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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by itsamemario
Haha stfu, it's even on google maps, you dolt :p |
You own that? That's pretty awesome man. |
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| aNYthing |
| quote: | Originally posted by itsamemario
Haha stfu, it's even on google maps, you dolt :p |
Like, Nor way, man! :toothless |
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| srussell0018 |
| quote: | Originally posted by aNYthing
LOL Megane... LMFAO :haha:
Dude, as a GT-R owner, I appreciate your honesty - you're full of and you're not afraid to admit it.
As a car nut who had the likes of BMW M3, Audi RS4, Camaro, Supra, whole bunch of Acuras, manual or automatic and have TRACKED many of the sporty cars - I personally appreciate the fact that I can go into turn and obliterate your rwd geriatric mobiles - aka VETTE. And if you think it doesn't take skill driving GT-R and rules of physics don't STILL apply - you're even MORE full of than initially suspected. If you get stupid, at best - you're chewing the nearest pile of tires. At worst, you're worm food.
The worst piece of I ever drove was the M3. Not because of handling - which was tier than Supra that cost significantly less - but because it NEVER LEFT THE ING SERVICE AREA. You know you got a piece of product when it has 45 pages of repairs and you have to sue the BMW s, just so that you can get rid of that lemon.
The only thing I wish it had was the 6MT and if I could get my sweaty palms on a legal R34 on this side of the pond - I'd do it in a heartbeat just for that reason alone. However, DSG is a joy to use and when I miss the stick, I still have my daily ride with "proper" tranny. The engine sound when the monster turbo kicks in is so ing sweet, I drove it from Atlanta to Salem, NC without even turning the radio on. That's music, my friend.
Lastly, when you floor your car and you just see the digits whirl past 100MPH and you double-check to see if you're not dreaming when it reads 140MPH but feels like 80... you know you got one hell of a ride.
But, if you'd rather have something challenging to drive - get a ing horse and a buggy - those are mad tricky!!! You can stick 48" spinnaz on that bitch, tho - you be the pimp in your Amish community.
Anywho - GT-R is by far one of the best cars on the road today and nearly every single autocritic/journo agrees that it's a technological marvel. I'm sure you have the credibility that Clarkson/Hammond/May can only dream of, so your opinion really matters. :rolleyes:
I guess haters gonna hate 
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The reason I got a GT-R was because it's a monster like no other. Bonus points: there are not that many on the road (at least outside of Cali/Miami), so I don't see myself coming/going. Even better when people go "What the is that???" when they see it. Although, I will admit - most women are completely oblivious to it; it's a total "sausage magnet", which is somewhat of a let-down. But... it's a very civil car to drive around the city - if you don't step on it, it feels just like your regular sedan and actually has a usable trunk. Rear seats - that's another story. A double amputee oompa loompa couldn't fit in there... but who gives a ?
Lastly,
http://www.topgear.com/uk/nissan/gtr/verdict
The last point on insurance - funny. My insurance difference between an Acura RSX TypeS and GT-R? $200 more a year for GT-R. Go figure. |
I'd still take an STi over a GTR. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
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| itsamemario |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
You own that? That's pretty awesome man. |
Yeah man. Bought it with my life savings back in 72, one cold winter night, when I had no job, no girlfriend and generally no hope. All my latest business ventures had failed and I all I had left was what I had managed to salvage before bankrupting my door to door fish hook business.
The story goes, I was out drinking one night, along the streets of Haugesund, and anyone who's ever been there knows that's not a popular thing to do. They're very christian there. Anyways, I was walking. And drinking. It was some awful old Jãger, that was sure to have gone past it's expiration date.
So I was feeling pretty sick, I even had trouble walking straight, when all of a sudden this guy steps in front of me. Looking back I suspect he had been standing behind a corner, but to my drunken self, he appeared out of nowhere and as soon as I heard his dialect, I was sure I was in for a world of verbal hurt from the deepest depths of the bible.
To my surprise, what he wanted to talk to me about, was cars. He had purchased a small race track, and his mother had gotten sick so he had to move her to Bergen to be at a better hospital. Remember, this was before they built the new wing at Haugesund Sjukehus.
Anyways, I accompanied him to go see what I thought for the next hour, was a race car. I was that drunk. When we got there, and I saw it was an actual race track, the four year old in me awoke, and I started making car noises, and signed the papers in a hurry and gave him the 18 000 kroners I had in my brown leather brief case. 18 000 kroners used to be alot back then.
Turned out in the end, that it actually belonged to his mother, so I had to go through about a year in court, and several thousands of loaned kroners from relatives to pay the lawyers with, but thankfully the courts saw it my way and I got my race track.
