What is your dream car?

Its still a volkswagen.

Damm you replied, tried to move it into the padded cell but nevermind, Adam? Sorry.

The Veyron's a bit ott for me. It would have to be a DB9, even though I know it's only a Ford.

Mark

One of those late fifties Volvos for me. It would go fast enough for me, and no one would be too upset if I chugged along at fifty miles an hour either! Currently got a 1989 240, which is bloody marvelous, with 0-60, whenever, and 96 as top speed, achieved just once.

Fredrik

here in LA LA land I get to see lots of hot cars. last month I followed a silver Aston Martin DB9 for a mile then got to see it from teh side and front in traffic. WOW what a hunk of metal.

tho I have to say I'd rather have a smaller sports car. Great handling and good milage. Lotus would be fun. Alfa too is an option.

I drive a Focus ZX5, 26 MPH is great with our recent cost of gass at $3.20 a gallon. Wonder whay there are so many Hummers on the road. What a waste.

My idea of voyage.

Ever driven a Hummer?

Too much?

Here some temptation

From the front.....

The heart....

Seeing Gianluigi's pictures made me think of the beautiful Mercedes convertible in the ODESSA Fyle with Jon Voigt. Now I could enjoy one of those!

Fredrik

PS: My Norwegian grandfather bought new a black 1958 M 190 saloon, which replace a 1948 Morris Oxford Woody Traveller. He sold the Merc as being not a patch on the Morris and bought a Rambler! That is a car we never see anymore.

What about this old lady?

Old ladies know it better!

Wellspyder

Having today paid £0.97.9p per litre for diesel, you might at least have included the photo of the matching petrol tanker required to follow the Veyron - I seem to recall Clarkson stating 13 minutes at top whack is all it takes to go from full to empty. Somewhat takes the shine off for me! Does the Veyron have a Naim audio system? I take it there is some obscure link or merely a test for Mr Merideth?

Peter

This can be tune to over 1000bhp for less cash!

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Originally posted by northpole:
Wellspyder

Having today paid £0.97.9p per litre for diesel, you might at least have included the photo of the matching petrol tanker required to follow the Veyron - I seem to recall Clarkson stating 13 minutes at top whack is all it takes to go from full to empty. Somewhat takes the shine off for me! Does the Veyron have a Naim audio system? I take it there is some obscure link or merely a test for Mr Merideth?

Peter

100 litres tank, at full trottle, emptied in under 10mins is what I recall. If you can afford this car, then fueling it is not going to be an issue likewise insuring it. Only drawback, price etc aside, is the range before needing a top up .

The W16 soundtrack is good enough for me. Is naim doing a car sound system also?

Veyron is not really a drivers car - it is a car all about numbers - very big and impressive ones but numbers nontheless.

I say this as it is simply too heavy. Great sports cars should be light in nature that makes it far easier to brake and steer. Therefore less suspension loads, less tyre stress, greater cornering choices.

It also uses a lot of forced induction to get the numbers and this is at the cost of a high boost threshold - what we call 'lag'. Put your foot down in the Veyron and wait for two seconds before you go. The turbos take time to spool and then there are two tonnes of inertia to overcome before you move off.

To me the greatest sports car ever made would have to be the McLaren F1. Light, powerful and driveable. On any tight track the Veyron would not see where the F1 had gone. Put your foot down in one of these and you are already into next week.

In the real world my dream car would be a 997 GT3 or a Subaru Spec C Type RA.

And a Cayenne Turbo for shopping and frightening the socially concious

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Originally posted by vampyriaerotica:
This can be tune to over 1000bhp for less cash!

Keith Cowie's Skyline has done a standing quarter in 9.3s at 169mph - so easily competitive with the Veyron at a fraction of the cost!

While the Bugatti is very very sweet. And I have many wishfull thinking type cars that I may or may not ever get to even see. The top of that list varies depending on my mood, what race I had been at, or what just went flying buy me on the freeway. As someone mention before here in LA there are so so many cool car out here and it is so much fun being a car lover like me (more of a race fan really)

That being said, I just put a deposit on a:

2007 Audi S6 with a (mostly)Aluminum V10 putting out 435 HP & 398 PFTThe motor is based on the aluminum Lambrogini V10, the S6 will look mostly like the A6 but for some cool and subtle stying cues, such as flaried wheel well to accomdate the 19in tires; it has also been lowered and inch and has larger air intakes as part of the front grill which are also home to the LED daytime running light(as strip of them along the top of the air intake)

They should be shipping September/October of this year. Why this and not the M5? Audi is not controlling the mark-up, I am not paying ANY ark-up. Unlike the 20K added to the 81K to the M5 just because they can money..

John

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Originally posted by SpecCled Trout:
Veyron is not really a drivers car - it is a car all about numbers - very big and impressive ones but numbers nontheless.

Even so, it is still a magnificent car, despite set backs etc (difficult birth), the final product is a testament to perseverence and engineering marvel. That is the appeal. Supercars are not suppose to be practical as oppose to hi-fi like Naim Audio.

fredrick,
i really miss my 240s - i had a '77 and an '81. each had around 300k mi when i let them go. i nicknamed the '77, "the last bastion of free love and true democracy". the '81 was fugg isht brown, so no nickname needed.

my dream auto is a Westfalia though. nothing like the open road and hanging out in a great american nation park after humping it all day long in the saddle. pop up the pop-up, crank up some Grateful Dead bootlegs (there'd be room enough to mount a pair of n-Sats), shuffle the cards, and suck some brews with Jesus and Willie.

PACE

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The motor is based on the aluminum Lambrogini V10,

Well no, it isnt really. No common parts at all. Even the bore spacing is different, I recall. Not built one the same line either.

The Veyron is pug ugly.