Grumpy Old Forumers

[Mr. Scratch]

yeh nope

 

[Abel.]

V for Vendetta is a great comic. I hate how quasi-anarchists have appropriated the mask. The book doesn't speak up for 100%, balls to the wall anarchy, but moderation (in the form of Eve). You really can't fault V for his methods as he is standing up against what is basically the British version of the Nazi party ("Norsefire"), but it's clear that outright anarchy isn't what Moore is advocating. I don't think it's really appropriate to use the mask in more trivial protests as they're hardly comparable to tearing down a genocidal, hypocritical government with a stranglehold on Britain.

 

 

For the record I am supportive of the government and don't agree with Moore on a fair few things, but he's an excellent writer from whom we could all learn something. The artwork in all of the comics he's written for is excellent, too--musn't forget the artists.

Edited May 10, 2015 by Failure

[make total destroy]

Actually, Moore is an anarchist. I never read the comic, but from what I understand, the film tends to water it down to the point where anarchist themes aren't really present at all.

 

Either way, the film was utter sh*t, and Guy Fawkes masks make me cringe. If your only frame of reference for anarchism is V for Vendetta (and this is directed at Scratch) then perhaps you should do some reading.

[Abel.]

Actually, Moore is an anarchist. I never read the comic, but from what I understand, the film tends to water it down to the point where anarchist themes aren't really present at all.

 

Either way, the film was utter sh*t, and Guy Fawkes masks make me cringe. If your only frame of reference for anarchism is V for Vendetta (and this is directed at Scratch) then perhaps you should do some reading.

 

 

 

Alan Moore is certainly an anarchist (his contempt for liberals and conservatives alike is very clear in Watchmen), but I still don't think that the comic advocates anarchy all the way. The point I'm making is that I cringe when people use the mask to promote their cause/denote affiliation with anarchy because it's clear they've not read the book and that Moore probably dies a bit inside when he sees people using it. In the book you have a British version of the Nazis, which has successfully killed all opponents and ethnic minorities in the UK, so we can't help but rally behind V regardless of our political leanings. As the story unfolds though most readers will question V's methods and sympathise much more with his more humane, though no less passionate, protege, Eve. It's obvious that Moore's trying to give his ideology a more human face. Heck, maybe that does mean he's advocating anarchy, but that he's trying to make it appear less hostile than it usually does to the layman.

 

I'm supportive of our system but won't deny that systems owing more than a little to anarchism have done well in certain periods and places (the Kibbutzim in early modern Israel, Indian state of Kerala). I'm pretty much centre left with a few leanings to the right here and there. Not really that politically motivated TBH.

 

 

 

I've heard that the film was a travesty. I've no interest in watching it even though it does star Natalie Portman (one of the two reasons I watched both Thor films, the other being Kat Dennings). I have to admire Moore's integrity when he refuses any royalties that come from the sh*te films spawned by his top books.

Edited May 10, 2015 by Failure

[make total destroy]

The point I'm making is that I cringe when people use the mask to promote their cause/denote affiliation with anarchy

It's used by 'anon' types more than anyone else.

 

I, personally, prefer balaclavas.

Edited May 10, 2015 by make total destroy

[Flachbau]

It's f*cking muggy and hot out.. the humidity just makes it worse. Gonna be time to bust out the mega fan and put it in the window pretty soon.

[Ai®a©ob®a]

The weather hasn't exactly been the best around where I live recently. It's been raining for like a week or something. I like rain, but this is too much. Plus it's been kinda cold. The windows in my car would get so foggy and I can't see through them. Even if I wiped the windows to remove the fog, it comes back in a few seconds. I found rolling down the driver side window to be helpful. It makes the windows less foggy. But when I did that yesterday, I got hit with hail and a lot of rain. Ugh. :I

Just turn your defroster on for a few seconds it'll clear it right up, It doesn't need to be on hot put it in the middle between hot and cold and leave it on low and it'll keep your windows clear.

