yup. same grade of fuel. different rating number. its not like they are running racing gas over there

Quote from evilgeek :

the worst thing is, it wasn't even a high speed crash on a racetrack. lamest wreck evar!

i agree. looks like he screwed up on an auto-x course.

wow...they destroyed those cars, to get "a more realistic wreck", but the way they set up the wreck sequences, it makes the cars look more fake than if they had actually used replicas, models, or cg.

what a bunch of r-tards. it really makes you wonder how people that dumb get to where they do in life.

i use whatever grade is recommended for the car. going above the recommended grade doesn't get you any better performance, and more than likely gives worse fuel economy (in most situations).

now, if you've modified your car, you may have to go to a higher grade, depending on what you've done, or if you are getting detonation (ping/knock), then a higher octane might take care of that. if your car is pinging with the recommended fuel grade, then you should get the car looked at. could be a symptom of a larger problem forming. or it might just be in need of a tune up.

but, unless you're car specifically calls for a higher octane, stick with the lower octanes, except to stop pinging.

the higher the octane, the harder it is for the fuel to combust. which is why forced-induction cars and high compression cars call for it. in those cars, when using lower octane fuel, the air-fuel mixture is actually combusting on the compression stroke, before the sparkplug fires...and that's what knock/pinging is. so a higher octane is used. because it's harder to ignite, it can be compressed more and not combust before the spark.

when you use it in a car that doesn't need a higher octane, the fuel might not finish combusting before the exhaust stroke, and if that happens, you get worse fuel economy.

Quote from anik360 :

AHAHHAHA PWNED by a walll what a shame. celebs should get cheap cars cause all they do is pwn their shiny 1.5 mil cars purposely into things

it wasn't even his car :doh:
he was driving the one of the cars owned by the movie's producer.

video of wreck
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cNVrMZX2kms

Quote from CNN :

Eddie Griffin crashed a rare Ferrari Enzo worth $1.5 million into a concrete barrier while practicing at a racetrack Monday, destroying the car but escaping uninjured.

The comedian was practicing for a charity race to promote his upcoming film, "Redline," when he drove too fast around a curve at the Irwindale Speedway. Video footage showed the red sports car screeching before it ricocheted off the barrier with heavy damage to its front.

"Undercover Brother's good at karate and all the rest of that, but the brother can't drive," Griffin, referring to one his past films, said after the accident. (Watch Griffin drive into the barrier, destroying the car )

The film's publicist, Wendy Zocks, said Griffin was "doing OK."

"He walked away completely unscratched, but probably a little shaken," Zocks said.

The Enzo, valued at around $1.5 million, was owned by the executive producer of "Redline," Daniel Sadek, whose exotic car collection is featured in the movie.

Sadek said that the car was damaged beyond repair and that he had "mixed feelings" about the wreck.

"I'm glad Eddie came out of the crash OK, but my dream car got destroyed," Sadek said. "I went to my trailer for about 15 minutes and I thought, there's people dying every day. A lot of worse things are happening in the world."

let me preface this with, i am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice (being married to a lawyer has gotten me in the habit of saying this)

not being well versed in international law, i'm going to say that they most likely don't have a leg to stand on and are grandstanding, hoping that you (the forum admins) won't call their bluff. like Dajmin said, they can't make you change the site's name, as i'm almost positive the word "ford" is not eligable for copywrite/trademark protection, but they could make you remove any of Ford's logos, as those are protected. but since there aren't any, that's not an issue.

see if you can find some legal help that will be willing to take the case for free, or on contingency (they get paid from the winning settlement). maybe even file a countersuit.

short of that, at least talk to some legal counsel to find out what rights Ford actually has in your country, and what reprecussions they could face if they overstepped their rights.

going off of US laws, i'd say that Ford is throwing a huge bluff.

i know about excel coding, but i don't use msn, so i guess you are SOL











nah, i don't really know that much about excel coding, but my point is still valid

I noticed aston martin isn't on there. who, i think ford used to own, but just sold, not sure to whom though.

also, doesn't lamborghini fall into the Porsche-VW group?

and Mitsubishi was left off the list. they are mostly independant, but do collaborate with the Daimler-Chrysler group.

sounds like ridge racer (?) on the xbox 360. great to look at, but not much fun to interact with.

if you've got photoshop cs2, then you can use it to edit/create animated gifs. and if you have photoshop, then you have image ready. so, there are 2 programs (if you already have PS). and if not, then gimp is a good choice.

Quote from imthebestracerthereis :

ps NO JAVASCRIPT ALLOWED :S

No JS? Well, you could make a 100% flash based website. other than that, i think you are SOL.

those aren't dragable
sure, sure. they are attached to the mouse, but not dragable

and jebus...that's a lot of js in that file.

unzip the two files, and put them in the same directory as the html file

######
This goes in the <head> tags
######
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="floatingDiv.css" />
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="floatingDiv.js"></SCRIPT>



######
this goes in the <body> tag>
######
add onLoad="setfocus();" to the opening body tag
for example...
<body onLoad="setfocus();">



######
here are the 2 images that open and close the floating Div
######
<img src="imageOpen.jpg" onClick="document.getElementById('floater').style.display='';" /><img src="imageClose.jpg" onClick="document.getElementById('floater').style.display='none';" />


######
this is the floating/dragable div
######
<div id="floater" class="drag" style="display: none;">
some content
</div>




######
Add this to the very bottom of the page
######
<script type="text/javascript">
var draggers=document.getElementsByTagName('div')
for (var i_tem = 0; i_tem < draggers.length; i_tem++)
if ( draggers[i_tem].className=='drag' )
Drag.init(draggers[i_tem])
</script>

if you click on the text that appears, it goes away.

but what you are wanting is different than what you asked for

hang on and i'll get the rest

since the original forza was never released to the pc, i wouldn't hold my breath waiting for forza 2 to come to the pc.

[HTML]<img src="image.jpg" onClick="document.getElementById('popupBox').style.display='';" />

<div id="popupBox" style="display: none;" onClick="this.style.display='none';">
some content
</div>[/HTML]

sweet. i'll keep my eyes out for it

that's pretty cool. what options do those of us in the states have? are they going to be sold here, if not, online ordering?

that font searcher is pretty sweet. thanks

Quote from Kegetys :

No?

Yes, macrovision exists, but it isn't used on tv broadcasts (yet)...just on other VHS tapes and DVDs. Recording a TV program is just, tape in, record...on in the case of DVRs, record

and contrary to the wiki article, i've never had a problem recording a program through a cable box, regardless of using a VCR, Tivo, or PC. And is even through several different cable companies. never tried through satellite. though friends with satellite haven't had any problems with recording.

Last edited by glyphon, Thu, 8 Mar 2007 18:52.

drm hasn't affected VCR recording, at least here in the the states...yet.

unless your upload speed is insanely fast (several mbit/s), i'd avoid running a media server off of your internet connection while playing games as the media server will most likely suckup all of your upload bandwidth, unless you know what you are doing, and no offense, but i don't think you do.

^^^ nope. photoshop. i'd recognize those pallete windows anywhere. it also says it in the description of the clip (not that those are always acurate, depending on who uploaded it).

Yup. the georgia rx8 club does...we have a small group that races...4-8 at any given event, but its still fun. we have a small tourny going on, but we haven't raced in a while due to scheduling conflicts last month. hopefully we'll get the next race off soon, as to move on to the next race.