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[quote=digitalcraft;893806]Are they utilizing a color dartboard to choose the colors? Also louder exhaust? I generally hate that as a selling point. Performance upgrades is good, louder exhaust is like stickers. Oh yeah it has those too.[/quote]
I don't think this is going to see any sort of dealer, so for the sake of a racing event, louder exhausts are welcomed.
British racing green would've been a little more appropriate for this car.
I think it looks great. Gives the car character.
[quote=Mugen_Ferio;893849]I think it looks great. Gives the car character.[/quote]
The kind of character that radioactive snot going around a track really quick has? :D
[quote=LeonOfTheDead;893809]I don't think this is going to see any sort of dealer, so for the sake of a racing event, louder exhausts are welcomed.[/quote]
No I don't mean it's necessarily a bad thing, its just a gimmick though to me, like stickers. If its louder because of engine changes that increase power, that's one thing, but I'm noticing that more and more cars are marketed as louder just to be louder, and I think that's a little phoney.
As I said in this case it looks like its probably from some actual performance upgrades which is ok, its just funny to advertise that one thing.
On the worse end of the scale is, I think the new Jetta? That has an electronic mechanism to make the engine sound deeper though it has absolutely no change. I think that's just silly.
It is British racing green; it only appears to be this color due to redshift caused by high velocity. It's all rather technical.
I like it, but I'm known to have weird tastes.
[quote=Timothy (in VA);893882]It is British racing green; it only appears to be this color due to red shift caused by high velocity. It's all rather technical.
I like it, but I'm known to have weird tastes.[/quote]
That definitely isn't the BRG that I'm accustomed to.
[quote=Timothy (in VA);893882]It is British racing green; it only appears to be this color due to redshift caused by high velocity. It's all rather technical.
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Good stuff Tim. I literally laughed out loud. :p
As for the car; I doubt it has a manual and the bodykit is shitty, but I find myself strangely attracted to it.
[quote=digitalcraft;893878]On the worse end of the scale is, I think the new Jetta? That has an electronic mechanism to make the engine sound deeper though it has absolutely no change. I think that's just silly.[/quote]
Many cars have fake sounds these days.
Fake, but not usually electronically faked. Besides valves in the exhaust or whathaveyou anyway.
[quote=Rockefella;893887]That definitely isn't the BRG that I'm accustomed to.[/quote]
It's one of the great myths of British motor racing that there is "A" BRG.
There were many and varied shades of green used which is why so many times it gets identified as "wrong" -- eg using the BRG From an Aston and applying it to an Alvis :)
There is a green which is widely accepted as BRG though... whether or not it's set in stone.
Once at an Italian car show I attended there was an Alfa painted in BRG and one of my buddies said, 'hmmmm BRG'....the owner happened to be standing there and he said, 'no, it's Italian Racing Green'....and we all had a good laugh.
^^^^^ Sorry Dino, there is NOT [B]an [/B]"accepted" BRG either.
You get Jaguar aficionados claiming one shade and Aston claiming another !
DARK green is "commonly accepted", but as I said not "A" single BRG !
Prety much it comes back to which era and race team a person identified first. THAT green tends to then be seen as the "right one". eg Bentley Blowers :)
The FIRST British racing team to adopt a national green colour in 1902 was actually a LOT lighter shade.
If you look at the modern DBR9s in Le Mans the Aston Team used a lighter green -- but a metallic one !
I bet you could go to a car show, in current times, in which there were several green cars but only one 'BRG' and ask 100 car enthusiasts to go to the BRG car and they would all end up at that one car.
It isn't that hard to understand if you know cars.
rofl ... as I said Dino, as a British racing follower and a classic/historic competitor I can assure you if you go to 100 enthusiaasts in the UK they will all say there is not one BRG.
I would agree that if you go to an American car show you will probably get a 99.999% accurate answer of one colour ... and I'll bet it's Bentley BLowers from Le Mans. (EDIT: If you want to point me to a car which you think is THE BRG I'll hapily explain it's position in the timeline and heritage of BRG racing colours )
AND I bet if you put 4 shades of green and one of those the ORIGINAL green used on the Napier Green then the LAST one they would say represented British Racing international team woudl be the one that actually raced in "british colours" :)
I agree it's not easy to understand BECAUSE there never was one agreed shade, but simplistic media can't cope with that and so "simplify it" for the audience as required.
(EDIT: Actually I did a bit of digging in US media history and Road&Track in 1960 stated
[quote] British racing green, to dispel some of the arguments,
is not any particular shade of green, but Napier green is
preferred. Stirling Moss drove a light sea-green BRM in
the 1959 French Grand Prix. This was quite contrary to
the accepted general opinion of what constitutes "British
Racing Green" but was, nevertheless, acceptable.[/quote]