How embarrasment......

[MITCHAY]

Fishing reel? :

I believe v8falconsrule is on the money here!

[MO]

Altitude..has everything to do with this one..like going from The Alice to The Rock in about an hour and a half.

YES I fell for it.

[v8falconsrule]

Originally Posted by Interceptor

i'll happily pay to watch the court case when he defends THAT charge lol

i love it when people don't fully understand what it is they're talking about :evil_laug

[Rev28K]

Okay I’ll bite.........further.

It doesn’t get radared by the cops (private radar in the NT when it was legal – and if so how accurate was the speedo) or it is at one of those top speed at a landing strip events where the cars are radared to prove who was the quickest.

Wouldn’t a GPS be a better way of measuring speed?

[RSgerry]

Originally Posted by flappist

Your memory is as narrow and your attitude. The term "How embarrassment" is a common australian saying first coined by a character in the comedy "Acropolis Now".
Of course I can understand your failure to remember this as you must be dizzy flying in circles due to your enormous left wing.

Brokeback Mountain is just the most recent cowboy movie, I could have used "Marlboro Man" but you and all the other school kids here would probably not remember that either.

Absolute gold. I vote this as post of the year.

[Dark Horse]

Rev28K would that be true speed, ground speed or speed indicated?

[Rev28K]

Originally Posted by Dark Horse

Rev28K would that be true speed, ground speed or speed indicated?

Oh dear. I feel that I'm being reeled in again!

GPS would be the true speed measured between points determined by satellites in a geosync orbit around the earth irrespective of inclines wouldn't it? say between point a (X1, Y1) and point b (X2, Y2)

Ground speed (and this is a guess I am so tempted to Google the answer) would include whatever inclines are on the road say between point a (X1, Y1, Z1) and point b (X2, Y2, Z2).

Speed indicated (by the speedo) could be out by up to 10%.

Either that or I've totally misread your question. Are you talking about one of the mobile radar units mounted on moving cars that can measure the closing speed of an oncoming car, deduct the speed of the car that it is mounted to and come up with the true speed?

Aren't we just worried about a car travelling over the surface of the earth? It should have 4 wheels on the ground (!) and running in 2 directions should hopefully help even out wind variations.

[flappist]

I will give you a couple of clues, 6 cylinders, 200HP but only 3 wheels.

The first 2 letters of the rego are VH

[Scott]

Boom tish.

[Rev28K]

Got it (you basrtard!).

Dark Horse's post should've given me more of a clue. I guess it's air-cooled?
(When are you going to upgrade to Honda power or an LS1 powered one?)

[banarcus]

A cesspit 185? or a 175? a piper or maybe a moth?

[flappist]

Originally Posted by Dark Horse

Rev28K would that be true speed, ground speed or speed indicated?

Indicated, 145-150; TAS 160-170 odd at 10K.....(on a good day)

Well this has gone WAAAAAYYYY off topic. For those who care it is a PA28T Arrow III.

[Scott]

Small world, I've got an Arrow too!

[flappist]

Originally Posted by GTP006

Small world, I've got an Arrow too!

All the best people do, don't they?????

[v8falconsrule]

ok that has pure gold! sorry to the innocent, but that truely was good. much more fun than talkin about some jazzed up jeep anyway!

[Rev28K]

Got me hook, line and sinker. Well done.

3 wheels gave it away to me.

Now did I read something earlier about a soon to be manufacturer that has been going broke for longer than I've been alive making a block of flats that was quick only in a straight line?

[v8falconsrule]

hehe anything even remotely related to cars was lost a long time ago

[Interceptor]

Originally Posted by v8falconsrule

i love it when people don't fully understand what it is they're talking about :evil_laug

hopefully not directed at me lol

[I FluXx I]

Originally Posted by flappist

Your memory is as narrow and your attitude. The term "How embarrassment" is a common australian saying first coined by a character in the comedy "Acropolis Now".
Of course I can understand your failure to remember this as you must be dizzy flying in circles due to your enormous left wing.

Brokeback Mountain is just the most recent cowboy movie, I could have used "Marlboro Man" but you and all the other school kids here would probably not remember that either.

dam. Is it just me or are you always really really ****ed? Its not like he insulted you or something. Is it to hard to explain to him in a non hostile I want to kill everyone kinda way?

[FTE217]

Originally Posted by I FluXx I

dam. Is it just me or are you always really really ****ed? Its not like he insulted you or something. Is it to hard to explain to him in a non hostile I want to kill everyone kinda way?

Oh o here's another, come in spinner ! :

[JPFS1]

as funny as this thread has been.... can anybody provide anymore information from the PCOTY article??? ie, lap times of various cars etc. and which track was used?

Thanks.

[Tiapan]

Originally Posted by XRchic

I agree, and anyone who says they like Fords JUST for looks and not power or performance sounds a bit like one of my girlfriends when she says that she loves her Hyundai because "its just so cute" and "I dont really care about whether or not it can do "skids" or how fast it can go" or "I dont like those cars that go too fast because they make me sick when I go too fast".... LOL.

heh you sound like Dr COX from scrubs!

[Dr Smith]

Originally Posted by flappist

Indicated, 145-150; TAS 160-170 odd at 10K.....(on a good day)

Well this has gone WAAAAAYYYY off topic. For those who care it is a PA28T Arrow III.

So I'll have to keep the flaps down to stay back with you....

[chevypower]

I like to think I am not brand biased at all, if I really thought the Jeep was a better car, I would say I prefer it! And normally I would rate a 4x4 better if it had advantages in off-road or towing ability. I haven't driven the T Turbo or the Jeep SRT, but I think i am going to say I prefer the Territory Turbo. I wouldnt buy it, but I think it makes more sense than the Jeep. Anybody can make a car like the Jeep, just wack a huge V8 under the bonnet, and of course it will go fast in a straight line. The Jeep really isn't what it's supposed to be... its more a Nascar with Jeep body. If it was to go along the lines of the Cayenne Turbo, it would have ALL the advantages of a Jeep (off-road ability, towing ability) with extra advantages in handling and acceleration. In this category, i would rather pay the extra and get the Range Rover Sport in either the supercharged V8, OR (and preferably) the TDV8. If it had to be a sporty SUV and the budget of $60,000 and off-road and fuel economy were not part of the equation, it would be hard to go past the T Turbo (especially given that there is a lot of choice)

[Scott]

If you think it's bad being in an FPV at the lights, spare a thought for the poor bastard in the RS4 or M3 :( They actually paid serious money to get hosed off by a tractor!

[I FluXx I]

Originally Posted by Bluedriver

Oh o here's another, come in spinner ! :

I just thought it was kinda rude and uncalled for.

[MO]

Originally Posted by I FluXx I

I just thought it was kinda rude and uncalled for.

With your avatar...think about it!

[FTE217]

Originally Posted by I FluXx I

I just thought it was kinda rude and uncalled for.

Mate you got to take things a bit lighter,afterall on the key boards it's hard to tell who's taking the **** or not ! Most times ppl jump too soon.

By the way do you think your avatar could be rude or uncalled for ? :monkes:

[FTE217]

haha you beat me to it MO LOL...

[Bent8]

I think the more embarrassing thing is that the Chrysler SRT-8 did a 13.8 quarter mile run in a MOTOR mag a few months back, it's got the same 317kW motor aswell...