CarMadMike

Very nice spec E92, and there are still a few of us lurking (albeit no one would recognise me, I can't for the life of me remember why my username is Microphone & not CarMadMike).
I need to take some new pics of my current car, I've had a fair few different ones since I last posted here. 

I know right, there were too many funny random name changes at one point and now it's hard to remember who's Who and who's everyone else... anyway fixed yours up now.  

'Sup :duck:
 
Just a thread that I think i'll probably be the one that ends up spamming :p
 
I spend a lot of time when bored on Autotrader/pistonheads etc looking for cool car classifieds of both rare cars and cars that have just been released and even seeing cool specced or modified common cars :duck:
 
Rather than spam the chatbox I think a thread is a cool idea, i'll start with this ad:
 
Used 2006 TVR Sagaris ALL MODELS for sale in Surrey | Pistonheads


 
Stunning car, stunning colour, i had a similar one on TDU that was orange too.

Last Summer I got....

A "57 Morris Minor.
Its a running resto, barrels a barrel of laughs and no matter where you go it gets smiles, waves and randoms coming up for a chat about it. 
 
Also my first post here in a long time. :)

I agree with you Diablo, that Japan episode of TG was one of the best episodes in the history of TG I think. It struck the balance between car nerd / entertainment absolutely perfectly.

Well we are 20mins in and I am well happy with what's been on. Phenomenal production as always, excellent use of sound, and some excellent moments, that even though scripted, doesn't interrupt the action that much. And a special mention to Harris who is like a stunt driver himself.
 
[spoiler=Moment of beauty]That in-car view of Harris drifting round that truck trailer through that turn was glorious. :D Would loved to have seen it from a camera post or via a drone too.
 
 
On to the star segment now...

Congrats Ryan! That sounds fantastic :)

On Friday I took my girlfriend to the Royal Botanic Gardens near the city center and proposed to her while enjoying a relaxing punt ride (like a gondola) on a lake in the garden, while two of our best friends were secretly taking photos. Everything went perfectly to plan. She yes, after wiping away a few tears. We eventually stopped kissing and the 4 of us had a lovely dinner followed by watching 'The Mountain Between Us' at the outdoor Moonlight Cinema in those same gardens. After taking everyone else home I didn't get back to my place until 3am but that didn't spoil one of the most wonderful days I've ever had. My previous post was before all of this happened, so now I am officially engaged.

Happy Birthday Loz! Wishing you a great day mate.
 
*this is how I picture you answering the phone
 

I understand you might think others are being 'haters' and wanting to overly punish vettel for his behaviour, and you're probably right to some extent but you're also being too forgiving at the same time.
 
Max, Kimi & Alonso are huge fan favourites, tens/hundreds of thousands of SGD will have been spent by spectators in the stands wanting to see them race. Vettel's aggression/ego got in the way of that and they won't be getting that money back.
 
If this was an isolated incident then I'd be more willing to just drop it but it isn't, and it won't be the last incident because he got away with it. Labeling this as a racing incident sets a dangerous precedent.

:lol: Oh dear.
 
I'm not asking for either Ferrari driver to be whipped in public or banned from a race, but surely you've seen people get punished for much less? :fp:
 
Causing a collision is enough for a punishment for any other team than Ferrari. The Ferraris caused that collision did they not? Max was an innocent dutchman in a Ferrari sandwich.
 
You're the one bringing up haters and fanboys here, can you not see how hilarious that is given the situation? Vettel ended his own race, Max's race, Raikkonen's race & Alonso's race. But nah, racing incident isn't it. I can see why some would split the blame between Vettel and Kimi but splitting the blame does not mean they're innocent. If I were max or Alonso i'd be asking questions as to the credibility of the FIA and the rest of the sport at the moment tbh.

Very classy choice there Mike, can't wait to see the pics. :)

May or may not have treated myself to a new car :ytwh: Not sure when it's being delivered, but hopefully sooner rather than later before there are too many 67 plate cars on the road.
 
Should look identical to this, will post pics when it arrives.
 

May or may not have treated myself to a new car :ytwh: Not sure when it's being delivered, but hopefully sooner rather than later before there are too many 67 plate cars on the road.
 
Should look identical to this, will post pics when it arrives.
 

May or may not have treated myself to a new car :ytwh: Not sure when it's being delivered, but hopefully sooner rather than later before there are too many 67 plate cars on the road.
 
Should look identical to this, will post pics when it arrives.
 

The ultimate Ikea car, please tell me you've filled it with flatpack furniture at least once?

The ultimate Ikea car, please tell me you've filled it with flatpack furniture at least once?

New Conti GT configurator is up, I've config'd this to be an ultimate daily driver, quite tame on the outside but bolder on the inside:
 

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First time on the Ring. It was so awesome.

