Real world transport? [Archive]

Kansas

21st September 2005, 04:56 PM

Here's mine.

I just got in June and I love it. Just like Assegai: amazing handling, quick around corners, speeds up quick, light and tough.

2005 Infiniti G35c

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a371/DUBKansas/Jayhawk_1.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a371/DUBKansas/Jayhawk_6.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a371/DUBKansas/Jayhawk_3.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a371/DUBKansas/Jayhawk_2.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a371/DUBKansas/Jayhawk_4.jpg

lunar

21st September 2005, 05:17 PM

Here`s mine, or at least one just like it.

http://www.auto-aatamila.fi/car_images/638.jpg

You do not mess with this car. It`s the Goteki 45 of the highway - it takes real skill to pilot this through a tight space, I can tell you. :wink:

element42

21st September 2005, 05:31 PM

I've got a bicycle - nothing special, just your common-or-garden road bike :D
definitely the Feisar of vehicles :wink:

Drakkenmensch

21st September 2005, 05:44 PM

I get around by BMW.

That's Bus-Metro-Walking :lol:

wipitout

21st September 2005, 05:47 PM

eLhabib

21st September 2005, 06:40 PM

I ride around by bike also.
Quite nice bike tho...
http://www.sportwheels.tv/nirvechopperred.JPG
YES!!! got it this spring, and i LOVE it.

-who's bicycle is this?
-it's not a bicycle, it's a chopper, baby.
:D

Drakkenmensch

21st September 2005, 07:07 PM

Hell's Angel in training, baby!!! :D

Now that's one motorless bad boy with style!

Sausehuhn

21st September 2005, 07:18 PM

just btw: do you think there's anybody out there who has a WipEout vinyl on his car?

Seek100

21st September 2005, 07:32 PM

My ride is currently my feet, bipedal locomotion, maybe 0.2hp at the most, not particularly good power-to-weight ratio, I've had my license for ages but can't afford a car yet. :roll:

Kansas

21st September 2005, 08:08 PM

just btw: do you think there's anybody out there who has a WipEout vinyl on his car?

I thought about it...

:o

skipper

21st September 2005, 09:30 PM

I used to have a personalised Piranha number plate (WipEout 2097 era).
As plates only allow 6 letters / numbers it was spelt PRANHA.
I had a 12" vinyl Piranha logo sticker made up which was affixed to the rear of the vehicle.
I ran it on my wreck of a Honda CRX. I also bought the rights for but have never used WPEOUT.

eLhabib

21st September 2005, 11:08 PM

once I buy an own car, my number plate will definitely be reading wipeout. seeing as we have a letter for each individual city at the beginning of the number plate, and I live in Vienna - Wien in german - the number plate is gonna read:

W-1P30UT

I hope noone has the same idea before I get to it...

G'Kyl

22nd September 2005, 07:13 AM

My ride is the local traffic system. It's comfrtable, reliable, fast and lets you play while driving. Anyone with a bike or car who can top that? ;-)

Ben

Hellfire_WZ

22nd September 2005, 08:14 AM

I also rely on public trasport, but it's quite different here. It makes me WISH I could drive...

element42

22nd September 2005, 09:48 AM

Being able to drive is nice; owning a car is not so good:
1) Constant increase in traffic but not enough investment in infrastructure, especially parking space - seriously, a huge percentage of traffic in cities is due to people driving round looking for somewhere to park. (well, this is true in the UK.)
2) Price of petrol
3) Safety issues - inside the car is okay now, but hit anyone at above 30 and it ain't good news.
4) Pollution, and use of a non-renewable resource that is a cause of war
5) It's really f*cking annoying when the bastard thing breaks down.
I used to have a mini (nb: I'm 6'4"). My wheel fell off when I was going round a roundabout once. It broke down at least once a week. Once the windscreen wipers stopped in the middle of a storm eight miles from home, had to drive with my head out of the window. I hate cars :evil: . Luckily I now live in a city where I can walk or cycle everywhere I need to, and public transport is great. :mrgreen:

Sumimasen

22nd September 2005, 12:23 PM

I drive a lovely MY2000 Honda S2000.

"I've made a lot of special modifications myself..." :D (JDM black chrome badges, Apex'i RSM D1 edition, ITG filter, Spoon Kevlar snorkel, Alpine head unit with iPod adaptor, etc...)

Silverstone colour, 240bhp, RWD, 2 litre natually aspirated block, red leather interior...

... I LOVE my car!

Could post piccies up later, if anyone's interested.

