"Dsscats" (dsscats)
12/08/2013 at 01:25 • Filed to: None
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"Dsscats" (dsscats)
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What is the best car minutiae you know?
Like that the Ford GT broke the roof crush machine in safety testing.
Shiarlis
> Dsscats
12/08/2013 at 01:29 |
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Tyler's SVT Focus Hates Him
> Dsscats
12/08/2013 at 01:29 |
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Right before the design team was about to show the new Mini's clay mockup to the BMW execs, they noticed it didn't have an exhaust tip. In a panic, one of the engineers cut the top off his soda can and stuck it on the back. Ever since then, Mini's have had coke-can exhaust tips.
webmonkees
> Dsscats
12/08/2013 at 01:33 |
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Best obscure knowledge? Or just obscure?
A Plymouth Superbird was used to determine the then-new emissions standards.
That went well.
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Dsscats
> Shiarlis
12/08/2013 at 01:33 |
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...and there goes 3 perfectly good R8s!
syaieya
> Dsscats
12/08/2013 at 01:41 |
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When the Mercedes Benz SSK was first created, cars were taxed by their horsepower rating. Well, the way they used to dyno cars back then was by taking the engine outside of the car and testing it.
Mercedes knew this and gave the SSK a clutch engaged supercharger which would only work when inside the vehicle. Because of that, these rennwagens were taxed at a lower rate even though they were the fastest thing of it's day.
PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
> Dsscats
12/08/2013 at 01:43 |
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Volkswagen's V10 TDi Touareg has a bad tendency to eat it's own gearbox for breakfast under extreme acceleration. This issue arose in '04, when VAG decided that a gearbox used on a V8 Touareg (with 315 ft-lbs of torque) was a good fit for a V10 Touareg (about 220 ft-lbs more torque (!)). Apparenty, on the '06 models, and the subsequent R50 models, the issue was fixed, but the '04 V10's have a reputation for murdering their gearboxes
twinturbobmw
> Dsscats
12/08/2013 at 01:48 |
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CR-Vs came with a picnic table hidden under the trunk carpet.
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Dsscats
> twinturbobmw
12/08/2013 at 01:52 |
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I actually knew that one
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twinturbobmw
> Dsscats
12/08/2013 at 01:52 |
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Ferrari sold a California with a gated manual for a very short time.
55Buick, Oversteer Scientist
> Dsscats
12/08/2013 at 01:53 |
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The Acura zdx was an experiment by the engineers to see how ridiculous a vehicle they could create, and still have it go into production.
SonorousSpeedJoe
> Dsscats
12/08/2013 at 01:53 |
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Apparently, when GM was designing the 5th-gen Camaro, one survey they ran at a product clinic asked 2,500 participants what they thought the ultimate Camaro up to that point was. According to Scott Settlemire , almost 90% of the men and women participating in the survey picked the 3rd-gen 1985 IROC-Z.
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Dsscats
> twinturbobmw
12/08/2013 at 01:54 |
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Exactly 2 were sold. (I'm 100% serious)
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twinturbobmw
> Dsscats
12/08/2013 at 01:54 |
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Early 911s used four screws to hold the horn grilles on to the body but it was shortly changed to two. This is one way to tell if it's an earlier model.
MtrRider Just Wants Doritos
> Dsscats
12/08/2013 at 02:01 |
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In testing the Raptor, Ford kept breaking the shock mounts so they are made out of the same grade steel as the F-350's frame. Also, they quietly doubled the frame thickness over the rear in 2013 because of the shitstorm Jalopnik helped create over the Bent Frame Scandal of 2011.
Birddog
> Dsscats
12/08/2013 at 02:02 |
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The rear anti sway bar and mounts for early Citation X-11s were an afterthought and installed by hand.
Manuél Ferrari
> syaieya
12/08/2013 at 02:06 |
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That is awesome!
fhrblig
> Dsscats
12/08/2013 at 08:17 |
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That AMC might still be around and Renault might have never left the US market if Georges Besse hasn't been assassinated? The Grand Cherokee was only a couple years away from being released, right at the start of the SUV boom. If they'd hung on for a couple of years, they might have turned it around.
cbell04
> Dsscats
12/08/2013 at 09:15 |
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1st gen dodge caravans had an option for a 2.5 turbo 4 (150 hp) and a 5 speed. Side note I have done some mean burnouts and reverse doughnuts in one.
NoahthePorscheGuy
> twinturbobmw
12/08/2013 at 11:05 |
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What?
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NoahthePorscheGuy
> Tyler's SVT Focus Hates Him
12/08/2013 at 11:09 |
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apparently it was actually Budweiser.
desertdog5051
> Dsscats
12/08/2013 at 13:54 |
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How 'bout the "S" in SEMA used to stand Speed on stead pf Specialty. From 1963 to 1970. It was because of increasing fear of Government regulation that it was changed.
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> Dsscats
12/08/2013 at 16:43 |
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This rolling bank vault here actually broke GM's frame crushing machine. They had to bring in the one they used for trucks to determine how strong the frame really was.
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Tyler's SVT Focus Hates Him
> NoahthePorscheGuy
12/08/2013 at 20:57 |
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Oh my God you're right. That makes it even better haha.