Cars and other kinds of motoring gibberish

gaijin mark wrote:Do they have a "Car of the Year" category for normal people or just the mega-rich :shakehead:

you mean you don't have a bugatti?! :hehe:

[image] Jay Leno's Bugatti(one of them anyway) this is about as close as I'll ever get to a Bugatti :beaten:

kenjilina wrote:oh what a surprise! :rofl:
http://cars.msn.co.uk/caroftheyear2006/

Hmm, no one mentioned that the car was butt-ugly. :beaten:

^ Naaah, who is looking at the outward appearance, when it's flying with 400km/h? It's just a blur in the scenery :hehe:.

Watched Bugatti Veyron in Top Gear and it such a beast, 8.0-litre W16 engine, 1001 bhp.
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I want one :bonk:

Racer wrote:

Hmm, no one mentioned that the car was butt-ugly.

Unfortunately, when some people acquire/accumulate wealth, they don't acquire/accumulate any taste or class to go along with it :shakehead:

gaijin mark wrote:Racer wrote:

Hmm, no one mentioned that the car was butt-ugly.

Unfortunately, when some people acquire/accumulate wealth, they don't acquire/accumulate any taste or class to go along with it :shakehead:

Well put.

I'll settle for one of the wonderful Gordon Murray-designed McLaren F1s... With only 650bhp... ;)

bmwracer wrote:
Well put.

I'll settle for one of the wonderful Gordon Murray-designed McLaren F1s... With only 650bhp... ;)

is that because it has a bmw engine? :hehe:

kenjilina wrote: is that because it has a bmw engine? :hehe:

Damn, you saw right through that, didn't you?? :ashamed:

Actually, partly true: I think Gordon Murray's one of the best designers alive... :thumbsup:

bmwracer wrote:
Damn, you saw right through that, didn't you?? :ashamed:

Actually, partly true: I think Gordon Murray's one of the best designers alive... :thumbsup:

i remember reading that 3 companies were considered to supply engines for the f1. one was honda but they went their separate ways. ferrari were also considered but i think there would've been a conflict of interest given their f1 rivalry. bmw were finally chosen.
bet they wouldn't have chosen bmw if the f1 were being built today! :hehe:

kenjilina wrote: i remember reading that 3 companies were considered to supply engines for the f1. one was honda but they went their separate ways. ferrari were also considered but i think there would've been a conflict of interest given their f1 rivalry. bmw were finally chosen.
bet they wouldn't have chosen bmw if the f1 were being built today! :hehe:

Probably not, since McLaren is currently in partnership with M-B. ;)

Another Enzo bites the dust.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=3927255

Police are still searching for the reported driver known only as the german named Deitrich... yeah, i'd let a guy i know only by first name to drive my $1.25 million 1 of 400 car drag race a SLR.

krim wrote:Another Enzo bites the dust.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=3927255

Police are still searching for the reported driver known only as the german named Deitrich... yeah, i'd let a guy i know only by first name to drive my $1.25 million 1 of 400 car drag race a SLR.

Heh, when I saw your name as the last poster, I knew you'd be talking about this story... :D

Man, don't screw with a telephone pole: you'll lose every time. :beaten: That Enzo got cut in half... I saw them hoisting the engine out of the wreckage on the news... Pitiful. :shakehead:

i didn't realize i was so predicitable. :puppydog:

krim wrote:i didn't realize i was so predicitable. :puppydog:

Motorheads know how other motorheads think. ;)

krim wrote:Another Enzo bites the dust.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=3927255

:shamefulcry: :shamefulcry: :shamefulcry:

Dammit, picked up a nail in my tire... Now I gotta get the fool thing patched....


The capper of a dismal week. :bleh:

bmwracer wrote:Dammit, picked up a nail in my tire... Now I gotta get the fool thing patched....


The capper of a dismal week. :bleh:

that'll teach you to pick up strange hitchhiking nails, this isnt the 70's ya know. :hehe:

krim wrote:that'll teach you to pick up strange hitchhiking nails, this isnt the 70's ya know. :hehe:

Yup.

Living in the past. :puppydog:


Interstingly, according to my records, I got a flat tire almost a year ago to the day (2/6/05)... Guh. :headscratch:

at last the racing is under way.
this weekend is world superbikes, f1 in a couple of weeks and then it'll be moto gp. :woot:

kenjilina wrote:

at last the racing is under way.

Nascar started last week, I thought all the people in Britain were big Nascar fans! :hehe: (Dodges brick thrown by kenjilina)