Matt_Tupman Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 ^^Lol Nah what you want is a 320 bhp z cars mini! bitta speedy goodness right there! 4wd with 2 suzuki hyabusa(sp?) engines in! ← Know this guy has some brains >_< At atleast you know it will go round corners and not just straights :ermm: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 Although I'm a biker boy, if I were to get a car, it would not be less than 1.4. Any less than that and they are so draggy and slow... I speak through experience: G/f: 1.1 Pug 106 Mate 1: Ren. 5 1.1 Mate 2: Rover 100 1.2 All those are bad at pull aways... One of my other friends had a 1.4 corsa (The nice old ones... not the Corsa C) And that was fast... he traded it for a 1.3 turbo starlet GT.. >_< immense car! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy P Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 Know this guy has some brains >_< At atleast you know it will go round corners and not just straights :ermm: ← Ahhh, but it wont... The car can't go round corners too well because it just spins. A friend of mine over took it on pretty much every corner of castle coombe in a road legal 1380 mini (thrown together the night before (N) ) and has video to prove it..... It did kind of blow him away on the straights though :lol: Andy P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Garland Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 LOL Seen that already my girlfriends brother works on that car and her daddy worked on the SLR, they have both driven them around the top gear test track. Its £400,000 if anyone wants one so Ive just been told. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_Tupman Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 Ahhh, but it wont... The car can't go round corners too well because it just spins. A friend of mine over took it on pretty much every corner of castle coombe in a road legal 1380 mini (thrown together the night before (N) ) and has video to prove it..... It did kind of blow him away on the straights though :lol: Andy P ← Humm....... any idea what size wheels it was running on >_< when did you go castle coombe? I love that track it is so fast :ermm:" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTM Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 What I dont get is, why did they only make the LR in automatic?! If i were spending £700,000 or whatever it is on a car, Id want any option i wanted, especially something as mundane as a manual gearbox! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexx Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 Vauxhall corsa 1.2 SXi ^^^Thats all i want, Stuff all them other cars for now, there nice but i got me heart set on one of these bad bois as me first car and im gonna have it (Y) anybody care to race me at the lights :P ← Are you being serious, or taking the piss? Because i'm really not sure :lol: Dad's got a 1.4 corsa, it's pretty feeble lol :P Ferrari F430 is where it's at :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy P Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 Humm....... any idea what size wheels it was running on :lol: when did you go castle coombe? I love that track it is so fast :P" ← 13 x 8's + nutter driver. Yeah, coombe is a beast of a track, not driven it myself yet (Y) . Hoping to go on a few track days early summer, I dont know weather to take my car round seeing as it handles like a bag o'shite and i dont think the rover beast would be able to stay together for 6 laps of full on abuse.... Would be fun though. Andy P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoxXy Posted March 24, 2005 Report Share Posted March 24, 2005 ← Thats not very nice is it! Well stuff the SLR. This is what you need, Much more fun get you self a motorbike. This is me dads one. Its now got a tail tidy and crash protectors and will soon have harris exhaust. Pic isn't up to date still shows it with out any of the bits on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OD404 Posted March 24, 2005 Report Share Posted March 24, 2005 As most of us probably know the Mclaren F1 hold the record for the highest speed in a road car. Well not any more... 9FF They say it's a GT2, but its actually a heavily modified twin turbo GT2 engine placed in the lighter chassis of the GT3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicH_87 Posted March 24, 2005 Report Share Posted March 24, 2005 They say it's a GT2, but its actually a heavily modified twin turbo GT2 engine placed in the lighter chassis of the GT3. ← to me that isn't really beating it, fair enough it beat it by 1mph but the F1 wasn't heavily modified, it was quick straight out of the box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spikenipple Posted March 24, 2005 Report Share Posted March 24, 2005 Think those are fast? Hmmm..... ← As most of us probably know the Mclaren F1 hold the record for the highest speed in a road car. Well not any more... 9FF They say it's a GT2, but its actually a heavily modified twin turbo GT2 engine placed in the lighter chassis of the GT3. ← You obviously missed my link then....the Koenigsegg beats the McLaren F1 by far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicH_87 Posted March 24, 2005 Report Share Posted March 24, 2005 http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.a...159770&f=23&h=0 yup guess so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OD404 Posted March 24, 2005 