Nick Against the World (52 Viewers)

[Bjerknes]

++ [ originally posted by Padovano ] ++


Check that . . . it's only 150,000. Sorry.

1998.

Not a bad total. I got a 2001 Passat with about 80,000 miles on it, and they had to replace the entire engine because of sludge build up. However warrenty covered the costs and I could drive the car for another 150,000 miles.

 

Buy on AliExpress.com

[Respaul]

++ [ originally posted by Andy ] ++


Taste I suppose. Mercedes are not that great anyway and everybody has one.

Well yeah, but theres very few cars more reliable... plus since audi's involvement with seat et al.. whats the point in paying for an audi when you can save 30% and get the same car... Its a bit like jags... once good cars but now jus cheap crap(ford) in a nice case

 

[Bjerknes]

++ [ originally posted by Shadowfax ] ++


Well yeah, but theres very few cars more reliable... plus since audi's involvement with seat et al.. whats the point in paying for an audi when you can save 30% and get the same car... Its a bit like jags... once good cars but now jus cheap crap(ford) in a nice case

Well I would hardly call Audi a washed-up car company.

Actually I think the 2006 Audi A6 won the Luxery car of the Year award, or something of the sort.

 

[Respaul]

Im not saying they are washed up.. im jus pointing out that you can buy the same car for 30% less with a different badge for most of there models and as such the a3's and a4's have suffered with a drop in quality... they still make good cars but the car you expect from the audi badge is rarely what you get now

 

[Martin]

707 pages before this thread got to car talk, damn that's a long time holding back

 

[Seven]

We beat Real for the second time in three years :dazed:

 

[The Pado]

++ [ originally posted by Andy ] ++



He's got a pimped out Hummer H2 for sure.

Gotta show some love for Motor City.

good point, have to drive American in that city.

 

[KB824]

Robert, I need to talk to you for a minute.

 

[Seven]

++ [ originally posted by Seven ] ++
We beat Real for the second time in three years :dazed:

 

[The Pado]

++ [ originally posted by Sergio ] ++
Robert, I need to talk to you for a minute.

OK, Homer, I just got a voice mail from your black ass . . . er . . . from you :cheesy:

 

[KB824]

++ [ originally posted by Padovano ] ++



OK, Homer, I just got a voice mail from your black ass . . . er . . . from you :cheesy:

Are you at work??

 

[Bjerknes]

++ [ originally posted by Padovano ] ++


good point, have to drive American in that city.

I think a lot of our relatives hold some sort of grudge against us because all our cars are European/Japanese made.

 

[The Pado]

You're not going to call me, are you? You perverted little shoe fvcker.

 

[The Pado]

++ [ originally posted by Andy ] ++


I think a lot of our relatives hold some sort of grudge against us because all our cars are European/Japanese made.

When I lived in Lansing, I drove a Ford and then a Mercury (same company), and was fortunate because I saw many people driving Japanese cars being run off the road. That was at a time when the auto industry was in the toilet and you did not dare drive a foreign car in Lansing.

 

[Bjerknes]

++ [ originally posted by Padovano ] ++


When I lived in Lansing, I drove a Ford and then a Mercury (same company), and was fortunate because I saw many people driving Japanese cars being run off the road. That was at a time when the auto industry was in the toilet and you did not dare drive a foreign car in Lansing.

Oh yeah of course. I'm still afraid of something like that happening when we travel up to Detroit in our Maxima. You never know what people will do, especially up there.

I love em though.

 

[Bjerknes]

Vinman and Nick: Burke and I are going to celebrate the victories of Juve and Bayern tonight at a friend's house. We will talk on skype some other time.

Colpo my signature.

 

[Dragon]

++ [ originally posted by Shadowfax ] ++


Well yeah, but theres very few cars more reliable... plus since audi's involvement with seat et al.. whats the point in paying for an audi when you can save 30% and get the same car... Its a bit like jags... once good cars but now jus cheap crap(ford) in a nice case

Ugh I hate Seat

I liked it when it was VW-Audi

 

[Dragon]

++ [ originally posted by Shadowfax ] ++


Why would anyone want an audi over a merc.... Theres some strange people out there

I would want a Jetta over any Mercedes Benz

 

[Vinman]

Nick, check this out...

Louie Eppolito is a friend of my family...I even had a pic of me and him in my locker at work. He's the 10th most decorated NYPD officer, and now this.....




