RE: David Brown Speedback GT: Review

RE: David Brown Speedback GT: Review

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B17NNS

18,506 posts

247 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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Nasty looking thing, bog eyed mini front lights. Chrome plastic Halfords hubcaps. Jag steering wheel. Old Jag bits underneath. £600k rofl. Someones having a Turkish. From the front it looks like a Ford Scorpio coupe.



Edited by B17NNS on Friday 1st August 18:43

xxxscimitarxxx

101 posts

187 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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contrary to norm of a cars arse being not as pretty as its face....this is one of those designs where they seem to have started at the back and worked their way to the front.....got a front grill like a brass with a silicone lip job

Tib

458 posts

179 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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kill it with fire.

vournikas

11,710 posts

204 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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Sorry, but given the choice I'd rather spunk £450k on a mint DB5 and spend the change at R.S. Williams for some modern discrete upgrades.


stats007

531 posts

235 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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Dr G said:
Tried everything I can to like it but I simply don't. I agree with you entirely.
+1

insideimsmiling

102 posts

176 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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Yournikas,think.of.the.paintwork!

vournikas

11,710 posts

204 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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insideimsmiling said:
Yournikas,think.of.the.paintwork!
I am!

The DB5 will be in metallic Dubonnet, please




MarshPhantom

9,658 posts

137 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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Zod said:
The interior is utterly horrible.
It's wrong on every level and then some.

can't remember

1,078 posts

128 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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Once you know it's an old Jag, it just looks like an old Jag kit car with Stutz Bearcat wires.

Raman Kandola

221 posts

123 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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djneils98 said:
its nice enough but nicer than a Wraith + 650s + RS6 + some change????!!!
Although i do like the look of this car, your comment made it hit home how ridiculously expensive it is and what other amazing mix of cars you can get for the money! Nice luxury,sports and gt car with change left!


Evo

3,462 posts

254 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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In the current trend of imitation I think Aston Martin should have it crushed for infringing design rights on most of their cars in the last 50 years biggrin

DreadUK

206 posts

132 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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Probably been said before here but I can't be bothered reading pages of gushing or insults at what is a Jaguar Kit Car. At least McLaren had the decency to build the F1 from the ground up and provide something groundbreaking. This is a guy trading on his ancestors name but he adds nothing original, clever or spectacular.

Yes the market will be daft Chinese or Russian Billionaires but seriously, this is the road to bankruptcy for Mr. Brown. Even they aren't daft enough to buy this as an outside chance of being an investment. It's a tarted up Jag and will go down in history as the death knell of the Brown family.

aeropilot

34,598 posts

227 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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rofl


hornbaek

3,675 posts

235 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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…if i were Aston Martin i would have a word with the legal department about trademark protection.

jamieheasman

823 posts

284 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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Truly awful - if only they'd spent the time and money creating something original. $600k should buy a completely bespoke vehicle or at least a special edition of a current manufacturers car (alas zagato). Having said this, they may find enough rich people in the world with no taste or class who want something to go with their premiership football team.

At the risk of offending someone, the writing in this article was almost as bad as the subject matter!

RichB

51,572 posts

284 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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DreadUK said:
... will go down in history as the death knell of the Brown family.
As far as I know he is absolutely nothing to do with the David Brown of tractor, gear and motor car fame. Not a relative and as it's a very common English name probably not an ancestor.

Drakey52

115 posts

141 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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Sorry. Admire bravery, but that is genuinely and shockingly ugly all round. Buy a DB9, unless you need to show your wealth...

Hugh stinquer

13 posts

158 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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I think it'svomit about time wannabe luxury/specialist...add your own title manufacturers/re-engineers took a leaf out of the iconic designs of the past .
The designs from that era were original and ground breaking, and unique in their own right, not a ridiculous parody.
Wealthy Mitsuoka Viewt buyers Queue here.........

Craikeybaby

10,411 posts

225 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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RichB said:
DreadUK said:
... will go down in history as the death knell of the Brown family.
As far as I know he is absolutely nothing to do with the David Brown of tractor, gear and motor car fame. Not a relative and as it's a very common English name probably not an ancestor.
Correct. I've met him a few times and he comes across as a complete petrol head - the sort of guy that should be in charge of a car company.

RichB

51,572 posts

284 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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Craikeybaby said:
Correct. I've met him a few times and he comes across as a complete petrol head - the sort of guy that should be in charge of a car company.
Well that's good to hear but I still can't understand why his DB5 is so unreliable biglaugh