what is it like to drive a super car
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slipstream 1985 said:
you get used to speed and acceleration. even giving mates a lift you become convinced the car isnt running right yet despite them withering in fear grabbing the jesus handles.
this.
no matter how fast and overwhelming it is, you get used to it and find yourself pining for more
MajorProblem said:
Don't forget having angry dad in a Vectra / Picasso going kamikaze to overtake you just to prove his wife made the right decision by removing his balls and choosing his car.
I get overtaken in the Cerbera all the time by people trying to prove a point, whilst cruising at the same speed I normally drive at in the dailies and rarely experience such behaviour from others.Well in squire.
And in response to the OP, well it's Super of course.
The whole junior supercar/sports car thing is spot on though. You'll get more enjoyment out of the driving side of it with a 300bhp accomplished car than you will with a 500bhp+ super/hyper car and all that comes with it.
0-60 becomes less relevant than how it takes corners and the feedback it gives.
The drama of a proper supercar is something else though. You either grab it by the horns and enjoy it to the max or you are left red faced and nervous.
Dependant on your views on dogging might well sort out how it would feel for you.
And in response to the OP, well it's Super of course.
The whole junior supercar/sports car thing is spot on though. You'll get more enjoyment out of the driving side of it with a 300bhp accomplished car than you will with a 500bhp+ super/hyper car and all that comes with it.
0-60 becomes less relevant than how it takes corners and the feedback it gives.
The drama of a proper supercar is something else though. You either grab it by the horns and enjoy it to the max or you are left red faced and nervous.
Dependant on your views on dogging might well sort out how it would feel for you.
jacksparrow11 said:
May seem like a stupid question and i know theres probably millions of these threads , but i have been driving 2 years , and the fastest car ive driven was the ford focus i learnt in , i have been driving a 1.2 fiesta since , it takes 15 seconds 0-60 on a perfect day with no passengers . i love it and look after it , but i cant help but imagine what it would be like to drive a fast car as i sometimes find myself drifting off as i pootle along .
So how would you explain the driving sensations to somebody like me , who would consider a 1.6 golf fast lol
Why focus on Super cars? There is so much fun to be had from sports cars that I don't even desire a super car. So how would you explain the driving sensations to somebody like me , who would consider a 1.6 golf fast lol
Sports cars are obtainable, more practical, less embarassing, they attract less attention, Probably as fun if not more fun than some properly serious kit, plenty fast enough to teach you how to drive, more involving, smaller therefore easier to spank down 'B'-roads...
No I have never owned a super car, but I have enjoyed Sports car ownership so much that I wonder why so many people lust over ruinously expensive, often unobtainable, impractical, technologically sophisticated pin-ups instead of a sports car which'll probably be faster than anything they've ever driven and yet they could probably afford to buy if they put their mind to it.
Of course, many people here can afford super cars and to be frank I expect I'll be able to one day... Will I? possibly not. I'd rather spend my money on sports car racing rather than some 7' wide exotica which I will constantly be dropping cash on, worrying about where I leave it, feeling like a berk as people are looking at it etc etc...
Craigwww said:
Driving a supercar is immense... for the first few months, then it's just like any other car really except:
1. You constantly worry about where you're going to park
2. When you do leave it parked somewhere, you worry about it while youre away
3. You have to put up with people constantly asking you to rev the nuts off it
4. When a warning light pops up on the dash, you s
t your pants
5. You feel you are doing the car an injustice if sticking to the speed limits
6. You get frustrated that you can't boot if everywhere you go for fear of speedbumps, police & disaproving old people
7. You look like a prick when you don't let all your mates drive it
8. You look like the worlds biggest bell end if you ever dare to stall it at the lights
9. You look like a poser in the petrol station when you're 'filling her up'
10. You look like a poser when you stick the shades on
11. You have to endure the stress of reverse parking while everyone is watching and praying you'll fk it up
12. You feel like a knob when someone whips out their iphone and decides they want a photo or video of your car while you're sat there at the lights.. do I smile? Do I give them the thumbs up? Do I ignore them? Then you have to suffer the embarrassment as said 'happy snapper' walks away and calls you a cock.
13. If you're under 40 everyone thinks you're a footballer or a lottery winner
14. You feel like a loser when that 21 yr old blonde in the tiny dress and heels wafts by without even batting an eye at you or the car.
15. You are disappointed when the 18 yr old blonde thinks it's a Toyota and she swears blind the guy she works with in Tesco has one just like it
16. You get a sore neck from trying to catch the reflection of the car in every mildly reflective surface
17. You can't put photos of it on Facebook/Twitter cos everyone thinks you're just showing off
18. The feel like a pretentious c*nt saying the word "Ferrari" anytime anyone enquires as to what you drive
19. You come to realise that the only people who actually give a f*ck you have a supercar are men, and that it ain't going to get you laid with anyone other than gold diggers, will probably cost you a few jealous mates and a small fortune.
