Dream Car
 

Oh shit, just go there.

IotD worthy...

http://autoshow2002.carpoint.msn.com...-Maserati.aspx

Belh. To quote Bad Bays "its liek a big shiny dick with wheels".
If you want power, pump up a WRX and add dual nos tanks. If you want style, get a Audi TT. The styling is nice, but nothing even close to groundbreaking, powerful, but nothing eyepopping. Lotus Elise woud be preferable.

C'mon, Jag. You can't tell me you don't like that silver one.

When I get my inheritance, I'm buying one....

The funny thing is, when you click on the Maserati picture you get ads for Toyota, Ha Ha!

looks liek someone too an anglegrinder to a porshe, the design is so...mundane.
I expected better.

Autolinks
 

As the debate above indicates, no car is perfect for everyone.

Check 'em all out at the North American International Auto Show recently held in motor city.

(btw, why hasn't anyone in the Cellar from motown got their city up in the Cities forum, yet?}

Some car companies are doing great stuff on the Internet, these days:

Ferrari
Maserati
Audi
Volkswagen NewBeetle

The big news this summer will likely be the new Mini by BMW, a toy most of us can afford to enjoy!

From an Internet perspective, it's fun to look at how each country in Planet Mini has developed their own unique web experience. Which Mini website is the best, in your opinion?

It sure is fun to dream cars!

A 163 horsepower BMW-built Mini with a 0-60 time of 6.9 seconds? This thing is a motorcycle that forgot it was only supposed to have 2 wheels. Color me impressed.

American Iron-y
 

http://images.forbes.com/images/2002...ch_415x222.jpg

The Merlin, which its maker claims will hit the streets this summer,
is powered by a walloping 1,400-cc fuel-injected V-twin Harley-Davidson.

Veyron
 

How about this:
http://www.vwvortex.com/news/09_01/bugatti/01.jpg
Bugatti Veyron W16 Does 0-300 km/h in <14 sec. Which means one averages ~6 m/s^2 (over half a gee)
and you reach 300 Km/h in 583 metres or ~640 yards.

Dig the second one. The first one is fugly!

Best Dream Car I ever owned
 

http://www.mcp-motorsport.co.uk/images/audi_q2.jpg

The world had to take a fresh look at what constituted a supercar in 1980 when Audi launched the first Quattro. The fat-arched coupe had a 200 bhp turbo five cylinder engine, but more importantly, drive went to all four wheels.

As an all weather road car it was pretty much uncatchable at the time, and competition versions quickly cleaned up in the World Rally Championship.

After consistent winning seasons, they had to ban the damn thing to give the other manufacturers a chance. :)

Mine was a 1984 with black leather on charcoal metallic. It was the most fun car I ever drove, in any weather conditions. I'd like to relive those experiences in an Audi TT.

I heard when the TT first was introduced in the Motherland, they quickly had to recall it for maufacturing problems. Something like the braking system wasn't up to par with the speed it delivered. I guess the go-power isn't worth anything if you don't have any stop-power.
<a href="http://detnews.com/2000/autos/0002/11/02090104.htm">Here's</a> a little more info.

A TT Roadster is one of the cars I *will* own before I die :) Those things are just cool as hell. Little bit expensive for me at the moment though - maybe in a couple of years. I dunno. But I'd definitely like to have a nice silver or black one. :)

Re: American Iron-y
 

Is it me, or does this strike anyone else as a pod from the Cloud City cloud cars in Empire Strikes Back?

Or, for the cinematically-challenged geeks out there, a bumper car? :)

~mike

Heh. Love it. What the article says, basically:

"If you go faster than 110 miles per hour, you might have trouble slowing down and die."

Well... DON'T DRIVE THAT FAST! :)

All five fatal crashes were apparently on the Autobahn. Go figger.

I was in Germany just over a year ago visiting some friends. We headed up from Braunschweig (where I was staying) to Kiel (up north, on the Baltic). Most of our road-time was on the Autobahn, and we were in my friends' parents' Mercedes wagon. This thing was quite nice, had the onboard GPS and voice-navigation (though it <i>was</i> in German), traction control for winter/summer modes, and many other features that I was more than impressed with; but I can't seem to remember the model.
On the Autobahn, as with most German roads, it's illegal to pass on the right. We were in the middle lane going ~160kpm (100mph), and I saw about a dozen TT's passing us going at least 150mph. Then there were the 911's passing them - <i>that</i> was a sight. The whole car ride seemed very comfortable, and we were actually keeping up with most of the traffic.

