Post a picture of your car here Part 4 (quote a picture, get a 24h ban!!)

OldMrBrennan83

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OldMrBrennan83

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dodderangler

Patww79 wrote: »

Still love the look of those. I had a 2.5TDI one, but always wanted that engine. Love the colour.

They're a big old bus alri. Don't like the wheels on it though. Too big.
Gonna see if I can find an original set somewhere.

CianRyan

Dodder, the car looks great but you need to ditch those wheels and find some nice standard ones.

What do you do in there? I must see if you're still around when I'm up there for training. I'm in the wrestling club at the gate.

OldMrBrennan83

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power pants

nice standard smaller wheels will really transform that a6 even more.nice car

OldMrBrennan83

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5ub

New yoke.

(The white one)

vectra

Technically not mine anymore
But here she is in her new home.
She served me well

tonytoc11

hi_im_fil

GvidoR

It looks best with the roof down.

26000 Elephants

GvidoR wrote: »

It looks best with the roof down.

But that is a great looking hard top, to be fair.

EazyD

[IMG][/img]IMG_0008 by D O'B, on Flickr

hi_im_fil

Took the camera out for the first time in months earlier. Took a few photos of the s2000 while it was clean


S2000 AP1 by Philip McHugh, on Flickr


S2000 AP1 by Philip McHugh, on Flickr


S2000 AP1 by Philip McHugh, on Flickr


S2000 AP1 by Philip McHugh, on Flickr

Toyotafanboi

Driving this the last week, Dodge Grand Caravan, 3.6 V6 Auto... makes around the same power as my Celica with half the displacement, still fairly able to shift none the less but it appears to be an alcaholic, chomped through just shy of 80 liters over around 400 miles, but no big deal at $2.50 a gallon.

GvidoR

Nice. What are you doing in Texas? :P

Toyotafanboi

Well spotted :P i'm actually in New York but the rental has a Texas reg. Just a few of us are over on a couple of weeks holidays but i'm doing the driving, not that i mind.

It's easy to see why tourists cause so many accidents. All i needed was €15 for an international license and i was off driving a LHD car on the right side of the road. Lets just say it's very easy to forget where you are at times.

Mister Jingles

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Driving this the last week, Dodge Grand Caravan, 3.6 V6 Auto... makes around the same power as my Celica with half the displacement, still fairly able to shift none the less but it appears to be an alcaholic, chomped through just shy of 80 liters over around 400 miles, but no big deal at $2.50 a gallon.

If I've worked that out right that's only $52/€47 to fill it up your mini van ? God if that's true it would only cost €35 to brim the Mondeo

Toyotafanboi

It's around $2.50 a gallon for 87 octane and an American gallon is only 3.6 liters, not 4.5, so it works out around €0.63 per liter for low-ish quality fuel.

Sobanek

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

It's around $2.50 a gallon for 87 octane and an American gallon is only 3.6 liters, not 4.5, so it works out around €0.63 per liter for low-ish quality fuel.

$2.95 a gallon for premium unleaded - that works out at €0.71 a litre...

26000 Elephants

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

It's around $2.50 a gallon for 87 octane and an American gallon is only 3.6 liters, not 4.5, so it works out around €0.63 per liter for low-ish quality fuel.

Its got cheaper - in 2008 it was touching 4 bucks a gallon in places. You can get a feel for what kind of a culture shock that was for Americans when you consider that during the 90's it bumbled along at about 1.10 a gallon.

OldMrBrennan83

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colm_mcm

It's all relative though.

Big Nasty

Car and engine size were always huge in the US in comparison to Europe. It's relatively recent that US manufacturers have started making global models.

colm_mcm

Ford have been at it for a while

notGill

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Driving this the last week, Dodge Grand Caravan, 3.6 V6 Auto... makes around the same power as my Celica with half the displacement, still fairly able to shift none the less but it appears to be an alcaholic, chomped through just shy of 80 liters over around 400 miles, but no big deal at $2.50 a gallon.

Is that the 7 seater model?

Going over in a few weeks time for a roadtrip, 6 lads and all the bells and whistles (carry on and checked bags). Any foreseeable issues with us squeezing into it....?

We've the same one booked!

toastedpickles

May have gone a bit mad with the plastidip





I like it! So that's all that matters really

Big Nasty

colm_mcm wrote: »

Ford have been at it for a while

Not much more than 10 years or so?

Even at that it's way more recent that engine size offerings are global.

Toyotafanboi

notGill wrote: »

Is that the 7 seater model?

Going over in a few weeks time for a roadtrip, 6 lads and all the bells and whistles (carry on and checked bags). Any foreseeable issues with us squeezing into it....?

We've the same one booked!

Yeah, it's the 7 seat model. 4 of us took it from the airport with checked and carry on luggage and it was fine, could definitely have taken more if you packed it any way carefully.

It's a great car spec wise. 4 zone climate control, sat nav, dual dvd screens, reversing camera, automatic doors, full leather electric seats. Sturdy bus, very solid and quiet. Lacking in some areas but better than i was expecting.

$70 a day it's costing us i think. What are you paying?