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Damn these look good too! (I know this is a picture of an SPF GT40 but they are considered a continuation of the original)

http://www.autoeshuis.nl/spf-gt-ready-to-fly.jpg

Eww.... American cars.

Nah.

the MkII was primarily british

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Aston_Martin_DB9_-_Birmingham_-_2005-10-14_%282%29.jpg/800px-Aston_Martin_DB9_-_Birmingham_-_2005-10-14_%282%29.jpg

Aston Martin DB9... droolio

Eww.... European cars.

Originally posted by Barker
Eww.... European cars.

Ewww....Eclips......wait..... haermm

lol Eclipses lick *******

Originally posted by AngryManatee
Damn these look good too! (I know this is a picture of an SPF GT40 but they are considered a continuation of the original)

http://www.autoeshuis.nl/spf-gt-ready-to-fly.jpg

It is nice. My Turbo Hayabusa smokes it

haha take that bugatti veyron smacks all of your shitbombs cars

Originally posted by Rohangiga
haha take that bugatti veyron smacks all of your shitbombs cars

You mean Veyron.. someone in England smashed one of those up a week or so ago.

Originally posted by T.M
You mean Veyron.. someone in England smashed one of those up a week or so ago.
what!!! how can you smash one of them up, they cost like over 1mil and the go faster than v8supercars jawdrop

Originally posted by Rohangiga
what!!! how can you smash one of them up, they cost like over 1mil and the go faster than v8supercars jawdrop

You just answered your own question.. they are very fast.. some guy was going I think about 90mph in a 30mph area... lost control and wrecked the car.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007100574,00.html

Originally posted by Rohangiga
haha take that bugatti veyron smacks all of your shitbombs cars

Its not beating the Ultimate Aero TT. If I crank the boost up on my '99 GSXR1300 Turbo, i embarass it. 600+ hp>1200 hp Bugatti. My bike will reach at redline way over 260 mph. Sorry, Bugatti

Both European and American vehicles suck.

Originally posted by Seraphim XIII
Both European and American vehicles suck.
Yeah, I'm a UFO man myself.

Originally posted by Seraphim XIII
Both European and American vehicles suck.
It's widely accepted that you suck... hmm

Originally posted by Rohangiga
haha take that bugatti veyron smacks all of your shitbombs cars

and then a Weineck Cobra arrives and smokes it as I a whole bunch of weed.

http://www.motorpasion.com/archivos/images/weineck-cobra-01.jpg

nice car

Nah. hmm

lol

oh and btw the bugatti veyron has 736kw, can go 0-100kmph in 2.5 sec, can go claimed top speed of 407kmph but has only been driven at 402kmph, 736kw @ 6000!!!rpm, engine has 7993cc, it can go 0-200 in 7.4sec, 0-250 in 11.4 sec, and 0-300 in 18.2 sec,
oh and plus normal fort gt is better than gt4mkII

Originally posted by Rohangiga
lol

oh and btw the bugatti veyron has 736kw, can go 0-100kmph in 2.5 sec, can go claimed top speed of 407kmph but has only been driven at 402kmph, 736kw @ 6000!!!rpm, engine has 7993cc, it can go 0-200 in 7.4sec, 0-250 in 11.4 sec, and 0-300 in 18.2 sec,
oh and plus normal fort gt is better than gt4mkII

Ultimate Aero TT has 1183 hp. It is goin to beak the speed record. The Bugatti uncorked has hit over 255 mph. TT Aero should go faster. Claimed top speed is 273 mph

Originally posted by guy222
Ultimate Aero TT has 1183 hp. It is goin to beak the speed record. The Bugatti uncorked has hit over 255 mph. TT Aero should go faster. Claimed top speed is 273 mph
whoa can u show me a pic of it
edit: nvm look http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://www.topspeed.com/IMG/crop-405x340/Ultimate_Aero_TT_jpg.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.topspeed.com/cars/ssc/ssc-ultimate-aero-tt-ar12590.html&h=214&w=405&sz=30&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=ILTEZDwr-T0ixM:&tbnh=66&tbnw=124&prev=/ images%3Fq%3DUltimate%2BAero%2BTT%2B%26gbv%3D2%26s
vnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
but i have never heard of that brand before

Originally posted by Seraphim XIII
Both European and American vehicles suck.

Oh let me guess...you like Korean cars??

Originally posted by AngryManatee
and then a Weineck Cobra arrives and smokes it as I a whole bunch of weed.

http://www.motorpasion.com/archivos/images/weineck-cobra-01.jpg



German engineering based on American Muscle right there.

