If you bought a car on looks alone, what would you have?
15 September 2004, 08:29 AM
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If you bought a car on looks alone, what would you have?
OK so they all cost the same amount. They all go the same speed, same MPG etc etc etc, and you buy on looks alone what would you have?
Ferrari 360 challenge stradale for me i think.
Zonda / F50 / lambo /maccy F1 / carrera GT.......all bloody ugly in my eyes. Noble also looks awfull in the flesh parked next to a 360.
Yep unless someone reminds me of something else its the 360 Stradale for me.
Ferrari 360 challenge stradale for me i think.
Zonda / F50 / lambo /maccy F1 / carrera GT.......all bloody ugly in my eyes. Noble also looks awfull in the flesh parked next to a 360.
Yep unless someone reminds me of something else its the 360 Stradale for me.
15 September 2004, 08:57 AM
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355, but with 360 CS wheels 
... hmmm or a 1973 2.7RS, damn which do you like best , rari or porker? Porker or rari? arghhhhhhhhhh I'll just take an AC Cobra down the coast of California whilst I ponder that one.
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... hmmm or a 1973 2.7RS, damn which do you like best , rari or porker? Porker or rari? arghhhhhhhhhh I'll just take an AC Cobra down the coast of California whilst I ponder that one.Cman
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15 September 2004, 09:12 AM
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1972 2.7 Carrera RS springs to mind.
Ferrari 355 was nicest before the ugly front end of the 360.
Very few moderns cars can even be considered I think.
Ferrari 355 was nicest before the ugly front end of the 360.
Very few moderns cars can even be considered I think.
15 September 2004, 09:16 AM
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I think the problem with the carrera RS in my mind is that it doesnt actually look any different to all the other 911's of the era. Maybe subtle changes but thats it. Its only coz you know what it is and how rare / expensive / special, therefore it must be struck from the list 
......... the other obvious reason for it not being allowed is coz winkle suggested it
......... the other obvious reason for it not being allowed is coz winkle suggested it
15 September 2004, 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Gutmann pug
959 was yuck ........IMHO of course.
.Just wished I'd managed a drive
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15 September 2004, 09:21 AM
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saw one two weeks ago on the Nurburgring Jasey ....... my comment stands. I think it was conceived from the renault 5 turbo 2 lol ......... Only joking
the red fella on this link still wins for me .....
http://www.nurburgring.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1280
I hasten to add it won when the piture was taken coz about an hour later it was converted into a whole heap of parts on the side of the track.
the red fella on this link still wins for me .....
http://www.nurburgring.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1280
I hasten to add it won when the piture was taken coz about an hour later it was converted into a whole heap of parts on the side of the track.
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15 September 2004, 10:01 AM
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Prob have to be a Ferrari for me too, the question is which one?
I cant decide between any of the modern examples (although i'm not a fan of the new Scaglietti).
I cant decide between any of the modern examples (although i'm not a fan of the new Scaglietti).
15 September 2004, 11:40 AM
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I think our judgement is clouded by the fact that we know all these are fantastic cars (Rarri, 911, Aston etc). Show a 911 RS Carrera to my mum, and she'd think it was an ugly old beetle. The true test is "are these items gorgeous in the eyes of design brilliance alone" such as say Concorde, a Bang and Olufson phone, the Tube Map, the Le Cruset Corkscrew, a Rolex Oyster or whatever. I don't think you'd get a GT Turbo to qualify in a million years. Aston DB9/Vanquish, Ferrari maybe, but very few modern cars would be up there.
15 September 2004, 11:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Dapster
I think our judgement is clouded by the fact that we know all these are fantastic cars (Rarri, 911, Aston etc). Show a 911 RS Carrera to my mum, and she'd think it was an ugly old beetle. The true test is "are these items gorgeous in the eyes of design brilliance alone" such as say Concorde, a Bang and Olufson phone, the Tube Map, the Le Cruset Corkscrew, a Rolex Oyster or whatever. I don't think you'd get a GT Turbo to qualify in a million years. Aston DB9/Vanquish, Ferrari maybe, but very few modern cars would be up there.
ps Better pic
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I'm not a big fan of modern, mega buck supercars. Most of them look overdone, and would look like an idiot driving one of those of the road... Miura or Dino would probably get my vote. But then again, I love the looks of retro 80's/early 90s Japanese cars, too... FC3D, Mk1 MR2, AE86, R32, Sileighty, etc
15 September 2004, 11:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Dapster
I think our judgement is clouded by the fact that we know all these are fantastic cars (Rarri, 911, Aston etc). Show a 911 RS Carrera to my mum, and she'd think it was an ugly old beetle. The true test is "are these items gorgeous in the eyes of design brilliance alone" such as say Concorde, a Bang and Olufson phone, the Tube Map, the Le Cruset Corkscrew, a Rolex Oyster or whatever. I don't think you'd get a GT Turbo to qualify in a million years. Aston DB9/Vanquish, Ferrari maybe, but very few modern cars would be up there.
Used to have a few of them le Cruset corkscrews for sale coz i work next to their warehouse. My mate used to work there and every night he brought home a cork screw or a couple of knives down his socks ....lol Them were the days
15 September 2004, 12:58 PM
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Porsche 917. A proper fvck you car regardless of how it went Or Possibly a 935 of some sort. Lola T70, Ferrari P4, DB4GT, D type. Sod all this weedy modern 5hite - they were proper cars 
Or Possibly a 935 of some sort. Lola T70, Ferrari P4, DB4GT, D type. Sod all this weedy modern 5hite - they were proper cars
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Or a C-Type Jaguar... Been round Castle Coombe in one of those approaching 130mph when I had an epiphany - Something to do with realising I was sat in a little leather bucket seat with no seat belts and was holding onto a chassis rail to keep from falling out during cornering.
"Again! Again!"
"Again! Again!"
