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YeOldeTDUMan

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  1. Well looks like another car thread descending into arguements between the people who have live and breathe F&F and the more varied car freaks ... Fast & Furious and Need for Speed have a lot to answer for. Well to my recollection I think the 'first' supercar that is often described at the Gullwing Merc ... could be wrong? ... as I said in my previous post a Supercar is normally an abnormal car in terms of performance and style of it's time ... hence the Gullwing and Miura are both Supercars but an R34 or GT-R are not The term Hypercar is only a recent term ... the only person I've heard talk about them is a certain Mr Clarkson Current(ish) supercars in my mind would be ... Enzo SLR Murci Koeingseggggg S7 TT Zonda Veyron Carrera GT and possibly the Ford GT (but that's a bit of a grey area as it's tending towards being a sportscar but as I said before it's quite subjective)
  2. The pics was off the official Alfa Spider LE site ... www.alfaspiderle.co.uk the 'sig' was done by Random I think (mind is getting forgetful in my old age!) As to the stats: top speed: more than I'll drive it as as it's a cruiser 0-60: a few seconds mpg: well I've got about 30 so far in my couple of days of owning it so as you'll gather I've no idea how fast it goes or how quickly it gets there ... not the point really otherwise you'd buy a TT, 350Z or a Z4 It looks stunning and it sounds good too ... nice throaty noise occasionally from the exhausts Erm ... You'll find I did yesterday The list price in the UK for the LE was £25,500 the same prices as a base spec 2.2JTS ... but you get about 4k worth of options for free ... oh the LEs are all sold now (as far as I'm aware) Nodz - yeah looking forward to lots of topless motoring
  3. I'll take the Sierra RS500 Cossie ... Dad had a 2WD Saphire Cossie for a year ... great fun did you know it's NOT an Escort under the Escort Cossie ... it's a modified Sierra with a Escort body slapped on top!
  4. it originally said "Over 18s Only" then I changed my mind and thought I'd put the word "Warning" in but I deleted "Over" in the process ... didn't read as proper english with the "over" missing

  5. Supercars aren't entirely to do with speed ... they're supposed to be expensive (relatively), limited numbers, very fast (for their time), not pratical as an every day driver. In terms of Japanese supercars ... the ONLY ones I'd class as supercars are the NSX, and then the road going versions of the Toyota, Mazda and Nissan Le Mans cars. Both Japanese examples you put there are Tuner cars anyway ... in terms of Nismo and Mines ... I bet you I could tune a lot of cars to do 200mph if you wanted. Zeds and Skylines are NOT super cars ... they're quick Coupes/Saloons. A Ferrari F430 isn't a Supercar ... it's a sportscar A Porsche 911 isn't a Supercar ... it's a sportscar The problem is the definition of a Supercar changes to some extent with time ... and is VERY subjective
  6. afternoon ... any chance you could correct a typo and change my showroom thread to "Warning Over 18s Only" ?

  7. yeap they are fantastic looking cars ... far better that Beemer Zeds or TTs ... oh and MX-5s are girly Oh and one thing for all of you to laugh at ... I'll finish paying for it 2 months after my 40th birthday!
  8. Well I finally picked up my new car last night ... after spending months talking about a new car while waiting for a new job and then waiting for the car to be built I'll take some pics in a week or so's time when the weather is nicer and I can get hold of my dad's camera ... but in the meantime a teaser of some sort ... doesn't take a genius to work out my new car ... And now for the younger members of the forum ... Wow man I like picked up this well smart car last night ... banging set of rims man ... 19s ... well cool ... tunes ain't too bad eiver got usb port and everyfing ... the interior is like class ... bran lev-ver seats an all ... don't go that fast but it's smart for cruizin for the ladiezzzz ;)
  9. yeah I remember the FHM poster dotted around as to Mantis ... there was a cheating way to defeat him ... you unplugged your controller from the first port and plugged it into the second ... if I remember correctly he also commented on games you'd got saved onto the memory card the one 'joke' that got me was when the screen went black and said 'Hideo' in the top corner in big font like a tv channel ... i wondered what had gone wrong with my tv as I had a Sony at the time and it was exactly the same font and colour as changing channels or to an AV input!
  10. LOL ... I remember the one where you had to use the radio frequency on the back of the game box ... MGS was good ... never played the one that was a prequel ... not too sure if I'm going to buy a PS3 yet tho
  11. OK I won't join Diablos flaming of everyone who put Skylines and Zeds down as Supercars ... Oh also the Ferrari Cali Spider ISN'T a supercar now to my list ... in no particular order 1. McLaren F1 2. Jaguar XJ220 ... you can't really ask for the 4WD V12 tho as that was an early concept 3. Ferrari F40 4. Lamborghini Countach 5000 QV 5. Bugatti Veyron
  12. Well this is my office ... ... and it is lunchtime too Diablo ... how much does your speed cost with VM? ... I'm paying about 45quid which is the 3 for 30 deal they did ... tv, broadband and phone ... plus 15 quid on top for the V+ box
  13. OK catch up time again ... Smart ForTwo - I don't 'get' why they made the ForFour (did you know it's a Colt underneath?) M3 E92 - sorry not a recent M3/BMW fan so it doesn't really matter 190E Cossie - erm can I have an Evolution instead? Peel P50 - Clarkson ... nuff said Gold GTi - Skoda has Green Brakes & I don't like Seat Styling ... they are all off the same platform btw
  14. roll on 3pm ... well 2pm actually as that's the time I'll leave work ... shame it's grey clouds and signs of rain for the next few days

