Cars - Favorites and Opinions on Concepts

[SquirrelDip]

@ g_shocker182 : Thanks for the link... When looking at anything with these price tags I always appreciate any/all information.

Price is a little out of my league for the TT - it's just that I've been extremely impressed ever since they came out.

The RX8 is an amaizing car - my only complaint is that the leg room is a little tight for the driver. Knees end up a little close to the steering wheel. I've also considered the Toyota Celica but would really prefer a V6 (soooo much smoother).

[WeedVender]

I read that site.. and I was shocked ! and then they dare sell it a that price? when its less reliable than a Hyandai?

Audi should really grow up...


The TT is really beutiful though

[SquirrelDip]

@ g_shocker182 : I read through the link, very interesting read (and a very well thought out site).

More so than the lemon, I am blown away at how the dealer has handled the situation. Especially considering the price of the vehicle. A couple of people reporting lemons wouldn't deter me from purchasing but the route the dealer has chosen definitely will - the TT is looker but no longer on my wish list.

[shelbyGT]

way too many to post, but so far you all have hit on a few of them.

'67 Shelby GT500 Black with two white stripes going down the middle

stop making me blush

[WeedVender]

The Black GT500 shown in the barret Jackson auction is Elanors (Gone in 60 seconds) older brother...

Imagine that car with crome spinners

[WeedVender]

Craig Tucker:

A rotary engine's displacement is calculated by the deep of the grooves in the rotor...


This site explains it all

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/rotary-engine7.htm

Here it is laddies and Germs...

Shelby at its finnest....
( a little more wax can help)

[hech54]

Regarding the link I just posted, I think I need to clear somethings up. That site is about this mans ordeal after purchasing an Audi TT. He had it for a few months, then a myriad of electrical problems occured. He took it to the dealership but they would not give him a refund for the car being a lemon (see Lemon laws). Its a pretty interesting story. He has since refused to pay for the vehicle.

Another interesting story:
I live in Wolfsburg, Germany.....the Home of Volkswagen. As you can imagine 9 out of 10 cars here are VW or Audi. I've never seen a VW or Audi "on the hook" my whole time I've been here....I've been here almost exactly a year(tomorrow actually).
I've also owned VW's all of my life. I got left stranded ONCE with my old red Rabbit. My timing belt was OLD and spun leaving me with a bad case of valves being out of time.
This guy sounds like my uncle going through his second childhood. He HAD to have a Camaro Z28 with the Vette motor. He has had the rear end replaced 3 times in that crapper. He also somehow related him destroying the car to the car being unsafe because it broke down. The Chevrolet service manager told him to "have a seat....you also need to replace your rear tires. We need to re-align the new rear end and we can't do it with tires so bald the threads are showing"
I'd take a TT anytime.

[Craig Tucker]

Craig Tucker:

A rotary engine's displacement is calculated by the deep of the grooves in the rotor...


This site explains it all

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/rotary-engine7.htm

Thanks for the link weedvender nice animation of a rotary engine, although I did know how they worked but was unsure of how the capacity was calculated which this site does not explain (not that I could see).
So the engines capacity is the sum of the 3 voids in the faces of the triangular rotar ?. It has nothing to do with the volume of the housing ?

[WeedVender]

Directly from the website......

"The rotor has three convex faces, each of which acts like a piston. Each face of the rotor has a pocket in it, which increases the displacement of the engine, allowing more space for air/fuel mixture."

[Craig Tucker]

Directly from the website......

"The rotor has three convex faces, each of which acts like a piston. Each face of the rotor has a pocket in it, which increases the displacement of the engine, allowing more space for air/fuel mixture."

Yes, I realise that, but that does not explain how the capacity (volume) of the engine is calculated (is it the volume of the housing, the volume of the voids, or perhaps some combination of the two, in other words in the Mazda's case what is it that equates to 1300 cubic centimeters). Something I have always wondered but never found out (not looked very hard really). With a piston engine it is obviously very easy to calculate, not so straight forward with one of these.

[WeedVender]

I think ur asking the same question over and over again.. unless u mean engine size in cubic inches.. that i dont know.. but from what i understand on ur last post...

Displacement is calculated by the groves on the rotors... and the size of the piston on a piston engine... thats how u get 1.3 liters (total) which is the same as 1300 cc's
Simple math would prove that every grove supports around 216.66 cc's of displacement... and displacements shows engine size (same goes for cubic inches but thats measuring an engine's dimensions instead of internal components).

