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Old 12-29-2018, 09:35 PM   #2241
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He's never going to hit 88mph in that traffic.
Nope.
On a side note - He had a real nice sounding exhaust. It was nice and raspy without being obnoxious.
I was with him for about a mile in intermittent traffic. Was nice to hear him go up through the gears a couple of times.
I don't know what he has (exhaust wise) - but you can see some interesting tubular headers in the pic.
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Old 12-29-2018, 09:48 PM   #2242
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Nope.
On a side note - He had a real nice sounding exhaust. It was nice and raspy without being obnoxious.
I was with him for about a mile in intermittent traffic. Was nice to hear him go up through the gears a couple of times.
I don't know what he has (exhaust wise) - but you can see some interesting tubular headers in the pic.
Wow, there are a surprisingly large number of performance exhaust options for Deloreans.
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Old 12-30-2018, 05:23 PM   #2243
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Wow, there are a surprisingly large number of performance exhaust options for Deloreans.
Since they needed all the performance they could get
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Old 01-08-2019, 11:04 AM   #2244
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Was in Mendoza for 4 days recently and due to a snafu with Sixt, they set me up with a Geely from a local Argentine rental company. I had never heard of Geely, but they are a Chinese car company and apparently now own Lotus and Volvo.

This particular example had about 108km on the odometer and I think featured a 1.5L I4 with a 5 speed manual. Man was this thing a piece of shit and possibly the worst car I've ever driven. The only good thing I'll say about it is that it was cheap and didn't leave us stranded. Not fast at all, which was tolerable, as was the terrible shifter feel and vibrations, even on the many unpaved roads. Even the fuel gage, which seemed to be off by 1/2-1/4 of a tank depending on temperature, was tolerable since you can just keep it full.

What was not tolerable was that the pre-tensioner on the driver's seatbelt locked the belt into the retract position on day 2, meaning I couldn't wear a seatbelt. Unlike most cars, the Geely warning chime for not wearing a seatbelt does not go away after a while. Luckily, plugging the pax seatbelt into the driver's seatbelt receiver cured this. Probably not ideal for pax safety.

Goodby shitty Geely and nice to be back in the S4 yesterday.
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Old 01-09-2019, 07:48 PM   #2245
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On my way home from work today, I got behind a blue Model Hamburger with the (Rhode Island) license plate "ELON." I am not kidding. He cut in front of me to get to the I-195W to I-95 south cloverleaf ramp, then proceeded to drive ~ 25MPH around the ramp (I usually take it at around 55, but most people are maybe at 40-45). As soon as he got to the straight section to I-95 he punched it up to about 80MPH and (again not kidding) turned on his hazard lights for a few flashes. I thought that was cute. He proceeded to jump to the left lane and do 55MPH.

So, I think it's true that BMW drivers are now driving Teslas.
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Old 01-09-2019, 08:36 PM   #2246
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The best part was watching the car skip over bumps because there is virtually no suspension travel.
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Old 01-10-2019, 03:25 PM   #2247
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On my way home from work today, I got behind a blue Model Hamburger with the (Rhode Island) license plate "ELON." I am not kidding. He cut in front of me to get to the I-195W to I-95 south cloverleaf ramp, then proceeded to drive ~ 25MPH around the ramp (I usually take it at around 55, but most people are maybe at 40-45). As soon as he got to the straight section to I-95 he punched it up to about 80MPH and (again not kidding) turned on his hazard lights for a few flashes. I thought that was cute. He proceeded to jump to the left lane and do 55MPH.

So, I think it's true that BMW drivers are now driving Teslas.
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Old 01-10-2019, 03:26 PM   #2248
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The best part was watching the car skip over bumps because there is virtually no suspension travel.
Good lord it looks like the fender is cutting the bead
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Old 01-10-2019, 04:20 PM   #2249
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Buddy just got a PTS voodoo blue macan gts. I am a fan of bright blues but not sure I could pull this one off.
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