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Mr. Vroom

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    Worlds Fastest Gallardo Pilot

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    sarasota florida
  1. China used to be a strait up commie country, billion people, nutty leader, and armed with nukes. The country was a destablizing force in Asia, a threat to Japan, and S Korea, not to mention making trouble in SE Asia. Nixon, to his credit opened the door to rapprochement, and every leader since has granted trade carrots/favors to the country, which has moved from being an economic basket case to the world's second largest economy. So today we can proclaim mission accomplished, its time to play by our rules. This means a free floating currency, respect for copyrights, intellectual property, labor rights, civil rights, property rights, enviroment, and even simple shit like following good manufacturing practices(we don't want contaminated dry wall, lead paint and so on!) If the yuan trades freely it will appreciate in value by at least 30%, over time less jobs will be exported, more captital will be invested domestically, the US economy will move from 70% consumption(we consume more than we produce, which is ultimately unsustainable and only possible because China and others lend/send our money back!) to a more reasonable figure, trade deficits will go down, wages stabilize, unemployment goes down, these are all good things. On the Chinese side, domestic consumption is only 35% of GDP, which is too low, so to prevent asset bubbles, inflation, its also good for them. For those interested(Wheels!) here is an article on the last IMF meeting, which speaks of a looming currency war, where other countries like India, Japan, Brazil are considering or actually devaluing their currencies to compete with the Chinese. Remember that since China pegs its currency to the US dollar, this is a tool the US cannot use! If we devalue ours, so do they! http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/business/global/10imf.html
  2. Hmm, I don't think your friend is quite as pissed as you.
  3. Lee, you have some pent up anger there..... The US cut China some slack in the 80's and onward for geopolitical reasons. Those days are gone. You miss the point.... if the US dollar goes up or down, so does the yuan. This is against US law, against free trade, we have a right by domestic and international law to apply sanctions.
  4. The US dollar trades freely on the open market, the Chinese Renminbi(yuan)does not, its value is artificially PEGGED to the US dollar, so if the dollar declines, so does the Renminbi, thus preserving the unfair trade advantage.
  5. The ad gets almost everything wrong and picks the wrong bogeyman to blame it ALL on. China is not the biggest holder of US debt, most US debt is held domestically, by individuals, banks, the FED, retirement funds, etc. China is the largest foreign holder of US debt. Besides low wage labor, few worker rights, limited civil rights, copyright infringements, one of the ways China sucks money out of our economy, and is prolonging the recession is by undervaluing it's currency. This goes against every free trade principle, the WTO, and also is against US law because it gives them an UNFAIR trade advantage. Unfortunately China has been getting a free pass, if the law were applied, and tariffs put up, more products and capital investment would be made in the USA, unemployment would drop, tax revenues increase, govt deficits decline, more exports, etc. The ad should be advocating sanctions on Chinese imports, not praising their model, which as Brian pointed out, is patently false anyway.
  6. Cool, for once a Ferrari goes as fast as advertised!
  7. You may call it posing but a $500 bottle(prices have been going up!) at a club is about renting real estate. If you are with your girl, no one will hit on her, if you are out with friends, you have space to socialize, if you are out with your buddies, a prime spot to pull chicks and plenty of booze to get them loaded. Brian Wilson I gave up on you after you went to Montreal looking for fcuking crepes....Got a feeling you spend most of your day living in your head. Also doubt you have done anything substantial in your life (parking your ass in China, listening to Sam Cooke records doesn't count!) So here is some unsolicited advice, contemplation is good, but to live a full life, you need to engage, make goals, then realize them, take chances, and ocasionally fcuk up. If you want respect, it takes action, not talk or talking out of your ass as you do so often.
  8. Exotics, like all luxury goods, have high gross profit margins, at most a G costs a few k more than a R8 to manufacture, yet it lists for 80k more. That may explain part of the profit, also it wouldn't surprise me if Lambo R&D and back office expenses are shifted/buried in the Audi account ledger. The good news is that since Audi is sharing platforms with Lamborghini, making a fat buck on the Lambo side doesn't seem to be a priority.
  9. Yes its normal, have the same thing on my 06, its called lugging, you really need to shift and drive any pre Lp G at or above 3k rpm. The new engine with EFI in the LP560 corrected that issue, pulls nicely and smoothly at lower rpms.
  10. Had a couple of problems, the Vanos line burst when it was new, and the SMG actuator unit also failed.
  11. I called up Renntech, they claim a gain of 45 hp and 45 torque..... Here is their dyno sheet, which is kinda suspect, because Edwards Inside line dynoed a stock SLS on the same type dynojet and the stock made more hp than the tuned Rennetch! Guess I will have to dyno my car first! http://blogs.insideline.com/straightline/2...nz-sls-amg.html
  12. Bought a new 750i a little more than year ago, its been in the shop twice, total down time of nearly a month, started off with a fuel pump isssue then computers started frying, its great driving/handling boat of a car, but a month downtime blows!
  13. The new SL will be sitting on the same chassis as the SLS, plus have a TT V8, so I can't figure out the purpose of the SLS conv.
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