Ex-NYPD detectives busted for mob ties
Cops charged with aiding, abetting 11 murders in 1980sBy Bob Faw
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 6:17 p.m. ET March 10, 2005Louie Eppolito was your classic round peg in a square hole: A New York City detective whose grandfather, father and uncle were in the mob.


In the movie "Goodfellas," Eppolito even played a gangster named Fat Andy. In "Mafia Cop," the book he wrote, Eppolito worked both sides of the street.

Thursday, prosecutors said Eppolito knew whereof he spoke — charging that while Eppolito and his partner, Steve Caracappa, were New York City detectives in the 1980s, they were also hit men for the Lucchese crime family.

"They directly participated in and aided and abetted 11 murders committed by and for their mob benefactors," says U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf.

The indictment charges crime underboss Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso paid the detectives $4,000 a month for confidential police information and $65,000 for other jobs, like tracking down and killing a Gambino crime family member who tried to take down Casso.

"A Lucchese associate, who just recently agreed to cooperate, has flipped and is now providing information about these two gentlemen," says the reporter who broke the story, Jonathan Dienst of WNBC-TV in New York.

The "two gentlemen," arraigned Thursday in Las Vegas, may have undermined confidence in law enforcement, but prosecutors insist they are not typical.

"This was not a case of two good cops who went bad," says FBI agent Pasquale D'Amuro. "Eppolito and Caracappa were two bad guys who somehow became law enforcement officers."

But Eppolito's stock-in-trade was his tough-guy tactics. For years, one of his colleagues said Thursday, they heard that Eppolito was whacking people.

"This is a perfect example of how good cops do turn bad and corrupt," says former New York City detective Bo Dietl. "And how their lives are ruined. And that's exactly what you have here: Two lives ruined."

It's all grist for another film, perhaps; and another reminder that life, sometimes, does imitate art.

 

[IncuboRossonero]

++ [ originally posted by Vinman ] ++
Nick, check this out...

Louie Eppolito is a friend of my family...I even had a pic of me and him in my locker at work. He's the 10th most decorated NYPD officer, and now this.....




Ex-NYPD detectives busted for mob ties
Cops charged with aiding, abetting 11 murders in 1980sBy Bob Faw
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 6:17 p.m. ET March 10, 2005Louie Eppolito was your classic round peg in a square hole: A New York City detective whose grandfather, father and uncle were in the mob.


In the movie "Goodfellas," Eppolito even played a gangster named Fat Andy. In "Mafia Cop," the book he wrote, Eppolito worked both sides of the street.

Thursday, prosecutors said Eppolito knew whereof he spoke — charging that while Eppolito and his partner, Steve Caracappa, were New York City detectives in the 1980s, they were also hit men for the Lucchese crime family.

"They directly participated in and aided and abetted 11 murders committed by and for their mob benefactors," says U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf.

The indictment charges crime underboss Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso paid the detectives $4,000 a month for confidential police information and $65,000 for other jobs, like tracking down and killing a Gambino crime family member who tried to take down Casso.

"A Lucchese associate, who just recently agreed to cooperate, has flipped and is now providing information about these two gentlemen," says the reporter who broke the story, Jonathan Dienst of WNBC-TV in New York.

The "two gentlemen," arraigned Thursday in Las Vegas, may have undermined confidence in law enforcement, but prosecutors insist they are not typical.

"This was not a case of two good cops who went bad," says FBI agent Pasquale D'Amuro. "Eppolito and Caracappa were two bad guys who somehow became law enforcement officers."

But Eppolito's stock-in-trade was his tough-guy tactics. For years, one of his colleagues said Thursday, they heard that Eppolito was whacking people.

"This is a perfect example of how good cops do turn bad and corrupt," says former New York City detective Bo Dietl. "And how their lives are ruined. And that's exactly what you have here: Two lives ruined."

It's all grist for another film, perhaps; and another reminder that life, sometimes, does imitate art.

Lucchese family..hmmm never heard of them...:nervous:

Vin....yes I do have 'blood' connection to the Pizza Connection...but my Father is far from being part of what Pado calls the "Better Business Bureau of Italian Gentleman"...he owned shares in a construction company, waste management company and reception hall :cheesy:

I remember Eppolito's character 'Fat Andy'....in the same scene as Jimmy two-times who got that name because he said everything two times "lets go get the papers...get the papers."