First cars!
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@antipodean last time I went to Aus I had an outlander with ACC. Thrashed that feature, it was awesome! That and the commodore I had on the previous trip that tried to gently steer you away from white lines were awesome for freaking out Bonesetta.
Not so awesome when I discovered the white line feature for the first time while overtaking a cyclist and it tried to take him out.
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@Bones said in First cars!:
@antipodean last time I went to Aus I had an outlander with ACC. Thrashed that feature, it was awesome! That and the commodore I had on the previous trip that tried to gently steer you away from white lines were awesome for freaking out Bonesetta.
Not so awesome when I discovered the white line feature for the first time while overtaking a cyclist and it tried to take him out.
Wouldn’t have been a great loss
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First car was a 1978 mitsi mirage, 4speed 1300cc. Had it for about about a year until it got written off while getting hit by a van while parked outside lou Vincent’s little sisters house. We were both in the car too!
I remember the day I got it I drove from the shore up to pakiri with the choke out and almost used up all the gas
Replaced it with a mitsi station....what a farken beast 2ltr turbo rwd but auto. Never had another mitsi since and didn’t have another auto until about 15 years later when came back from the UK.
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@Bones said in First cars!:
Not so awesome when I discovered the white line feature for the first time while overtaking a cyclist and it tried to take him out.
Just going to have to drop this in here.
My father in law is a mad keen cyclist, mostly because my brother in law took it up and FiL can't stand his son being better at anything than him. So FiL out training on his bike, pretty much got taken out by a car and was furious. Catches up to it and starts shouting at the driver.
It was my MiL. We still don't know whether it was intentional... -
My first car was a red subaru impreza that was maybe from 1998 if I remember correctly and I had it in 2003 after it had been tinkered with for aaaages by my dad. When I eventually got to drive it I hated everything about it, because I'd been using my mom's car, took my mates to New Quay in it a month after having it and it got stolen. My dad was effing furious. I don't know why I ever had that car anyway it was a shit heap and soooo noisy. Too much for me.
Talking of cars is anyone else scared of drive thru car washes....
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@JK said in First cars!:
First car was a 1978 mitsi mirage, 4speed 1300cc. Had it for about about a year until it got written off while getting hit by a van while parked outside lou Vincent’s little sisters house. We were both in the car too!
I remember the day I got it I drove from the shore up to pakiri with the choke out and almost used up all the gas
Replaced it with a mitsi station....what a farken beast 2ltr turbo rwd but auto. Never had another mitsi since and didn’t have another auto until about 15 years later when came back from the UK.
I’m sure there’s a bloody good story here
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@R-L said in First cars!:
My first car was a red subaru impreza that was maybe from 1998 if I remember correctly and I had it in 2003 after it had been tinkered with for aaaages by my dad. When I eventually got to drive it I hated everything about it, because I'd been using my mom's car, took my mates to New Quay in it a month after having it and it got stolen. My dad was effing furious. I don't know why I ever had that car anyway it was a shit heap and soooo noisy. Too much for me.
Talking of cars is anyone else scared of drive thru car washes....
On the contrary, boys and I love them. Getting them free through work suits my Scottish heritage too.
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@Snowy said in First cars!:
@MN5 said in First cars!:
Fuck manuals. They're a thing of the past. Move with the times.
Not if you actually like driving and "a bit" of control - often in my case not so much of the control thing, but it makes me feel better.
Yeah, the wife brought a Swift in 2008 that we still have. Top little car, and at 1500cc and manual has some real zip. Fun on winding roads too. Drives like a go-cart.
Noticed many more manuals in the UK. I think they are quite a bit cheaper. Pain in the arse in London though, people can't drive them properly and when they take off in front of you, you need to anticipate the inevitable slow down as they change gear.
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I learned to drive in a 6 cylinder falcon ute auto, when I was 13, on a metal road on the way home from golf while my dad was drunk...mum didnt find out for years
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@taniwharugby said in First cars!:
I learned to drive in a 6 cylinder falcon ute auto, when I was 13, on a metal road on the way home from golf while my dad was drunk...mum didnt find out for years
Yeah, I did my first driving when my Dad was drunk too, after rugby instead of golf though.
My first car was a Mazda 808, raised at the back with mags. It was out family car when I was a kid so I just inherited it and it somehow became a cool car (I'm not a car person at all so couldn't have cared less but I always had people offering to buy it from me).
I learnt to drive in a Hillman Hunter, because they have such easy gear changes. A family friend taught me how to drive, and my parents taught other family friends kids how to drive - seemed to work well without the shitfights that can sometimes come with parents teaching their own kids.
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@MN5 said in First cars!:
@JK said in First cars!:
First car was a 1978 mitsi mirage, 4speed 1300cc. Had it for about about a year until it got written off while getting hit by a van while parked outside lou Vincent’s little sisters house. We were both in the car too!
I remember the day I got it I drove from the shore up to pakiri with the choke out and almost used up all the gas
Replaced it with a mitsi station....what a farken beast 2ltr turbo rwd but auto. Never had another mitsi since and didn’t have another auto until about 15 years later when came back from the UK.
I’m sure there’s a bloody good story here
There is but not suitable for this thread!
And no wasn’t him in the van. He was living in Aus at the time with his old man.
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@MN5 said in First cars!:
@JK said in First cars!:
First car was a 1978 mitsi mirage, 4speed 1300cc. Had it for about about a year until it got written off while getting hit by a van while parked outside lou Vincent’s little sisters house. We were both in the car too!
I remember the day I got it I drove from the shore up to pakiri with the choke out and almost used up all the gas
Replaced it with a mitsi station....what a farken beast 2ltr turbo rwd but auto. Never had another mitsi since and didn’t have another auto until about 15 years later when came back from the UK.
I’m sure there’s a bloody good story here
Easy opportunity for a joke, something about piercing the ring through the covers
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