The Joys of Commuting in Dearborn 

"Captain of the Enterprise" (justanotherdayinparadise) 01/06/2015 at 12:59 • Filed to: None

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This morning on my commute I saw and more importantly heard a 2015 GT350.

(not my picture but it looked almost exactly like this.)

I saw a black Mustang in semi camouflage, not an uncommon sight when you're just down the street from the glass house and assumed it was a normal GT doing durability testing and then I heard it and knew. The noise alone makes the car worth the purchase price. even at lower RPM's it just screams power. It is unmistakable and somewhat foreign to my conception of what an engine sounds like. I daily drive a v8 and have never heard anything out of it that reaches that exotic and spine-tingling noise that that flat plane crank 8 produces. This is going to be a very special car unlike any Mustang before it.

Coty > Captain of the Enterprise 01/06/2015 at 13:05

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That's flat plane crank V8, not flat 8 like an H8 or something.

thebigbossyboss > Captain of the Enterprise 01/06/2015 at 13:07

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Wait. If you have a V8 how are you a captain of the beige wonder?? Wonder's (camry's) only had 6's right?

spanfucker retire bitch > Coty 01/06/2015 at 13:08

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I have a feeling a Flat 8 would be pretty fucking sweet though.

Subaru. Porsche. Get on it!

qbeezy > Captain of the Enterprise 01/06/2015 at 13:13

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That was one of the coolest things about living in the Detroit metro. I saw so many cars and trucks being tested. For some reason they also love taking mound rd from around 18 mile to the city.

Saracen > spanfucker retire bitch 01/06/2015 at 13:30

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Porsche developed a Flat-8 for racing. 1.5 liters.

spanfucker retire bitch > Saracen 01/06/2015 at 13:34

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I sort of assumed that someone, somewhere along the line had developed a Flat-8, even if I didn't know specifically who or when.

But I was talking about in a production vehicle.

Saracen > spanfucker retire bitch 01/06/2015 at 13:36

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Production vehicle, you're covered there too, if you count airplane engines.

spanfucker retire bitch > Saracen 01/06/2015 at 13:40

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if you count airplane engines.

You know we don't.

MHunter905 > Saracen 01/06/2015 at 13:43

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Ferrari had flat 12's

Saracen > spanfucker retire bitch 01/06/2015 at 13:44

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Hey, you said vehicles. You didn't specify cars =P

Saracen > MHunter905 01/06/2015 at 13:44

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Of course Ferrari made flat-12's. So did Porsche.

But flat-12's aren't the subject here, are they?

RallyWrench > Saracen 01/06/2015 at 13:50

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The 908 was a 3.0L flat 8, and was incredibly successful. There was a 2.0L put in a few 904s as well, IIRC.

spanfucker retire bitch > Saracen 01/06/2015 at 13:51

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I thought it was pretty obvious we were talking about Mobilomobiles, you know, with their deceleratirxes and their velocitators

Saracen > RallyWrench 01/06/2015 at 13:51

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The 908's engine was a punched out variety of the 1.5L they developed for Formula One.

MHunter905 > Saracen 01/06/2015 at 14:03

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I'm not really sure what the topic is. The Mustang does not have a flat 8.

Saracen > MHunter905 01/06/2015 at 14:05

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We are not saying the Mustang has a flat-8. we just got off on a tangent.

Coty > spanfucker retire bitch 01/06/2015 at 14:11

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Time to bolt some Subarus together.

Captain of the Enterprise > thebigbossyboss 01/06/2015 at 14:26

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Crown vic in beige

thebigbossyboss > Captain of the Enterprise 01/06/2015 at 14:36

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would only be truly beige if it was a Marquis!!

Cheers!

Transit > Captain of the Enterprise 01/06/2015 at 15:38

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They were driving that in the snow???

Captain of the Enterprise > Transit 01/06/2015 at 15:44

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You bet even drove on the shoulder to avoid a broken down car in the right lane of Southfield Freeway.

Transit > Captain of the Enterprise 01/06/2015 at 15:48

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Guess you don't have to worry too much with a fleet car.

Too bad you didn't get the photo. That would have made for a nice 'like a boss' meme.

Captain of the Enterprise > Transit 01/06/2015 at 16:35

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Yeah I have got to get a dashcam, I would like to take pictures but I was driving in a swarm of idiots in a busy stretch of roads. The photo I found is almost identical but this one had a yellow stripe instead of green on the deck lid and uncovered side scoops by the front tires. With a test car like that they will crush it in the end anyway.