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Detroit, 12:57 PM
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03/05/09
Now on to the car proper.
This is one of those cars where the sum is less than the total of its parts.
It just doesn't come off right. You look at it and you want to go, "Gee I love this thing" but you just can't.
It's like going out with a really hot looking girl that someone has set you up on a date with. Everything looks like it's in the right place but then you start to notice that her lips are crooked and her left ear has a huge scar, and then she tells you about the two kids she has and that they both have ADD and she's in debt up to her breasts, and those aren't real either because she got a boob job a while back, and what's that freaking smell, is that her feet good god that's her feet, and she's farting the whole time at dinner, I thought only guys farted like that, and her teeth are chipped from the last guy she dated who beat her but she wouldn't leave him because he was so edgy, and why does she have to laugh so loud at things that you're saying that aren't even funny, and she keeps misusing the word ironic when she really means to say coincidence, and why did she have to order the most expensive seafood item on the menu, send it back and she's still not eating and now she says she's not hungry when she told you on the phone how hungry she was.
It's that kind of car.
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See, they had this feature called the Fantasy Garage, where once a week they'd do these great writeups to nominate a car, and the readers would vote it in or out. Then, every few weeks they'd "trim the fat" and vote something out.
The commenter participation was really awesome. Great debates raged, but it wasn't just the typical mouth-breathing nonsense that you find online.
It was one of my favorite car things ever on the internet...too bad they stopped doing it.
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As long as the first 2009 inductee is the Ford Tempo and/or Megan Fox, we can't lose.
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...but I heartily endorse reviving the JFG.
You guys have Graverobber doing NPOCP, I'd be happy to help on with nominations/writeups/voting ideas.
Here was my suggestion for "what now" from 10 months ago:
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Lots of good suggestions here:
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So yeah, support.
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And from my screen name, I think you can figure out my feelings for the greatest supercar of all time. Nothing has come quite close enough to measuring up to what the McLaren F1 is. The Ferrari Enzo is in the ballpark but not quite there. The McLaren was one man's dream made into reality. No concessions made to a committee. No focus groups. Everything done in the name of weight. Hell the wrenches in the tool kit were made of titanium and the CD audio system was made specially by Kenwood because they were crazy enough to make an audio system that weighs 15 lbs total. Price was no objective. It was revolutionary as a first in many things. A true marvel of engineering and it set the impossible standard for everything that followed. Its performance still shames 95% of supercars today and its going on 17 years old. Not to mention it still looks great today which shows Peter Stevens' ability to design something that can stand the test of time.
If any of you are interested, a fantastic read is "Driving Ambition: The Official Inside Story of the McLaren F1." Its out of print now and used copies last I checked go for a few hundred dollars but if you can get your hands on one, you can see how the car went from an idea in an airport to winning LeMans. Covers development and all. Cargasmic pictures gallore and a great read.
Most of my dream machines come from this time (Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR, Porsche 911 GT1, Ferrari F40 and Jaguar XJ220) but the F1 is something else entirely.
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Oh, and +1 on bringing back the Fantasy Garage! As a relatively new Jalopnik commenter, I wanted to participate, but have never gotten a chance. :(
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And to think, when I first came here I was convinced that title belonged to the Plymouth Valiant. Oh, foolish youth.
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The Veyron just seems more like a vanity project for the VW bosses. The F40 was race car rough. The Enzo is the only car that comes close on the car lust list for me.
If you've got enough money for a McLaren you have enough money and enough seats for two girlfriends.
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Eat that, Infiniti.
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There's a video, shot from one of the passenger seats, by the wife/girlfriend of a F1 owner, while he drives it around an airport track and simultaneously scares/arouses her. It's pretty funny, but I can't find it right now.
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Seventeen years later and this car is still no joke.
Now its Meth.
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That is an awesome car, I have a spot in my fantasy garage reserved for it.
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"MonoCock! After losing his wife and one of this two cocks in a freak cocking accident, the mentally unbalanced Dr. Cockenstein forced his vengeance upon the world as his new alter-ego, MonoCock!"
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