Look at the 1989 Civic hatchback in comparison.

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I gotta go Google the coefficients of friction for both these cars.

Edit: It looks like my comparison is not fair because the Mazda 6 appears to be a four door coupe and this civic is a 2 door hatchback. Also exhaustive lists showing coefficients of friction are hard to find.

Edit #2: A fairer comparison is a 1989 Mazda 626. You can see through this thing:

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It has a coefficient of drag of 0.33 while the current Mazda 6 has 0.27. So the more modern one is slightly more aerodynamic, as you would expect, but not significantly more.

Your right on the money, visibility has taken a big hit in recent years, and it's not all in the name of streamlining. Models, like hatchbacks, are in and out of style but I think that is driven more by the makers than consumers.
The fastbacks are much tougher to design in visibility, but why bother when half the people on the road are oblivious to anything they can't see through the windshield. :dedhors2:

fixed that for ya.

Touché. :thumb:

I have a folder where I park pictures and material I've snatched off the web concerning old Indian Motocycles. Here's a couple.

Very cool.

Smart car alllllmost gets the best of a Shelby Mustang:



A sub-14 second Smart Car....With that short wheel base, and narrow track, I'll bet that is one twitchy sumbitch.

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I have driven the Smart Fortwo several times. Twitchy is an understatement. Here you see me parked perpendicular to the curb, at my house, with my VW Golf fender in the foreground for comparison. They're very, very tiny. They're tall, so there's room for me and Twil to both sit up straight, which I love. For in city driving, they're fucking awesome. The Car2Go system is super easy, fairly priced, convenient and fun. The car is a ball to drive in the city. Plenty of pickup, responsive, good visibility, loud horn, etc. The shifting with the semi-automatic transmission is pretty jerky at times. That little three-banger gets wound waaay up before shifting--kaCHUNK.

The car's less fun on the freeway, but it can handle it. A bit bouncy over expansion joints, and I haven't driven one with a substantial crosswind and I'm not looking forward to it. All in all, a very fine city car. For the city. For two. And a couple bags of groceries.

That's badass.

Hey, look! It's one of them trailervans.

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That's interesting. :yesnod:

Maybe he's French. :lol:

Heh, that's damn near a Citroen inception.

Look, it's the newest thing in custom wheelery.

Urrbody got deyself some of dem tri-bar spinners for dey wheels. Old. Busted. Boooooooooorrrrrring.

What you need is deez new puppyhead spinners:

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Yo dawg! I heard you like dawgs. And wheels.

So I put yo dawg through yo wheel! YOLO!

Maybe he's just missing his boat.

Many years back my buddy came back from Florida with pictures of that boaterhome, or one of them, he took in a parking lot. We were trying to figure out how and why for a long time. It was years before I saw it on the net.

I saw it (the vid) a few years ago, labeled "The coolest guy at the boat ramp".

It's front wheel drive, btw. If you look close when he drives out of the water, you can see the rear axles are just straight tube axles, like on a trailer. It's either a 4wd van front end, or he's using a front axle/transfer case from a 4wd.

I've developed a habit of semi-obsessively shopping on craigslist. Not really for anything, although I buy tools and bikes from time to time. This browsing has been such a steady, thorough combing that I started collecting the photos I come across that feature people prominently. I guess it could go in monster's "stuff on craigslist" thread, but it's not stuff.

Girlfriends' car is on the down-n-out, so my usual focus (tools; heavy machinery I have no use for; bicycles) has shifted to automobiles.

It's been a fruitful couple of days (not so much on the actual-car-buying, but whatever.)

http://37.media.tumblr.com/84308d85d...t29o1_1280.jpg
"VETTE - 85 - Daily Driver"

http://37.media.tumblr.com/d02c709fd...t29o1_1280.jpg
"1999 Toyota corolla CE,Good condition,116700miles"

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"1998 VW Passat"

Kool Bug, but that is a bad place for an oil filter.

