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Sydney/Wollongong
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October 2003
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Ballarat, Victoria
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March 2003
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Fri, 19 December 2003 06:21
 
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foooooook thats impressive 
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Central Coast
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July 2003
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Fri, 19 December 2003 07:28
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Maybe the puppy was running on Gas?
Otherwise I dun know.... 
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Bayside Melbourne.
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May 2003
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Fri, 19 December 2003 08:20
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Maybe the Renault Scenic realised how gay it was and decided to end the shame. 
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Sydney/Wollongong
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October 2003
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Newcastle
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April 2003
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Fri, 19 December 2003 10:22
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Burn you French shitbox. 
Wonder what the warranty claim will say.
Probably a fuel leak in there somewhere.
If a small leak could do that then it puts the hilux in perspective.
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Location:
Melbourne
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November 2003
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Fri, 19 December 2003 13:35
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| SIMDOG wrote on Fri, 19 December 2003 19:20 |
Maybe the Renault Scenic realised how gay it was and decided to end the shame.
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Good call. Not that I have anything against Renault... well okay perhaps a little. It's mostly their cars that are bad...
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I supported Toymods
Location:
melbourne.victoria.austra...
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June 2002
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Fri, 19 December 2003 20:23
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i'd guess a crappy LPG conversion...
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Location:
Melbourne
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October 2003
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Finland
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November 2002
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Fri, 19 December 2003 22:07
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All the French cars are the same SHIT. Everybody that has fixed some french crap would agree. You cant believe how much you can need SST's. For example in Peugeots you find pentagonal bolts, male and female torx bolts, male and female bolts that have pentagonal notch. Most of the bolts are torx headed. Another PITA is bolt size choosing. Another example: I changed gearbox to my old mans 405, clutch housing was bolted to block with four different type of bolts(two different size and two diffrent bolt heads). All those bolts could been same size and style but NO. Bumpers, front mask, lamps, etc are fastened with plastic cotters that cannot take out in one piece. Then get new ones from peugeot dealer for $$$. Some things that need maintenance are inside of some sealed component like rear axle tube there are needle-bearings that need to be greased but how do you put the grease in???
So, viva la france!!!
I dont want to see anybody hurt but I would like to see all the past fifties french cars blow up at once. Pre fifties cars could be spared as a classics.
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Melbourne
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May 2002
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sat, 20 December 2003 00:50
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everyone blames LPG when a car blows up 
Being a new car i would say it was a faulty fuel line the frogs are too stuck up them selfs to build a decent car
"I am french i need no hose clamp! fuck you!"
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Location:
Newcastle
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April 2003
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sat, 20 December 2003 01:23
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| Allan wrote on Sat, 20 December 2003 11:50 |
"I am french i need no hose clamp! fuck you!"
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That pretty much sums them up i think.
But we shouldn't put to much shit on them or they might want to nuke us all.
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Location:
Melbourne
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November 2003
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sat, 20 December 2003 04:02
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No they wont. They are all to "Le Tired".
Anyway yeah... Renault made the Turbocharger... gotta give them some respect for that.
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Sydney/Wollongong
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October 2003
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March 2003
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sat, 20 December 2003 04:26
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moments before explosion.. car talking to woman
[.monty python's holy grail - french soldier voice]
I don't want to drive for you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
[/monty python's holy grail - french soldier voice]
boom!
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Brisbane
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July 2002
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sat, 20 December 2003 05:00
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my gf's pop whom she lives with runs a pergeot business for parts.. he always sais to me.. get a good car, get a pergeot... and im like 
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Brisbane
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October 2002
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sat, 20 December 2003 06:52
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just look at how UGLY that new MEGANE is, and the fucked up ad
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Melbourne
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November 2003
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sat, 20 December 2003 06:54
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Yeah. BMWs have big problems in Australian heat. Computers can overheat simetimes and just melt. So I hear.
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Australia
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December 2002
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sun, 21 December 2003 05:59
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I used to live in Dandenong and one raining Friday afternoon peak hour at the intersection of Londsdale street and the highway there was a sooty gray 70's holder with a young bloke driving it.
Anyway he was revving it a bit, and when the lights changed it revs right up and at the instant the wheels spun there was a huge bang bang and two very big puffs of black smoke come out each exhaust and his bonnet lifts up a little.
It was an awesome sight, there was this bloke, long hair, skin tight black jeans and a jim bean t-shirt everything you could wish for in road side entertainment.
Cheers..
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Melbourne
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May 2002
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sun, 21 December 2003 08:37
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Goulburn
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May 2002
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sun, 21 December 2003 14:15
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I supported Toymods
Location:
melbourne.victoria.austra...
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June 2002
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Mon, 22 December 2003 19:17
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allan you worry me... 
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Location:
Randwick Sydney
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November 2003
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Tue, 23 December 2003 21:54
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Rofl allen.
as for overheating, i think the astra is a big contender of that on a hot day it sits in the red zone on the temp gauge.
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Location:
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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May 2002
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Location:
Darwin -> Perth
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May 2002
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Sat, 27 December 2003 01:37
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Doesn't Renault own Nissan???
Also who can forget the Renault 5 turbo from the group B days.
