Cars & Bikes, Driving & Riding

Postby **dodint** » Sat Mar 03, 2018 8:51 pm

I'm about to short circuit with this ****.

Postby **columbia** » Sat Mar 03, 2018 8:52 pm

v=ir is the a=b of the car thread.

Postby **Silentom** » Sat Mar 03, 2018 8:57 pm

Aw, come on dodint. That was a good one.

Postby **NTP66** » Sun Mar 04, 2018 5:22 am

Aw, come on dodint. That was a good one.

I laughed.

Postby **tifosi77** » Sun Mar 04, 2018 10:51 am

I'm telling you, man, use that Kushner gif. It's solid.

Postby **columbia** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 5:33 pm

INSIDE THE MILLION-DOLLAR SENNA, MCLAREN'S FIERCEST ROAD CAR EVER
https://www.wired.com/story/mclaren-sen ... ssion=true

Postby **tifosi77** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 5:56 pm

1700 pounds of downforce in a road-legal car, that's insane.

Postby **mac5155** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:04 pm

Yay me. I got stopped today along I-70 in the 45 MPH speed trap section. Cited for speeding (70 in 45)... my stinking registration expired January 31 (WTF, I hate the new no sticker thing)... and I get cited for a 4-year-old crack in my windshield. Guess the cop was having a bad day, as I've been pulled over twice before with the same crack and it was never an issue.

SO anyway, renewed my registration right as soon as I got to work. Obviously that was an oversight on my part. Scheduled an appointment to replace my windshield tomorrow. Planning to plead not guilty, provide receipts and photos, and ask for leniency, hopefully the magistrate is in a better mood than the state trooper that pulled me over.

Postby **columbia** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 9:53 am

Interesting garage....

Postby **Factorial** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:19 am

Is that casa dodint?

Postby **dodint** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:26 am

Tennis? A convertible?

It's all wrong, man.

Postby **slappybrown** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:30 am

Yay me. I got stopped today along I-70 in the 45 MPH speed trap section. Cited for speeding (70 in 45)... my stinking registration expired January 31 (WTF, I hate the new no sticker thing)... and I get cited for a 4-year-old crack in my windshield. Guess the cop was having a bad day, as I've been pulled over twice before with the same crack and it was never an issue.

SO anyway, renewed my registration right as soon as I got to work. Obviously that was an oversight on my part. Scheduled an appointment to replace my windshield tomorrow. Planning to plead not guilty, provide receipts and photos, and ask for leniency, hopefully the magistrate is in a better mood than the state trooper that pulled me over.

If I were a betting man, he will toss one or both of the windshield and registration tickets if you have both of them fixed before the hearing. You're probably stuck with the speeding ticket; best case there is probably a reduction to 60 in a 45 or something like that but full freight there wouldn't be surprising.

Postby **NTP66** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:33 am

Agreed about tennis court, but the Maserati convertible (and contents)? Niiice.

Postby **dodint** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:37 am

Can you explain Maserati's to me? I see more of them in Pittsburgh than anywhere else I've ever been. They have zero brand identity to me. They seem like a rung below Aston Martin, probably because I don't think Maserati has a sports car program at all.

Postby **NTP66** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:40 am

I hold them in the same regard as Aston Martin, personally. The finish quality of everything is meticulous and pristine, right down to the stitching in the leather. It's just gorgeous inside and out. On top of that, they sound like your prototypical Italian sports car.

Postby **Silentom** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:43 am

All I know is that they do 185.

Postby **dodint** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:45 am

I just think of them as top rung Pittsburgh and bottom rung Los Angeles. Maybe I'd like it more if the trident wasn't so garish.

Just my opinion though, my practical knowledge of them stops at the Maserati Biturbo.

Postby **tifosi77** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:46 am

If I could have any one car and had to use it as my daily driver for x years, I'd have a Maserati GT.

Postby **dodint** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:47 am

No you wouldn't. Sthap.

Postby **columbia** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:47 am

Can you explain Maserati's to me? I see more of them in Pittsburgh than anywhere else I've ever been. They have zero brand identity to me. They seem like a rung below Aston Martin, probably because I don't think Maserati has a sports car program at all.

I assume it's an Eye-talian American fetish.

Postby **columbia** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:48 am

Also: That looks like a tranny in the passenger seat.....

Postby **dodint** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:48 am

It's the drivers seat, RHD car. But you're not wrong.

Postby **tifosi77** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:52 am

No you wouldn't. Sthap.

I absolutely would. For a long time, it was an M3. But then exposure to the current style GT wooed me. The previous gen was kinda dopey, in a 'foreign Miata' kind of way. But everything about the current gen is on point imo.

Postby **Silentom** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:56 am

If I could have any one car and had to use it as my daily driver for x years, I'd have a Maserati GT.

I've never given this much thought, but I think it would be an Audi model for me. I've always been a fan of Audi's.

Postby **dodint** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:57 am

No you wouldn't. Sthap.
I absolutely would. For a long time, it was an M3. But then exposure to the current style GT wooed me. The previous gen was kinda dopey, in a 'foreign Miata' kind of way. But everything about the current gen is on point imo.

I liked life more when we were friends.