Is it worth it?
Hell yes.
1. I get to press the "start" button every time I get in the car and listen to a Ferrari V8 bark into life.
2. I get to sit in my garage and admire every detail of the bodywork and engine.
3. I get to drop the window on approach to a tunnel, drop a gear and hear that sensory overloading sound of Ferrari V8 reverb around an enclosed space as it blats through the rev range.
4**. I get to smash all slutty gold-digger, wag wanna-be's...*
It's worth all the stress and hassle just for that.. if you ever get a chance to own one, do it.
note** - this was added for effect only and while I could, I doubt the gf would approve.
1. You constantly worry about where you're going to park
2. When you do leave it parked somewhere, you worry about it while youre away
3. You have to put up with people constantly asking you to rev the nuts off it
4. When a warning light pops up on the dash, you s
t your pants5. You feel you are doing the car an injustice if sticking to the speed limits
6. You get frustrated that you can't boot if everywhere you go for fear of speedbumps, police & disaproving old people
7. You look like a prick when you don't let all your mates drive it
8. You look like the worlds biggest bell end if you ever dare to stall it at the lights
9. You look like a poser in the petrol station when you're 'filling her up'
10. You look like a poser when you stick the shades on
11. You have to endure the stress of reverse parking while everyone is watching and praying you'll f
k it up12. You feel like a knob when someone whips out their iphone and decides they want a photo or video of your car while you're sat there at the lights.. do I smile? Do I give them the thumbs up? Do I ignore them? Then you have to suffer the embarrassment as said 'happy snapper' walks away and calls you a cock.
13. If you're under 40 everyone thinks you're a footballer or a lottery winner
14. You feel like a loser when that 21 yr old blonde in the tiny dress and heels wafts by without even batting an eye at you or the car.
15. You are disappointed when the 18 yr old blonde thinks it's a Toyota and she swears blind the guy she works with in Tesco has one just like it
16. You get a sore neck from trying to catch the reflection of the car in every mildly reflective surface
17. You can't put photos of it on Facebook/Twitter cos everyone thinks you're just showing off
18. The feel like a pretentious c*nt saying the word "Ferrari" anytime anyone enquires as to what you drive
19. You come to realise that the only people who actually give a f*ck you have a supercar are men, and that it ain't going to get you laid with anyone other than gold diggers, will probably cost you a few jealous mates and a small fortune.
Is it worth it?
Hell yes.
1. I get to press the "start" button every time I get in the car and listen to a Ferrari V8 bark into life.
2. I get to sit in my garage and admire every detail of the bodywork and engine.
3. I get to drop the window on approach to a tunnel, drop a gear and hear that sensory overloading sound of Ferrari V8 reverb around an enclosed space as it blats through the rev range.
4**. I get to smash all slutty gold-digger, wag wanna-be's...*
It's worth all the stress and hassle just for that.. if you ever get a chance to own one, do it.
note** - this was added for effect only and while I could, I doubt the gf would approve.
Brilliant - and all true !
Here's a couple more that come to mind :-
13a. If you’re over 40 everyone thinks it’s a mid life crisis car.
20. Young lads sidle up to you and ask if its true that wimin just fall in to the passenger seat.
21. You pull into a petrol station and get surrounded with chavs taking pics asking if its an MR2 conversion. If you say 'yes mate, body kit built onto 1992 Mk2' they then ask where you got the exhaust from . . cos it sounds really banging. Init.
22. You await the call from the local Ferrari dealer hoping that the oil change service is going to be under £3,000 and query why they had to drop the entire engine to do so.
23. You notice that everyone in a BMW 1 series wants to prove how amazing their car is by taking really stupid risks overtaking you on roundabouts whilst causing other drivers to give you the finger for their behaviour.
24. You notice that that everyone in Corsa with a drain pipe dangling out the back, has to give you the thumbs up along with some 9,000 rpm revving to prove their engine sounds just the same.
25. You spend so long cleaning and polishing it that you then don’t want to take it out for fear of it getting wet.
26. You get pissed off at driving to a mates house because the gravel on his drive will coat your car in fine layer of dust that their 4 year old then uses to write his name on the door.
But sod all the above. You're the one living the dream. It becomes addictive, and yes it is worth it - you only live once !!
jacksparrow11 said:
May seem like a stupid question and i know theres probably millions of these threads , but i have been driving 2 years , and the fastest car ive driven was the ford focus i learnt in , i have been driving a 1.2 fiesta since , it takes 15 seconds 0-60 on a perfect day with no passengers . i love it and look after it , but i cant help but imagine what it would be like to drive a fast car as i sometimes find myself drifting off as i pootle along .
