Cars and other kinds of motoring gibberish

Repeat of Canada at Indy: Hamilton, Alonso, Massa - 1, 2, 3. (I just can't get used to those McLaren guys in red :shakehead: )

gaijinmark wrote:Repeat of Canada at Indy: Hamilton, Alonso, Massa - 1, 2, 3. (I just can't get used to those McLaren guys in red :shakehead: )

McLaren was red and white during the Marlboro years: Lauda, Prost, Senna, Berger, TAG, Honda, Ford... :)

bmwracer wrote:
McLaren was red and white during the Marlboro years: Lauda, Prost, Senna, Berger, TAG, Honda, Ford... :)

True, but they had the West sponsorship for so long, plus the Vodaphone I still associate with Schumi. [/list:u]

bmwracer wrote:
As I mentioned earlier, Americans apparently don't want to spend $25K+ on a BMW with a hatch... :shakehead:

I think it's more lousy marketing by BMW NA... They're catering too much to the luxury crowd and not the driving crowd that was their foundation.

Yeah, that's still cheap for a BMW. If I could get a BMW for $30K Australian, i'd buy one tomorrow (For Mrs A.D :) ) but they start at about $45K here :(

Anime Dad wrote:Yeah, that's still cheap for a BMW. If I could get a BMW for $30K Australian, i'd buy one tomorrow (For Mrs A.D :) ) but they start at about $45K here :(

You should move to the States. :beaten:

Nah, i'd move to Japan :) Or Hawaii, which is in the states I suppose :)

Anime Dad wrote:Nah, i'd move to Japan :)

Good point. :victory:

Or Hawaii, which is in the states I suppose :)

Last time I looked, yeah. ;)

gaijinmark wrote: True, but they had the West sponsorship for so long, plus the Vodaphone I still associate with Schumi. [/list:u]

McLaren hooked up with West not long after Senna left and Mercedes became their engine supplier, ne? Mid-90's?

I always associate McLaren with the day-glo red and white... The West colors and current colors don't seem right to me.... Guess I'm dating myself. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:

I always associate McLaren with the day-glo red and white... The West colors and current colors don't seem right to me.... Guess I'm dating myself. :sweat:

it took me a while to get used to silver mclarens. it took me longer to get over the williams not having canon written down the side. the classic has to be the black and gold jps lotus. :applaud:

kenjilina wrote:it took me longer to get over the williams not having canon written down the side.

Ah, the Mansell-Piquet era... :)

One of the designs I really liked were the multicolored Benetton-BMWs driven by Berger (?) and Fabi (?)...

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BMW 1-series coupe:

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[image][/list:u] I was thinking more Andretti/Peterson (now I'm dating myself!!!)

gaijinmark wrote:[image][/list:u] I was thinking more Andretti/Peterson (now I'm dating myself!!!)

Yow, that's pre-turbo era, I believe. :sweat:

1-series profile shot:

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bmwracer wrote:
Yow, that's pre-turbo era, I believe. :sweat:

bring back turbos i say! :dancing:

Robo's car from Sexy Voice and Robo...

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just bought tickets for the race of champions event. i'll be seeing michael schumacher racing once again. :applaud:
http://www.raceofchampions.com/#/1_the_race_of_champions_comes_to_wembley/

In Japan do they drive on the right side or the left side of the car...i have seen both in dramas so i was curious

shiroi_tora wrote:In Japan do they drive on the right side or the left side of the car...i have seen both in dramas so i was curious

The steering wheel is on the right side of the car, and they drive down the left side of the road. Just like England and Australia, why they started doing it that way, I have no idea. :crazy: [/list:u]

Copy/paste from wiki:

...An informal practice of left-hand passage dates at least to the Edo period, when samurai are said to have passed each other to the left in order to avoid knocking swords with each other (as swords were always worn to the left side). During the late 1800s, Japan built its first railways with British technical assistance, and double-tracked railways adopted the British practice of running on the left...

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