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You wouldn't believe how many f**king retards there are out there that are actively opposed to daytime running lights. Read that site - its amazing how stupid people are. Anyone who's ever driven on a highway knows how much easier it is to spot other traffic if they've got their lights on, guesstimate how far away they are, and easy determine what direction they're travelling in. All very important data if you're making a wrong-side overtaking move. That's before you get into dawn/dusk situations where its hard to make out cars with all those shadows. They crap on about how it blinds / dazzles other drivers. What the hell? You could high beam someone during the day, and because the headlight / ambient light differential isn't that great they're hardly going to get dazzled. Normal headlights don't do squat to other drivers' vision. I'm all for DRL. I think they should be mandatory everywhere.

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Tow truck companies know it, driving instructors are certain of it and insurance firms have no doubt about it — Sydney drivers are the worst when it comes to coping with wet weather. As soon as the rain fell yesterday, many of the city's motorists failed to slow down and take the road conditions into consideration. More than 100 minor crashes and breakdowns were recorded across Sydney throughout the day as up to 50mm of rain fell on the city. Many more accidents went unreported. RTA spokesman Alec Brown said there is always a spate of crashes in the first stages of a wet weather cycle because many city drivers suffer the psychological term “Optimism Bias”. “A large number of drivers have a viewpoint that even though it's wet they can handle the speed they usually travel,” he said. “They think they know the roads and can handle the conditions. Source: CarsGuide

Yeah. KFC, McDonalds, plus there are things we don't get in Aus like Hardee's and Spaghetti House. You can get Chinglish food from Maxim's, and near the "Downtown" area (can't really call any place the CBD since practically everywhere is business) you'll find plenty of cafe-style restaurants. Steak's an issue, since cows are hard to come by (there's not exactly much land). Most locals prefer brisket anyway, so that's what the market caters for. I've heard that my favourite hamburger joint, Three Little Piggies, has closed down though. Those guys made a mean burger. But why you'd want to go to a country and not sample their local fare is beyond me. If you want to go experience new things, try and experience them. Stay away from those portable street stalls by all means, but part of going to Hong Kong is trying out all those restaurants.

Yes. From pretty much any modern European turbo car. They all make torque from low in the rev range, and hold it constant until almost redline. My mate's Polo GTi felt like that stock, and when he reflashed the ECU with the old TT's tune it doesn't feel that much more peaky even though its gone from 110kW to around 150kW. It does swell onto boost a bit harder but since its an OEM Audi tune the power delivery still feels OEM flat. This is why simple ECU tunes can pull 25% more power without touching hardware - the engines are tuned conservatively to offer linear torque, which means they're only at a fraction of the potential the engines could offer if you're willing to sacrifice some linearity for more top-end shove.

That's one of the stupidest things I've ever read, and I've been on ns.com. Should Martin Bryant get his rifle back if he ever gets his arse out of jail, just because he paid for it? Yeah a rifle kills but hit someone at 200km/hr and, unless they're in a truck, they're not likely to walk away from it either. If you prove yourself untrustworthy with something, then maybe you should have your toys taken away from you. Consider it a "fine" if you have to, but I've got no problems with people going that stupidly fast through traffic having their cars confiscated with no "recompense".

I am a definite maybe for this one.

Yeah, the 350Z is like that too. There's an undertray under the engine, and the rest of the undercarriage is designed to be as flat and smooth as possible. The Track model (with a little under spoiler at the bottom of the front bar and a small diffusers in the rear tyre wells, plus that little "hump" boot spoiler) has a drag coefficient of 0.29, which is pretty low. I think the V35, without the flared guards, has a similar (if not better) drag coefficient. It does it with zero lift as well. No downforce, but no lift either. Makes the car reasonably stable at high speed, but without the extra drag that most downforce-generating aero causes. In BMI's 350Z Shock video, near 180km/hr they found the car slightly less quick into a constant radius, banked, turn than an R34 GT-R but the nose was a lot more responsive than the GT-R's when in a slalom. The new Porsche Boxster has an underbody tray that runs for about 2/3 of the length of the car from the nose.

I thought SAU didn't do the "one make of car only" type cruises....? There was a massive bitch on here ages ago when some guys got barred from a Supra cruise.

But that was a salesman, and a car salesman at that. The vast majority of them don't know their a$sholes from their earholes, and will say anything to hook you in. Lets not forget that the Infiniti dealers in the US swore blind that the next GT-R would be badged as an Infiniti over there because that's what they'd heard or that it was the only possible course for the company's flagship (and were so confident as to take pre-orders), until Nissan made an official announcement that the car would be branded the same internationally under the Nissan badge and there were never any concrete plans to do otherwise.

