Car photos/discussion thread

barnsley said:
Today I've started saving for a GT86. Insurance isn't amazing for me currently but come my 22nd birthday...
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That's a lot of pennies! I've been thinking hard about what to buy when I leave University next summer, got about £4k saved and would realistically like to leave some for insurance and maintenance and running myself until I get a proper job. Dunno what I would buy for 2-3k nothing that impressive for sure, might offer to take my friends Clio 172 off his hands once he's spent his life savings on the cam belt/dephaser/tyres/water pump/discs/pads etc... I'm sure he will be bored with it in 10 months time.

JR
 
I dont need A 5 car Garage :D if i'd have 2m i'd buy a beautifull Mazda RX-7. Let some one decent tune cause i'm not a car specialist AT ALL xd add a veilslide kit but customise it a bit like changing the back lights and stuff. Paint it Dark grey Chrome with 2 mid-small black stripes in the middle of the car. Not Sure about the stripes though but thats the dream living in my head atm :P

Tbh i love :

Shelby GT 500 (old ones)
Toyota Supra
Hemi Cuda
Dodge Challenger
Nissan Skyline thought i'm not as up to date as most of us here about the specific models

So well yeah i love the old Japanes cars and some good old raw muscle power ^^
 
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God this car is sexy.. worlds fastest car clocked at 270mph or 435km/h. It could have gone faster but it ran out of track room. Beat out the Bugatti Vernon Super Sport by 2mph while only having half the cylinders!
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And now my current favorite car. The Dodge Viper GTS. Pure beauty. This car is so beastly even Pro's have trouble handling it. Takes a long time to master and even more skill to do so. That's what makes it fun though:)
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looz said:
Too baddoing business with John Hennessey is horrible...

http://www.sportbikes.net/archives/forums/printthread.php?t=62350

Also, just adding more power hardly is an engineering marvel.
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Adding more power is yes. There's a lot more than just that higher number that everyone sees. You have to balance everything perfectly. That's why the GT can go faster than the Super Sport on only half the cylinders(8 vs 16). It gets extremely difficult to keep getting more power as you have to deal with all the internal forces and balancing them.
 
barnsley said:
I hate the Veyron.
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WHAT!!!!

How can you hate the Veyron, its a technical masterpiece, it literally laid down the foundation for the hypercar industry of today, without the Veyron you wouldn't have the Agera or Huiyra or the P1

VW showed the entire world there are no limits in automotive design, thats why we fap over the above listed cars!
 
MrKambo said:
WHAT!!!!

How can you hate the Veyron, its a technical masterpiece, it literally laid down the foundation for the hypercar industry of today, without the Veyron you wouldn't have the Agera or Huiyra or the P1

VW showed the entire world there are no limits in automotive design, thats why we fap over the above listed cars!
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Honestly I think the Jaguar Xj220 and the McLaren F1 started the whole hyper car thing. koenigsegg also had a big part in it as well. The Veyron is just a big dick substitute for VW. Its huge, its ugly and its heavy. The only thing the Veyron ever does is get beaten by other hyper cars in the whole "worlds fastest production car".
 
barnsley said:
Honestly I think the Jaguar Xj220 and the McLaren F1 started the whole hyper car thing. koenigsegg also had a big part in it as well. The Veyron is just a big dick substitute for VW. Its huge, its ugly and its heavy. The only thing the Veyron ever does is get beaten by other hyper cars in the whole "worlds fastest production car".
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They were super cars, not hyper cars

What you need to remember regardless of what was around nothing went mainstream until the Veyron, say what you will regardless of the baggage it comes with, its a monumental mildstone in the automotive industry

The reason its gets beat by other hyper cars is purely down to weight, there is no hyper car which offers everything the veyron does, in order to save weight you need to sacrifice, air con, stereo, comfy seats, chassis design, suspension, obviously unsprung weight.

Designing a car to achieve what the veyron done is stupidly difficult, like seriously what they have done with the car deserves the biggest respects and credit! Doesnt matter if its not the fastest thing in the world now, its been years since it was released, technology gets better

4770K >>> 3770K ;)
 
barnsley said:
How?
I don't understand D:.
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Its basically to show how rich you are you can get a whole garage of better performing cars for the price of it, a very low percentage of people who own them have actually driven them at full speed, then again if you can afford one you can afford an airstrip haha, i do like them but they are pretty useless as cars.
 
My cars would be.

Nissan 200SX
Skyline GTR R34
Skyline GTR R33
Maybe a Supra

The rest can be used to build a 1/2 strip and a drift track.
 
barnsley said:
The Veyron is just a big dick substitute for VW. Its huge, its ugly and its heavy. The only thing the Veyron ever does is get beaten by other hyper cars in the whole "worlds fastest production car".
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I'm not arguing, if you don't like or even hate a perfectly good car thats fair play even for an irrational or stupid reason. I hate the 458 almost purely because it has 3 exhaust pipes, people say it echo's the F40 although the central pipe on that was a screamer pipe for the turbo, far cooler.

Anyway the Veyron is really an F1 substitute for VAG and I personally find it far more impressive than running another F1 team, there is no doubt the tech has trickled down through to other cars. It's achievements as a luxury performance hypercar are unrivaled and the only thing I would consider on the same page is the SLR. It's not that difficult to build a stupid fast car on the edge of it's factor of safety in a country where anything will pass as road legal hence making it technically a road car (Venom GT). But making something reliable and easily capable of ridiculous speeds on a daily basis is more significant, the original test Veyrons had upwards of 50k on the clock 2 years ago which is quite something for a vehicle of that nature. I agree with your sentiment that the achievement is no longer impressive but the execution is exceptional.

JR
 
JR23 said:
But making something reliable and easily capable of ridiculous speeds on a daily basis is more significant,
JR
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The Mclaren f1 (the car) does exactly the same thing. Its significantly older as well and wasn't made on a limitless budget. Oh it also does corners and the such as well.

The only impressive thing about the Veyron in my opinion is the engine.
 
barnsley said:
The Mclaren f1 (the car) does exactly the same thing. Its significantly older as well and wasn't made on a limitless budget. Oh it also does corners and the such as well.

The only impressive thing about the Veyron in my opinion is the engine.
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Imagine doing a cambelt (if it is belt driven) on a W16, with supposedly 7 rads and whatever else is crammed in there. There is probably minimal clearance.
 
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