The last poster wins

[K00L]

My phone is a piece of poop. The back cover is cracked in half (and missing the little prongs that lock it into the back) and is currently held in place by scotch tape. I find it difficult to type on a touch screen, and it spazzes out sometimes anyway (the menu goes to the side of my screen, the keyboard glows blue, just restarts for no good reason, randomly not allowing my finger to do anything and instead it types something by itself, such as twenty 3's).
But, it's a phone, and a (maybe not so much) smart phone at that. So I'm happy with it. Usually...

[ViaFernandez]

Usually? :P

 

ok i need a santa hat for my pic.

 

but i don't have one irl. :P

[Thor.]

@Kool

 

either do i, you can still get it replaced if its still under contract.

Edited December 10, 2013 by Thor.

[Vindekarr]

Usually? :tongue:

 

ok i need a santa hat for my pic.

 

but i don't have one irl. :tongue:

 

Just open your picture in Microsoft paint, scribble a red blob on your head, and then add some white trim. I won last year's Nexus X-mas hat contest by crudely drawing a Santa hat on a picture of a Space Marine, so our standards aren't exactly high.

[billyro]

Yeah, it doesn't have to be super fancy. It's the thought that counts - we're all in the Christmas spirit here. :D

 

Also, you should do yours too, Vindekarr. :)

[Thor.]

Now thats a long track, so can't wait for project cars.

Edited December 10, 2013 by Thor.

[Vindekarr]

Yeah, it doesn't have to be super fancy. It's the thought that counts - we're all in the Christmas spirit here. :D

 

Also, you should do yours too, Vindekarr. :smile:

 

I've been meaning to, but haven't really got a chance yet. It's been an awful week at work and will only get worse from here on. We shut down for Christmas on Sunday which means we've got until Saturday to finish all the repairs, modifications and testing people have ordered, and somehow deal with an influx of late-arriving orders. The biggest issue is we've got a few cars that were imported directly into the country-this means we have to import spare parts from either interstate or overseas. Importing parts takes time, and there's a few cars that we'll have to pull double-shifts to get finished. As a result I'm holding off on the party hats until next Monday once I'm not sleep-deprived and smelling of molten plastic and irritation.

 

The bad side to being a mechanic, other than the fact everyone assumes you're a barely-literate simpleton who wants to steal their money, is that you tend to have a hard time finding cars you like. At some point or another you'll lift the hood on some sleek $500,000 car built by some legendary European marque, only to realise it was designed and made in Southern Asia by slobs in a rusty tin shed, and isn't worth a tenth the asking price as scrap metal. And so it is with the car that held us back all last week, a Lotus Evora. The Evora's carcass lay on our lot for over a week as we tried to find someone who sold Lotus parts. That was until I fished around in the manual and realised it was built using the same engine as a Toyota Camry, and was actually made and designed in Malaysia.

 

http://www.hdwallpapersinn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/lotus-evora-sport-car-pic.jpg

Edited December 10, 2013 by Vindekarr

[BlackRampage]

Looks like a cheap Carrera knockoff anyway. That's including the rims.

[Iv000]

Christmas is soooon

 

I need to go present hunting!

[Vindekarr]

Looks like a cheap Carrera knockoff anyway. That's including the rims.

 

Sadly that's all it is. There biggest problem with the Evora was the McLaren 4-12. They both arrived in Australia in 2009, both cost around $400K and both were billed as high-tech Porsche killers. The problem was, critics didn't like the Evora very much. It was heavy, underpowered and a bit clumsy. They did however, adore the 412, which was everything the Evora wasn't: light, agile, and almost overpowered for it's size. In the end Lotus sold only 13 Evoras before quitting the Australian market forever in 2011. The same story played out all over the world; the overweight, underpowered Evora up against four of the best supercars in recent memory, the Ferrari 458, Porsche 991 911, Nissan GTR and Mclaren 412. It's too early to tell, but at the rate things are going, Lotus looks unlikely to survive to see the new decade.

 

Sometimes a company introduces a car at either the wrong price or wrong time. The 412(photo below) was better looking, lighter, more agile, better built and almost twice as powerful as the Evora, yet cost $100,000 less.

 

http://pictures.topspeed.com/IMG/crop/201209/2013-mclaren-mp4-12c-fire_600x0w.jpg