What do you drive?

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Gerowen

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Still driving my old 1999 Dodge Dakota, 3.9L V-6, ~225,000 miles.

 

I'm glad I've still got it though.  Took the kids out for ice cream on the way home this evening and hit a deer doing about 40 miles per hour.  Since the truck has a steel bumper and steel hood, all it really did was break all the plastic stuff in the grill.  Didn't hurt the A/C condenser or radiator or anything.  The impact I felt wasn't nearly as bad as when I hit one at about the same speed in about the same spot with a 2006 Ford Explorer (plastic and fiberglass hood/fenders) a few years back.  Even though the Explorer was a bigger and heavier vehicle, I "felt" the impact more and it tore the front end all to pieces and I had to spend $4,000 on replacing the hood, a fender, washer fluid reservoir, bumper guard (plastic bumper cover), etc.  When I hit this one with the truck I never felt a thing inside the truck; the kids never even stopped eating their ice cream, lol.

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Draconian Guppy

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5 hours ago, brpsycho said:

I drive this ol' babe

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well that's not true I don't "drive" it I'm usually in the passenger seat.

adequate would be "ride" her.

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On 20/12/2016 at 3:14 AM, tsupersonic said:

Will need to take pics, but took delivery of a '17 Civic Hatchback EX-L in White Orchard Pearl

I've never owned a CVT, but it's pretty damn smooth combined with the turbo (174 hp/162 lb-ft). Awesome MPG: 31 city, 40 highway), and very tech oriented car.

 

Got a CVT in my A4, smoothest ride and power delivery I've ever felt, my biggest issue is the noise of the engine drone you get as the revs aren't changing.

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tsupersonic

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3 hours ago, philcruicks said:

Got a CVT in my A4, smoothest ride and power delivery I've ever felt, my biggest issue is the noise of the engine drone you get as the revs aren't changing.

With the Civic, I haven't noticed any drone under normal acceleration. Still in "break in" period, so haven't gotten on full throttle. For an econobox, it's fairly quick. 

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philcruicks

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17 minutes ago, tsupersonic said:

With the Civic, I haven't noticed any drone under normal acceleration. Still in "break in" period, so haven't gotten on full throttle. For an econobox, it's fairly quick. 

Yeh it's fine round town, but boot it from standing to 70 on a motorway and you just get that monotone note all down the slip road.

I tend to just drop mine into Sport Mode which  lets it rev and fakes a gear change to a lower ratio. Sounds a lot nicer haha.

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tsupersonic

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1 hour ago, philcruicks said:

Yeh it's fine round town, but boot it from standing to 70 on a motorway and you just get that monotone note all down the slip road.

I tend to just drop mine into Sport Mode which  lets it rev and fakes a gear change to a lower ratio. Sounds a lot nicer haha.

Thankfully the on-ramps to get on the freeway here are quite long, so just continued accelerating at 2.5k RPM is fine to get to 75-80 MPH. It is irritating when there are folks that accelerate really slow!

 

It is a weird sensation w/o gear shifts. I also have the sports mode (which emulates "gear shifts") so I'll have to give that a go.  

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Mando

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my partner up the wall, and a 2006 CDTI Honda civic still, waiting on the new 2017 civic to be released in the UK, not long now :)

 

the 2017 model is soooo dammed shexy, might go for the 1.5 Petrol Turbo VTEC or go daft and splash out on the Type-R Black edition. (if i can convince the mrs its worth the £30k plus they want for them..... 

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T3X4S

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10 hours ago, Gary7 said:

Quite fast 250 MPH many speeding tickets even in Texas..:)

Yep - even in Texas :)

I like Christian Von Koenigsegg's stance on chasing the top speed trophy. "first car to 250mph wins" - this car does it so much faster than anything else ... so far 

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On 2016-12-18 at 7:18 PM, Inertia said:

I picked up my 2010 Audi S3 on Thursday and i'm loving it.

 

I put it in for a full fluid change and service as well as cambelt and waterpump straight away just to make sure everything is fresh.

 

Its completely standard now so only 265bhp.  It drives lovely though.

 

At the end of January I plan to upgrade a few bits such as the PCV system,  and diverter valve, add a Revo intake and get a stage 1 Map put on it, this will take it to about 310-320bhp for about £600-£700 total

 

In summer (May/June) I'm hoping to have saved enough for the TTE480 turbo and all of its supporting hardware which will take the car to 480bhp for about £5000.

 

I don't want to change it aesthetically I want it to look stock so its an understated sleeper, plus its immaculate inside and out as it is :-)

 

 

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Shes at Stage 2+ now making 379bhp.  0-60 4.3 seconds (timed on pbox) Really happy with the car.

 

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Fitted RS3 front seats ... An S3 Registration plate, and got wireless iOS mirroring wired up to the factory head unit.

 

 

Big Brake kit is going on next.  Ive bought one used (6 pot 356mm for the front, 4 pot 340mm for the rear) Will be fitting it soon.

 

stage 3 wont be for a while, but aiming for 450bhp when i get around to it.

 

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2016 BMW 5 series currently. 2018 might be either the new RS5 coming to the States or Maserati Gran Turismo (a year or two old since their prices drop from $160k to $70k in a year :):) I still can't decide but I'm actually leaning more towards and Audi RS5 because I've owned like 7 Audis prior to switching to this BMW :)

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