 

It's f*cking muggy and hot out.. the humidity just makes it worse. Gonna be time to bust out the mega fan and put it in the window pretty soon.

I put the AC's in yesterday so the house is cooling down but my youngest likes it hot so she tends to turn the AC off upstairs so when you go to bed the whole upstairs is hot and takes forever to get cool again.

[LightningLord]

 

The weather hasn't exactly been the best around where I live recently. It's been raining for like a week or something. I like rain, but this is too much. Plus it's been kinda cold. The windows in my car would get so foggy and I can't see through them. Even if I wiped the windows to remove the fog, it comes back in a few seconds. I found rolling down the driver side window to be helpful. It makes the windows less foggy. But when I did that yesterday, I got hit with hail and a lot of rain. Ugh. :I

Just turn your defroster on for a few seconds it'll clear it right up, It doesn't need to be on hot put it in the middle between hot and cold and leave it on low and it'll keep your windows clear.

It doesn't work on my car.

[Mr. Scratch]

Actually, Moore is an anarchist. I never read the comic, but from what I understand, the film tends to water it down to the point where anarchist themes aren't really present at all.

 

Either way, the film was utter sh*t, and Guy Fawkes masks make me cringe. If your only frame of reference for anarchism is V for Vendetta (and this is directed at Scratch) then perhaps you should do some reading.

 

I can't say I blame you.

 

 

Anarchy, like communism isn't something I'm interested in.

Edited May 10, 2015 by Mr.Scratch

[AlienTwo]

The weather hasn't exactly been the best around where I live recently. It's been raining for like a week or something. I like rain, but this is too much. Plus it's been kinda cold. The windows in my car would get so foggy and I can't see through them. Even if I wiped the windows to remove the fog, it comes back in a few seconds. I found rolling down the driver side window to be helpful. It makes the windows less foggy. But when I did that yesterday, I got hit with hail and a lot of rain. Ugh. :I

Dude... how did you forget to mention the surprise blizzard last night?

[LightningLord]

 

The weather hasn't exactly been the best around where I live recently. It's been raining for like a week or something. I like rain, but this is too much. Plus it's been kinda cold. The windows in my car would get so foggy and I can't see through them. Even if I wiped the windows to remove the fog, it comes back in a few seconds. I found rolling down the driver side window to be helpful. It makes the windows less foggy. But when I did that yesterday, I got hit with hail and a lot of rain. Ugh. :I

Dude... how did you forget to mention the surprise blizzard last night?

 

Lol, I was inside my house and didn't notice it.

[Payne Killer]

I'm grumpy because LightningLord won't check his PM.

[LightningLord]

I'm grumpy because LightningLord won't check his PM.

I'm grumpy because the PM box notification is broken.

Edited May 11, 2015 by LightningLord

[unbid]

I need to fix my sleep schedule. This college/online social life combo made me sleep less each day.

[PhillBellic]

 

I'm grumpy because LightningLord won't check his PM.

I'm grumpy because the PM box notification is broken.

 

Is it? I haven't noticed any problems.

[universetwisters]

MetroPCS made me upgrade my phone because evidently they're getting some new networks or se sh*t. It's supposed to be an improvement, but no. Literally the only place I can use my phone in my house is my bedroom, evidently it's searching for a network in all the other rooms.

 

I really hope they fix the network, I don't wanna get a smart phone (and even then I dunno if that'll fix the problem)

[ThunderBanana]

People who don't know what yield signs are, and then get mad at you when they almost hit you. The yield sign is there for a reason, f*ckwit...

On the opposite side, people who treat yield signs as stop signs, especially when it's 10 at night and there's no one around for miles.

 

Texting and driving. I've been almost killed every time I go somewhere because some knob has their face buried in their phone and drifts into me in the oncoming lane, on a narrow 45MPH road no less. I've had to go off-road three times in the last six months to avoid a*shats like that, even after blasting the horn and spamming the high-beams at them...

