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Here's what I saw today, mark 3 (don't quote pictures, 24h ban!)

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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,456 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    It has issues in the rain, all right. I would think any RWD with over 800hp would. But Cadillac figured out how to make sports sedans a few years back, the CTS-V will fight an M5 or E AMG any day of the week. GM no longer only makes quarter-milers. I say this as an Audi S4 owner, with the S6 top of my next to-buy list. There is a reason the Caddy keeps winning motoring magazine shootouts.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,456 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    It has issues in the rain, all right. I would think any RWD with over 800hp would. But Cadillac figured out how to make sports sedans a few years back, the CTS-V will fight an M5 or E AMG any day of the week. GM no longer only makes quarter-milers. I say this as an Audi S4 owner, with the S6 top of my next to-buy list. There is a reason the Caddy keeps winning motoring magazine shootouts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Okay okay, we get it, it has issues, sheesh :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg


    I have issues in the rain with 240hp and rwd!!! Death trap right there..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,590 ✭✭✭tossy


    I have issues in the rain with 240hp and rwd!!! Death trap right there..

    Rain ??? :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    I have issues in the rain with 240hp and rwd!!! Death trap right there..

    Try buying good tyres ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,620 ✭✭✭Graham_B18C


    First time to ever see one of these, may well be the only time I'll see one. Tesla Roadster parked outside the Natural History Museum in London. Didn't bother taking a pic of a matt black Hurrican that was just up from it, I was too excited after seeing the Tesla!

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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,152 ✭✭✭26000 Elephants


    Only a Tesla Roadster can make a Nissan Micra look like an SUV... :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 11 dan27barca


    No picture but I just saw an orange 162 PORSCHE 911 GT3 RS (991) in Drogheda!!! My god, it was AWESOME!! I was so excited, I gave loads of thumbs up to the driver from my car and he waved back. Made my day!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 797 ✭✭✭cplwhisper


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Would I be right in saying that the Tesla Roadster is based on a Lotus Elise?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Would I be right in saying that the Tesla Roadster is based on a Lotus Elise?

    Certainly looks a lot like one


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 397 ✭✭polan


    dan27barca wrote: »
    No picture but I just saw an orange 162 PORSCHE 911 GT3 RS (991) in Drogheda!!! My god, it was AWESOME!! I was so excited, I gave loads of thumbs up to the driver from my car and he waved back. Made my day!

    Seen that car in Kildare previously, savage motor.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,451 ✭✭✭CharlieCroker


    Would I be right in saying that the Tesla Roadster is based on a Lotus Elise?

    Ya, on a slightly stretched Elise chassis.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg


    Ded_Zebra wrote: »
    Try buying good tyres ;)

    I run Rainsport 3's (don't have TC though..):)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,445 ✭✭✭tc20


    I'm not 100% if this is a 'real' model, the badging looked spot on.
    Down at Brittas Bay yesterday. (BMW X5 M 50D)

    it's coming up as a 3.0 diesel on cartel??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,525 ✭✭✭ION08


    tc20 wrote: »
    I'm not 100% if this is a 'real' model, the badging looked spot on.
    Down at Brittas Bay yesterday. (BMW X5 M 50D)

    it's coming up as a 3.0 diesel on cartel??

    A quick cartell would tell you it is indeed real ;)

    Edit, oh sorry, Just re read your post properly.

    Yes its real, the M50d is infact a 3.0 Diesel engine but with Triple Turbos :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,445 ✭✭✭tc20


    ^ ah, gotcha - it had me confused, I wasn't sure if there was a 5 litre derv version..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭pcardin


    Only a Tesla Roadster can make a Nissan Micra look like an SUV...  :)
    Smart Roadster would make Tesla Roadster look like a SUV


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg


    Nice spot in Drogheda..


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,290 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Nice spot in Drogheda..
    The S2K looks so much nicer than the R8 though!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg


    kbannon wrote: »
    The S2K looks so much nicer than the R8 though!

    Thanks :D Do want an R8 tho...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,174 ✭✭✭Top Dog


    tc20 wrote: »
    ^ ah, gotcha - it had me confused, I wasn't sure if there was a 5 litre derv version..
    Similarly the 535d is also a 3.0 diesel - but with 2 turbo's. Just to add to the confusion over BMW badging :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,268 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    I have issues in the rain with 240hp and rwd!!! Death trap right there..

    It doesn't rain much in California.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Top Dog wrote: »
    Similarly the 535d is also a 3.0 diesel - but with 2 turbo's. Just to add to the confusion over BMW badging :D

    The last 5 means twin turbo....but that's only once you get over 2.5 litres as the 325 is N/A. This engine changed from a 2.5 litre to a 3.0 litre but remained 325i and you also had the 330i which is a 3.0 litre.................................


