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    Image of Kuro Kuro
    07/22/09

    In reply to Porsche Supersport: Carrera 4S-Based Super 911 Coming Next Year?
    I don't buy this. I mean, this info just sounds a bit too much like internet forum hash. Besides, spy shots have shown the 998 mule with the double-bubble roof and a (faux) ducktail testing. But that's a different car entirely.
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    Image of .357 .357
    07/21/09

    In reply to Porsche Supersport: Carrera 4S-Based Super 911 Coming Next Year?
    I like this very, very much. The cost is monumental, and the car is plain mental.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    07/21/09

    In reply to Porsche Supersport: Carrera 4S-Based Super 911 Coming Next Year?
    What they don't mention is that the "source with ties to Stuttgart" is actually Stud Beefpile, so everything he says is probably bullshit.

    I do look forward to the brown leather interior, however. More cars need this leather, and more cars need to learn how to execute it properly.
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    Image of Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. . Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .
    07/21/09

    @Deartháir wonders why Gawker won't believe...: Hi, I'm Meat Steakhands, a close, but lesser-known associate of Herr Beefpile, bringing you live updates from Stuttgart.

    With the most recent news of Porsche re-employing their use of the "Duck-tail" in their line of sports-cars, the animal rights and environmental movements in Germany have been up in arms! As I can see behind me, there are at least 3 people outside Porsche Headquarten, standing in a very straight line and orderly opposing the supposed usage of these "Duck-Tails" in these cars. Oh, wait! One of the Protesters just made an angry gesture in the direction on Porsche headquarters! Oh the humanity! So much disorder! Mein Gott!

    Reporting live from the war zone, I'm Meat Steakhands. Back to you, Stud.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    07/22/09

    @Schm wishes he could bring back the funny. .: I think you safely brought back the funny, and fully intend on referring to you as Meat Steakhands from now on. That was absolutely epic.
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    07/21/09

    In reply to Porsche Supersport: Carrera 4S-Based Super 911 Coming Next Year?
    Can someone build a 911 special-edition-vs-Mustang special edition graph?
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    07/21/09

    @theeastbaykid: Alphamazing can.
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    Image of layabout layabout
    07/21/09

    In reply to Porsche Supersport: Carrera 4S-Based Super 911 Coming Next Year?
    Before the Porsche haterade gets opened,i'm gonna go on record & say i like it & i don't care if a ZR1 or a GTR is faster round ze ring,that's a fine looking car.
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    07/21/09

    @layabout returns: Not a fan of the new taillights.
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    07/21/09

    @Syrax: Fair comment,but i'm liking the ducktail
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    07/21/09

    @Syrax: they need to be lower and have the reflective middle bit
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    Image of Turboner Turboner
    07/21/09

    @layabout returns: Throw some R compounds on it, and it'll beat a GTR ;)
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    07/21/09

    @layabout returns: The ducktail is nice. Better than GT3s and GT2s, but the Turbo still gets the prize for me.
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    07/21/09

    @bradleysoken: The reflective part doesn't belong in the 997.
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    Image of GtAkReYz GtAkReYz
    07/21/09

    @layabout returns: It seems photoshopped though.

    As much as I love the original ducktails, I believe they probably don't have the most aerodynamic design, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was a little different from the one pictured. Probably rounder on the sides, or something. I'm not quite the expert on the matter...



    I'm not sure what I'd prefer though, a classic ducktail or a slightly updated design, incorporating the latest developments in aerodynamics... Either way, I'm sure Porsche will do a fine job with whatever they end up doing.
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    07/21/09

    @GtAkReYz: It won't be like that I think. The only thing we know is that it will be fixed.
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    Image of theeastbaykid theeastbaykid
    07/21/09

    @Syrax: It's amazing how different the "GT" 911s are from the Turbo. The Turbo is fast but ultra-isolated. The GT3 and especially the GT3RS make you feel like McQueen.
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    07/21/09

    @theeastbaykid: The GT2 make you die.
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    07/21/09

    @Syrax: Yeah, that's why I left it off the list.
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    07/21/09

    In reply to Porsche Supersport: Carrera 4S-Based Super 911 Coming Next Year?
    Isn't bubble roof a Zagato trademark? Shouldn't be?
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    Image of marc2068 marc2068
    07/21/09

