RE: Aston Martin Vulcan: You Know You Want To

[AussieFozzy]

Krikkit said:

Not sure about that... Even modest touring cars have eye-watering parts bills, let alone full-fat GT3 racers. Wipe the front corner off a GT3 car and you're probably looking at £40-50k of parts.

Oh i am well aware it will still cost you a bundle but compared to replacing the front end on your Vulcan it's spare change.
On top of this you are going to have that spare change in the bank from all the money you saved not buying a Vulcan.

However i am betting most owners will also have a GT3 car to play with anyway.

[coppice]

spikyone said:

coppice said:

Proof positive that you can fool some of the people all of the time. I really know I don't want to - what's the point? Road car - even if you could convert it you'd look a prize dick driving such a cartoon cliche of a sports car. Racing car? Not really , for all the boasts about its pace it isn't even eligible to race- just to drive on a track day in company with the Eurotrash , teenaged Middle East lads and kleptocrats at whom this silly car is aimed .

It really does get rather "mumsnet" round here sometimes. This isn't much different from someone buying a Radical or an Atom, it's just a bit more expensive. Couldn't give a monkeys whether someone else thinks I'd look like a prize dick if I could afford to drive it. You only get one life and if you spend it not doing stuff you enjoy because someone else thinks it's uncool, you're going to have a lot of regrets. The Vulcan looks like an awesome piece of kit and I'd sell a vital body part to drive it once...

I expressed an opinion , not an absolute fact so of course you can daydream about owning one. I struggle to grasp how preferring a road going car and/or a pukka racing car, both of which are far more fit for purpose than this oddity is ..ahem..'Mumsnet ' but hey ho... I won't lose too much sleep .

[killingjoker]

spikyone said:

coppice said:

Proof positive that you can fool some of the people all of the time. I really know I don't want to - what's the point? Road car - even if you could convert it you'd look a prize dick driving such a cartoon cliche of a sports car. Racing car? Not really , for all the boasts about its pace it isn't even eligible to race- just to drive on a track day in company with the Eurotrash , teenaged Middle East lads and kleptocrats at whom this silly car is aimed .

It really does get rather "mumsnet" round here sometimes. This isn't much different from someone buying a Radical or an Atom, it's just a bit more expensive. Couldn't give a monkeys whether someone else thinks I'd look like a prize dick if I could afford to drive it. You only get one life and if you spend it not doing stuff you enjoy because someone else thinks it's uncool, you're going to have a lot of regrets. The Vulcan looks like an awesome piece of kit and I'd sell a vital body part to drive it once...

Nicely put. +1

[F1GTRUeno]

It's a wonderful piece of engineering and we should all be glad as petrolheads that it exists.

I'd absolutely love to see one and certainly hear one let alone drive and own one.

[Jonmx]

killingjoker said:

spikyone said:

coppice said:

Proof positive that you can fool some of the people all of the time. I really know I don't want to - what's the point? Road car - even if you could convert it you'd look a prize dick driving such a cartoon cliche of a sports car. Racing car? Not really , for all the boasts about its pace it isn't even eligible to race- just to drive on a track day in company with the Eurotrash , teenaged Middle East lads and kleptocrats at whom this silly car is aimed .

It really does get rather "mumsnet" round here sometimes. This isn't much different from someone buying a Radical or an Atom, it's just a bit more expensive. Couldn't give a monkeys whether someone else thinks I'd look like a prize dick if I could afford to drive it. You only get one life and if you spend it not doing stuff you enjoy because someone else thinks it's uncool, you're going to have a lot of regrets. The Vulcan looks like an awesome piece of kit and I'd sell a vital body part to drive it once...

Nicely put. +1

But it's massively different to buying a Radical or an Atom really isn't it and not simply due to the price difference. Both the Radical and Atom are road legal, both have or have had their own single make race series and are therefore useable vehicles. This is, as the initial poster said, a track toy to win the willy waving contest of who has the most money. No race series and not road legal unless you spend probably 50% of the initial purchase price again having it converted. Pointless. It's like marrying a gorgeous woman who you can't sleep with, who you can't talk to but once a month you can walk around with her on your arm as a bit of eye candy.
If someone wants to buy one and have an occasional track day in it, or put it on a pedestal in their mansion that's fine by me but like a few other posters, I don't get it.

[anonymous-user]

Martin_Hx said:

I'm sure we would all want to #drool