Quote from Jakg :

How much, out of interest?

$9000. from a dealer. Which coincidentally, was the top of my price range.
2005, just over 92,000 miles on it.

KBB price from a dealer on the car is $11,350, which is about where most other SS's with similar mileage were being sold at in my area. The private party price is more down around $9000. But I was having terrible luck finding a car in good condition that way. It had been labelled as more (how much more I don't know), because the website had a "price reduced" banner on it, and the salesman mentioned something about dropping the price the day before.

KBB Value

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Quote from e2mustang :

is that a real SS ? where is the big wing?
pretty clean tho.

Yes it definitely is a real SS, but I think one of the previous owners switched the rear wing for whatever reason ( maybe rear view visibility, or it was damaged?). I don't really mind either way, I think they both look ok. I did find that strange when I found the car, but I made sure everything else was correct.

Last edited by RiseAgainstMe!, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 00:29.

This is my new car. 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt SS. I would take pictures of it out in my street, but it's pouring. So this is the picture from the online listing.

I found it was really tough to find a car with the incredibly narrow search parameters I was using... Had to be a manual (my requirement). Had to be an American car (my dad's, since it's his money). That right there narrowed me down to almost no options... and then I had to wait for one that was in my price range, in good shape, a pretty good value, and that I liked... took 3 weeks of constant searching, but I think I finally found the right one Drove all over the place, visited every dealership within 30 miles, and just when I was about at my breaking point, I found this car. It was mislabeled as an automatic, but I checked anyway. I think this is why it was still available, and the price had just been reduced to $2,350 under the stock Kelley Blue Book value the day before. Perfect timing

Whoever had the car before me kept it in incredible shape from everything I can find. Some things are slightly modified from stock, but nothing too crazy. Hopefully the white wheels won't be too hard to keep clean looking

First thing I plan on doing to it is replacing the shift knob, but from my research, that's a headache on this car because of the setup. The stock knob is all wiggly, and it's just generally shit.

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Quote from Sir moi 407 :

ITS THE REAPERS! They are coming!
Call commander Shepard!

ITS THE BORG! They are coming!
Call captain Picard!

Windsor Canada has the same sort of thing going on for a little bit now. Last I heard, they still hadn't identified a cause. And if the entire thing there was a hoax, someone had to have fooled the Detroit Free Press. Not impossible, but unlikely.

EDIT: 2 days ago http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ ... /09/13/wdr-rumblings.html It is an industrial area, so that likely has something to do with it, but I find it funny that they can't even trace it definitively to a single building or block or anything.

Quote from Bean0 :

Apparently questions are being asked by the turbo teams whether the tyres and roll cages are suitable for the increased weight.

I would hope that the roll cages are designed with at least a 20kg tolerance

And they are touring cars, you know the weight is likely to change

Quote from dadge :

he was pushing the limits to the extreme. but he crossed no line (except the finish line). it's not MSC's fault that the stewards are not consistent.

I thought he crossed the line once, just enough to maybe recieve a reprimand, but definitely not a drive through. If he had kept double moving like that, I would have wanted a penalty, but I certainly don't think that that one move was enough to warrrant a drive through. Hard racing, no harm, no foul. So uhh yeah, I think we mostly agree?

Same for Alonso squeezing Vettel wide, except I don't even think that was enough to consider a reprimand, but it was very tough defending (and coincidentally, a superb pass). And Webber-Massa was a racing incident, nothing more.

Too many stupid and needless and inconsistent penalties this year. I think this is the first weekend of the year I've actually not really had a complaint for the stewards, unless there was an incident I'm not remembering. Should use this weekend as a future benchmark of reasonable application of the rules. Unecessary contact has been interpreted some very silly ways this season.

Quote from BlueFlame :

Martin speaks the truth. End of.

Especially this part, summed up my feelings exactly, far better than I ever could.

Quote from Martin :

Did we see a consistency of application of driving standards rules? No.
Have drivers been penalised for less than Schumacher did? Yes.
Has Hamilton been punished for less? Yes.
I thought Hamilton handled the post-race interviews very maturely.
With the information I have would I have penalised Schumacher in the race? No, we need quality racing and it's meant to be tough out there, but a reprimand may have been appropriate.
I stand by what I said in commentary - Schumacher was placing his car very well, but his secondary defensive moves were pushing the limits to the absolute extreme and he was lucky to get away with it.

Quote from Crashgate3 :

I liked the part where a four year old was bumped by an off topic post and then people said 'S1' and 'S2' lots and lots of times.


