Porsche Carrera gt replica on porsche boxster
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Since when has the amount of work that's gone into something been the deciding factor in its worth as a finished piece?
Look at that thread with the yellow chav'd up Astra. I'm sure the chap has spent several thousand pounds on it, the paintwork took a great many hours, and so forth - but all of that is irrelevant, it could be his entire life's work for all it matters, because at the end of the day it still looks like the bodykit is made of whipped cream and the car still looks like it's waiting to be repaired after a cat C.
Equally I could spend 20 years whittling a precise scale replica of the Eiffel Tower out of one of my own turds - it may be a remarkable achievement and the worksmanship impeccable, but at the end of the day every single person I show it to is still going to think I'm a bit daffy!
The worksmanship on this car seems to be very good, and a great deal of effort has gone into it, HOWEVER that doesn't change the fact that you've made a Boxster look like a sort of melted, chinese knock-off of a CGT that will fool absolutely nobody because it's trying to be something it's not, and the physical reality of the differing wheelbase, cockpit size, and other proportions mean that it will always look "a bit off" and therefore, WRONG.
I imagine if you had instead spent all your time and money on styling a new, individual sportscar design based on the Boxster chassis, then I imagine this thread would have gone very differently - again, provided it actually looked good, was well-styled with good proportions etc.
Once again to reiterate: the fact that you spent a lot of time and money on producing this vehicle does not allow you to expect people to overlook the fact that it doesn't look very good!
Look at that thread with the yellow chav'd up Astra. I'm sure the chap has spent several thousand pounds on it, the paintwork took a great many hours, and so forth - but all of that is irrelevant, it could be his entire life's work for all it matters, because at the end of the day it still looks like the bodykit is made of whipped cream and the car still looks like it's waiting to be repaired after a cat C.
Equally I could spend 20 years whittling a precise scale replica of the Eiffel Tower out of one of my own turds - it may be a remarkable achievement and the worksmanship impeccable, but at the end of the day every single person I show it to is still going to think I'm a bit daffy!
The worksmanship on this car seems to be very good, and a great deal of effort has gone into it, HOWEVER that doesn't change the fact that you've made a Boxster look like a sort of melted, chinese knock-off of a CGT that will fool absolutely nobody because it's trying to be something it's not, and the physical reality of the differing wheelbase, cockpit size, and other proportions mean that it will always look "a bit off" and therefore, WRONG.
I imagine if you had instead spent all your time and money on styling a new, individual sportscar design based on the Boxster chassis, then I imagine this thread would have gone very differently - again, provided it actually looked good, was well-styled with good proportions etc.
Once again to reiterate: the fact that you spent a lot of time and money on producing this vehicle does not allow you to expect people to overlook the fact that it doesn't look very good!
gtsupercars said:
and the guy who supplies the charger says there are no need for engine mods just remaping,he says engine is bullit proof, and remember the porsche boxster 3.2 is good for 165mph anyway!!!check out stats.
Remapping. Spell it. Bullet. Spell it. "There are no need for engine mods". Grammar police here...As with your comment earlier about what you though PistonHeads was, you're right. It is for people who appreciate cars, however you appear to have a sheep in wolf's clothing. No I didn't get that the wrong was round. Stop getting on your high horse about comments that may adversely affect your ego, and just try and be adult about it. I'm only 17, and I can tell how God awful it is, I can spell, I use correct grammar...Now which one of those 3 can you tick off? None I hear you say? Oh well, better luck next time. No doubt people might've been more warming towards you had you taken comments on board, but you seem to be returning fire. What other people have said is clearly right, you SHOULD have researched this website and its community further before you tried selling us a lemon. It makes me angry that you want to come across as being pig headed and pompous by turning up to the traffic lights for attention. You know what? I'm willing to bet some of those taking photographs of your car want to use them for a comedy night they've been planning.RR
CooperS said:
Do you know what this bloody saying "what did you think was going to happen its PH" is hacking me off!!! WHAT THE F!
Yes we havent liked chavs in obviously dangrous shopping karts but we are all suppose to be enthusiats enjoying array of different types of car and we all should be grown up enough to take a step back and appricate someones hard graft?