 

EDIT: Another thing I hate. People who ask you a question about what food you want or whatever, you reply with "I don't care", and they respond with "I don't care either", and proceed to ask the same question over and over. When I say I don't care, it literally means "I honestly do not give two f*cks, do whatever you want to do, now stop harassing me dammit!"

Edited May 13, 2015 by ThunderBanana

[make total destroy]

Man, birthdays are sh*t ken

[Abel.]

Yeah mate. I don't tell people my birthday as I just don't care about it.

 

 

 

20th birthday was the worst. "Great, the best years of my life are over. Time to celebrate!".

[TheMcSame]

Got my headset working properly (I think). The cable got caught on something and then the audio was a bit off. I never got round to getting it repaired but I plugged it in today and I found that the audio is fine (Again, I think) when I don't plug the audio jack in all the way.

 

The problem is, I've been using a pair of sh*tty Astro A40s for about two weeks which have stupid levels of bass so I can't tell if the sound is normal or a bit off. ATM I think it works fine but I'll see what it's like after my ears have adjusted to normal bass levels.

[Mr. Scratch]

Man, birthdays are sh*t ken

 

Tell me about it, I spent mine watching the Doctor Who Christmas special. Actually that wasn't so bad.

[Uncle Sikee Atric]

 

Man, birthdays are sh*t ken

 

Tell me about it, I spent mine watching the Doctor Who Christmas special. Actually that wasn't so bad.

 

 

Huh, mine was supposed to be GTA V release day for PC last year.... I had to wait another 5 months to actually get my present.

[Mr. Scratch]

Present? What's that?

[Uncle Sikee Atric]

Ah, my kids actually gave me a token, it was a homemade voucher allowing me to buy GTA V as of when it released....

 

It was pretty clever and quite sweet actually.

[Node]

 

 

 

 

 

Why must some members on this forum always signify themselves using different fonts and colors at every single post they make?

Yeah, I can't stand when people do that. It's like, why not just use the default font and color?

 

Yeah, like totally, dude.

 

Using different colors and fonts for every post is so cool, right?

 

Not cool enough.

 

lol guys, we should definitely get on topic again

 

 

It would be boring for everyone to be the same and not have some originality and uniqueness.

[Reformed Squid]

This guy should stop talking, forever. (2:25)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLc4UNt5zIg&t=77

[Ai®a©ob®a]

Sting4S is back but i think he's gone off his rocker he posted this in the Share Your Story thread in the Online section...

 

I'm grumpy because i went though the whole thing wondering if there was a story in there somewhere but nope just the history of the car

 

 

 

 

The Enus Cognoscenti Cabriolet: A top-end luxury car that combines elegance with performance?

- Sting4S

When you think of top of the line luxury cars, immediately lavish brands such as Mercedes, Rolls Royce or Bentley spring to mind. Of course the most iconic batch of vehicles from these prestigious groups are always the personal luxury coupes. Rolls Royce has the Wraith and Mercedes has their brand new S Class Coupe. Looking at the S Class Coupe closely, you can see that it took most of it's inspiration from none other than Bentley's ravishing Continental GT. Whether it's better or not is a different story for a different time and unfortunately Rockstar has yet to do a spoof of it . . .

 

Bentley's Continental GT is truly something else. Beauty, elegance, style, and sophistication that blows your mind and performance that literally defies the laws of physics. How could a humongous personal luxury coupe, weighing over two and a half tons, handle and accelerate better than some of those that don't even tip the scales at 4000 pounds? The Continental GT's return in 2003 brought something new to the table that was hard to beat and in 2011 they tried perfecting it even more. The results were astonishing. Literally every body panel and design cue worked; bulging wings (fenders), a bulging trunk, bulging hips (haunches). It was gorgeous. Even the headlamps themselves were a work of art, having the advanced modern technology of LED lighting yet somehow someway managing to make them look very old world and elegant. The performance was a stunner as well. Whilst the basic W12 variant was potent and quick itself, that wasn't enough for Bentley. They brought the Speed to the table, which was capable of 205 mph. To further improve handling and performance they took VW's 4.0L TFSI twin-turbo V8, tuned it up a bit, and stuffed it in their Continental. This made it much lighter and capable of hitting 60 mph in the high 3s. Less weight further improved handling for more enjoyable spirited driving.

