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RS133
2,084 posts
42 months
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Fantuzzi
Original Poster
1,426 posts
15 months
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cragswinter said: Coming up for sale this year  Ah good my Birthdays in August...
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Fantuzzi
Original Poster
1,426 posts
15 months
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RS133 said: Abarth have got a cutesy wootsy 500 rally car as well
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Lordbenny
5,055 posts
88 months
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HedgehogFromHell
881 posts
48 months
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LocoBlade
4,686 posts
125 months
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Lordbenny said: Here's a few, all totally impractical for road use but....you'd just love to take them down your local high street!   Being pedantic a Westfield XTR2 kit car is intended to be a road car from the off as its built with the SVA / IVA in mind to make road registering relatively painless, so although it looks like one and goes like one, it isnt really a race car that's been converted for road use like most of the others here. Still bonkers though and no more of a daily driver than most converted race cars!
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garypotter
550 posts
19 months
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cragswinter said: LocoBlade said: I spotted probably the ultimate of this breed on Monday. On the way to work going through Alton in Hampshire a Gulf liveried Mclaren F1 GTR passed me going in the opposite direction. I did a bit of googling on it and it's chassis 12R which raced at Le Mans in '96 setting the class lap record in the process, so pretty good pedigree! Not my photo but the same car spotted a few miles away the day before...  http://www.flickr.com/photos/nwvt/7082145127/Coming up for sale this year Just showed this car porn to a chap at work who spotted this car a while back near the Hogs Back Hotel, so the owner must be local to the area - he must be the man with the biggest grin on his face not just driving this car but knowing that it sits in his garage/living room/bedroom!! Congrats to him or Her.
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Fantuzzi
Original Poster
1,426 posts
15 months
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garypotter said: Just showed this car porn to a chap at work who spotted this car a while back near the Hogs Back Hotel, so the owner must be local to the area - he must be the man with the biggest grin on his face not just driving this car but knowing that it sits in his garage/living room/bedroom!!
Congrats to him or Her. I dont think I'd ever get out of that GTR, and when I did have to for sleeping or food, I doubt I'd stop smiling!
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ilovevolvo
1,618 posts
93 months
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garypotter said: Just showed this car porn to a chap at work who spotted this car a while back near the Hogs Back Hotel, so the owner must be local to the area - he must be the man with the biggest grin on his face not just driving this car but knowing that it sits in his garage/living room/bedroom!!
Congrats to him or Her. 
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Andy 308GTB
868 posts
90 months
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Road legal Lola T70 Mk IIIB - you can keep your modern machinery, I want this: 
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With these feet
3,706 posts
84 months
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chevronb37 said: Noisy, uncomfortable, straight cut box, hard to get into, on-off clutch, tramlines absolutely everywhere, etc. Wonderful machine but I cannot see any merit in it as a road car rather than getting a (much cheaper) road-going Vantage. But that's just me. For context, this is a shot of Gareth's car:  And my old man's slightly more road-biased Vantage:  I'm a bit boring like this but my Exige is honestly as far towards track bias as I could ever be bothered with on the road. Ive driven one of the several road registered N24/GT4's and although its massive fun, the settings on the circuit do not transfer too well to the road. The gearbox is in fact the same as the road car - 6 speed Graziano transaxle. The real differences are purely the suspension, weight and sound deadening. 10&11" wide 18" E-marked tyres for the road such as the Yokos are fine on track days but best put the car away in the wet! The original TG N24 test upset quite few people at AML, apparently the car was handed over to them straight after a race. I found it really quite painful to watch when May cocked about getting off the ferry, starting the car was nothing more than master on, ignition and start. Cant speak about the Ginetta, only that they are a capable little car!
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Mastodon2
5,727 posts
34 months
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One thing that surprised me about the TG test was how slow the Aston looked when they all floored it from a rolling start. I know TG is hardly scientific, and May could have been in the wrong gear or simply not trying, but it got left for dead by the Lamborghini and the Porsche.
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S1MMA
1,728 posts
88 months
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Mastodon2 said: One thing that surprised me about the TG test was how slow the Aston looked when they all floored it from a rolling start. I know TG is hardly scientific, and May could have been in the wrong gear or simply not trying, but it got left for dead by the Lamborghini and the Porsche. That's not because it was a race car, it's because it was an Aston  As someone who drives a GT3, to have something a lot more uncompromising would just make it unusable to the point that you would start loathing it rather than enjoying it every time you got in. For the track, a race car is great. Navigating speed bumps, tight car parks, and in wet conditions - not so much. I think you need to consider how often it's used. If you drive it 3 times a year in perfect weather, then sure it can be as uncompromising and difficult as you like. Once a week? Probably needs to have some usability and practicality. Every day or every other day? Driving a race car on the road would do your head in after a while, no matter how much you love it.
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magpies
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51 months
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nice audi driver
53 posts
23 months
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Mastodon2 said: One thing that surprised me about the TG test was how slow the Aston looked when they all floored it from a rolling start. I know TG is hardly scientific, and May could have been in the wrong gear or simply not trying, but it got left for dead by the Lamborghini and the Porsche. That's probably because race cars aren't all about straight line speed, and regulations heavily limit engine output in most cases. Super cars on the other hand, a big part of it is frankly stupid power outputs. However I'm fairy sure the racer will be much faster around a track, surprisingly enough.
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Fantuzzi
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15 months
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nice audi driver said: That's probably because race cars aren't all about straight line speed, and regulations heavily limit engine output in most cases.
Super cars on the other hand, a big part of it is frankly stupid power outputs.
However I'm fairy sure the racer will be much faster around a track, surprisingly enough. Evo tested a BTCC round bedford, the honda did 1.16 or something mental, any way was the quickest car they've had round there, far quicker than a 458 (1.19) say.
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Rude-boy
15,509 posts
102 months
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Fantuzzi said: Evo tested a BTCC round bedford, the honda did 1.16 or something mental, any way was the quickest car they've had round there, far quicker than a 458 (1.19) say.
So I'd imagine the gt4 would maim the gt3 rs and lambo on a track. Lambo, Possibly. GT3 RS? Unlikely.
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Fantuzzi
Original Poster
1,426 posts
15 months
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Rude-boy said: Lambo, Possibly.
GT3 RS? Unlikely. Well, according to the internet the order goes (if you take nurburgring laptimes as an indicator) Gt3 RS.2, 7.33 N24 7.45 Lambo 7.46 I thought the N24 would be faster, I know the GT4's are relatively standard compared to other racers but still thought the aston would be on top, not by much given the power difference but still thought it would be a ahead. I suppose thats why the GT3 RS had such brilliant reviews!
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ilovevolvo
1,618 posts
93 months
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cragswinter said: Coming up for sale this year Are you sure ?
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DB89
402 posts
48 months
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