[fmctm1sw]

Call me old fashioned but here's a few for me....

1969 Buick Sportwagon... Had one with a 455 V-8 in it.


And a 1970 Plymouth Superbird (tricked out Roadrunner)...

[WeedVender]

I remember that car.... the road runner...

You know that if NASCAR hadnt capped the max MPH by installing restricting carborators, those cars in like 1 or 2 years would have gone over 300 mph... Hows that for American Muscle?

But I still prefere skylines and porches...

[Capmaster]

Not too many cars make me salivate and hyperventilate ...especially the newer "cars". This one does ......
1970 426 Hemi Cuda

Kneel before the muscle car God

[northcat_8]

1970 426 Hemi Cuda

[WeedVender]

I would rather get a 67 GTO.. with 4 fat turbos, a weight reduction, bigger rear wheels, A CVT transmission, an 3 200lbs. tanks of NOS....

take that baby down at the drag strip..... now thats but yet satisfying...

I present the buttocks of a Skyline


READ THIS

I just saw (yesterday) a '86 Toyota Sprinter Trueno colored Red beat a ferrari f360 in the quarter mile...

Its time was 11.2 seconds... THATS AS FAST AS THE 650,000 FERRARI ENZO !

oh and yes... the air was petrified with burned rubber...

[SquirrelDip]

@ Capmaster : LOVE the Cuda!

@ WeedVender : I guess I've been interested in bikes for too long but 11.2 secon 1/4 mile just doesn't sound all that impressive... The Honda XX Super Blackbird does 0 to 100km/h (62 mph) in 2.5 seconds and the 1/4 mile in 10.2. Oh, and that's totally stock - and about $10K new...

Still, the Skyline is a beautiful car - too bad it's not available here in Canada...

[WeedVender]

ok.. u have a valid point there... but a car is WAY heavier than a bike... hence the numbers... Not even the Ferrari F50 can beat that Trueno i saw... And the F50 is a race car...

[BJ_M]

you can buy a skyline in the usa -- i mean a REAL skyline .. a company has been importing them and legalizing them for 49 states since 2000 and offers new and used for sale -- better have some serious cash on you though . .. http://www.skylinegtr.com

canada -- no go ... tougher rules on importing .. but if you have a usa address !

[WeedVender]

ahh the R34..... ::ejaculates for no aparent reason::..

But dam... they stoped making it.. which sucks now because now they got that resale value off the roof...

[BJ_M]

ahh the R34..... ::ejaculates for no aparent reason::..

But dam... they stoped making it.. which sucks now because now they got that resale value off the roof...

i believe #1 above is a r34-400 (400+hp factory) limited edition ...


since these are selling for near 100grand .. at least you can get yur hands on a EVO or sti ... at a more reasonable cost ...

[Hatz]

I just saw (yesterday) a '86 Toyota Sprinter Trueno colored Red beat a ferrari f360 in the quarter mile...

Its time was 11.2 seconds... THATS AS FAST AS THE 650,000 FERRARI ENZO !

Or you could go with the $400,000 1988 Callaway Corvette Sledgehammer.






Not as fast as the Callaway C7 in 0-60 time( only 3.9 secs compared to the C7 time of 2.9 secs) but blows it away in over all top speed..... 254mph......They say it is the fastest street legal car ever to be produced.

However, there was only one of them ever made so it never really went into public production. 880bhp out of a twin turbo V8.

It did reach a 1/4mile of 10.6 seconds.

But like I said.......only one made so good luck trying to buy it. It was a production car but never became standard. Too bad.....alot of people spend more than 400,000. None of them compare to this power and speed though.

http://www.madwheels.com/sledgehammer/

Hatz

[northcat_8]

Now Bikes - that is different.

I like the CBR900 RR, friend had one, fully dyno'd, jetted, spark arrester removed, Vance and Hines header....he let me ride it...once....165 mph...very quickly....I don't know what it would pull in the quarter but it could take you from zero to dead in less than 8 seconds. Very nice bike.

I have another friend who customizes rockets. He as done quite a few nice bikes but he owns a ducatti (1100, I think) and it is fully decked out, it is very very nice...he won't let me ride it though..

Friend doesn't have the 900 anymore...he parked it into the side of a car at 120 mph, he was killed instantly. Which is why I don't have a bike...I love the speed too much.

[SquirrelDip]

Now Bikes - that is different.

