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Old Feb 22, 2025 | 11:07 AM
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I see people around here leaving their wipers up and it snows less than an inch. Leaving them up is a waste of time. Your windshield is frozen? Run the defroster and scrape away.
Old Feb 22, 2025 | 11:16 AM
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Originally Posted by SC300Es
I see people around here leaving their wipers up and it snows less than an inch. Leaving them up is a waste of time. Your windshield is frozen? Run the defroster and scrape away.
Ice can freeze the wipers to the windshield…then you have to to fumble with them to get them unstuck. Leaving the wipers up really works

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Old Feb 22, 2025 | 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Striker223
Unsurprising really. The C8 loses to a land barge Bentley in handling tests lol!

I would still pick the C8 though, bolt on super fixes all its power lack issues....
You have oil and gas running through your veins, pushed by twin turbos . I'm betting if we ever met up, I would get an EV in your arsenal. I work with a guy who's are hardcore Porsche enthusiast. Took me two years, but now he has an EV parked next to his two Boxster's
Old Feb 22, 2025 | 11:27 AM
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That Hyundai does 2.8 to 60 and the 1/4 in 11.0 @ 125!!
Old Feb 22, 2025 | 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by AMIRZA786
You have oil and gas running through your veins, pushed by twin turbos . I'm betting if we ever met up, I would get an EV in your arsenal. I work with a guy who's are hardcore Porsche enthusiast. Took me two years, but now he has an EV parked next to his two Boxster's
It would need to have a 1/4 mile under 9.8 to tie my current car lol! And for me to buy it it would have to be a 8.0 or less
Old Feb 22, 2025 | 11:36 AM
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That Hyundai does 2.8 to 60 and the 1/4 in 11.0 @ 125!!
It's a freaking crazy car, if you can get dealerships to drop the $10k markups, it's a bargain
Old Feb 22, 2025 | 11:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Striker223
It would need to have a 1/4 mile under 9.8 to tie my current car lol! And for me to buy it it would have to be a 8.0 or less
It's not about beating your existing cars, which is not why my coworker bought his. The EV is his daily beater, he can beat 90 percent of the cars on the road not modified by Striker 🤣
Old Feb 22, 2025 | 11:49 AM
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I got to hand it to all of you off folks, treating every light as a 0-60 is drag strip, almost like the street swim teamers/no hesi folks swerving through traffic.

Meanwhile im just trying to get some chicken tendies from my local wendies driving like ms daisy.
Old Feb 22, 2025 | 11:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Framestead
I got to hand it to all of you off folks, treating every light as a 0-60 is drag strip, almost like the street swim teamers/no hesi folks swerving through traffic.

Meanwhile im just trying to get some chicken tendies from my local wendies driving like ms daisy.
"Doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile". Lol
Old Feb 22, 2025 | 11:52 AM
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Originally Posted by AMIRZA786
It's not about beating your existing cars, which is not why my coworker bought his. The EV is his daily beater, he can beat 90 percent of the cars on the road not modified by Striker 🤣
And trade it in at the end of the lease.
Rinse and repeat haha
Old Feb 22, 2025 | 11:55 AM
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And trade it in at the end of the lease.
Rinse and repeat haha
Yeah, don't know if I would want to lease a car to Striker 🤣
Old Feb 22, 2025 | 12:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Margate330
"Doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile". Lol
Hey if you can move an inch in rush hour traffic on the 101 half millisecond quicker in any vehicle you are the king of clublexus car chat forums imo.

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Originally Posted by Framestead
Hey if you can move an inch in rush hour traffic on the 101 half millisecond quicker in any vehicle you are the king of clublexus car chat forums imo.
Which side of the 101 are you from... Northern California or Southern?
Old Feb 22, 2025 | 01:01 PM
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Originally Posted by SC300Es
I see people around here leaving their wipers up and it snows less than an inch. Leaving them up is a waste of time. Your windshield is frozen? Run the defroster and scrape away.
Noooooooooo never scrape a windshield it scratches the heck out of it.
Old Feb 22, 2025 | 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted by AMIRZA786
It's not about beating your existing cars, which is not why my coworker bought his. The EV is his daily beater, he can beat 90 percent of the cars on the road not modified by Striker 🤣
Oh as a daily? I'm far too cheap for something that expensive to beat on lol!

I've gotten over a decade and 130k miles for $4700 out of my Jeep and the LS430 was sold for more than I bought it for so I ended up spending "nothing". I'm very much a cheap *** in that sense, the only reason I'm putting miles on my D4 W12 is I never plan to sell it so I don't care if I'm "ruining" my cost ratio.



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