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Old 11-07-2006 | 04:39 PM
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HOLY *&U*.....wish I had a garage like that with those cars in it....I've always liked McLarens, LM,LM1,GTR....hmmm..I only have an A4[]
 
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Old 11-07-2006 | 05:07 PM
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I would be happy to have any of those cars but if I could pick I think I would go with the Zonda.
 
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Old 11-07-2006 | 05:29 PM
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im not a greedy man and had nothing for my recent birthday so as its soon to be christmas I would take the cheapest of the lot for a presy
 
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Old 11-07-2006 | 10:03 PM
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sweet gotta love my PS2
 
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Old 11-07-2006 | 11:32 PM
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I would go with the F1 too - in the supercar category. That 911 is also crazy fast and could work as a daily driver where the others could not.

No one is going for the Veyron. Are we worried about reliability or gas mileage?
 
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Old 11-07-2006 | 11:41 PM
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i dont like how it looks honestly lol
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I would go with the F1 too - in the supercar category. That 911 is also crazy fast and could work as a daily driver where the others could not.

No one is going for the Veyron. Are we worried about reliability or gas mileage?
 
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Old 11-07-2006 | 11:55 PM
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lol ya me neither. it crazy f'in fast tho. but i'd rather take a car that looks just as hot as it performs. saleen s7 hands down
 
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Old 11-08-2006 | 12:13 AM
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FINE fine... ill take the bugatti...

i really dont like how it looks tho...
 
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Old 11-08-2006 | 03:42 AM
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wouldnt it be a bitch if one of those ebrakes let go ?
 
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Old 11-08-2006 | 04:09 AM
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Of those, the Koenigsegg has been shown to be the fastest around a track, by far. If you want to actually drive fast rather than just bench race everone, the CC series is the only one worth it's salt. 800+ horsepower out of a 4.7 liter engine on 91 octane!! And the suspension is fully adjustable, ride height, pre-load, high and low speed compression damping, high and low speed rebound damping, camber, caster, toe, anti-sway, even roll-center are all totall adjustable without even putting the car on a lift. You can fine tune every single aspect of the car's suspension in your driveway with standard tools, something that no other exotic car can boast. I drove a CCR (yes, the one and only Koenigsegg dealer in the US is about 15 miles from me, at Ceasar's Palace), and I came away from it absolutely convinced, that is 100% the fastest street car you can buy, and oddly it's also the easiest to drive of all of them. The only uber-car I haven't driven is the Carrera GT, but out of all the rest, the Merc-Mc SLR, the Enzo, the Ascari, the F1, the Ford GT, the Zonda, all of them, the Koenigsegg is by far the best street car of the bunch. The only downside of the car is the interior. Yes, it's quality, but GAWD is it ever ugly. The foot high shifter, the diamond stitching on the seats, the "pod" instrument cluster, it's all hideous. But that's ok. The Dihedral-Synchno-Helix doors make up for all of that.

The F1 is a joke in terms of real world useable speed. It might be capable of 240, but it takes weeks to get it there. And it handles like ****, really. I know, I've driven two, the original and the GTR. There's no feedback from the front tires, the back end goes where ever it feels like going, and the throttle is just and on/off switch as far as response goes. The ones you used to see winning races had almost nothing in common with the street versions besides overall geometry. And it's not adjustable by the consumer, if you don't like the suspension settings, you have to get a McClaren tech to work on it. And I'm 5'10' and my head was hitting the roof on the GTR.

The S7 does grat on the track, but it is an enormous car. On the street, it's like trying to park a Hummer in a compact parking space. YOu never know where the cars around you are because you can't see anything. You can't even really see straight ahead, when I drove it, you had to stop two car lengths before the light to be able to see the actual traffic light because the roofline is so low. The biggest benfit of the Saleen is that Steve is a tall guy, so he specifically designed the car with taller drivers in mind. My buddy who is 6'7' was able to drive it with no problems what so ever. And it looks hot, probably the best looking car out of all of them.

The rest of them, anh, who cares, not in the same league, not even close. The wanna=be Formula car maybe, but that's not realistic. That's just design masturbation, never be possible as a real street car.
 



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