  15. I have an excuse ... currently got my dad in replacing my bathroom in my flat (aren't retired parents that love doing DIY great) ... which means I'm kipping at my parents house and haven't taken my xbox with me as my dad only has a USB modem thingy However one thing I will say is it could do with a new exciting multiplayer game ... GTA multiplayer freeroam gets a bit dull after a while ... but I've still got the story to complete ... oh and would like to do some more Burnout at some point ... oh and FM2 ... and there's a whole load of stuff for me still to do on LSW:TCS too
  16. As far as I'm aware they've always used Merc motors ... do you realise how much engine development costs !!!!! far better to use an existing engine for a small company than make your own done quite a bit in the industry if you look into it ... Toyota lump in the Elise ... Beemer lump going in the Esprit (if they ever launch it) ... Weismann use Beemers ... to name a few
  17. damn ... just posted in the F1 thread ... and I told myself I shouldn't Oh well

  18. They had the BEST F1 car driven by THE BEST on ITV before the race ... Lotus 98T Rules! Damn I said I wasn't going to post in F1 threads anymore because of silly fanboys ... goodbye
  19. haven't you seen the pics of the next Zonda Prototype running round ... already in development http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/spy-shots-pagani-zonda-test-mule/ As the article says the body is currently a hacked version of the current car ... if any of you have looked at early proto pics before you'll know this is common practice ... as at this stage they won't have a new shape body in metal/cardon/whatever you want to make it out of ... and also it helps disguise what they're actually running Supposedly using the V8 from the SLR
  20. I wrapped it in bubble wrap (the stuff with the BIG bubbles) and stuck it in a box for printer paper which I swipped from work ... cutting the box down to suit
  21. Le Mans is always Father's Day weekend ... easy to remember as to What Le Mans is ... it's one of THE most famous races in the world ... and a great film was made about it too Well it depends on what class you want to support ... this year there are 4 Classes ... LM P1 LM P2 LM GT1 LM GT2 the LMP cars are Le Mans Prototypes ... the open air and closed full blown race cars ... the Audi R10 for example GT1 covers Astons and Vettes ... GT2 is mainly 911s Oh I've been a few times ... (about 6 I think ... I was there the year the Merc flipped on the Mulsanne ... the last time I went was with the Bentleys(Audis with a roof!) ... I don't care much for the open prototypes) ... no one watches the whole race ... there's too much beer to be drunk and food to be eaten ... Gran Marnier Crepes ! ... oh and one of the best things at the end of the race is chearing the cars coming out of the pits who are trying to be on the track at the end of the race ... you get recognition for 'racing' at the end of the 24hrs even if the car has been in the garage all night trying to be fixed! If anyone is actually going don't forget to get down there for the Friday ... and then wander around the campsites for the parties ... oh and possibly some burnouts on the road between the track (by the start/finish) and the blue (?) parking/campsite which is towards the airport Oh and I used to support Panoz ... well when they had the GTR GT-1 ... you could hear the thing about a minute before it got to the start/finish straight and when it was between the grandstands it sounded like thunder ... no sound like it in the world ... oh and it looked a little like a Viper ... but a Viper was a GT1/2 car and this was a full LMP!
  22. ... and who's going to be sitting at work all day waiting for the clock to reach 2pm

  23. 28. Vladivostok FMs DJs present the show in English! 29. You get staggeringly drunk after a few seconds in a pub
  24. 25. (I guess) Women are happy to go out on a date with ONLY an hours notice
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