Previously, I owned a Mitsubishi FTO (when they were cool and uncommon!) :P

Oh, and Kansas - NICE RIDE!!! 8)

Seek100

22nd September 2005, 02:00 PM

Please do Sumimasen, I always like to see modded jap cars, the S2000 is a favourite design of mine, it's just a shame so many of the modded cars on the net look like the car equivalent of the Whore of Babylon. When I eventually get together the money I'm gonna get an S15 Nissan Silvia Spec-R Aero (I think that's the full title) imported from Japan, they're getting quite old though, think they went out of production 6 years ago now. :cry:

element, most of those problems can be easily solved:
1. is the fault of the government for wasting our copious taxes on the NHS and income support, not to mention the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that should be spent on something important like transport infrastructure.
2. is again fairly obviously the fault of the government, tax on the 98ron 'super' unleaded fuel is about 80%, tax on normal unleaded - 95ron is about 85% of the actual cost, the petrol station only actually take between 15-20% of the money they charge you for petrol, the rest goes straight to all the government's worthless spending.
3. pay attention to the road, my brother has had a license for about 12 years now and has never even caused an accident with another car let alone run anyone over, the most he's done that was his own fault was scrape his alloys on a kerb by accident. This is simply a case of drive carefully and you wont cause accidents. If everyone drove that attentively there would be almost no crashes ever.
4. pollution, er, by a hybrid if you're really that bothered about it. I hear Honda are replacing the NSX supercar with a hybrid engined supercar, imagine that a hybrid with 300hp! 8O
5. Don't buy an old Mini, or indeed any old car, most of them will break down, modern car reliability is very good, even the Italians (Fiat, Alfa-Romeo, etc.) and Lotus have sorted themselves out in that regard and they're famous for having horrific reliability.

element42

22nd September 2005, 02:36 PM

'easily solved'? I'll let you persuade the government to implement your reforms, then :wink:. but...
3) I would argue that it is actually impossible to pay attention for every moment that you are driving. Furthermore, while there are undeniably some excellent drivers on the road, and the majority drive perfectly safely, a significant proportion are more unpredictable...
4) See below. But yes, the pollution problem is solvable.
5) Not all of us can afford a nice new car. And even new ones can break down.

Furthermore, consider the words of the late, great Douglas Adams:
"Bypasses are devices which allow some people to drive from point A to point B very fast whilst other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people of point B are so keen to get there, and what's so great about point B that so many people of point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be." :)

Seek100

22nd September 2005, 02:47 PM

They could be easily solved but for the idiocy of socialism, you'd need a very Liberal government to get rid of things like high petrol tax or the NHS (I mean Liberal in the proper sense of the word not like it's used in the UK at current by the Liberal-Democrat's who're worse than Labour).

As for the price, a nice new car can be gotten more cheaply than you think, if you want a big luxury saloon or an off-roader then obviously you need a lot of money but no one really needs those kind of cars, they're a luxury for when you have the money. As for reliability even ten year old cars now (1995) are highly reliable compared to cars from previous decades, given proper care a breakdown should be rare.

Finally I know where the hell I want to be, and it's not A, B, or C. It is D, unfortunately no one's built a bypass going there yet so I'm stuck going from A to B for the moment.

Kansas

22nd September 2005, 04:28 PM

Having a 10 month old Daughter, we own a Renault Scenic. Probably pretty small in comparision to some of the peoples cars from USA, its all big overthere apparently. Just looking at the road in that pic Kansa, makes me wanna live there. :( :D

that's just a residential street. our city streets are huge.

by the way, as much as I love my car, I've always wanted a '92 Nissan Skyline R34

Mobius

22nd September 2005, 05:10 PM

If you violently Elk the car (as in turn the wheel Left-Right-Left) and you manage to flip the car over onto it's wheels, do you get a turbo from it? :P

Drakkenmensch

22nd September 2005, 05:24 PM

I do believe that SUVs have the barrel roll function hotkeyed to the steering wheel - all you need to activate it is to take a gentle curve :twisted:

Kansas

22nd September 2005, 08:16 PM

If you violently Elk the car (as in turn the wheel Left-Right-Left) and you manage to flip the car over onto it's wheels, do you get a turbo from it? :P

Only when I fly off the freeway overpasses in congested Downtown L.A. trafic. :D

Thanassos

22nd September 2005, 11:56 PM

Lame Euro/Jap cars this IS what you should all be driving !!! good old Aussie Ford falcons ><

http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/lockwood68/BlownBAMKii.jpg
http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/lockwood68/BlownBAMKii2.jpg

Heavily Done up Ford Falcon BA MKii Xr6 Turbo, for you rev heads it pushing out 510 KW (684 HP) at the wheels and boasts 960 nM's or torque :) closest thing to AG racing ill get into to.

PS any other aussies out there Ford > Holden

Seek100

23rd September 2005, 12:07 AM

Dude, Ford are American, and they're all without exception lame. I simply don't get the obsession with massive gas-guzzlers with humungous power - which they need to shift their fat bodies around. True performance comes from a small low-output engine and a lightwieight chasis/shell combination, you get the same relative power (bhp/tonne) with far superior handling and you have a much wider wallet at the end of the week from all the petrol you didn't have to buy.

