Performance debugging
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To me it looks like a taller DeLoean.
It also, I remember thinking at the time, looked a HECK of a lot like Inspector Gadget's transforming police car:
I guess all mid-80s economy/sports cars had the same look. So.
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(Sure, engine technology gets better, but by tenths of percentages since the 1980s. 4-cylinder economy car engines have been pretty damned perfected for a long time.)
In the US maybe.
Here in Europe, the engine in the average car is significantly better than its 15-year-old equivalent let alone its 30-year-old equivalent.
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That's because they digitized the only marketing materials that mattered.
https://youtu.be/CKFTPCgRs5ggEnjoy the worst brain worms ever.
I raced a Cordia once. This one. [img]http://blog.caranddriver.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/51.jpg[/img]
Note the badass rear window louvres.
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Note the louvres but not the chain holding the front bumper on?
Mid-West engineering at its finest.
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That's not holding the bumper on. It's firmly attached. The car is just a bit bent.
The chain is the rules-mandated "sturdy, easily accessible tow point".
Also NSF operate out of a Floridian swamp, not the Midwest.
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Note the badass rear window louvres.
Is that the Hanzismatter "chinese" gibberish font on the front fender?
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I'm pretty sure the chick that captains that car has that as a tattoo. And a Mitsubishi logo tramp stamp. Make of that what you will.
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Also NSF operate out of a Floridian swamp, not the Midwest.
Does that really make it any better?
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I'm pretty sure the chick that captains that car has that as a tattoo.
As far as I can tell it's not the gibberish font after all, and I've never bothered figuring out how to do ideograph lookups in online dictionaries.
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Does that really make it any better?
Floridian swamps are somewhat more interesting.
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Depends on definition of interesting.
I hear they get bigfoot sightings but I know Michigan swamps get UFO sightings.
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Jesus how did they sell ANY of these in Australia with such a shitty ad?
Sadly, there are no Cordia-L's on sale on eBay Motors. Nor on Auto Trader. Finding one would probably be pretty tough.
... compared to the Japanese ads, the Aussie one is brilliant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZHhfSUe8tw
Looks like the US had no national campaign, just dealer ads like this one:
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"open the window"
Yeah, I drive with the windows down 70% of the time. The rest is when it happens to be too hot or too cold.
Filed under: Some people consider me crazy. I'm just glad I'm not insane! :P
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this one is good enough
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I'm assuming the reason for the engine improvements in Europe as stated up-thread is related to better economy management of the engine given how Europe is far more stop-start traffic that the US is in general. I dunno, not a car person, just throwing that out there.
Filed under: I don't even drive
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Could well be. It's commonly known fuel efficiency numbers don't really apply above 90 km/h, while highway speed limits are typically around 130 km/h.
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Europe has largely focused on fuel economy, the US has largely focused on overall emissions.
Europe is now cracking down emissions, and the US on fuel economy.
And while overall fuel economy figures haven't changed much, that's entirely a function of the mechanism on which internal combustion engines work combined with some light economic pressures.
What HAS changed is the power to fuel consumption ratio. A 30mpg car used to be an awful 3 cylinder 70hp shitheap that weighed slightly more than a go-kart and had no features whatsoever. Now a 30mpg car is a 6 cylinder, 250hp, 4000lb full size family sedan. And the analog to the tiny shitheap is a 36mpg, 4 cylinder, 120hp, 2500lb nice-place-to-sit.
Literally every last bit of that comes from tighter manufacturing tolerances, better materials, more advanced modeling, better prototyping techniques, sensing, and better engine control (almost every parameter is now adjusted on the fly).
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And the analog to the tiny shitheap is a 36mpg, 4 cylinder, 120hp, 2500lb nice-place-to-sit.
So where does that put my 47mpg in the mountains, 61mpg at steady 90km/h?
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Are you asking a question, or just bragging about your fuel economy and inexplicably ending the brag with a question mark?
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Either a eurodiesel without doing the gallon size conversion or a hybrid, which isn't an apples to apples comparison.
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European, yes. Diesel, yes. The motor's a Renault 1.5DCI 90hp, fairly standard lump for Renault & Nissan. I get very slightly above 5 litres per 100km around here, converted to US gallons that's 47 mpg. At an average of more or less 90kph everywhere "route nationale" journey on the flat, 3.6 litres / 100km. Or, 61 miles per US gallon.
And it's not some piddly little piece of shit, either - 5 hockey players plus their kit and enough clothing and booze for a weekend tournament 500km away fit comfortably.
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We called that "model 4-60 air conditioning", when I was a kid. (4 windows 60 mph)
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So that's 39mpg in US units and is entirely typical of diesel.
I could go into a vast discussion on why Europe gravitates towards small displacement diesels and the US towards medium displacement gasoline, but I won't. It all comes down to economics, geography and cultural values.
If you want to go down that particular avenue, go over to FinalGear.com and talk to Spectre about it.
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It all comes down to economics, geography and cultural values.
ITYM taxes, history of taxes and where the right kind of refining capacity was built.
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That all falls under economics.
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That all falls under economics.
Cultural values (and history) determine the reason why the taxes are that way in the first place.
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We called that "model 4-60 air conditioning", when I was a kid. (4 windows 60 mph)
Common term here is 'ARKO', for 'Alle Ramen Kunnen Open', which means 'All windows can be opened'.
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So that's 39mpg in US units and is entirely typical of diesel.
Only if maths is as fucked in the US as weights and measures.
We know that :
1 US Gallon = 3.78541103373138 Litres
1 km = 0.6213712 milesTrivially, 5l / 100km = 20 km / Litre.
Multiplying by gallon->litres factor 75.7082206746276 km / US Gallon
Multiplying by km->miles factor 47 miles, 75 yards, 1 foot 7 inches per US Gallon.
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Yeah, and? You gave me an mpg figure, not l/100km.
Apparently you didn't make the mistake of converting to UK units on the assumption that they're the same (I see this often), so gold star for you.
So was there a point or did you want congratulations on your proper ecofriendliness and frugality?
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So was there a point or did you want congratulations on your proper ecofriendliness and frugality?
He wanted commiserations for buying a Renault, presumably.
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@Weng said:
That all falls under economics.
Cultural values (and history) determine the reason why the taxes are that way in the first place.
If we take that train of logic to its ultimate conclusion, the Big Bang is responsible for taxes
The bastard!
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I also won't tell you that it iswas the master DHCP and DNS server for the domain as well
In that case the IP conflict probably happened because somebody swapped DNS server and IP address field (or IP and default gateway) when setting up a new server with static IP (and then quickly corrected it).
Yes, been there, done that, noticed and fixed quickly.