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m12_nathan said:
What do you think of this - to me, the ultimate in Maranelese autoporn, completely devoid of skirts, spoilers, and air dams, it manages to be both flowingly gorgeous and race-orientated and agressive at the same time. IMO it makes the F40 look unnecessarily garish:
But the F40 will leave it for dead which is the point if you ask me. If it's looks are compromised because of it's function then game on.
Ah, then I've nailed our difference. To me, a car is best as an all-rounder - it's got to perform reasonably well, make a great noise, look like a work of art and represent value for money in some way. I suppose it's my way of narrowing down all those thousands of cars out there. It doesn't mean I can't respect other cars, it's just if there's something compromising my four-way scheme of things I can't completely embrace it as a 'favourite', and I'm afraid bodykits, skirts and spoilers go a fair way to knocking plenty of otherwise-great cars off my mental list.
Hence my post on the '10 car garage' thread, I suppose.
Gaz, the Ferrari 250LM is pure Pininfarina sculpture! Worth about a million and crushingly dominant in its year at Le Mans, better than a 250GTO and the greatest adversary of the first GT40. Blob-like kit car? Its proportions are perfect! There's a replica, the Rawlson 164LM, built by Tiger, which is also gorgeous.
The flat-nose 911 SE (which I must admit, has a little bit of kitsch appeal) you can buy for about £20k, a bit more if you fancy a targa or a cabrio. However, Covin did conversions (also did complete 911 replicas), as did Rinspeed and Gemballa.
The flat-nose 911 SE (which I must admit, has a little bit of kitsch appeal) you can buy for about £20k, a bit more if you fancy a targa or a cabrio. However, Covin did conversions (also did complete 911 replicas), as did Rinspeed and Gemballa.
- I take it you are joking!!!!V8thunder said:
Sorry, but that Fez looks like it was built by some bloke in a bobble hat on wet weekends in his garage...
You are kidding?
I'd rather have the 330 in the background. I happen to quite like flatnose 911's as well, in a kind of wierd way.
I've found another car that's improved by the additon of side skirts. Take a look at a cooking 3 door Honda Civic parked next to a Type-R. The skirts on the Type-R take away the slabsidedd-ness and merely make it look like a breadvan, not a wheeled dumpling
Nah, a Civic is a Civic is a Civic. No about of plastic tack-on tat will ever make that 3-Door Civic look like anything other than a squashed MPV, sorry!
The Civic Coupe, now that's a different story.
Come to think of it, the MK1 MR2 looks OK with its skirts and spoilers, but that's probably because it only ever came with them and I don't know what it would look like without. Anyone got a picture of a de-spoilered, de-skirted MK1? I know the single-cam
Japanese-market ones didn't have those add-ons.
The Civic Coupe, now that's a different story.
Come to think of it, the MK1 MR2 looks OK with its skirts and spoilers, but that's probably because it only ever came with them and I don't know what it would look like without. Anyone got a picture of a de-spoilered, de-skirted MK1? I know the single-cam
Japanese-market ones didn't have those add-ons.
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