Quote from theirishnoob :

i persoanlly think Small displacement - Turbo it...


mid size displacement - turbo or s/c... you can go wrong either way depending on application of the car itself

Or go for them both http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tglw5Vg86kA&fmt=18

eJay?

Well no wonder I never found her that attractive.

Or at least I get very annoyed every time I hear the Pokerface song / see the music video.

The concept of "seasonal tires" must sound weird for some in different countries. But ie. in here Finland if I wouldn't change to stud tires when the winter comes I couldn't even get my bloody car to move! Lots of ice and snow means basically zero grip with summer tires.

And yes I changed to summer tires today. No more pitying those boring stud tires and so went for a drive and man it feels good to kick the back end out in dry asphalt again!
I feel like falling in love with my car again...

Old 3dr Ford Sierra, with old faded, ugly paint, maybe few bits what are fixed from rust but painted with cheap spray-bottle (no proper color match), doors having some nice rust on them, arches too. iS rubber spoiler on back. Generally a very ugly car. Stripped interior.

BUT with great handling and a something around 400+ bhp Cossie lump under the hood. Oh and a loud side exhaust.

Street legal of course.

Or a mint mk2 Escort with a nice N/A engine.

Quote from JO53PHS :

I'm not sure if you want to take this into account before buying, but I find it impossible to counter-steer to correct slides in rF, because the FFB is so bad (even with Real-Feel).

Then it's not working correctly. I had this problem with Realfeel too, but then I installed the game again with newest version and configured everything how I should it started to work.

When it works correctly it's a lot like in LFS.

Yep, looks like utter shit. GTA IV may have rised the bar for driving physics with games like this, but I think even the Mafia 1 looked better physics wise.

And all that, the city and the cars in it seemed to feel really cheap. I dunno what makes it but it didn't look anything like it should. Looked like one of those cheap ps2 games made for little children but just with some violence in it. Sounds were crap too yea.

Quote from The Very End :

Do not agree.
The old volos looked like some freakshow, like "what baby do you get if you have sex with a box?". Was semi-box-ish type of looking. I don't like their new forms, but liked the old ones even less.

Volvo's are ugly, but they are rehiable cars that takes a propper beating. Never seen a volvo that refuses to start.

In a way I agree that Volvo's are and were ugly. Tho the car in the screenshots isn't ugly in same way, it's ugly like any other modern car is too. Looks like UFO.

But I would love to own a 80's RWD 242 in matte black or similar ugly color, with some noticeable rust and ugly wheels, but with mad fast turbo engine.
I'm just afraid this game won't feature anything similar, probably only boring cars in it.

Well it's free so I might download and try it.

I tried it but didn't bother to write the song names up.

Tho judging by this my life sounds like a movie about a drug addict who likes psychedelics and usually goes overboard in parties, even in his own wedding. And oh BTW it sounds like when the child born I was having a bad hangover and smoking pot. But judging by the happy sound of final battle it seems like I got over drugs.

Quote from The Very End :

Lol fu Finnland, your the only barrier that prevents Norway from jumping over and raping Russia back to stoneage.

lol what.

I hate that I'm poor.
I hate that in next summer I need to go to the army.
I hate that I yet can't put summer tires on.
I hate that yet my car doesn't make a sound like wooooooosh chachachacahh when I accelerate. And that's because I'm poor.
I hate that I don't have LSD (no not the drug, the transmission thingy).

Quote from The Very End :

It's the fish effect, go-with-the-flow thingy. Like the avatar thingy, if 1 first do it other will follow and in the end it turns out to be a big part of the forum that does it.

I'm a proud Finn so I will never gonna go with this flow.

Quote from baSh0r :

Dat Cat, there was a collage from all the shops with the cat. Like the one was a bowling cat the other was a dancing one all with thaat hilarious cat. Anyone got it?

If I remember correctly I made the collage from the all different ones I've found and then posted it. You could search from my posts if you want to but I think I'm too lazy.

Don't try to analyze my rather pointless post too much.

I don't care about MPG or other things what are so called reasonable things to select your car. My driving style with that slightly tuned engine means very poor MPG but I don't care really. Ok well yes I care, cause I don't have loads of money, but I think it's worth the fun.