 

The refreshed Continental GT was a damn fine car and IV's Cognoscenti got me excited for what Rockstar would give us next in V, Bentley-wise. I mean, what is Beverly Hills and Bel Air without brand new uber-flashy Bentley's? Well. Shockingly they removed the limousine Cognoscenti and gave us something else. Despite the new Continental GT being out for a while, they refused to give us that. They gave us this instead . . . Well, sort of.

The first generation Bentley Continental Supersports. And they had an outrageous idea. Giving us the luxury of both a hard top coupe and drop top cabriolet. How in the world could this go wrong? I mean it worked well for the Carbonizzare. It also worked well on the Sentinel. Numerous modern coupes and convertibles now use this 'advanced' technology. Let's see how that all turned out.

As with the Surano, I had never really bothered to try out the Cognoscenti Cabrio. My garages got full early on and as DLC cars kept being added, some cars just had to go and some where just seemingly, forgotten about. Today, I purchased one off the internet and took it to LSC to insure that it would look the part. I installed some elegant black 10-spoke wheels, dressed the car up in a unique white on cream color code to replicate one of the Supersports gazillion different color codes, and finished it off with a tint. Then, just to be cliche, I took it out to Rodeo and paraded past ritzy bistros and boutiques in it. Despite being an in-game billionaire and driving the 'ultimate' luxury car with the top down, nothing really felt quite how I expected it to feel.

The first thing you notice is how big it is. I mean, it is a personal luxury coupe. But something just looks . . . off about it. Ah hah, it's the haunches. Instead of bulging outwards, like they should, they just rise up towards the rear half of the car and then don't quite descend. This immediately gives off the impression that whoever was designing this ran out of ideas. It shows, it just looks cheap. The awkward non-bulging haunches that don't descend automatically result in a very awkward C pillar design (which if you haven't noticed, it's a very important part of a car's design, especially a personal luxury coupe's). It also gives the Cognsocenti Cabrio a very tall ass. And here's the result of that:

 

 

What exactly were they thinking here? It looks like a tramps ass. Just look at that roof line. Look at that rear window? Can the driver even see out of that? Might as well remove it altogether, no? Whenever I drive this thing, it looks so awkward with the top up so I always keep it down. It helps, just a little bit . . . maybe not from the side:

 

 

I can't imagine how poor the visibility must be from that windshield when the roofs up. For a character as tall as Michael, it must be very bad. I also bet headroom must be tight. In a 'full sized' luxury coupe?

 

 

Oh deary me, what have they done here? Copied and pasted the Cognoscenti limousine's ass, added a tacky rear diffuser and funky looking exhaust, tagged on some rubbish 'rear bumper skirt thingy' and called it a day? I think so . . .

 

I presume this will be rather self explanatory. Who's the genius who thought it would be just marvelous to give a 'refined' and 'elegant' person luxury coupe a kit? Flared wheel arches, 'aggressive' side skirts, and a front lip that sticks out like a spoiled kid's lip. Why?

Speaking of the front, aside from the tacky lip spoiler, it's actually the best part of the car. However, it doesn't come without flaws. Whilst the Cognoscenti limousine had very seductive chrome mesh, the Cabrio comes equipped with what looks like stickers. And they weren't printed from a very good printer either. Black, plasticy, flat, hideous, rubbish.