If it had been a Boxster based kit car of original design (or even of derivative design but not originally badged) I don't think it would be getting the same stick. Yes we havent liked chavs in obviously dangrous shopping karts but we are all suppose to be enthusiats enjoying array of different types of car and we all should be grown up enough to take a step back and appricate someones hard graft?
It seems to me that the one thing guaranteed to attract a stoning on PH is driving a car which is perceived as giving or being intended to give a false impression of your personal wealth, and a replica supercar was always going to fall foul of that tendency.
Ren-Raku said:
gtsupercars said:
and the guy who supplies the charger says there are no need for engine mods just remaping,he says engine is bullit proof, and remember the porsche boxster 3.2 is good for 165mph anyway!!!check out stats.
Remapping. Spell it. Bullet. Spell it. "There are no need for engine mods". Grammar police here...As with your comment earlier about what you though PistonHeads was, you're right. It is for people who appreciate cars, however you appear to have a sheep in wolf's clothing. No I didn't get that the wrong was round. Stop getting on your high horse about comments that may adversely affect your ego, and just try and be adult about it. I'm only 17, and I can tell how God awful it is, I can spell, I use correct grammar...Now which one of those 3 can you tick off? None I hear you say? Oh well, better luck next time. No doubt people might've been more warming towards you had you taken comments on board, but you seem to be returning fire. What other people have said is clearly right, you SHOULD have researched this website and its community further before you tried selling us a lemon. It makes me angry that you want to come across as being pig headed and pompous by turning up to the traffic lights for attention. You know what? I'm willing to bet some of those taking photographs of your car want to use them for a comedy night they've been planning.RR
gtsupercars said:
...more defensive stuff...
Gt,
My last statement was a serious question. It was not intended as criticism, or as a joke. I have nothing against people doing whatever they like to their own cars (with one caveat, see below). The results may not be my cup of tea - but it's their money, it's their choice = no problem. Honestly, I'm saddened by the number of "look at what this person's done to his <insert model here>" posts on this forum. That's schoolboy stuff.
As long as it's original, then I believe people should be free to do what they want. However, I don't believe that pretending to be something you're not, and doing it badly, helps anyone. It doesn't help the manufacturer or owners of the real ones. It doesn't help most of the customers of the replicas, who initially don't know any better. It certainly does not help the kit-car industry as a whole. Inaccurate replicas fall into this category (imho). Sorry, but this is where I draw the line.
So, back to my last statement. You've obviously got the time, money & (most importantly) motivation to do something special - why not try an original next time?
Ln.
R4PID said:
Ren-Raku said:
gtsupercars said:
and the guy who supplies the charger says there are no need for engine mods just remaping,he says engine is bullit proof, and remember the porsche boxster 3.2 is good for 165mph anyway!!!check out stats.
Remapping. Spell it. Bullet. Spell it. "There are no need for engine mods". Grammar police here...As with your comment earlier about what you though PistonHeads was, you're right. It is for people who appreciate cars, however you appear to have a sheep in wolf's clothing. No I didn't get that the wrong was round. Stop getting on your high horse about comments that may adversely affect your ego, and just try and be adult about it. I'm only 17, and I can tell how God awful it is, I can spell, I use correct grammar...Now which one of those 3 can you tick off? None I hear you say? Oh well, better luck next time. No doubt people might've been more warming towards you had you taken comments on board, but you seem to be returning fire. What other people have said is clearly right, you SHOULD have researched this website and its community further before you tried selling us a lemon. It makes me angry that you want to come across as being pig headed and pompous by turning up to the traffic lights for attention. You know what? I'm willing to bet some of those taking photographs of your car want to use them for a comedy night they've been planning.RR
Rawwr said:
Ren-Raku said:
I can spell, I use correct grammar...
You really, really can't 
twcullen said:
Ren-Raku said:
I didn't think it was possible to hate the Boxter any more than I did, but you've shown me the error of my ways!
RR
You young man are a Cock! Do you even own a car or have a driving license? RR
RR
vz-r_dave said:
Dave D said:
Holy sh
t.
Gonna have to consider getting out of the Boxster sooner than planned if they're already falling into the hands of the chavistas. Not six hours ago did I see the first chavtastic TT and now we have this abomination.
Note the geezer on the right desperately trying to get off camera before being associated with that heap of tat.
