9/1 Cadillac Night Vision is about $2000. If I buy off shelf components,
what exactly would I need to get, from where, and for how much?
I like Night Vision but I don't like Cadillacs.
\_ Yet another distracting gimic. I would rather spend a fraction of
that money to buy Xenon headlights instead. It turns night into
day.
\_ I don't want it to see where I'm going. I want one for my
twin 40mm Mk19 autocannon popup turret so I can sneak up on
cocksuckers in their SUVs and make smoking road pancake without
them ever knowing what hit them. -John
\_ Generally I'd agree, although for anyone without autodim mirrors,
Xenons on other drivers can be very annoying to have in your
rearview.
\_ I thought the same thing too. But then I took a closer
look at a Xenon at night compared to a standard halogen
and it wasn't anymore blinding. I get more pissed of at
large SUVs on the road using their halogens than people
with Xenons. And Xenons are more projected than diffuse
so you get a more precise aim (and cutoff). The problem
with some cheapo Xenons are the lack of auto-leveling
which most decent Xenons nowdays should have.
\_ I dunno, when I see xenon lights on the other side of
the freeway, I get pissed.
\_ You must be a very angry man.
\_ I want to kill both. SUV lighting sucks. Xenon sucks.
I don't want to be blinded by either one.
\_ Agreed. I really have doubts how much is utility, and
how much is trendy-suv-starbucks-pink-is-the-new-orange
silliness.
\_ You obviously don't own a car with xenon lights.
The difference is huge and I would never own a
car without them again. As for blinding, my car
has a self-dimming rear-view mirror so it's not
a problem.
\_ Fair enough.
\_ *Your* car does. The *other* drivers you're
fucking *BLINDING!* do not!
\_ FYI, you should check out the Cadillac CTS-V. Might just change your
mind - it rivals the BMW M5. 5.7 liter V8, 400 horses, 0-60 in
4.7 seconds, 395 ft lb. of torque, track-capable handling,
huge brakes. Admittedly it doesn't have the beemer's steering
feel and compromises the handling a little bit for comfort, but
its still a monster.
\_ Wow, great marketspeak! Did you get paid to post that?
\_ Speaking of which, E60 M5 on Nurburgring:
http://home.planet.nl/~frans290/MOV04226.MPG
\_ Is it made in Germany by big-breasted blonde Aryan women?
\_ Too ugly. And expensive. Why would I want something that merely
"rivals" the real thing?
\_ To be fair, I'd give GM credit for recently reinventing
Cadillac into a sport/luxury car vendor that _indeed_ rivals
BMW, Lexus, etc. I thought this brand was going to be a toast
three years ago. Most pre-pension age people would hate to be
found dead in one of their cars. Now, GM is talking about
exporting Cadillacs into Europe again. This is a sign that
they started making cars that people would like to buy. |
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