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I live in a country (the Netherlands) that makes it impossible for anyone that isn't a millionaire to drive a fun car.

>inb4 miata
I said a fun car

Seriously, gas prices alone are so rediculous that driving anything with a big engine is almost out of the question.
Not even mentioning the costs of insurance, and the fucking tax for owning a car.

Here's an example of what me and my dad have to pay for our cars.

I'm 22 and I drive a BMW 316i from 2000. (slow and old as fuck)
Insurance costs me 80 euros a month, tax is 60 euros a month.
Petrol goes for about 1,45 euro's per liter.

My dad drives a 2003 BMW 330d. (This is considered a fast car here, lol)
If I were to buy this off of him, my monthly costs would be as following;
Insurance 135 euros a month, tax is 155 euros a month (because it's a diesel).
Diesel goes for about 1,05 euros per liter.

So owning this piece of shit 316i costs me 140 euros a month without driving it a fucking centimeter.
Owning the 330d would cost me almost 300 euros a fucking month without driving it!
That's half of the fucking value of the car A YEAR in just insurance and taxes. Not to even speak of actually driving it on this fucking expensive fuel.

My dream car is an E46 M3 but I never even bothered calculating the costs of that. It's out of the fucking question if I continue living here.

So tell me /o/,

where are you from and can you give me a guesstimation of what it would cost you to own either one of these vehicles?
I wanna know how bad it differs from other countries.
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>>14922804
You choose yourself a fucking car you want and run the gas mileage plus three liters because fuck you multiplied by how many kilometers you will drive it per month plus five hundred because fuck you.

Then you halve that and imagine how much you'd save if you'd install an LPG system, because that's about as much as you would.
There's always a way, and this is the only one if you want to drive bigbux car in continental Europe. Git gud.

Taxes and insurance can be avoided if you have a brain. It's called the European Union. All you need is a post box forwarding letters to you in some bumfuck country out east where you can register and insure your car for a few pennies. European Union means you can drive it everywhere else with little to no restrictions because yay Schengen.

Git fucking gud mate.
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>>14922844

My mate has a 330ci on LPG. It basically eats up 100hp.
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>>14922868
I'm sure it does mate. My brother has one on his 3 series and it makes just as much power as before, except he pays half of the fuel bill. It eats up half the trunk, I'll readily admit that, but possible power loss is all in the settings of the machine. You need to run it rich.

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You can only drive 1 currently produced car for the next 10 years …money is no object. Which do you pick?

>Image related.
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>>14918505
Probably a Cayman or 911.
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>>14918505
dat haunch
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manual m2
idk how to drive a manual, it auto blips on downshifts & i won't be stuck with a bmw that won't make it past 100k miles

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ITT cars you wish were produced

>non-shit Fiat 500 Abarth
>Honda Fit Si
>New production Ford Ranger/other compact SUVs and trucks
>STi/TRD Toyobaru
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>>14917427
new insight
new metro
new festiva
v8 de lorean
new roadmaster wagon
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>>14917427
>>Honda Fit Si
But that does exist, just not in murrica.
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>>14917427
The TRD 86 you're looking for will be the BMW-Toyota collab that's taking years to come out

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Am I the only one that finds these fucking disgusting? I'm not talking about the coconut or strawberry ones either, just Black Ice. Smells like an Arab drenched in Axe.
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>>14912374
they do smell like cheap spray deoderant

it's a meme, people don't actually like these
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>>14912378
It is a Meme, but they legit smell good. I don't know anyone that doesn't like it.
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>>14912378
I really hope so. Used one in my murdered out (black leather and all) TT in the middle of summer. Worst mistake of my life. Being its such a small cockpit and it was so hot, holy fuck I could barely breath without throwing up getting back in my car after work. Took fucking forever for that terrible smell to fade ffs

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How in the fuck is this company alive?
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For contrarians sake
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>>14907878
gubment
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>>14907878

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Got this Saturday. Lovin them 45 mpgs.

>$9700 for this brand new 2015 Mirage ES 5 speed thanks to massive Mitsu discounts.

>Standard climate control, bluetooth, usb, aux, cruise control, foglights and power most everything else.

>45 mgs thanks to 3 cyclinder engine, 2,000 lb curb weight and barebones special snowflake Thailand-built design.

>5 year/60k bumper to bumper warranty and 10 year/100k powertrain.
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Meh.
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>mitsushitty
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>>14922454
At least it's not purple. :3

Why are silvias and skylines the bogans car of choice?

The kind of bogan who buys silvias and skylines are usually convinced that they aren't bogans because they don't have a falcon or commodore.