Originally posted by Rohangiga
whoa can u show me a pic of it
edit: nvm look http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://www.topspeed.com/IMG/crop-405x340/Ultimate_Aero_TT_jpg.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.topspeed.com/cars/ssc/ssc-ultimate-aero-tt-ar12590.html&h=214&w=405&sz=30&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=ILTEZDwr-T0ixM:&tbnh=66&tbnw=124&prev=/ images%3Fq%3DUltimate%2BAero%2BTT%2B%26gbv%3D2%26s
vnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
but i have never heard of that brand before

Jerod is the owner
http://www.sscautos.com/

Originally posted by AngryManatee
and then a Weineck Cobra arrives and smokes it as I a whole bunch of weed.

http://www.motorpasion.com/archivos/images/weineck-cobra-01.jpg
man that cars ugly, well atleast compared most other cars

Originally posted by guy222
Jerod is the owner
http://www.sscautos.com/

From the front, it looks like the crossbetween of a Viper and a Sunfire.

Originally posted by Rohangiga
man that cars ugly, well atleast compared most other cars

The engine is what makes it beautiful.

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m168/TiredHiker/kewn.jpg
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m168/TiredHiker/keown.jpg

uh uh!, koenigsegg ccr is better than ccx (as in faster, but ccr is still only like 12kmph slowre than buggatti veyron)

look 0-100 in 3.5, top speed 395kmph, and 600kw, and 1000hp

kool

diff

Oh yeah, well take this!

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m168/TiredHiker/Pony.jpg

Originally posted by =Tired Hiker=
Oh yeah, well take this!

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m168/TiredHiker/Pony.jpg
haha

Four on the floor with reverse, baby!

omg thats good as, has it got seats by any chance!!

Okay, for reals, I own a Ford Escort Pony, 1987, and I have to lower the rear seat so my driver seat won't tilt all the way back.

well look at my car

That's no car . . . that's a toaster!

look!!!! what i found at http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://www.scalzi.com/posescort.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/2003_09.html&h=158&w=300&sz=31&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=DachFGQLHYJWOM:&tbnh=61&tbnw=116&prev=/ images%3Fq%3DFord%2BEscort%2BPony%26gbv%3D2%26svnu
m%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

September 07, 2003
The Death of a Car


My 1989 Ford Escort Pony (i.e., the low-end variation of the low-end model of Ford's line-up) has 150,150 miles on it and has chosen this auspicious mileage number to pretty much die upon. Its death has been anticipated for weeks if not months, but today was the day it signaled that the end is near, primarily by stalling out as I started the engine, stalling out as I backed out of the garage, stalling out as I reached the end of the driveway and then stalling out at the end of the road I live on. It was at this time I realized that actually trying to drive the poor thing any further would be cruel, so I gently turned it back around and put it back into the garage, where it stalled the minute I put on the brake. I don't imagine I'll try to drive it again any appreciable distance, "appreciable" being defined as "the distance down my driveway or greater."

I want it to be known here and now that I have absolutely nothing bad to say about this car. I've had the car now for twelve years, and in those twelve years it has served me remarkably well. I got the car in 1991, actually in this very same week in September, when I came to California to start my job at the Fresno Bee newspaper. I had no car, and I needed one; the only money I had was a few thousand dollars I had as an inheritance from my grandfather. The Escort, with 28,000 miles on it, was $4,000. I drove it around the block to make sure it ran and then bought it. The purchase was so sudden that the salesman was actually unprepared; I think he expected to try to ease me into a more stylish and expensive car model. Unfortunately for him, I'm one of those very few guys who honestly doesn't give a crap about having a really bitchin' car; I want a car to run and cause me no problems and get me from point A to point B. That's all I want from a car.

And that's all the Escort gave me. In the course of a dozen years, it broke down on me exactly twice -- both times because a timing belt snapped. Each time, the repair cost was minimal and I was back on the road in a couple of hours. I did minimal maintenance on the car, and I mean minimal -- I do believe there were entire years where I didn't change the oil -- but the car never stopped running.

Indeed, it was something of a profit center at times: For the first few years I had the car, I would use it to zoom up to San Francisco or Sacramento to see movies (per my job with the Bee) and zoom back in the same night. The Bee paid me 26 cents a mile every time I used my own car for company business, so that was $100 every trip. Two trips a month, and I made my car payment. Considering what the Bee was paying me at the time (read: diddly), that was not insignificant. During this time the car has seen various indignities, ranging from a damaged passenger door, when someone gouged out the lock for mysterious reasons (considering there was a laptop in the car at the time that was still there after the door damage), to the day my sister borrowed the car and returned it minus three hubcaps and no good explanation for their disappearance.

