“Trucks are for showing off. You wanna do work, you get a van!”
1973 240z:
6-Cylinder (inline): 10 points
Longitudinally mounted: 15 points
Slant: 20 points
Carburetor: Add 10 points for each carb. (20)
Engine not original: 15 points.
Normally aspirated: 0 points
3-doors: 10 points
3000 lbs or less: 10 points (2400 ish factory)
Rear-wheel drive: 20 points
Front engine: 0 points
Manual: 20 points.
Japan: 3 point
101-180 hp: 0 points. Unless you drive a Se7en or a Miata (or any RWD car under 2500 lbs) — that’s +15 points. (15)
41 - 50 years: 40 points
Manual seats: 5 points. If driver’s seat is fixed in place, add 10 more. (15)
Factory Recaros, or aftermarket racing buckets: 10 points. (aluminum racing seat)
Aftermarket roll protection (cage/roll bar): 5 points.
Cupholders - zero: 5 points
Analog clock: 5 points
~~~~~Total ~~~~~
238 (Bitchin’ Camino) lol
That engine is worth way too many points for its maybe 150hp
2006 Scion Xb: 38 (my poor boxmobile)
there’s a house around here that always has cool cars, they must sell them or something, a couple first gen M3’s, old Land Rovers, a Hilux Surf, etc. etc.; but the last time I rode past there was a super clean red Delta Integrale. The guy was sitting outside talking on the phone, first time I’ve seen him, and all I could think of was to say ‘siiiiiiick’ and point and then thumbs up and nod real big and then point and then thumbs up as I passed.
He got it, he was into it.
I love turning a corner in a random part of the suburbs around where I live and stumbling upon a little pocket of a car collection.
When, and how, did anyone think that the Ariel Nomad needs more oomph (a.k.a. an R-version)…
though admittedly, racing across the ruins of 2021 could easily be done in lesser cool rides.
So, art of rally has been released. Here’s the release trailer:
It’s definitely a game for anybody who gets excited when they see something like this:
with the major caveat of course that it’s def not a sim, I’m not even sure if you can play it with a wheel?
In any case, it’s fun as shit and it looks great (although I am getting some ridiculous stuttering on the stages with fog) and if anybody’s interested in what it plays like or has questions or anything relevant, uh, they should say something.
Even if the game really sucked to play (which it doesn’t), I’d still play it for the photo mode!
In like granturismo 5/6 I can tune up a 600hp gtr to be so easy to drive I can put a total novices on my wheel setup and they can have a real fun time turning laps and blasting around.
I really want a driving game that has no helpers and instead just focuses on giving you 1 or 2 perfectly setup cars for easy drive’n. I think rally with a notes reader (but in simpler language) would be perfect. Especially with extra instructions like “brake hard here, you’re going too fast!”.
Trying to channel this guy in a place he would never actually race:
for once, the world can feel the pain of a nation worth of petrolheads.
TÜV is no joke, and they are not your friends. This report pretty much is spot on, and there are a few nasty things this poor sap hasn’t encountered, like aftermarket wheels with fake KBA numbers.
Colleague at work has bought a Mercury Mustang Cabriolet and this is the proble he’s facing just now
(they want you to show that you are in possession of a set of registered wheels, even if they are stored in your garage at home, like WTF does that even help getting a “pass”?)
Otoh, i kinds doubt that we’re alone with that, surely some other country must be as pedantic as we are… … right… right?
Meanwhile here in the States all the old cars are held together with zip ties and are complete rust buckets
He said, driving around in a car with a skid plate held on by zipties
(and having helped a friend secure his bumper to his jeep with his hockey skate laces)
… a rotary REX…
… don’t make me testdrive one.
Honestly this sounds like exactly the kind of EV I’d buy if I were in the market for one. If I can make home ownership and new car purchase line up it’s definitely something to consider.
yeah this is exactly what I’m waiting for too
I can wait longer though
kinda interesting how quick “range anxiety” got usurped by “but where can i charge it overnight if i do not own a home” as the main concern when it comes to these appliances, isn’t it.
I am not in the market for an EV as of now, but as my ocean cruiser is getting older and older, i am eyeing potential replacements if sudden/terminal issues should crop up, and since i don’t want to buy new/just used, better have a tap on what’s cool a few years down the road.
potentially will carve in and buy a Prius 4 pre-facelift at one point though, since it’s the coolest car that toyota could ever have signed off in the last decade (which should be called Toyota’s bonkers car-design decade), closely trailed by the bizarre C-HR and the still-cool lexii fascias.
anyway.
i am still not sure whether the new C4 will age as well as the wonderful oddball C-segment boxes featuring in this advert, but i am looking forward to how it will look/feel after a decade or so, since i still have to wrap my head around the fact that i drive a 12 year old car by now (which has been released when the third gen impreza was out, or Golf V) since it feels like it is five or six years old.
Use the older cars (FWD like the Mini) more and take it slow. Don’t be afraid to putter around the course like a grandma while learning the car you’ve selected. Get smooth with your throttle/brake inputs. You’re right, it’s a lot more technical than it appears on the surface! I would even go so far as to recommend watching the DiRT Rally tutorials as they apply pretty well here for the most part (as far as taking turns, jumps, etc. properly):
You definitely have to go slow before you can go fast, so the advice above is great – concentrate on staying on the road first, then work out how you can start pushing things as you get more used to the game.
And that’s one aspect that they touch on in the Dirt Rally video that’s missing from this game – you don’t have a co-driver or a map that you can use to anticipate where the track is going and what you should be doing with the car to have it properly aligned for the next section, which can be difficult even with the camera pulled all the way out. Learning and internalizing the tracks is I think the only way to get really good at the game (which I decidedly am not, although my times are moving from ~75% to 40-50%). Supposedly Walter Röhrl (from the video I posted) could sit down the night before a race and visualize every single piece of it, to the point of his visualizations being within 5-10 seconds of the actual race time.