RE: Singer and Williams AE engine collaboration!
Discussion
fblm said:
Maxige said:
PhantomPH said:
As much as I love the Singer, of the three cars in the last photo above the Singer is the last one I would choose. That Aperta looks phenomenal and the F50...well...it's an F50!!
Well I guess you are not alone!!! I'd take the other two over the Singer as well!! I drove both the Aperta and the F50 on those roads quite extensively...values aside, I will take the F50 over the Singer or the Aperta! It is just a pure, unfiltered and amazing experience, especially with full Tubi exhaust and without roof! Every time I was getting out of the car I was staring at it thinking: "what have I just done? is that a dream?"
The Aperta clearly is unreal in terms of performance...the way it accelerates, brakes, turns in...it's a bloody spaceship on the ground and makes everything else obsolete. You need to re-calibrate your brain in order to push through the gears, I was always short shifting at around 6k rpms and the feeling was already that I was flying more than driving. To keep the foot down in 2nd or 3rd till 9k rpms you just need to force yourself and commit to it...not ashamed to say that my right foot became quite stiff every time I did that, first time that something like this happened to me.
The Aperta clearly is unreal in terms of performance...the way it accelerates, brakes, turns in...it's a bloody spaceship on the ground and makes everything else obsolete. You need to re-calibrate your brain in order to push through the gears, I was always short shifting at around 6k rpms and the feeling was already that I was flying more than driving. To keep the foot down in 2nd or 3rd till 9k rpms you just need to force yourself and commit to it...not ashamed to say that my right foot became quite stiff every time I did that, first time that something like this happened to me.
Maxige said:
I drove both the Aperta and the F50 on those roads quite extensively...values aside, I will take the F50 over the Singer or the Aperta! It is just a pure, unfiltered and amazing experience, especially with full Tubi exhaust and without roof! Every time I was getting out of the car I was staring at it thinking: "what have I just done? is that a dream?"
The Aperta clearly is unreal in terms of performance...the way it accelerates, brakes, turns in...it's a bloody spaceship on the ground and makes everything else obsolete. You need to re-calibrate your brain in order to push through the gears, I was always short shifting at around 6k rpms and the feeling was already that I was flying more than driving. To keep the foot down in 2nd or 3rd till 9k rpms you just need to force yourself and commit to it...not ashamed to say that my right foot became quite stiff every time I did that, first time that something like this happened to me.
I have seen a couple of F50's in the metal, but never been lucky enough to be in one, let alone drive one. That has to be one ticked off the bucket list for you? The Aperta clearly is unreal in terms of performance...the way it accelerates, brakes, turns in...it's a bloody spaceship on the ground and makes everything else obsolete. You need to re-calibrate your brain in order to push through the gears, I was always short shifting at around 6k rpms and the feeling was already that I was flying more than driving. To keep the foot down in 2nd or 3rd till 9k rpms you just need to force yourself and commit to it...not ashamed to say that my right foot became quite stiff every time I did that, first time that something like this happened to me.
I imagine the Aperta to be just a little 'too' mental. Would I be right in thinking the F50 (and Tubi) made you feel incredibly special no matter what the speed, whereas the Aperta made you feel special because of the speed? (if that makes sense?)
Even my car gets very illegal, very quickly if you rev it out to the red line in pretty much any gear, so I can imagine needing the extra special nature of the F50 for those 'slow' times.
Maxige said:
I drove both the Aperta and the F50 on those roads quite extensively...values aside, I will take the F50 over the Singer or the Aperta! It is just a pure, unfiltered and amazing experience, especially with full Tubi exhaust and without roof! Every time I was getting out of the car I was staring at it thinking: "what have I just done? is that a dream?"
The Aperta clearly is unreal in terms of performance...the way it accelerates, brakes, turns in...it's a bloody spaceship on the ground and makes everything else obsolete. You need to re-calibrate your brain in order to push through the gears, I was always short shifting at around 6k rpms and the feeling was already that I was flying more than driving. To keep the foot down in 2nd or 3rd till 9k rpms you just need to force yourself and commit to it...not ashamed to say that my right foot became quite stiff every time I did that, first time that something like this happened to me.
Very nice. Which is yours? I think what I love most about the Singer is that it can hold its head high in that company, on those roads but then disappear into anonymity when you're doing 5mph in a traffic jam through a st part of south London on the way home. The Aperta clearly is unreal in terms of performance...the way it accelerates, brakes, turns in...it's a bloody spaceship on the ground and makes everything else obsolete. You need to re-calibrate your brain in order to push through the gears, I was always short shifting at around 6k rpms and the feeling was already that I was flying more than driving. To keep the foot down in 2nd or 3rd till 9k rpms you just need to force yourself and commit to it...not ashamed to say that my right foot became quite stiff every time I did that, first time that something like this happened to me.
Wonderful pictures and lovely to see the Singer with the tail out, are they really £700k? I toyed with the idea of a Paul Stephens creation a couple of years ago (before I decided to do my brains on a house build) but thought the price was beyond my man maths button, have owned many 911's and adore the Singer but at that price it is way beyond my dreams, but good for you Max.
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