<![CDATA[Comments from dankicksass]]> <![CDATA[Comments from dankicksass]]> <![CDATA[dankicksass commented on What Makes A Race Car Faster? A Fiero Wing, Of Course!]]> Brutal!

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on Goodyear Unveils Lunar Tire Concept]]> Moon Drifting... the possibilities are endless

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on What Car Or Truck Would You Live In?]]> Aluminum Chevy breadvan, short wheelbase dropped to the fxcking ground, air suspension, air bed, air disco ball, air 40in plasma screen on the roof, air mac mini with sprint aircard, and a slingbox account.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on Volvo Hybrid Garbage Truck Proves Hybrids Can't Clean Everything]]> @JSmith53: So does Mercedes/Freightliner :)

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on New Baby Audi R8 Based On TT? Not Quite]]> @FrankRizzo: Maybe an R3...

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on PCH, Rotary Swap Hell Edition: Honda 600 or Toyota Starlet?]]> 600. Its just too batshit crazy to NOT vote for.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on 1969 Porsche 911 Looks Like A 996]]> DethPorsche. Pure metal.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Minibuses Are Awesome]]> So not brutal. Needs more Explosion Sauce.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on PCH, Priceless Race Car Edition: Hemi Bantam or Buick Devin?]]> Austin Bantam, 1300 pounds of pure adrenaline. Crank it up to eleven with that beast.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on Mustang Aussie: Ford To Focus On The Falcon, Not So Much Mercury]]> The interest in the OZ Falcon platform as a replacement for Panther and DEW98/S197 platforms shouldn't necessarily point us toward an upswing in Ford manufacturing in Australia; Ford's plants here in the US and Canada can easily be fitted with new tooling and the continental workers here can keep their jobs. GM's use of excess Holden production capacity to move the Commodore based cars across the world as G8's, Buicks for China, and Chevy Luminas for god knows where is a very solid move, the plant in Canada which produced the Grand Prix the G8 replaces is still working to make Chevys and Buicks for domestic consumption which won't be replaced with Commodore derivatives, at least not yet. GM obviously feels that its saving cost somehow by not investing in tooling for local market assembly of Commodores, whatever name they may be sold as. We first saw the Commodore as the German-assembled Catera, and we all know how that went over. Maybe they feel the G8 is too much of a risk to take the platform to wider use as of yet, but hell, a rebadged Commodore isn't so bad is it? Lord knows its better than a rebadged Buick Lucerne.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on Glickenhaus Ferrari P4/5 Heading To 2008 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix]]> @gadgetfanatic: priceless. Or four million, whichever comes first.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on 2008 Pontiac G8 Spotted, Decked Out In Racey Duds]]> Its so awful, it has to be factory.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on Detroit Auto Show: Up Close and Personal with the 2008 Mazda Furai]]> If a LeMans racer fucked a dragon...

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented]]> Is this seriously a fucking gauge? Assholes...

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on 1972 Plymouth Fury III]]> Where's your car, Dude?

You don't know, Walter? You seem to know the answer to everything else!

Hmm. Well, we were in a handicapped spot. Perhaps they towed it.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented]]> Here we see the weakest part of any GM vehicle, the brakes. Ah, constant rotor warpage issues, glad you'll still be around even after GM finishes pulling their interior design into the present.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on Women: Good Drivers One Year, Bad Ones The Next]]> When in doubt, blame each other.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on Google Street View Captures Car Accident]]> Who had the nerve to plant a tree at the side of the road while I was trying to drive, consult my stock broker on my blackberry, read the paper, and drink my caffe latte in this nice residential neighborhood! Kids these days, damn tree huggers planting these effing oak's all over the place...

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on What Do You Do With A Crushed Mazdasaurus? Haul It Away With A Caddy Wagon!]]> The handicapped plates are gold. Pure gold.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on Honda Creates Giant Transforming Ridgeline Rocketship for the Rose Bowl]]> Not to be outshined by Toyota's A-BAT concept, Honda shows us they still have the flower power with their current Ridgeline in the Rose Parade.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on Nissan Announces Yearly Price Increases, Trying to Scrape Another $80 For A Versa]]> The Versa's still on the market? Who knew!

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on Unique Performance Owner Finally Speaks, More Details Emerge]]> @SLRSpeedshop: Hi-5 for Strange Brew.

If you want a real custom Mustang or Camaro or anything else for that matter, for god's sake do it yourself, or have it done locally. Unique's work as a reproduction coachbuilder was nice, but they all look like Bondo queens to me.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on Loose-Lipped Lexus Lovers Claim LF-A Laps Nurburgring In Record Time]]> In the event that the LF-A becomes a real car - there's still plenty of time for bureaucratic bullshit to trounce it into the proverbial pavement - the only record that matters will be the one set by the car you can buy.

Congratulations belong to Godzilla, for the win.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on Barrett-Jackson to Auction First "Retailable" 2009 Corvette ZR1]]> @koolykool44: Ferrari vs Vette... a dilemma for the ages. Only a visit to Project Car Hell can truly be the judge of this.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on MG Re-Revival Continues After Shanghai Auto-Nanjing Deal]]> I still have very little faith in the competency of the Chinese auto manufacturers. Their quality woes, the blatant theft of designs, big scars on the industry.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on Uniden MapTrax GPS Includes Radar Detection]]> One less thing to hang from the windshield on a suction cup. But does the typical radar detector user also use GPS?

