Ongoing General Automotive Thread 2.0

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

I've seen vehicles with European plates on the front as a novelty thing. I assume you can't have plates from other provinces or US States used this way, but are those European ones legal?

Coming back from Fairmont I passed a van with Swiss plates on front and rear. I'm assuming it must be legal to drive here if they paid to ship it over, but it got me wondering if there are any restrictions on out of continent vehicles in Canada

[puffnstuff]

I saw a van a few weeks back with Argentina plates on it

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

Coming back from Fairmont I passed a van with Swiss plates on front and rear. I'm assuming it must be legal to drive here if they paid to ship it over, but it got me wondering if there are any restrictions on out of continent vehicles in Canada

Ya, there are different regulations down to silly things like marker light placement. So you may not be able to register it here without modifications. I've seen European vehicle plates in the Yukon, and I suspect they get 6 months or something without needing to register.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Witnessed the worst accident I've seen in person today coming back from Drumheller. Driving on HWY 9 just east of Beiseker, I see this massive explosion with a giant fireball about 1km in front of me, looked like a Michael Bay movie. Got closer and saw a red pickup with half of it's front end just gone, and a tractor-trailer in the ditch completely engulfed in flames. Guessing the pickup hit the truck fuel tank first. Got out to see if I could help whomever was in the pickup, but it was on fire too and when I was about 10 feet from it a fuel line blew up and turned it into a flamethrower. Another bystander managed to calm it down with a fire extinguisher, but from the look on his face I don't think anyone in that truck survived. At that point my kids were freaking out, so I turned around and left before the scene got any more chaotic. Quite the end-cap for an otherwise great family day

[cam_wmh]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

For some reason, new car buyers love boring ass colours. Whites, blacks, and greys -- dark and light. I don't get it either.

I had ####ing 3 choices. Black, White, Blue. Like cmon.

[BloodFetish]

Originally Posted by chemgear

Seeing more of these primer grey/putty/matte/muted colors on vehicles. Not sure what it is about them but they seem so ugly and lifeless as a result.

They remind me of plumbers putty or an incomplete clay car model. Maybe just me though.

The new putty colour trend started by Audi. The difference is no metallic flake in the paint to give it that sparkle you're used to seeing.