Aussie Rides? Eh? (Previously 'GT4 is dying off')

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Psh... forget all this modern weaponry! All you need to survive Australia are these:

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Leonidae
Things to take with you when going to Australia:
-Desert Eagle
-P90
-SPAS15 shotgun with barrel clip
-Flamethrower
-M134
-Governator to carry the M134
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dimplz
possibly and A-A Gun and an armed vehicle as well...:lol:
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Visited a couple of years ago and saw this and laughed...

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But as soon as people find out what that word is used for in other places
you're going to need all that weaponary.


:nervous:

On a different note...

While I was there I hired a 2005 Commodore SV8, and my cousin owns a 85/86 VK Brock V8.

First ever drive in a V8.

First ever drive in a RWD car.

Both of these cars are awesome, throwing them into corners with the tail end sliding,
with wheelspins up to 60mph+ in 3rd gear. I loved them both.

My everyday drive is a 2.0 Golf GTI, but I WANT A V8!
 
:lol: Jay...N4HS and I now what you are sayin...we are holden mad...and thourghts and urges are incredible arnt they.
 
Rotary Junkie
Well, he did say that they attack people with good cars...

So of COURSE he's still alive, driving those Holdens and such!
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Well to be attacked you have to be liked in the first place, and I'm pretty damn ugly- the only reason my Ute or myself are still alive.
 
Leonidae
Things to take with you when going to Australia:
-Desert Eagle
-P90
-SPAS15 shotgun with barrel clip
-Flamethrower
-M134
-Governator to carry the M134

Okay, I think that is enough to handle the wildlife.. and possible some hoons in their pushrod wonders.
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The pushrods aren't the one's you worry about....it's the rotors, Skyline's and Rexy's here mate. ;) And the drivers of those kinds of cars are more feral than the wildlife here!! :lol:
 
mafia_boy
The pushrods aren't the one's you worry about....it's the rotors, Skyline's and Rexy's here mate. ;) And the drivers of those kinds of cars are more feral than the wildlife here!! :lol:
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YES! Some of the dodgiest people I know drive them cars, my sister included (about to buy a WRX she is) She has brought shame upon our family :p
 
but doesn't Australia have sort of phased driving licence that dictates what kind of cars you can drive?
 
Yes but that only is applied til your the age of 21, I think. You start driving when your 16 if you pass your Learner Licence. After 120hrs Learner hours accompanied by a person with a full licence, you are elegible for you RED P's (Provisonal licence 1).To get Red P's need to do a driving test. Red P's for 12 months then you go for Green P's. On the Green P's for 18 months then go to a full licence (Black) On you P's you cant drive a turbo or high proformance car...eg V8, supercharged 6...etc
 
dimplz
Yes but that only is applied til your the age of 21, I think. You start driving when your 16 if you pass your Learner Licence. After 120hrs Learner hours accompanied by a person with a full licence, you are elegible for you RED P's (Provisonal licence 1).To get Red P's need to do a driving test. Red P's for 12 months then you go for Green P's. On the Green P's for 18 months then go to a full licence (Black) On you P's you cant drive a turbo or high proformance car...eg V8, supercharged 6...etc
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Nothing with a V8?!

*Knocks Aussieland down a few notches*
 
Psyche, those laws only came in this year, anyone who had their license before those laws were applied (myself included) is immune to them. Therfore I'm a P plater that can legally drive a twin turbo V8 if I wish :p I'd probably kill myself doing it but what a way to go- 350km/hr in mid-air upside down :lol:
 
somehow that doesn't sound as impressive as crashing through pearly gates backwards with flaming swedish supercar.. :lol:
 
No but it's more realistic :p
I'm going to come back soon with some more Aussie Rides, there's a couple I wanna show you guys. One was purely a concept car- but a cool one that they still made regardless, and one was fully intended for production but never made it. It was on the doorstep but forgot how to knock the door.

Edit: Introducing the Holden Torana GTR-X, a car that was fully intended to be in production but never made it. It weighed a small child's weight over 1000kg and used a triple carburretor 3.0L inline 6. There was supposedly a V8 version too that would have rivalled the Corvette.
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And now introducing the Holden Hurricane Concept, it was a mid-engined V8 concept from Holden (yes you heard right, mid-engined). I'm not sure about how much it weighed or the power of either of these 2, I'll look into that, but this car is cool. The cockpit on this car opens like a jet fighter.
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The Holden Hurricane made roughly 190kw or 260hp, and supposedly did the 1/4 mile in 13sec. It must have been light to pull them times with that power. Not bad for a 1969 4.2L V8.

