Drag race.. must be a V8 right? American at that?

"Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh" (andymcbradleigh)
10/20/2014 at 17:22 • Filed to: None

Well.. no..

DISCUSSION (23)

JGrabowMSt > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
10/20/2014 at 17:29

Good to see these V10's doing something other than scraping into a parking lot near me.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > JGrabowMSt
10/20/2014 at 17:30

Whenever I see them it's on the autobahn, but I understand you mate, I relly do.

EL_ULY > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
10/20/2014 at 17:33

what is the guy shouting at the end of the run?

JGrabowMSt > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
10/20/2014 at 17:34

Here in the US, it's rare to see an M6 (or any other BMW with more than an I6). The ones that do get bought are often wrapped in some weird color (though, often pleasing colors), but just lowered, and puddle around. Just boring to me. Now that the 328d Wagon is available, I'll admit I'm interested in the cars again, but very few of them. BMW just never really appealed to me outside of a select few cars.

Then you have Corvettes here, and Corvette owners barely know anything about their cars, and hardly ever talk to each other. There are owners here and there that really do know their cars well, but for the most part, Corvette meets are a lot like BMW meets to me. A bunch of people comparing how original their cars are, but if something is broken, it's a pair of phone calls, one to BMW, the other to a mechanic. Boring to me....

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > JGrabowMSt
10/20/2014 at 17:40

You should come to a car meet here in Norway then, we've got everything from rear engined skodas to 4wd monsters with 1400bhp. You'll perhaps see a VW Beetle with a wankel engine, or a bmw E30 with a Twin Turbo V12. We've got old Opel Kadetts with 400bhp engines and VW Golfs with perhaps 1000bhp. :)

JGrabowMSt > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
10/20/2014 at 17:41

Norway and New Zealand are both very high on the list of places I want to visit to experience car cultures.

Both are incredibly unique, and have some absolutely insane things.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > EL_ULY
10/20/2014 at 17:42

7.70 IT'S A NEW WORLD RECORD!... Sorry I can't tell you more, I wasn't there.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > JGrabowMSt
10/20/2014 at 17:46

:) NZ is a place I'd like to visit. I guess we're both "insane" when it comes to cars. We never know how/when to stop :P

EL_ULY > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
10/20/2014 at 17:47

How do you pronouce that? Is it Norwegian

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > EL_ULY
10/20/2014 at 17:50

It's Norwegian indeed. I'll hazzard a guess and say it was the fastest time recorded with a six cylinder engine at the time. I can't tell you how you pronounce it without being on skype or something :)

JGrabowMSt > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
10/20/2014 at 17:57

My personal garage is 20 cylinders and roughly 750HP. Plenty of fun every day of the week. I'd love to have something with stupid amounts of horsepower, but at the same time, I do enjoy having things that are streetable. I can't really see myself owning a track only car. I can understand it, but the ability to transition one car to both is far more fun to me.

Not unlike the ridiculously insane things Larry Larson builds, I just don't need that kind of power. I'm plenty happy with a few hundred.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > JGrabowMSt
10/20/2014 at 18:05

My personal garage now is 20 cylinders as well. 3 four cylinder cars and one V8.. As for HP... well... uhm.... a total of 340bhp :P

Edit: Ford Fiesta with 60bhp, MB W123 Diesel with somehwere close to 60bhp, VW Beetle ('69) 50bhp(not at all standard), and a slightly modified Rover SD1 with close to 170bhp..

EL_ULY > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
10/20/2014 at 18:17

syv sytti verdensrekord lol

i'll try

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > EL_ULY
10/20/2014 at 18:18

Håhå.. The man is learning norwegian :) We would perhaps say sju søtti but syv sytti is close enough.

EL_ULY > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
10/20/2014 at 18:27

Shoe so tee, Verdens rekord!

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > EL_ULY
10/20/2014 at 18:31

nah mate... "Shoo shootii (not tie, but ti as in humpti dumpti). :)

EL_ULY > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
10/20/2014 at 18:34

I can't imagine the entire language lol :]

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > EL_ULY
10/20/2014 at 18:40

This is how you say 7.70 in Norwegian though... yeah, I made a video for yah.

EL_ULY > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
10/20/2014 at 18:47

lol thanks buddy!!!. I'll try i promise, now i gotta get the rest good enough to shout it :] i've had this video saved on my youtube channel since youtube started in 2006. Never knew what it meant

EL_ULY > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
10/20/2014 at 18:49

I try to pronouce some words on the Volvo boxes and it just seems impossible lol

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > EL_ULY
10/20/2014 at 18:54

Nah, you can learn. My native languag is Norwegian, but I'm pretty much fluent in English. I don't speak french, but I can pretend :P As for German... Sure, I can speak german... almost.. I've always said, if you can sing a song in language you can speak it.

EL_ULY > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
10/20/2014 at 19:03

Lol that's ture. German is way too difficult.

My wife knows perfect french and when she tried to speak English, she talks with a french accent lol. I wish I knew at least 1 more language. It'll probably be Swedish because work

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > EL_ULY
10/20/2014 at 19:06

If you learn swedish you'll be able to speak Norwegian as well. AND... if you learn german AND swedish you'll prettu much be able to speak Dutch.