Cars We Drive! - Page 584

Enzo replacement. It looks great, but for some reason I feel like I've seen it before.

I'm getting P4/5, Enzo, and hints of F50 in there....

and a touch of McLaren F1

That's the first car I thought of....

 

 

Ford Probe Concept! What, 1982 or something?!

 

 

To "most people" there are many synonymous things, say, the difference between mass and weight. Yet that difference is a very big deal indeed. There are plebes and pedants, twas ever thus, and somehow out of their interaction the language evolves while getting neither too stupid nor too precise.

 

 

Well, they do to me -- I don't quibble with your citations to source and authenticity, but if, say, ricers adopted something similar in style, that's the association that I have to them. Doesn't make me right!

 

 

Notes of  Zonda on the midpalate....

So...991 GT3 photos are out

Indeed:

They went with the PDK, too.

 

Okaaaaaaay...All I am saying is if a bunch of guys (multiple persons of the male gender to you) are standing around talking about cars, the last thing anyone even thinks about is ensuring that they are using the most precise language possible.  In grade school that was an invitation to getting your lunch money taken

 

 

In adult life it just makes you look like a douche

never thought i'd see the day of an automatic gt3, sad day indeed

and absolutely fucking hate door mounted mirrors, hroi keep your shit forever

 

'Rims' is simply slang -- nothing more or less, and it thus carries all the usual slang caveats. And like all slang, it's not accurate. You like this particular piece of slang, I get it. That's fine, as long as the distinctions don't disappear.

 

Your contention that a bunch of guys don't use precise language when they talk about cars is ridiculous -- misstate the type/size  of engine in a car and see how far that gets you. As for doucheyness, I recall pointing out the distinction, but not saying or implying anything negative about anyone who used the term. I don't think you can make the same claim.

 

~ H

True, that. I dream of shifting sometimes -- PDK won't give me that.

i swear VW released news of that ultra mega high MPG car like five years ago...why whould they bring it to Geneva now?

I got myself a new used BMW as well. This was owned by retired people with a mecanician son. It has 85k miles/137k km on the odometer and everything is stock except the thing that regulates the amount of gas getting into the engine.

At first I wanted an E34, but I couldn't find one that was flawless and with low mileage, so I will keep looking.

In the meantime, I will have to get new wheels as well and get replacement interior trim so I can paint them or wrap them in vinyl, because those wood trim make me feel like Im driving grandpa's car.

The funny thing is that you are driving a grandpa's car; of course that is assuming that the retired couple you purchased this car from did have grandchildren

Enjoy it.

The VW hypermileage car immediately reminded of the police car from Demolition Man, though they barely look alike.