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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: DiabloTX on May 18, 2007, 11:18:01 PM
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Camaro burnout. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw0XfKvFWpM)
Even more intense burnout. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YLWdllzv5E)
The sound of that LS1 with the GMMG exhaust is pure heaven!
Chevy thunder in Norway, baby!
F'jord about it!
:aok
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Oh come on, Nils or Viking gotta see this.
Well, I can wait till Nils comes down from his, errrmm, high.
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Ohhh forget Norway!!! (http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/kenya/)
Mac
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There went a set of rear tires. :D
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Lol Diablo, nice find.
Actually that's quite an ordinary sight in summer. American cars (especially the classic old ones) are rather popular here, and there are AmCar clubs everywhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLKuGjG1YYs
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is fuel in norway $US 9.00 per gallon like it is in finland?
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Yeah, something like $8-$9 a gallon.
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it must be tough to drive those fuel hungry V8s there. I'm getting 14mpg out of my nissan titan.
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Jesus, unless I'm way off... that's double what I pay in Australia at our 'all time high' petrol prices of rougly $1.20 - $1.40 (AUD) per Litre.
(compared to US gallons, not Imperial)
I'm spending $50 a week in my Ford easily, not even travelling every day. :huh
No wonder all the Norsk Black metallers are running around in the forest.... Petrol is too ****ing expensive! :lol
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Drifting... bleh.
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it's the punitive taxation that is the cause of the high prices in those small but extremely socialistic "progressive" countries. all's equal eh comrade?
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Originally posted by AWMac
Ohhh forget Norway!!! (http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/kenya/)
Mac
(http://dotdoubledot.com/img/avatars/109956.gif)
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Originally posted by storch
it's the punitive taxation that is the cause of the high prices in those small but extremely socialistic "progressive" countries. all's equal eh comrade?
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Originally posted by storch
it's the punitive taxation that is the cause of the high prices in those small but extremely socialistic "progressive" countries. all's equal eh comrade?
Meh, the way the climate-debate is going, you should expect punitive taxation on all gasoline/diesel purchases in the future. Its not for naught that the Swedish prime minister was testifying before a congressional hearing on environmental policies last week you know.
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Originally posted by storch
it must be tough to drive those fuel hungry V8s there. I'm getting 14mpg out of my nissan titan.
Yeah, it's expensive, but most of those cars are not daily drivers. Most are carefully maintained and fanatically detailed pieces of road going jewelry that only come out to play during clear summer days. The fuel tax here is insane. Socialists be damned.
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Originally posted by Viking
Lol Diablo, nice find.
Actually that's quite an ordinary sight in summer. American cars (especially the classic old ones) are rather popular here, and there are AmCar clubs everywhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLKuGjG1YYs
Wow. I'm shocked. Never would have thunk it possible in Norway. Now I really want to visit.
Storch, does EVERYTHING you post have to have a political agenda? Stop it or I'll take a ruler to your knuckles. Sheeesh.
Ok, /hijack, we return you to the subject of the thread.
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Originally posted by Xasthur
Jesus, unless I'm way off... that's double what I pay in Australia at our 'all time high' petrol prices of rougly $1.20 - $1.40 (AUD) per Litre.
(compared to US gallons, not Imperial)
I'm spending $50 a week in my Ford easily, not even travelling every day. :huh
No wonder all the Norsk Black metallers are running around in the forest.... Petrol is too ****ing expensive! :lol
I still have hopes this isn't bogus: http://www.steorn.com
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Wow. I'm shocked. Never would have thunk it possible in Norway. Now I really want to visit.
Storch, does EVERYTHING you post have to have a political agenda? Stop it or I'll take a ruler to your knuckles. Sheeesh.
Ok, /hijack, we return you to the subject of the thread.
oh sure now some guy wants to rap my knuckles with a wooden ruler, wood imported from some scandanavian old growth forest, harvested and made into a finished product by incredibly over paid and even more incredibly taxed skilled workers than us over here. if you were thinking of a steel ruler well that probably will come from sheffield england so the same applies, commie bastiges.
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Wow. I'm shocked. Never would have thunk it possible in Norway. Now I really want to visit.
Storch, does EVERYTHING you post have to have a political agenda? Stop it or I'll take a ruler to your knuckles. Sheeesh.
Europe has it own drag racing circuit with funny cars and top fuelers. Speed Channel often does shows on their drags.
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Originally posted by storch
oh sure now some guy wants to rap my knuckles with a wooden ruler, wood imported from some scandanavian old growth forest, harvested and made into a finished product by incredibly over paid and even more incredibly taxed skilled workers than us over here. if you were thinking of a steel ruler well that probably will come from sheffield england so the same applies, commie bastiges.
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of a yard-stick forged in Solingen, Germany.
I know about the drag racing in Europe, just wasn't aware of a culture centered around American muscle cars.
