VANCOUVER ISLAND WINDTALK

Speaking of Top Gear.. did anyone notice the two dozen or so supercar-ish Audis parked at the Upper Crust racetrack coming back from Nitinat yesterday?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF4paczPcf0 Check out the pre-owned: http://www.sportsmobile.com/inventory-d ... ory_id=493 http://www.sportsmobile.com/inventory-d ... ory_id=415

Saw two of these rolling around the South Island this weekend. It seems pretty low roof compared to the cab height. KC7's how high are the Whistler Creekside parkades? I think these would be pretty good in the snow too...

nanmoo wrote:Speaking of Top Gear.. did anyone notice the two dozen or so supercar-ish Audis parked at the Upper Crust racetrack coming back from Nitinat yesterday?

All the high performance dealerships on the island joined together to create the track or something like that, http://islandmotorsportcircuit.com/about/

It's a private club some rich people built and the top tier memberships are being sold for $80-100k I've heard from a reliable source.

It's BYOC so I was surprised to see 20 or so Audi R8's ($160k MSRP) sitting there on Sunday.

Audi rented the track for all of April for testing. I was fortunate enough to listen to them until 10pm Thursday night. I can tell you those R8's are loud! Most days I can't hear the track. Thursday night I could hear it from inside my house.

nanmoo wrote:It's a private club some rich people built and the top tier memberships are being sold for $80-100k I've heard from a reliable source.

It's BYOC so I was surprised to see 20 or so Audi R8's ($160k MSRP) sitting there on Sunday.

Most were s5 coupes, still 6 or so R8s. I think also if you buy some ridiculously priced merc, bmw etc., they'll take you up there for driver training. Maybe you go go back to Mercedes and convince them to let you with your sprinter.

TheLaw wrote:Audi rented the track for all of April for testing. I was fortunate enough to listen to them until 10pm Thursday night. I can tell you those R8's are loud! Most days I can't hear the track. Thursday night I could hear it from inside my house.

Haha, that reminds me of when we lived on Bear Mountain and had to listen to Western Speedway all summer.

Winddude wrote:Most were s5 coupes, still 6 or so R8s.

Not when we went by, there was a long row of more than a dozen R8's as we stopped to check.

nanmoo wrote:

TheLaw wrote:Audi rented the track for all of April for testing. I was fortunate enough to listen to them until 10pm Thursday night. I can tell you those R8's are loud! Most days I can't hear the track. Thursday night I could hear it from inside my house.

Haha, that reminds me of when we lived on Bear Mountain and had to listen to Western Speedway all summer.

Winddude wrote:Most were s5 coupes, still 6 or so R8s.

Not when we went by, there was a long row of more than a dozen R8's as we stopped to check.

must be using kiter logic 15knots = 25 knots, 6 r8s = 12r8s.

KC 7777 here is a nice looking Nissan: https://www.outsidevan.com/van/kodiak/

JL wrote:KC 7777 here is a nice looking Nissan: https://www.outsidevan.com/van/kodiak/

The purple anodized look is a bit 80s-90s but they have done a nice job of dressing up an otherwise ugly machine (IMO - these Nissans have that "butterface" look) into a convincing rig! Very cool!

You see the OSV prices these days... $40k USD for the basic model which is pretty much just upholstery not including the van. What I could do with $40k....

What

OSV used to be expensive, now they are just ridiculous:
https://www.outsidevan.com/how-it-works/

3 years ago when I got mine the dollar was at par and the base price was $15k USD for interior, bed, vents, bumper and wiring for adding solar later. I added solar, heat and water to mine. Now the prices have doubled and then add on 30% for the exchange. Plus the wait times seem to be 6-12 months instead of 1-2.

They did a decent job on mine but I wouldn't use them again, even for the same price. My bumper is rusting already and I have to get it sandblasted and re-powder coated. Their customer service has gone downhill in the last few years, and they took the bigwavedave van off their website

The only good thing is their vans are like houses in Vancouver now, if I sold mine used in the US I could get back what I paid for the for the van+conversion.

Thanks for the update Dave