Report Share Posted March 24, 2005 Got me there, last I heard they weren't gonna test the CCR's top speed till April... Though in one of the links Koenigsegg are described as being a "large scale manufacturer" (which in my mind is incorrect, but that's besides the point), which kinda makes the 9ff thing an even better achievement seeing as they only have about 6-8 engineers compared to a company like Koernigsegg which will have about 20+ working on the car. I am also a little dubious of all this top speed malarky as I would love to see an instance where doing 200+mph is really necessary in a road car. I reallise that speed (and power for that matter) is a selling point of a car, and looking back through this and other car threads is a good way of distinguishing (bragging about) various cars. Though you could argue that with cars such as the new BMW M5 and the up coming M6 which will both do 200mph once the electronic limiter has been removed, supercars need to push the envelope in order to stay "super". But all this speed does seem to come at a price (and not just the dollar aspect). When EVO magasine tested the CC8s, they noted how crap the cars handling was below 100mph, which makes a car like that in this country seem pointless as there are very few "fun" roads (motorways don't count) where you could take advantage of the car better handling at high speeds. All this goes to prove that top speed, although good for quoting in the brochure, is not what people should be looking at when bragging about cars. As metioned above, it's about handling, thats where the fun is at. And that was why I was pleased back in the summer when Ferrari gave a press conference on the F430 saying they were to concentrate on the use of F1 technology to improve the power to weight of their cars and that we will see more models like the F360CS rather high speed cars like the Enzo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spikenipple Posted March 24, 2005 Report Share Posted March 24, 2005 Got me there, last I heard they weren't gonna test the CCR's top speed till April... Though in one of the links Koenigsegg are described as being a "large scale manufacturer" (which in my mind is incorrect, but that's besides the point), which kinda makes the 9ff thing an even better achievement seeing as they only have about 6-8 engineers compared to a company like Koernigsegg which will have about 20+ working on the car. I am also a little dubious of all this top speed malarky as I would love to see an instance where doing 200+mph is really necessary in a road car. I reallise that speed (and power for that matter) is a selling point of a car, and looking back through this and other car threads is a good way of distinguishing (bragging about) various cars. Though you could argue that with cars such as the new BMW M5 and the up coming M6 which will both do 200mph once the electronic limiter has been removed, supercars need to push the envelope in order to stay "super". But all this speed does seem to come at a price (and not just the dollar aspect). When EVO magasine tested the CC8s, they noted how crap the cars handling was below 100mph, which makes a car like that in this country seem pointless as there are very few "fun" roads (motorways don't count) where you could take advantage of the car better handling at high speeds. All this goes to prove that top speed, although good for quoting in the brochure, is not what people should be looking at when bragging about cars. As metioned above, it's about handling, thats where the fun is at. And that was why I was pleased back in the summer when Ferrari gave a press conference on the F430 saying they were to concentrate on the use of F1 technology to improve the power to weight of their cars and that we will see more models like the F360CS rather high speed cars like the Enzo. ← My argument as such wasn't regarding the whole car, but as the subject had moved onto the world speed record of a production car, i only contributed what i have seen to be that current record holder, so no hard feelings :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishwog Posted March 24, 2005 Report Share Posted March 24, 2005 (edited) What REALLY makes me laugh, is you can go out and spend £700,000 on one of these cars and be like 'shit bitch I can go fast' But then your like 'f**k, for £13,000 I could have brought a Suzuki GSX-R1300 Hayasbusa, with an engine around 4/5 times smaller than mine, and it will kick the ass out of 99% of these cars' :lol: And I even think a lot of motorbikes look nicer than half the cars on this page, especially when you can trick the fcuk out of it, and have leathers/helmet to match (Y) Only downside of course, Is the practicality of a motorbike, useless in the winter, cold in the spring, 2 people MAX, and you can carry fcuk all :P Edited March 24, 2005 by Fishwog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCircus Posted March 24, 2005 Report Share Posted March 24, 2005 Another downside of motorbikes being that getting hit by a car probably hurts quite alot more than if you got hit by one and were in another car. Also getting all sweaty underneath those clammy leathers. Also motorbikes being a whole lot less comfortable than cars. Also you cant listen to music (well you can but not as easily) on a motorbike. I would rather buy a fast car :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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