General / Off-Topic V8 > VR

djbordie

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cars are meh, get a bike.

youll experience 10dof when your triple 1050 wheelies coming out of a corner in 3rd...lol

not my exact bike, but a good pic
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What I didn't say in the OP is what the V8 is in.
It's bleddy lunacy is what it is.
A proper Wolf in Sheeps clothing.
People stare in amazement at it as the sound doesn't fit the look.
And it's a rocket ship.

It's one of these
Volvo S80 V8 AWD. 4.4 litre stoopidity.

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It's rather good. So good in fact that it made me buy a Volvo.
 

Thoemse

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My V6 is surprising people too. It is in a little sports car but 90% of these that are still on the road are with small R4 engines.
If they hear they noise they usually make room though. It goes from a deep induction noise to a nice screaming at 7k RPM. :D

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[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
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I love my Rift. With HOTAS, ED and some free time it's bleddy marvelous.

But.

Just brought a car with a V8 engine. It comes with 6dof headtracking. Native forcefeedback steering wheel. Ultra High resoltion display. And the Sound Engineering is just.... wow. WillyTinglinglyGood.

So, at the moment, as the thread title suggests, V8 > VR.
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whilst my car only has 6V's I do still love it, however it is weaker in a number of places compared to ED in VR ;)

1) no way can I get From Earth to Mars in under 5 minutes in my nissan..... My Python does it in less than 1% of a tank of fuel as well.
2) my nissan does not have any where near enough weapon mounts, it is lacking even a class 1 mount for goodness sake.
3) (maybe this is not an issue if you have a V8 but) my V6 power plant just cant power a decent shield generator, and I can forget about decent scanners.

in all serious tho, joking aside, As a fellow petrol head I love my car, but I dunno where abouts you live, but where I am with more "intelligent" motorways popping up, speed cameras everywhere and police hiding in bushes with speed guns, not to mention running costs, risk of accindents etc, a VR headset allows you to experience *some* of what driving a high powered car is like, without any of the down sides and you can driving it like an idiot and after a few beers without any hassle as well.


thankfully for most of us, its not an either/or scenario... its nice to have both :)


NoshDaMinsk said:
My little V8......hence the avatar :)

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nice!. I very nearly bought a Trevor as well......... it was a tossup between my 350z and a stunning Cerbera 4.5l V8..... a very close run thing, both cars were the same price, all bar 1K and had it not been for mechancal issues with my fiat coupe making me realise what a PITA it is having a car you cant 100% rely on all of the time I have have gone for the blackpool rocket..... (well that and owning a car whose sole mission in its like is to try and kill you however, and I am not that good a driver if i am honest).

So I played it safe and to be honest, for the most part generally not regretted it.

but when I went out for a spin in the one I "could" have had... my god, what a car. it set off car alarms on the side of the road (true story) and when i was following it in my Zed I kept missing my gear changes as i could not hear my own engine above the insane 4.5l AJP V8 (it was essentally based on an F1 car engine iirc)
 
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