• A real car enthusiast will...
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Ugh, you're back. "Car enthusiasts don't use FWD" "Car enthusiasts don't use Automatics" Biased prick. [editline]31st August 2012[/editline] Agree on the last four and the first one though.
[quote=TestECull;37487216]A real car enthusiast will only buy an automatic if he lacks the physical capacity to operate a manual. This includes flappy paddle gearboxes.[/quote] Sorry, some enthusiast cars are only available in flappy-paddle varieties. Also, how can they not be just as fun? [quote=TestECull;37487216]A real car enthusiast will not buy anything FWD and expect performance from it, for they know that FWD is only good for fuel economy and cheapness.[/quote] Isn't FWD just a cost-cutting or space-saving measure? Surely there aren't any efficiency benefits. [quote=TestECull;37487216][b]Any moron with half a brain[/b] knows that chrome engine parts never increase performance and are only placed on show cars.[/quote] *fixed Just not seeing your point in most of these.
FWD is for overall efficiency -- price, economy, and power. There is far less drivetrain loss when your diff is right at your transmission. Also, automatics can be plenty fun. It's boring econoboxes with automatics that are boring.
I wish my blazer had a manual. They're so goddamn rare because they were army-only or some bullshit.
[QUOTE=MrWhite;37487521] Isn't FWD just a cost-cutting or space-saving measure? Surely there aren't any efficiency benefits. [/QUOTE] That's sort of what I said. FWD is good for economy and cheapness. It's not all that good for performance, you have to do way more to it to get it to work than you do AWD and RWD. It's basic physics. I'm not saying it's bad or anything, it's just not ideal for performance. The weight balance just isn't there. [QUOTE=bradley;37487453]Ugh, you're back. "Car enthusiasts don't use FWD" "Car enthusiasts don't use Automatics" Biased prick. [editline]31st August 2012[/editline] Agree on the last four and the first one though.[/QUOTE] I see you're still an arse, so you haven't changed either. What, you thought you'd just chase me away? Nah. I wouldn't give you the pleasure of it. Get used to me, I ain't going anywhere. But hey, maybe if you try being nice..or, shit, just ignoring me, then maybe we'll get along. It's all on you bud. Just ignore me entirely. Here, I'll even give you a handy dandy link that'll let the forum software do it for you! [url=http://www.facepunch.com/profile.php?do=addlist&userlist=ignore&u=104119]Click here.[/url] I even PMed it to you in case you lack the ability to read the entire post, which I find likely since you somehow got "Enthusiasts don't use FWD" out of "Enthusiasts know FWD is for economy and cheapness, not performance". No excuse for you to act like an ass to me now, you shouldn't even see my posts.
[QUOTE=MightyMax;37487776]I wish my blazer had a manual. They're so goddamn rare because they were army-only or some bullshit.[/QUOTE] AFAIK all the CUCV's are all Automatic.
[QUOTE=Del91;37488037]AFAIK all the CUCV's are all Automatic.[/QUOTE] well that just sucks dick. I know they made them, but I have never seen one.
I saw a couple Manual K15's at Pick n pull the other day. :v:
bancamp how are my posts dumb. you went back and rated all my posts dumb in this and the general thread.
Boxes everywhere
[QUOTE=MightyMax;37489217]bancamp how are my posts dumb. you went back and rated all my posts dumb in this and the general thread.[/QUOTE] You aren't supposed to be here. You were told by the moderator who banned you to stay out of this part of the forums. You don't listen for shit. That's probably why he keeps giving you dumb ratings. Also, TestEcull, I'm not going to ignore you. You can be cool at times. But your post says that FWD is shit and that's blatantly incorrect. Don't be an asshole and we'll get along just fine. In the meantime, I could care less what you say, and if you don't like my rebuttal, you can deal with it. That's part of having an opinion, and everyone here is entitled to that. Chill out. A real car enthusiast won't state opinion as fact. A real car enthusiast has owned more than one vehicle. A real car enthusiast gets into a fuckton of arguments on public forums because no one ever fully agrees on anything (Just the truth :P)
[QUOTE=bradley;37497465] Don't be an asshole and we'll get along just fine.[/quote] Take your own advice bro. I don't really care if you think I can be cool at times because I don't want anything to do with you. You are 100% unable to just ignore opinions you don't like, instead relentlessly attacking the person that presented it. Ignoring differing opinions works fine for me, I don't have some sort of insatiable need to relentlessly attack someone over it. So I'm going to ignore you entirely. You are nothing to me and I hope we never talk again...and it's all your fault. Hope you're happy.
this forum is so nice, one dick gets banned, another joins in, he leaves, somebody turns a dick, he gets banned, then the dick that left comes back. yay.
