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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    11/11/09

    In reply to Corvette-Powered Arash AF-10 Goes On Sale, Finally
    See, when car guys get pissed at Ferrari, cool stuff happens. Ford GT40, Lamborghini Miura, all kinds of great things - and now this!

    Keep it up Ferrari! If it takes being dickheads to gearheads with money to generate more awesome rides, go with it! I'm sure someone will forgive you.

    And I don't care if they do. More supercars, more passionate little car builders, can't ever be a bad thing. #arash
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    11/11/09

    In reply to Corvette-Powered Arash AF-10 Goes On Sale, Finally
    Arash O' Hubris.

    If you've got the 1 mil+, 'previously
    owned' Enzos seem to be readily available, with few-enough miles to insure that the new owner will need to pay for the first brake job. No doubt a lot less money than he's spent on this glorified kit-car project, and he still can't strut around rich-douchebag-style in a Ferrari-brand shirt, jacket, cap, shoes, etc. etc.

    "...but only
    Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself,
    And falls on th'other. . . ." #arash
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    11/11/09

    In reply to Corvette-Powered Arash AF-10 Goes On Sale, Finally
    I have a friend named Arash, at least he wont be embarrassed to share a name with this car. #arash
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    11/11/09

    In reply to Corvette-Powered Arash AF-10 Goes On Sale, Finally
    Arash, huh? Hope it isn't contagious. #arash
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    11/11/09

    @bmoreDLJ: and people wonder why you can't buy most 'murican cars with an STD transmission.. #arash
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    11/11/09

    In reply to Corvette-Powered Arash AF-10 Goes On Sale, Finally
    Pretty slick, though if I must criticize (this is Jalopnik, of course I must) the side profile shows a distinct lack of looks-fast-even-while-sitting-still. I can't put my finger on it, perhaps the front end is too bulky, but from the profile it just doesn't send my heart aflutter. Perhaps someone with more design expertise than I can figure it out.

    Looks great from every other angle. #arash
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    11/11/09

    @YankBoffin: I think it's the high fenders that weigh it down. It makes the cockpit sort of slumped down in the middle. #arash
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    11/11/09

    @weatherman: I agree that the fender line is too bulky. Also that 'edge' look that is all the fad right now adds to the architectural feel of the fenders. Fast cars should look like they were shaped by the wind, not a mason's trowel. #arash
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    11/11/09

    In reply to Corvette-Powered Arash AF-10 Goes On Sale, Finally

    Obviously this is the classic case of a brat with too much money a la Nikolay Smolensky. Arash Farboud had already set up a sports car company, commissioned a fine looking sports car, which was promising according to premier Brit magazines, then abandoned it completely for some foolish pursuit of punishing Ferrari.
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    11/11/09

    @Pessimippopotamus: that's one way to look at it, or you could see him as an entrepreneur with a record of creating competitive sports cars, who doesn't refuse to sell his cars to people so long as their money is green (so to speak).

    Personally, I think there's something laudable about his efforts to make an "everyman's Enzo," even though we may differ on the definition of everyman. #arash
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    11/11/09


    @weatherman: I don't know. He seems to get pissy about many things, like when he made this Porsche GT1 knockoff. This seems more like a baby tantrum more than anything.

    And it's not like he sticks by his cars anyway. The Farboud GTS was pretty nigh complete and ready to go on sale when he sold the company. I don't expect this to last long either.

    If he really wanted the Enzo, he should've bought one used instead of wasting his money on crap projects he's never going to finish. With a pissy head like that, no wonder Ferrari wouldn't sell him an Enzo. #arash
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    11/11/09

    @Pessimippopotamus: sometimes pissiness is the mother of invention! #arash
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    11/11/09

    @weatherman: Or of a blatant knockoff. At least Lamborghini and Ford knew to make something original. This is not the way to make a name for yourself. #arash
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    11/11/09

    In reply to Corvette-Powered Arash AF-10 Goes On Sale, Finally
    There is some definite Enzo influence in the design, but I think that this is quite a bit better looking. But without the cachet of the Ferrari brand, and without numbers to make such things irrelevant, I think he's going to have a hard time finding buyers at over a half million dollars.

    $534,000, and you're giving me plastic windows? Weight savings, my ass! Acrylic windows are used to keep production costs down.

    If he'd made this as a one-off because he couldn't get that Enzo for which he pined, I'd be applauding him (because it's a marked step up from a FierEnzo), but instead I will openly mock him for his delusions of "competing" with the company by whom he felt slighted. #arash
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    10/28/09

    In reply to EXCLUSIVE: 800 HP Specter Werks Corvette GTR Live Shots!
    100hp per cylinder.

    I think I know what I want on my next lawnmower. #specterwerkscorvettegtr
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    10/28/09

    In reply to EXCLUSIVE: 800 HP Specter Werks Corvette GTR Live Shots!
    That car makes me proud to be an American. Though honestly what the ZR1 needs is not so much more horsepower as more whale penis leather interior. More HP makes up for a lot of that though. #specterwerkscorvettegtr
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    10/28/09

    In reply to EXCLUSIVE: 800 HP Specter Werks Corvette GTR Live Shots!
    I'm... not going to defend this one. #specterwerkscorvettegtr
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    10/28/09

    In reply to EXCLUSIVE: 800 HP Specter Werks Corvette GTR Live Shots!
    Was this car built for a remake of Corvette Summer? #specterwerkscorvettegtr
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    10/28/09

    In reply to EXCLUSIVE: 800 HP Specter Werks Corvette GTR Live Shots!
    When I first saw this head line from the corner of of my eye on Twitter, I thought it was about a wreck involving a Corvette and a Nissan GTR!

    Nice 'vette, by the way. #specterwerkscorvettegtr
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    10/28/09

    In reply to EXCLUSIVE: 800 HP Specter Werks Corvette GTR Live Shots!
    Nice, but how are static shots of a parked car considered live images? #specterwerkscorvettegtr
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    10/28/09

    @OA 5599: Because they aren't canned press release images and I took them by standing in front of the car, live. #specterwerkscorvettegtr
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    10/28/09

    In reply to EXCLUSIVE: 800HP Lingenfelter Twin Turbo-Powered Specter Werks Corvette GTR
    why is there a harmonica under the license plate? #specterwerkscorvettegtr
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    10/28/09

    @rligeti: I'm not sure, but at least they didn't install cheesy exhaust tips from the Tijuana Kragen instead. #specterwerkscorvettegtr
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    10/28/09

    @theeastbaykid: yeah, with some Bubb Rubb signature edition whistle tips...

    WoooWHOOOOOO!!!! #specterwerkscorvettegtr
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    10/28/09

    In reply to EXCLUSIVE: 800HP Lingenfelter Twin Turbo-Powered Specter Werks Corvette GTR
    By radically restyled you must have meant "Pep-Boys body kit". #specterwerkscorvettegtr
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    10/28/09

    @darngooddesign: Maybe you should follow our commenting guide and read the comments first before adding something of your own:

    [jalopnik.com] #specterwerkscorvettegtr
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    Image of darngooddesign darngooddesign
    10/28/09

    @Ben Wojdyla: I read the guide and I read your post of "not a body kit, a new body built coachwork style. you can read more about it here:".

    New body or not it still looks like a Vette with a bodykit and in no way looks radically restyled. If it were radically restyled it wouldn't look much like a Vette.
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