The Best ///M/Barge/General Rant/Look at this/O/T (Vol XIV)

[JaymzDead]

LHD said:

http://www.classicdriver.com/uk/find/4100_results....

Pretty car.

That is delectable, the perfect colour combo IMHO. That's me doing the Euromillions tonight then.

[jeremyc]

olly22n said:

I was day dreaming yesterday about a £30k budget. My hog would have to be pre - '89. Preferably with a balsa wood knobbed long gearstick and no centre console, narrow body. Hairy cam and a suitably anti social pipe.

That'll just about get you into a titchy-tiny 996 GT3.

Send the cheque and I'll put on whatever gear knob you want having removed the CD-holder centre console.

[jeremyc]

olly22n said:

How about a part ex with 'dry stored' elan and a part baked e12 project?

Now y'see if it was a Sprint, and I didn't have to take the Beemer ....

[V8mate]

olly22n said:

jeremyc said:

olly22n said:

I was day dreaming yesterday about a £30k budget. My hog would have to be pre - '89. Preferably with a balsa wood knobbed long gearstick and no centre console, narrow body. Hairy cam and a suitably anti social pipe.

That'll just about get you into a titchy-tiny 996 GT3.

Send the cheque and I'll put on whatever gear knob you want having removed the CD-holder centre console.

How about a part ex with 'dry stored' elan and a part baked e12 project?

Dry stored? Didn't you say that you pissed yourself in it a few times when you were kipping after a few too many sherberts?

[GentlePersuasion]

jeremyc said:

For all you N24 people.

This is what the night time rain was like from behind the wheel of a GT3R.

Rain Dance

Think I've just done a little poo.

[Output Flange]

Old vs Older:

[V8mate]

Output Flange said:

Old vs Older:

I loved that old blue thing. What's its W-number?

[Output Flange]

And one more, just because it is so. fking. epic.

[chrisw666]

Output Flange said:

And one more, just because it is so. fking. epic.

Can you just enter the N24 or do you need things like a race licence and mechanics?

[V8mate]

chrisw666 said:

Can you just enter the N24 or do you need things like a race licence and mechanics?

http://www.vln.de/teilnehmerinfos.gb.php

[chrisw666]

V8mate said:

http://www.vln.de/teilnehmerinfos.gb.php

You expect me to read after 12 on a Friday?

I don't have a race licence anyway, and if I had to do 1 lap in the conditions from that video I'd be a gibbering wreck by the time I got back to the pits.

[NomduJour]

V8mate said:

I loved that old blue thing. What's its W-number?

W110/1/2

[Output Flange]

anonymous said:

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It feels a lot bigger, though. The cabin is more spacious, and the distance from driver's head to bottom of windscreen is much increased.

[mywifeshusband]

V8mate said:

Output Flange said:

Old vs Older:

I loved that old blue thing. What's its W-number?

W112?

I agree a "real" Mercedes.

[V8mate]

Mid-mounted, V6 Twingo? Thank you very much please.

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/renault/twingo/64108/...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhCKAGp_SUs

[Cunning Punt]

I wonder if VAG might be gently pushing Porsche into making everything a bit larger to leave room for a new baby model.

A Lupo to the Boxster/Cayman Polo, if you will, with all my apologies for the slightly nauseating metaphor.

anonymous said:

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I was just about to post about how the old chestnut about cars being bigger nowadays perhaps isn't as true as we tend to think, considering how massive a frigate the W11x looks in the pic above.

For a given class. Yes.

[louiebaby]

anonymous said:

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Whilst the development cycle for the current Porsche Range probably pre-dates VW taking the helm, they have been platform sharing on the Touareg / Cayenne for a while. There was talk of a wee VW thing about the size of an Elise about a year of two ago, so they might well have been planning to platform share on this for a good while...

[richtea78]

Im no expert but isnt the aim of introducing new models to expand the brand? How do you ensure that the new model doesnt just take away sales from other models in the range.

[V8mate]

richtea78 said:

Im no expert but isnt the aim of introducing new models to expand the brand? How do you ensure that the new model doesnt just take away sales from other models in the range.

Until you've taken all sales from every other competitor, it doesn't really matter.

[richtea78]

I may not be explaining myself properly but if you can make $3000 from one model of car why would you introduce a model of car that makes you $2000 when people could buy that instead of the $3000 one.

So why introduce a lupo type porsche when it would take sales from a Boxster or Cayman? You would need to be pretty confident that the new sales made would outweigh the loss of value and given the way the GT86 has sold is the small coupe/ sports car market that desirable?