RE: Mighty Mustang is road race prize
Discussion
Smiler. said:
swerni said:
bencollins said:
Pants.
15mpg on a run. 8mpg driven hard.
Net result, hardly ever gets driven, hardly ever hard, but stats talked about down the golf and country club, while sits in garage.
Another piece of pointless thirsty macho dogshit for emotionally disfigured people whose daddies didnt love 'em enough.
All these "supercars" just sit in garages.
Gimme an Elise or 535D anyday.
15mpg on a run. 8mpg driven hard.
Net result, hardly ever gets driven, hardly ever hard, but stats talked about down the golf and country club, while sits in garage.
Another piece of pointless thirsty macho dogshit for emotionally disfigured people whose daddies didnt love 'em enough.
All these "supercars" just sit in garages.
Gimme an Elise or 535D anyday.
Edited by bencollins on Thursday 5th April 16:40
gayer !!!!!
I drove 560 miles at the weekend, mines 475bhp and I averaged 25.5 mpg, and I was spanking it.
Best you go back to the skoda forum
25mpg! Must be US gallons
don't let 'em get to ya Steve, we know better eh
Edited by Smiler. on Friday 6th April 12:45
US gallons are actually smaller than ours, as a gallon is eight pints-
US pint: 473 ml
UK pint: 568ml
Uriel said:
LOL. This car also has a live axle. I bet it would fall off the road as soon as it came to a corner because all cars with live axles are designed purely for fat yanks to drag race between lights.
The continued ignorance of so called enthusiasts astounds me.
Must be tough living next to a footballer, but at least his mrs is probably nice, in a slutty kind of way.
Smiler. said:
25mpg! Must be US gallons
Edited by Smiler. on Friday 6th April 12:45
Imperial gallons are bigger than US gallons. That means a car will go further on an Imperial gallon than a US gallon. So if he's getting 25 mpg with US gallons, that's more imressive than it would be if in Imperial gallons.
With Imperial gallons at about 1.2 US gallons, 25 mpg of the latter would figure 30 mpg of the former.
An thoug I haven't driven a Saleen Mustang, a Corvette Z06 can lope along at 70 mph at 27 mpg all day long. Heck, it's only turning about 1300 rpm or so.
Tim Porter has seen my post on this thread but cant access Pistonheads from the States at the moment so he has asked mailed me & asked me to post this on his behalf
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The above ultimate bad boy cars I own and being a Brit over here running The Great American it makes me laugh when I see all these comments above a car that no one has driven in the UK .
The Ultimate Bad Boy saleen is a fantastic car and we had it out on the track last week at willow springs the same track top gear filmed at I never thought I would find myself saying this car does handle really well we have had a saleen watts link fitted on the live rear Axel and it transforms the car you can see the days filming next month on www.webridestv.com under mustang month.
You need to remember these cars will do 0 to 60 in under 4 seconds and I have had my red promo car off the clock at 200mph and when you look at the weak dollar these cars at around £35,000 pounds are great value for money.
So if any of you Brits want a weeks worth of hard ,driving ,partying, and a chance to win one put your driving skills to the test and get on the event.
Kind regards
Tim Porter
www.greatamericanrun.com
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The above ultimate bad boy cars I own and being a Brit over here running The Great American it makes me laugh when I see all these comments above a car that no one has driven in the UK .
The Ultimate Bad Boy saleen is a fantastic car and we had it out on the track last week at willow springs the same track top gear filmed at I never thought I would find myself saying this car does handle really well we have had a saleen watts link fitted on the live rear Axel and it transforms the car you can see the days filming next month on www.webridestv.com under mustang month.
You need to remember these cars will do 0 to 60 in under 4 seconds and I have had my red promo car off the clock at 200mph and when you look at the weak dollar these cars at around £35,000 pounds are great value for money.
So if any of you Brits want a weeks worth of hard ,driving ,partying, and a chance to win one put your driving skills to the test and get on the event.
Kind regards
Tim Porter
www.greatamericanrun.com
Edited by Stuart J on Sunday 8th April 07:20
swerni said:
gayer !!!!!
I drove 560 miles at the weekend, mines 475bhp and I averaged 25.5 mpg, and I was spanking it.
Best you go back to the skoda forum
I drove 560 miles at the weekend, mines 475bhp and I averaged 25.5 mpg, and I was spanking it.