You purchased a poor mans porsche what do you expect, I see chavs in these everyday aviator sunglasses and try hard haircuts etc. t.Gonna have to consider getting out of the Boxster sooner than planned if they're already falling into the hands of the chavistas. Not six hours ago did I see the first chavtastic TT and now we have this abomination.
Note the geezer on the right desperately trying to get off camera before being associated with that heap of tat.
Jgtv said:
There is no doubt a lot of work gone into it but I would only ever consider it as an option if the other choice was Aids.
why would you waste your money on a boxter in the first place pfff
Perhaps its a sign of how the great unwashed chavarazzi got themselves so hilariously fooked after labelling £30k cars as cheap. But rest assured that as a poor man I'll be considering your riches whilst roof down listening to that flat six wail.
kambites said:
twcullen said:
Ren-Raku said:
I didn't think it was possible to hate the Boxter any more than I did, but you've shown me the error of my ways!
RR
You young man are a Cock! Do you even own a car or have a driving license? RR
I love the Boxster. l also love the Elise. Peace man.
Rawwr said:
Ren-Raku said:
What was wrong with my spelling?
Your spelling isn't completely horrific, although this 'Boxter' you keep referring to is a mystery to me. However, your grammar and punctuation come across as being quite 'junior school'.Edited by Rawwr on Tuesday 28th October 12:41
Ren-Raku said:
No, you are wrong. I am not a cock, and I believe in assuming that I am one, shows you up as one. I have a provisional driving license, and if you had read the whole of my post, you'd have realised that I'm 17. If you're going on about "Oh the Boxter is so great I wanna suck it off!" kind of thing, I couldn't really care. Didn't want a real Porsche sir? Everytime I see one, I have to wonder if it's just going really fast in reverse. End of. I don't like the styling of it, and that's my opinion. If you're here to try and change my opinion, then you'll have trouble.
RR
Boxter?RR
Ren-Raku said:
"Oh the Boxter is so great I wanna suck it off!" kind of thing, I couldn't really care. Didn't want a real Porsche sir?
RR
Are you serious?RR
Have you driven a Boxster? I personally haven't, so I certainly wouldn't slate it.
You don't even have a license?
I was under the impression it was generally regarded as one of the best cars in its class?
I can only assume when you purchase your first car, that it's going to be the top of range model in that Marque?
OwenK said:
Since when has the amount of work that's gone into something been the deciding factor in its worth as a finished piece?
Look at that thread with the yellow chav'd up Astra. I'm sure the chap has spent several thousand pounds on it, the paintwork took a great many hours, and so forth - but all of that is irrelevant, it could be his entire life's work for all it matters, because at the end of the day it still looks like the bodykit is made of whipped cream and the car still looks like it's waiting to be repaired after a cat C.
Equally I could spend 20 years whittling a precise scale replica of the Eiffel Tower out of one of my own turds - it may be a remarkable achievement and the worksmanship impeccable, but at the end of the day every single person I show it to is still going to think I'm a bit daffy!
The worksmanship on this car seems to be very good, and a great deal of effort has gone into it, HOWEVER that doesn't change the fact that you've made a Boxster look like a sort of melted, chinese knock-off of a CGT that will fool absolutely nobody because it's trying to be something it's not, and the physical reality of the differing wheelbase, cockpit size, and other proportions mean that it will always look "a bit off" and therefore, WRONG.
I imagine if you had instead spent all your time and money on styling a new, individual sportscar design based on the Boxster chassis, then I imagine this thread would have gone very differently - again, provided it actually looked good, was well-styled with good proportions etc.
Once again to reiterate: the fact that you spent a lot of time and money on producing this vehicle does not allow you to expect people to overlook the fact that it doesn't look very good!
For me that is the nail couldn't be hit any squarer on the head without the aid of a really expensive machine designed purely to guide the hammer to the head of the nail with absolute micrometer measured accuracy predetermined by some very smart people. Who probably work at NASA or something.Look at that thread with the yellow chav'd up Astra. I'm sure the chap has spent several thousand pounds on it, the paintwork took a great many hours, and so forth - but all of that is irrelevant, it could be his entire life's work for all it matters, because at the end of the day it still looks like the bodykit is made of whipped cream and the car still looks like it's waiting to be repaired after a cat C.
