Cars and other kinds of motoring gibberish

kenjilina wrote:

what's a plate renewal bill? over here we pay road tax every year. is this similar?

umm.. i think our road tax is rolled into our gasoline tax. the plate renewal is the vehicle registration so we can get our little sticker that says we paid the yearly fee.

kenjilina wrote: i guess with ferrari and mclaren fighting for the championship last year some of their resources were elsewhere when it came to developing this year's car. a situation that brawn are capitalising on and good luck to them.

Do you think McLaren and Ferrari will eventually catch up by mid-season?

bmwracer wrote:
Do you think McLaren and Ferrari will eventually catch up by mid-season?

i think they can but it may be too late as ross' cars seem to have a huge advantage at the moment.

kenjilina wrote: i think they can but it may be too late as ross' cars seem to have a huge advantage at the moment.

Pretty amazing for Brawn to come out of the blue and have a Ferrari/McLaren beater... I can think of past teams that have tried and failed miserably...

bmwracer wrote:
Pretty amazing for Brawn to come out of the blue and have a Ferrari/McLaren beater... I can think of past teams that have tried and failed miserably...

i have tremendous regard for ross brawn after his success at benetton and ferrari with michael schumacher and i think his success now is testament to his genius.

kenjilina wrote: i have tremendous regard for ross brawn after his success at benetton and ferrari with michael schumacher and i think his success now is testament to his genius.

I felt the same way with Gordon Murray and McLaren. :victory:

krim wrote:

umm.. i think our road tax is rolled into our gasoline tax. the plate renewal is the vehicle registration so we can get our little sticker that says we paid the yearly fee.

over 70% of our fuel price is tax with one litre of unleaded costing around a pound! :grumble:
actual road tax depends on the car's co2 emissions when new.

kenjilina wrote:

over 70% of our fuel price is tax with one litre of unleaded costing around a pound! :grumble:
actual road tax depends on the car's co2 emissions when new.

Ah, i get it now.. our fuel tax is about 30%, and our "road tax" = registration fee based on age and cost of said vehicle.

Button and Brawn Break the Bank at Monaco1 Jenson Button Brawn 1:40:44.282
2 Rubens Barrichello Brawn 7.666
3 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 13.442
4 Felipe Massa Ferrari 15.110
5 Mark Webber Red Bull 15.730
6 Nico Rosberg Williams 33.586
7 Fernando Alonso Renault 37.839
8 Sebastien Bourdais Toro Rosso 1:03.142
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^ Wow... Again.

Ferrari finally shows up for a change.

It's looking more and more like this season's championship is Jenson Button's and Brawn's to lose...

Car problems: My ignition switch seems to have failed.... I'm stuck at my brother's house... :puppydog:

Waiting for the tow truck now... :sweat: :sweat: :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:Waiting for the tow truck now... :sweat: :sweat: :sweat:

[image][/list:u]You may have to wait awhile, but we'll get there, , , eventually. [/list:u]

gaijinmark wrote:[image][/list:u]You may have to wait awhile, but we'll get there, , , eventually. [/list:u]

Surprisingly, he showed up in about 20 minutes... Props to AAA.

According to my mechanic, it looks like the anti-theft/anti-tamper mechanism did it's job and broke, preventing the ignition from being engaged... Unfortunately, I wasn't trying to steal my own car. :sweat:

That has to be replaced along with possibly the tumblers requiring me to have a different key to start the car.

The estimate: $700. :puppydog:

Car's fixed: the ignition switch/harness and anti-theft mechanism were replaced, but they managed to re-use the key set, so that saves me a couple hundred bucks and several days of delay.

Total: $525.

I pick up the car in the morning.... Whew. :sweat: :tired:

Still expensive... it hurts the wallet :P

Anime Dad wrote:Still expensive... it hurts the wallet :P

Absolutely.

But I can rationalize it when I think of how much the stealer, er, dealer would charge... :victory:

Boo hoo for Lee Iacocca:

Iacocca losing pension, car in Chrysler bankruptcy

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090529/bs_nm/us_chrysler_iacocca

got a new battery and rear indicators for my bike. hopefully i'll have it up and running again this weekend. :mrgreen:

Turkish GP Qualifying

1 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 1:28.316
2 Jenson Button Brawn 0:00.900
3 Rubens Barrichello Brawn 0:01.058
4 Mark Webber Red Bull 0:01.092
5 Jarno Trulli Toyota 0:01.145
6 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 0:01.294
7 Felipe Massa Ferrari 0:01.337
8 Fernando Alonso Renault 0:01.554
9 Nico Rosberg Williams 0:01.836
10 Robert Kubica BMW 0:01.836
11 Nick Heidfeld BMW 0:00.000
12 Kazuki Nakajima Williams 0:00.108
13 Timo Glock Toyota 0:00.274
14 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren 0:00.686
15 Adrian Sutil Force India 0:00.870
16 Lewis Hamilton McLaren 0:00.797
17 Nelson Piquet Renault 0:01.061
18 Sebastien Buemi Toro Rosso 0:01.187
19 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India 0:01.196
20 Sebastien Bourdais Toro Rosso 0:01.397