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/ancient pop culture reference
So is it a purple people eater?
/even older pop culture/sports reference
But seriously: "a more powerful feeling of acceleration" --I'd rather have more powerful acceleration. Wouldn't I be able to feel that? Is this some kind of gimmick? In a car that costs this much? Do the speakers play a "whoosh!" sound?
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This is for the collectors, few, if any, of these will actually be driven in anger, and I'm sure some will never be driven at all. The people actually looking for performance will buy the "base" GT-R and then tune it.
When you're in this price range and looking for a performance car there's the ZR-1, if you're looking for a drivers car there's the F430 or GT3, if you're looking for the best of all worlds at this price you could easily buy a nicely depreciated Phaeton and a 'Busa powered Se7en and still have enough for maintenance and track days.
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Goes quickly into the dawn
Warranty not valid
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purple coated warrior
from the land of nippon come
save the godzilla
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One month ago: I dont think the GT-R is special enough..
Now: Nah, I dont think the Purple Dinosaur GT-R Spec V is special enough either..
In 2 months: Id be happier with the GT-R Spec V, Special Race Edition (with the 50yr tribute to the company emblazoned on the seats), But I also want the Series A - Z edition, with the extra blah blah blah this thing can do, and I want it painted in Hello Kitty, with Paris fuckin Hilton's bloddy red seats as part of the package
I mena really.. how much more can ya stuff into this damn car!
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Boo-urns.
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Another reporter raised a (somewhat valid, but we're not saying anything) point, asking if that wouldn't be comparable to the $100k price tag on the Volkswagen Phaeton, or the $1,300,000 price tag on the Bugatti Veyron, or the $1,400,000 price tag on the Reventon, all of which, in the words of the reporter, are "just as much a Volkswagen as the GT-R is a Datsun."
In response, the Porsche spokesman shot that reporter.
In other news, there was a similar press release in Detroit. Corvette engineers staged a media event wherein a similarly purple-painted ZR1 was parked outside a McDonald's. (Unconfirmed reports state that this is actually the Corvette headquarters, similar to the PorscheBunker and the DatsunDojo, but we are still investigating.) Parked beside it were several large trucks, loaded up with 57,000 items from the dollar menu. This was, they demonstrated, what you could also buy, instead of shelling out the cash for the GT-R. "And," said one engineer, "This Vette'll still whup the ass of that jap-junk piece of shit 'round any ring you wanna throw 'em at." Eloquent, to be sure, and also succinct.
At the end of the press conference, one reporter asked what would be done with all the 57,000 burgers they had on display. The spokesman gave the reporter a blank look, and replied, "Uh, lunch?"
Reporting live from a run-down McDonalds just outside of Detroit, I'm Stud Beefpile."
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The Corvette engineer apologized profusely and restated his sentence..."This Vette'll still whup the ass of that jap-junk piece of shit 'round any ring you wanna throw 'em at, bitches."
and, I intend to beat the living hell out of this old joke...
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Shame really.
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On another note, those have to be the worst wheels I have ever seen on a $160k car. They look like cheap.
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And this coming from a euro car snob.
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An apt analogy, although I prefer to give GM a little credit. I gotta admit, though, sometimes I wonder if it all isn't just blind luck.
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You sound like a GT-R fanboy or more likely someone on the "hate domestics" bandwagon. It works. It kills the competition. It doesn't have any snobbishness. It is the sleeper of the supercars. If that isn't good for you, what is? You don't have to like it, but bashing something that works for not being the fanciest piece of shit on the street is just small.
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Disclaimer: I, myself, prefer an OHC design, in anything but the new Chevy LSx engines. That said, I have to give Chevy credit.
Look, that pushrod engine has the distinct advantage that it can be broken down and rebuilt in, what, ten, fifteen minutes? The engine is an absolute dream to work on, and that's why they're so popular. They're also a small engine, and easy to fit almost everywhere, because of the fact that the cam is mounted inside the engine, rather than way out on the heads. This means they can stuff an LS9 in just about anything. Ask tenbeers, he has a collection of about 300 YouTube videos of all the random weird crap people have stuffed LSx engines into. They are great engines, it can't be said enough.
That said, however, I am completely with you. Was it luck? Was it phenomenal foresight unlike anything ever experienced in the automotive world before? Was it stubbornness combined with a thick-headed determination that it will BE a good engine whether it wants to or not? Or some combination of the above?
I'm neither a fanboy or a hater of any of the three greats that currently get bandied around. I think the 911 is ugly and going in the wrong direction. Engine goes at FRONT, or in middle, goddammit. I think the Vette is an incredible car, but tackier than Liberace. I think the GT-R is an amazing feat of computer programming, but not of car design. For my money, I would take a V10 Audi R8, ugly headlights be damned. BUT. I don't have a bias against any of them. I hate them all equally.
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