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Old 02-20-2012, 10:54 PM
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SPEEDHUNTERS Discussion Thread

If you appreciate fine motoring in all levels feel free to post and discuss Speedhunters and other bloggers as they release great articles to satisfy our needs as rotorheads/gearheads/petrolheads....from rally, GT, F1 to new releases and concepts, thanks for the input.

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Speed Hunters is a cool site, I just get tired of the drift car bullshit all the time.
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Opinions on the new Aston???

http://speedhunters.com/archive/2012...-road-car.aspx
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I agree! It gets a little repetitive

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The wheels on that thing are horrible.
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looks to me like something I would expect from TVR back end its dreadful
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Yeah I used to follow that place until they started posting mad drifto **** all the time. Kind of goes against the "Speed" part of their name since drifting is one of the slowest ways to get around a corner lmao...



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The wheels on that thing are horrible.
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And the rear end looks terribad.
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I agree. You should also check out www.motoiq.com from time to time.
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Wheels look like they came from the new Kia.
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Yeah I used to follow that place until they started posting mad drifto **** all the time. Kind of goes against the "Speed" part of their name since drifting is one of the slowest ways to get around a corner lmao...
I can appreciate drifting it just seems that some of the good sites are inundated with it now though. I especially hate when they feature some piece of **** beat up drift missile. I can appreciate a proper (not destroyed) professional drift car.
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looking forward to season start F1 (although all the restrictions and crazy regulations) and Le Mans ...cant wait to see what Toyota is capable with the new car
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Originally Posted by 9krpmrx8
I can appreciate drifting it just seems that some of the good sites are inundated with it now though. I especially hate when they feature some piece of **** beat up drift missile. I can appreciate a proper (not destroyed) professional drift car.
Yeah I'm pretty much in the same boat. I especially hate the super beat up cars that show up at meets. I'm not impressed that your car has hit more walls than I can count on two hands and is held together primarily by zip ties. It just means you suck and crash into walls haha.

The thing that gets me though is that there isn't really a concrete way to "win" at drifting like there is in say Time Attack. I consider it more of a spectator event or an art rather than a motorsport. Still cool none the less.
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I always wonder why my speedhunters comments never show up, i don't see the hype with that Charger either, there are much nicer chargers out there.
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I always wonder why my speedhunters comments never show up, i don't see the hype with that Charger either, there are much nicer chargers out there.
hahaha yeah mine either.... theres so much more to see out there..


http://www.jdmlegends.com/blog/

like this great JDM Ol' School flavor blog....
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Nice man, that Celica is sick. I love old school JDM.
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Hey, that my buddy Eric's blog. He's the shop manager at JDM Legends, the pictures don't even com close to doing justice for what he does. I'm having him do the welding on my manifold and exhaust.
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Hey, that my buddy Eric's blog. He's the shop manager at JDM Legends, the pictures don't even com close to doing justice for what he does. I'm having him do the welding on my manifold and exhaust.
Well he does a fine job sir
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Well, i humbly introduce you to one of our little projects: http://www.screamingtyres.com/

We started it because we were fed up with the bunch of blog that didn't contain anything of substance. We also cover some sliding machines and showstoppers from time to time. We're having a good time asking weird questions to some nice manufacturers though
I hope you enjoy it, the 2 other owners are crazy greeks and both rx owners.

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impressive work! great coverage so far in what ive seen.....how long has this blog been around?
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About one year but we decided to keep a low, non advertising profile
We started receiving some recognition and we're happy with the way it is going. Spiffm and urbanslider do an amazing job and it's a fun hobby to have!

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Originally Posted by bse50
Well, i humbly introduce you to one of our little projects: http://www.screamingtyres.com/

We started it because we were fed up with the bunch of blog that didn't contain anything of substance. We also cover some sliding machines and showstoppers from time to time. We're having a good time asking weird questions to some nice manufacturers though
I hope you enjoy it, the 2 other owners are crazy greeks and both rx owners.

Nice man, I like it.
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It's a good site to look at hellaflush cars.
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This is one of my favs as well.

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