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Rich9
Rich9 Posts: 1,635
edited January 2009 in The Crudcatcher
Can't believe the Veyron was only 5th fastest around the track. Guess it's a bit too heavy

Anyone else watch it?
2014 Whyte T-129S
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  • BlackSpur
    BlackSpur Posts: 4,228
    I wasn't expecting it to be fast actually - 'tis very heavy.
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  • big-hitter
    big-hitter Posts: 254
    it sickens me to think that it took only 10 mins for some-one to condem it on this site! its taken me 3 hours to prize my butt off the sofa! :shock:

    it may not be the fastest round a short track and that track is designed to test handling and blah blah blah. all of got to say is...

    would you complain if you had one?
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  • Rich9
    Rich9 Posts: 1,635
    Not complaining at all, more upset about it than anything else :cry: , The car is an absolute masterpiece in my eyes. Really wanted it to do well, and thought it would cream it

    ...and no i wouldn't complain if i had one. In fact i wasnt complaining to start with, merely a comment on my disappointment
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  • JackBenson59
    JackBenson59 Posts: 118
    To be honest, I had a feeling that it wouldn't make the top. The pagani seemed it would be obvoiusly faster round their track.
  • Surf-Matt
    Surf-Matt Posts: 5,952
    Oh but the sound!!

    It does weigh nearly two tonnes - that a LOT!
  • jayson
    jayson Posts: 4,606
    Its still not exactly a milk float round the track is it, i mean 1.18.3 (i think) is still a blisteringly fast time and had the track been a full size GP circuit im sure it would have been at the top.

    Ive gotta say i absolutely love the car in white, its like a piece of modern art in motion and MUCH better than the silly 2 tone colour schemes they're usually in.
    Remedy

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  • ride_whenever
    ride_whenever Posts: 13,279
    I'm sorry, the zonda did look a whole lot better, me and my housemates sat there slackjawed at the cosmetic weave...

    If I every buy a car, it'll be naked carbon...
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  • milkywhite
    milkywhite Posts: 534
    What it gains in extra power it obviously loses in the corners due to its lardiness. After all, it annihilated the Zonda in a drag race.

    I agree, the Veyron looks good in pure white, but that Zonda in naked Carbon!!! :twisted: :evil:
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  • Surf-Matt
    Surf-Matt Posts: 5,952
    Ride - you'll need to spend a LOT on that first car then!!
  • ride_whenever
    ride_whenever Posts: 13,279
    yeah, i know...

    or i could just get a really small one... like an atom :twisted:
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  • Surf-Matt
    Surf-Matt Posts: 5,952
    Still over £40k though!
  • Rich9
    Rich9 Posts: 1,635
    Not too keen on the Zonda at all. I'm not keen on how it looks. too OTT for me. Again....i wouldnt complain if I had one!! Like the sound however. Like an F1 car. Mercedes V12 was it? Ooof!

    The Veyron is just fab. Pure fantasy, but fab all the same 8) . Now.... the sound that makes is just orgasmic!
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  • ride_whenever
    ride_whenever Posts: 13,279
    £40k, a trifle compared to £750K for the zonda...
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  • The Northern Monkey
    The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,136
    preferred the zonda :)

    but then again i preferred the gumpert 8)
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  • edhornby
    edhornby Posts: 1,741
    I saw a Veyron in the flesh (roundabout at the bottom of Deansgate) and the guy in the van lowered the window to talk to me

    "Did you see that??!?!? a Veyron !!"

    "Er yeah, but what I was going to ask you was how do I get to the A57..."

    :oops: :roll:
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  • The Northern Monkey
    The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,136
    i saw a veyron being followed by a TVR speed 12 (i think there is only 1 road legal one, but i may be mistaken) on the M40 going to silverstone...... i liked the TVR much more, and i was in no way biased :wink:
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  • BlackSpur
    BlackSpur Posts: 4,228
    ride_whenever wrote:
    I'm sorry, the zonda did look a whole lot better, me and my housemates sat there slackjawed at the cosmetic weave...

