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    Sucks for you, man.
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    Quota what now? But yes, RX-7s are good. I need another one.
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    Apparently Mazda have been developing a new rotary engine even after saying they killed the 16X project. Undoubtedly, then, this RX-Vision is the basis for an RX-9. Mazda is famous for delivering on its concepts. Especially when they say they've invested tons of money and time into a new powertrain that can only really find its way into just such a car. The question is, will it make it in time for the 2017 model year? That's 50 years since the first Mazda Cosmo Sport 110S- the first rotary production car.
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    RX-VISION, you tempt me so. Should Mazda bring Skyactiv-R to production, I'm giving up Nissans for good.
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    And it's that particular chunk, no less. Hmm.
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    Ace Combat answered that for us over a decade ago. Next question.
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    I have the BTTF1 hotwheels Delorean, but it looks like I need to add to the collection now.
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    I finally got the metallic paint I'd been waiting for, so I was finally able to finish the Nu Gundam Ver.Ka. These thruster nozzles were sitting aside, waiting for like 3 months. I bought $30 worth of paint just for those thrusters, which are realistically going to spend their entire life facing the back of every display I put this in. God what am I doing with my life. I'm also probably gonna get rid of my RG GP01. RGs just are not stable enough to display. Stupid thing keeps falling over like my RG RX-78-2 and RG Strike did.
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    Literally huge, also an improvement. But the last 2 generations of Civic were terrible. And the move to CVT was both expected and sad. I wish we didn't need the Fit to give us a car only marginally larger than a 7th-generation Civic hatchback. I mean, at least when Civics were small, they were tossable and fun. Sure they weren't fast, sure they weren't "premium", but they were cheap, solid, reliable, and fun. But I drove the last 2 generations of Civic extensively while I worked at a Honda dealership, and even in the Si, there was no joy to be had. It didn't pull especially hard in straight lines (except to the right from all the torque steer) and it just was not happy to be chucked around. And while the Gen9 was at least not a terrible place to sit in, the 8th was just awful in every way. The closest thing I've had to a fun experience in a new car has been in the NC Miata. That's still a small, light car. It's only somewhat faster than the original, but it is every bit as fun to chuck around, and it never feels bulky and bloated like everything on the road today. We're still waiting on local dealers to get a manual ND to test. My friend's first B17 was a manual, but when it died they put him in a CVT. He hated it, but what could he do? Nissan looked at it like they were doing him a huge favor. But look at the Maxima and Altima. Both are CVT only. The Maxima even still has the gall to claim it's the 4 Door Sports Car, and this time they emblazoned 4DSC on its C pillars. The "sporty" versions of the Juke are CVT-only, and something like 90% of all Versas are CVT. They still haven't built that promised Sentra SE-R yet either. I doubt they will. Not to mention, you can't get a manual transmission on anything but the base trim on everything but the 370Z. If you want any features at all, you have to eschew the manual transmission. I can't go for that. It'd be one thing if these were traditional automatics in non-sporty cars, but CVTs are terrible, and Nissan CVTs are unreliable to boot. Also what the hell is up with the GT-R? Its price has increased by leaps and bounds every year. Thing started off under 70 grand 6 years ago and now the base price is 102? That just makes me hate people.
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    So I've been hearing about this new anime called The Super Dimension Fortress Macross. Something about aliens and singing. I dunno, sounds cheesy. Probably won't watch it.
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    Well I just finished Yamato 2199. And that should really put some perspective on how far behind I am on anime.
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    If only the F31 had sold better in the US. I really want a coupe to manual swap. All that are left it seems is verts though. I ain't about that life. But man the sleeper I could build out of an F31.
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    Yeah, passing up a good deal on an S14 because it was automatic is a bit silly, just given the ease and low cost of converting to manual. Automatic S14s don't hold their value nearly as well as the manuals for that matter. You can get one for half the price of a decent facelift S14 and spend less than $1000 to make it a 3-pedal. And I'll grant that the B15 Sentra isn't a bad car. It was, however, designed in the last days before the bankruptcy, so that basically explains it. The B16 is an ugly bloatmobile of a car and the B17 is simply enormous, if only mostly as ugly. The CVT does ruin what it has though, which isn't all that much. (I had a buddy whose first B17 lemoned on him, so they put him in another B17. Both were awful to ride in or drive, but at least this "compact" sedan had hella rear leg room. And also a sticker price that makes everyone go "whaaa") But even the B15, I don't like as well as the B14, or especially the B13. The B13 was such a good car, they still make it in Mexico. It espouses the values I believe a car of its class should hold. Light weight, low-frills, and handsome but not stylish. It's a compact sedan. It doesn't have to look crazy or wild. Just make it handsome. Then it will never be ugly. But, Nissan is obsessed with overstyling everything and building cars full of stuff they don't need for their class, and shoving CVTs into everything. I'm sure they'd have a CVT truck and I guarantee they'd have a CVT Z if they could figure out how to make one work in a RWD application. At this point I think they may have given up on RWD and just plan on calling the next Juke, "Z", so they can accomplish their CVTs-in-Everything goal.
