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Re: Cars - what kind of car do you have seriously?
« Reply #450 on: May 13, 2015, 08:43:11 PM »
Currently I drive a 2005 corolla, but I am buying a Subaru Legacy B4 RSK with a manual transmission in the next few days. Deposit is already down on it. It's white and is absolutely MINT, love the Japanese imports you can't get the B4 RSK in the states and they're rare everywhere else. It's basically a legacy with the STI motor and tranny plus another turbo. I drove it and instantly loved it. Roomy and not cramped like the STI and VERY fast. Hits boost at 2500 rpm and pulls hard all the way to redline.

Not much of a tuner car but I'll dress it up and lower it, and throw a proper 3 inch catback exhaust and cold air intake on. That plus a tune and we'll be good for a little but over 300 horse power to all 4 wheels.

Oh, and did I mention is has only 65k kms on? thing is mint.

Nice car!

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Re: Cars - what kind of car do you have seriously?
« Reply #451 on: February 24, 2022, 07:19:07 PM »
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DeLorean, Reborn as an EV, to Debut at Pebble Beach This August

Not everyone is familiar with the DeLorean Motor Company name, but most people know the automaker's now legendary product: the DMC DeLorean. Although sold only for the 1981–1983 model years, the sports car's stainless steel body panels and gullwing doors made it—and continue to make it—a wholly unique and head-turning vehicle. No wonder director Robert Zemeckis chose the car to serve as the time machine in the Back to the Future movie franchise.

It was only a matter of time, then, until another entity brought the notorious vehicle back to life. DeLorean Motors Reimagined is doing just that. The company, whose largest shareholder is the DeLorean Motor Company that sells parts for and restores original DeLoreans, is set to reveal its new-age take on John Z. DeLorean's classic coupe at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in August.

The car DeLorean parks on the Concept Lawn at the concours will preview the company's low-volume production vehicle. Unlike the gasoline-powered DeLorean of yore, the new one will receive motivation from a battery-electric powertrain. Company officials are keeping mum on most of the car's key details at the moment, but chief executive officer Joost de Vries, who previously held positions at companies such as Volvo and Tesla, shared with Car and Driver that the reborn DeLorean is expected to offer at least 300 miles of driving range.

The company is fitting the car with a bespoke platform, too, though it intends to source the powertrain—such as electric motors and battery packs—it needs from external operations. As de Vries noted, "It makes no sense today for a company of our size to vertically integrate everything."

The finished product ought to crib styling cues from its forebear without recycling its looks. As chief marketing officer Troy Beetz said, the car the company plans to show off at Pebble Beach imagines what a modern DeLorean might look like "had it been around for the last 40 years."

Whether this results in a car that turns heads in the same way its predecessor did remains to be seen. Nevertheless, the company wants to create a vehicle that caters to people's emotions, with de Vries divulging that the forthcoming DeLorean sacrifices some aerodynamic efficiency in the name of style.

Despite its looks, the original DeLorean's performance was rather unimpressive. Don't expect that facet of the old car to carry over to the new one. Although de Vries was adamant about the DeLorean redux “not [being] a hypercar,” he did state that the company is engineering the vehicle to appeal to “people who want to drive.”

It's clear the folks spearheading this project possess the experience and passion to theoretically create a competitive high-end electric sports car. Still, it's neither easy nor inexpensive for a rather small organization to build and produce a new and profitable vehicle.

We certainly want to believe in the promise of a modern-day DeLorean, and we're excited to see what the company brings to Pebble in August. That said, we'll likely maintain a bit of healthy skepticism until we see the operation start delivering vehicles to customers.

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Re: Cars - what kind of car do you have seriously?
« Reply #452 on: February 25, 2022, 06:30:56 AM »
My daily driver in 1987 was a 72 Pantera, I shit you not, great looking car, but constantly had problems...sold it and bought a 57 Chevy, which I have to this day.

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Re: Cars - what kind of car do you have seriously?
« Reply #453 on: February 25, 2022, 12:35:19 PM »
Looking for a BMW M5 Competition, wait time, a year!!! :'(
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Re: Cars - what kind of car do you have seriously?
« Reply #454 on: February 25, 2022, 12:41:47 PM »
2006 Ford Escape XLT
2011 Corvette Z06
2014 F150

All have their uses and are paid for in cash.

I will say the 2006 Escape is the best built vehicle i've owned in my life. 180k miles and has not had a single problem since i purchased it with 25k miles in 2009. It's a fucking tank.

My 2014 F150 is garbage, at a little over 100k miles i've already spent nearly $10k on repairs.

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Re: Cars - what kind of car do you have seriously?
« Reply #455 on: February 25, 2022, 01:00:22 PM »
Classics are always nice

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Re: Cars - what kind of car do you have seriously?
« Reply #456 on: February 25, 2022, 04:01:10 PM »
Daily Driver: 2008 Rav 4 All wheel drive. 139,000 miles and runs flawlessly. 

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Re: Cars - what kind of car do you have seriously?
« Reply #457 on: February 26, 2022, 12:33:02 AM »
Id recommend this, just as long as you have a backup car and a mate with a flatbed truck.

Weighs nothing, misbehaves, scares the shit out of passengers, looks like a hairdressers car.

Perfect.

Wife's car, though...