Best you go back to the skoda forum
Careful what you say, some Skodas are quicker than others, mine certainly is
I also love V8's though
Edited by Stuart J on Sunday 8th April 07:21
Stuart J said:
Tim Porter has seen my post on this thread but cant access Pistonheads from the States at the moment so he has asked mailed me & asked me to post this on his behalf
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The above ultimate bad boy cars I own and being a Brit over here running The Great American it makes me laugh when I see all these comments above a car that no one has driven in the UK .
The Ultimate Bad Boy saleen is a fantastic car and we had it out on the track last week at willow springs the same track top gear filmed at I never thought I would find myself saying this car does handle really well we have had a saleen watts link fitted on the live rear Axel and it transforms the car you can see the days filming next month on www.webridestv.com under mustang month.
You need to remember these cars will do 0 to 60 in under 4 seconds and I have had my red promo car off the clock at 200mph and when you look at the weak dollar these cars at around £35,000 pounds are great value for money.
So if any of you Brits want a weeks worth of hard ,driving ,partying, and a chance to win one put your driving skills to the test and get on the event.
Kind regards
Tim Porter
www.greatamericanrun.com
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The above ultimate bad boy cars I own and being a Brit over here running The Great American it makes me laugh when I see all these comments above a car that no one has driven in the UK .
The Ultimate Bad Boy saleen is a fantastic car and we had it out on the track last week at willow springs the same track top gear filmed at I never thought I would find myself saying this car does handle really well we have had a saleen watts link fitted on the live rear Axel and it transforms the car you can see the days filming next month on www.webridestv.com under mustang month.
You need to remember these cars will do 0 to 60 in under 4 seconds and I have had my red promo car off the clock at 200mph and when you look at the weak dollar these cars at around £35,000 pounds are great value for money.
So if any of you Brits want a weeks worth of hard ,driving ,partying, and a chance to win one put your driving skills to the test and get on the event.
Kind regards
Tim Porter
www.greatamericanrun.com
Edited by Stuart J on Sunday 8th April 07:20
Hi there
Do all the Bad Boy Saleen have the watts-link installed?
I was under the impression that a well setup and tuned live axle is very hard to beat, especially on a nice smooth race track. However on normal roads especially ones with differing camber, not so smooth and pot holes I can imagine the watts-link makes quite an improvement. However surely it makes more noise as there is afterall more moving parts and requires more regular servicing?
I have a Saleen S281 with 530BHP and its got all the suspension setup plus I've added LCA's, UCA, adjustable panhard bar and brace along with front strut brace, heavy upper mounts and rear swaybar. Needless to say the can handles fantastic even on our UK roads. I've raced quite a few M3's and even an RS4 and I was the victor, even when the corners came up.
swerni said:
Twincharged said:
Smiler. said:
swerni said:
bencollins said:
Pants.
15mpg on a run. 8mpg driven hard.
Net result, hardly ever gets driven, hardly ever hard, but stats talked about down the golf and country club, while sits in garage.
Another piece of pointless thirsty macho dogshit for emotionally disfigured people whose daddies didnt love 'em enough.
All these "supercars" just sit in garages.
Gimme an Elise or 535D anyday.
15mpg on a run. 8mpg driven hard.
Net result, hardly ever gets driven, hardly ever hard, but stats talked about down the golf and country club, while sits in garage.
Another piece of pointless thirsty macho dogshit for emotionally disfigured people whose daddies didnt love 'em enough.
All these "supercars" just sit in garages.
Gimme an Elise or 535D anyday.
Edited by bencollins on Thursday 5th April 16:40
gayer !!!!!
I drove 560 miles at the weekend, mines 475bhp and I averaged 25.5 mpg, and I was spanking it.
Best you go back to the skoda forum
25mpg! Must be US gallons
don't let 'em get to ya Steve, we know better eh
Edited by Smiler. on Friday 6th April 12:45
US gallons are actually smaller than ours, as a gallon is eight pints-
US pint: 473 ml
UK pint: 568ml
Neil
Would be very happy with 25 US, that would be 30 UK.
Just cause your car drinks like Ollie Reid
Pardon moi ignorance
It's actually a lot worse at the mo 'cos the exhaust is blowing. Still, off for a 20K mile service & some other new bits in a week or so, then it's back to 18mpg
It musy be your 'live' rear axle as oppose to my 'dead' one that makes the diff (seriously, and that's two puns in one). Or perhaps I need to get some funky stipes, that'll help right?
Sorry Steve, that last point was just lame
article said:
The 4.6 litre V8 has a forged steel crank,..