The Bureau of Meteorology says it'll stop raining by Monday, but this weekend is pretty much a washout.

The only convertibles (i.e. hard tops with the roof cut off) that I like are supercars or muscle cars. The F430 and Gallardo Spyder are hot, as is the V8 Vantage convertible, and the classic "Eleanor" Mustang shape (either the new one, or of Eleanor's age). Otherwise, give me a roadster (purpose built with no roof) any day. When I look at Audi, Saab BMW or Mercedes convertibles.....yuck

Or maybe not. I can just picture this conversation: Johnny Tran: This your ride? Brian O'Conner: It was. It's his now. Dominic Toretto: No, it's not. I haven't taken delivery. Johnny Tran: Then, it's nobody's car. But somebody put in the wrench time. What do you think, Lance? Lance Nguyen: It's an amazing machine.

That's because most of the world's race teams are stupid, of course. If they weren't stupid they'd all be running RB engines, because they're the greatest engine ever made in the universe since the dawn of time, and will forever be until the universe ends. That's something anyone on here should know.

You don't need to know that you're doing 200km/hr, but if you can't tell you're speeding when going through an 80 zone at that pace you shouldn't be allowed to have a license.

From Dandenong, huh? Maybe he was in a rush to get to Noble Park?

You're not the first girl to tell me that. But, fair enough. If its not going to be a fun day for you....its a long way to go to not enjoy yourself.

I find it boring to stand on the sidelines and watch, but if I can get a ride then I'm OK with it. Especially if they're a half-decent driver. Otherwise, get someone to let you drive their car. N.B. Don't look at me.

NSCC's got a supersprint on at Wakefield on the Sunday before. They might still have spots free for members. Just wondering if I should get some practice in before Monday

No S15 Varietta came out with a turbocharger. Anyone who's got one has fitted it themselves. And yeah, it was a "factory" vehicle....I believe they're done by Autech. They look OK, but the back of it is so flat and so big. Its just this massive expanse of.....nothing. It looks weird. It needs a wing, but wings on convertibles are so easy to get wrong. And with the roof up its no oil painting either.

What I don't get is how the NSW Government can bullshyt on about trying to make the roads safer by banning P platers from driving "high performance cars" (like the entry-level Mercedes C180K, with its neck-snapping 105kW), yet its still perfectly OK for them to roll around in an old non-V8 Falcodore on retreads. The only thing retreads are good for is paddock bashers. On a road car, they should be illegal.

The RB26DETT & ATTESSA equipped 350Z is prepped by Zele, a race team that has Nissan support. The car's featured in a BMI video, where they go about speculating about the next GT-R. Would love some wallpaper-sized shots of the GT-R or 350Z going around Pike's Peak, especially in the top part where there's no trees.

Left foot braking is a pretty contentious issue. Most of the oldschool guys don't like it, but a lot of the modern advanced driving instructors have no problem with it. To my knowledge, a lot of the professional racers with clutchless manual setups will always left foot brake these days, and even in clutch-equipped cars some racers will left foot trail brake, or use it to adjust the car's attitude. I don't see how its "not smart" to left foot brake in an auto, as long as you know what you're doing (which, of course, does rule out the vast majority of road users). I find left foot braking my old man's auto car quite helpful when I'm going for a spirited drive in it, and I will occasionally dab the left foot in my manual car to tuck the nose in when its power-on understeering, but if I ever were to panic stop I'll instinctively right foot brake in either car.

Get the RaceLogic then. It has proper launch control functionality (with anti-lag), and since you can dial in how much slip you want you can let the computer work out how much to let the wheels slip to keep your revs up in the meat of the torque, and on-boost.

The wait has been long, but enthusiasts should know by October if Nissan's GT-R supercar will return to Australia. Unveiled as the GT-R Proto concept car in 2001, the eagerly awaited supercar has been a slow-burner. But it will be officially launched at the Tokyo Motor Show, which starts on October 26. At the same time, Nissan Australia general manager of marketing Ross Booth hopes to announce if the supercar will return Down Under. If it gets the go-ahead, the supercar, nicknamed “Godzilla”, could be on sale here late next year. “I still have my hands up for the GT-R,” Mr Booth says. “Hopefully, in the next few months we will get to know and put together a case where we can get the vehicle. However, Mr Booth is mindful the GT-R should not be a $200,000 car: “We need to be a little careful of the Nissan brand with the fact that you don't want to be selling cars at $200,000-plus. “I don't think the GT-R will be up there, but the reality is that we haven't got confirmation that we're going to get it and we don't know what the price or specifications will be.” Source: CarsGuide