"DasWauto" (DasWauto)
12/13/2013 at 18:00 • Filed to: Best of Oppositelock
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"DasWauto" (DasWauto)
12/13/2013 at 18:00 • Filed to: Best of Oppositelock | 7
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Gathered here are the Oppositelock posts that people put a good deal of effort into writing on Wednesday and Thursday. It includes the car every teenager in America should have as their first, Formula 1's elaborate demise, 2 years with a Mustang GT and more.
!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! - BrownDogWelding
An old car. Or an old truck. Like this 1954 F100. No power steering. 3 speed manual transmission. Straight 6, maybe 115 hp. 4.27 gears, you won't go much more than 55. Nor would you want to with the king pin front suspension. Drum brakes with no "power." No radio. No lighter. No back seat.
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- Jay Lauer
It's great. I should give an introduction, I suppose. This is a 1965 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350-R. Roughly 35-36 of these were made and we're design as purpose-built race cars. What makes this particular Shelby so special and valuable is that it's Gt350 #3, the first one sold to the public.
...Now here's where the story gets interesting. One of the pictures is labeled 1984 Texas Challenge Vintage Race. Behind is the owner is his GT350R and up front is Carroll Shelby himself in an AC Cobra. At Hallett Motor Speedway, the two were racing, ball-to-the-wall of course...
!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! - Fractal Footwork
Many automotive sponsors have clamored for a reintroduction of Road Relevance in Formula 1 since leaving the sport, but now that the FIA have mandated new rules to bridge the gap between science fiction and the Toyota line-up, the sport is about to lose a substantial following. Road Relevance isn't a necessary evil, in fact it isn't even what's killing Formula 1; misinterpretation is.
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In 2004 Ford introduced the S197 platform Mustangs. Its retro styling set the stage for a renaissance of horsepower, cool cars and affordable fun. Ford updated the platform in 2010, resulting in a much more sculpted and muscular look. With competition from the newly introduced Chevrolet Camaro, the 5.0L Coyote V8 was added in 2011 transforming the car into a true performance bargain. I purchased my 2012 Lava Red Mustang GT in June of 2011. Now the question remains: After two and a half years and 42,000 miles later, has the novelty of this performance bargain worn off?
!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! Audi For Life
On Monday, I brought my 2011 Audi S5 down to Audi Wilsonville for its 3 year/35,000 mile scheduled maintenance that would normally take a couple of hours to complete and I would be on my way. So, I brought my laptop and camera with me to take some photos. About an hour or so, the service technicians noticed a bit of a leak from the rear differential. So, parts had to be ordered and I had the option of leaving the car there and get a loaner, or bring it back. I opted for the former and that gave me a chance to get a 2014 Audi A6 3.0 TDI as a loaner vehicle (how could I pass that up?).
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I've always loved Volkswagens. My parents owned an MKIV diesel Jetta, a B5,5 Passat Wagon and other German cars. Back in January of this year I bought a nice 5-speed MKV Rabbit. It had a lowered suspension, xenons, Detroit wheels, tinted windows and all that good stuff. It also had 135 000 kms (84 000 miles American friends). So I used it for 6000 miles and listed it at a way higher price than what I had paid for. What I had in mind was to buy a Fahrenheit GTI, a car I always dreamed of. But I had to sell it at the price it was listed or I'd keep it.
!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! - Automatch
I've been wanting to get a remote starter on my car for some time. I thought about getting one when I first got the Mazda but at the time it was a lease, and I didn't want to make that investment on a car that I wasn't going to keep. Well, I bought the lease out a year ago and it was time. Because the car has a manual transmission that makes putting a remote starter in a little more complicated.
!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! - Raymond Stantz
Far before the creation of Austin Rover, years prior to the disaster that was British Leyland, Rover was putting along building cars like the P5 and P6. Growing up, kids my age frothed at the mouth over Nissan Skylines and Toyota Supras. Of course, I was the weird one that popped open his Big Book of Cars and saw the P6 and thought "Hm, that actually looks pretty awesome". This was all very fascinating to a ten year old me. Ogling this foreign exotica like my fellow 13 year old friends ogled the porn mags they found under their father's beds. It actually wasn't until much later that I learned that Rover got quite bored and decided to build some turbine cars.
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Back in 1999, Volkswagen just bought the Bugatti and they had no idea what the hell they were going to do with the brand. So they gave Giorgetto Guigaro and his ItalDesign team 2 W18 engines and told him to build a coupe and a 4-door saloon for that engine. The EB218 was born.
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Swan Song cars, the final breath of an era. The Pagani Zonda Revolucion (supposedly) marks the end of the naturally aspirated 7.3 V12 hyper car that is the Zonda. It's a mix between the road going Zonda and the Zonda R. The cost you ask? Chump change, it's only 2.8 million dollars! Only five of these puppies will be made and it comes with a hefty amount of horsepower, 800 if your were wondering. This car got me thinking what is the greatest swan song car?
