GTP Member's cars directory. What do you drive?

[slidesquad#1]

Nice seats

Cheers dude, pretty awesome for factory standard seats, that's for sure. The bolstering comes in handy too.

 

[nd 4 holden spd]

I bet, my seats are as flat as the salt lakes and I can barely turn as fast as my car can because I fall out of the seat Nice and easy around corners until I get buck seats, until then, drag racing I guess.

 

[buickgnx88]

Buck seats, wouldn't those hurt, what with the antlers and all...

 

[mustangGT90210]

Buck seats, wouldn't those hurt, what with the antlers and all...

I should go totally old school when I get my car. I'll ride around on true bucket seats like this beaut

"...Just look at the chrome lap belts!"​

 

[nd 4 holden spd]

 

[Skygrasper550]

I should go totally old school when I get my car. I'll ride around on true bucket seats like this beaut

"...Just look at the chrome lap belts!"​

then what?? that seat will be dangling inside the car?? when you hit a hump, you'll swing inside the car, WEEEEEE!!!

 

[buickgnx88]

Well you'd be safer in an accident!

 

[BayConRong]

Well you'd be safer in an accident!

provided your head didn't hit the roof, and your waist doesn't get cut in half from the crome lap belt.

 

[Azuremen]

I drive a Spyder now, but everyone knows this, just check my thread out!

Still rocking the Corolla for deliveries and such though, since its cheap and beat up anyhow, need to clean it up srsly.

 

[mustangGT90210]

I drive a Spyder now, but everyone knows this, just check my thread out!

Still rocking the Corolla for deliveries and such though, since its cheap and beat up anyhow, need to clean it up srsly.

Well at least your getting good mileage. Untill you turn on the AC.

 

[Skygrasper550]

I drive a Spyder now, but everyone knows this, just check my thread out!

Still rocking the Corolla for deliveries and such though, since its cheap and beat up anyhow, need to clean it up srsly.

wow, those are some sick mods on your car..,especially the 20V 4A-GE swap..,👍

 

[homeforsummer]

My car: A 1998 Mk4 Ford Fiesta 1.3 Finesse

Not fast, not glamourous, but I've had it for over five years now, it costs very little to run and it can still be fun to drive thanks to Ford's excellent work on a chassis it later used on the Ka and the Puma.

I'm getting near to replacing it however, firstly with a motorcycle and then when funds allow for another car as well.

 

[nd 4 holden spd]

I was waiting the word Ka to pop up, those bumpers are too reminiscent

 

[homeforsummer]

Because they aren't colour coded? Welcome to the base-model

 

[3-Wheel Drive]

It's always puzzled me why car companies often leave plastic unpainted. It's what, $100 worth of paint?

 

[homeforsummer]

It's always puzzled me why car companies often leave plastic unpainted. It's what, $100 worth of paint?

Is it that hard to understand?

a) It's a different type of plastic from the stuff they paint, so the plastic itself is cheaper. It's also because...

b) It's harder wearing. Shrugs off scrapes and bumps much more easily than the painted kind. Get a scrape? No need to re-paint, just buff it off a bit and it's good as new.

c) It isn't 'unpainted' - it's meant to be like that. It's coloured plastic, which also matches the interior trim, which isn't black, grey, tan etc, it's the same light blue.

I'm only 23 years old but obviously I'm old enough to remember a time when not all cars had colour-keyed bumpers...

 

[nd 4 holden spd]

No, the good ones used to be chrome, then instantly switched to painted They are good for scrapes and that though, cudos.

 

[mustangGT90210]

Is it that hard to understand?

a) It's a different type of plastic from the stuff they paint, so the plastic itself is cheaper. It's also because...

b) It's harder wearing. Shrugs off scrapes and bumps much more easily than the painted kind. Get a scrape? No need to re-paint, just buff it off a bit and it's good as new.

c) It isn't 'unpainted' - it's meant to be like that. It's coloured plastic, which also matches the interior trim, which isn't black, grey, tan etc, it's the same light blue.

I'm only 23 years old but obviously I'm old enough to remember a time when not all cars had colour-keyed bumpers...