911's are pretty quick :)

Can get a nice decked-out 911 Turbo for about $110,000 :)

Incidentally, that's another one of the cars that I <b>will</b> own, along with a Volvo P1800 :)

Why the p1800 unless you have one now?
And why waste your time with the 911 Turbo when you can have 456hp from a 3.6L 6-cylinder in the GT2?

The P1800's are cool. I'll have to get it and restore it, but I plan on being retired by the time I'm 40, so hopefully that isn't too unrealistic. :)

I just happen to like the 911 Turbo. They're pretty badass cars :)

My parents apparently owned one, which I now curse them for selling; they say the trunk was just low enough to be ruined in any sort of altercation with another car's bumper, meaning either expensive repairs or a perma-dent.

Which is why I would just use mine to go on drives through secluded roads and shit. It's pretty hard to find parts for a nearly 40 year old car. :)

I'd happily kill all of you for an audi TT.

911s are the best proche no doubt (friends dad owns one - great to borrow for making an enterance )

Now that I look at it again, that Merlin looks uncomfortably like the vehicle of Ace and Gary, the ambiguously gay duo on Saturday Night Live.

mitheral's Bugatti Veyron
 

That is really an awesome vehicle. The other photos in the article are spectacular too,
so I'm reproducing the link to the article, here.

http://www.vwvortex.com/news/09_01/bugatti/02.jpg

Thanks for posting this car in the Dream Car thread, mitheral. :)

OT
 

The Ambiguously Gay Duo! The Ambiguously Gay Duo!

Man, that one where they bit each other's belts... I wasn't expecting that. I about had a heart attack with laughter :)

http://us.autos1.yimg.com/autos.yahoo.com/i/PORGT21.jpg
But <b>how</b> can you go wrong with this? Yahoo estmiates your payments to be $4,928 - $4,928/month*. Hell, If you're gonna pay that kinda money, why finance -- just buy 2 :)

<font size=-2>*based on 0 down, 10% interest rate, 8% sales tax, 48 months. </font>

There are a number of things they dropped from the Turbo. Plus, it's expensive. Plus, I like the looks of the Turbo better. :) (More specifically, the 1994 911 Turbo)

is there some footnote here that i'm not getting? those numbers are the same...

Sorry about that -- I just did a cut&paste from the yahoo site without any editing. I did it to avoid plagiarism -- yeah, that's it! And the Queen of England is my mother -- yea, that's the ticket!!

Is that the one that does 0-60 in 3.8 seconds?

Ok the Buggati sounds like a good idea until you look the interior.

Personally I like the Cunningham C-7. Don't get me wrong I like the TT like everyone else but I could probably afford that in my lifetime unlike these cars you never see in the real world.

I have to agree.

Super Car Wallpaper!

Jen you tool, he included the footnote. I can't believe you missed that, you assface.

Why do the Europeans get all the cool cars?
 

This car is fine... why do the Europeans get all the good ones?

Opel Speedster

Re: Why do the Europeans get all the cool cars?
 

I don't know. With a lower average GNP/head (compared to the US), and gas/petrol being around $5/gallon, it's not like we can truly enjoy those cars.

Germany is an exception, as the 'car culture' there emphasizes cars as a status symbol.


X.

http://www.supercarcentral.com/cars/acura/nsx/8.jpg
I had a neighbor that drove one of these a while back. Kinda funny looking, but extremely fast. Though I did have a boss at the computer lab that drove a Camaro SS he had souped up (he owned a garage when he lived in Hawaii he used to tell me), and it was quick enough to beat one of these in any form.
Soory if you have to scroll over, jag. :)

i saw the footnote david

Re: Why do the Europeans get all the cool cars?
 

Because their corporate executives 30 and 15 years ago possessed and used driver's licenses? Not a joke. Quite serious. When US cars were, across the board, no exemption, in 1979, the worst cars in the western world, no top American auto executive could drive nor saw any reason why he should drive.

This from a book by Paul H Weaver:
Classic symptoms of an MBA dominated company.

Ford has only just recently eliminated the last of the MBA, pre 1981, cars. They still use many pre-1979 engines - probably one reason for violent arguements between Nasser and Ford. But to have world class products requires management for decades that comes from where the work gets done. You find that in some European car companies.

It's interesting that some of the links in this thread are still alive. But how many of the Posters are still here?

Veron

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...untitled-2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ombs/veron.jpg

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