The cabin seats four and has enough legroom in the back for at least a midget, whereas the Dewbauchees can only fit amputees. That's the only good thing I have to say about it. Other than that, it's crap. It's just a lazy copy and paste of IV's Schafter cockpit with 'sport' seats. They didn't even bother to remove the Benefactor logo from the steering wheel. There's no flashy veneer, top of the line stitch-work, fancy colors, or anything to differentiate itself from all of the other cars that use this copied and pasted interior (there's about 20+ of them, not including the cars from IV). Take a look at this:

 

Now I'm not asking for a carbon copy of the Bentley Continental GT (or Supersports) interior but I would like something a little more unique. I mean for god's sake, it's based on a Bentley. Isn't it supposed to be special? It's not like Rockstar hasn't tried on cockpits before. Take a look at IV's Turismo's cockpit and compare it to a 360 Modena's. Do the same with the Super GT compared to the DB9 (or even a Vanquish S), and then a Sentinel compared to a BMW M3 E46. They're spot on. They're not carbon copies but they're very similar and look the part. Great interiors give cars more personality. There's no arguing that.

Now the Cognoscenti Cabrio isn't a terribly bad looking car, but there were a lot of missed opportunities, a lot of overlooked features, and overall the outcome was very awkward. Now I love the fact that it was made to be a hard top convertible, and find the way the roof folds and unfolds to be extremely sophisticated and mechanically beautiful. It wasn't exactly necessary though. And I can't help but feel that it almost looks as if this car were designed in pieces by various different teams and then hastily pieced together once they were all finished with their work. Now, I could forgive all of this if it weren't for the lackluster performance. I'm not you average GTA driver, I care more about what a car has to offer performance-wise than lightning fast speed and effortless steering. No sugar coating, the only compliment I can give the Cognoscenti Cabrio on it's performance is the exhaust note. It's potent, just a bit. The steering feels dead and disconnected from the road, there is no sense of weight whatsoever, the suspension doesn't soak up anything unlike a real plush British luxobarge, the acceleration is very underwhelming, the transmission is a slushbox, never does it just glide along smoothly like a personal luxury coupe should (the power delivery always feels rough and inconsistent), and the brakes are terrible.

 

What in the world happened? Is this Rockstar's idea of a Bentley? Take a look at IV's Cognoscenti:

 

 

It was elegant, it was smooth, it was fast, and it made you feel like a boss. How could they take such a solid car and then ruin it by removing two doors and making it a hard top convertible? So much potential, lost. It wouldn't have even been a hard job if the just kept it simple. What they could've done:

• Remove two doors
• Make front doors longer and frameless
• Copy the Continental GT's C pillar
• Design haunches that bulge outwards and raise just a little bit
• Redesign the rear fascia to make it more coupe-like and sleeker
• Create a more refined interior based on the Continental GT
• Create a hard-top coupe variant and a soft-top cabriolet variant
• That's it! Nothing else

And to make it even more absurd, they cut the Cognoscenti limousine. Did they really think people would like the Cabrio more than the limousine? Are they serious? Is this a joke? "The Cog Cabrio is a top-end luxury car that combines elegance with performance." - Legendary Motorsport Unfortunately, this couldn't have been any further from the truth . . .

 

Rockstar does have the opportunity to fix this however. Just take a look at the Enus Huntley S:

Now that's a proper Bentley. Imagine this as a luxury coupe; keeping those beautifully crafted LED lights, that meticulous chrome meshed grill, those humongous mirrors, it's subtle yet effective haunches, those nifty and modern full LED tail lamps, the masterfully polished quad exhaust system (sounds lovely and potent too), and that drop dead gorgeous two tone finish style. Imagine a proper fixed top coupe and a proper rag top cabriolet. Wouldn't that be perfect? If only. And hilariously, the Enus Huntley S is fast, very fast. And not just for an SUV. It goes and it pulls and cornering is never a snore either. You can feel the weight and you want to, it's part of what makes a car easier and more engaging to connect with. A slight tune will improve the exhaust note and make it sound like it wants to kill you! If Rockstar gave us a Cognoscenti Coupe or Cabriolet, or maybe even a full sized limousine, sharing most of it's design cues with the Huntley S's front and rear fascias, and made it even faster, it would have the potential to be one of the best cars in the game. An ultimate luxury coupe/cabriolet/limousine. And it would trump the Massacro- or just about, well, everything.