The Holden Torana GTR-X made 101kw or 160hp from its inline 6, that's aspirated don't forget. The supposed V8 version made 206kw.

Let me put this into perspective for you- the 1978 Datsun/Nissan 280Z made 106kw while weighing 200kg heavier, and this Torana was almost 5 years older!

In the meantime, the last production sports Torana 6 cylinder had a 3.3L Inline 6 with also a triple carb I think and made 101kw and 262Nm of torque while still weighing less than 1200 kg (100kg less than 280Z, and almost 40Nm more torque). This is not overlooking the V8, which also weighed less than 1200kg and making 170kw and 424 Nm.
 
But the 280ZX was crippled in power due to the oil crisis from '76 on my young Holdenboy. ;) But I will say one thing.....

The Hurricane......13's?!!? WTF!! The ONLY way any car with a 253 motor fitted was getting 13's was by pushing it off a cliff!! Our mate found that out the hard way.....$10k of engine work to get ONLY 300hp (most of our Aussie V8's see 300hp from a mild tune) and a 14.6 1/4 mile time!! :lol:

As for the licence.....they keep squeezing young people's nuts big time!! But understandably too, the teens these days are wrapping themselves around telegraph poles and dropping like flies. The reason this became is because of this:
When I got P's (10yrs ago), the most powerful cars that kids my age were driving usually had a maximum of 200hp UNLESS you were mega rich and your parents bought you that SS Commodore brand new or the best rotor at the time!! I had 176hp & 245hp out of my 2 gemini's and kids were dying in N/A rotaries with similar power levels, I was lucky I didn't join that club!!

Today however, 200hp is the conservative base figure (200SX/Silvia, WRX, Skyline GTS-t, Soarer) and the ones who don't have that power figure already just get a turbo engine conversion done, a bit of work on that motor and voila, 300hp+ FWD SSS Pulsar coming right up.

I should just go sick and show some examples about now vs then but I'll hold off for now.

Mafs!!
 
mafia_boy
But the 280ZX was crippled in power due to the oil crisis from '76 on my young Holdenboy. ;) But I will say one thing.....

The Hurricane......13's?!!? WTF!! The ONLY way any car with a 253 motor fitted was getting 13's was by pushing it off a cliff!! Our mate found that out the hard way.....$10k of engine work to get ONLY 300hp (most of our Aussie V8's see 300hp from a mild tune) and a 14.6 1/4 mile time!! :lol:


Mafs!!
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My brother's car (a V6 VN Commodore with less than only a couple grand at most spent on it) makes less power than that Hurricane and does 14s. So a V8 (over the rear axles too making for good traction) an aerodynamic body and really lightweight would easily do 13s.
 
No, no, no. Maybe your Holden love has you blinded to the abortion that was the 253. That motor was only good for 100Kw stock. The V6 Commodore motor....130Kw stock.
 
And maybe you're just blind full stop :sly: According to my sources and I wrote it up above, this particular version in the Hurricane made 190kw. If you can find a more official source stating otherwise about the Hurricane I'm all ears- just going on what I found.

Edit: If you don't like the 280Z as a comparo by all means use the 240Z, same year model as the Torana, much less torque. Torque is what wins races.
 
torque is good, but it's useless if the chassis and especially suspension aren't up to their task.
 
Toranas were good handlers, and Holden have smart engineers- it would have been good I'm sure. But then again this didn't have huge torque numbers, just more than the Nissan Zs that it would have been a good rival to.
 
No, the Z looks like a pile of trash, the Torana looks fast, the production ones look tough, sound tough and are tough to beat.
 
Correction, one likes soft boring girlish lines, the other likes bold, muscular tough lines.
This is my style

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Looks like beefed up Mk2 Ford Escort or Opel Kadett. :odd: whatever floats your boat.

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That suits me better.
 
Actually to be honest the 240Z is one of the best looking Japanese cars of all time in my opinion, too bad the rear end looks too high. I love all the V8 conversions they do for these cars too- balls of fun. Torana still looks better though.

Second half of this vid rocks.
 
Pffft.. american/australian V8 in Z-car is about as blasphemous as RB26DETT in a certain Mustang. Crossbreeding is bad when it comes to cars, mkay?
 
No, not OK, because the original engine sucks balls. A V8 in a Skyline doesn't go, but a V8 in an old school Z is cool.

Grey, just because it's one of the best looking Japanese cars, that doesn't mean it stacks well against the rest of the world.
 
ummm... no. i prefer pure cars, since the old Z-cars were designed for i6, i6 it should always have. and those old i6's are just as potent as old V8's. and if I don't recall wrong, american i6's were not so good back then.. in fact, I recall stories how american cars were spanked by civics..
 

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