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭Carpentry


    Mustang Fastback 2.3 Ecoboost, according to carzone

    Looks amazing and sounds amazing even tough its "only" 2.3

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 568 ✭✭✭CianDon


    More a case of what I saw over the weekend;

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭h3000


    Oh I really need to get to Monte some time.

    Is that Boland's R5 in the last pic?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 568 ✭✭✭CianDon


    h3000 wrote: »
    Oh I really need to get to Monte some time.

    Is that Boland's R5 in the last pic?

    It is one hell of an event. Epic stages, obvioulsy the 17-spec epic cars and some epic drives between stages. Well worth getting to. Aye that's Eamonn and MJ in the last pic


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,763 ✭✭✭Muckie


    Came across this cool truck in Tallaght at lunchtime.

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    Reminded me of this......

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭h3000


    CianDon wrote: »
    It is one hell of an event. Epic stages, obvioulsy the 17-spec epic cars and some epic drives between stages. Well worth getting to. Aye that's Eamonn and MJ in the last pic
    From the coverage/Youtube vids I seen it looked awesome.
    I still haven't got abroad to a rally. None of my friends have any interest in rallying.
    Nice pics btw. They are not easy ones to get right.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,467 ✭✭✭vandriver


    Saw a MB S63 and a 911 turbo s tonight in Rathmines.The boom's back,lads.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,456 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Shannon757 wrote: »
    He said 'much'. We've had a wet (By CA standards) Dec and January. According to the radio today, no rain expected now until the middle of next week, when we might get some showers. I think the rain season is mostly over now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,121 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Spotted near Dundrum


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 752 ✭✭✭TheBigGreen


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,599 ✭✭✭ScrubsfanChris


    ^^^^ Just read the other day that the European spec Mustang got only 2/5 stars on the Euro NCAP. Thats scarily bad for a modern car.


  • Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭GustavoGaviria


    ^^^^ Just read the other day that the European spec Mustang got only 2/5 stars on the Euro NCAP. Thats scarily bad for a modern car.

    Thats also after tons of changes based on EU regulations.

    Differences in Euro/US Spec


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,543 ✭✭✭goochy


    171 WW bronze colour hybrid Volvo xc90 in cork , looked well and nice and quiet !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,823 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    goochy wrote: »
    171 WW bronze colour hybrid Volvo xc90 in cork , looked well and nice and quiet !

    Those are t8s aren't they?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭kyote00


    Seems pretty clear to me ?

    http://www.euroncap.com/en/results/ford/mustang/26063

    Note, Ford preparing updated model for late 2017 :P

    (Probably borrowing some Jag parts.....)
    http://www.euroncap.com/en/results/jaguar/xf/22029
    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    It's not as black and white as that if you read up about it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,543 ✭✭✭goochy


    Yes the Volvo is a t8 . Had to check as couldn't remember what no. Was on back.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,477 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    bear1 wrote: »
    Those are t8s aren't they?

    Yep, but 4 cylinder 2.0 engine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,823 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Yep, but 4 cylinder 2.0 engine.

    Still has the guts of 400bhp though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,699 ✭✭✭✭R.O.R


    bear1 wrote: »
    Still has the guts of 400bhp though.

    320 from the Petrol and 80 from the Electric.

    Is sold as a non Hybrid T6 in other markets with just the 320 horses, but VRT here would make that more than the T8 here, so no point selling that version here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,477 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    bear1 wrote: »
    Those are t8s aren't they?
    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Yep, but 4 cylinder 2.0 engine.
    bear1 wrote: »
    Still has the guts of 400bhp though.

    Oh, no arguing with that, but the expectation from the badge might be that it's an 8 cylinder.

    Older volvos would have a link between the number after the T and the number of cylinders.

    I know with the diesels they changed that years ago.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,823 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Oh, no arguing with that, but the expectation from the badge might be that it's an 8 cylinder.

    Older volvos would have a link between the number after the T and the number of cylinders.

    I know with the diesels they changed that years ago.

    Ah I get you now.
    Still quite a feat to get such a monumental amount of power from a 2.0


  • Registered Users Posts: 380 ✭✭cullow123


    Seen this Bristol Blenheim yesterday on mount street:

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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,878 ✭✭✭MuddyDog


    Saw what I thought was an M4 earlier. 142D19510. However cartell says it's a 3 litre 4 series diesel? It had quad exhaust pipes and was debagded and looked perhaps lowered a bit (although I've never seen an M4 in the flesh before so not sure of their ride height). The quad exhausts made me convinced it was an M4 until I cartell'd it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,903 ✭✭✭cadaliac


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Oh, no arguing with that, but the expectation from the badge might be that it's an 8 cylinder.

    Older volvos would have a link between the number after the T and the number of cylinders.

    I know with the diesels they changed that years ago.
    Volvos do big bad ass turbo's


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