And please don't call it Merkur. It makes me sad.And it's more like ~2336 Pounds (~1060 kg). Difference between 3400 and 2336 pounds make a huge difference for performance & handling, that's what matters for me. My car doesn't have anything so called luxury, because I don't care about them. It doesn't even have a radio or electric windows. I have been thinking about stripping the interior a bit (but still keep the backseat).

I just hate modern cars, SUVs maybe a bit more than sedans etc. but I just hate them. It's matter of taste.
+ Having a 4WD doesn't really matter for me during winters, because I have proper stud tires under my car thru the whole winter.

I believe that your car servers nicely in the purpose for what you have it.

I was just joking because you contributed to Ford thread with "SUV" Mazda.

-EDIT- Huge editing n stuff.

Last edited by BigPeBe, Tue 7 Apr 2009, 19:44.

Quote from mrodgers :

?????

You know, the famous scene seen on movies etc. when in slowmotion someone shouts "nooo". Just a joke.

Quote from mrodgers :

ford thread, but maz...

[slowmo]

Noooooooooooooooooooo!

[/slowmo]

Quote from Nathan_French_14 :

Its seems Barnie has decided to lie on your dash...

No but seriously, nice car bud. I've seen it on here before and it is a nice looking car!

Thanks and lol dunno who is Barney, but I think you're probably referring to the plush interior. It was made by the ex-owner, I probably wouldn't do that, but I have to say that I still like it. In pics it looks a bit pornoish but in nature it's quite nice. Like a poor man's fuzzed dash. (Dunno if it's the right term, but you know the way of treat the dash what is very popular with rally cars).

Quote from robt :

Pictures

I've already said this before but I say it again, nice Capri you got there.

Well in a way I agree with the post your car topic being enough and I have posted my 3dr there already, but at the same time I can't stop myself feeling this urge of posting mine.

I basically love RWD euro-Fords (some FWD ones can be nice too) and I drive this 3dr Sierra. May I say unfortunately it's only a Cossie looker. It has a 2 liter Pinto with ported and lowered head, tighter cam etc. and the goddamn Ford EEC-IV, but I'm not yet satisfied with the power delivery it's giving me.

I have owned it for 5 years, I actually bought it maybe a bit too early, when I was 15, but I'm very keen on it.

Pics:

Quote from Nathan_French_14 :

Sounds very nice!

Good thing your getting decent suspension. Wanna see what a car with boat suspension drifts like?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... next_from=PL&index=23

Its actually quite surprising how well it drifts with such crappy suspension!

I want that car! And BTW I wouldn't call that a boat. It's a bit soft for track usage and I would probably prefer it more stiff, but it seems to handle quite nicely and after all way more stiffer than average family saloon.

Heh, noticeable FPS problems in a demo video.

The smoke in Prostreet is very unrealistic / preanimated / bling bling looking.

Best smoke I have yet seen in a game has to be in the World Racing 2. If I remember right it had a really realistic looking tire smoke.

You happen to have multi-personnel disorder?

My friend also owns Logitech 5.1 speaker set. When he used to live with his parents he experienced similar. At low volume he heard some foreigner classical music radio station.

Car's don't usually produce much visible smoke. The smoke in the video looks like water.

"HC" racing cars etc. with very rich air-fuel ratio can produce noticeable black smoke under acceleration, but modern or modernish GTR cars doesn't seem to do that much.

Sometimes rally cars / high performance cars etc. start producing a bit of blue smoke under motor-braking, but that's just simply because it's been revved high for few races and the piston rings are starting to wear and thus burning oil.

As a Pinto owner I could give one more example, very often a good rally prepared Pinto can be seen making blue smoke (oil again) right after startup cause of worn / hardened valve guide rubber seals (or whatever in English).

But basicly I don't think these features are important in LFS, at least not yet.

Simply making a effect of every engine producing visible smoke would be just stupid.

And oh judging by the looks of current tire smoke I'm afraid the smoke wouldn't look that good.

Last edited by BigPeBe, Fri 3 Apr 2009, 18:35.

I'm not with him.