Lotus Espirit
02-04-2003, 08:59 PM
#21
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Those are tough to get away with driving on the street, though, wouldn't you say?
You can drive the Skyline to work every day, or on a track (they make awesome track cars).
And, just so you know (and maybe to sway your opinion
), the Skyline is well more than 280hp, that's a Japanese rating. There is a "gentleman's agreement" among manufacturers not to rate cars over 300hp, so they all rate at 280. On top of that, you're dealing with a twin turbo 6 cyl. Plenty of tuning potential, easy to knock that up to 700+hp. And what's wrong with AWD? Awesome acceleration, great handling, and nice and smooth at high speeds.
And then there are the smaller, less important things, like it's sweet looking and has a lot of cool gadgets inside. Finally, how many people do you know who have one?
Ok, you win on the availability of parts... Gotta spend a pretty penny bringing everything over from Japan, but if you had $100k to spend on a car, would you worry about that?
Yeah, an F1 car would be cool, but I'll take the R34.
Those are tough to get away with driving on the street, though, wouldn't you say?
You can drive the Skyline to work every day, or on a track (they make awesome track cars).
And, just so you know (and maybe to sway your opinion
And then there are the smaller, less important things, like it's sweet looking and has a lot of cool gadgets inside. Finally, how many people do you know who have one?
Ok, you win on the availability of parts... Gotta spend a pretty penny bringing everything over from Japan, but if you had $100k to spend on a car, would you worry about that?
Yeah, an F1 car would be cool, but I'll take the R34.
02-08-2003, 01:58 AM
#22
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hmmm have you ever seen that move "driven" ? they were racing f1 cars on the street, how frikin awsom would that be?! man, ok, i dont really like that movie but i ould reccomend it if you want to ee one of the coolest street racing scenes, but they were racing on the streets with f1 cars, its nice to see a movie with street racing in something besides a riced out civic or eclipse :bigthumg:
02-25-2003, 01:41 AM
#23
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Originally Posted by fcrotornut' date='Feb 7 2003, 11:58 PM
hmmm have you ever seen that move "driven" ? they were racing f1 cars on the street, how frikin awsom would that be?! man, ok, i dont really like that movie but i ould reccomend it if you want to ee one of the coolest street racing scenes, but they were racing on the streets with f1 cars, its nice to see a movie with street racing in something besides a riced out civic or eclipse :bigthumg:
it had cool scenes, but......... is it really that easy to just climb into an F1 car in the show room and get on the streets? but then again, its a movie
02-26-2003, 01:44 AM
#26
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Originally Posted by Leetheslacker' date='Feb 25 2003, 12:43 PM
If they were fitted with turnsignals/other needed lights and were streetlegal you could drive F1 cars on the street i think. But i bet insurance would be a ton.
02-26-2003, 02:41 AM
#28
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Location: WA
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jesus, come on people! The espirit comes in a v8 TT and a v8 NA. Both are very quick cars! My uncle used to have one. But i would take the exige over the espirit.. nothing can touch those things in the corners! NOTHING!
Gave me an error every time, yet it still posted .. stupid invisionboard!