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What do you Duc owners drive?

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Bought a new car today. Not like my 999r, but damn fun & fast on the twisties............

What kind of vehicle do you drive?
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/FullTests/articleId=106607
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'89 Jeep Wrangler YJ - 4" Skyjacker lift with 33" mudders

'99.5 Audi A4 Quattro

'03 Kawazaki ZX7R

'04 Chevy Avalanche
Drive ?????
I ride my bikes and use my boat...
Audi A3, 3.2L, Quattro, DSG;



I like it because it looks like a little 'shopping' car but with 250hp, 4wd & 6 speed Paddle-shift sequential gear box, it goes rather better than people imagine. ;)
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The 'busa engined Sprite is a good idea. It had the same original engine as the original Austin/Morris Mini. The British mags have lots of kits for putting the 'Busa engine into the 1,110 lb. Mini to make it roar.

The better ones put a second 'Busa engine in the trunk for a "Twini Mini"
Leave it to the British to do something wild like that.

grinder96 said:
sold my 66' ford bronco with a built up 302 engine to get my duck.

My daily ride is a 97 f250 w/ a utility bed. now if someone could tell me how to get my tools from job to job on a bike, let me know!

Wifes ride is a 99' mitsubishi montero sport 4x4.
the other car is a 89 toyota landcruiser with 45,000 orig miles!!

next ride (if everything works out right) is a 59 Austin Healey bug eye sprite. Planning on putting a hayabusa or an r1 engine in it. FUN!!!
My ride is an '04 F150 Lariat supercab...

actually, it's my dog's truck and she just lets me drive it for her! Got the new '04 because it has electric roll down windows so she can hang out. Unfortunately, we added another dog to her chagrin, and now it's a little tight for 2 Airdales back there so she wants a new crew cab with the 6 1/2 ft. bed. Don't think my SO is buying that story yet (you're not buying a new truck for those dogs!!!!), as there's only 15k miles on this truck. The boss drives an '04 Z4, and that thing is the best handling car in the corners I've ever driven! Too small and too noisy for trips, though. I'll be glad when she goes back to a 530i in a couple of years!
I had a Porsche Boxster "S" but I never drove the thing. If the weather was nice enough to put the top down . . . . I was on the bike. :D I kept it three years and put 5,000 miles on it! Now I have a Jeep Grand Cherokee. The mileage sucks but I can use it to carry "stuff" and I can pull a trailer if I have to. It's comfortable. It has a lot of "aminities" like heated seats and - most important - I can park it in the lot at Home Depot and not worry about someone banging me with a door. It just doesn't matter.
as motorcycle engined cars,this puppy rips http://super7cars.com/Super7_GSX1300R_Hayabusa.html
I drive a Chevy Suburban and a Jeep YJ.:)
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i drive a now still broken nissan 240sx w/sr20det (cuz i spend all my money on the duc)




and what it looked like before i decided to turn it more towards a drag car.



and what she ran on a stock turbo (not the one pictured above)
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'89 Honda Civic Hatchback - ~35mpg, bone stock, and other than routine maintenance, no extra monies spent. No four wheeled vehicle perfoms like a Duc, and if there is one, I can't afford it, price-wise or mental mastubartion-wise.
geospencer said:
I had a Porsche Boxster "S" but I never drove the thing. If the weather was nice enough to put the top down . . . . I was on the bike. :D I kept it three years and put 5,000 miles on it! Now I have a Jeep Grand Cherokee. The mileage sucks but I can use it to carry "stuff" and I can pull a trailer if I have to. It's comfortable. It has a lot of "aminities" like heated seats and - most important - I can park it in the lot at Home Depot and not worry about someone banging me with a door. It just doesn't matter.
I had an '89 944s2 for 5+ years. Great GT tourer. Sold it couple years ago, kids outgrew the back seat and with 3 bikes it sat in the garage most of the time. Didn't even register it the last year I owned it. :(

Daily driver is a 97 F150 4x4, 4.6L, bone stock with 113k miles, 13mpg downhill and going strong! :)
You pompous Ducati owner [email protected][email protected]!