 

But for now, we're stuck with the mediocrity that is the Cognoscenti Cabrio. If Rockstar does, however, attempt at a new one, perhaps they could learn a bit about it from this:

 

 

 

- Cars That Are Unbelievable Rubbish: Enus Cognoscenti Cabrio

 

 

 

[Kaiju Blue]

Sting4S is back but i think he's gone off his rocker he posted this in the Share Your Story thread in the Online section...

 

I'm grumpy because i went though the whole thing wondering if there was a story in there somewhere but nope just the history of the car

 

 

 

 

The Enus Cognoscenti Cabriolet: A top-end luxury car that combines elegance with performance?

- Sting4S

When you think of top of the line luxury cars, immediately lavish brands such as Mercedes, Rolls Royce or Bentley spring to mind. Of course the most iconic batch of vehicles from these prestigious groups are always the personal luxury coupes. Rolls Royce has the Wraith and Mercedes has their brand new S Class Coupe. Looking at the S Class Coupe closely, you can see that it took most of it's inspiration from none other than Bentley's ravishing Continental GT. Whether it's better or not is a different story for a different time and unfortunately Rockstar has yet to do a spoof of it . . .

 

Bentley's Continental GT is truly something else. Beauty, elegance, style, and sophistication that blows your mind and performance that literally defies the laws of physics. How could a humongous personal luxury coupe, weighing over two and a half tons, handle and accelerate better than some of those that don't even tip the scales at 4000 pounds? The Continental GT's return in 2003 brought something new to the table that was hard to beat and in 2011 they tried perfecting it even more. The results were astonishing. Literally every body panel and design cue worked; bulging wings (fenders), a bulging trunk, bulging hips (haunches). It was gorgeous. Even the headlamps themselves were a work of art, having the advanced modern technology of LED lighting yet somehow someway managing to make them look very old world and elegant. The performance was a stunner as well. Whilst the basic W12 variant was potent and quick itself, that wasn't enough for Bentley. They brought the Speed to the table, which was capable of 205 mph. To further improve handling and performance they took VW's 4.0L TFSI twin-turbo V8, tuned it up a bit, and stuffed it in their Continental. This made it much lighter and capable of hitting 60 mph in the high 3s. Less weight further improved handling for more enjoyable spirited driving.

 

The refreshed Continental GT was a damn fine car and IV's Cognoscenti got me excited for what Rockstar would give us next in V, Bentley-wise. I mean, what is Beverly Hills and Bel Air without brand new uber-flashy Bentley's? Well. Shockingly they removed the limousine Cognoscenti and gave us something else. Despite the new Continental GT being out for a while, they refused to give us that. They gave us this instead . . . Well, sort of.

The first generation Bentley Continental Supersports. And they had an outrageous idea. Giving us the luxury of both a hard top coupe and drop top cabriolet. How in the world could this go wrong? I mean it worked well for the Carbonizzare. It also worked well on the Sentinel. Numerous modern coupes and convertibles now use this 'advanced' technology. Let's see how that all turned out.

As with the Surano, I had never really bothered to try out the Cognoscenti Cabrio. My garages got full early on and as DLC cars kept being added, some cars just had to go and some where just seemingly, forgotten about. Today, I purchased one off the internet and took it to LSC to insure that it would look the part. I installed some elegant black 10-spoke wheels, dressed the car up in a unique white on cream color code to replicate one of the Supersports gazillion different color codes, and finished it off with a tint. Then, just to be cliche, I took it out to Rodeo and paraded past ritzy bistros and boutiques in it. Despite being an in-game billionaire and driving the 'ultimate' luxury car with the top down, nothing really felt quite how I expected it to feel.