    If I every buy a car, it'll be naked carbon...

    I same one in the flesh at MPH and it looked even more impressive!
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  • docker0141
    docker0141 Posts: 605
    lol it was 4th for all of 2 minutes :P
  • Stoo61
    Stoo61 Posts: 1,394
    I almost fell off my bike when a sweeeeeeeeeeeet Audi R8 dropped a gear and whoored it away up the road. :shock:
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  • Rich9
    Rich9 Posts: 1,635
    Not quite in the same league but a new M3 pulled away from at the lights this morning. sounded sweet. I felt like i was going backwards :oops:
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  • Stu T
    Stu T Posts: 127
    Saw the Ford GT in Betws Y Coed last year had Manx plates so could have been Clarkson's old one
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  • Father Faff
    Father Faff Posts: 1,176
    Bloody hell, what a lot of sad car-spotters you lot are. I bet neither of them would go as fast as me on my Meta 5 across Ilkley Moor.......
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  • big-hitter
    big-hitter Posts: 254
    im lucky enough to have a whole 30 secs in a f40 round a little track thing. cost me £20 but was woth it just for the noise!!!!

    you dont have to spend half a mill on a flash car anyway, my uncles cossy scares the s**t out of most people!!! even more when they find out he lost his licence :shock:

    by the way, to officaly past as a MAN you have to know this much about cars. just like kings and sparrows...
    Tree's are not soft. FACT
  • impished
    impished Posts: 1,092
    Stoo61 wrote:
    I almost fell off my bike when a sweeeeeeeeeeeet Audi R8 dropped a gear and whoored it away up the road. :shock:
    Did you see the Audi R8 on Survivors? What a dream that would be. No traffic on the roads. Oh, and no bluddy bikers getting in the way and jumping lights :wink:

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  • impished
    impished Posts: 1,092
    Mazda something or other. The one with the Wankle engine, sounds pretty good when it's floored. And goes like runny shoot off a VERY shiny shovel :shock:

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  • Surf-Matt
    Surf-Matt Posts: 5,952
    I was insured on the inlaws F355 Ferrari for a while :twisted:

    Mazda RX8 is okay but has NO torque and guzzles fuel - I bought a Golf R32 instead! Now sold though :cry:

    A mate of mine has the newest shape Audi RS4 all blacked out (no chrome) with an MTM supercharger - about 550bhp!!!

    Grew up around Porkers, Audi Quattros and the like - Dad had a few so I was a car nerd from a very early age! His maddest was a 400bhp Ford P100 V8 engined pick up :lol::lol:
  • beancounter
    beancounter Posts: 369
    £825,000 Zonda F - 0 to 120 mph in 10 seconds
    My motorbike - 0 to 145 mph in 10 seconds

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  • Surf-Matt
    Surf-Matt Posts: 5,952
    £825,000 Zonda F - F1 inspired body and chassis will keep it's driver safe even in a huge crash. Can take a passenger.
    My motorbike - less cornering speed, no protection from the elements, high likelihood of a horrendous crash.

    Bikes are fast but I'd rather take up naked winter sea swimming than have one.
  • jayson
    jayson Posts: 4,606
    Ive seen a Carrera GT, McLaren SLR, numerous ferraris and a few Lambo's in york, i can only assume they've come from or are going to the hilton hotel here.

    The only car ive yet to see is an enzo but im not a big fan of those anyway really. The carrera gt on the other hand sounds better than god and puts all other cars to shame in the noise department, the zonda f does come a very close second though.
    Remedy

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    Austria 2012
  • birchy
    birchy Posts: 309
    the new nissan GTIR the rebirth of the skyline faster than an enzo round the nurmbergring and quicker than a gt3 round the fifth gear track. Dont if you saw it but its the one that put clarksons neck out it has that much grip :twisted:

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