Europe Meet 2003 pics

Posted by: robricc

Europe Meet 2003 pics - 08/07/2003 07:55

OK, I've uploaded and captioned most of them. If you see your car and I haven't noted who's it is, just leave a comment and I will add it to the caption.

http://www.spmicro.com/gallery/empegmeet_euro03
Posted by: tman

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 08/07/2003 08:13

Cool. Great pictures!
Posted by: crazymelki

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 08/07/2003 08:25

Cool and thank you!

bye
Posted by: genixia

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 08/07/2003 08:28

Is this the Visteon prototype or some TBA Mk3?

http://www.spmicro.com/gallery/empegmeet_euro03/IMG_0038
Posted by: robricc

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 08/07/2003 08:29

It's the Visteon (Camelot) prototype.
Posted by: Roger

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 08/07/2003 08:30

That's the Camelot prototype that was shown with Visteon at CES 2003.

edit: beaten to it, but I can still link to robricc's Camelot photo from CES 2003.
Posted by: genixia

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 08/07/2003 08:39

Yeah, I've just gotten to the better images later in the album.

I guess the 'Ford Audio Systems' sticker is a bit of a giveaway. Anybody got an update of when these are expected to be available? I'm wondering whether my wife can wait before getting a new car. (And whether there is a Ford that we'd be willing to drive!)
Posted by: robricc

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 08/07/2003 08:41

I think that sticker is on there because the camelot was built into an existing Ford unit that empeg chopped-up. I don't think the sticker indicates what cars the camelot might end up in.
Posted by: jbauer

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 08/07/2003 09:31

Great pictures! Thanks again for sharing them!

- Jon
Posted by: loren

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 08/07/2003 09:40

yeah, good stuff. Thanks for making me extremely jealous! =]
Posted by: wfaulk

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 08/07/2003 09:59

And whether there is a Ford that we'd be willing to drive!
Not e that Ford currently own Jaguar, Volvo, Land Rover, Mazda, and Aston Martin. Or maybe they'll put one in the new GT40.
Posted by: andym

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 08/07/2003 11:12

Oh, there's no pictures of me , actually, that's probably a good thing!
Posted by: speedy67

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 08/07/2003 12:45

you can't get away. I think, Mark has got you...
He will share pictures, when he's at home.

cheers, Thomas
Posted by: 303

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 09/07/2003 01:15

cool little show, Rob!

has anyone some pics from the BBQCam???
Posted by: crazymelki

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 25/07/2003 15:53

Hey Rob,

Do you remember the Smart Tower in Amersfoort? Did you see already this cool tuned car....I am thinking about to make it to my weekend car... sure with an Empeg installed..



1.4 V6 Biturbo engine with 170 HP

bye
Posted by: robricc

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 25/07/2003 20:49

Your image doesn't seem to be coming through.
Posted by: crazymelki

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 25/07/2003 21:14

Sorry, check it later...My ISP Sunrise has ADSL Problems....Maybe time to change...They lost this week the mailbox informations form a 1/2 Mio. People.

I am using right now my ISDN Backup line.

bye
Posted by: dr_dos

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 26/07/2003 05:19

Rob,
take a look here and here.

Some more specs:
0-60 in less than 6sec
power to weight ratio 4.9kg/HP

Unfortunately it's just a concept car.

Peter
Posted by: crazymelki

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 26/07/2003 06:32

Hallo Peter,

Hab ich mir doch gedacht, dass du dieses Auto auch irgendwo sehen wirst.... Sorry this sentence is in German....

Gruss und schönes WK..
Posted by: speedy67

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 26/07/2003 16:05

Can one of you please post a link?

cheers, Thomas
Posted by: dr_dos

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 26/07/2003 16:30

Welchen Link möchtest Du denn?

Peter
Posted by: dr_dos

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 26/07/2003 16:38

BTW:
How many posts do I have to submit in order to get rid of that (new poster) thingy?

Peter
Posted by: tman

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 26/07/2003 16:46

You need 25 before you get rid of "new poster". It's in the BBS FAQ
Posted by: russmeister

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 26/07/2003 16:48

This many.
Posted by: russmeister

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 26/07/2003 16:48

Doh!

To slow!
Posted by: dr_dos

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 26/07/2003 16:50

ok, so i'm just half way through...
Posted by: dr_dos

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 26/07/2003 16:55

Russmeister?
That sounds pretty German.

Peter
Posted by: speedy67

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 26/07/2003 16:57

The link to the tuned Smart-Roadster (concept-car)....

cheers, Thomas
Posted by: dr_dos

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 26/07/2003 17:00

There you go.

Peter
Posted by: dr_dos

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 26/07/2003 17:12

Hallo Melkon,
na klar, auf schnelle, außergewöhnliche Autos achte ich immer...

To all the non German speaking folks:
This is just to improve your German language skills...

Peter
Posted by: speedy67

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 26/07/2003 17:34

thanks, denn danke heisst merci...
Posted by: dr_dos

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 26/07/2003 17:44

In reply to:

thanks, denn danke heisst merci...




Oh my goodness , that's three languages at once.

You're gonna confuse them...

Peter
Posted by: peter

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 28/07/2003 02:54

Unfortunately it's just a concept car.
I saw one on the A2 in New Cross yesterday. It wasn't going very quickly, but that's the A2 in New Cross for you...

Peter
Posted by: speedy67

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 28/07/2003 05:04

Another link to the Smart-Roadster Coupe biturbo...

Smart-Forum

Scroll down a little...
Sorry, the article is in german.

cheers, Thomas
Posted by: jmwking

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 28/07/2003 08:15

This is just to improve your German language skills...
It may not improve my German translation skills, but it is improving my google translating speed. Even if google doesn't always give the best possible translation:

na klar, auf schnelle, auergewhnliche Autos achte ich immer.
"well clearly, on fast, auergewhnliche cars respected I always."