AAA++++ would read again.

Best part was looking at the above posts and being reminded of JTbo and the forum gays makes me laugh every time I think of it still

I have tried to educate my dog in the ways of racing through various methods (taking him for fast drives, tried to get him to watch races on TV with me), but I gave up when he chewed the cords between my wheel and pedals to bits.

I bet if I had gotten a cat, it would be doing LFS laps the same way as your kid by now.

I seem to recall from one of my classes in college that there is (on the conservsative side) a 6% chance that life exists somewhere in this galaxy right now (obviously, we do). I'm too lazy to look up the entire mathematical equation right now, but it involved many statistics about the most necessary features for life on a planet. Now, if there is a 6% chance that life exists in this galaxy right now, it should basically be the same for all other galaxys. Unless there is something about galaxies I don't know. All of those 6% chances combine together to make a chance that is pretty much 100% that there is life elsewhere in the universe.

As for contacting them from god knows how many light years away... yeah, no. Not in the forseeable future, unless we get a huge breakthrough in tech. It makes me sad, I wish I could know what else is out there.

And there is a lot of shitty, shitty science that people use to justify UFO sightings and encounters. The burden of proof is on the sighters, and no one has been able to prove it even slightly convincingly to me.

Quote from PhilS13 :

DRS screwed things up at Monza...DF and gearing compromises were all over the place. I'm surprised how the "optimum" solutions ended up being so far from each other.

The differences made the race fun though, what with the Mercedes being so much faster on the long straights than the Mclaren, so it was extremely difficult to pass. Schumacher's defending was picture perfect, with the exception of that one move, which I thought crossed the line by a little bit. Still, excellent battle.

Quote from GreyBull [CHA] :

He did a few WTCC races in 2005, and wasn't THAT ridiculous considering that he didn't know most of the tracks, etc.

This. Face it, whether you like him or not (I HATE him, always have), he's a decent driver.

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I've never even heard the term pikey. But then, we don't exactly have many gypsys 'round these parts.

Quote from boothy :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5pK3_3ikvk

If he had flipped, his season would probably have been over. not much money in that team.

Quote from BlueFlame :

You know full well he meant, if Hamilton DIDN'T use DRS so stop trolling.

I'm not you. I don't troll.

And I still don't think he did mean that.

Quote from Hyperactive :

Well then first of all shotty's joke doesn't work then. Second of all it also proves drs was overkill. If hamilton had used drs he would have not collided with kobi. Not even despite hamilton being black.

Hamilton was using DRS

The **** US government?

At least 2/3 Hamilton's fault.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Man City got off lightly.

Just what part of Bayern Munich, Napoli, and Villareal looks easy? That's a pretty high level group.

EDIT: bold prediction: Arsenal don't make it through. As much as that pains me.

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Quote from BlueFlame :

Don't think Heidfeld will be too bothered, after all they kept giving him cars that tried to set fire to him.

think again:

http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1- ... threatening-court-action/

http://joesaward.wordpress.com ... 8/25/heidfeld-goes-legal/

Quote :

"Don't call me a socialite, call me a businesswoman," demanded the socialite Tamara Ecclestone in The Mail on Sunday.

I love how they called her a socialite in that very same sentence classic.

Quote from smove :

In contrast, how does an automatic transmission handle this situation, and how does it handle a downhill drive in general? Since we all know, we should drive down a slope in the lowest gear possible to preserve the brakes from overheating - does an AT do that, and is there a kind of "gyro" checking the car's angle, possibly forcing the transmission to change gears in a different way (=later)?

Automatic transmissions don't handle that situation automatically. At least the ones I've driven. They usually have a way to lock the transmission into not using the higher gears, but you have to activate it manually, when you need it. So for instance, it would tell the transmission to only use (say) 1st and 2nd gears. It's marked by an L or a number such as 1 or 3. Depends on the specific car I think as to how it's set up. In the case above where it can use 2 gears, it would be marked with a '2'

EDIT: the van outside is PRND3L. Meaning: Park, reverse, neutral, drive, 3 gears, only 1st gear.

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not to mention the close walls are part of the charm of the glen now

Quote from Intrepid :

It's somewhere to park if your car breaks down, and it allows emergency vehicles to get to accidents without being blocked.

Yes, I get that. Except apparently it doesn't allow emergency vehicles to get to accidents from the accounts here.

We have an area for the same purpose, but it's not designated as a lane at all. It's not part of the road. This way people don't try to do what happens in this video, and the emergency vehicle is free.