I can see somebody deciding to sell a car and the only picture they have is somebody standing by it. Not the way to present it for best return but whatever. But the other pics, they must have wanted to get their mug on the net... I guess. :nuts:

I kind of like it. It's nice to see who you are buying from. Don't want to buy something from this guy:
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...or this guy:

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Nope, look closer...

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excellent

Woop...

Somebody done steampunked they scooter:

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Notice the electric plug out back...it's electric.

This 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO is going to be auctioned by Bonham's in August. There were only 39 built.

This is one beautiful automobile.

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It's been owned by the same family for 49 years, and is expected to be the most expensive car ever sold at public auction.

The most recent 250 GTO to be sold was sold in the UK last October in a private transaction for $52,000,000!:speechls:

Link

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Windshield says 'Double Vision'.

*I* say Pushmi-pullyu

Yeah, you say that, but can I (successfully) click on it?

There some stuff in that there link that don't belong.

Try this if V's link don't do it for ya.

I think that was what he was going for.

:D

Hey, look! It's a -WTFizatthang?

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It's about ⅝ of an old Honda Gold Wing, and about ⅓ of a, what is that? A Buick? A Pontiac Grand Prix, maybe?

And it's about 374 times more dangerous than it looks at first glance. It's a good thing he loves Jesus, methinks he's gonna have need of Him before too long.

looks like the heel ends of a Saturn to me.

I believe you're right, V. That certainly looks like a Saturn emblem behind the front wheel.

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1) "Well, here's your problem, right here, lady..."

2) "Man, these serpentine belt systems get more and more complicated every year."

3) "Raise the hood, sir, it sounds like something's leaking under there..."

4)

Where in Australia did you say you bought this?

I don't generally have a problem with snakes, but that right there creeps me the fuck out.

Muthafuckin snakes on a Muthafuckin.... yaris?

I don't know what kind of car that is, but, that right-side windshield should narrow it down.

Is that a gearbox?

Actually, it looks like a Nissan versa

Windshield wiper, I should say...

Y'know, really, it doesn't look that bad.

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I like it. I would be seen driving it.

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It gets around, apparently...

Should be in a thread called Car Boners.
 

Countach all the way.

The Countach has always been impressive, but I never liked its styling. The Miura looks so much better.

A 'Ghini is my ultimate top level dream car. Because, car.

Of the two, I gotta say I like the Countach better.

But the Murcielago could make me cry.

On an episode of Top Gear, James May drove an eighties Countach. The Countach was one of his dream cars from his teenage years. He commented on how it was almost impossible to drive anyway but forward, in a straight line. He also commented on how often Lambos catch fire. He said the one he was driving wasn't on fire at the moment, but, he couldn't really be sure because he was absolutely roasting from engine heat.

You should have seen him trying to parallel park the thing. It would've been funny if it hadn't been so sad.

If you have to parallel park your Countach, buddy, you're doing it wrong.

The countache is the last car I would want to own. I'll take that Audi space ship. R8? I believe... Fucking sexy beast.

http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2...urt-debut.html

I'd even take it in the brown

Automotive porn...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lpB1yR9Sz9Y

That was very badly-worded.


I'm surprised we didn't hear from Shel on that one...:rolleyes:

Full-size school bus for comparison:

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He knew I had already made the joke by saying it that way. I'm glad to have confirmation that at least one person got it, though. Thanks, Captain O.

Not sure if I've posted this (in the wrong folder, if I did): Olds 442!

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Not sure what it's built off of, the front looks Camaro-y, but the rear looks kinda Charger-ish.

The Mack Titan



Moving 800,000 lb generator vessels with five, sixteen liter diesel engined, automatic transmission Mack Titans, one pulling/steering, four pushing. Not to mention the completely awesome, custom-built, 300 foot long, 192-wheeled, articulating trailer.

:devil:

I saw two white ones yesterday, both had TN plates and were headed South in NJ, but they were about 75 miles apart. :confused:

They were very striking in white, no good for robbing 7-11s at all.

from Man-Trends

2005 Maybach Exelero

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700 hp

218 mph

$8,000,000 (yes, that's eight million damn dollars!):bolt: