WheelsRCool

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IMO all of the suggestions are good IMO, black, white, the gold one shown in the picture, etc...the SLR can be changed a great many ways. Personally, I like both "pimp" cars that are a bit gaudy as well as very classy, elegant cars; same with clothes, I like both urban/hip-hop clothing that is very colorful and flashy, along with elegant, very classy clothing. I don't consider this a "pimp" SLR though, it I think is like a great combination between "sporty" and "classy" Anyone wonder if the Mansory (and other custom car builder) guys come to L/P and read our comments ?

You guys are nuts, that whole car, interior and exterior, is frigging awesome!

Awesome car!

LMAO I saw that picture and just burst out laughing Allan, props for not being afraid to poke fun at yourself

Never even heard of this hero, will have to check out this movie. In addition to "The Dark Knight," also remember "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."

The golden tips look cool IMO.

I asked two cops over at another forum about the pulling over thing on a road in the middle of nowhere, I'll start with my question, then post their answers: WheelsRCool: This is a question that occurred to me while on another forum, anyhow, let's say a person is driving down a country road in the dark of night, in the middle of nowhere. A police car comes up behind them and flashes the lights; does the person, since it's in the country in the middle of nowhere, have the right to keep driving until they come to a lighted area, like a town or something, provided they keep at a reasonable speed so the cop doesn't think they're trying to outrun them, or do they absolutely have to pull over? Cop 1: I would. And I also would get on the phone with 911 and explain what you are doing so that the dispatcher can relay that info to the officer so they know why you are no stopping. If you have to drive a hundred miles to get to civilization, you would be best to pull over right away regardless. If you ever get in that situation, getting on the phone and talking to 911 is a good idea. You can also ask for them to send a supervisor to the location as well. Here if the driver puts their 4 way flashers on we at least know they see us, and give them a little time to find a good spot to stop. Some of the roads here are narrow, and many are VERY dark at night. Sometimes it will take few minutes for someone to actually pull over for the fact that they are not even sure if they can do so safely. Cop 2: A couple of points to note: 1) Dark road-a real police car should light up like a Christmas tree providing take down lights, strobes, what not-you'll know the diferrence. 2) Do you know what the police vehicles in the area look like? What type of 360 (overhead) lights they have (some states use blue only for police, others blue and red. Red generally is fire-yellow is tow trucks, security and what not)? Vehicle markings? 3) If you are not sure you cannot go wrong to continue driving safely and slowly to a well lit area. If the officer is legit he will likely call in a backup unit (or several) and you will have your answer-along with several witnesses. Once a second unit arrives you should halt. Telling him/her you were frightened to halt on that type of a road, lack of lighting, etc is not disrespect-good SA on your part. Do you have a right to continue? Well no as it is technically an arrest once your right as a citizen to continue unimpeded has been halted. Same as a stop and frisk-your being detained for questioning/interview, not immediately charged with anything. Can you continue on until you felt you were in a safer area, and the officer is legitimate? Sure, I would! You risk possible detention or at least a ticket, but you can always fight a ticket if he issues one anyway. A good cop would not try to halt you in that type of scenario-lack of lighting, narrow road, no backup=bad juju. There are too many psychos out there who can throw a set of lights in the grill of their vehicle and prey upon the trusting populace. Be carefull; use your head for more than a hat rack and you'll be fine.

WOW, people are haters!!

The thread done before was called "What Ticks Me Off About Non-Lambo Owners" I think, but I think it got erased in one of the forum's crashes.

Good ones, except I don't get what's so funny about that very last one...?

You are right, it really shouldn't be people's business if a politician has an affair or not, I just mean it's funny how these politicians always have some type of scandal or scandulous behavior going on. But yeah I remember, same with Bill Clinton, it wasn't his having a Monica the law cared about, it was the lie I believe. So does this mean in those states with the arcane "No oral sex" law still on the books, if a politician is caught getting a BJ from his secretary, even if he admits it, he can get in trouble...?

The replacement Governor admitted immediately to having had an affair. Also his wife! These politicians...that commercial for the Rikola (however it's spelled) really hit the nail on the head, when the politician gets up on the podium and is like, "Ladies and gentlemen, these claims are completely unfounded" :::COUGH::: (from the guy next to him) "I stand for integrity," :::COUGH::: "...decency, :::COUGH:::

Great car collection, congrats!