!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! - wbizarre
The first "headlights" were oil-powered lamps hanging from horse-drawn carriages. On early automobiles they were nearly always round reflectors in housings standing proud of the body. Streamlining eventually melted them into the fenders, along with increasingly decorative grille covers and bumpers. Today, headlights are intricate and complex design elements. Take apart a modern headlight and you will find a myriad of lights, reflectors, jewelry-like accent pieces, and other bits and pieces. Yet another intricacy, a strange new aesthetic is developing in recent years - the split face.
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The Chevy Malibu was a forgettable midsized sedan from the 80s and not worth a second glance...unless someone has shoved a modern fuel injected V8 under the hood, painted the bumpers body colored, tinted the windows and bolted on a set of Torque Thrust style wheels.
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The image above is a screen shot from a document depicting GM's projected sales volumes by make and power train for MY 2012. These reports are submitted to NHTSA for the purposes of CAFE calculations. This is one of the only places you'll see automakers break down models by power train (read: performance trim), something not reported in monthly sales releases. Again, these are projections and not sales, but they do give you some idea of volume expectation.
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I hate to break it to you, but Doug DeMuro's new car sucks. Despite all of my extremely well thought out suggestions, Doug's new car sucks. I mean, there was a literal list of spectacular choices that I sent him, and you know what? He ignored all of them. I swear he just looked at every good car out there and said, "You know what? I'm going to choose a stupid one instead. I love driving stupid cars that are all wrong in every way."
The Best of the Rest
Alex Nunez !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . _Mécanicien !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . T_s !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Total_Spax !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Arch Duke Maxyenko !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . ZachR !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Oldirtybootz1.4T !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Driving Sports TV !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . JayhawkJake !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Warshrike !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . It's a "Porch-uh" !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Mathias Rios !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Lumpy44 !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
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As always, If I've missed something and you would like me to include it, let me know.
Fun Discussions
There were several posts that asked questions and sparked some good discussion on Wednesday and Thursday. Take a peek and chime in on some of them listed below:
Do you have car models that you consider bad luck?
Ever Been Somewhere When You Really Didn't Want to be There?
This XJ Driver Approves of the New Cherokee
OPPO F1 rule book amendments :]
What's the worst Nameplate embarrassment?
Would you, could you, for an E9?
Cars that should have been built for $100, Alex
What Color Would You Get it In: BMW M5
Best product to take off car logos / Vynil stripes adhesive?
Which Would You Rather? T-top Edition
$10,000, 4 Seats, Automatic, 08+ - go!
What car would you give race mods?
What's your default in game car?
How many of you smoke in your whip?
What Color Would You Get it In: Jeep Grand Cherokee
Just the #tips
Jay Leno and Gran Turismo (Toronado and GT6 Mercedes concept)
Mclaren F1 GTR around Spa (onboard)
Audi R8 To Receive Facelift For 2015
Autosolo - The British Autocross
Volvo Is Previewing The Next XC90 With A Shooting Brake Crossover
Lotus' awesome 2014 rules proposal. Prepare to laugh
Coast to coast in 50 hours 20 minutes and 6 seconds with a Ford Model A
Taliban Magazine 'Azan', condemns Amreeka but praises Honda!
Robby Gordon's SST Trucks at a Drag Strip
Game developer seeks certified Jalop to test virtual vehicles
Not New But Funny. Don't Mess With Another Mans Tires
Rumor: Is Justin Bieber Going To Star In Fast & Furious 7?
Rush nominated for Best Picture at Golden Globes
Is Ford Going To Drop The Mondeo Name?
Watch this short film "Racers"
Dealer Preview Guide for the '15 Stang
Honourable Mentions
These posts have already been shared with Jalopnik directly but deserve to be mentioned again because they were first posted in Oppositelock:
These F1 Transformations Are Absolutely Brilliant
How To Allegedly Get Practically Infinite Money In Gran Turismo 6
This Is The ///M Compact BMW Should Have Built
How American Driver's Ed Has Failed: Instead of Reporting It, Let's Prevent It
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Jay Lauer
> DasWauto
12/13/2013 at 18:05 |
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Ah, nothing for my Shelby article?
http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/what-its-like-…
Bummer.
Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
> DasWauto
12/13/2013 at 18:06 |
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I took the best picture that I've ever taken yesterday, when I spotted a 77 Pinto wagon. Would this be considered good?
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DasWauto
> Jay Lauer
12/13/2013 at 18:09 |
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Missed that.
Pro-tip: the text that shows up on the Oppo main page is up to the first line break. In this case, all I would have seen was the a tiny picture (damn Kinja) and "It's great", which doesn't work brilliantly for catching my attention (there's no way in hell I'm opening and looking at every post).
Give me a few minutes. Gotta do some editing now.
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DasWauto
> Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
12/13/2013 at 18:10 |
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I'll add it to the best of the rest section.
(done)
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Jay Lauer
> DasWauto
12/13/2013 at 18:14 |
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I actually intentionally did that, but I can see now how one could easily be fooled into thinking there isn't anything else written under it. Thanks for the tip man.
I'll work on my catchy ledes next time.
RaymondStantz
> DasWauto
12/13/2013 at 18:16 |
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Thanks fellas! Felt the article was kinda meh due to the lack of response to it though :/
ddavidn
> Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
12/13/2013 at 18:20 |
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Hey how the blazes did I miss this! Great shot! Stunning landscape and well-lit subject. Very Pinto. Much wagon. Wow. Dreamy.