Lamborghini has been an iconoclast in the world of supercars since the foundation of Automobili Lamborghini in 1963. Founder Ferruccio Lamborghini had already built a successful manufacturing empire by then, and that business experience and acumen would prove invaluable. The versatility of his first creations, that included both a V12 engine that would remain competitive for half-a-century, and a car—but three years after the company was formed—that became the template for supercar design to this day, charted an assured course for his fledgling brand that went on to define the passion of performance for generations of enthusiasts.
 

 
A Lamborghini is immediately recognizable; combining the ethos of the raging bull with aggressive styling and ear-shattering sound, there is always a unique expectation around the cars built in Sant’Agata Bolognese. An expectation that has been fully met by the seven Project CARS 2-bound Lamborghinis.
 
The Seven Raging Bulls in Project CARS 2
 
The seven Lamborghinis coming to Project CARS 2 on September 22nd are precisely what fans expect from the world’s most authentic racing franchise—the fastest and most exotic examples from the House of the Raging Bull’s considerable pedigree.
 
That pedigree begins with 1999’s Lamborghini Diablo GTR, built around the now fabled Diablo GT.
 

 
The Diablo GTR was extensively lightened from the GT, with everything but the roof coming in carbon-fibre, and it came with only one seat—a racing seat surrounded by an integrated roll cage. Aero’ was also drastically improved with a rear-spoiler directly fixed onto the chassis.
 
Powering the Diablo GTR is the mythical Lamborghini 6-litre V12 pushing out 590hp. Only 32 Diablo GTRs were built, each with lowered and stiffened suspension, rear-wheel drive, and a 5-speed manual transmission. They were raced in the Lamborghini-only Super Trofeo series, but also had some success Down Under where it won the 2003, and 2004 Australian Nations Cup Championship.
 
A V12 mated to a 5-speed manual ’box pushing 590hp and weighing 1,395KGs along with and scissor doors—does it get any more primal than that?
 

 
The 2010 Lamborghini Sesto Elemento—‘Sixth Element’ (AKA, the atomic number for carbon)—may be even wilder. The Sesto Elemento pushes out 570hp from a sublime-sounding V10 mated to a 6-speed semi-automatic transmission. Given the name, it’s no surprise that the chassis, body, and even suspension components are made of carbon, and that, coupled with two seats bolted onto the chassis, brings the weight down to a bewildering 999KGs. That means 0-100kmh in 2.5 seconds, and a top speed in excess of 300kmh. This is the best overall power-to-weight ratio of any Lamborghini in history.
 
Twenty Sesto Elemento Lamborghinis were built, all sold for racing and track-days.
 

 
The low production numbered Lamborghinis in Project CARS 2 gets even more limited with the Lamborghini Veneno. Only four were ever produced (one went directly to the Lamborghini museum, and three went on sale). Unsurprisingly, they were then the most expensive production cars in history at the time (Eur 3,000,000).
 
Unveiled for the 50th anniversary of the founding of Lamborghini, the Veneno was a revelation when it was introduced at the Geneva Auto Show in 2013.
 
The Veneno (poison, in Spanish) is built on the Aventador SV chassis. The engine is an enormous 6.5-litre V12 pushing out 750hp. For that kind of power and performance (335kmh—electronically limited—and 0-100kmh in 2.8 seconds), you get a special 7-speed ISR ’box and four-wheel drive.
 

 
The Lamborghini Huracán Coupé, meanwhile, the successor to Lamborghini’s “entry” supercar, the Gallardo, comes with the bulletproof Lamborghini 5.2-litre V10 kicking out 610hp with both direct and multi-point fuel-injection. With a weight of 1,422KGs, and on your way to 325kmh, you’ll get to 100 in 3.2 seconds, and 200kmh in 9.9 seconds.
 
For many Lamborghini enthusiasts, the Bizzarrini-Lamborghini V12 that began life in Lamborghini’s first-ever car, the 1964 Lamborghini 350 GT, was the last word in greatest-ever production power units. So when Lamborghini decided to introduce their new V12 for the Aventador Coupé in 2013, ending the lifecycle of the V12 after half-a-century of blood-curdling thunder and performance, the auto-world sat up and took note.
 
Enthusiasts had nothing to worry about—the Aventador’s power and handling are extraordinary, the car’s shape the epitome of Lamborghini’s aggressive style-guide. The monocoque is carbon-fibre, the engine a mid-mount 6.5-liter V-12 generating 700hp at 8,250rpm, the suspension an F1-inspired front and rear horizontal mono-tube damper with push-rod system, and the result, a car that will inspire some hardcore emotion around the scanned Nordschleife in Project CARS 2.
 

