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Old 27-05-2006, 05:14 PM   #31
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The most childish stuff was coming from a moderator.... :
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Forget what car is what, you people do not seem to realise that you are going to grow old sometime, Then you will feel as I do, dont you realise when you "bag" older people it also includes your parents..........Look at yourself closely beore you post.
Sympathisers don't have a place on this forum!!!!!
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Old 27-05-2006, 08:28 PM   #34
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actually i was bored during the week and had a look at a mitsubishi site ,tassy i think it was and there were a couple of goers there one was a magna with 266 kws turbo i think, were a couple of turbos so there are some magnas that might surprise a few henrys here
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nothing wrong with what was posted for you to say that

i am heading into the older bracket myself and im looking at what mods i can do to get into the low to mid 14s with my el

also my dad who is close to 60 want me to get it there so go figure

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Old 27-05-2006, 08:37 PM   #36
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This is just really weird, that some members of this forum are quite prepared to bag out other car brands, but when it comes to Fords being bagged... we can't take the heart???

Maybe a good opportunity for some of our members to look at their own actions before accusing other forums and other manufactures of bagging our cars out????

Hmmmm....
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"front wheel drives are okay once your used to them......cars are not built to burn rubber with....." - From Ricbec on the mitsubishi forums

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I am a little confused here....

Ford Focus is FWD, Fiesta, Mondeo, Laser, Telstar, Meteor, Couger, Taurus are also FWD so maybe "elderly cardigan brigadeers" also buy Fords.
I notice the acute shotage of young motoring superheros in their new LTDs & Fairlane G8s down on the esplanade on saturday nights although there seems to be a few at the clubs.
The new XR5 and the ST170 must surely be marketed towards the bowls clubs & RSL set because no young sport vehicle enthusiest would buy a FWD would they?

I recently raced a Mitsubishi EVO IX (and others) on QLD Raceway in my RWD F6 Typhoon and although I was quicker than almost everything else there (mostly RWD from our stable) I could not even come close to catching the EVO. Maybe I was dazzled by the bright cardigan and hat.....

People who come on to AFF and bag Fords are almost immediately identified as dropkicks and treated with the distain that they deserve. Do you not think that other fora would do the same?
The EVO IX is 4wd not Fwd and they are weapons from the factory (if I had the cash I would get one for the wife). They have 206KW ( but the journalists who test drove them reackon that it is more) and they are about 500kg lighter so it is no wonder it was quicker. Not making excuses for the F6 but the Evo's are more performance orientated than anything ford has to offer.


By the way how was its outright straight line speed, I'm just curious

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I'd have to agree with flappist, I'd say an evo (proper evo not ricer try hard) would give most V8's a run for the money. Anyone see the episode of Top Gear where the evo kept up with a lambo on a racetrack and pushed the lambo so hard he lost it and spun out. Recent evo's are 2.0L turbo AWD and do 0-100km in 4.5 seconds. I'd love that technology in a ford.
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Recent evo's are 2.0L turbo AWD and do 0-100km in 4.5 seconds. I'd love that technology in a ford.

Maybe an idea for a limited edition focus :
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Just read that thread... pretty lame. I can't believe a Bitsamissen driver actually bagged another brand about build quality though!
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OMG theres an actual forum for 'those' people ?
I guess, its the spastic centre for car people : : :
What is your problem
1 of my best mates has Ceribal Palsy.
He went to a spastic school all of his life
if you want to bag people who drive different cars go for it
DO NOT DITCH PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD A ROUGH TROT
I have a major issue with your comment
I want you to prove to me that I am mistaken
I just can not see it though
QUOTE=2ndOwner]
Im pretty sure the spastic centre had no more vacancies :nutsycuck[/QUOTE]
and here we are bagging the mentality of the mitsubishi drivers :
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theres a daewoo forum online too before i forget, i had a sqiz recently and all it is, is yank daewoo drivers complaing about there daewoos breaking down and how to fix certain problems ect ect
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the guy posting all the ford jokes has an AC cobra in his signature.. i think that sums that forum up :P
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What is your problem
1 of my best mates has Ceribal Palsy.
He went to a spastic school all of his life
if you want to bag people who drive different cars go for it
DO NOT DITCH PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD A ROUGH TROT
I have a major issue with your comment
I want you to prove to me that I am mistaken
I just can not see it though
um ok!
I dont think he intentionly bagged out spastic people or your friend with Ceribal Palsy for that face...take a step back, understand that we are all naieve in one way or annother and let it slide...Bagging out is exactly that- normally quite light hearted..I've lost count of how many times ive called someone a spastic in jest...does that make me bad? no, i have a lot of compassion disabled people
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I used to have a 3.5 Magna as a work car it really flew, much faster than my ED Fairmont Ghia V8. But what is this all about? Do any of us really care what other people say? At the end of the day, if the other forum members are just kids, why let kids push your buttons?, Even if they are not kids, life is too short to short to care that much about what other people say. You like your cars for your own reasons, as do they.
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What is your problem
1 of my best mates has Ceribal Palsy.
He went to a spastic school all of his life
if you want to bag people who drive different cars go for it
DO NOT DITCH PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD A ROUGH TROT
I have a major issue with your comment
I want you to prove to me that I am mistaken
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Im pretty sure the spastic centre had no more vacancies :nutsycuck
and here we are bagging the mentality of the mitsubishi drivers :
um ok!
I dont think he intentionly bagged out spastic people or your friend with Ceribal Palsy for that face...take a step back, understand that we are all naieve in one way or annother and let it slide...Bagging out is exactly that- normally quite light hearted..I've lost count of how many times ive called someone a spastic in jest...does that make me bad? no, i have a lot of compassion disabled people
Yeah.. What he(Bucket) said.
When i was working for Westfields, i often had to help such people around.
So i do feel for those who aren't quite as lucky as the rest of us.
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The EVO IX is 4wd not Fwd and they are weapons from the factory (if I had the cash I would get one for the wife). They have 206KW ( but the journalists who test drove them reackon that it is more) and they are about 500kg lighter so it is no wonder it was quicker. Not making excuses for the F6 but the Evo's are more performance orientated than anything ford has to offer.


