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FearlessF

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« Reply #252 on: August 08, 2019, 11:38:15 AM »
looks like a boat

I imagine it will float
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« Reply #253 on: August 08, 2019, 11:38:28 AM »
Evolution of the Porsche 911.

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« Reply #254 on: August 08, 2019, 11:39:13 AM »
Quote from: CWSooner on August 08, 2019, 11:38:28 AM
Evolution of the Porsche 911.


We're a much fatter populace now. 
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« Reply #255 on: August 08, 2019, 11:53:01 AM »
big and brash
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Re: You are the sports car
« Reply #256 on: August 08, 2019, 02:18:38 PM »
Yeah, it's amazing how models have fattened up over the year, like the Accord and Civic.

I was perusing the groceries at Kroger the other day and musing about how much stuff is processed instead of just food.  I'm not against processed food overall, but it tends to contain a lot of salt, sugar, and fat.  We just don't buy regular good much any more and then PREPARE it, and I don't mean microwaving it.

And the aisles for candy and chips and snacks take up half the store, not to mention desserts.  I need to sit a while and think about it.
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« Reply #257 on: August 08, 2019, 02:23:42 PM »
I like both the old, and new, 911. 

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« Reply #258 on: August 08, 2019, 03:03:48 PM »
I'd take one of both if offered
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« Reply #259 on: August 10, 2019, 04:30:11 PM »


This is a ca. 2014 Mercedes-based concept car, the Gullwing America GWA 300 SLC, harkening back to the 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SC (W198).  I like all of it except the headlight treatment.

I don't know if any of these were built.  None of the images I've seen have a human being in the frame, so it could all be GCI.
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« Reply #260 on: August 10, 2019, 04:34:49 PM »
Quote from: CWSooner on August 10, 2019, 04:30:11 PM


 so it could all be GCI.
We all have to actually be wary of this now, of pictures of anything and anyone, including videos.  Sigh.
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« Reply #261 on: August 10, 2019, 06:20:16 PM »

1935 Duesenberg Model SJ Mormon Meteor Speedster.  It was a doozie!
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« Reply #262 on: August 10, 2019, 06:27:39 PM »
Had one traded it for a '87 Yugo
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« Reply #263 on: August 10, 2019, 06:32:30 PM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on August 10, 2019, 06:27:39 PM
Had one traded it for a '87 Yugo
Hey, the Yugo was 52 years newer, so you got a real steal.
Didn't you feel bad after palming off the Duesenberg on the poor sap who didn't know any better?
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« Reply #264 on: August 10, 2019, 10:05:00 PM »
I was sitting outside a store (ladies were shopping) in a rocking chair during my HH trip this past week.   This 60s something gent, probably mildly overweight, labored getting out of his 911 Carrera S (convertible).   I only said to him, do you enjoy the car?    He said (almost verbatim) "I should just live in the ###### thing, did you see how long it takes me to get out of it".    

I did notice it is indeed a fairly wide car.   So that guy dropped $125k whatever just to get stuck in his seat.  Now that guy should be going with the Cayenne.
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« Reply #265 on: August 12, 2019, 07:50:37 AM »
The "point" of a sports car I think is to put a smile on your face when you drive it.  Open air, noisy, manual transmission, maybe not incredibly fast, able to corner well, "fun to drive", perhaps cool looking.  Folks by what in effect are "super cars" which they can't tap in their capabilities outside a track, which they never do often as not.

So, your Carrera 4 is a nice status symbol, but you're driving it at 4/10ths of its capabilities, if that.  The most many do with such a car is hammer it away from a stop sign or perhaps push it a bit in a cloverleaf.  The GTI has a g-meter in it and it's surprising what 0.5 gs feels like in a corner.  Imagine reaching 1 g, on any regular street.  (The GTI won't hold 1 g on a skid pad, 0.89 on all season tires.)

The C8 Vette is the same, where are you going to drive it "hard"?  And we don't even have the Z06 yet.

If you can fit in a Miata, I bet it's more fun to drive than a Ferrari 458 for most of us, certainly for me.
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