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Banned user
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ADELAIDE - The Drift City
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July 2002
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sat, 27 December 2003 03:06
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fuck renault in the proverbal....
they are responsible for some serious heaps of shits on our roads today and they are also responsible for the serious lack of decent cars from Nissan.
There will be no more GTR, no more sporting models such as the S13S14 and S15 platform, no skyline as we know it today, the 350Zed it a lump of turd.
Go figure.. they invented turbo charging and then proceed to eliminate the entire range of turbo vehicles from nissan...
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Sydney
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December 2003
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sat, 27 December 2003 03:46
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If thats true, then that's so retarded...that can't be!
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Melbourne
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November 2003
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sat, 27 December 2003 04:56
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No no, it's true. At least, as far as I know.
Have you seen the new skyline? The R35? It's a V6 powered family sedan!!! Like WHAT THE FUCK!?
The 350Z isn't all the bad. Sure, I think it looks rather crap compared to the old 300ZX, R34, R33, S15, S14, S13, 180sx and R32, but oh well. At least its 3.5ltr V6 engine pumps out a decent wack of power, even without a Turbocharger. Slap a turbo on it, and bamph, you got yourself a bit of a monster. However, as far as I know the 350Z doesn't come with any sort of factory turbo.
Renault is changing Nissan from a company that makes street machines for tuning enthusiasts into a company that - more sensibly for their sales - makes cars for old men with too much money and waning libidos. Nissan makes sports cars now, not performance cars.
Oh well, lets hope Toyota notices the hole made in the market, and brings back the Supra in Mark 5 form! Along with trashing the current Celica in favor of a more oldschool body with Supra/FTO style headlights (and perhaps only AWD form? )! Oh and they need to redesign the MR2, make it look more like previous version.
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March 2003
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sat, 27 December 2003 05:16
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that article is BS.. its not called the R35 because it doesnt use an R series engine, its not a flat six. Its the V35
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Melbourne
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November 2003
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sat, 27 December 2003 08:22
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I think V35 is what they are calling it in Japan. Still. RIP Skyline, as far as I am concerned. Unless the GT-R looks totaly difference, and runs a RB style engine... perhaps an RB35DETT? I dunno.
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March 2003
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sat, 27 December 2003 11:55
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no they run a v6, not the flat 6 which the RB series are
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Melbourne
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November 2003
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sat, 27 December 2003 12:22
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Yeah, no I'm saying if the GT-R version of the Skyline has a totaly different engine (ie, an RB rather than VG) and looks totaly different, then... well yeah. I may not hate it then.
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Darwin -> Perth
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May 2002
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sat, 27 December 2003 23:18
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I thought the Japanese governments new emission laws have killed off all the japanese turbo cars. No turbo car yet can meet the new emission laws so the car manufacturers are building NA cars that meet the new laws.
The new Z still has the maximum allowed power of a new car in Japan. Stop your whining and blame the greenies.
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Location:
melb
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May 2002
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sat, 27 December 2003 23:58
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I thought....
I thought....
what a load of crap!!!!
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Location:
Melbourne
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November 2003
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sun, 28 December 2003 00:43
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Yeah, the Z is powerful, I'll give it that.
If it is the new Jap emission laws, then go them. But they need to stop making cars that run on standard shitty 100 octane petrol that's the problem. Lets hear it for E85!!! Higher octane and healthier for the environment! Now my love of cars doesn't have to impede on my love of not breathing in poison!!! YAY!
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Darwin -> Perth
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May 2002
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sun, 28 December 2003 06:23
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After Nissan Skyline GT-R and Silvia, Mazda RX-7 will be another victim of the tightened Japanese emission law effective in this August. The company has launched the final edition of RX-7 called "Spirit R". 1500 units will be sold before the deadline. The car still runs the existing 280ps twin-turbo Wankel engine, just added some hotter equipment such as stronger brakes with red calipers and larger drilled ventilated discs and lightweight Recaro seats.
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from http://autozine.kyul.net/0_News/Archive/2002_04/Ne ws.htm
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Not everything is rosy. By year's end, Nissan will stop selling its turbo-charged 200SX because production is ending as its engine does not meet Japanese emission laws. Australia is the only market outside Japan to sell the 200SX, which has created a buzz in the showrooms from the youth market who see it as a credible alternative to the boy-racer Subaru Impreza WRX.
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from http://bulletin.ninemsn.com.au/bulletin/EdDesk.nsf /0/00904d3df992705eca256c0e000c03e8?OpenDocument
Need I say more!!
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The Eastwood MASSIVE !
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May 2003
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sun, 28 December 2003 06:39
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| Shraka wrote on Sat, 20 December 2003 16:54 |
Yeah. BMWs have big problems in Australian heat. Computers can overheat simetimes and just melt. So I hear.
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Working for BMW I can say this is not true. You get more trouble from poeple leaving windows open and the car getting water damage that affects control units.
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Location:
Melbourne
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October 2003
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sun, 28 December 2003 08:42
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how many of you that have put renault down have actually driven one?
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Location:
Sydney
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December 2003
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Re: Just saw a car BLOW UP!!!
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Sun, 28 December 2003 08:55
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 One of my best mates had his ute which he has owned for 9 years and more than 420,000 kms blow up on him the other day. Now he has no car or golf shoes.
RIP Sam the Diesel Hilux Ute
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