RE: Singer and Williams AE engine collaboration!

RE: Singer and Williams AE engine collaboration!

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PhantomPH

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4,043 posts

224 months

Tuesday 15th August 2017
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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!! biggrin
Singer for me. What a trip. How come you guys had a closed section of road (or am I being dim and it was closed wink?)
I assume we are all levelling the 'value' playing field for the sake of comparison? Otherwise of course we would all take the Aperta, sell it and buy an F50 and five Singers of varying colours. biggrin Ha ha.

Maxige

327 posts

203 months

Tuesday 15th August 2017
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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.

PhantomPH

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4,043 posts

224 months

Tuesday 15th August 2017
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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? smile

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.

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 15th August 2017
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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.

ZX10R NIN

27,495 posts

124 months

Wednesday 16th August 2017
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What a work of art

babatunde

736 posts

189 months

Wednesday 16th August 2017
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Maxige said:
Shall we go back on topic? Just got back from a week of fun driving from South of France to Dolomites...can't even start to imagine how good the new hyper Singer will be!!


Pretty, please let PH have a high resolution of this for pic of the week, please

Beefmeister

16,482 posts

229 months

Wednesday 16th August 2017
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babatunde said:
Pretty, please let PH have a high resolution of this for pic of the week, please
If you right click on it, it's 3724x2094 pixels, how much bigger do you want it to be?! hehe

mylesmcd

2,521 posts

218 months

Tuesday 22nd August 2017
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Shotgun?

mylesmcd

2,521 posts

218 months

Tuesday 22nd August 2017
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Shotgun?

The Vambo

6,643 posts

140 months

Tuesday 22nd August 2017
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mylesmcd said:
Shotgun?
mylesmcd said:
Shotgun?
Double barrelled ?

Blue62

8,751 posts

151 months

Thursday 12th October 2017
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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.