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Offline AndrewBell

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Re: What if the Amiga was a car?
« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2007, 08:24:07 AM »
...it would be a clown car, coughing and spluttering, jerking its' way into the spotlight before backfiring and falling to pieces.
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Re: What if the Amiga was a car?
« Reply #15 on: October 25, 2007, 08:27:01 AM »
I don't like Amiga to Car comparisons, becouse I don't have a drivers licence! ;-)
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Re: What if the Amiga was a car?
« Reply #16 on: October 25, 2007, 09:14:08 AM »
It would be a Delorean.

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Re: What if the Amiga was a car?
« Reply #17 on: October 25, 2007, 09:18:31 AM »
Amiga - Car comparison...

Easy...

Amiga = Austin/Rover Mini

Overall an old design, small, light weight, rusty in the usual places, very often underestimated, accompanied by remarks like 'Oh you don't see those out often', but with a little love and attention can surprise even the big boys! But most of all - FUN TO DRIVE!!!

Also, nearly forgot... accompanied by an army of zealous fans!!!
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Re: What if the Amiga was a car?
« Reply #18 on: October 25, 2007, 10:52:04 AM »
@B00tDisk: Ha Ha! I think you got it spot-on, apart from the Trabant - it'd have been more like an Escort XR-3i!  :lol:
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Re: What if the Amiga was a car?
« Reply #19 on: October 25, 2007, 11:30:04 AM »
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I would compare the Amiga to a lightweight sportscar also. The perfect comparison is the RX-7...


Or the Honda CRX.  Damn fun to drive and came in several models.  I sold my CRX-HF (52 MPG highway) 600 miles short of 350K miles on it, didn't burn a drop of oil.  Last I talked to the guy I sold it to, resold it and saw it about a year ago.

Talked to others who owned the Si model, those things were very fast for such a low cost car.  Honda recently showed off CR-Z, Remix. Hopefully Honda will go ahead and produce Remix, love to have modernized CRX again.  If not, FCX is do out in 12 months.

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Re: What if the Amiga was a car?
« Reply #20 on: October 25, 2007, 11:36:38 AM »
Toyota Corolla XRS.

Well built, refined, reliable, and did it's job while still offering a bit of pep.

It was also a tad utilitarian, had a murky toy image, and the marketing was rubbish.
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Re: What if the Amiga was a car?
« Reply #21 on: October 25, 2007, 11:57:06 AM »
The Lamborghini Countach of course!
Simply because it's just such a damn cool car! :-P
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Re: What if the Amiga was a car?
« Reply #22 on: October 25, 2007, 12:43:22 PM »
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Pyromania wrote:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VWJj8pAUu5k

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Veyron

Most impressive---reminds me of the movie where the TGV breaks the train speed record at, oh, 574 km/h or something.

However, if the Amiga were a Veyron, then just when we're about to reach maximum speed the engine will all of a sudden stop running, causing massive panic on behalf of the driver to avoid an impending and possibly very lethal crash. The dashboard lights will start blinking in a slow pattern, indicating a Veyron Meditation, caused by an access to an uneven speed.
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Re: What if the Amiga was a car?
« Reply #23 on: October 25, 2007, 12:54:08 PM »
...It would have to be a car with a main engine and other engines for other tasks, especially one for the 4 channel horn.

The station wagon model would be made out of real metal, all put together with Robertson screws instead of rivets...for modularity.

You'd have room in the trunk slots for a PCHonda or a MacNissan.

The car wouldn't stop at traffic lights unless it needed to meditate.


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Re: What if the Amiga was a car?
« Reply #24 on: October 25, 2007, 01:08:28 PM »
Mil. Spec? :devildance:
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Re: What if the Amiga was a car?
« Reply #25 on: October 25, 2007, 01:09:14 PM »
If the Amiga were a car, it would stall out every time it hit a pot hole, unless it was running netbsd, and then it would recover quite nicely.
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Re: What if the Amiga was a car?
« Reply #26 on: October 25, 2007, 02:21:53 PM »
Amiga is sadly far from a Veyron. A Veyron would be some sort of a £800,000 super PC with a million GFX cards.
Id compare an Amiga to something like a Caterham Super 7, old small but loads of power and is super fast round corners. Not to mention they both can be upgraded. Translated as stable and super quick loading times.
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Re: What if the Amiga was a car?
« Reply #27 on: October 25, 2007, 02:46:46 PM »
Here we have it :P
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Re: What if the Amiga was a car?
« Reply #28 on: October 25, 2007, 02:49:28 PM »
you are all wrong it would be a VW bug.  A cheap car everybody can afford.  There are tons of after market add ons for the beatle. There are still people driving them years after they stoped making them. They are popular in germany.  It's pretty obvious.  
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Re: What if the Amiga was a car?
« Reply #29 from previous page: October 25, 2007, 02:53:12 PM »
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guru-666 wrote:
you are all wrong it would be a VW bug.  A cheap car everybody can afford.  There are tons of after market add ons for the beatle. There are still people driving them years after they stoped making them. They are popular in germany.  It's pretty obvious.  

I have honestly been thinking the same myself..
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