Next car?

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Originally posted by tonym:

Ok tonym, you win, apologies for turning your kit to orange.

Just got this one for myself last thursday (exact same color)

I use this:



And it can easily go 200000 miles more.


My father use this sometimes:




For pure dreaming:

Possibly one of the few countries where a vehicle like that is almost mandatory in the winter(the first vehicle).

George, keep the 240 but 'breath' on it like this one: monster 240 :-o

Christian - a 993 Turbo S? Sweet!

Can't help thinking that the Volvo could use some suspension work! 1100BHP really!

One of these:

Dear Christain, and Howard!

That was really funny!

My 240 is twitchy enough in the wet with 116 horsepower. It would never keep a straight line in the wet with more power!

No I need a better chassis! No I don't of course, but it's nice to dream. My real favourite car would be a Morgan. Just the four cylinder version, not a bruiser!

George

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Originally posted by manicatel:

Nice to hear of someone else who isn't afraid to discuss Alfas in a grown up manner!

What, you mean without the normal jibes about rustbuckets and unreliability. Let's just be happy we are ploughing a less populated furrow. I love the Brera looks, but couldn't live with the interior trim, so I kept the GT. But now they've stopped making that gorgeous Arese V6 for the GT, so the next one will probably have to be Brera, albeit with a *cough*spit* GM powerplant.
I'd like a GTA version of the Mi:To though - that would be an excellent pocket rocket!
Is that off-topic enough?

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Originally posted by Hammerhead:

Christian - a 993 Turbo S? Sweet!

On order from the lease company..... not sure if will come with the fancy alloys posted here. Fits all the adults and children and is within my budget so is as dreamy as i get about cars these days

Oh to heck with the kids and wife and sensible options in life, I'll change the lease option to this.................................



Mind I think it's got an awful backside.



Has April Fools Day passed?

I prefer this model in this colour. My children have instructions to buy me one when they make it big!



Mark

Do they do BOGOF deals Mark

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Originally posted by kuma:
dave,

except that a supermodel will not be caught dead in that dinky thing.

Lotus Special Edition Elise California is more like it.

Kuma,

"Nerdy" is What's Happening.

regards,

dave

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Originally posted by Diccus62:
Do they do BOGOF deals Mark

Definitely something ending in 'off' was mentioned when I wandered into an AM dealer recently!

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Do TVR still insist that a 'proper' driver can brake quicker without ABS I wonder

From someone who learned to drive on a racetrack I'd say they were right, I find the ABS on most cars far too intrusive to drive properly. TVR build cars for people who like to drive on the road like one would on a track. If I drove good 'normal' road car like I drive a track car it would be the ABS kicking in too early under late breaking that would kill me!!!

This will be a first attempt by an IT illiterate to attach a photo to a post; so it may or may not work.

For the AM V8 Vantage and/or DB9, it seems to me that going with meteorite / titanium paint is a bit too easy – and the Toro Red is nice but does limit the interior choices.

Onyx Black metallic does it for me (with Iron Ore leather, of course). It seems to give it an air of menace and more presence as a result.

Dan

That AM looks superb and you have the added bonus of some of the best roads in these islands on which to enjoy it.

Peter

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Originally posted by djftw:

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Do TVR still insist that a 'proper' driver can brake quicker without ABS I wonder

From someone who learned to drive on a racetrack I'd say they were right, I find the ABS on most cars far too intrusive to drive properly. TVR build cars for people who like to drive on the road like one would on a track. If I drove good 'normal' road car like I drive a track car it would be the ABS kicking in too early under late breaking that would kill me!!!

.... until the road is a little slippery, on a bend. I'm not aware of anyone that can distribute differential brake pressures to each brake.

Tony

Well on a rally car you can, and when rally driving one does, which was precisely my point! That track cars and road cars are designed for different things and need different driving skills. TVRs are something of an anomaly, and really should only be owned by race drivers!

It isn't ABS that distributes different brake pressures, ABS just detects when a brake has locked and releases it and reengages it repeatedly, a skilled driver will never lock up the brakes in the first place. Only a handful of manufacturers use electronic brake management systems that are capable of distributing brake force differentially.

yeah, a skilled driver will never lock up.... until a child steps off the kerb in front of them, and then suddenly all but the actual F1 drivers of this world find themselves mere mortals as they attempt to charge the brake pedal through the firewall. ABS, for all it's intrusions and faults, saves the asses of real people in real trouble situations.

All this talk of "looks of horror on Porsche drivers" is funny, could it be that the look on their boats is not 'loss of face' but instead is genuine 'concern for your safety' doing *that* in what is more often than not an over-modified bullet operating beyond its designed safety envelope.

Me? Fantasy garage time, any one of the following, with additions where the prerequisite family wagon is already in the garage:
* I'd be very happy with a Diesel X5 Sport (pretty useful as a family wagon category)
* e39 M5 (fantasy touring car category)
* 1971 Ford Falcon GTHO Phase 3 (fantasy muscle car category - and I'm no Ford fan!)
* 993 C2 or C2S (luxury of having a 2 door car in my fantasy garage section)
... and now we get to the everyman's area of my fantasy garage...
* general servicing and tidying up of my Volvo 850 T5 to bring it back to pristene would be welcomed (family utility wagon category)
* a 4 year old diesel double-cab Toyota Hilux 4x4 ute (utility toy for accessing skifields and river spots for fishing category)
* a mid-90's VW Golf GTi 5 door (runabout category)
* a mid-90's e36 BMW 325 or 328 4 door or touring (runabout category).
* my old '89 e30 325i Touring - I still miss it (runabout category).
* last of the hewn-from-rock Mercedes E320 W124 models (family car category).

Yeah, there could be astons, and rare and unusual porsches, and allsorts here, and a run through my list above might appear as "the slackers fantasy car list"... yet as this is my fantasy the pre-requisite would be a 552/550 (and possibly a 555) at home first, so spending too much time on the road simply wouldn't be the choice. #8 )

Boys you are all going at this the wrong way cars just don't cut the fun factor with me you need something like this to inject a bit of joyousness into your lives.





Dean..Cars Pah!

Yeah drive like a idiot and blame the "non-attentive" motorist when it all goes tits up.

Dear Howard,

The safe option is to get an old fashioned Volvo! Everyone knows how bad Volvo drivers are and then steer a wide birth round any such approaching Volvo. It works a treat for me!

It also helps that the car is not naturally racing to go, but makes a steady progress without hassle. It can be very quick at the lights if necessary, and has very fine brakes, but it is no good at cornering fast as it leans quite heavily. Put simply the chassis inspires no confidence in corners at all. In the dry it under-steers, and in the wet it can be tail happy. Interestingly it is quite forgiving once it has broken out, as this is gradual and not a sudden irreversible thing. But at the speeds the car seems to be reasonably cornered at this is perhaps no surprise!

I have never driven a really fast car except once in a Porsche rear engined jobby which was horrible! It twitched like mad on the steering, and gave the sense that even a badly timed sigh at the wheel would put you over the hedge. I never got out of third gear, though did manage 60 mph for a short distance. I suppose the only previous car I had driven me had spoiled me. The Rover 2000 had four turns lock to lock, and required quite a lot of turn to take even a slight bend. Even more than the Volvo actually and that takes some imagining!

I would love to have a go in a Morgan though!

George