    @Syrax: Nope,it was banged into the roofs of small race cars for helment clearence.Most of Zagato racers were small cars.
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    Image of skaycog skaycog
    07/21/09

    @Syrax: Wasn't the original bubble roof on a Storm Chaser vehicle? :)
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    07/21/09

    @skaycog 0.0: You're at least a thousand times right.
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    Image of skaycog skaycog
    07/21/09

    @Syrax: And you just made me laugh out loud!!! Gee, it's nice to be back! My pictures won't post, but I don't mind just as long as I can comment. Yippee!
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    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    07/21/09

    @skaycog 0.0: Hmmmm... kinky...
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    07/21/09

    @Scandinavian Flick -1000 club dropout: Now I LOL'd. Shame on you!
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    Image of skaycog skaycog
    07/21/09

    @Scandinavian Flick -1000 club dropout: Long time, Mr. Flick. And this is how it all started! No...shame on you...I insist! ;)
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    07/21/09

    @Syrax: This is too funny!
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    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    07/21/09

    @skaycog 0.0: No thank you. Ladies first.

    It has been a while. I was a bit resistant to the new system, and at first, it didn't work at the office where I do most of my posting. I still don't think I like it, but I'll make it work...
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    07/14/09

    In reply to GM Temporarily Halts Manual Transmission Camaro SS Shipments
    History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    07/14/09

    In reply to GM Temporarily Halts Manual Transmission Camaro SS Shipments
    R. "Wert" Kelly said he "don't see nothing wrong- with a little bump and grind."
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    Image of .357 .357
    07/14/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: No pee jokes. Well done.
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    Image of WilliamG. WilliamG.
    07/14/09

    In reply to GM Temporarily Halts Manual Transmission Camaro SS Shipments
    So they never hooned the test mules? Crap, I figured dumping the clutch at 5000 RPM would be the first thing even the most geeky of test engineers would do.
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    Image of skitter skitter
    07/14/09

    @WilliamG.: It's possible that drivers who know what they are doing are unable to recreate the worst a vehicle will see from a horrible driver. Complete idiocy can be difficult to anticipate, much less simulate fully.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    07/14/09

    In reply to GM Temporarily Halts Manual Transmission Camaro SS Shipments
    British Leyland and Lucas Industries.



    Just replace "British" with "American" and "Lucas" with "Tremec".
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    Image of junkman junkman
    07/14/09

    In reply to GM Temporarily Halts Manual Transmission Camaro SS Shipments
    The new GM: "Same crappy quality; we're just not denying it anymore."
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    Image of tenbeers tenbeers
    07/14/09

    In reply to GM Temporarily Halts Manual Transmission Camaro SS Shipments
    Also, commenting is completely and utterly broken in Google Chrome.
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    07/14/09

    In reply to GM Temporarily Halts Manual Transmission Camaro SS Shipments
    It is my understanding the fault is in the output shafts of a batch of Tremec transmissions.
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    Image of Tossed Accord taco salad over Malibu face Tossed Accord taco salad over Malibu face
    07/14/09

    @tenbeers:



    And by "batch" you mean them all...
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    Image of tenbeers tenbeers
    07/14/09

    @Tossed Accordtaco salad over Malibu:The same gearbox is installed in Vipers, Z06s, GT500s, Challengers, G8 GXPs, CTS-Vs, HSVs, etc.



    I know some Challengers and Z06s have had similar problems. Maybe Tremec quality is slipping. Who knows.
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    Image of sos10 sos10
    07/14/09

    In reply to GM Temporarily Halts Manual Transmission Camaro SS Shipments
    Launch control to mayor Tom...
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    07/14/09

    In reply to GM Temporarily Halts Manual Transmission Camaro SS Shipments
    Here's an idea: dismantle the "launch control."

    If you can't launch it with your own hands and feet, then you don't get to launch.
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    Image of ThreeLitre ThreeLitre
    07/14/09

    @Novaload Misses Murilee: absolutely. Launch control is really for automatics - defeats the point entirely of having a clutch pedal.
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    Edited by ThreeLitre at 07/14/09 11:59 AM ThreeLitre was starred ThreeLitre was unstarred
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