Had my definition of fast rewritten today......

[blindmaninchains]

0-100mph times:

1000cc Japanese Superbikes: 5.5-6.0
Ferrari 458 : 7 seconds (ish)

IIRC the Veyron does it in 5.5 seconds too.

[Rawwr]

blindmaninchains said:

0-100mph times:

1000cc Japanese Superbikes: 5.5-6.0
Ferrari 458 : 7 seconds (ish)

The trouble with spazzy jap bikes is that, although fast, it doesn't feel quite as impressive as you don't get that massive sense of inertia that you do when you're pushing 1.5 tonnes of metal and plastic through the air.

Oh, and bikes are gay.

[franki68]

The 458 is stunning,but aside from the cars bursting into flames,haven't there been reports of several of them being crashed almost immediately? Maybe too fast ? Certainly in the uk I fail to see where you can use that performance on the road.I can't use my cars and that is substantially slower than the 458.

[Rawwr]

Silverstone?

[NorthernBoy]

I don't know how well it'd cope with Silverstone, but it's got to be pretty likely that after about ten laps the brakes'd be grumbling and the tyres would be starting to give up, too.

Road cars, even fast road ferraris, just don't cope well with extended sessions of what they get put through on the track, where you're either at full throttle, full on the brakes, or cornering at maximum g.

[pc.iow]

franki68 said:

The 458 is stunning,but aside from the cars bursting into flames,haven't there been reports of several of them being crashed almost immediately? Maybe too fast ? Certainly in the uk I fail to see where you can use that performance on the road.I can't use my cars and that is substantially slower than the 458.

M3?

[RobM77]

ERDi said:

GFWilliams said:

ERDi said:

I bet this is hell of a machine and you had a blast of a ride, still those flat, wide and in this case white Italian cars don't do it for me.
Everytime I see one of these it is piloted by a footballer, max. 20 year old arab, pimp, drug or arms dealer.
Not the kind of people I generally look up to.

Edited by ERDi on Monday 30th August 21:40

I experience a lot of these kind of cars. See my profile to see the kind of stuff I mean...

I think that that's bks what you said. A huge number of the owners of these cars work their asses off for these cars. It's a bit short sighted to generalise. I'm no expert, but I wouldn't have thought that most drug dealers would want to gather attention to themselves in a 458 either

Hey, of course you're right, my previous post is very generalised, and who knows, maybe things are different here in Germany compared to what it is like in the UK, also you would never hear me say 'everybody who owns a Fezza/458 is a criminal, fact!', still the people _I_ see in those cars are the ones mentioned above.
Imagine one of those lovely car shows you in the UK have so many ones of, on one side there are all Fezzas and Lambos gathered togheter on the other side you have any two of McLaren, Noble, Radical, Ultima, TVR, Caterham. Not owning a car from either side or knowing the drivers, I knew which side I'd first try to get in touch with, just because of choice of cars and what I associate with it.
Ofc I will be wrong a lot of times and there will be gents and wkers on either side, still I suspect one to be slightly more mafioso, no surprise it is the one coming from a country governed by Berlusconi .
Still I think Toyless had a blast of a ride, so everything fine, just I hope he will get the chance to experience a blat in one of the cars mentioned above as well .

Edited by ERDi on Tuesday 31st August 07:55

Personally I'd rather just focus on the car, rather than who owns it. Ferrari build great cars, it just so happens that there are more rich show offs out there than car enthusiasts. Rest assured that people like Nick Mason, Dave Gilmour and Derek Bell, all owners of multiple Ferraris, are most certainly not show offs, they're perfectly decent normal intelligent people who happen to love cars, and especially in Derek's case, be rather good at driving them

[Hell27]

sjc said:

Hell27 said:

CarbonM5 said:

Yeah,these do go like spunk off a squirrels back.Wicked cars!

So fast then, but seriously unclean.

On a different note, OP?

I do not move in these fabulous circles that allow you to go in such amazing machinery.
However, In my lowly world, I have been on the Rita queen of speed ride at Alton Towers, and for a little bit of time, it accelerates so quick, I feel quite sick due to the force. Did the acceleration compare to that?

Edited by Hell27 on Saturday 28th August 23:29

I'll try and answer that, as I went on Rita a couple of weeks ago. My Noble M400 has roughly the same quoted acceleration times as the 458 to 60 and 100, at 3.5 secs and and 8 secs. The initial launch on Rita to the first bend is in a completely different league to anything I've been on or in.I was genuinely shocked!

Thanks for the reply buddy, yep, it is ludicrously fast at first, and the speed round bends is also fast to the point of hilarity! Glad you enjoyed it as much as I did.

For a genuine thrill though, The Big one at Blackpool takes some beating - the ride does not feel entirely safe!

[ncow82]

I Have in the last 10 weeks or so been in a 348, a 512BB a 308(GT4 and GTS) an Intergrale HF, TVR350, 996turbo and my favourite a very tidy Daytona to name a few. Accelerating in a car from 1969 that would still keep up with most is beyond terrifying but an experience not to be missed. keep your modern day toys, real cars have knock-offs fat carbs and no ecu...

Edited by ncow82 on Saturday 4th September 21:49

Edited by ncow82 on Saturday 4th September 21:50

[kingbowser]

Edited by kingbowser on Monday 13th June 11:21

[5lab]

kingbowser said:

27k!!! Wow Renault are going crazy with there pricing these days and that's coming from an r26 owner

wrong thread?

[kingbowser]

Yup iPhone messed that one up big time

[R12HCO]

5lab said:

wrong thread?

LOL!