In the last couple of years, our use of the car has slowed tremendously. We bought another car six years ago which is the "primary" car for the family, and I work at home and have very little need to get out of the house, so its been used comparatively little except for this last summer, when it would make the round trip to Athena's day care and back (round trip: 29 miles almost exactly). This light use probably prolonged its life by that very same number of years. Recently I looked down at the odometer and noted it was crawling up on 150,000 miles; I figured if it made it to that figure, I couldn't rightly complain if the car up and died. Well, it made it, just barely. Fair is fair.

Friends who have seen me drive up in my Escort who also have a vague inkling of my annual income have asked me why the hell I continued to drive around in such a piece of crap car when I could clearly afford a better car. My answer was always the same: It runs. I'm a firm believer of the idea that any time you buy something, you buy the best you can afford to buy, and then, having bought the item, you use it until it dies on you. You use that item down to its very bones, and then you suck out the marrow and then and only then should you go out and replace it. It's an extremely practical outlook for someone such as myself whose income fluctuates wildly from month to month, since it keeps down one's debt load (we have no debt at the moment except for our mortgages) and it also keeps you focused on the idea -- occasionally glossed over in our consumer society -- the the point of owning things is to use them rather than to have them. I used that Escort. I used it right into the ground.

The question now becomes what car do I buy to replace it. I am still very practically-oriented about cars; I admire a nice sports car but I can't imagine ever actually wanting one, and Krissy, bless her heart, gets the hives at the idea of spending more than $20K on an automobile of any sort (she drives around a Suzuki Sidekick we bought six years ago for $13,000 and she got a little twitchy about the price even then). A while ago I had talked about the idea of getting a Honda Element, which is both practical for my life (wife, kid, large dog) and sort of cool-looking. But recently I've also been thinking about the 2004 Toyota Prius, not because I'm a crunchy environmentalist sort of guy (I am an environmentalist when it's convenient and slightly guilty when it's not), but because the things very nearly gets 60 miles a gallon, which will save me hundreds of dollars a year on costs.

The early Priuses (Prii?) were dinky little things, but the 2004 model is larger, has more horsepower and still costs in the $20K range. Right now it's the top contender -- if I can actually find one in Ohio. We'll have to see. And of course, it's a fine time to be looking at used cars, too -- new cars are selling for so low that used cars have to be driven even cheaper to move off the car lots.

Whatever we buy, I'll be letting Krissy handle the haggling -- in one of those nice stereotypical role reversals, she's extremely tight with the pennies when it comes to cars and woe be unto the car salesman who tries to slip a hidden charge into the negotiations. Back when we got the Sidekick, the finance guy tried to slide in an extra $800 charge into the financing, and Krissy sniffed it out, fixed the guy with a gaze that would have frozen lava, and pretty much told him that if the charge wasn't excised right that second, we'd walk. The guy actually cringed. My wife rocks.

Dunno what we'll do with the Escort. Kelley Blue Book tells me that the trade-in value for my car is $170, which is kind of mind-boggling; a PlayStation has more value than my automobile. You can't say I didn't get my money's worth out of it. It was a good car. Don't let anyone tell you differently.

Originally posted by =Tired Hiker=
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m168/TiredHiker/keown.jpg
Nice.

Originally posted by Rohangiga
uh uh!, koenigsegg ccr is better than ccx (as in faster, but ccr is still only like 12kmph slowre than buggatti veyron)

I love talking cars. Over time, I adore them
http://www.supercars.net/gallery/119513/1212/1.html

It has now 1020 hp, weighs less than 2400 lbs. Contender for the SSC Ultimate Aero TT.

Does anyone know if Ford is going to build another supercar to fill in for the GT?

Originally posted by Quiero Mota
I hate most shit Ford puts out today, but man...thats a beautiful ride! Orale!!

My only complaint is that it resembles the Lambo Murcielago too much. But otherwise its unique in its own right, and a sweet set of wheels.





I fail to see the similarity between the GT and the Murcielago..

Originally posted by Rohangiga
lol

oh and btw the bugatti veyron has 736kw, can go 0-100kmph in 2.5 sec, can go claimed top speed of 407kmph but has only been driven at 402kmph, 736kw @ 6000!!!rpm, engine has 7993cc, it can go 0-200 in 7.4sec, 0-250 in 11.4 sec, and 0-300 in 18.2 sec,
oh and plus normal fort gt is better than gt4mkII

The Weineck Cobra gets to 125 mph in 4.9 seconds (compared to the veyron's 5.7 just to get to 100mph) and has beaten a 1500 hp Mercedes Benz SL GTR on the racetrack. The 0-300kph is 10 seconds on the Weineck. Engine is 12,782 cc or 780 cui. The Veyron only has top speed as an advantage, which isn't going to matter much unless the race is on salt flats.

