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    Yes, I remember the MT900 fondly. A very capable car--certainly better looking than its predecessor, the Raptor--with good competition provenance; much more successful in Europe/abroad than in the US, I believe. Back in the early '00s, a real rivalry was beginning to take shape in Grand-Am between Mosler and Ferrari, with the MT900 and 360GT, respectively, as the Mosler was proving very capable of competing for class wins. Then, perhaps due to some political wrangling, or who knows what, all of a sudden the rules changed, and the Mosler was put into a different class. The Mosler teams suddenly found themselves having to run a different spec tire (much harder compounds, more suited for different type of car), lumped in with the tube-frame Trans-Am style silhouette racers; and they weren't too happy about it, IIRC. ed: went back and did some research, and I guess the simplest explanation is usually the best. I guess Mosler simply hadn't produced enough cars to meet homologation rules, hence the bump to another class.
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    Okay, just went back and watched these... "Best Guy"? Ah ha ha ha ha! Yes, shameless cinematic plagiarism at its best. But lots of eye candy for Eagle-lovers. LOL, that French film appears to have used all the "stock footage" from the company that does those movies you can find on youtube all the time.
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    Hear Hear! Well said. And yes, if they can't get those crazy French sum-bi**hes for the flying duties, then why bother? Those films--and a lot of those warbirds movies you can find on youtube--prove that there are production companies that can use techniques, equipment and pilots to get MUCH better footage than what we're used to from Hollywood.
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    I only need to see the trailers to get the double-entendre of the show's title, and think: might be interesting to see where they try to go with the character development--but this show looks like another one that'll die after only 1 season [no pun intended].
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    That looks vaguely familiar; probably had a Hot Wheels just like that once... Ooh, ooh--anybody else remember the Vector? F'ugly as all get-out, true. But for countless kids of the 80's, posters of these things probably competed with Countachs for wall-space. They just looked fast sitting still. Actually, they looked more like they should have been a prop on the set of a Buck Rogers episode... ed: LOL, here goes the practical side of me ruining things again. Can you imagine how stressful something as simple as washing that car would have been, being the poor ba**ard that had to try to clean the inside of that fuggin windshield? It's the little things like that that can make it or break it for a relationship with a car; if you find yourself always driving a vehicle with hazy, streaked windows you can never get clean, or dirt and stuff trapped in corners and crevices you can never seem to reach with the vacuum--I imagine stuff like that could make you eventually get to the point where you just look at your car when you come out in the driveway each day and go: "you know, I hate your mother fu**in a$$ [car]; I can't wait 'til I can get something else."
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    Meh, still looks like a fuggin' dung beetle.... Ah, for the good ol' days--when supercars were sleek and sexy, and really looked the business... Not really a fan of the upcoming Mclaren supercar though--the name escapes me at the moment. Seriously, they should expect a lawsuit from Ascari or something...
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    Looks pretty cool. Kinda like a mash-up of some of the most popular shows/imagery that have come and gone; Cowboy Bebop-meets-Hot Wheels Battle Force 5-meets-Star Wars pod racing-meets-Rock n Rule-meets-Running Man(animated short from WAAAAAAAY back, on Liquid Television). The yellow "hero" car looks a little like a stretched Ford Capri nose, grafted on a S-197 Mustang. Yeah, weird image association, I know.
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    LOL, that was my first thought at seeing that pic. If they ever do a retro '40s era version of the dark knight, it'll defnitely fit the bill.
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    Don't get me wrong, there's a fair share of newer cars that I lust after, too. Like the 550 Maranello; or the Aston Martin DBS, mmmmmm--that thing is sex on wheels. I happen to like that Lotus Elite as well (what can I say? I'm biased towards Coupes and traditional "GT"s), it's a rather nice design. But 3700 lbs? Retracting glass top? A Lotus badge is just out of place on it. I know I've taken to task the "Colin Chapman" theory of car design, but the irony is not lost on me that the majority of these new models seem the very antithesis of the founder's devotion to minimalist design philosophy, "Simplify and add lightness." I kinda like the C6 Vette. I like the design cues taken from the old Stingrays; thought it was a step in the right direction. GM's snake-killer...