-jk
Posted by: mtempsch

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 28/07/2003 08:49

auergewhnliche

Don't know if you lost the german double-s "ß" and the o-diaeresis "ö" before or after translation (if before I have some understanding for google not finding a translation)

Anyway: the word is "unusual" (which you may have guessed from the context)

/Michael
Posted by: jmwking

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 28/07/2003 09:05

Don't know if you lost the german double-s "" and the o-diaeresis "" before or after translation
My browsers (or more likely, my browsers' default font settings) are not rendering those letters at all, so I guess I can't blame google for not translating them. I'll have to look into a font that will render them properly.

thanks,

-jk
Posted by: dr_dos

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 28/07/2003 09:45

In reply to:

I saw one on the A2 in New Cross yesterday




This was surely the regular Smart Roadster.

I was referring to the V6 twin turbo Roadster as being a concept car. They built just six of those.

Peter
Posted by: peter

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 28/07/2003 09:49

This was surely the regular Smart Roadster.

I was referring to the V6 twin turbo Roadster as being a concept car. They built just six of those.
Oh, probably, yes. Never mind then.

Peter
Posted by: dr_dos

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 28/07/2003 10:00

In reply to:

"well clearly, on fast, auergewhnliche cars respected I always."




Almost

What I wrote actually means:

Of course, I always pay attention to fast and unusual cars.

Peter
Posted by: jmwking

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 28/07/2003 10:20

Almost

What I wrote actually means:

Of course, I always pay attention to fast and unusual cars.
Indeed. I'm suspicious that this bbs doesn't support extended character sets. I checked my browser, and it definately supports non-us vowels (I haven't checked the double-s, though).

What ever became of Rechtschreibreform? We have an office in Stuttgart, and I was so hopeful it would make my life easier.

-jk
Posted by: tfabris

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 28/07/2003 10:29

Indeed. I'm suspicious that this bbs doesn't support extended character sets.
I was able to see Mike Tempsch's and Peter's german characters just fine:

Don't know if you lost the german double-s "ß" and the o-diaeresis "ö"
Posted by: jmwking

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 28/07/2003 10:49

I was able to see Mike Tempsch's and Peter's german characters just fine:
Now I'm really puzzled. I go to other sites, and have no problem. But here, I haven't seen any. Odd.

I'm using NS 4.7 and IE6 on XP Pro on my laptop, neither of which would show those characters on this BBS. But I saw them fine in IE6 when I reverse translated those words on google.

I just logged in from my work machine (I do make at least a passing effort to keep my work and personal computers separate. ), which is also XP with IE6, and it does show the characters there.

Anyone have any idea why my laptop won't show higher characters on this bbs, but has no problem with them on google and other sites?

thanks,

-jk
Posted by: peter

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 28/07/2003 11:04

Anyone have any idea why my laptop won't show higher characters on this bbs, but has no problem with them on google and other sites?
What's your default encoding set to? These BBS pages don't appear to contain an encoding tag (despite most people treating them as 8859-1) and so your browser's default will be used. Google and other pages will probably specifically set an encoding.

Locale-specific encodings are rubbish, anyway. Unicode Is The One True Encoding, And UTF-8 Is His Prophet.

Hmm, I wonder if I can set my default encoding to UTF-8, then stick loads of UTF-8 in my posts and have it work? That would be well cool.

Peter
Posted by: jmwking

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 28/07/2003 11:20

Locale-specific encodings are rubbish, anyway. Unicode Is The One True Encoding, And UTF-8 Is His Prophet.
I just forced my IE6 to Unicode (UTF-8) to no avail.

Well, I guess my productivity will be shot to hell today.

thanks (and my very first reply from someone with a blue name! ),

-jk
Posted by: wfaulk

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 28/07/2003 11:23

Try forcing it to 8859-1.

On a related topic, I sent Drakino a patch to enable HTML character entities, and I don't know if he still hasn't gotten a chance to try it or if it failed utterly. I feel like a horrible nag pestering him about it, though.
Posted by: jmwking

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 28/07/2003 11:31

Try forcing it to 8859-1
That doesn't seem to be an option in my IE.

OK, this is a test of alt-0223: "ß"
Which just showed up in the edit window as a proper double S character.

But which just changed into a tilde'd A and an umlaut'ed Y when I pressed the continue button.

edit: and remained as the A and Y when posted.

edit2: but if I "view source," it shows up as a proper double S character.

-jk
Posted by: wfaulk

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 28/07/2003 11:47

If I change my encoding to UTF-8, I get the eszett (?). Otherwise, I get the `A' and `Y'. Maybe IE shows 8859-1 as Western European or something.
Posted by: jmwking

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 28/07/2003 11:53

Curiouser and curiouser. I re-forced it to unicode, and now my post's double-s "ß" is showing up, but Dr_DOS's and subsequent posts still don't show any of the high characters, regardless of the encoding selected.

-jk
Posted by: wfaulk

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 28/07/2003 12:01

The thing is that you are not only viewing in UTF8, you posted in UTF8. So, except for those browsing in UTF8, it's gonna show up as the `A' and `Y'. As for why you can't view those previously posted characters I don't know. The copy of IE 5.5 I've got easy access to works correctly in this respect.
Posted by: jmwking

Re: Europe Meet 2003 pics - 28/07/2003 12:23

The thing is that you are not only viewing in UTF8, you posted in UTF8.
I thought UTF8 was a superset of the basic western Latin set. I guess I've got some catching up to do. Sigh.

I still just don't get why I can't get the characters to show on other people's postings.

Thanks for your help.

-jk