Does any one here know a Ferrari replica owner?
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I also was at a show this weekend where there was a stand of replicas. One was absolutely hideous, clearly not what was intended, some of the MR2-based cars were actually quite convincing and didn't look half bad, being well put together and so on. There was a GTO replica wearing show plates of "250 GTO" which was a pretty good looking car. So they vary a lot.
We got on the subject of why you'd spend so much money getting an MR2, converting it into a 355 or whatever, rather than saving up a bit more and getting a bargain version of the real thing, and came to the conclusion that it's just running costs. Let's face it, other than the really poor examples, the average man in the street can't tell the difference until they hear it.
We got on the subject of why you'd spend so much money getting an MR2, converting it into a 355 or whatever, rather than saving up a bit more and getting a bargain version of the real thing, and came to the conclusion that it's just running costs. Let's face it, other than the really poor examples, the average man in the street can't tell the difference until they hear it.
I know someone with a yellow 355 rep mr2, he is the biggest bulls
tter I know many a talk tail told by him to impress his teenage mistresses (the guy is in his late 30's) that he has on go behind his wives back. His previous vehicle of choice was a shoddy escort cosworth based on an xr3i painted in god awful flip paint, he also tried to pass this car off as real to anyone who was unfortunate enough to strike up a coversation with him. All in all a massive bell end. Apologies for the lack of paragraphs but im posting from my classic nokia!
tter I know many a talk tail told by him to impress his teenage mistresses (the guy is in his late 30's) that he has on go behind his wives back. His previous vehicle of choice was a shoddy escort cosworth based on an xr3i painted in god awful flip paint, he also tried to pass this car off as real to anyone who was unfortunate enough to strike up a coversation with him. All in all a massive bell end. Apologies for the lack of paragraphs but im posting from my classic nokia!firman said:
£25k for this 
Or work a little harder and haggle some and have a much cooler real one for £30k ish
That 430 doesn't look right. The proportions are totally wrong. Almost every advert for these type of cars states 100% like the real thing whereas in fact they all look cr@p. Or work a little harder and haggle some and have a much cooler real one for £30k ish
The only decent kits I've seen are the ones built from the ground up. Anything based on an mr2 or 406 is destined to look rubbish regardless of how much money you throw at it !
A slightly different perspective for those who are interested.
I don't drive a Ferrari replica, but I do drive an MR2 with some styling tweaks which some may deem as me trying to make it into a Ferrari knockoff of some sort.
The car has a couple of off-the-shelf bodykit parts such as the front lip and the sideskirts, but it also has some custom built extended buttress pieces (C-pillar) which I personally designed. I've built the car this way because I love the stying traits of Pininfarina designs of the 80s and 90s and I wanted something that would echo those looks which I love, that I'd be able to actually have on my driveway within a reasonable budget, and didn't pretend to be anything it's not. Hence this is an MR2.5 (keeping the styling of the MR2 with some extra bits) rather than a 355 "replica".
I didn't do it for attention, though it isn't unwelcome. At least once a week I'll see a small boy somewhere that tugs at their mum's sleeve and points at the car, or gives me a thumbs up as I drive past - always cheers me up after a long day. I'll always remember pulling into a supermarket petrol station in the middle of a Wales run with some other folk with interesting - but not expensive - cars, and hearing two young lads' gasps of awe at our convoy, nearly falling off their bikes in the process.
I remember being a lad like that, and now I can finally own a car that I would have been flabbergasted by as a boy.
Mainly I built the car because I wanted to look at it, and I do - it was completed over a year ago and I still turn to look back at it in the car park on my way into work, or sneak a peek from an upstairs window. It makes it feel even more special to drive & I'm not bored with it. I have a few more bodywork tweaks in mind to experiment with for the future (such as a ducktail spoiler, wider arches, revised rear lights) and just today I've spent the afternoon in the office of a man who regularly puts 3.0 V6s in the back of MR2s such as mine (unfortunately I wasn't that impressed with the drive, so I'm going to have to save a little longer for the 3.5 from the Evora).
In summary, I built it for myself because I like the way it looks and feels to drive, and it makes me feel great when other people like it too. Nobody's ever been rude (to my face) about it but I appreciate it's not to everyone's taste. However, it makes me happy, and I imagine that's why these replica builders do it too, so I always try to defend the practice. The people who buy pre-built replicas, though, could be a different matter altogether...
I don't drive a Ferrari replica, but I do drive an MR2 with some styling tweaks which some may deem as me trying to make it into a Ferrari knockoff of some sort.
The car has a couple of off-the-shelf bodykit parts such as the front lip and the sideskirts, but it also has some custom built extended buttress pieces (C-pillar) which I personally designed. I've built the car this way because I love the stying traits of Pininfarina designs of the 80s and 90s and I wanted something that would echo those looks which I love, that I'd be able to actually have on my driveway within a reasonable budget, and didn't pretend to be anything it's not. Hence this is an MR2.5 (keeping the styling of the MR2 with some extra bits) rather than a 355 "replica".
I didn't do it for attention, though it isn't unwelcome. At least once a week I'll see a small boy somewhere that tugs at their mum's sleeve and points at the car, or gives me a thumbs up as I drive past - always cheers me up after a long day. I'll always remember pulling into a supermarket petrol station in the middle of a Wales run with some other folk with interesting - but not expensive - cars, and hearing two young lads' gasps of awe at our convoy, nearly falling off their bikes in the process.
I remember being a lad like that, and now I can finally own a car that I would have been flabbergasted by as a boy.
Mainly I built the car because I wanted to look at it, and I do - it was completed over a year ago and I still turn to look back at it in the car park on my way into work, or sneak a peek from an upstairs window. It makes it feel even more special to drive & I'm not bored with it. I have a few more bodywork tweaks in mind to experiment with for the future (such as a ducktail spoiler, wider arches, revised rear lights) and just today I've spent the afternoon in the office of a man who regularly puts 3.0 V6s in the back of MR2s such as mine (unfortunately I wasn't that impressed with the drive, so I'm going to have to save a little longer for the 3.5 from the Evora).
In summary, I built it for myself because I like the way it looks and feels to drive, and it makes me feel great when other people like it too. Nobody's ever been rude (to my face) about it but I appreciate it's not to everyone's taste. However, it makes me happy, and I imagine that's why these replica builders do it too, so I always try to defend the practice. The people who buy pre-built replicas, though, could be a different matter altogether...
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