Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Those two videos put a massive smile on my face, love it.

Is that Mk1 Golf hiding in the garage?

Inexpensive to buy or run? A tatty E61 will be cheap but may come with a surprise £1k bill at any moment.

Might be the coolest thing I seen on this thread. (The soundscore at least)

Is that a celica?

E63-S is sold, and I'm fairly sure it was only listed today - I only saw it today anyway.

3 series is too small for winter beater estate I think.

Nope

Not even second place...

Edit: Not with 550bhp. Maybe with 585bhp. Until I get the RS6 fitted with hybrid turbos and get it remapped.

It's not particularly exciting but I like my Volvo V70. It's just a box on wheels so fits bikes in really easily. Mine's 10 years old and has nearly 150k miles but still runs smoothly.
Why worry too much about a stop gap car, beyond how much value it's likely to lose between selling one exciting car and buying another as long as you can chuck a bike in the back?

A fine argument, but he's already sold the C55...

This is what I was thinking. Gotta be plenty of half decent V70/V70 cross country variants as a stop gap. I guess there is a huge chance of something going very wrong mechanically on any car you buy at around that budget.

I'm driving the white ignis sport at 45secs in in the drone vid. Other cars include (i think) a datsun 1200 and a corolla AE86

Mazeballs

excellent!

what is going on with thew camera - is it moving?

i am a clutch bleed away from a driveable car!

not as low as i thought it would be, but the 60 profile tyres don't help. the big balloon dunlop will fill the guards out.

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Do these ones not shit a gearbox over 700 then?

This is very exciting news!!

The C6 RS6? Apparently not. Over 900bhp and you need to uprate the driveshafts, apparently. Box is good for 1000+ if it's in good condition.

Have I got the wrong end of the stick? I thought Dammit was asking what car to buy as something to get around in between selling his current/old Mercedes and deciding on and picking up a new one.

The GoPro hero7 onward cameras have a version of image stabilisation in some resolutions called HyperSmooth.

I was tempted to change the resolution/frame rate so i could get normal stabilisation without the hypersmooth but i think it looks pretty good on that video

Cheers. It does look cool. I have a dog camera in the b at the moment! I should look at a GoPro

i think it looks pretty good on that video

Looks great, super bloody stable!

We used to run Dogcam in our escort connected to some sort of small digital recorder under one of the seats, that worked pretty good. Gopro has a lot more user friendly features though and gives you a lot of adjustability on the fly

That looks awesome mate. Fun times I bet.

766KW is Mahoosive. Monster power.

I could change the cam and get into 700s (hp) but it would need a girdle really at that point. And would be really, really unpleasant to drive.

Honestly 600 is already 200 too many.

You're right, ignore me. It's been a long day...

That looks like great fun. Bonus points for the filmmaker for using the music from the Hawaii level of Road Rash 2 as the soundtrack.