Your dream car... (many pics)
09-10-2002, 06:13 AM
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A few random thoughts...
1. I don't want ANY exotic car to be mistaken (if even by a 90-year-old Grandma) for a Veilside MR2-Spyder so the Porsche Carrera GT is out.
2. The other Porsche's share too much in common (design-wise) with their earlier efforts so despite the fantastic engineering advancements, their appearance is not to far removed from the first gen. I'll pass.
3. Mercedes-Benz is nice, but doesn't get any juices flowing so they're outta-here.
4. Ferrari? Not exotic enough anymore (unless you've got the newbie) and comes with way too much BMW-type "asshole" ownership baggage. Thank you Fast and Furious. "Nice car, what's the retail on one of those things?
"More than you can afford pal...Ferrari" vrooom vrooom.
5. Newbie Lambo? A little too smoothed over for someone weened on the Countach years. Not aggressive enough.
6. Aston Martin? Nope. Sorry, but I find that car about as inspiring as midget porn.
7. TVR Tuscan S? Looks like a freakin' dildo on wheels. That front end makes the otherwise hideous WRX's headlamps look like an automotive Jessica Alba. Sometimes being different is just being stupid.
Which leaves me to the only logical choice if you want to be looked over and not overlooked. To me....owning an exotic car means driving around in something with lots of functional scoops, sexy lines, a menacing stance, carbon fiber body parts and exotic interior. It also means a LOT of greenhouse which to me, gives the car that open-wheeled racer look. There are simply few cars, if any, that can draw attention in a parking lot quicker than the Pagani Zonda. It makes NO bones about what it does and definitely conveys the impression that whomever owns the key fob to THIS car, isn't worried about whether or not his traction control is on. And at the expense of receiving some err of the ladies, gentlemen....if you could not draw eye candy with this car then you couldn't drag a crackwhore off a street corner with a F150 bedload of oxycontins.
Enjoy!
1. I don't want ANY exotic car to be mistaken (if even by a 90-year-old Grandma) for a Veilside MR2-Spyder so the Porsche Carrera GT is out.
2. The other Porsche's share too much in common (design-wise) with their earlier efforts so despite the fantastic engineering advancements, their appearance is not to far removed from the first gen. I'll pass.
3. Mercedes-Benz is nice, but doesn't get any juices flowing so they're outta-here.
4. Ferrari? Not exotic enough anymore (unless you've got the newbie) and comes with way too much BMW-type "asshole" ownership baggage. Thank you Fast and Furious. "Nice car, what's the retail on one of those things?
"More than you can afford pal...Ferrari" vrooom vrooom.
5. Newbie Lambo? A little too smoothed over for someone weened on the Countach years. Not aggressive enough.
6. Aston Martin? Nope. Sorry, but I find that car about as inspiring as midget porn.
7. TVR Tuscan S? Looks like a freakin' dildo on wheels. That front end makes the otherwise hideous WRX's headlamps look like an automotive Jessica Alba. Sometimes being different is just being stupid.
Which leaves me to the only logical choice if you want to be looked over and not overlooked. To me....owning an exotic car means driving around in something with lots of functional scoops, sexy lines, a menacing stance, carbon fiber body parts and exotic interior. It also means a LOT of greenhouse which to me, gives the car that open-wheeled racer look. There are simply few cars, if any, that can draw attention in a parking lot quicker than the Pagani Zonda. It makes NO bones about what it does and definitely conveys the impression that whomever owns the key fob to THIS car, isn't worried about whether or not his traction control is on. And at the expense of receiving some err of the ladies, gentlemen....if you could not draw eye candy with this car then you couldn't drag a crackwhore off a street corner with a F150 bedload of oxycontins.
Enjoy!
09-10-2002, 06:43 AM
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I know...I get excited when I talk Zonda. 
In the last issue of EVO, or was it Top Gear? I don't recall, the mag is at work, they did a review of the newbie TVR S soon to be released and sent it to Monaco. While parked and getting ALL the attention, the TVR was soon joined by the owner of Pagani who drove up in one of his Zonda's and the TVR, for all intensive purposes, "disappeared" from view. The writer wrote, and I paraphrase, "we got a lesson in one-upmanship from the man himself."
In the last issue of EVO, or was it Top Gear? I don't recall, the mag is at work, they did a review of the newbie TVR S soon to be released and sent it to Monaco. While parked and getting ALL the attention, the TVR was soon joined by the owner of Pagani who drove up in one of his Zonda's and the TVR, for all intensive purposes, "disappeared" from view. The writer wrote, and I paraphrase, "we got a lesson in one-upmanship from the man himself."
09-10-2002, 06:46 PM
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Russ, you'd love the Edonis! Similar to the Zonda S, but sporting 700 HP!
And the Koeniggsegg, capable of nearly 240 mph:
Sorry modemers
And the Koeniggsegg, capable of nearly 240 mph:
Sorry modemers
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