Hey, if he didn't relentlessly attack every single thing I say that he disagrees with as if I insulted his mother, his father, his very existence, his pride, his manhood, his sexuality AND his pet all at once, I wouldn't hate him. If he could just live and let live, ignore it when I say something he disagrees with or doesn't like, we'd get along just fine. But he can't. So now he's on my ignore list, and I hate him. I just don't get it, does he want me to treat him like a fucking demigod or something? Does he want me to just suddenly start liking everything he likes? I don't know. He confuses me and he pisses me off...sigh. I might ask him over PM later but I don't hold out hope for anything but abuse and insults. Edit: Aww, how cute, a box. For me? Thanks bradley. And one from Justin too, how nice of you.
[QUOTE=TestECull;37497661]Hey, if he didn't relentlessly attack every single thing I say that he disagrees with as if I insulted his mother, his father, his very existence, his pride, his manhood, his sexuality AND his pet all at once, I wouldn't hate him. If he could just live and let live, ignore it when I say something he disagrees with or doesn't like, we'd get along just fine. But he can't. So now he's on my ignore list, and I hate him. I'm only a dick to people that are a dick to me. I don't enjoy being a dick. I don't want to be a dick. But certain people leave me no fucking choice. Now are you going to join him or can we get along and talk shop? Edit: Aww, how cute, a box. For me? Thanks bradley. And one from Justin too, how nice of you.[/QUOTE] He seems to get along with pretty much everyone else.
Ladies, don't get your panties in a wad.
[QUOTE=ThePfeiffenator;37497765]He seems to get along with pretty much everyone else.[/QUOTE] And that's part of why it confuses me so. I say something he disagrees with and he attacks me like I insulted everything he's ever held dear in his entire life. Someone else says something he disagrees with, [i]even if it's the same fucking thing I said just worded differently[/i], and he barely notices. If he does, he just politely disagrees. I don't understand why he does that. I'd like to know. I really would. But I have no clue. Someone else can say something and it doesn't set him off at all, I say the same thing and he drops an atom bomb on my head.
please dont bully
[QUOTE=TestECull;37497811]And that's part of why it confuses me so. I say something he disagrees with and he attacks me like I insulted everything he's ever held dear in his entire life. Someone else says something he disagrees with, [i]even if it's the same fucking thing I said just worded differently[/i], and he barely notices. If he does, he just politely disagrees.[/QUOTE] you say it like it's a fact. I always looked at you as a not very nice person because of how you state things, and some things you say, you don't even get right, like the FWD thing, it does have advantages at times even on track.
[QUOTE=Psygo;37497847]you say it like it's a fact. I always looked at you as a not very nice person because of how you state things, and some things you say, you don't even get right, like the FWD thing, it does have advantages at times even on track.[/QUOTE] So I should put "In my opinion" in front of everything I say then? I never have been great at choosing words and that sort of shit. Besides that, I did sort of mention that FWD is great for cheap cars and great for fuel mileage, which he didn't seem to notice at all, and I think you didn't either since you're mentioning this in the first place.
no, read my post again. the very last word. and no, you shouldn't do that, but the way you say some things is just...
Guys, Guys. Everyone take your arguments and rants out of here, and do them in PM or something. - A real car enthusiast has no need for traction control.
God damn traction control made me almost a curb in my grand am..
Traction control almost throws me off the roads around here since they're in such bad disrepair. I have to remember to shut it off before I leave for school because it's damn hard to correct for on two lane highways at 55 mph.
[QUOTE=bradley;37497465]You aren't supposed to be here. You were told by the moderator who banned you to stay out of this part of the forums. You don't listen for shit. That's probably why he keeps giving you dumb ratings. [/QUOTE] You act so high and mighty. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Why are you posting here?" - Gran PC))[/highlight]
hey you shut up
Cobra has no TC, makes me a happy camper. I always turn it off in the Fuckus.
I'm going to look stoopid for this, but "Fuckus"?
Slang for Ford Focus I believe. Because they're Fords, they have to be repaired quite often, because of the way the engine sits in the bay(also because Ford), they're hard as fuck to work on.
[QUOTE=Del91;37503713]Slang for Ford Focus I believe. Because they're Fords, they have to be repaired quite often, because of the way the engine sits in the bay(also because Ford), they're hard as fuck to work on.[/QUOTE] Yeah, 2012 Ford Focus, its a nice car, its been reliable (so far), I just wish it had some more pep to it. I hate having to downshift to get a decent amount of acceleration out of corners. I miss being able to come out of a corner at 1200ish RPM and not even care like I could in the Cobra.
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