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Detroit, 3:39 AM
Sat Dec 12
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I wish I had a rich uncle to buy me one.
12/10/09
In it B.G. said he was going to buy a Mercedes 700 V14-
"My n***a Baby gettin' a special built machine
A Mercedes Benz 700 V14
I know you n***az can't believe that
I can't wait to see ya haters face when ya see that
Man look at that"
This has to be the car he was talking about.
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Like satany-three.
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11/19/09
Are they going to run out of rivals before they run out of 3-letter combinations? Will they ever make a decent manual transmission? Stay tuned, for the exciting next episode of the S-class vs the Wurld!
11/18/09
If it results in something like this little happy car, then I'm all up for it.
11/18/09
the 2010 gullwing and the liitle ones..
11/18/09
Hmm, I might be a little low on blood sugar but I can't help feeling incredibly unimpressed by the SLS (and now it's little brother).
By rights any car with those performance credentials and looks should have me wanting to sell my own balls to own it. Yet here I am completely nonplussed by the thing, like a wave of "meh" just washed over me whilst looking at it.
I'm not going to blame anyone in particular but I do think that this feeling I'm getting has a lot to do with just how cynical supercars (especially Mercs) have become of late. After seeing an SLR up close (ooh check me out) and having the pleasure of driving a previous generation AMG SL55 on a disused airstrip (again WOO go me!) I can't help but feel underwhelmed. I'm sure I'm not their target audience for this thing but then surely by the fact that there probably is a clearly defined target audience for this car I feel quite sad. A supercar shouldn't have to have a target audience, it should simply leap deep into your subconscious as soon as you see it and make you want it from the word go. The fact that this car didn't do just that has me worried, mainly because it isn't the first supercar to fail in that respect (Audi R8? Bentley Conti GT? McMerc? Dare I say Carrera GT?).
That's not to say that all supercars suffer the same problem, just that more and more of them are no longer the extreme automobiles they used to be. By definition a supercar should surely be an excessive overstatement in impracticality/power/styling. An exercise in how a car can be uncompromisingly single minded about being "super" in one area or another.
Granted there are cars that I still class as supercars that don't need to scream at me (Aston DBS) but at the very least they hint that they're more than just a handbag accessory (I'm looking at you Bentley!).
As a life long gearhead I'm a bit depressed by some of it but I know there's still hope. With things like the Veyron, the (Nissan) GTR, the Corvette ZR1 and pretty much all of the Lambos I know there are people out there willing to go balls out with what's possible instead of sitting back and thinking "that'll do".
I might be the only one thinking it but I just can't help thinking "Can't you just try a bit harder next time?"
/Soapbox
*Supercar fatigue, copyright J.D 2009...
11/19/09
Supercar fatigue is usually only a risk during economic bubbles, but 500hp week can also be a factor.
11/18/09
One can get a hellofa lot more for a hellofa lot less.
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