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View Full Version : A not so Grand Chauffeur chris 10-13-2004, 10:56 PM http://response.jp/event/auto-salon2003/html/oth_others-4/hs7d_dscf65090003.html (click next a few times to see more photos). This one is a rather painful to look at. Not very tastefully done. :ack: VQ 10-14-2004, 12:02 AM What is a Chauffer? what i stupid name for a limo. It' like with pokemon, names directly based on English words for wht it does, it's stupid, but the car looks typically Japanese and therefore ugly on the inside and the outside was a XR6, I dunno why they put on Fairmont wheels or used a fairlane instead of an AU, mor practical for a limo, and WTH is up with the front end and the japs and 3 sets of headlights? chris 10-14-2004, 12:58 AM At least from the inside, you can't see that shocker of a grill. :eek: Not a very nice car. (probably the understatement of the year I suppose). VQ 10-14-2004, 02:54 AM It WAS based on an AU falcon, so what do you expect? Speaking of which, I've been in about 4 AU falcon's, which is the highest number for one model that I've been in, not including taxi's either. And yet, everytime I go in one, I still hit my head on the way in, the Fairmont is def more comfy then my mates BA XR6 even though their XR has leather seats. blackice111288 10-14-2004, 02:29 PM [QUOTE=Vqcapricedude]What is a Chauffer? what i stupid name for a limo. It' like with pokemon, names directly based on English words for wht it does, it's stupid, QUOTE] i agree. evey japanese isnt ugly, even though alot of theyre concept cars are. its just a good thing most of their concepts dont make it to the streets. what is this, Back to the Future? your being kinda insensitive, calling them japs and what not. asian kids in america would kick your butt for saying that ^_^ it seems like after 2002, japan's auto industry (and half of the worlds other auto manufacturers) erased the words "understate" and "class" from their vocabulary. example 1, lamborgini murciaglo and ferrari enzo (but at least they look good) Chevy and it's new line of trucks, the Honda Element, toyota celica, BMW as a whole, Nissan and alot of its new cars and its Titan and Armada, DaimlerChrysler and its Durango and bug eyes minivans, Ford (because i dont like them anyways)besides the new mustang, Mazda and the RX-8 and its 6's and 3's, mitsubishi as a whole except for their lancers, and the list goes on and on. when did everybody tell the auto industry that we all want futuristc knife edge egg-mobiles? VQ 10-15-2004, 09:49 PM Well, it's the new direction people want, they want euro styled cars but what we get is the japanese's idea of euro styling, it's like when they first started the aerodynamic cars, they looked different didn't they? blackice111288 10-22-2004, 03:37 PM true, true, but the old streamlined chyslers look cool though. VQ 10-23-2004, 03:44 AM Yeah, the race cars of the 30's were awsome too, even if they were under the hitler regime, the cars were awsome then too, and we have these cars recreated expertly in NFS, but no one takes notice of them. blackice111288 10-25-2004, 03:01 PM the cars Audi ( Auto Union ) used to race were my favorite chris 10-25-2004, 08:06 PM They were brutal cars. If you get the Carrera GT promo video from the Porsche website, you can see an Auto Union Type C in action. Not for nothing they were called "ground-shakers". blackice111288 10-28-2004, 03:37 PM "Much has been written about the difficult handling characteristics of this car (the Auto Union Type C) but its tremendous acceleration was undeniable. A driver could induce wheelspin at 150 mph! The initial list of drivers was headed by Hans Stuck. The engine for 1936 had grown to the full 6 liters and was now producing 520 bhp." woo hooo, that sounds like a beast! y'all might like this, chris and vq...http://www.ddavid.com/formula1/auto_c.htm google search:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Auto+Union its pretty broad seeing i only typed in " Auto Union" :p |
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