Choose Your Supercar (from some of my favs)

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Choose Your Super Car

Enzo
8
17%
SLR
1
2%
F40
17
37%
Gallardo
4
9%
F430
2
4%
Vanquish S
3
7%
Zonda
11
24%
 
Total votes: 46

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Post by pete » Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:24 pm

Right you are all being silly. F1 for performance. One of the two below for looks. Don't like Lambos normally but I'll have my Miura in white please.

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Not sure if this is a supercar. But mine would be in red. (Saw one in Bray (just outside Maidenhead) once, parked outside the cricket club. My non-car loving mates didn't give it a second look whilst I stopped slack jawed and gazed.)

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Post by simon » Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:06 pm

Surpised nobody's mentioned the GT40 yet:

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Post by jason » Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:14 pm

Voted for F40 from your list....

...but my favourite will always be 288 GTO 8)

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Post by tut » Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:25 pm

The 250 GTO is one of the all time classics, and also one of the most beautiful.

Your pic of Nick Masons reg 250 GTO is also the best known, and one of the best used.

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Post by ed » Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:35 pm

as above 250 GTO is a stunning car, my all time favourite.
Doesnt mason have 2?! think they change hands for 5 mil plus. 8)
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Post by ryallm » Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:59 pm

What about the Koenigsegg? It may have an odd name and its produced by a weird looking bald bloke in Sweden, but it looks amazing, is relatively light, the latest CCX has over 800bhp, and it surely has the coolest doors of any car ever made.

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I'll have one along with an F40 and a Zonda please.

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Post by Mr Momo » Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:21 pm

1x 250 GTO from old times - pop down to Goodwood
1x Macca F1 from recent times - pop in to see Gordon Murray and talk F1 and Elise
1x Zonda F from now - pop over to Italy and get a new pair of Zonda shoes also

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Post by ryallm » Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:29 pm

One other thought on all these supercars. All petrolheads fantasise about owning one, but I doubt whether many, if indeed any of them would have better steering feel than an Elise, or better handling and more ultimate cornering grip than an Exige.

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Post by pete » Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:48 pm

Obviously I voted for the F40. There was one at Oulton Park (in the carpark not on the track), lovely and pleasingly scruffy.

All the new super(hyper?)cars are lovely, I bet they start and everything but they would be too big, too clumsy and for me much much too flash (esp the Lambos). I don't want to look like a footballer. (OK I do want to look like a footballer ie athletic and, well younger. I just don't want people to think I have the taste of a footballer and have confused cost with design loveliness).

As for the Elise steering feel etc. Most petrol heads would have an Elise in their garage. Most of us have. How cool are we?

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Post by PhilA » Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:27 am

ive a vid here of a 355 being passed by both a F40 and a F50.

the F50 sounds so much more horny
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Post by Sanjøy » Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:45 am

There was only one car on my wall as a kid, I liked to be the odd one at school who did not like the Testarossa.
By all accoutns it is pump but did feature in one of the best car based movie intros.

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Post by Tom » Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:54 am

ed wrote:as above 250 GTO is a stunning car, my all time favourite.
Doesnt mason have 2?! think they change hands for 5 mil plus. 8)
you seen the even rarer (but maybe not as attractive) 250 califonia??

as for supercars, i'm quite fond of the maserati MC12. I know an enzo in drag, but still. Plus, i like the blue and white colour scheme(only avail. in one colour, unlike the handbag any colour enzo)
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Post by Andy G » Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:55 am

Sanjoy wrote: By all accoutns it is pump but did feature in one of the best car based movie intros.

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The Cannonball Run :?: :?:

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Post by Tom » Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:57 am

went for a zonda, as long as it's an F. :D :D
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Post by Sanjøy » Thu Oct 26, 2006 10:11 am

Andy G wrote: The Cannonball Run :?: :?:
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