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    See, that's an odd perspective as they go. Every single Nissan enthusiast I know has no love for Renault Nissan and its design aesthetic. Mind you I've been a Nissan guy since I could pronounce "Nissan". I was 4 the first time I steered a 1995 Sentra around a parking lot on my dad's lap. My first car was a Nissan ('88 200SX), my second car was a Nissan ('90 Pathfinder) that I loved so much I bought it back from the guy I sold it to. I spent 2 years finding the perfect 240SX, which I've owned for almost 3, and I've got an '85 200SX I'm building up with a friend. So for a long time, I've lived and breathed Nissan. But over the last several years, they've really been trying that enthusiasm, and the direction they've taken has no relation to the Nissan that brought Japanese cars to the Western world. Their cars are overstyled to make up for how lackluster they've become. They don't excel at anything except having the highest CVT failure rate in the industry. For me, Nissan evokes thoughts and memories of a time before the bankruptcy. To call these Renaults, Nissans, is an affront to that, in my opinion. Most of the Nissan enthusiasts I know feel similarly. It's really split the Nissan crowd into two: people who love old Nissans and people who love new Nissans. There doesn't seem to be a lot of crossover. (Except in Nissan's lineup, where they have 5, by my count)
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    I take it you've never owned a Nissan. This newest Maxima is by far the worst, especially in terms of design aesthetic. But also in terms of how un-innovative it is, coming from a company whose motto used to be Innovation that Excites; who is famous for having never invented anything, but having refined every aspect of the cars they've made, to create some of the most memorable. At least that's what they were famous for prior to the Renault merger. Now they're famous for a long-in-the-tooth halo car, a split-v grille, and having particularly bad CVTs in everything.
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    And I mean really, you can get a lift, brand new, rated for 10,000lbs, for less than $3000. And you can install it for under $2000. If you have enough space for that thing (which I seem to recall seeing on the interwebs a couple years ago) you have plenty of room for a lift.
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    The Z33 and Z34 both share the same chassis platform, the same engine family, and the same design aesthetic. The Z32 is long in the tooth for a Z as it is, at 6 years. Unfortunately, Nissan doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of not screwing up the Z35, so I've stopped paying attention. Nissan has lost its way, probably irreparably. I said it when it got shared by a facebook friend and I'll say it here: If you don't have a large shop space to put one of these, you have an excuse. Not to mention a lift probably is not considerably more expensive, and to say nothing of safety concerns and the inability to do work that requires the wheels to be removed.
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    Twenty? More like 30 years. This goes all the way back to the MkII.
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    If you can't bear 480p upscaling, try Crunchyroll. For that matter, if for some stupid reason Daisuki's stream won't load in your browser due to extension incompatibility issues, try Crunchyroll's free mirror of Daisuki's 480p stream. Or, if you have the aptitude, do some IP tunneling to bypass YouTube's region-locking and watch it there. It's even in HD, probably. And if you really want to support the show, buy the model kits because it's a 25 or 50 episode toy commercial (depending on how successful the initial run is) and that's much more profitable than website ad revenue. For that matter, TV syndication deals probably would be too. But lackluster ratings for 00 were caused by Americans not caring about Gundam, not the poorly-marketed lame dub aired in a bad ratings block on a cable TV channel that's been floundering for over a decade, so I guess we can forget about that possibility. Excuse my cynicism, I work the night shift.
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    Because I don't have the 25th bluray, and 2015 was the year BTTF2 took place. This works out double-win for me.
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    A PC re-release for a game that was on PC just a few years ago? I don't get it.
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    Woah, woah, what's with the Part II hate? I mean yeah, it doesn't stack up to Part I, but Back to the Future was an Oscar-winner. I mean, a really good movie. It's hard to compare. Part II and Part III were also good, if not quite so much as Part I, but I think they're all three a great trilogy. I'm probably gonna get the 30th anniversary set. I went to high school with this one girl, Jennifer, who could recite BTTF, line for line, in time. Why I never asked her out is beyond me.
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    I would have done a few things differently on the PG Unicorn if I were Bandai: Translucent white psychoframe with red/green LEDs Some kind of way to prevent or further reduce light bleed from behind parts To me some of the most important shots of the Unicorn in the series are when it's in Destroy mode but the psychoframe is inactive. And obviously, there's a lot of important stuff that happens with the psychoframe glowing green instead of red. For a kit this price, that stuff seems obvious. It's not even like the Seed kits where Phase Shift colors are cool and all but I'mma break out the paint for a phase shift down version. This is something that can be done without parts swapping, just by using RGB LEDs and a small change to the microcontroller that runs all the LEDs anyway. That Bandai didn't do it is frustrating to say the least.
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    Soon? 2014 was the last model year for the Lancer Evolution. You can't buy them anymore.
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    Daisuki wouldn't load it for me. Not to mention they have the most intrusive ads ever. That's a much more compelling argument for watching a show legitimately than Daisuki streaming.
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