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DasWauto
> Jay Lauer
12/13/2013 at 18:22 |
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Just finished reading it. Wicked story.
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Jay Lauer
> DasWauto
12/13/2013 at 18:26 |
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Well thank you sir.
And that's for the publicity bump. I appreciate it.
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Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
> ddavidn
12/13/2013 at 18:32 |
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Thanks, my phone did well on that one.
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Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
> DasWauto
12/13/2013 at 18:34 |
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Thanks!
zk7841
> DasWauto
12/13/2013 at 18:48 |
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Hey DasWauto, I have a Society6 question. Can you contact me at my username @ gmail.com
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DasWauto
> zk7841
12/13/2013 at 18:52 |
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Do you have Twitter? If so follow me there and we can talk through direct messaging. I'd prefer not to get into giving out my email address.
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zk7841
> DasWauto
12/13/2013 at 19:02 |
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Haha I tried that yesterday but I've been pending ever since.
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DasWauto
> zk7841
12/13/2013 at 19:04 |
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Huh, I thought I got notifications for that. Gotta check my settings. Anyway, I followed you back so you should be able to hit me up.
Audi For Life
> DasWauto
12/13/2013 at 19:05 |
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Thanks! :)
Tim (Fractal Footwork)
> DasWauto
12/13/2013 at 19:39 |
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You can make the titles or section titles bigger by replacing the surrounding
and
tags withIf you're interested...
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Tim (Fractal Footwork)
> DasWauto
12/13/2013 at 19:40 |
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How do you decide who's picture gets posted? I know you alternate for looks, but I think that some post lose views compared to those with pictures.
_Mécanicien
> DasWauto
12/13/2013 at 20:38 |
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_Mé
cani
cien
means
mechanic
or
engineer
in French.
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DasWauto
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
12/13/2013 at 20:41 |
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That effect in some way on purpose. I put pictures with the posts I do want to perhaps draw a bit more attention to, based on how good I thought each post is. I do want to mention that vertical location is equally weighed with that (I feel that posts further down also lose views).
That said, I don't want this to be a popularity contest of sorts. I don't want anyone to be offended by their position in the list or a lack of accompanying image.
Within that there are a couple of things I try to do. I group similarly themed posts (you'll notice in this one that the reviews and/or stories of [personal] cars are together, as are the 'cars that time forgot' posts). If someone has added their own pictures I usually try to use them. I'm probably forgetting other rules that I use but those are the main ones.
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In this case your post actually got slightly screwed. I had it in the second slot initially (resulting in a link on Jalopnik) but Jay pointed me to his post, which I'd missed and I decided to put there instead. I decided to leave your post referenced in the intro paragraph in the hopes of getting it some deserved attention.
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I have been trying to think of ways to improve that.
One thing that I think will help is a hyperlinked Read more... at the end of each text exerpt for a post (to fall more in line with the Jalopnik front page format). The only annoying bit of that is that I'll have to use an external link to keep kinja from inserting the 'related story' blurbs all over the place and fucking with my formatting.
Another is that I could see about using smaller images for each post, similar to the Jalopnik and Oppo main pages. Unfortunately I don't think Kinja allows for that right now (it will scale images smaller than 300px wide up to that number).
I hope that gives a little bit of insight. Suggestions are also welcome here.
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DasWauto
> _Mécanicien
12/13/2013 at 20:46 |
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I did know that actually though I'm not sure if my computer auto corrected me there (a feature that I love sometimes, hate other times) or if I went a little dyslexic (probably this). Either way, I'll fix it. Thanks for pointing it out.
Mathias Rios
> DasWauto
12/13/2013 at 20:46 |
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Thanks for including my XL1 article!
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Tim (Fractal Footwork)
> DasWauto
12/13/2013 at 21:17 |
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I guess thats fair.
If I were doing it, I would probably put a picture with each main post to keep things fair, and perhaps a bigger picture with more impressive post(s).
Also, nice breaks on that reply...
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DasWauto
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
12/13/2013 at 21:25 |
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I see where you're coming from but sadly I can only do half size images and full size. Putting 300px images with each post gets too heavy on the picture side, I'd have to start using more text. If I were able to use smaller images, I definitely would.
Heh, thanks. I recently discovered the
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Tim (Fractal Footwork)
> DasWauto
12/13/2013 at 21:27 |
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That would look great for separation.
Is it
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DasWauto
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
12/13/2013 at 21:28 |
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Just one
The same goes for
if you are trying to create space around images (I uses this to keep Kinja from trying to wrap the following text around an image if the text I want isn't long enough to fully surround the image.
Josh Welton
> DasWauto
12/13/2013 at 23:06 |
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Thanks for the mention, despite the increased traffic requiring me having to now respond to a bunch of half cocked smart asses that didn't actually read/process the entire article. Ha!
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DasWauto
> Josh Welton
12/14/2013 at 08:59 |
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Hah, that'll happen. Reading is hard. :P
Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
> DasWauto
12/14/2013 at 14:06 |
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Two of my stories made it!
