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    08/27/09

    In reply to Subaru Legacy Super GT Racer Shakedown At Fuji Speedway
    Not sure if you guys noticed but what's with the 3-diamond Mitsubishi logos plastered in the air vents on the hood?
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    08/28/09

    @Mamo To: To all you above, ask, and ye shall recieve. Thanks Mamo To!
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    08/27/09

    In reply to Subaru Legacy Super GT Racer Shakedown At Fuji Speedway
    I think what Mr. Japanese Poncherello was trying to say is, "We really wanted to style the car after the Audi Sport Quattro, the most beautiful racing car of all time..."
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    08/27/09

    In reply to Subaru Legacy Super GT Racer Shakedown At Fuji Speedway
    In a world where there is a Japan All GT Series, a DTM, a British Touring Car Championship and an Australian V8 Supercars, we in the U.S. get NASCAR and its "Car of Tomorrow" heap. Man, we have lost our way.
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    Image of IronicalBalls IronicalBalls
    08/27/09

    In reply to Subaru Legacy Super GT Racer Shakedown At Fuji Speedway

    FFFFF I need a translation. What are they saying about the engine bay.
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    Image of evoCS-Hench-Minion to the stars evoCS-Hench-Minion to the stars
    08/27/09

    @IronicalBalls: I'm guessing something about "this car being all ate up with motor."
    In Japanese, of course.
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    Image of ploopsy ploopsy
    08/27/09

    In reply to Subaru Legacy Super GT Racer Shakedown At Fuji Speedway
    Ive played GT5P so much that I actually know what turn that car is on.
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    08/27/09

    @ploopsy: Can't wait for GT5!!!
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    08/27/09

    @Beef Bacon...?: Im really getting sick of fuji from playing gt5p too much. We need GT5 asap!
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    08/27/09

    @ploopsy: Best of luck there. How many installments have you waited for?
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    08/27/09

    @mr_dude: Well after I bought the original GT I have always been eagerly awaiting the next one. I was at EBgames for the launch of GT4 since I payed in full 2 years before that game came out.
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    08/28/09

    @ploopsy: Ah, very well then. You're intimately familiar with the scheduling practices of Polyphony.
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    08/28/09

    @mr_dude: Yes I am. I even picked up some bootleg copies of there "concept" games from the local ethnic area just to get some new content while I wait. Im planning on getting a psp and GTMobile just to get some early online game play on seattle and citta di aria!
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    Image of Joshuman Joshuman
    08/27/09

    In reply to Subaru Legacy Super GT Racer Shakedown At Fuji Speedway
    Side exhaust that exits ahead of the front tire. Bonus!
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    Image of Brobo3 Brobo3
    08/27/09

    In reply to Subaru Legacy Super GT Racer Shakedown At Fuji Speedway
    Goddamn, is *anything* on that car a stock dimension besides the B-pillar?
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    08/27/09

    @Brobo3: No.

    The "closest" stock aspect is ironically the engine. Everything else is one custom offs. Just look at Super GT as an engineering sex orgy inbetween FIA GT, LM Prototype and Tube frames.

    Basically anything goes as long as the engine is in production by that company. So lets say you want to enter a Toyota Euro Corolla. It would be allowed even if it had a V8 engine from a Land Cruiser.
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    Image of Goes Like Stink Goes Like Stink
    08/27/09

    @IronicalBalls: so you could race an Aveo with a Corvette engine?
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    Image of evoCS-Hench-Minion to the stars evoCS-Hench-Minion to the stars
    08/28/09

    @IronicalBalls: Exactly, this is like the Japanese DTM, but even more nutty. I was ever so fortunate to catch a Super GT race in '07 at Fuji Speedway. It was awesome.
    Fun little tidbit: The GT500 class cars sounded like Sebulba's pod racer as they trundled down pit lane on their speed limiters.
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    Image of mr_dude mr_dude
    08/27/09

    In reply to Subaru Legacy Super GT Racer Shakedown At Fuji Speedway
    I can't see any place they could have added more ugly.
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    Image of TENGRAM TENGRAM
    08/27/09

    @mr_dude: yes and pretty is an important quality in a racecar
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    08/27/09

    @TENGRAM likes adding a bunch of stuff to the end of his name because it makes him feel like he belongs: I completely agree with you, not the OP. That's all functional stuff, who cares what it looks like as long as it does what it was designed to do.
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    Image of mr_dude mr_dude
    08/27/09


    @TENGRAM et. al:
    I certainly agree with form following function, but there are exceptions to the rule.

