The car appreciation thread

[A Y]

A short (2 minutes) documentary on the Nurburgring 24 hour race in 2010. Watch it in HD:

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[skalogre]

Originally Posted by A Y

A short (2 minutes) documentary on the Nurburgring 24 hour race in 2010. Watch it in HD:

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We must be reading the same auto blogs

 

[pscolari]

I love the double clutch right at the end. Nice vid. Was this posted on Jalop?

 

[epb]

While I like lots of cars, my passion is for a subset of cars: beautiful cars based on the chassis of ordinary cars; the automotive equivalent of the tv cliche were a quite ordinary woman dresses up or lets her hair down and is suddenly gorgeous. Examples:

VW Kharmann-Ghia, based on the VW Beetle:

Alfa Romeo Sprint Speciale, based on the Giulietta sedan

Ford Mustang, based on the Ford Falcon:

My current ride, the BMW Z4 M Coupe - based on the E46 3-series:

 

[venessian]

Originally Posted by StephenHero

1984 Plymouth Voyager

Before '84, wood was just the **** that sailboats and grandfather clocks were made of. Its uses were considered exhausted. The critics declared "Wood is DEAD." But then Chrysler escaped the shackles of mankind's imagination. They said "No. Wood isn't DEAD. Wood is an IDEA. Wood is an ATTITUDE. Wood is IMMORTAL. Watch us wallpaper a ******* van with it." And like that, in the most ironic technological breakthrough ever, Chrysler scaled to the summit of Post-Modernism. In rear-wheel drive.

The game changed forever in '84.

Dang, GM was late to the PoMo party, though!

Ford was already way hip in the '30's. And, they had the balls to actually name the car...WOODY.

 

[venessian]

Law Enforcement High Speed Ground Transportation Units: A Contrast in Styles.

Los Angeles, USA

Bologna, Italia

 

[impolyt_one]

Doesn't Cali still run a fleet of BMW M5's or something like that for high-speed chases? I know they had like 40 540i/6's and then switched to E39 M5's, about 10 years ago, but I don't know what happened after the economy fell apart...

 

[dragon8]

Originally Posted by venessian:Bologna, Italia
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I guess one needs a flying saucer to outrun that

 

[amstokesdb9]

I don't know about BMWs but I do know that C6 Corvettes are used by many squads

 

[nootje]

Originally Posted by dragon8

I guess one needs a flying saucer to outrun that

I believe someone actually did this, somewhere in france if i recall correctly.

 

[A Y]

Originally Posted by skalogre

We must be reading the same auto blogs

Originally Posted by impolyt_one

Doesn't Cali still run a fleet of BMW M5's or something like that for high-speed chases? I know they had like 40 540i/6's and then switched to E39 M5's, about 10 years ago, but I don't know what happened after the economy fell apart...

I think BMW gave the Spartanburg police department an M5 when they opened their plant there. Here in Cali, we have Camaro-driving police (the previous generation), ostensibly for chasing down big rigs. ORLY?

Also lots of police motorbikes are Beemers.

--Andre

 

[darnelled]

Originally Posted by venessian

Law Enforcement High Speed Ground Transportation Units: A Contrast in Styles.

Los Angeles, USA

Bologna, Italia

Sad follow up to that^.

 

[Grey]

Cars I'm on about today. Changes constantly. Some attainable, some not.

Maserati 250F (totally unattainable)

MG TA (realistic and very tempting)

TR3A.

Fiat Multipla 600.

 

[amstokesdb9]

The one in the wreck is an older Gallardo than the one on the track. Does Lamborghini just send a replacement when the cops wreck it?

 

[Grey]

Originally Posted by amstokesdb9

Does Lamborghini just send a replacement when the cops wreck it?

I'd imagine that PD's have insurance like anyone else, and that when they crash, they get a payout that allows them to pick up a new Gallardo and have it resprayed in "Polizia" livery.