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my question is, to all those who think that the skyline guy did absolutely nothing wrong other than hold up traffic, why did someone decide to record it? the footage starts when the guy is already out of the car, especially when the guy holding the camera is yelling out "smash him". so until other info is provided i will stick to my story that the guy in the skyline got out to argue with the truck driver.

could be that the driver of the skyline was trying to fight the truck driver (hitting the truck, banging on the window, etc) so the truck driver did what he had to to get away from the violent guy in the skyline. seems plausible with the fact that the skyline driver was out of the car

doubt it. for starters there's his girly little voice. i reckon he'd probably just wet his pants and run off

this. while the guy in the truck is a douche, the guy in the skyline obviously wasn't helping the situation. my guess is that the guy in the truck probably beeped his horn and yelled for the guy in the skyline to move out of the way or hurry up. the guy in the skyline, being such a badass thought he would get out to show how fully hektic he is. truck driver shows that not a single fuck was given about how tough he was, so he just drove on

+1 for no

road toll will always increase to some degree because of the ever increasing number of people driving. when i bought my r33 at age 25, i drove like a hoon. had i bought it when i was 18 i would've written it off for sure. when i was on my P's it took me getting booked for speeding and having to go for 11 months on only 1 point to slow down.

nah man, a bit of arguing first makes for good angry sex

i wasn't bashing you. i was making a simple point. if you thought i was bashing you then you should read some of my other posts in other threads (both on this topic and others) and you will see that my point was very diplomatic and while it was in response to you it was also aimed at every other post where people are discussing possible engines and in no way picking on you at all. you have just jumped to that conclusion for no real reason. i bet you are the type of guy who, when pulled over by a roadside RBT where they pull over every car, starts saying things like "i ain't dun nuffin wrong, you're just pickin on me coz i'm in an import" see now that was picking on you.

as said above by others, the big issue is with not having someones licence info on the transfer papers the day you hand the car over, so if they do something naughty you can't fully deny it was you (not in the same way you can with signing transfer papers properly). when i bought a car off a mate a few years back, he was working away a few weeks at a time so his mum essentially bought the car. she filled out all her details on the rego form and registered the car into her name and then gifted it to my mate when he was next home. it is the simplest and safest thing to do from your point of view.

it was always going to happen. people dodging copyright laws was never going to be a permanent thing. it was only a matter of time before the law caught up. but since it has been going on for so long (given how many younger people have grown up with this sort of thing going on it has become their norm), they are all up in arms at their freedom being taken away. now i don't want to sound like some old fart who never did it, because i have done my fair share. but i always knew this day would come as i knew it was illegal. and that is the thing. it was always illegal. they haven't recently changed the laws to make it illegal, they are just cracking down on it as they find more ways to do so

until the new engine regulations are announced i wouldn't be making any connections between engines that will be in the road car and the engines used in the race car.

why do you think that nissan will be using a modified production engine in their v8 supercar? neither holden nor ford are

certainly worth a try terry

yes i think driver education/training is a better solution, but it isn't going to happen because it costs the government more money than simply saying "no you can't drive these cars". as for the laws not being australia wide, well given that each state controls it's own transport system, it is hard for the federal government to impose national laws since each state has to agree with the proposal. it may happen in the future, but not in the near future. i understand it is a bit silly, but that is the way politics is.

this made me LOL.... hard yeah i worded it poorly. more like 4 wheeled motoGP (since they run a 1.2L motor) i think you mean a gap that's 10% the width of the car and then finding they are missing 90% of their car i once saw a r34 GTR in the GT production series (quite a few years ago now, probably nearly 10 years). so this was a pretty much stock car (as per the rules) and in it's class was a few ferraris, 911's (nissan's claimed rival of the GTR) and a few others. from memory the GTR had a somewhat experienced driver. so how did it go? well it got smashed by pretty much everything in it's class and was back mixing with cars from the class below.

aaaaaaaaahahahaha, yet another thread on this by someone who thinks that the nissan is somehow going to be different/faster than the fords and holdens based off a racing category from 20 years ago.

the thing the high powered restrictions is that they aren't just there to stop people getting killed. it's also just to stop them getting injured. as well as to restrict the potential for injury. young drivers, regardless of how many kms they do each day, are generally immature and are more likely to be lured into racing the car next to them in the traffic light GP. not saying that older people don't do this, but they are more likely to think twice about it. or at least know when to back off if they do go ahead with it.

we did have a BTCC style series back after group A ended. was called the supertourers. lasted for a few years before it died. was good to watch. they even had their own bathurst race. the front runners were audi and bmw. the audis would get better drive due to the 4wd system, but the bmws had the legs down the straight due to being lighter. they had the parity system sorted, unlike back in the group A days.....

i only ever got pulled over in my r33 once. it was at about 10pm on a sunday night. on my 10 min drive home the only other car i saw was the police car, so it was kind of obvious why i got pulled over. it was just an RBT and licence check and then i was on my merry way again. i was never pulled over in my 180sx. a guy i used to work with at maccas back in the day was pulled over all the time. i think he was up to about 80 times in 6 months. he drove a bog stock r31 (this was in 99 or 2000) and i think he also had a vn commodore at 1 point as well. he was also in his mid 20's at the time. multiple times he was pulled over within 50m from his driveway (when leaving). they were always for RBT and he was never booked for anything. it was the fact that he started work at 5am, so he was driving around at before 5 and the police thought he might be DUI. he didn't think of it as being picked on (although it did shit him off) because he know that he was driving at a time that A: a lot of people would be driving home after parties where they may well be over the limit, and B: there are bugger all others on the road so the police pretty much pull over anyone they see.

i 'came' across the pic too......... now where are the tissues....

i've always found it funny how many people who don't like v8 supercars 'because it's boring and the cars are all the same' will follow other racing categories who run under pretty much the same circumstances (different tech, but it's category control). even F1 has a lot of control tech. as for lack of developement, i think you will find that most tin top categories around the world don't have major tech changes every year. even F1 is taking steps to control tech advances and control spending.

what are you thoughts on DTM though? they run the same regs, as does the GT500 (or whatever it's currently called in japan). hell even F1 pretty much runs in this format. all major race formats around the world have strict formats for engine, aero, body and suspension. you won't find many race formats whose rules are as loose/dodgy as the old group A days (which seems to be what GTR fans stuck in the early 90's really want).

no they are more likely going to go to a DOHC engine, like used in the DTM

they haven't released info on the COTF engine yet, so it's hard to say, but my guess is that they COTF engine won't be a pushrod (or nissan will run a chev or something like that in it). if they go the restrictor route then i'm sure they will get parity right this time. they won't want an outcome like last time... no actually that would be exceptionally boring, just like in the early 90's. racing where 1 car wins all the time is crap. having said that, ford could just enter the GT40 and holden would become chev and they would enter the corvette and then you would have porsche and lambo and ferrari entering as well.... oh wait, that sounds familar. that's just the Australian GT championship.