I heard some enterprising individuals have already started selling "Client #9" T-shirts

Just give me Ivanka Trump and Eliza Dushku and I will be happy

Mmm....how do you define "unfair competition" though? There is no such thing as "fair" competition, that is one of the ways capitalism works. It's like if a football team starts winning in a game, trying to enforce "fairness" is like forcing the winning team to move back to the center of the field to give the other team a break. This used to be one of the main arguments between economists; most were Keynesians, concerned with "fair" competition, whereas ones like Milton Friedman and Joseph Schumpeter acknowledged that competion can't ever be fair in that sense. Most all attempts to "enforce fairness" only create the opposite. Before the Reagan years, most industry was stifled with heavy regulation, and the economy tended to enter a recession every five years I believe, along with high inflation, high unemployment, etc...if a monopoly naturally occurs, all that means is the market has decided to mostly buy from that company. Monopolies are very difficult to maintain and usually are only temporary. Usually heavy regulation creates monopolies, not discourages them. This isn't always true, and sometimes government must step in to break up a monopoly, but as long as there is competition in a free market, then it's fine. Booms and busts are a natural occurence in a free economy. You can't prevent them. The time of the "robber barons" was a bit different. Back then, there was no real knowledge of stock market investing, it was mostly a gamble for people; it wasn't until Ben Graham wrote his book Security Analysis that an actual strategy started to come about for investing. Also there was no Securities and Exchange Commission then, which does a good job of keeping safeguards in the stock market. And the Great Depression was not caused by the stock market crash of 1929. The stock market crash of 1987 was almost twice the size of the crash of 1929, but the economy didn't enter any depression. The Great Depression was because the Federal Reserve did the opposite of their job which was to keep the banks solvent; instead, they didn't support banks and even pulled money out of the banking system, causing many many banks to fail, which shrank the money supply. In 1987 when the stock market crashed again, the Federal Reserve acted and did their job, also the SEC enacted special procedures (and since then has put up more safeguards for things learned from that crash). IMO it is the de-regulation of the economy from Reagan that has allowed our economy to grow so flexible and resilient these days. It was de-regulation of the airlines that allowed airline service to improve a good deal, de-regulation of the trucking industry that allowed this industry to grow and improve, de-regulation of the telephone industry that has allowed all the advancements in telecommunications, de-regulation of the financial industry that has allowed all these hedge funds and private equity firms to grow and be created which has allowed much of the wealth creation of our economy. That had its own boom and bust too with the LBO craze of the 80s. Regarding these corporate scandals, IMO those are examples of capitalism working. Because with a free-market system, when an industry isn't protected, if corruption occurs, the system kicks the business out eventually. Corruption can be a lot more rampant with heavy regulation that protects the industry. People forget that for every Enron or Worldcom, there are thousands of other companies that do obey the law. Well yeah, but competition is what makes the economy great. Constant innovation and creation. Perhaps, but how are you going to solve this? Wealth re-distribution? If these big firms have earned all their wealth through being smart investors, that's because of their work and smarts. Look at Cerberus Capital Management, Steve Feinberg started that in 1990 with like $10 million, now it has over $20 billion in assets under control. Steve Schwarzman of Blackstone Capital, I believe he is known to put in like 20+ hour workdays sometimes. Heavy government regulation? If you try to regulate them too heavily, all they do is lobby the regulators to create extensive regulations that will cut out smaller guys, while they, with their army of lawyers, accountants, etc...can afford to navigate through them. This also gives them a guaranteed monopoly because small businesses can't pay for the regulations. For example airlines lobby bureaucrats to create regulations to cut out little airlines because, as Richard Branson with Virgin Airlines proved, that hungry entrepreneur with one little plane and a lot of drive can become a major threat to your big airline if you give him time. As for the buzz and investors, well that's the investors fault. Personal responsibility is key here. They need to do their research IMO.

Isn't Spitzer himself worth like half a billion dollars?

Supply and demand folks, businesses can charge the highest price the market will handle. If videogame companies priced videogames at $1000 a game and the masses would pay for them, they'd do so. If hookers charge $5000 an hour and people pay for it, more power to 'em.

Only thing is, by the "rules of the game" do you mean just make sure that everyone gets the same legal treatment or something...? The reason I ask is because won't people/businesses with lots more money always have an "un-fair" advantage regarding things like investing and so forth? I agree with enforcing rules if you mean Wall Street big-shots can get away with illegal stuff right now, but if you mean "level the playing field" type fair, that never works. Competition in the economy functions precisely because those who gain more resources gain more advantages. For example, Wal-Mart will likely always have more advantages than a smaller chain that provides the same products in a particular area.

I don't drink Diet anything, to me I've always thought it was a farce, no soda is healthy. I mostly just drink root beers or cream soda that are made with regular sugar, and that's only when I do drink a soda. Is it true that they use Coca-Cola to cleanse diesel engines, or is that another urban myth? I heard if you take like a piece of steak and put it into a bucket of Coca-Cola, it is dissolved and just bones in like a day or so...? Anyways, BoombaProjects, I saw this thread and you said your fiance sent that to you, I was about to ask why you were getting married again so soon I checked the date and saw it was originally written back in 2006. So how about this scare right now about the chemicals or additives in the drinking water? I haven't even paid attention to it, as I bet it's just way overblown, anyone know though? The media tends to scare us over the things that are minute, meanwhile we go about our lives doing much more dangerous things that we don't know about.

I'm not denying that there are corrupt big business people out there, but most companies in America are moral and follow the rules. I believe Spitzer is one of those types who believes that corporations are inherently evil, but government and non-profits do the Lord's work. And a large chunk of the mess is also from individual people as well, who put themselves so deep into debt, who bought homes they couldn't afford, etc...both individuals and big business are at fault IMO.