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
I know about the drag racing in Europe, just wasn't aware of a culture centered around American muscle cars.
Well, it's not something unique or special. You guys have "Euro meets" in the States and our AmCar meets are not much different in concept.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7973777254607629096
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I'll put it into other words. We have all the dealerships here you guys have over there. I am unaware if you guys have GM/Ford/Chrysler dealers over there. Just seems with the overwhelming costs of fuel over there that there'd be an interest in fire breathing American V8's. But I understand horsepower IS a universal addiction!
:D
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Of course we have GM/Ford/Chrysler dealers over here. They even make cars specifically for the European market. In addition GM and Ford own a couple of European car manufacturers, and Chrysler is owned by Daimler Benz. Chrysler cars are made in Belgium, Fords in Germany (I think). GM owns Opel, so most of their cars are made in Germany and by Vauxhall in the UK. There’s also some cross marketing between the different brands; the Voyager van is made under the Chrysler brand in Europe while I believe it is made by Plymouth in the US.
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Originally posted by Viking
Chrysler is owned by Daimler Benz.
Hehe, not anymore. They divorced last week.
It's nice to see such a diverse assortment of cars over there. I have to say when I was in the Med. back in the late 80's with the navy I never saw any American made cars. Pletny of Opal, Ford of Europe and those types but no Buick Grand Nationals, Camaros, Firebirds or any cars like that. Now I really want to bring my Z over there and make a tour of Europe in it.
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Heh, no the big engined American cars are not THAT commonplace here, but I don’t think I can drive for more than 5 minutes without seeing at least one during summertime. I didn’t know Daimler sold Chrysler; what happened, did the American consumers abandon Chrysler after the “merger”?
Also I wonder if you guys really do have dealerships for all European cars. Perhaps you can enlighten me as to whether you have dealerships for these brands: Peugeot, Citroën, Renault, SEAT, Skoda, Fiat and Alfa Romeo? These are all major European car manufacturers, but I cannot remember ever seeing one of their cars in the US (on TV).
A car holiday driving through Europe is something I have planned for quite some time now (never seem to find the time or money though ;)). Driving your C-Hog down the Autobahn and Autostradas could be very fun indeed!
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At one point or another I've seen most of those marks sold here. I still remember the old Renault Fuego tv ads, "Aerodynamically racier than the Porsche 928!" :rofl What wasn't back then.
Daimler sold Chrysler because it was a money pit. The news story I saw said Daimler bought Chrysler for something around 36 billion dollars and sold it to a private firm last week for around 8 billion dollars. Nice return on the investment there. Even had Dr. Z on the podium talking about the transaction.
There's a British gent here in Houston that owns a LS1 Trans Am that he takes across Europe and posts some pics of his adventure. God if I had the time and the money how I'd love to do something like that. I regret not being able to go deeper into Europe when I had the chance. And don't even get me started on my dream of opening C-HOG up on the autobahn. Heck, I'd even pay up to make a lap of the 'ring if it were possible.
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here you go scholz http://www.prestigeimports.com
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I forgot this one last night, http://www.thecollection.com
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storch...you are driving a little jap truck around and still only getting 14 mpg?
lazs
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Peugeot = Not now but they are rumored to be making a combeack into the US market after they left in the 90's.
Citroën = Never seen one outside of Europe.
Renault = not now but they were here a long time ago I think.
SEAT = Is this the group of cars built in Spain but now owned by VW? If so I thought they were sharp looking when I was in Germany a few weeks ago.
Skoda = Never seen one outside of Europe.
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lazs, the little jap truck, a toyota tacoma caught fire. a wire going to the trailer brake receptacle was chaffing and it caused a short which started a fire in the harness just aft of the cab. I was able to pull off of the expressway and with my fire extinguisher, extinguish the flames.
we rewired the truck in my shop ourselves.
one week or so later I rearended a lady in a suburban that fled the scene but I had pretty much bent the truck badly.
I bought a new nissan titan which is a 3/4 ton pickup with a 5.6L V8. the truck has power to spare and is really powerful within 2500-3500 rpm. the truck absolutely rips.
in the mean time I stripped the toyota and sent it to a local frame shop where they pulled it into specs. I bought a bunch of taiwanese/chinese after market body parts and rebuilt the truck. paid a talented painter to paint it in our paint booth and upgraded the electronics to 2007 standards I now have an estimated $7500 worth of work in a really nice looking and functioning 1999 toyota tacoma that I might be able to get $4500 for.
I drive the tacoma daily, I prefer it over the nissan. I use the nissan to pull stuff on the weekend though.
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"really powerful"? methinks you don't know what that means.
lazs
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I should have added for a stock truck. go test drive one, see for yourself. I paid $27k for the vehicle 33k out of the door with full replacement insurance and a 100k mile warranty.