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  1. pfunk
    lol, as far as Im concerned you only live once and that's a hell of a moment in your life
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    REALLY nice job,, never knew those old kits could look so good
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    Meh, sometimes I want to watch the action and its better then having your significant other reading the subs to you,,, better that is
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    Yup, thats killer, mine would have the Q-rau "taken out" and smoking on the other side of the window, heh
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    KILLER, keep em coming!
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    Personally you cant go wrong with a rich glossy black on those cars
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    They are stinky (taken from the words out of dang near every girl I dated when owning a diesel) (ive owned a couple diesel trucks for the efficiency and power)
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    Ah, sorry I thought you were talking about the gas model, direct injected turbo diesels are about 40% more efficient then an equivalent gas. A guy I worked with had a Jetta TDI and got 55mpgOn the safety thing, yup, its protect, the biggest fatality crashes are offset barrier (immovable object above 35mph covering 1/3rd the front drivers side). For standard impact a vehicle is tested against its own weight in a pendulum hit, wall, offset barrier, full barrier. angle barrier, etc... Edit, if those TDI's wernt so expensive and they increase the injector pump life was a little longer (not really that bad, but an expensive part) id love to own one, but here they are hard to find
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    Yeah those things do add up, heated and cooled cup holders, seats are heavy, but not that much difference between a regular seat and heated/cool, but a pound or two (from what I remember working at Lear) its the electric ones that add a lot over the manual track. Like you said you can shave a few pounds in a variety of extras but maybe a hundred. Just look at the base models curb compared to a loaded version, even a bare bones fiesta weighs 2535 and that thing is tiny, That's a crappy radio and manual everything. A regular 1970 Chevy Nova weighs about the same (2660 with the IRON 6 cyl) and that would be considered a full size car now a days and it was a unibody, 1.08mm thick sheet metal compared to the .75mm on the fiesta
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    Those pillars you speak of are for FMVSS 201 requirements. They are that big for head impact constraints for unbelted people with nonfunctional airbags. I was mainly speaking of the smaller cars and why they weigh so much. As we "type" I am trying to take weight out of an electric car while keeping strength and not using exotic materials. Some small cars go the extra by having electronic power steering instead of hydraulic. The 30 air bags are from the insurance lobbyists to meet standards they advertise (example a 5 star will sell better then a 3 and to meet the 5 star gov rating that the insurance institute set up, you need 30 air bags). Heck, a Camaro is a whopping 3800lbs,, no wonder the Mustangs are whooping them,, and they even come in at a heavy 3200 compared to the old fox body notch-backs 2900. You wont surpass energy required to move mass which we are really close to its highest efficiency, and no one wants to pay a million bucks for a daily driver that is ultra light weight loaded with exotic materials hey man, when you rode in the Volvo,,, you might have been smaller
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    Your calculations are off, cause there is no way that car gets almost 70 miles per gallon ie 1.47 gallons per 100 miles Audi claims 45 mpg with that car, so expect 40 or for over the pond 1 ltr per 17 km Eugimon is right to a degree. the majority of fault lies with insurance and federal mandates of safety. A small car on average weighs over 3000lbs. That was a large car in the 60s and 70's. That weight came from safety measures (from airbags to unibody) for the most part and like Eugimon stated luxury (sound deadening and stiffening of parts makes them heavier). When you have more weight, you have to have more power and that means more fuel consumption. So a car that should weigh 2500lbs weighs 3500lbs. Thank your insurance safety lobbyists for the most part and BTW they mostly lobby for the repair of the damages and not the peoples safety because this is what costs them the most in claims. We have EXTREMELY efficient engines out today with things like direct injection,, up to 30 percent more effecient then a non direct injected model of the same year and power output
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    Depends, i got cowboy bebop and GITS from ebay and Amazon, but for somethings other means are necessary... Nice Graham
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    Plus one, I had to get the driver for the web cam. Windows found everything including the odd video card in my laptop
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    Cool Cylon Ship, love the weathering detail
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    I kinda want to drive that tractor thing. Just another example of money doesn't equal taste Not to make another jab, but an Italian manufacturer comes to mind
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    I think it could be formidable to maybe a F-35 IF its everything we are told it is. I would think a Raptor is out of the question
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    Windows phone reply here...... I wanna iPhone next go-round
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    Yeah, and that's unfortunate. Good is what good does or something like that. Some of the stuff looks really "Americanized" others look pretty darn good
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    Thats awesome, one of my first transformers besides Optimus and fav
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    watching Cowboy Bebop and have to say I am impressed with the dub quality
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    Nice Job, I like the colors, spot on
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    RIP
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    Ive used ccleaner, regedit, etc... before, but nothing gets it back to factory specs like a reload. Seems to be always cleaner and faster
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    Started watching Cowboy Bebop, I really like the animation and the bounty hunter story lines. Only got through 3 episodes, but like it so far. Ill be watching the Clone Wars when I have my kids with me
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    Cheng, that's awesome. You SHOULD be proud,,,,,, amazing. Keep us posted on run times when you are on the show, i'd really like to catch it. Good for you Man!
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