Fight Club Mk2!

[briSk]

Fight club mk2!
you lot have to be spoon fed don;t you?!
The idea is to choose pairs of cars that one might end up with to satisfy a particular 'what car type scenario'.
It's like, y'know a 'fun game'..! Or if it helps you could just imagine that someone had said "oooh i have noticed that an s2000 and a z3m cost similar money which should I buy?"

The thread to find similarish cars of similarish ages but with some very clear differences! Then we will discuss the merits and demerits of the two cars (like we always do until some student lowers the tone.

I have given you three examples then add your own options for discussion

1998 Z3M
http://pistonheads.com/sales/1690720.htm
vs.

2001 S2000
http://pistonheads.com/sales/1759122.htm
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2000 ATR
http://pistonheads.com/sales/1818536.htm

vs.

2000 328Ci
http://pistonheads.com/sales/1725851.htm
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B3 ALPINA (1999)
http://pistonheads.com/sales/1647018.htm

Alfa 156 GTA (2003)
http://pistonheads.com/sales/1691103.htm
(pushing ti a bit but if i'd got a 2002 SillySpeed that would have been the match i'd have been looking for.

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[Deluded]

I don't like this game.

[jon-]

What are we meant to do with the spoon?

[Alex97]

Deluded said:

I don't like this game.

I don't think anyone does. But we have to play before all the students arrive and ruin it like they do!

[briSk]

Fine!
let's all get back to deciding if we should throw energy drinks at rehashed Lambos.

ttfn.

[Harry Flashman]

OK.


Morgan Aero 8

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/1769382.htm






vs





Lambo Gallardo

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/1765761.htm

[Munter]

Morgan. Because it's just cool.

[jon-]

Gallardo. Because it's cool.

[joebongo]

Ok, one for the BMW 7 series bargista's:

E38 750
vs
E38 740

i
vs
iL

Sport
vs
Standard

Never could make up my mind and ended up with 740i sport out of the choices I had which weren't massive!

[A205GTI]

Why dont we just play top trumps with our own cars. (Being honest with them!!)

Like

0-60 -
Top Speed-
Weight-
No of Seats-
Price New-
BHP-
Year-

Oh and a photo of your car would be good

[Munter]

jon- said:

Gallardo. Because it's cool.

Oh no it isn't.

[Harry Flashman]

jon- said:

Gallardo. Because it's cool.

This is the thing. It's the only car that I want to replace my Aero with. It's faster, flashier and more of a supercar - and having just spent a weekend in one, I loved it. And it is, empirically, a far better car than the Morgan.

But the Aero 8 just has that something - I was out in mine last night and the noise, view over the bonnet, rarity just makes every journmey an event. And it is genuinely cooler than the Lambo, if other people's reactions are anything to go by!

I think that this is in the spirit of the thread. For two cars of similar intent in similar price brackets, they do things so very differently.

Basically, I have to own both, don't I. Time to sell family members, then.

[briSk]

Allow me to adjudicate! Aero8 is a katrillion times cooler than a gallardo. gallardo is too erm 'Urban' to be cool. great car though and i see how they both appeal to HF.

(the thing is thoigh that perhaps the aero 8 is a cab and the gallardo a coupe and so they're too different. but then for this type of car perhaps there's less of a 'classification issue once you go into 'mad cars')

Edited by briSk on Friday 25th June 10:47

[jon-]

Harry Flashman said:

Basically, I have to own both, don't I.

Pretty much this. The Aero 8 is undeniably cool to look at (I've not had the pleasure of a go in one yet) and I'd guess it might be the only 'supercar' on the market that doesn't attract ANY negative criticism. I can't think of any reason I'd pick the Gallardo over the Aero 8, but I just would. Sometimes a bit of negative attention is a good thing

The Aero 8 is a classic beauty, the Audrey Hepburn of the car world. You'd love it, cherish it, everyone would be enamoured to it.

The Gallardo is a little more like Megan Fox. You really want a go, and it would probably be an angry sweaty affair, but not a life long love. One you might not tell your mum about either...

Erm, what were we talking about?

[Harry Flashman]

jon- said:

Harry Flashman said:

Basically, I have to own both, don't I.

Pretty much this. The Aero 8 is undeniably cool to look at (I've not had the pleasure of a go in one yet) and I'd guess it might be the only 'supercar' on the market that doesn't attract ANY negative criticism. I can't think of any reason I'd pick the Gallardo over the Aero 8, but I just would. Sometimes a bit of negative attention is a good thing

The Aero 8 is a classic beauty, the Audrey Hepburn of the car world. You'd love it, cherish it, everyone would be enamoured to it.

The Gallardo is a little more like Megan Fox. You really want a go, and it would probably be an angry sweaty affair, but not a life long love. One you might not tell your mum about either...

Erm, what were we talking about?

I think that's sort of spot on. Even the way I drive the Aero reflects this. It's supremely capable - rose jointed suspension, ace brakes, bonded aluminium tub chassis. But I really just rumble along, opening the taps to hear that amazing noise and enjoy the feeling of being catapulted towards the horizon by something that looks like it belongs in the 1930s. This car is a lady, and gets a suite at the Astoria.

I treated the Gallardo like a we as soon as it was warmed up. This was, as you say, Megan Fox, a motel room and a lot of blow.

Very different. Both awesome.

[jon-]

I think we've moved on to a whole new fight now.

Harry Flashman said:

a lady, a suite at the Astoria.

vs

Megan Fox, a motel room and a lot of blow.

Probably both cost around the same but have a very different performance. My money is still firmly with the Gallardo

[mat59]

doogz said:

Didn't this fall on its' arse yesterday when you tried it?

Anyway, i'd take all the BMW's, except maybe the 328, i had a soft spot for ATR's.

Having said that, i'm looking at buying a 2000 just now, and i did consider Z3M, but they're too thirsty for the number of miles i do.

If you do lots of miles you'll probably find the Z3M to be just as good as the S2000, maybe better. It's the same engine as they E36 M3, which is known, on a run, to do mid thirties and that's not dawdling along at 70 either. My S2000 used to do about 30 mpg on a run at a bout 80ish. Don't buy an S2000 if you do loads of motorway driving as it's hard work.

[Arese]

Ahhh I understand it now, well explained.



Panasonic MX600 with Panacrunch

vs


Daewoo MW3000

Panasonic wins because of it's simply amazing ability to crustify things.

Edited by Arese on Friday 25th June 14:05

[briSk]

arese, another confrontation i can;t decide if you're:

or


( )


it might not be working quite right but i still think this is a reasonable idea. but i acknowledge it has fallen on its arse. I had to re-do it as mk2 because things certainly never take off if you leave it with all the naysayer comments!

[Arese]

briSk said:

arese, another confrontation i can;t decide if you're:

or

I'm only playing. Slow day at work!