What they don't realise is skylines and silvias are not fancy cars owned by Asian international students.. Asians want newer evos and stuff now.. Leaving skylines and silvias cheap enough for bogans.
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Who gives a shit
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Calling them bogans won't cover up the shame of being beaten by one at the lights

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>be last night
>pass by a cop doing speed limit and being quite with me exhaust
>get pulled over
>think it's for doing 5 over or my exhaust
>says my license plate lights are completely out
>actually shocked because I'm not trynna have anything fucked up with my car
>ask to check
>he says I can after the stop
>get written warning
>check later and the lights are working just pretty dull
Whatever
Bullshit cop story's thread I guess?
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Sovereign citizen thread? AM I BEING DETAINED?
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I've only ever been pulled over twice. First time for a broken headlight (it was), second time for speeding (I was). Britcops out here are pretty chill t.bh.
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>Germany, it's raining
>riding a 50ccm scooter
Now, here's some background. Over here, 50ccm scooters are boyracer rides because a) dirt cheap to get and own b) legally allowed to ride some from 14 years old onwards and c) stock models are stuffed to the brim with limiter devices because the Asian manufacturers sell the same rides in Asia going full speed 100mph but in Europe 50ccms are only allowed to go 35mph. If you rip out the limiters you can go crazy fast in these rust buckets. That's illegal of course. And that's what's been done to like 90% of all scooters around here because lol I'm underage, full of hormones and don't have a brain. And of course the cops know this all too well.
>my scooter is like the single one in the entire city that is still limited like it ought to be
>random police control in front of the station I pass on the way home
>a few cars backed up, so they wave me aside
>really tall stick thin elder police officer with graying hair and mustache looks over my dank 2smoke covered in WAT vinyl and with the Fujiwara Tofu Delivery moonrunes on the side
>tells me to turn it back on because I turned it off while waiting for the line to move
>I do, no complaints about the noise
>does complain about the smell though (I wrapped the exhaust in basalt tape for heat insulation and that stinks like hell when it gets wet and the exhaust gets hot)
>just flat out asks me, very neutral:
"Have you done any tuning on the machine?"
"Nosir."
A moment of silence. He looks at me. I'm riding with a full face bright yellow helmet, wearing biker gloves, a proper protection jacket and am speaking perfectly fine German with neither foreigner nor youth retard inflections or words. Then, with a little bit of doubt in his voice:
"... really?"
"Nosir."
"Well alright then, you can go, have a nice evening."
>brap off into the night

The clothes make the man, keep that in mind. I didn't even take my helmet off.

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Question that dont deserve their own thread
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I doubt anyone knows this, but:
Can i use a no-name piston thats the same diameter as the original for a cylinder?
2 Stroke minarelli engine
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>>14915434

>what is catalog

>>14915430
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When the air conditioning is on in my sisters car it smells like a god damn gym locker for some reason. What could be causing it to smell so bad?

Its Saturday.

Why aren't you at your local track?
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It snows.
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>>14907551
>implying I wasn't
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>>14907551
australian tracks are rarely open to the public

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It's Summer, why aren't you riding a motorcycle?
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I don't own one. My dad does though. It's a Harley something or other.

Maybe this summer I'll ask him to teach me when I drive up to my parent's house.
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>>14915953
>Harley

Tell your dad he's a faggot.
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>>14915953
Don't be a cruiserfag

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>Driving along rural road
>50 MPH, windows down, enjoying the Midwestern spring night's breeze
>Raccoon runs onto the road and stops right in the middle of my lane
>Cringe as I hear the loud thud of a tree rat hitting the air dam
>Pull over and see the little bastard is still alive
>FlashlightAndOrangeReflectiveVest.jpg
>Check the front end, a nice crack right in the middle of the Corolla's air dam
>Walk down the road and see a nice big wet spot in the pavement, only a little blood
>The raccoon is staring at me, trying to move
>Don't have my gun on me.
>I have a 5" fixed blade knife but I'm not going to be getting up close and personal with an injured raccoon
>This little guy is flailing in the road
>Go back to car to call the county sheriff's department and report it, hoping they'll send a deputy to dispatch the animal
>The bandito mouse claws his way to the ditch
>Deputy shows up a little later and gives little Rocco the coup de grace
>Now I have to bondo, sand, and repaint

The deputy was a really cool guy, too. I'm just glad that that the only thing that's fucked is that little lip of the air dam, but now I have to try to find the right paint.

Post your animal strike stories.
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>>14912408
I was cruising home last night with the windows down and decided to turn off my music to hear the engine while i was close to home. Rat goes running across road and hear a pop noise as I ran him over. Felt bad.

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>>14912163
Nissan makes nothing but trash.
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>>14912163
Buy the one you want more.
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>>14912163
buy a honda

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Is there a real difference?
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one contains iridium

the other contains platinum

if this difference is imaginary you are being ripped off m8
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iridium seems to have a problem with catastrophic failure

i wouldn't let them anywhere near my vehicles
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>>14906760
Copper plugs are the best for conductivity and performance but have the worst longevity

Platinum plugs are the best for longevity, but poorest in performance

Iridium is a bit of both worlds, decent performance and good longevity

Platinum and Irdium tend to overheat unlike copper plugs.

Just use OEM plugs breh

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I didn't realize these cars were so fucking slow.

I just embarassed a guy roadraging on the highway in my dad's bone stock 2.0L focus
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May be he wasn't trying to race?
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>>14916159
Yeah the 250s are pretty bad. 350s are much faster, and 300s are in between (when stock).IS-Fs are pretty quick though
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>>14916163
the IS250 is indeed slow, pigfat and underpowered

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