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Just thought this would intrest some of you max & maya users...

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/in ... eID=123112

Kellym wrote: Just thought this would intrest some of you max & maya users...

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/in ... eID=123112

Yep, it's being discussed here: viewtopic.php?t=7666

Don't you mean Autodesk to ruin Alias??

When Alias dropped IRIX like a hot potato, they lost all my sympathy. Instant karma.

squeen wrote: When Alias dropped IRIX like a hot potato, they lost all my sympathy. Instant karma.

Can you imagine the shame of working at Alias and admitting you're owned by Autodesk ? And Discreet ! Holy smokes. It'd be like working at BMW if it were bought by Yugo

if it were bought by Yugo

Actually, it's "Zastava"

LaLora wrote:

if it were bought by Yugo

Actually, it's "Zastava"

Did they make the Trabant, too ? And I wonder what happened to that company that used to make the Chinese state limos ... the ones that looked like a stretched black '53 deSoto ... ? Maybe they'll buy Autodesk, that would serve those offspring of an out-of-wedlock coupling right

..ok, since it's "everything else" part of the forum, I'll throw in some info since I'm an ex-yugo driver I "donated" it to local repair shop few years ago and they'll use it for, ..eer.., ..well, that's the question I've been asking myself too It was my first car right after I got drivers license in high school, a used one, so cheap that a high school student could afford it. It was functional for about a year and, since there were no dealers anymore, I had to fully rely on local repair shops that gave me spare parts from older recycled yugos. After a major engine failure about three years ago it was finally parked in front of my apartment building and I gave it a last slow ride to a repair shop for dismemberment (otherwise I would have to pay tax for recycling). Yugo was supposed to be some kind of cheap reverse-engineered Fiat 17-something (is it 176 ?), but ofcourse the whole project failed miserably, and it came out as nothing more than a "box-with-wheels". The country where it was manufactured also collapsed, and last nail to the coffin was added in 1999 when main yugo manufacturing facility was bombarded by multi-million dollar us navy sattelite guided submarine-launched cruise missiles (..guys, what a waste of resources to destroy a few yugos in a half-dead company ). Anyway, I actually know some people who still live in that country and they say that yugo production actually started again for the local market overe there but in very small numbers and with almost no modifications. As far as it concernes Trabant, I'm sure there's lot of people from germany on this forum who will tell you all the stories about it. That one was from ex-east-germany and is not related to yugo. It had some even more "inspireing" features, like for example, ..it was made of plastic
Despite the poor design of ex-socialist vehicles, my uncle still has a soviet Lada Niva 4X4 "rough terrain" vehicle and says it's perfect and could go anywhere. The soviets designed it originally to be capable of withstanding rough, vast and cold terrain in central and eastern russia.

Anyway, I have a Japaneese car now

LaLora wrote: ... last nail to the coffin was added in 1999 when main yugo manufacturing facility was bombarded by multi-million dollar us navy satellite guided submarine-launched cruise missiles (..guys, what a waste of resources to destroy a few yugos in a half-dead company ...

When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail

Ah, remember that guy from the mirafiori forum with that nice strange car ( http://www.mirafiori.com/~courtney/128/scott.html ). Nice engine, weird metal box

Those pesky 1300 engines run like stink and they eat rpms like nothing. Highly modified versions of the engine run until 13.000 rpm, the stock one over 7.000 rpm. Try to do this with your average gasblasting SUV

Matthias

Brombear wrote: Ah, remember that guy from the mirafiori forum with that nice strange car ( http://www.mirafiori.com/~courtney/128/scott.html ). Nice engine, weird metal box

Heheheh!! Our country was plenty of the very own original versions of those Fiat cars ten years ago, and even today you can see a lot of them in our streets!!!

The one in your link seems a nice robbery of design from the Fiat 133!!!

