Hello Oppo!

"BvdV - The Dutch Engineer" (dutchengineer) 01/10/2016 at 13:17 • Filed to: Introduction

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Hello Oppo! I would like to introduce myself to you. I’m an Automotive student from the Netherlands(hence my name) and my main interest is cars, which is kind of obvious since I’m here now, and photography, but I also (try to) play the electric guitar and am very interested in everything that has to do with engineering. Currently I’m driving a 2011 Renault Twingo 1.2 Collection, with a whopping 75 hp, which is my first car. It honestly isn’t that bad, I will do an oppo-review on it in a while.

Last year I’ve built an electric UrbanConcept Shell-Ecomarathon car with a group of my colleague students. She’s called Nova, and she does about 350 km on 1 litre of petrol, if you convert the energy to electricity. Maybe I will do some stories on the process of designing and building Nova within a year. Or maybe I will get some kind of project car and write about that in the future, who knows.

DrJohannVegas > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 01/10/2016 at 13:21

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Good to meet you!

The Twingo is neat, but the EcoMarathon car is AWESOME. Oppo posts on college engineering projects are always welcome!

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 01/10/2016 at 13:23

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Welcome!

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > DrJohannVegas 01/10/2016 at 13:29

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Thanks, I will try to do a post on Nova next weekend.

$kaycog > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 01/10/2016 at 13:35

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Welcome to Oppo, new kid on the block!

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 01/10/2016 at 13:55

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So if I say goedendag, I will have exhausted most of my Dutch knowledge. Granted it is more than most Americans.

Welcome to Oppo!

Svend > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 01/10/2016 at 13:59

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Goed avond. Welcome to the madhouse fella.

As that’s your Twingo I think you’ve already got a few friends on here. There is another Twingo owner and a couple of guys across the pond that love things ‘Twingo’.

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > Svend 01/10/2016 at 14:33

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Thanks, kinda expected I would be the only Twingo owner, so its nice to hear that’s not the case.

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs 01/10/2016 at 14:35

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Thanks, well maybe I will learn all of you opponauts a few Dutch words. Like ‘auto’ which means car.

Svend > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 01/10/2016 at 14:36

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I’m sure he’ll be on later to say hi if he hasn’t already.

Lovely little cars. My neighbour had one I used to look after for her (wash, basically).

CALUSA > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 01/10/2016 at 14:40

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Oppo is starting to get..... Orange.

Matthew Keyser > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 01/10/2016 at 14:50

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From one young car enthusiast/guitarist to another, welcome

V12 Jake- Hittin' Switches > Svend 01/10/2016 at 15:29

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HON HON HON

Cé hé sin > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 01/10/2016 at 16:12

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Next, you can teach them how to pronounce Van Gogh...

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > Cé hé sin 01/10/2016 at 20:42

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Or “Gezelligheid”. Can only be properly said if you have learned Dutch well, and untranslatable in most cases.

Burn-Spaz1966-Burn > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 01/10/2016 at 22:46

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Welcome.

pip bip - choose Corrour > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 01/11/2016 at 04:20

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welcome!

pip bip - choose Corrour > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 01/11/2016 at 05:48

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i’d like to see more pics of this!