So how would you explain the driving sensations to somebody like me , who would consider a 1.6 golf fast lol
A few years ago i was similar to you, trundling round in my Mk2 golf with 55 wheezing German donkeys under the bonnet.So how would you explain the driving sensations to somebody like me , who would consider a 1.6 golf fast lol
I did a 6th Gear experience a few weeks after passing my test.
I got to drive my dream car, a Lamborghini Murcielago manual. Please see video below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxBfsuVeyDA&fea...
The experience was amazing! You wont forget the first time you pin the throttle in a supercar, it was intoxicating. Your heart beats with adrenaline each time you click another gear into that gated shifter. The way they stop and grip is just something else, each corner feels like you wont make it but you do and as your confidence builds you start to feel more comfortable and begin to really enjoy it.
I loved every minute and have booked myself back in next time in an Ariel Atom
A relative worked for a high end car dealership, which sold Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini`s and a few other exotics every now and then. he said they would often sell one of the above to city trader types, who were in the showroom a few weeks later having lost their licence for a VERY long time.
He said they were quite happy to buy back the vehicles, but at not quite the same price the bloke had paid for it a few weeks earlier.
He said they were quite happy to buy back the vehicles, but at not quite the same price the bloke had paid for it a few weeks earlier.
http://www.worldclassdriving.com/muscle/drive-musc...
I did this /\ First time you pin the throttle in a 662bhp Shelby Cobra everything else seems slow. and quiet.
We did however, use half a tank of fuel in 30 miles so that's the downside
I did this /\ First time you pin the throttle in a 662bhp Shelby Cobra everything else seems slow. and quiet.
We did however, use half a tank of fuel in 30 miles so that's the downside
Lol at the list, so true.
I have had mine for 2 weeks (some will class it as a supercar some won't but I do!) and in that time it's been on the road I have had more looks and conversations that anything else I've owned. Mrs took it to school last week and all the kids were climing all over it saying it was a James Bond car which was a nice touch as she had apprehensions about driving it with the super heavy clutch etc... Amazing to own something and to anyone thinking of doing it I would really recommend buying that dream car.
I have had mine for 2 weeks (some will class it as a supercar some won't but I do!) and in that time it's been on the road I have had more looks and conversations that anything else I've owned. Mrs took it to school last week and all the kids were climing all over it saying it was a James Bond car which was a nice touch as she had apprehensions about driving it with the super heavy clutch etc... Amazing to own something and to anyone thinking of doing it I would really recommend buying that dream car.
Contigo said:
I have had mine for 2 weeks (some will class it as a supercar some won't but I do!) and in that time it's been on the road I have had more looks and conversations that anything else I've owned. Mrs took it to school last week and all the kids were climing all over it saying it was a James Bond car which was a nice touch as she had apprehensions about driving it with the super heavy clutch etc... Amazing to own something and to anyone thinking of doing it I would really recommend buying that dream car.
What is it you've got now then, dude? Aston?Personally, I love my M5 for the fact that it has supercar performance (albeit not as quick as most modern supercars, but anything under 5s to 60 qualifies in my book!) but is relatively understated looks-wise, so you don't get people fawning all over it like you would with a Ferrari or anything.
That said, I will get myself into a Ferrari at some point.
And what someone said about warning lights is absolutely true. Whenever I hear the "bong" noise in the M5 I s
t my pants. Fortunately so far it's always just been warning me about the fuel reserve or range, but my last M5 had so many issues that I've become conditioned to expect a transmission failure or something whenever I hear the noise.I had a Gallardo Superleggera temporarily- Yes it was amazing and great powering through the gears - however thrill wise it didnt get close to how i felt when driving a Catherham- I've had the chance to drive a few and even the basic one provides an expereince that the Lambo couldnt - most of that comes from sitting a few inches of the floor and being exposed to the elements - others who have driven both have said the same to me...
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Having said that arriving at a gathering /restaurant/ shops/ friends and getting out of the caterham is a bit of a faff ( carrying the palm sized steering wheel around with you can make you look like a bit of a dick too). Rocking up in a bright green Lambo does have its own cache and perks!
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Having said that arriving at a gathering /restaurant/ shops/ friends and getting out of the caterham is a bit of a faff ( carrying the palm sized steering wheel around with you can make you look like a bit of a dick too). Rocking up in a bright green Lambo does have its own cache and perks!
DonkeyApple said:
Ah, that's another joy. Track day insurance. Drive a car of which there are only a few and made out of supposedly exotic material and there is no syndicate interested. Even when your office is in the Lloyds Building.
I have found the opposite to be true when insuring specialist (and sometimes plastic) sports cars. The policy being bespoke in the first instance and thereby TD insurance being a relatively painless addition. Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff