F40 vs XJ220 vs EB110
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i just finished reading a artical on them, wow these were the cars, in many ways i feel the macca F1 ruined things by been, to good ! when your too good people start doing silly things like 1001bhp audi TTs with bugatti badges to try be better.
My question is given the choice which would you have in your garage and why , the F40, XJ22O or EB110 ?
My question is given the choice which would you have in your garage and why , the F40, XJ22O or EB110 ?
Edited by bobdylan on Monday 4th June 23:05
EB110 as it is just a fantastic piece of kit so much time and money has gone in to designing this unstoppable flying machine, But the price lets it down. It would mean i would possibly be about 9million year old before i could afford one, Close by is the xj220 its the best car jag have done and once proved they can compete if need be.. Ferrari Is just a badge thing to me and a pen15 extension. 
I still feel that the McLaren F1 was the ultimate supercar, simply because Gordon Murray absolutely refused to compromise its design in any way whatsoever. To me, the F1 should have been the end of the supercar wards.
The Bugatti Veyron is just pushing water up a hill. Here we've got a car so monstrously powerful that you need to pull over to the side of the road and fiddle about with a computer depending on whether you want to enjoy some twisties or go flat-out. This is just a sad reminder that chassis technology has failed to keep step with engine development to the point where insidious computer-controlled abso-bloody-lutely everything has to keep everything in check. In the McLaren F1, it was the exquisite balance of power, light weight and its chassis that kept it all in check.
The power is also absolutely pointless as no-one's ever actually got it up to its maximum speed - no road exists that's long enough.
And now, thanks to the EU, we are only allowed to make bloated, servoed slobwagons
The Bugatti Veyron is just pushing water up a hill. Here we've got a car so monstrously powerful that you need to pull over to the side of the road and fiddle about with a computer depending on whether you want to enjoy some twisties or go flat-out. This is just a sad reminder that chassis technology has failed to keep step with engine development to the point where insidious computer-controlled abso-bloody-lutely everything has to keep everything in check. In the McLaren F1, it was the exquisite balance of power, light weight and its chassis that kept it all in check.
The power is also absolutely pointless as no-one's ever actually got it up to its maximum speed - no road exists that's long enough.
And now, thanks to the EU, we are only allowed to make bloated, servoed slobwagons
If I had to choose one car to own out of these as my "daily" runaround, it'd have to be the XJ220.
But if it were to be a car for the occasional blast around on sundays, the F40 would have it.
Ultimately though, I'd have to go for the McLaren. The biggest selling point would be having 3 seats. I could have my son on one side, and the girlfriend on the other. Perfection.
But if it were to be a car for the occasional blast around on sundays, the F40 would have it.
Ultimately though, I'd have to go for the McLaren. The biggest selling point would be having 3 seats. I could have my son on one side, and the girlfriend on the other. Perfection.
F40
XJ220
EB110
in that order, hypothetically.
The F40 was, and still is, an absolute masterpiece of styling and performance.
The XJ220, wonderful cars, still amazing to look at and the stuff youngsters dream of owning later in life.
The EB110's I've always appreciated as being a great car, but I've never liked the look of them.
XJ220
EB110
in that order, hypothetically.
The F40 was, and still is, an absolute masterpiece of styling and performance.
The XJ220, wonderful cars, still amazing to look at and the stuff youngsters dream of owning later in life.
The EB110's I've always appreciated as being a great car, but I've never liked the look of them.
Stu R said:
The F40 was, and still is, an absolute masterpiece of styling and performance.
The XJ220, wonderful cars, still amazing to look at and the stuff youngsters dream of owning later in life.
The EB110's I've always appreciated as being a great car, but I've never liked the look of them.
Totally agree with that summary.The XJ220, wonderful cars, still amazing to look at and the stuff youngsters dream of owning later in life.
The EB110's I've always appreciated as being a great car, but I've never liked the look of them.
The EB110 was a good piece of engineering, but I've never even begun to think of it as a good looking car. Whereas the XJ220 is so beautifully curved (in just the way a woman should be). The F40 is at the more agressive end of being attractive, but its still a looker.
as a child i grew up with the xj220 and F40 being the wall posters of the time, i had die cast ones of em an all sorts from my dads esso points. I was unaware the Bugatti even existed as a lad, for me that says it all. As my friends dad had a testarossa and F40 on his drive (readmans family of readmans supermarkets) id have to say the F40 topped the list, i could hear him taking it out of the garage and warming it up a few houses away and id always go to the window to watch it.
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