By the way how was its outright straight line speed, I'm just curious

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I was slowly gaining on the back straight but the EVOs agility on turns 1 & 2 as well as 4 & 5 just left me in the fumes. It was a rollerskate but a bloody quick rollerskate........
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What is your problem
1 of my best mates has Ceribal Palsy.
He went to a spastic school all of his life
if you want to bag people who drive different cars go for it
DO NOT DITCH PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD A ROUGH TROT
I have a major issue with your comment
I want you to prove to me that I am mistaken
I just can not see it though
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Im pretty sure the spastic centre had no more vacancies :nutsycuck
and here we are bagging the mentality of the mitsubishi drivers :
Agree 100%.

Calling anyone a spastic is derogatory, even if said in jest. Traditionally the only people who make comments like that are people of low intelligence; people who couldn't string a proper sentence together to save their lives, and think that Grammar is the elderly woman in the front room.
These people only ever feel powerful or superior by belittling others.
Yes I know someone who has a disability, and yes I take great personal offence to people who lucidly throw such insults about, without thinking of how they have degraded a whole group of people; people who are amongst the most vulnerable and defenceless in our society.

Isn't it enough that governments often forget this group, as they don't vote? To have people make reference to them as some kind of useless being is despicable and indefensible. Before any of you attempt to flame me for my stand on this issue remember this: around 60% of the people you call "spastic" or "spaz" or "tard" are born that way. The other 40% have become that way through trauma like car accidents, being bashed or genetics. In short, nobody here is immune from becoming disabled.

Don't get me started on the elderly either. Because that, I can guarantee most of you, is something we will all have to encounter sooner or later.
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Agree 100%.

Calling anyone a spastic is derogatory, even if said in jest. Traditionally the only people who make comments like that are people of low intelligence; people who couldn't string a proper sentence together to save their lives, and think that Grammar is the elderly woman in the front room.
These people only ever feel powerful or superior by belittling others.
Yes I know someone who has a disability, and yes I take great personal offence to people who lucidly throw such insults about, without thinking of how they have degraded a whole group of people; people who are amongst the most vulnerable and defenceless in our society.

Isn't it enough that governments often forget this group, as they don't vote? To have people make reference to them as some kind of useless being is despicable and indefensible. Before any of you attempt to flame me for my stand on this issue remember this: around 60% of the people you call "spastic" or "spaz" or "tard" are born that way. The other 40% have become that way through trauma like car accidents, being bashed or genetics. In short, nobody here is immune from becoming disabled.

Don't get me started on the elderly either. Because that, I can guarantee most of you, is something we will all have to encounter sooner or later.
Oh FFS....

Why dont you guys go and tell the teacher on him!....lol

Seriously some people need to lighten up, you must be so paranoid in your lives.
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Pfft...... why bother worrying what another forum says about this one? FF rocks, we all know it :sm_headba
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It is starting to look like it really doesn't matter what any other forum may say about Fords or this Forum anyway..

There is so much 'in house' bickering here.....

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look u post this tread saying wat idiots they are for this, but were doing the same thing right here bagin them out. hahah there forum is good for a laugh the ford vs Mitsubishi one was a crack up
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Agree 100%.

Calling anyone a spastic is derogatory, even if said in jest. Traditionally the only people who make comments like that are people of low intelligence; people who couldn't string a proper sentence together to save their lives, and think that Grammar is the elderly woman in the front room.
These people only ever feel powerful or superior by belittling others.
Yes I know someone who has a disability, and yes I take great personal offence to people who lucidly throw such insults about, without thinking of how they have degraded a whole group of people; people who are amongst the most vulnerable and defenceless in our society.

Isn't it enough that governments often forget this group, as they don't vote? To have people make reference to them as some kind of useless being is despicable and indefensible. Before any of you attempt to flame me for my stand on this issue remember this: around 60% of the people you call "spastic" or "spaz" or "tard" are born that way. The other 40% have become that way through trauma like car accidents, being bashed or genetics. In short, nobody here is immune from becoming disabled.

Don't get me started on the elderly either. Because that, I can guarantee most of you, is something we will all have to encounter sooner or later.
Oh FFS....

Why dont you guys go and tell the teacher on him!....lol

Seriously some people need to lighten up, you must be so paranoid in your lives.
Fk n Aye!!!

This has been blown way out of proportion and is way off topic.

There for i refer you Politically Correct busy bodies to www.haveacry.com
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