Everything posted by Gravy Train
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The New Car Fanatic Thread
Unfortunately it's not and due to a career change, I put the CO move on hold. It's something I hope to revisit in the summer, because this Z4 is part of that CO plan. There's a guy in Castle Rock with a similar spec who posted all his summer drives that made me jealous. Rivian is still great for a daily, do-it-all, and this leaves me driving the Audi less. I just put it in storage after PPF replacement and a detail, followed by a photo shoot session. I've been thinking of putting it on Bring-a-Trailer, but it hurts me to sell the S6. That C7.5 has so much capability that's hard to match with other platforms. The F90 M5 is faster, but not as comfortable. The C8 platform and Panamera is bigger and too heavy.
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The New Car Fanatic Thread
Happy New Year! I finally did a thing I had been mulling over since summer. The original goal was to find something fun, engaging, aggressive, but with a manual. My roster quickly narrowed to the 2017-2019 C7 Z06, which is appreciating in a rapidly opposite direction from the C8, and useable on the street only through the top of 2nd gear. Then the P-car bug bit after looking over a 991.2 T, but every car was PDK equipped-- I could only find the 7MT in base Carerras and really clean 4S or GTS cars are still priced above $100K for some reason, overlapping with 992s. Then.. there's this BMW Z4 M40i with the Handshalter package, a 2025-26 special before BMW and Magna-Steyr cease production of the Z4 entirely by March. It got the same 6-speed manual and (allegedly) shifter linkage from the Supra, with a remapped EPS rack, revised helper springs and stiffer stabilizer bars. With the 6-speed manual, it gets a shorter final drive ratio in the M240i's M-Performance differential, requiring frequent gear changes. But the color is what really drew me in. Only the Handshalter gets this in Frozen Deep Green Metallic or San Remo Green, the same paint that went on the outgoing F90 M5 CS. There are two versions of the Cognac interior-- black, with M-stripe piping, and the full Cognac, silver piping with door panels and center armrest. BMW drafted an Internet magazine article on this car, which was the beginning and end of their marketing of this model: https://www.bmw-m.com/en/topics/magazine-article-pool/bmw-z4-m40i-edition-pure-impulse.html My local dealer had a bright blue-on-black (Alcantara) car on their lot, but no green cars. I didn't even bother driving it, but wanted to validate ergonomics and seat position from a car much smaller than I'm used to. Then my sales agent made a call that weekend with their sister store and brought this over to the lot. BMW was offering a sales tax credit on end-of-December deals and I got 3% off MSRP. Made it way too easy and I still hadn't given it a test drive, as BMW's break-in cycle needs 1500 miles first. I don't plan to drive this much but following the break-in oil change, it's getting a tune and some Supra-developed suspension mods. Factory machined/black wheels are 20" rear, 19" front on Michelin Pilot Super Sports.
- 2025 Citrus Bowl - Texas vs. Michigan - 2:00pm on ABC
- 2025 Citrus Bowl - Texas vs. Michigan - 2:00pm on ABC
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I for one welcome our new AI overlords
Quoting myself here, but the notion all these new datacenters (and the house-of-cards debt financing behind them) was floated out over CNBC today: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/17/oracle-stock-blue-owl-michigan-data-center.html
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I for one welcome our new AI overlords
It's kinda difficult to modify high-rise floorplates to accomodate subfloor water cooling loops, DC switchgear and battery rooms. Then you need a place for an entire different chilled water plant (seperate from comfort air), along with a massive bank of diesel and/or turbine generators, multiple utility feeds and multiple service entries for private fiber and diverse telecom circuits. So much utility infrastructure is involved that it only makes sense to build everything on a low, flat plane that starts life as slab-on-grade, reinforced tilt-wall structure.
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
There's only one Regions Bank, one Yellawood, one Pilot truck stop and one Coca-Cola United. Sorry for your shithole.
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2025 Texas Coaching/Support Staff Thread
Searles' daughter still works for Texas but he seems to be set in Georgia. I'd also like to see Pittman, provided he's capable of developing an individual unit and he game hasn't passed him by.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
No. We'll get his face buried in a playsheet or notepad, even while on defense, and nothing but looks of bewilderment when an official throws a bullshit flag.
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
You just take a look out there and see all the rudderless programs ahead of us in the CFP.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
Are we 3-2 against Maryland? For those records above, I don't mind that we begin whittling them down with future OOC schedules.
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Lane Kiffin to LSU?
Kiffin and Ole Miss couldn't keep Quinshon Judkins on their roster, where Ohio State seemed to be the highest bidder during the '23 transfer portal cycle.
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Trump’s America
MAGA's top influencers on Xitter inadvertently revealed as foreign actors after the platform rolls out a feature to enhance user transparency: https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-influencers-accidentally-unmasked-as-foreign-actors/
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
SECRant, though I don't see how anyone over there knows shit about fuck.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
*Laughs in Ed Orgeron*
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
"...uncharacterly undisciplined, and are you surprised you see that this late in the season?
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
We've been at least in the top-10 for most of that tenure and recruiting rankings from 4 years ago don't make a shit when those classes have graduated or portaled in/out over their eligibility. There isn't another team in the SEC we are behind in recruiting. You can't say Ole Miss is a vastly superior team by talent, yet they would boatrace this team in Oxford. It's all player development and execution.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Texas One Fund wasn't around for Herman and Chuckles to mismanage $30M+ in annual talent. The script has changed and with that collective, the leash became shorter. The midseason firings among other programs were timed to retain their talent. The message is clear that the value of the established 2-deep is greater than the annual HC's compensation.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
TTU's Matador Club and Cody Campbell spent $28M in the transfer portal prior to this season.. did our alum not see that coming? David Booth just gave KU $300M to spend on football and facilities. They know exactly what's going on and who can be money-whipped.
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Texas @ Georgia November 15, 2025 - The Beginning or The End
1.) Nothing 2.) Forced to make assistant coaching changes 3.) More $$ for OL 4.) Not hiring a total asshole coach like we need to get past this Kirby fuck.
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Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body in Congress? Oh you mean Marjorie!
She flipped on the ACA subsidy issue because she knows she'll be primaried next year as a political dead end, and she found no support for the Senate nor Governor seats.
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Jeffrey Epstein needs his own thread
Kompromat confirmed. I gotta look for these Epstein E-mails to Lavrov in 2018, recalling the Alaska summit earlier this year. I can't find the MSM articles that reported this, but there was a moment with Putin's envoy when Trump's cabinet members left a speech stunned / blushing. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/karoline-leavitt-looked-ashen-almost-frightened-after-alaska-summit-with-putin/ar-AA1KELpI?ocid=oie8dlpg
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
Do we get to run this shutdown back in February?
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I for one welcome our new AI overlords
I thought it was dogshit wrapped in catshit.
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Trump’s America
The 50-year mortgage will just drive prices higher. Any market mechanism to lower monthly payments will be offset by price appreciation until mortgage payments rise to what the market will bear… which should settle around the same before the 50-year option is created. The initial demand increment will drive price further, so we all get fucked with greater insurance and property tax liability.