^ That's fair but Buicks should be colors that make the car hide in a crowd. I mean, they couldn't even get the Cascada right. How fukn hard is it to make a nice looking sporty convertible? Even Chrysler pulled it off better (a buncha times).
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^ That's fair but Buicks should be colors that make the car hide in a crowd. I mean, they couldn't even get the Cascada right. How fukn hard is it to make a nice looking sporty convertible? Even Chrysler pulled it off better (a buncha times).
I recalled another car that looked great in that 90s teal only because I saw one today:
The bitchin Camaro
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I know BaT has long since jumped the shark, but what the actual fuck is this shit?
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no reserve!
No shit!
He knows what he has.
Seller could delete all of that fluff-piece he put under the listing and just type, "2004 RED SHITBOX" and he'd probably get more traction.
Don't underestimate provenance in the collector car world.
Y'all just jealous because you know there's going to be way more eyes on a bright red Cavalier with a sunroof and a whale tail then there would ever be on some boring ass executive wagon from filled with dental prosthesis. I'd much rather have a bud heavy with someone willing to drive that than a sparkling white with some of your smug asses.Quote:
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“Y'all just jealous because you know there's going to be way more eyes on a bright red Cobalt with a sunroof and a whale tail then there would ever be on some boring ass executive wagon from filled with dental prosthesis. I'd much rather have a bud heavy with someone willing to drive that than a sparkling white with some of your smug asses.”
- Touring Sedan
You got all that from a posting for a 2004 Chevy?Quote:
Originally Posted by Touring_Sedan
I think your box of crowns is rattling around in the well with the spare tire.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
Wow. Never heard of that car. I heard it now. Wow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timberridge
Fknawesome
I think I bought weed from a guy who drove a Chevy shitbox in high school; I'm guessing there's more than that in the trunk well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Touring_Sedan
LFA may have the best sounding engine ever made for a road car.Quote:
Originally Posted by Core Shot
Maybe, but a 12,000 rpm V12 sounds pretty awesome:Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
https://youtu.be/s_Nbg1tdDUA?si=OtIh_5dU09MVsCeI
Pretty awesome indeed, but for the life of me I can't get past the aero fan on back of it (as functional as it may be).Quote:
Originally Posted by J. Barron DeJong
I'm completely biased to the sound of a flat-6 engine (high-revving, nothing else like it and completely distinctive, can rumble low and scream high...), but that LFA's V-10... mmm, mmmm.
I think that's one of the reasons I like endurance/sportscar racing so much - you get all these different cars and engines out on the same track and you get to compare one to the others. The current factory Cadillac hypercar for example I think has the absolute meanest sounding N/A V-8 out of anything else; the Porsche 963 hypercars sound like spaceships and the Lexus RC-F V-8s sound like what a muscle car always was meant to (if it wasn't leaking gas and oil and odd bits of Detroit steel).
As with anything car-related YMMV.
Yep. I haven’t been to one in a long time, but the variety of engine noises makes sports car racing great. (Though 911s were my least favorite because for whatever reason the buzzing at the top of the rev range made them the only cars that literally hurt my ears when in pit lane.)Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
Favorites were the Pratt and Miller Vettes and Caddys. You could feel the pounding in your chest as they went by.
Absolutely. Pratt & Miller is running both of Corvette's factory teams this coming season. Those things are just so damned good out there. Bulletproof. Loud.Quote:
Originally Posted by J. Barron DeJong
All of a sudden I’m looking at a bunch of cars with run flat tires and no spare.
I do a lot of miles away from home on the weekends, and imagine a run flat flat really fucking things up.
Who’s got experience with this?
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We've got run flats on the milf mobile, we've taken it on road trips and I really don't worry about it at all. I guess if I was more than 75 miles from a tire shop and got a flat it would suck. Prices of tires will catch your breath though, just spent $300 ea. on new studded hakkas and that was a screaming deal.Quote:
Originally Posted by jm2e
If you don't like the RF's you could always switch back over, you just need to buy the jack kit and a spare/wheel to go with the new tires.
I drove runflats on 4 different cars (all BMWs) and never had an issue. Long road trips or around town.Quote:
Originally Posted by jm2e
I briefly went regular tires on my 330 and it turned the ride to mush; they’re engineered to run those hard sidewall tires and it was instantly recognizable. The shop had tried to slip it by my wife that they didn’t have the Conti runflats and just mounted the regulars without telling her.
She and I went back mad as hell that they would treat a woman like it was 1950.
This actually got me thinking. Audi puts a hide-away spare in their cars and no pump (at least that I’ve found yet - haven’t even opened up the spare well), which I find annoying. I had a flat in my old allroad which I just crawled on to the tire shop 1000 yards away because of the same issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Touring_Sedan
I bet that Chevy’s got a real nice full size spare like God intended.
Strap the new donut to the roof like and overlander?Quote:
Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain
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The car should have a space for the regular spare? Our mom mobile (BMW) does. The RF was an option. Maybe the rigs you're looking at don't have the space then I guess it wouldn't work.Quote:
Originally Posted by jm2e
Yea, it’s kinda screwed up. At some point BMW stopped designing room under the rear cargo area. So when they did offer a spare, the whole cargo area is raised up about 3” to accommodate it. That’s what we have in our 2022 x3 that came with a spare.Quote:
Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain
2020 with Run-Flat
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2019 with Spare
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