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on Al Navarro Does Detroit: Ford to Tears]]> A hybrid is still just a way to spend more money on the car than you have to, to get what you really want out of it. Let the cabbies have the Escape Hybrids, let the mommies have the minivans, let the daddies have the 300's and the kiddies have the Mustangs.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on What Vehicle Has the Worst Rear End?]]> The current VW Jetta and Passat are suffering from a case of the bad side of things when equipped with clear tails. Completely awful, looks way too cheap, and they dim out in the daytime. Assholes...

Current Prius has awful tails, current Honda trucks - all of em - current Camry all around. The Aussies got the only good version of the Camry worldwide, but they called it the Aurion.

Everything with clear tail lights has to go. They all stink.

@BraappBraapp: That's why my 01 Monte Carlo has an 06 rear end.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on Tokyo Auto Salon: Honda Inspire Modulo Touring]]> Bring it here, lose the 2-tone, lose the Altezza tails. Make it happen Honda.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on Homemade Boattail Aerocivic Gets 50 Miles Per Stare]]> Over 90 days, its delivered 67.5mpg. Lets call that "double" the norm, at least for a Civic, 34mpg isn't unachievable. Thing was probably rated for 40mpg when it was built anyway...

250 hours x $60/hr = $15,000 - plus supplies, $400, giving us a grand total of $15,400. Can't argue that his time's worth nothing, its still shop time.

For that money mind you, our Honda enthusiast could have bought himself an off-lease Civic Hybrid, or an Insight. Maybe a Prius if he's not a Honda enthusiast after all and he's just another "green" asshole with a shitty car.

Even if his time's only worth $20/hr - consider the man could have just worked a second job for those 250 hours - he's still invested $5,400 into a beater Civic which he'll never get a positive return for investment from. The average American spends less than $1200 per year on fuel - if he spends half that, it'll take him nine years in his awful humiliating Civic to break even.

Not fucking worth it, period. Leave the boat tails to the tractor-trailers. They need em, though you won't see many using em outside high-end transport in the Northeast.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on In Russia, Antiglobalists Egg Your Hummer]]> Shouldn't this headline read "In Soviet Russia, your Hummer eggs antiglobalists!" - or maybe there's too much Yakov in that anyway...

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on Winter Guessing Game: Colder Than The Name Suggests Edition]]> Its gotta be a Veyron

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on Peugeot's Little Red Wagon Rocks Hydrogen]]> The 207 appears to have Super Potential as a 'Camino!

But seriously, don't they have a giant van they can outfit as a fire engine, stick a hydrogen power mill in that thing and put it in Paris working as a real fire fighting vehicle? Oh, wait. That would make sense as a publicity builder and proof of concept. And Peugeot isn't supposed to make sense... wait no, that's Citroen. Damn.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on Detroit Auto Show, Schmetroit Auto Show; Vegas is Gadget Heaven]]> Why'd they bother illustrating all the crap nobody needs in their car with all those numbers? Its redundant...

1) GPS Reciever with voice activated microphone
2) Windows-based Pocket PC for GPS
3) Audio cable that plugs into the iPod. Redundant numbering.
4) The iPod. This one's a second-generation. Its battery doesn't work so it never leaves the car.
5) iPod cradle. More redundant numbering.
6) Wire from a power adapter (8) to the Pocket PC (2) - can the numbering just stop?
7) The same fxcking audio cable we numbered (3) earlier...
8) See (6) - fxcking redundant numbering on this power adapter.

Fuck you, Smart Car owner. This shit is just dumb.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on 1972 Volkswagen Beetle]]> DOTS is, for me, a salute to the common uncommon car. You, car, have lasted beyond your days, despite a lack of maintenance and care. You've been neglected so long, we Jalops stand in awe that you still manage to stay on the road. Rust, missing trim, bad paint, fenders who've seen more pole than a Thai hooker - these are your badges of honor, and you wear them with pride. A testament to your longevity, you laugh in the face of potential restoration, as you sit idly on the streets of Alameda. You're such a fixture, that you can be seen from space, and you're damn proud of it. Yes you, DOTS Car of the Day, we salute you.

@chrystlubitshi: Mmm, leaky heater core, delicious.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on Detroit Auto Show: Toyota Reveals New Honda Ridgeline, Calls it the A-BAT Concept Hybrid Truck]]> @TinaChow: The Taliban, as with all neo-military organizations focused on public control, has a very good sense of value and need. So they use alot of Toyota Hilux's. (And Nissan Patrol's and the like too, but lets focus here!) Clarkson, Hammond, and Maye couldn't kill it - and neither can minefields, anti-tank rounds, and NATO's greater mobile forces. You won't see alot of shots of a Hilux having been used as an IED container, it'll suppress the IED and laugh at the terrorists as it goes on its merry way. Honda Accord wagons, Peugeot vans, Chevy Caprice sedans and so on, these are much better candidates for that. A Hilux lasts forever. An A-BAT won't make it to production.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on Match Made in Heaven: Skoda Delivery Fun]]> The Golf platform at its finest. Badge engineers, you have done well.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on More Fun With Ford Engineering Press Shots]]> Something tells me that a few airplane tickets would be more effective at letting design engineers work together from far away. Collaboration is always best in person.

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<![CDATA[dankicksass commented on Detroit Auto Show: Toyota Reveals New Honda Ridgeline, Calls it the A-BAT Concept Hybrid Truck]]> @dankicksass: I really stink. Here's a link. *grumble grumble...

A-Bat Country Squire wagon

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