The first thing you notice is how big it is. I mean, it is a personal luxury coupe. But something just looks . . . off about it. Ah hah, it's the haunches. Instead of bulging outwards, like they should, they just rise up towards the rear half of the car and then don't quite descend. This immediately gives off the impression that whoever was designing this ran out of ideas. It shows, it just looks cheap. The awkward non-bulging haunches that don't descend automatically result in a very awkward C pillar design (which if you haven't noticed, it's a very important part of a car's design, especially a personal luxury coupe's). It also gives the Cognsocenti Cabrio a very tall ass. And here's the result of that:

 

 

What exactly were they thinking here? It looks like a tramps ass. Just look at that roof line. Look at that rear window? Can the driver even see out of that? Might as well remove it altogether, no? Whenever I drive this thing, it looks so awkward with the top up so I always keep it down. It helps, just a little bit . . . maybe not from the side:

 

 

I can't imagine how poor the visibility must be from that windshield when the roofs up. For a character as tall as Michael, it must be very bad. I also bet headroom must be tight. In a 'full sized' luxury coupe?

 

 

Oh deary me, what have they done here? Copied and pasted the Cognoscenti limousine's ass, added a tacky rear diffuser and funky looking exhaust, tagged on some rubbish 'rear bumper skirt thingy' and called it a day? I think so . . .

 

I presume this will be rather self explanatory. Who's the genius who thought it would be just marvelous to give a 'refined' and 'elegant' person luxury coupe a kit? Flared wheel arches, 'aggressive' side skirts, and a front lip that sticks out like a spoiled kid's lip. Why?

Speaking of the front, aside from the tacky lip spoiler, it's actually the best part of the car. However, it doesn't come without flaws. Whilst the Cognoscenti limousine had very seductive chrome mesh, the Cabrio comes equipped with what looks like stickers. And they weren't printed from a very good printer either. Black, plasticy, flat, hideous, rubbish.

The cabin seats four and has enough legroom in the back for at least a midget, whereas the Dewbauchees can only fit amputees. That's the only good thing I have to say about it. Other than that, it's crap. It's just a lazy copy and paste of IV's Schafter cockpit with 'sport' seats. They didn't even bother to remove the Benefactor logo from the steering wheel. There's no flashy veneer, top of the line stitch-work, fancy colors, or anything to differentiate itself from all of the other cars that use this copied and pasted interior (there's about 20+ of them, not including the cars from IV). Take a look at this:

 

Now I'm not asking for a carbon copy of the Bentley Continental GT (or Supersports) interior but I would like something a little more unique. I mean for god's sake, it's based on a Bentley. Isn't it supposed to be special? It's not like Rockstar hasn't tried on cockpits before. Take a look at IV's Turismo's cockpit and compare it to a 360 Modena's. Do the same with the Super GT compared to the DB9 (or even a Vanquish S), and then a Sentinel compared to a BMW M3 E46. They're spot on. They're not carbon copies but they're very similar and look the part. Great interiors give cars more personality. There's no arguing that.

Now the Cognoscenti Cabrio isn't a terribly bad looking car, but there were a lot of missed opportunities, a lot of overlooked features, and overall the outcome was very awkward. Now I love the fact that it was made to be a hard top convertible, and find the way the roof folds and unfolds to be extremely sophisticated and mechanically beautiful. It wasn't exactly necessary though. And I can't help but feel that it almost looks as if this car were designed in pieces by various different teams and then hastily pieced together once they were all finished with their work. Now, I could forgive all of this if it weren't for the lackluster performance. I'm not you average GTA driver, I care more about what a car has to offer performance-wise than lightning fast speed and effortless steering. No sugar coating, the only compliment I can give the Cognoscenti Cabrio on it's performance is the exhaust note. It's potent, just a bit. The steering feels dead and disconnected from the road, there is no sense of weight whatsoever, the suspension doesn't soak up anything unlike a real plush British luxobarge, the acceleration is very underwhelming, the transmission is a slushbox, never does it just glide along smoothly like a personal luxury coupe should (the power delivery always feels rough and inconsistent), and the brakes are terrible.