    This is particularly salient when you consider practically every race car on earth is insanely beautiful. This... this butch is just the opposite end of the spectrum.

    A pragmatist might say that a race car is really just a billboard for advertisers, and then consider the roi of an ugly winner (or ugly loser).

    Whatever the case, I respect its automotive brutality but wouldn't dragon it after all the beers in the world.
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    Image of evoCS-Hench-Minion to the stars evoCS-Hench-Minion to the stars
    08/27/09

    @mr_dude: I dunno, I can think of a lot of modern cars that could have 6+" cut from the bottom and their wheels crammed up through the fenders.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    08/20/09

    In reply to Subaru Legacy Super GT Racer First Sketches
    What I'm seeing here is the Japanese equivalent of NASCAR. A car loosely based on a road car you can buy, but has nothing much in common with the car you see turning left (ok, these guys turn right, too) on Sunday.

    The only other thing this series probably has over NASCAR is that the technology used is closer to what modern road cars use. Therefore, the race cars can be used as test beds for future technology that they can adapt to road cars.

    Other than that, this is another advertising venue for STI, Motul, and Advan. Why do they have a medical TFT maker shown so prominently advertised on their sketches?
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    Image of Qutaiba_ELLEEL (Go and hug a tree) Qutaiba_ELLEEL (Go and hug a tree)
    08/20/09

    @engineerd: Nice point ..

    But still FIA-GT series is way more closer to the real car than NASCAR .
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    Image of mr_dude mr_dude
    08/20/09

    @Qutaiba_ELLEEL: Indeed, if they were just shells with logos I'd imagine the NSX, FD, 996, etc. would have been replaced with something currently on the market.

    I don't see them in the current lineup, but for years after their respective EOL, SuperGT had Supras and Skylines.

    Of course, the fact that last decade's technology can compete with the new stuff means there is significant modification, just not to the extent that there's nothing to the badge.
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    08/20/09

    @engineerd: at least it has right turns ! (or left turns i forgot which way nascar goes, not that i care)
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    Image of Qutaiba_ELLEEL (Go and hug a tree) Qutaiba_ELLEEL (Go and hug a tree)
    08/20/09

    @mr_dude:
    I always laugh at that so-called Toyota Camry in the NASCAR series :)
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    08/20/09

    In reply to Subaru Legacy Super GT Racer First Sketches
    so are wheel arches higher than hoods gonna be the new cool thing in boy racer design? God I hope not.
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    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    08/20/09

    In reply to Subaru Legacy Super GT Racer First Sketches
    Given that a "legacy" is something you leave after you have passed, it doesn't seem to be a good name for a race car.
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    08/20/09

    In reply to Subaru Legacy Super GT Racer First Sketches
    That's a huuuuuuuuuuge forehead.
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    08/20/09


    @mr_dude:
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    Image of Jo Schmo Jo Schmo
    08/20/09

    In reply to Subaru Legacy Super GT Racer First Sketches
    Sketches? We don't need no stinking sketches! We want renderings!
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    08/20/09


    @Jo Schmo: Here you go..
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    08/20/09

    @Canuck Chinaman: See? This is what I am talking about right here. You have just earned yourself one heart-click.
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    08/20/09

    In reply to Subaru Legacy Super GT Racer First Sketches
    Nice license plate. They spelled "Model" wrong. Engrish ftw.
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    08/20/09

    @Ash78: +1
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    08/20/09

    @Ash78: English? Pssh, who needs that? I'm never going to England.
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    08/20/09

    @FromaBuick6 Misses the Banned: Yeah! me neither..............wait a sec............oh f...!
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    08/20/09

    @layabout: Stop commenting from tunnels, your transmission is all broken up.
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    08/20/09

    @FromaBuick6 Misses the Banned:
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    08/20/09

    @FromaBuick6 Misses the Banned: HOW DARE YOU..no tea and mcvities digestives for you..
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    01/20/09

    In reply to Toyota Corolla Axio Super GT300 Unveiled At Tokyo Auto Salon
    This thing is no more a Corolla than the Nascar cars are whatever car they're supposed to look like.


    Corolla with a V6 and RWD?
    That my friends, is an automotive balls transplant.

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