Friday 30th April 2010

Pic Of The Week: Hypercar Heaven

A Zonda, an Enzo and an XJ220? Choices, choices...

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A Zonda C12S, a heavily tweaked XJ220 and a Ferrari Enzo. Not bad cars to have in your garage, really, and even better when this little triumvirate is supplemented - as in this case - by an F430 Spider, a Nissan GTR and a Mercedes SL63 AMG.

But if you can't have them in your own garage, merely being in their presence has got to be pretty special. And if you get a chance to drive them, well, all the better, really.

Which is just what PHer and professional snapper GFWilliams got to do when he shot this trio of supercar legends - lucky swine. Okay, so it was only on a private driveway, but when that drive is half a mile long, we imagine you can get quite a speed up...

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"The Enzo was very easy to drive," says GF. "You can tell with any poke of the throttle that it is a very quick car, although it feels very progressive and not what you would call savage.

"The Zonda had the nicest interior. Everything is very bespoke and I could happily sit in it for hours on end! The sound was just divine from it too, the 7.2-litre Mercedes engine doesn't just look great; it also performs great and sounds great.

"The XJ220 was the most interesting in my opinion. It was tuned by TWR to have about 700bhp and felt like a race car. When you start up the engine it sounds horrible. The V6 out of the Metro 6R4 is clearly a race engine and the term turbo lag would be an understatement (uprated turbos probably do not help matters). When you put your foot down, it accelerates like my Mini for a few seconds, then everything goes supersonic and soon you're hard on the race brakes trying to stop it in the small amount of space."

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Crikey. Doesn't sound like a bad day's work, GF. And not bad POTWs, we feel...

Jaguar XJ220
Normal (1280x1024)
WideScreen (1440x900)
SuperSize (2048x1536)

Pagani Zonda
Normal (1280x1024)
WideScreen (1440x900)
SuperSize (2048x1536)

Ferrari Enzo
Normal (1280x1024)
WideScreen (1440x900)
SuperSize (2048x1536)

[cronk-flakes]

Very tasty work!

As much as I love the other two, the vibrant rosso corsa bodywork of the Enzo as crying for placement on my desktop! Maybe I'll just keep all 3 in rotation!

[Mannginger]

Yet to choose one for the home PC but a great day's work GF!

One comment FWIW (There's always one!). As a Windows user I'd prefer the main subject to be on the right hand side of the pics so it doesn't get "cluttered" by the desktop icons.

[Riggers]

Mannginger said:

Yet to choose one for the home PC but a great day's work GF!

One comment FWIW (There's always one!). As a Windows user I'd prefer the main subject to be on the right hand side of the pics so it doesn't get "cluttered" by the desktop icons.

There is always one . I'm the same - we'll try to bear it mind for future POTWs...

[v1paul]

Supersize Pagani picture opens the supersize Enzo picture guys

[skilly1]

Supersize Zonda pic is linked to Fezza Pic.

[Baltic Trait]

Out of those three I think the XJ220 would be my pick, I like the fact it's a bit understated.

[Riggers]

v1paul said:

Supersize Pagani picture opens the supersize Enzo picture guys

All sorted now, folks...

[Garlick]

Thanks GFW

[JCB123]

YUM! New Zonda background!

[GFWilliams]

Garlick said:

Thanks GFW

No, thank you
Always nice to be published as it doesn't happen much

[Gizmo!]

XJ220 for me. Love the Enzo, love the Pagani, but the big jag's a stunning photo.

[mightymouse]

Gosh some people have a hard way to make a living
Good work






And yes........ I am a litle bit jealous

[tgx4776]

This is an absolutely horrible thing to subject a man to.

[John1974]

I spotted that 220 driving through coventry the other day, still a lovely looking car.

[LukeBird]

Cracking work as always GF!

[Roberty]

Love the XJ220, can't seem to get them out of my head ever since that story about the one that is supposedly abandoned in the Middle East.

I've spent far to long since on Don Law's website looking at all there upgrade options http://www.donlawracing.com/220_Index.htm

Love the Zonda too, Enzo not so much.

I love Ferrari's but just don't get excited about the Enzo at all.

[Petrol_fumes]

That Jag is never shifting from my background... love it

[Or888t]

Really are spoilt for choice there, although the zonda was the winner in the end.

Riggers said:

Mannginger said:

Yet to choose one for the home PC but a great day's work GF!

One comment FWIW (There's always one!). As a Windows user I'd prefer the main subject to be on the right hand side of the pics so it doesn't get "cluttered" by the desktop icons.

There is always one . I'm the same - we'll try to bear it mind for future POTWs...

Can there be two?
I've wondered for like over a year now why those resolutions ?
Arnt the usual monitor resolutions these days;?
1680x1050
1920x1080

And as for desktop icons. you can toggle them on and off like this
Right click;

Thats on vista anyway.

Edited by Or888t on Friday 30th April 14:24

[alexpa]

Have you ever been in an XJ220? It is a barge, a peculiar beast with a bit of a mutton engine (although I didn't mind it in the 6R4. Great pic though!!!

Edited by alexpa on Friday 30th April 14:34

[cronk-flakes]

Riggers said:

Mannginger said:

Yet to choose one for the home PC but a great day's work GF!

One comment FWIW (There's always one!). As a Windows user I'd prefer the main subject to be on the right hand side of the pics so it doesn't get "cluttered" by the desktop icons.

There is always one . I'm the same - we'll try to bear it mind for future POTWs...

Nooo! Mac user here with icons on the right!