Power for the Weineck is 1100hp and 1300 lb/ft, on a 2600 lb car compared to a 4200lb car.

Concerning the MkII and normal Ford GT, I'd rather have a car with functional scoops rather than the fakies on the new GT. Also Superformance's continuation model (licensed as the official continuation of the original MkII production line) is much quicker than the Ford GT and it only costs 90,000$ for the 520 hp model (which manages the 1/4 in the high 10's on classic bias-ply tires, compared to the Ford GT's 11's on sticky tires). Anywho, thanks for backing up your claim of "The normal Ford GT is better than the GT40MkII.

Originally posted by Deathstroke
Does anyone know if Ford is going to build another supercar to fill in for the GT?

This is one of the possibles, the Shelby Gr1 concept based off the old 289 daytona coupe.

http://www.autogear.hu/admin/fotok/kozep_kepek__6046.jpg

And also the Shelby Cobra Concept

http://www.diseno-art.com/images/Shelby-Cobra.jpg

*in borat voice*
nice

http://www.usaraud.ee/img/week/vector/vector_w2_1.jpg

http://www.musclecarclub.com/musclecars/plymouth-superbird/images/plymouth-superbird-1970a.jpg

heh

Originally posted by T.M
I fail to see the similarity between the GT and the Murcielago..

Not my problem.

Originally posted by AngryManatee
This is one of the possibles, the Shelby Gr1 concept based off the old 289 daytona coupe.

http://www.autogear.hu/admin/fotok/kozep_kepek__6046.jpg


Now that's a work of art!

I remember the Shelby GR1 concept and the Shelby Cobra, but I didn't know if they ever got the go ahead for production.


Is there a way to petition for an automotive forum on KMC?

Originally posted by Rohangiga
Sacramento REPRESENT! w00t

Originally posted by ThePittman
http://www.usaraud.ee/img/week/vector/vector_w2_1.jpg

Jerry is building another supercar. I believe a Lamborghini TT Diablo easily defeat a Vector

Originally posted by AOR
shall we try again, gentlemen?

I vote for an automotive forum.

Originally posted by guy222
I love talking cars. Over time, I adore them
http://www.supercars.net/gallery/119513/1212/1.html

It has now 1020 hp, weighs less than 2400 lbs. Contender for the SSC Ultimate Aero TT.
man there nice cars, melbourne motor show sucks compared to geneva!!!

oh and i also vote for a automotive forum

Originally posted by AngryManatee
The Weineck Cobra gets to 125 mph in 4.9 seconds (compared to the veyron's 5.7 just to get to 100mph) and has beaten a 1500 hp Mercedes Benz SL GTR on the racetrack. The 0-300kph is 10 seconds on the Weineck. Engine is 12,782 cc or 780 cui. The Veyron only has top speed as an advantage, which isn't going to matter much unless the race is on salt flats.

Power for the Weineck is 1100hp and 1300 lb/ft, on a 2600 lb car compared to a 4200lb car.

Concerning the MkII and normal Ford GT, I'd rather have a car with functional scoops rather than the fakies on the new GT. Also Superformance's continuation model (licensed as the official continuation of the original MkII production line) is much quicker than the Ford GT and it only costs 90,000$ for the 520 hp model (which manages the 1/4 in the high 10's on classic bias-ply tires, compared to the Ford GT's 11's on sticky tires). Anywho, thanks for backing up your claim of "The normal Ford GT is better than the GT40MkII.
geese, but can you buy the weineck cobra, or is it just a once off car, that is not for production, because the koenigsegg ccr and the bugatti veyron are p roductions cars

Cars aren't really my thing

I like Mercedes's. 313

http://www.slashgear.com/gallery/data_files_old/4/6-2007-mercedes-slr-722-edition.jpg

ditto

Cool. 313

Originally posted by Rohangiga
geese, but can you buy the weineck cobra, or is it just a once off car, that is not for production, because the koenigsegg ccr and the bugatti veyron are p roductions cars

Well it's considered a replicar, but they produce them for you since all the mechanicals such as the chassis, transmission, and suspension are all race-derived. The engine is their own in-house design, and everything is so meticulously measured and counter-balanced that their 427's can rev up to 9,000 rpm. You pretty much walk in, tell them what you want in your car, and then they build it for you.

Originally posted by Rohangiga
man there nice cars, melbourne motor show sucks compared to geneva!!!

oh and i also vote for a automotive forum

Cool I vote also

if i know my american cars it will breakdown by the 20000th mile

japanese cars ftw