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MUST. RESIST. WINNING. LOTTO. AND. BUYING. BLUE. KOENIGSEGG.



We wants. They make some crazy stuff.

[Morgan]

Visor dude, he's not got a credit card strapped to his head.

Thats the one!

[ams]

black and red x6.

ew.

[skillionaire]

They hyped this game for way too long, but anyone about my age or older will still be copping it as soon as you can get in the cue at EB's.

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I don't know if anyones watched those battle of the supercar videos on YouTube, but the Koenigsegg seems to smash all of them! and what a sound as well!


I know this is a repost, but still funny:

[skillionaire]

How shaky would your hands be chaining up 20k+ wheels?

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How shaky would your hands be chaining up 20k+ wheels?

and those chains are awfully close to the beautiful carbon fibre bodywork.

[RX25SE]

If you were a parking officer, would you care?

They probably had no idea what they were clamping.

[skillionaire]

If you were a parking officer

HOW DARE YOU.

[B4TT]

Nik moonlights as a parking officer - thats why he is tired and cranky all the time now always with the CAPS!!!! haha

[skillionaire]

Haha, I do all my tax work in caps, so that's why I have been capsing you all recently. Also been grumpy, because, well... I'm doing tax for forks sake. Sucks the fat one.



Love a 190E. Love 'em.

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I like old BMW's more than old Mercedes. They do nothing for me.


Something like this would do me:

[B4TT]

tax for forks sake. Sucks the fat one.

I am a mega hater of the nazis at the ATO.
CVNTS IMO.

[skillionaire]

Early 70's 3.0CSL is obviously a winner, awesome car. But still the 190E was special for different reasons, I'm going to be lazy and just wiki paste here.

Back in the late 1970s, Mercedes competed in rallying with the big V8-powered Coupés of the R107 Series, mainly the light-weight Mercedes 450 SLC 5.0. Mercedes wished to take the 190 E rallying, and asked British race car engineering company Cosworth to develop an engine with 320 bhp (239 kW) for the rally car. This project was known as project "WAA" by Cosworth"[4]. During this time, the Audi Quattro with its all wheel drive and turbocharger was launched, making the 2.3-16v appear over-matched. With a continued desire to compete in high-profile motor sport with the 190, and also now an engine to do it with, Mercedes turned to the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft (DTM) (German Touring Car Championship) motor sport series instead. Cars racing in this championship, however, had to be based on a roadgoing model. Mercedes therefore had to put into series production a 190 fitted with a detuned version of the Cosworth engine. This high performance model was known as the 190 E 2.3-16, and debuted at the Frankfurt Auto Show in September 1983, after its reputation had already been established. Three cars, only slightly cosmetically altered, had set three world records in August at the Nardo testing facility in Italy, recording a combined average speed of 154.06 mph (247.94 km/h) over the 50,000 km endurance test, and establishing twelve international endurance records.

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James May had an old 190E cossy on TG recently, it was crap.





Yes, I believe everything I see on TV.

[skillionaire]

@Lukosh// I actually have a very nice contact there, she is awesome. But the amount of work I have to do for something that could honestly be so much more simple is infuriating.

Let's talk apples. Say apples were taxed, by the apple. If I buy three hundred apples, I should tell the ATO that I've bought three hundred apples and pay tax on that, right? Wrong. Because after you've bought those apples, some go into a pie, some get covered in caramel, some are sold in halves and some are discarded due to rotting. What does this mean? It means you need to precisely locate and track and report where every last apple has been before it is sold.

The end result?

You've sold three hundred apples.

WHY ALL THE WORK? CAN'T I JUST PAY ON WHAT I GET? Hate it. It seems like such a waste of time.

@Walts// 190E Cosworth was an important vehicle for many reasons, none of those reasons were explored on the recent TGUK episode.

[Shiv]

I too have a big soft spot for old Mercs. I've sat inside a 600 Grosser....boy they don't make 'em like that anymore!

This is my personal favourite Benz:



Mercedes 500E. Hand built by Porsche. 5.0L V8. Four Recaro bucket seats. Perfect build quality.

Left hand drive only



//edit - pic of interior:

[skillionaire]

After driving left hand drive, I think I could only own an auto in LHD.

[B4TT]

fark Nik, does sound like an absolute headfuck.
do you do your BAS as well or get someone to do it?

[skillionaire]

This is excise tax mate, not business tax. It is done once a week to pay the alcohol duty. This is the same as cigarettes, petrol and oil. I will now have a whole new line of work when the brewery is completely operational. Sucks, but that's what I'm here for. I pay $71.67c/L of Alcohol on everything I sell (beer will be significantly cheaper).