I'm surprised article didn't say ..has one wheel on each corner and the tyres are made of rubber..
anyone know of an engine with a crank NOT made of forged steel? Pl**nkers!
btw according to a Discovery prog I saw at the weekend, Mustangs originated from horses that escaped from early Spanish settlers....and NOT native American...
mattygooner said:
All this talk of how good it is does not disguise the fact it looks like a fat plastic tonka toy.
Maybe a fantastic car, but you will always look like a muppet rapper when you drive one and women will run away.
Maybe a fantastic car, but you will always look like a muppet rapper when you drive one and women will run away.
Riiiight. So of the the 500KR you say "Still it does look like it wants to kill you and steal your kids..."
But this is a fat plastic tonka toy?
Yes, how does looks like it wants to kill you and steal your kids make it look good?
Are you saying it's pretty? It looks brutish, krass, ugly, square, over weight, uninspiring, dull...... the list goes on. At least Corvette's have some style, a bit of elegance and is rather pretty.
Everyone jumped on the Audi from Halfords but this looks worse, I bet Poof Daddy has 3. Look at those garish wheels.
Rosanne Barr looks like she wants to kill you and steal your kids, would you say she is attractive?
You have one so your gonna be biased!!
Are you saying it's pretty? It looks brutish, krass, ugly, square, over weight, uninspiring, dull...... the list goes on. At least Corvette's have some style, a bit of elegance and is rather pretty.
Everyone jumped on the Audi from Halfords but this looks worse, I bet Poof Daddy has 3. Look at those garish wheels.
Rosanne Barr looks like she wants to kill you and steal your kids, would you say she is attractive?
You have one so your gonna be biased!!
Edited by mattygooner on Thursday 12th April 15:09
mattygooner said:
Yes, how does looks like it wants to kill you and steal your kids make it look good?
Are you saying it's pretty? It looks brutish, krass, ugly, square, over weight, uninspiring, dull...... the list goes on. At least Corvette's have some style, a bit of elegance and is rather pretty.
Everyone jumped on the Audi from Halfords but this looks worse, I bet Poof Daddy has 3. Look at those garish wheels.
Rosanne Barr looks like she wants to kill you and steal your kids, would you say she is attractive?
You have one so your gonna be biased!!
Are you saying it's pretty? It looks brutish, krass, ugly, square, over weight, uninspiring, dull...... the list goes on. At least Corvette's have some style, a bit of elegance and is rather pretty.
Everyone jumped on the Audi from Halfords but this looks worse, I bet Poof Daddy has 3. Look at those garish wheels.
Rosanne Barr looks like she wants to kill you and steal your kids, would you say she is attractive?
You have one so your gonna be biased!!
Edited by mattygooner on Thursday 12th April 15:09
Forgive me, but we're talking Muscle car here - surely they are SUPPOSED to look brutish, crass, (I'll skip ugly), square etc.
Roseanne Barr doesn't look like she wants to kill anyone or steal their kids - she just looks fat and desperately insecure.
And yes, I am biased - but I am also realistic about what the car represents, which is why I contribute to this forum.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and you're obviously not a fan. But posting on the Mustang forum is bound to ruffle feathers isn't it - or is that your point?
My mistake, i did not realize this was the mustang owners club forum, i though it was where people posted their opinions and reactions to a story.
my point is, old original/proper muscle cars looked brutish and muscular without looking ugly, while retaining style and some eleance and grace. Unfortunately this seems to have lost this and gone for the big shiny wheels, blacked out windows approach tied to what sounds like according to previous posts, some excellent mechanicals.
It seems to get bigger and bigger and bigger with every model.
If he were around today, would the late great Steve Mcqueen drive one?
agree to disagree.
my point is, old original/proper muscle cars looked brutish and muscular without looking ugly, while retaining style and some eleance and grace. Unfortunately this seems to have lost this and gone for the big shiny wheels, blacked out windows approach tied to what sounds like according to previous posts, some excellent mechanicals.
It seems to get bigger and bigger and bigger with every model.
If he were around today, would the late great Steve Mcqueen drive one?
agree to disagree.
Edited by mattygooner on Thursday 12th April 16:33
mattygooner said:
If he were around today, would the late great Steve Mcqueen drive one?
agree to disagree.
Steve McQueen would drive whatever the Director told him to I expect. Though he was undoubtedly a Ford fan.
Everyone's entitled to their opinion (and no, this isn't the owners club forum).
As you say, let's agree to disagree.
mattygooner said:
If he were around today, would the late great Steve Mcqueen drive one?
It would appear that yes, he would
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZzXHq7gKN8
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