I drive a 1990 GMC pick'em up truck with the "antiqued flaking white paint" option. She's got the original V6 with ~230,000 miles. She's not a looker, but I never worry about door dings/scratches. I go to Lowes and laugh the other P/U trucks with there pretty liners and owners gently placing stuff in the bed. I just throw the shit in and boogie.

The funniest part is; I get at least 5-6 folks per year just knock on my door and ask if the truck is for sale. Some have shown me $1700 cash right out of there pocket to take her off my hands. -No Sale- Too funny!

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'93 Ford Exploder Sport. It's not pretty. It's been bounced off rocks and trees and submerged once or twice, but nobody parks close to it in a parking lot - in case I open my door too far, and in case they get some crap on their car if they open their door too far. And if they did? So what? When I want to merge in traffic, same thing - people let me in, because I obviously don't have much to lose. :) It's paid for, runs like a champ and owes me nothing. So far I've put less than 700 miles on it this year (the office is a whopping 3 miles away).

mrs.fasterdammit drives an '05 Subaru Legacy sedan. Stock enough at the moment, since it's her daily driver. I make sure to keep the cylinders free of carbon build-up when I get behind the wheel. ;)

I've also got a 1972 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ40. Once the Exploder drives itself into the dirt, I'd like to replace it with the new FJ Cruiser ... then I'll have a pair of Cruisers. Although I wouldn't be too upset about selling the '72 either ...
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SeanFromTX said:
The funniest part is; I get at least 5-6 folks per year just knock on my door and ask if the truck is for sale. Some have shown me $1700 cash right out of there pocket to take her off my hands. -No Sale- Too funny!
Knock. Knock. Knock.

Hey, Buddy, wana' sell that truck? :D
Range Rover and staying with the Italian theme a Yellow 355B
I drive an Acura RSX Type-S... 210 bp, 6 speeds, 8300 rpm redline. My own personal pocket rocket!

Raptor

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100% bone-stock 1995 Honda Civic EX (black - 4 spd) with 212,000 miles on her and haven't had to do much to her other than drive her (I'm still on the original clutch!)......Years ago I had a 1969 Corvette convertible (numbers matching L-46 w/4-spd) and after that was a 1984 Chevy 1/2-ton shortbed with a 383-stroker motor with Corvette aluminum heads, 3.73:1 posi, and a tricked out Turbo 350 tranny.
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If I had a coupla extra bux and the 'Burban was paid off...

I'd own this.



(I noticed that the image link wasn't working right, so I also attached the pic.)

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vtwins4life said:
Migz, that's some funny shiet. That lady is just south from me as I'm in San Juan Capistrano. On a separate note, that's a Sport edition, right? I was actually thinking about getting that for my wife, but I'm thinking of getting something that can tow and not just look purty.
Vtwins-- only the Range Rover has the Sport Edition. The one I have is the LR3 (a.k.a worldwide as the Discovery III). It's the finest all-around car I have ever owned, lots of power, very stable handling, and it does everything on nearly any surface -- it also seats 7. Whether its 100mph on an open freeway, driving through twisty canyon roads or nearly any off-road condition... it does it all with a lot of grace and ease. It will tow 10k pounds with a special OEM hitch that you can tuck away at any time.

I get about 15mpg on the average, which is not too bad for a V8 with that much power.

After 18k miles, it is awesome. There is a suspension compressor problem and a rain leak I need to have warranteed though... I'm concerned about this, and worried that this model perhaps may have more issues than the previous Discovery (which, outside of a mild, but persistent oil leak, was bulletproof), I'm not done with that evaluation though, as it's too early.
rob said:
I'd own this.

They're a lot of fun. I drove one a couple weeks ago and I can't stop thinking about it :)
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