the first week I had it, oops

Needs money for car parts :P

 

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1 minute ago, bcredeur97 said:

Lotus bought by Chinese company "Geely"

 

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/24/autos/lotus-geely-china-proton/index.html

Geely bought up Volvo. And they are doing quite well. So i'd say its a good thing

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6 minutes ago, iDeFecZx said:

I've only cleaned my car once since I bought it, and that was like, the first week I had it, oops

Conversely I wash my car multiple times a week... :P

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1 hour ago, techswede said:

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I drove my 2003 mustang GT 90 in a 30 once. Saw the cop in time and only got busted for going over 21mpg of the limit. Got 6 points for that. Never got a speeding ticket since and all the cop said was to be more careful lol

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1 minute ago, Real_PhillBert said:

Conversely I wash my car multiple times a week... :P

yeah no, you'd get ticketed in california for doing that shit. i only wash like maybe once every 2-3 weeks, but i know a guy who goes to prime shine basically every day and gets his odyssey washed. there's no point in doing it every day.

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2 minutes ago, terrytek said:

yeah no, you'd get ticketed in california for doing that shit. i only wash like maybe once every 2-3 weeks, but i know a guy who goes to prime shine basically every day and gets his odyssey washed. there's no point in doing it every day.

I live in a free state... :P

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Just now, Real_PhillBert said:

I live in a free state... :P

Booooo. being in a free state is too boring.

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13 minutes ago, MadyTehWolfie said:

I drove my 2003 mustang GT 90 in a 30 once. Saw the cop in time and only got busted for going over 21mpg of the limit. Got 6 points for that. Never got a speeding ticket since and all the cop said was to be more careful lol

Damn 21MPG in an '03 Mustang GT? That's pretty good :P

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2 hours ago, techswede said:

And it would appear as if my GPU is toast. Can we just get may over with already. This month is shit

Agreed. I've yet to have nothing break *knocks on wood*

And my summer holiday is in June. Can we please just get there already?

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35 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

Conversely I wash my car multiple times a week... :P

Im too lazy aha

Its really nice weather atm so ill probs do it sunday. (Busy tomorrow, expect many pictutes of modified cars :) )

Needs money for car parts :P

 

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39 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

Conversely I wash my car multiple times a week... :P

I haven't washed my car since i bought it. Going to need to do it when its fixed though. The magical wax doesn't work as well against pollen.

15 minutes ago, RatedBlam said:

Agreed. I've yet to have nothing break *knocks on wood*

And my summer holiday is in June. Can we please just get there already?

Well it was good that it happened now. At least i can go out and do stuff in summer. And it'll take a while to save up for a 1080..

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1 minute ago, techswede said:

I haven't washed my car since i bought it. Going to need to do it when its fixed though. The magical wax doesn't work as well against pollen.

Well it was good that it happened now. At least i can go out and do stuff in summer. And it'll take a while to save up for a 1080..

Come to Stockholm and I'll give you my gtx460.:P 

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3 hours ago, Real_PhillBert said:

He always is...

don't engage with shitposters....

 

50 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

Lotus bought by Chinese company "Geely"

 

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/24/autos/lotus-geely-china-proton/index.html

RIP Lotus. 

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Just now, vetali said:

don't engage with shitposters....

 

RIP Lotus. 

I agree, even tho shitposting here does nothing. Since its off topic, it doesn't count towards your 'post count' anyways. He's just wasting his own time. 

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10 minutes ago, vetali said:

don't engage with shitposters....

 

RIP Lotus. 

Hey can't complain it's adding to the post count of the thread. Need all the help we can get to get to page 9000 xD

 

yeah in really worried they will ruin Lotus... I hope I'm wrong. They were like the last car company alive that made cars for the purpose of being a car and not a comfortable personal human transport device

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1 minute ago, bcredeur97 said:

yeah in really worried they will ruin Lotus... I hope I'm wrong. They were like the last car company alive that made cars for the purpose of being a car and not a comfortable personal human transport device

Inb4 they have a big huge laggy tablet in the dash to control everything just like volvo. 

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1 minute ago, vetali said:

Inb4 they have a big huge laggy tablet in the dash to control everything just like volvo. 

They were on to something a while back though

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And the 2016 D5 XC70 i rented was great.

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Then came the V90

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I mean its stylish. And looks like a great place to be.. Just don't like full touch infotainment systems. 

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I see Volvo stuck with the "Show me where he touched you" blower controls until the bitter end and takeover of laggy touchscreens.

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5 minutes ago, vetali said:

Inb4 they have a big huge laggy tablet in the dash to control everything just like volvo. 

In order to bring lotus sales back tho they may actually make a budget-oriented car. 

 

That will be really interesting.

 

but gosh if the true spirit of lotus dies I'm gonna be crying in a corner somewhere 

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5 minutes ago, RatedBlam said:

I see Volvo stuck with the "Show me where he touched you" blower controls until the bitter end and takeover of laggy touchscreens.

If it ain't broke don't fix it.. And yet they did. 

4 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

In order to bring lotus sales back tho they may actually make a budget-oriented car. 

 

That will be really interesting.

 

but gosh if the true spirit of lotus dies I'm gonna be crying in a corner somewhere 

I mean volvo is under their wing. And they mostly improved. 

Still waiting for the C90 to be released. God the concepts look amazing. 

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I'm excited to see what they do with lotus. I think the current lotus is a bit stuck in its ways. With more funding i want to see them do something new.

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2 hours ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

 

Why don't people behave?... :|

158kph is excessive, however, the current limits (where I live anyways) are too low to begin with. Flow of traffic often travels at 10-20 over. Especially on the 4+ lane highways, where I often observe the flow up to +40 over the limit. 

 

When you have a car like that though, it's difficult to not uncork it every now and then. You just have to be smart about when and where you do it. This guy was obviously not. 

1 hour ago, MadyTehWolfie said:

I drove my 2003 mustang GT 90 in a 30 once. Saw the cop in time and only got busted for going over 21mpg of the limit. Got 6 points for that. Never got a speeding ticket since and all the cop said was to be more careful lol

Biggest ticket I ever got was for 129kph in an 80 zone. Was a country road, no other cars around, on my way home from work on a sunny afternoon. This was also before the +50 over laws were put in place. $360 fine and however many points later... :S 

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158kph is excessive, however, the current limits (where I live anyways) are too low to begin with. Flow of traffic often travels at 10-20 over. Especially on the 4+ lane highways, where I often observe the flow up to +40 over the limit. 

 

When you have a car like that though, it's difficult to not uncork it every now and then. You just have to be smart about when and where you do it. This guy was obviously not. 

Problem is that if the government upped the limit by 20. People would quickly start going 20 over that. 

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