I like the CBR900 RR, friend had one, fully dyno'd, jetted, spark arrester removed, Vance and Hines header....he let me ride it...once....165 mph...very quickly....I don't know what it would pull in the quarter but it could take you from zero to dead in less than 8 seconds. Very nice bike.

I have another friend who customizes rockets. He as done quite a few nice bikes but he owns a ducatti (1100, I think) and it is fully decked out, it is very very nice...he won't let me ride it though..

Friend doesn't have the 900 anymore...he parked it into the side of a car at 120 mph, he was killed instantly. Which is why I don't have a bike...I love the speed too much.

Over the last couple of years the CBR900RR has been creeping up it's displacement - this year it's a CBR1000RR. I'm betting it's about the same (or less) weight than it was last year.

The 1100XX is no longer sold (at least here in Canada - should still be able to find new 2003's for the next while) but it's actually classed more of a sport touring bike and I'm interested in it because it's more suitable for 2 riding than my current 600.

Sorry to hear about your friend, it's a story you hear far too often. I guess that's a real down side with being able to afford a machine with that kind of performance - I suppose we'd here the same story even more often if some of the vehicles above were in the $10K price range.

[northcat_8]

That was back in 95. His 900 was the first year of the CBR 900 RR.

I use to have an 88' Hurricane, full works, with the dyno, jets, header, spark arrester, acccelerated coil....had to get rid of it though.....got caught doing 146 mph in a state park. A friend and I were just out riding and across the dam at the resevoir we hopped them up, it's a long straight away...straight away...high speed machine...I couldn't resist. Anyway, long story short we out ran them and made it home, but a sheriff came down the road and saw the garage door at my friend's house closing and he stopped to ask if he passed or saw the guys on the bikes....and bang, my friend was caught...and he narked on me (I lived back a longer lane behind some trees so I was out of sight). But anyway, the judge reduced my punishment considerably with the condition that I sell the bike...dropped the wreckless op, dropped the fleeing, and just got popped for speeding.

That was back in my "ignorance of youth" days. I haven't owned a bike since. But I do love them.

[WeedVender]

i believe #1 above is a r34-400 (400+hp factory) limited edition ...


since these are selling for near 100grand .. at least you can get yur hands on a EVO or sti ... at a more reasonable cost ...

The Nismo R33 400R is that its called, not an R34. Also the 400R is RARE and also its colored yellow mica or yellow something.. dont remember... there are some colored red..

Also the skyline, at least for me now.. since i live In the Dominican Republic and not U.S.A, is cheaper for me.. although they dont sell it here.. a skyline in Japan costs 45 Grand... and then to ship it here would cost u like 5 grand extra..but after that.. since i live in a country were just about everybody can be bribed... I dont have to mess around with registration and legalization and all that stuff that for some reason make the costs almost the same price for a Skyline.. thats why it costs 100 Grand on some web sites selling the Skyline to the U.S consumer.. Legalization, Registration, Customs, Shipment, the actual car it self, and some othere things.. just multiplies the price..
(unless u just ship it, and dont drive it and just wax it day after day, theres nothing wrong with that )
Even though the STI and the EVO and are 4WD and are beutiful and dont get me wrong.. they are... I would still pick the skyline even though it costs more... its like I just love it, and i stick with it.. plus in the skyline u get a RWD car combined with 4WD when u need it and unlike the EVo and STI, they dont have the racing heritage at races like Nurburing (sp*) or the fact that In autrailia.. they had to ban the car from racing because it won too much races... ( Just proved how good the car was..)
When I get pics of the R35 im going to post em... The r35 is just ugly in my opinion...

[WeedVender]

Here it is Ladies and Germs....

The R35 and a Pagani Zonda (very cool looking)




and the R35

[Capmaster]

If you just want to go the fastest, you buy one of these instead of a house:

http://www.allpar.com/cars/concepts/tomahawk.html

A car should have style too .....just as important as the 1/4 mile numbers

[BJ_M]

the R35 is freaking ugly .. looks like something cadillac would come up with trying to appeal to a "younger" generation ...

its got like at least 4 different design elements ..

[WeedVender]

Same here.. I think it just makes my eyes hurt...

But anyway.. It wont even include the potent RB26DETT engine that made the Skyline kick so much ass...

Its going to sport a V8.. not an Inline 6

Here is a pic of the world's fastest car... The Dauer 962 LM ( its a 3 liter, Flat 6 Twin Turbo, Quad Cam pumping around 730 HP...
And has a max speed of 250MPH....