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    re: Guillermo Del Toro It was just a bit puzzling to me, seemed a commitment to the franchise/movie, whether it turns out to be helmed by a director/producer/etc that you'd think would do a good job or not. It's that commitment to a franchise/title that I think Hollywood banks on from the moviegoing masses. Ideally, we shouldn't allow them to count on us to be suckers; to readily spend our money on a product regardless of whether we think it will be directed by someone we think will do a good job at it. But I understand it's a bit of a gamble, for lack of a better word. When we buy that ticket, we're either gonna like what we see, or not. We go to the movies to be entertained; not necessarily to support a particular filmmaker.
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    This will certainly be looked back upon as a Golden Age for enthusiasts of the internal combustion engine, in terms of efficiency and power output [in general] for performance-oriented cars. But Christ--what absolutely DEPRESSING and BLAND times, aesthetically speaking. Everything seems to be getting more and more, homogeneous, for lack of a better word. "what color would you like your jellybean-on-wheels?" God, what I wouldn't give for a garage full of these, but with more modern drivetrains/suspension bits/brakes/rubber bolted up underneath... 250 California Spyder GT-40 Wyer/wide body Lambo Miura Pantera Group 4 Lola T-70 '70 Challenger '70 or '71 Road Runner '67 Chevelle (I've seen one of these, properly set up, run circles around turbo Porsches at a PCA event at Lime Rock before...) Torana A9X '78 XC Cobra
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    But Hollywood has pretty much banked on this premise for seemingly a generation. Which begs the question: if people continue to buy/support crappy product--when the seller KNOWS it's crappy product--how do you ever motivate them to start offering something better? And how the fu*k anybody could ever come to the notion of trying to make a TROLL "sexy" in any form or fashion is just beyond me.
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    Whoa, that IS neat.
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    Sad? How so? 1180 ft-lbs of torque. Lord, what fun that must be, to stomp on the accelerator and feel all that thrust kicking in! Remember, HP is a function of Torque--it's that 1180 ft-lbs that'll yank you back in the seat and probably make your face feel like it's peeling backwards...
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    Not specifically related to Macross, per se; so I figured it'd go better here. http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81111711/ But perhaps there IS something to the notion of the Power of Music, and its ability to stop war?
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    At the risk of oversimplification (okay, pretty much a sure bet): I've felt that the US is following a dangerously similar path to that of WWII era Germany--STRICTLY MILITARILY SPEAKING! The US military doctrine seems to be one of hedging their bets on superiority through advanced design. The Army, Navy et. al. field weapons that are certainly some of the most technologically advanced anywhere and second-to-none. But as a natural consequence, they are: very expensive; produced in relatively small numbers & at a slow rate; require high levels of training to operate and maintain. True, Tiger and Panther crews could operate with the confidence that they were in some of the finest machinery in the world; sure, they could kick the sh*t out of the Shermans. But when the Shermans are coming at you in much greater numbers, AND they're going to be replaced much faster than your own when knocked out in combat? It seems military strategists/planners are at risk of repeating the mistakes of history. One can only hope that the world will never again see a level of conflict requiring such massive commitment of men and machinery... Dunno what's up with Japan and China lately though, over those fishing lanes. Don't start no sh*t, won't be no sh*t, is what somebody needs to tell folks around the conference tables...
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    Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!! and yes. when you know you're going hunting for a Tyrannosaurus Rex--a deer rifle should be plenty sufficient.
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    MES-SAAAAGGGGGE FROOOOOOOM SPAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCEE!!!! Dude, I would so like to see a face off between Rockseia and Darth Vader I'd buy that for a dollar! Never mind using the door--a battle so epic, it'll blow the fu**in' walls outta tha room!
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    How can we neglect the ships from Message From Space(1978)? and... which, coincidentally bears a bit of resemblance to a later spaceship design. Oh sure, they don't really look that much alike here. But when watching MfS in TV format, with its craptastic 2nd-time-copied-from-VHS picture quality, the Epee could pass for a direct descendant of the other.
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    eh? Oooooh, you mean "The Giant Claw"! But you should fear the Giant Claw. You should be very afraid... "...it's as big as a battleship!"
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    Thank bloody Christ...
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    Evangelion ranked higher than a VF? No Votoms? or Dougram? Clearly, the people who made this list are FULL OF IT, because they don't agree with everything I think and say...
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    As I understand it, the film was a joint US-Japanese studio production; hence, the use of the man-in-a-rubber-suit technology, by then a staple of the Japanese monster-movie industry. If you're gonna make a giant monster movie with dudes in suits, you may as well go to the best!
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    Ouch! Tough crowd, tough crowd...
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