Basicly, here the Fiat line was:

500
600
700
1100
1600
125
128
128 Europa
128 Super-Europa
128 Super-Europa 1500
133
147
Spazio
Regatta
Duna
Uno
Tempra
Palio
Siena

...and a few others not so well known, as in example a VERY NICE sport couppe at most pure style berlinetta that a couple years ago was for limited sale on authorized distributors and today's become a collectors item, even when it does not have more than 5 years old! You could think of that as some kind of miniaturized Lamborghini, but on price range of top-of-line Fiat models: cool!

BTW: if at some point I cross with one of thoses wonderful couppes (and I have enough money, of course) I'll buy it without even blink!!!

Brombear wrote: Those pesky 1300 engines run like stink and they eat rpms like nothing. Highly modified versions of the engine run until 13.000 rpm, the stock one over 7.000 rpm. Try to do this with your average gasblasting SUV

Matthias

Sure!; The "must" for our local fanatics is the 128 Super-Europa 1500, and you could not believe how fast those little cars with in-line 4-cyl motors can leave behind on 200mts. many bigger/powerfulest beasts as Chevy's, Ford's, and more...
Of course; you'll not want to buy one of thoses from hands of anyone younger than 80 years... our tradition says that if you're younger, you only sells your Fiat once it's almost destructed!
BTW: I've was proudly owner of at least three of the models listed above...)

Diego,

you simply forget the X1/9 (ok, maybe not in argentina) ... I am driving these beauties for more than 15 years and while being slightly underpowered compared to todays cars the suspension is a real jewel and gives best handling on curvy mountain roads.

Matthias

Brombear wrote: Diego,

you simply forget the X1/9 (ok, maybe not in argentina) ... I am driving these beauties for more than 15 years and while being slightly underpowered compared to todays cars the suspension is a real jewel and gives best handling on curvy mountain roads.

Matthias

Wow! These is a new Fiat to my knowledgement! ...Seems that in a few hours I'll have to make some serious Google searchs to meet these beauty personally!
Yeap... I also forgot a few others:
...
1100 Coupe
1500
1500 Coupe
1600 Coupe
...
...and a few newers after Siena...

Officialy only few made it to south america, but in brasil a car was produced based on the X1/9 called Dardo. Unfortunately I don't have any photos at hand, but google will help.

Matthias

The thread on this over at CGtalk is massive. And that's the world's biggest understatement.

Brombear wrote: you simply forget the X1/9 (ok, maybe not in argentina) ... I am driving these beauties for more than 15 years and while being slightly underpowered compared to todays cars the suspension is a real jewel and gives best handling on curvy mountain roads.

I don't usually like Japanese cars but have you ever driven an early MR2 ? They don't need brakes - no matter how fast you're going, just turn the wheel and you're gonna make it thru the turn. Very impressive road-holding and even fun to drive. My sister left hers with me for a week once .. when she came back it had another 2300 miles on the odometer. If I'd known she was going to check I would have disconnected the odometer

hamei wrote: I don't usually like Japanese cars but have you ever driven an early MR2 ?

Yes, I drove one of them but did not have the chance to drive it real (the codriver was totally drunken and it was HIS car). But to be fair, the MR2 is a real copy of the x1/9 concept with a little better machine, like the mx5 is a real copy of a lotus. I enjoy mid-engined cars, no better handling available. The new porsche cayman is a real nice car ... but the price

Matthias

no matter how fast you're going, just turn the wheel and you're gonna make it thru the turn

that is a very interesting engineering concept. I never tought of something like that before

LaLora wrote:

no matter how fast you're going, just turn the wheel and you're gonna make it thru the turn

that is a very interesting engineering concept. I never tought of something like that before

Okay, okay, slight exaggeration They stick like glue tho, probably as well as a Lotus Europa. Another advantage the MR2 has is their four-valve engine has a *very* wide power band so you don't have to stir it up like some rice rocket. On a really tight road it's probably even more fun than a GT40 ... well, maybe not. Still, grest-handling car. Much better than the cheesy X1/9

hamei wrote: Much better than the cheesy X1/9

Did you happen to fall over that rice bag cnn reported a few weeks ago

Matthias