 

What in the world happened? Is this Rockstar's idea of a Bentley? Take a look at IV's Cognoscenti:

 

 

It was elegant, it was smooth, it was fast, and it made you feel like a boss. How could they take such a solid car and then ruin it by removing two doors and making it a hard top convertible? So much potential, lost. It wouldn't have even been a hard job if the just kept it simple. What they could've done:

• Remove two doors
• Make front doors longer and frameless
• Copy the Continental GT's C pillar
• Design haunches that bulge outwards and raise just a little bit
• Redesign the rear fascia to make it more coupe-like and sleeker
• Create a more refined interior based on the Continental GT
• Create a hard-top coupe variant and a soft-top cabriolet variant
• That's it! Nothing else

And to make it even more absurd, they cut the Cognoscenti limousine. Did they really think people would like the Cabrio more than the limousine? Are they serious? Is this a joke? "The Cog Cabrio is a top-end luxury car that combines elegance with performance." - Legendary Motorsport Unfortunately, this couldn't have been any further from the truth . . .

 

Rockstar does have the opportunity to fix this however. Just take a look at the Enus Huntley S:

Now that's a proper Bentley. Imagine this as a luxury coupe; keeping those beautifully crafted LED lights, that meticulous chrome meshed grill, those humongous mirrors, it's subtle yet effective haunches, those nifty and modern full LED tail lamps, the masterfully polished quad exhaust system (sounds lovely and potent too), and that drop dead gorgeous two tone finish style. Imagine a proper fixed top coupe and a proper rag top cabriolet. Wouldn't that be perfect? If only. And hilariously, the Enus Huntley S is fast, very fast. And not just for an SUV. It goes and it pulls and cornering is never a snore either. You can feel the weight and you want to, it's part of what makes a car easier and more engaging to connect with. A slight tune will improve the exhaust note and make it sound like it wants to kill you! If Rockstar gave us a Cognoscenti Coupe or Cabriolet, or maybe even a full sized limousine, sharing most of it's design cues with the Huntley S's front and rear fascias, and made it even faster, it would have the potential to be one of the best cars in the game. An ultimate luxury coupe/cabriolet/limousine. And it would trump the Massacro- or just about, well, everything.

 

But for now, we're stuck with the mediocrity that is the Cognoscenti Cabrio. If Rockstar does, however, attempt at a new one, perhaps they could learn a bit about it from this:

 

 

 

- Cars That Are Unbelievable Rubbish: Enus Cognoscenti Cabrio

 

 

 

 

Nothing new- he always posts his car reviews in that thread. Hey, different strokes for different folks, and all that.

 

Anyway. I'm grumpy because my phone service carrier is charging me for a lot of bullsh*t I'm not even subscribed to! Lame.

 

On a positive note, a friend is going to get me GTA5 for XB1 soon because it was my birthday recently, so there's that.

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Anyway. I'm grumpy because my phone service carrier is charging me for a lot of bullsh*t I'm not even subscribed to! Lame.

Call them and tell them this and they'll give you a credit thowads your next month bill

[PhillBellic]

 

Sting4S is back but i think he's gone off his rocker he posted this in the Share Your Story thread in the Online section...

 

I'm grumpy because i went though the whole thing wondering if there was a story in there somewhere but nope just the history of the car

 

 

The Enus Cognoscenti Cabriolet: A top-end luxury car that combines elegance with performance?

- Sting4S

 

- Cars That Are Unbelievable Rubbish: Enus Cognoscenti Cabrio

 

 

Nothing new- he always posts his car reviews in that thread. Hey, different strokes for different folks, and all that.

I just noticed that in this photo I have kept in the quote, that in the GPS Screen, it is the same texture from IV.