User talk:64.36.17.218

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Hello. Good work on the Porsche articles. Keep it up. SamH 12:06, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm trying my best to add information without destroying the work you've already done. I'll keep working on them, it just takes time since I have to keep coming back to them.

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[edit] Sega Genesis/Megadrive

I just want to congratulate you on having made the merge! A lot of people seem to care very deeply about this and the discussion could have gone on indefinitely, so it's good that someone has done something about it. ThomasHarte 21:15, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Blade Runner image

Hey, I've come across your work before on the Sega Mega drive deally, good stuff. As to the image uh, it was either from BladeZone.com... or seeing nothing I quite liked I made my own image from DVD. Ahhhh, did some searching and I did get it from Bladezone. I did alter the image by making it brighter. - RoyBoy 800 15:24, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of automotive superlatives

I've reverted your changes to the List of automotive superlatives regarding the Dauer 962, as the Dauer does not constitute an acceptable definition of a road car, according to the rules layed out on the top of the page. First, the Dauer is a road conversion of the Porsche 962 race car. Second, less than 20 Dauers exist. Third, the Dauer's maximum speed has never been tested (press release claims 370 km/h, not 405), and the speed you used for the tie with the Bugatti is wrong, as the Veyron was measured at 401 km/h, not 406 as claimed by the factory.

I also noticed you expanded a lot of Audi-related articles. That is commendable, as the articles needed to be expanded, but you have erased information concerning the European versions of the cars, namely info about Diesel engine and correct horsepower numbers, and showing a clear US-market bias. I will be correcting that at a later date. --Pc13 08:37, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Nevertheless, the Dauer is still a transformation from a competition car to a road car, and therefore is inelligible for on that ground alone. There were less than 20 cars built, the number agreed for inclusion in the list. Finally, as I said, unlike the McLaren F1, the Koenigsegg CCR or the Bugatti Veyron, the Dauer's speed has never been tested, so either the 370 km/h (which is the actual number claimed by Dauer) or the 405 km/h can only be considered claimed, and never official. --Pc13 19:57, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dauer 962

[edit] Dauer 962

You said: The Dauer 962 was used in GT1 class racing, which at the time required that a homologation run of 25 units be produced in road-legal form and sold to the public. The 962 was allowed to compete, so it must have met the regulation.

Actually, no it didn't. The FIA had not set homologation rules for the GT class in 1994, because there was no FIA-sanctioned sports car racing championship at the time. The Dauer's dominance in Le Mans '94 had ACO draw up new regulations regarding size that banned the Dauer from the class, and BPR (who organized the European gentleman drivers series that would morph into the FIA GT Championship in 1997) followed suit. The minimum homologation rule was set up by the ACO and the FIA only after Porsche announced its intention to return to sports car racing in 1996 with the 911 GT1. As the GT1 was the first purpose-built GT racing car of the era, the FIA forced Porsche to build 25 road-going GT1s before the car was allowed to compete. Pc13 10:53, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

You also said: The 962 meets the above listed criteria and thus qualifies as a production car. Also, my source read as follows: "Nearly 150 were sold and because of such a large customer programme, every component was available off the shelf direct from Porsche".

The Dauer is disqualified according to criteria 1. The nearly 150 cars referes to the Porsche 962 [1] and not to the Dauer. Only 13 road-going Dauers exist (less than 20) and they were all modified from pre-existing Porsche 962s (professional tuning). And as I have told you before, the maximum speed claimed by Dauer was 370 km/h (230 mph), not 405 (252). You can find it on every Auto Motor und Sport Autokatalog from 1996 to 2000. Besides, the Dauer's maximum speed has never been tested. Pc13 10:53, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] March 11th

  1. Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. Misza13 T C 21:21, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
  2. Please stop removing content from Wikipedia; it is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 21:45, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
  3. The page doesn't belong to you. By saying "I'll be working on it for the next few days" you're blocking other contributors from editing as well. You're not alone here. I hope you'll understand. Misza13 T C 21:55, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
  4. Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert an article to a previous version more than three times in 24 hours. (Note: this also means editing the page to reinsert an old edit. If the effect of your actions is to revert back, it qualifies as a revert.) Thank you. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 21:59, 11 March 2006 (UTC)