 
Racing A Raging Bull
 
While Lamborghini has wet its feet in motorsports this century with its own Super Trofeo series of championships, the company has remained largely true to the legacy of Ferruccio Lamborghini, for whom the race on Sunday and sell on Monday school of thought never held much sway.
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Pure-bred racing Lamborghinis are rare. The Lamborghini Miura, one of the most recognizable and important cars in automotive history, was a project created in secret by the youthful Gian Paolo Dallara, who was given his start at Lamborghini in the early ’60s (on his way to becoming one of the world’s most elite chassis manufacturer). Codenamed the P400, Dallara’s idea had been to create an innovative sportscar that would have the potential to become Lamborghini’s first race car.
 

 
Ferruccio, on seeing the prototype for the first time, gave Dallara his go-ahead with one proviso—that the new car not be raced.
 
So when, in 2014, Lamborghini released the Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo, the motorsport world went into a bit of a frenzy. For Lamborghini enthusiasts, this was an event 50 years in the making.
 
The Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo’s design was overseen by Mr. Dallara himself, and comes with a 6-speed sequential mated to the 5.2-litre V10 pushing out a sublime-sounding 620hp. Dry weight for the Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo is 1,279KGs, and that means 100kmh arrives in 3.2 seconds on the way to 320kmh. The car’s enormous and adjustable rear-wing, meanwhile, is both functional and epic.
The car shines in the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Series that travels to three continents—Europe, Asia and North America—delivering the thrills of this race-built Lamborghini to a captured worldwide audience and fan-base.
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The Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo also opened the door to Lamborghini joining the lucrative GT3 market in 2015 with the Lamborghini Huracán GT3. Project CARS 2 gets the 2016 version of this seriously capable GT3 winner, built in a close relationship with Barwell Motorsport, one of the UK’s most successful professional racing teams that have competed at the forefront of different motorsport categories for five decades.
 

 
For 2017, Barwell Motorsport is running a Huracán GT3 in the British GT Championship as well as in the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup. Driver Jon Minshaw currently leads the British GT Championship with four wins on the season including a fine drive to the checkers at Spa. Project CARS 2 will also come with liveries that run on all the Barwell Motorsport’s Huracán GT3s in both series.
 
The Lamborghini Huracán GT3’s success is built around an aluminium-carbon chassis that brings the car down to 1,230KGs with an optimum 42/58 front/rear weight distribution. Lamborghini again turned to Dallara for the aero’ work, and naturally Gian Paolo Dallara himself oversaw this project given his intimate ties to Lamborghini.
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To meet GT3 regs, the car is rear-wheel drive with Bosch Motorsport traction control. The 6-speed sequential ’box is mated to the same 90° 5.2-litre V10 engine in the Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo, but tuned down to 580hp for GT3 regs.
The performance of the Lamborghini Huracán GT3 has made it a staple of GT3 grids around the world—just in August alone, it will perform in a dozen GT3 series on four continents. And come September 22nd, it will bring its proven race-winning performance to Project CARS 2.
 
With seven of the most spectacular Lamborghinis of the last 20 years included with Project CARS 2 when it is released worldwide on September 22, 2017 on the PlayStation 4 computer entertainment system, XBOX One, and PC via STEAM®, the only question that remains is—which Raging Bull will you drive first?
 
The Lamborghini Diablo GTR (1999), Lamborghini Sesto Elemento (2010), Lamborghini Veneno (2013), Lamborghini Aventador Coupé (2011), Lamborghini Huracán GT3 (20135), Lamborghini Huracán Coupé (2014), Lamborghini Huracán LP620-2 Super Trofeo (2014), will come with Project CARS 2 on September 22, 2017 for the PlayStation 4 system, Xbox One, and PC.
 
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Yaas please.
 




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I wonder if you'll be able to drive it in bus lanes in London? It's certainly the length of one.
 
The Zonda Isn't dead :panic:


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Yaas please.
 




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I wonder if you'll be able to drive it in bus lanes in London? It's certainly the length of one.
 
The Zonda Isn't dead :panic:


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I totally see this thread as shade at how bad my photos were yesterday :p I was hungover/on an iphone/wasn't in the mood for it :lol:
 
I like what you've done with the BMW, it's a lot more striking in the second photo, but I'd say it's probably 5% too dark imo, especially on the lower part of the front bumper.

I totally see this thread as shade at how bad my photos were yesterday :p I was hungover/on an iphone/wasn't in the mood for it :lol:
 
I like what you've done with the BMW, it's a lot more striking in the second photo, but I'd say it's probably 5% too dark imo, especially on the lower part of the front bumper.

Car meet at Manchester Airport this morning, we've had torrential rain for the past 36 hours so I think it put off a lot of people from bringing the cars, that and there's a big car event on in Cheshire this weekend too that I'm hoping to go to tomorrow if I get the time.
 
Apologies for the lighting on some of these, my heart wasn't really in it and the lighting was a bit awkward under the Concorde.
 










 
 
Anyone spot anything suspicious with this GT3RS?