General Car Conversation 2024 - part 2
#961
Lexus Champion
#962
Lexus Fanatic
Drive a 1980 Toyota Hilux diesel it can run without any electricity at all.
#963
Lexus Champion
Price price price, why buy the civic when you can have a 5.0 instead? Why buy a civic when you can have an S4/S3 or a far nicer A8 with a warranty term match APR tune that brings your performance past the civic with a full warranty?
#964
Lexus Champion
No I'm just watching what is happening more and more often, terms of sale being changing after the fact is so common in the tech world that people somehow became okay with it. I'm not
#965
Lexus Champion
Some people want something cheaper that's not a fuel hog, but tracks good. I get it not for you, it not for me, but that doesn't make it a bad car. TBH if I ever tracked, it would be something like a Toyota 86 where I could take it to it's limits without killing myself. Straight line would be the 5.0
#966
Lexus Test Driver
I don't want my car hard wired to the internet.
I may wear a tin foil hat sometimes and that's ok.
And, I see thru the matrix... Lol
Last edited by Margate330; 09-06-24 at 11:36 PM.
#967
Some people want something cheaper that's not a fuel hog, but tracks good. I get it not for you, it not for me, but that doesn't make it a bad car. TBH if I ever tracked, it would be something like a Toyota 86 where I could take it to it's limits without killing myself. Straight line would be the 5.0
#968
Lexus Fanatic
To have a backseat where people with legs can sit. Car is track ready out the box. S3 is more expensive. S4 is almost $20k more expensive. Again I haven’t seen an A4, S3 or S4 on the tracks I’ve been to. Honestly don’t see too many 5.0 GTs. From Ford I see GT350s. Couple times GT500. A8 is more than the cost of the type R and the 1794 Tundra tow vehicle that hauls the R to the track. A8 = straight line luxury car. Two totally different cars. Again the Audi doesn’t have a reliable track record. I have a track day coming up. I’ll take a pic of how many Audis I see.
Buy a GR86, GR Corolla or GR Supra and Toyota gives you a free track day with in car instructor. See them all the time. Friends I track with are instructors. The GR86 is a good track car.
Buy a GR86, GR Corolla or GR Supra and Toyota gives you a free track day with in car instructor. See them all the time. Friends I track with are instructors. The GR86 is a good track car.
#969
Lexus Champion
Some people want something cheaper that's not a fuel hog, but tracks good. I get it not for you, it not for me, but that doesn't make it a bad car. TBH if I ever tracked, it would be something like a Toyota 86 where I could take it to it's limits without killing myself. Straight line would be the 5.0
#970
Lexus Champion
To have a backseat where people with legs can sit. Car is track ready out the box. S3 is more expensive. S4 is almost $20k more expensive. Again I haven’t seen an A4, S3 or S4 on the tracks I’ve been to. Honestly don’t see too many 5.0 GTs. From Ford I see GT350s. Couple times GT500. A8 is more than the cost of the type R and the 1794 Tundra tow vehicle that hauls the R to the track. A8 = straight line luxury car. Two totally different cars. Again the Audi doesn’t have a reliable track record. I have a track day coming up. I’ll take a pic of how many Audis I see.
Buy a GR86, GR Corolla or GR Supra and Toyota gives you a free track day with in car instructor. See them all the time. Friends I track with are instructors. The GR86 is a good track car.
Buy a GR86, GR Corolla or GR Supra and Toyota gives you a free track day with in car instructor. See them all the time. Friends I track with are instructors. The GR86 is a good track car.
#971
Maybe I need to brush up on the A4 on what makes it better other than its luxury interior. For $8k - $17k premium I would expect more than I have. I will keep an eye 👀out for them on track.
#973
Lexus Champion
Are you talking about the 5.0? I've rented the GT several times, and I've never once gotten anywhere near 30, the best I've gotten was 23 taking it easy on the highway. In 4 days driving in San Antonio I filled up the tank twice. Ecoboost version I got near 30. My friends M4 Comp averages around 22.
At the end of the day, the Type R is a Civic, normal driving mpg is way more efficient than a 5.0, and it's way more practical... once you get past the styling
At the end of the day, the Type R is a Civic, normal driving mpg is way more efficient than a 5.0, and it's way more practical... once you get past the styling
#974
Lexus Champion
WHEW….gold is out, and was out in 2017 too. Looks awful on an otherwise nice 460.
Took this picture downtown last night:
This popped up on my FB:
Hope everyone is having a nice weekend!
Took this picture downtown last night:
This popped up on my FB:
Hope everyone is having a nice weekend!
#975
Lexus Fanatic
142mph before braking down to 55mph corkscrew turn. I used to run Falken 660s and I would get 5 weekends out of them. I tried to squeeze 6 weekends out of them but the grip wasn’t there and it was taking me 3-4 laps to find heat/whatever grip left in them. Now I’m running Kumho V730s and I have 4 weekends on them so far. So far they are holding up a little better.
I will be honest. Never really knew much about the Type R until you have been writing about it. It was the official pace car of the Indy in Toronto
@BayeauxLex
Last edited by Toys4RJill; 09-07-24 at 11:18 AM.