684bhp is impressive I must say, may I ask - what's the kerb-weight? I wanna figure out the bhp/tonne figure. And how fast does 0-100kmh (62.5mph) come up?

Thanassos

23rd September 2005, 02:57 AM

0-100 in under 5 secs (dont have exact but 4.7ish)
0-180 in around 11

283/4 KW per tonne (381 HP) At the rear wheels.

Ive herd all these arguements about less fuel, better handleing, easier to park, meh

Ive driven a holden astra before but i like this cars handling much better, its accelration aint to flash hot but top speed and the feeling you get when the turbo kicks in is the best thing ever, although fastest ive been in it is only around the 260ish KPH mark im sure it go much faster :)

Needs new brakes (Still using stock brakes built for 270 KW at flywheel) new shocks would be good too :)

Kansas

23rd September 2005, 06:42 PM

Thanassos

24th September 2005, 12:01 PM

Been with Piranha ever since that delightful surprise in 2097 :) Even though they lost a bit of their graceful agility in Pure I still love them

Rapier Racer

24th September 2005, 09:05 PM

Heres what I get around in :D

http://photobucket.com/albums/b114/Assegai/?action=view&current=Lothian.jpg

and also I love my road bike

http://photobucket.com/albums/b114/Assegai/?action=view&current=milano.jpg

stin

24th September 2005, 09:55 PM

I will take my pics very soon ;)

stevie :twisted:

EDIT try not to drool ok!

Thanassos

25th September 2005, 09:00 AM

Man id LOVE to drive a bus around ><

and stin nothing born of Euro or Jap will make me drool :)

Roger

25th September 2005, 08:12 PM

I've always enjoyed a smooth ride, hence I drive a Citroën Xantia (http://www.kallman.net/filer/xantia_and_xantia.jpg) (mine's the red one, the green one belongs to my father).

My previous car was a Citroën, too. Emphasis on was - the poor thing met with an untimely end two years ago. Have a look (http://www.kallman.net/filer/busted_bx.jpg) :cry:

Kansas

26th September 2005, 06:01 PM

ouch.

Tomahawk

28th September 2005, 01:30 PM

I too drive a Citroen Xanthia 1.8. Mine has a dark blue color.

Before that I owned a Volvo 340. This car was a tank! I had about 5 or 6 people crashing into it over all the years but the car was never damaged seriously while the others had to buy new ones. :lol:
But the coolest thing about my Volvo was the "variomatic". I could (theoretically) drive backwards at the same speed as forward. I once tried it out on an old airfield, but as the speed'o'meter got up to 70 km/h I decided to stop because I nearly turned the car over!

Thruster2097

28th September 2005, 06:28 PM

This thread is oogle-worthy. Damn you people with money!!!!

My ride is an '03 vauxhall corsa 1.0 with a sequential gearbox.
Pick up a copy of GT4 and select the "aruba blue" or "arubablau" colour to drive it for yourself.
Even though the one in the game is a 1.4 engine, I have uprated stuff in the engine. The end result is about the same as the game car.

Thought about a feisar vinyl, wipeout vinyl, VXR vinyl, a sonic the hedgehog vinyl, a tribal vinyl..... and then I just thought about the fact that it is still a corsa, no matter how much dressing up it gets.

eLhabib

28th September 2005, 06:37 PM

word!
I wish more people - especially in Germany and Austria - would realize this! Tuning (if only visually) their Opels (Vauxhalls) is like a national sport here! And they ALL look like utter crap...

element42

28th September 2005, 06:37 PM

what's a vinyl?

eLhabib

28th September 2005, 06:39 PM

it's like a HUGE sticker that you stick on your car to add some graphics.

element42

28th September 2005, 06:53 PM

:blarg interesting...

Shem

28th September 2005, 09:01 PM

This is the thing i rely on the most if it comes to moving from one place to another :

click me! (http://www.miketodd.ca/web/archives/feet.jpg)

Oh, and about the so called 'car tuning'....yeah, i think that not only Germany and Austria are treating it as a 'sport'. There thousands of amateurs in Poland who think that sticking a few vinyls on the hood, and attatching ridiculously huge spoilers to their cars makes their cars look so cool that you piss your ankles of envy just by looking at them. Wanna see for yourself ? :