It hadn't seen much income lately, but I turned it into a cash machine, by allowing the younger kids to race their regular cars, as long as they fitted them with special slick tires that they had to buy from me. Little did they know they were just old tires I got from Kristiansand, dipped them in tar and got my nephew to go over with a knife and some sand paper, and write R-Wheels with white paint on the side. Effectively the kids were paying me to re-tar my race track. |
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| Trance-MB |
| quote: | Originally posted by itsamemario
Yeah man. Bought it with my life savings back in 72, |
Okay, how old are you?
Hasn't ever an airplane landed on your track by mistake? |
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| itsamemario |
| Oh, that was in no way a mistake! And don't you ing believe anyone who tells you otherwise. I presume the incident you are referring to when Einar Gerhardsen had to land on the race track because his Cessna was carrying two cases of champagne that were intended for the labour party's national congress, and seeing as they would have been confiscated upon landing at Haugesund airport, so when I heard about the predicament they were in, through a friend of mine who worked as a functionary with them, I offered to lend them my services. Oh man, I have no idea who tipped off the coppers, but they sure got their gas money's worth trying to chase me and two cases of yellow widow in the back. :D |
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| Trance-MB |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
HOLD THE UP. This is one of the worst clusters I've ever seen.
I guy that owns a Rav4 and another that own a Megane professing what are the best super/sports cars. A ing Renault, peice of , Megane.
I wouldn't give them the steam off my on a cold winter's day. My mum owned one and ing hated it too.
And would people stop commenting on cars they've never driver, but apparently "know" because their mates once saw one. |
LOL, don't even start mentioning my RAV4 together with any French car!!! :whip: You really make a cow laugh doing that.
And someone can be very able to judge cars in general without owning one or even driving them. Well maybe my view is clouded as having a technical education and reading car magazines for over 25 years.
My other car is a 2001 Skoda Octavia combi with the still excellent 1.8T 150hp engine you can find in VW's and Audi's.
And yes, it's not like a BMW or Audi, but for money I paid there was nothing coming even close. So the car someone drives doesn't need to be the car someone would like to drive, and obviously there can be many reasons for this. |
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| Trance-MB |
| quote: | Originally posted by itsamemario
Oh, that was in no way a mistake! And don't you ing believe anyone who tells you otherwise. I presume the incident you are referring to when Einar Gerhardsen had to land on the race track because his Cessna was carrying two cases of champagne that were intended for the labour party's national congress, and seeing as they would have been confiscated upon landing at Haugesund airport, so when I heard about the predicament they were in, through a friend of mine who worked as a functionary with them, I offered to lend them my services. Oh man, I have no idea who tipped off the coppers, but they sure got their gas money's worth trying to chase me and two cases of yellow widow in the back. :D |
Ehm, I only asked because I saw on Google maps the airport was very close :)
So how old are you? |
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| itsamemario |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trance-MB
Ehm, I only asked because I saw on Google maps the airport was very close :)
So how old are you? |
Gonna hit the big 60 in August :D My wife and I are planning to spend a month in Bermuda to celebrate, sans family :) It's gonna be heaven. |
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| Trance-MB |
| quote: | Originally posted by itsamemario
Gonna hit the big 60 in August :D My wife and I are planning to spend a month in Bermuda to celebrate, sans family :) It's gonna be heaven. |
Great, at least you made me feel young again for a brief moment here.
Bermuda sounds really good :) Must remember that.. |
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| itsamemario |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trance-MB
Great, at least you made me feel young again for a brief moment here.
Bermuda sounds really good :) Must remember that.. |
Ah yes, It will be heaven. Did you know that Bermuda was discovered in 1505 by Spanish sea captain Juan de Bermúdez, after whom the islands are named. He claimed the apparently uninhabited islands for the Spanish Empire. Although he paid two visits to the archipelago, Bermúdez was persuaded never to set foot on any of the islands by the dangerous reef surrounding them. Subsequent Spanish or other visitors are believed to have released the feral pigs that were abundant on the island when settlement began. In 1609, the Virginia Company, which had established Virginia and Jamestown on the American continent two years earlier, established a settlement on behalf of the British colonial empire. Initially, it was administered as an extension of Virginia by the Company until 1614, before its successor, the Somers Isles Company, took over until 1684. Bermuda then became a Crown Colony following the 1707 unification of the parliaments of Scotland and England. (The United Kingdom was formed in 1603 following James VI of Scotland taking over the English throne thus uniting two kingdoms and becoming James VI and first of the United Kingdom.) After Newfoundland became part of Canada in 1949, Bermuda became the oldest (and, since the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997, the most populous) remaining British overseas territory. Its first capital, St. George's, was established in 1612 and is the oldest continuously inhabited English speaking town in the Americas.
Me and my wife however will travel a little further than St. George's. Just off of the coast of Hamilton to be exact, where we actually own and operate a small community centre where we in large teach Calypso class for seniors, although we do also offer them to the younger crowd, it's usually just tourists that show up, seeing as most of the towns inhabitants know it by heart. You're welcome to come any time :D |
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