Well dude, any car that meant anything had a chrome bumper. Plastic or unpainted bumpers were a thing of the lowest trim level and quite cheap.

 

[homeforsummer]

Well dude, any car that meant anything had a chrome bumper. Plastic or unpainted bumpers were a thing of the lowest trim level and quite cheap.

Chrome went out and plastic came in in the seventies. I can't speak for cars in the US but I'm willing to bet that many cars in the 80s and 90s came with plastic, unpainted bumpers. What modern cars have chrome bumpers? That point seems largely irrelevant. If you were around in the 50s and 60s then probably every car did have a chrome bumper, but through the 80s and early 90s, at least in the UK, it was only higher-end models that had colour coded ones.

"Plastic or unpainted bumpers were a thing of the lowest trim level and quite cheap"

If you'd read...

Because they aren't colour coded? Welcome to the base-model

It is a low trim level, and cheap. And it has plastic bumpers I fail to see the difficulty in this concept being understood...

 

[Joey D]

Hell I have plastic parts on my car and it's not the base model or even old. Plastic works great since, as it's been already said, it doesn't nick up or scratch.

Oh and chrome bumpers are hideous, actually chrome in general is...billet is where it's at.

 

[opendriver]

Came stock with ~200hp and 220 Ft Lbs of torque, makes less than that and gets about 12-13 mpg.

Pros:
4X4
passenger space and cargo
acceleration (when it was new at least)
Ride quality

Cons:
Mileage

 

[High-Test]

Oh and chrome bumpers are hideous, actually chrome in general is...billet is where it's at.

HEATHEN! Billet is the teaching of the devil!


I like the unpainted plastic on some cars. I may get unpainted bumper strips for my car eventually, I kinda like the look of a white 124 with the black strips.

 

[nd 4 holden spd]

Chrome is good too, on old schoolers. If you ever touch a muscle car (or any old car at all for that matter) with plastics and fibres you will be laughed at. Look at my riced TA70 Celica yo.

 

[m4xwellmurd3r]

I have a '78 280z. I bought her for 900 bucks and I'm going to have about 2000 in it before I can even register it! (had to get a head rebuilt by a shop, along with some parts replaced, only to now have to rebuild the engine because it's showing it's age)

 

[homeforsummer]

I may get unpainted bumper strips for my car eventually, I kinda like the look of a white 124 with the black strips.

What kinda car is a 124? The only 124s I can think of are the old Fiat spider and coupe.

 

[Joey D]

HEATHEN! Billet is the teaching of the devil!


I like the unpainted plastic on some cars. I may get unpainted bumper strips for my car eventually, I kinda like the look of a white 124 with the black strips.

I hate chrome, the stuff is stupidly hard to keep clean. As soon as I can track down a black grille for my car I will be getting it.

 

[High-Test]

What kinda car is a 124? The only 124s I can think of are the old Fiat spider and coupe.

Forgot the W in front.. oops. It's a 1994 Mercedes E320.

the stuff is stupidly hard to keep clean.

It is really hard to keep clean.

 

[socomplayer2]

As of today.

2008 vw gti 6speed manual

 

[Vonie]

1992 Saab 900 Turbo. Red.

 

[3-Wheel Drive]

Is it that hard to understand?

a) It's a different type of plastic from the stuff they paint, so the plastic itself is cheaper. It's also because...

b) It's harder wearing. Shrugs off scrapes and bumps much more easily than the painted kind. Get a scrape? No need to re-paint, just buff it off a bit and it's good as new.

c) It isn't 'unpainted' - it's meant to be like that. It's coloured plastic, which also matches the interior trim, which isn't black, grey, tan etc, it's the same light blue.

I'm only 23 years old but obviously I'm old enough to remember a time when not all cars had colour-keyed bumpers...

More durable my ass. Paint or no, it's still plastic. That's what touch-up paint is for. If durability is desired, why don't we go back to designing cars that look good with steel bumpers? Those can take a pounding. You can back into a tree and it won't leave a mark.

I'm sorry, the ubiquitous grayish plastic, IMHO, does not look good on most cars I see it on.

Oh, and thanks for the condescending attitude. I really appreciate it 👍.