Fiat 126P Ultra Off-Road Madness Edition (http://www.tuninguj.com.pl/img/wiejski_tuning/wiejski_tuning_001.jpg)
Fiat 125P 'Wooden Masterpiece of Areodynamix' (http://www.tuninguj.com.pl/img/wiejski_tuning/wiejski_tuning_054.jpg)
'Intercooling in Winter' (http://www.tuninguj.com.pl/img/wiejski_tuning/wiejski_tuning_097.jpg)
Opel Kadet (probably) AKA. 'The Yello MOFO' (http://www.tuninguj.com.pl/img/wiejski_tuning/wiejski_tuning_073.jpg)
Ford Scorpio AKA ' I wish I was somebody else....' (http://www.tuninguj.com.pl/img/wiejski_tuning/wiejski_tuning_052.jpg)

lunar

28th September 2005, 10:00 PM

those things you use are great for off-roading, Shem, but not so good for cruising the city streets looking cool (unless you live in certain parts of Gloucestershire, England). What you really need are a nice pair of Pumas.

love the car photos :lol: and to think that someone, somewhere is proud of each one of these creations 8O

eLhabib

28th September 2005, 10:25 PM

those pics have to be the most hilarious documents of so called 'tuning' I have ever seen!
G-R-E-A-T stuff! :D

Drakkenmensch

29th September 2005, 12:08 AM

Those first two pics look like they might have been projects on the "Red Green Show." If you've ever seen that canadian comedy, you know exactly what I mean ;)

Shem

29th September 2005, 06:29 AM

uhhmm, I haven't seen this show, but i think I get the picture. I think that this calls for a separate topic, because :
1) I don't want to hijack this one
2) I don't want to Edit my posts on and on, adding new pics
3) I know about tons of that kind of 'bad tuning' images, and since you like them, they must be shown to you.

Ok, move on with the original topic everyone :D

ace-of-spades

22nd February 2007, 09:55 PM

So what do you all use as transport from A to B when not playing Wipeout?

I ride a Yamaha YBR125.

q_dmc12

23rd February 2007, 02:13 AM

My everyday car: 1996 Oldsmobile LSS

My summer vehicle (my baby:D): 1981 DeLorean DMC12 :rock

Lance

23rd February 2007, 04:25 AM

shoes

Mad-Ice

23rd February 2007, 05:14 AM

LOL nice one Lance!

About transport huh! Normally I take the bike everyday half a hour to work. But yesterday I got my driving license in one time jihaa!!! My girl and me already had a car together and she drove me to where ever I wanted to go. Now I can drive in our 1964 Volvo Amazon.

infoxicated

23rd February 2007, 08:29 AM

My summer vehicle (my baby:D): 1981 DeLorean DMC12 :rock
Sweet!

My drive is a Honda Jazz (or Honda Fit if you're in Japan or the 'States). It's not exactly my ideal car, but it is great for fuel economy and practicality. :)

alterego

23rd February 2007, 09:21 AM

Hi All.

Quote Lance at 100% ;)

everyday i go to work on feet.

but my car is a Smart Cabrio.....i named it 'Medievil'...... :D

Read you soon
CdRom

Tomahawk

23rd February 2007, 09:38 AM

I knew we already had a thread for this somewhere. Searching...:sonar

click me! (http://www.wipeoutzone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2604)

It's been quite some time since that issue was last discussed, huh?;)

infoxicated

23rd February 2007, 10:08 AM

I thought it seemed familiar :)

Well found, though, Tom - I merged them.

ace-of-spades

23rd February 2007, 10:14 AM

I thought it seemed familiar :)

Well found, though, Tom - I merged them.

I was really, really confused for a while, haha!

q_dmc12

23rd February 2007, 01:16 PM

yeah, I could have sworn I was only the second poster in this thread last night and to see 6 pages this morning - thought to myself, "damn, you guys must have been busy!"

Sweet!

My drive is a Honda Jazz (or Honda Fit if you're in Japan or the 'States). It's not exactly my ideal car, but it is great for fuel economy and practicality. :)

I miss my Honda :frown:

Zerow

23rd February 2007, 06:29 PM

Either public transport or my trainers normally, and also a mixture of coaches, ferries and airplanes whenever I go on holiday.

I have no real interest in learning how to drive at the moment.

rdmx

24th February 2007, 01:47 AM

I wish I was old enough to drive in the first place.:frown:

But my parents own

2001? BMW X5 4.4i with Remus exhaust (sounds great :))
2007 Volkswagen Golf R32 (sounds great too)

Can't wait to drive the r32 when im older (the p/w ratio is under legal p-plater limit xD)

Medusa

24th February 2007, 06:38 PM

My everyday car: 1996 Oldsmobile LSS

Whooaa, kind of scary, as that is exactly what I drive...

I really envy those of you in places with efficient public transport (Europe specifically-the Metro is the best place I've ever been in the world!). Unfortunately I either own a car here in Manitoba or freeze to death in winter...

On the bright side, when the roads are covered in snow, my Olds boat drives oh-so-floaty, occasionally reminding me of Wipeout vehicles:D :D