Equally I could spend 20 years whittling a precise scale replica of the Eiffel Tower out of one of my own turds - it may be a remarkable achievement and the worksmanship impeccable, but at the end of the day every single person I show it to is still going to think I'm a bit daffy!
The worksmanship on this car seems to be very good, and a great deal of effort has gone into it, HOWEVER that doesn't change the fact that you've made a Boxster look like a sort of melted, chinese knock-off of a CGT that will fool absolutely nobody because it's trying to be something it's not, and the physical reality of the differing wheelbase, cockpit size, and other proportions mean that it will always look "a bit off" and therefore, WRONG.
I imagine if you had instead spent all your time and money on styling a new, individual sportscar design based on the Boxster chassis, then I imagine this thread would have gone very differently - again, provided it actually looked good, was well-styled with good proportions etc.
Once again to reiterate: the fact that you spent a lot of time and money on producing this vehicle does not allow you to expect people to overlook the fact that it doesn't look very good!
Top post Sir, although I would lay good money that it will be ignored by the person posting pictures of the 'thing' (and to my mind trying to sell it on an open forum where no advertising is allowed)
For what it's worth it looks like it was designed by someone who was being told what to draw by someone else who once saw a Carrera GT. A long time ago. And was describing it from memory.
Ren-Raku said:
Didn't want a real Porsche sir? Everytime I see one, I have to wonder if it's just going really fast in reverse. End of. I don't like the styling of it, and that's my opinion. If you're here to try and change my opinion, then you'll have trouble.
RR
Your opinion on the styling, fair enough.RR
Not a real Porsche?
Now your a cock.
sgathore said:
gathore said:Ren-Raku said:
"Oh the Boxter is so great I wanna suck it off!" kind of thing, I couldn't really care. Didn't want a real Porsche sir?
RR
Are you serious?RR
Have you driven a Boxster? I personally haven't, so I certainly wouldn't slate it.
You don't even have a license?
I was under the impression it was generally regarded as one of the best cars in its class?
I can only assume when you purchase your first car, that it's going to be the top of range model in that Marque?
RR
I think I've made my stance on replica's pretty clear on here before, I'll defend pretty much anyones right to own / build one, so in a similar theme I'll try and keep my comments constructive.
gt - Your Lambo replica looks good from the pic posted (I'd certainly like more details) but I think you're standards have slipped a tad on the GT. Several elements of it conspire to really ruin a brilliant opportunity. I think with some more work it could be made to look excellent but at the moment it's really not there and the little problems combine to make a whole that is really quite jarring.
Missing the cue lines and repeater reveals on the front arches really is poor, and the curvature and position of the rear arches makes it look less aggressively stanced, more submissively sagged. The lack of sill/clam line on the rear arch removes an important visual element that prevents the rear panel looking obese. The rear lights are the biggest faux pas though - seriously, they look awful. Rather than making the car look wide and purposeful they make it look pinched and goofy. At the price you are looking at, would some genuine GT lights really be that much of an additional outlay? (or at least, a reasonable replication of them!).
Hopefully you'll take this in the way it's intended - a small redress of your hard work could result in a car that is visually stunning even if not to the purists acceptance, but what you've got at the moment... if my brother thought of putting that on his 3.2s I'd break his arms so he couldn't reach his wallet.
gt - Your Lambo replica looks good from the pic posted (I'd certainly like more details) but I think you're standards have slipped a tad on the GT. Several elements of it conspire to really ruin a brilliant opportunity. I think with some more work it could be made to look excellent but at the moment it's really not there and the little problems combine to make a whole that is really quite jarring.
Missing the cue lines and repeater reveals on the front arches really is poor, and the curvature and position of the rear arches makes it look less aggressively stanced, more submissively sagged. The lack of sill/clam line on the rear arch removes an important visual element that prevents the rear panel looking obese. The rear lights are the biggest faux pas though - seriously, they look awful. Rather than making the car look wide and purposeful they make it look pinched and goofy. At the price you are looking at, would some genuine GT lights really be that much of an additional outlay? (or at least, a reasonable replication of them!).
Hopefully you'll take this in the way it's intended - a small redress of your hard work could result in a car that is visually stunning even if not to the purists acceptance, but what you've got at the moment... if my brother thought of putting that on his 3.2s I'd break his arms so he couldn't reach his wallet.
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