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    Top Scandal: Top Gear Live Using MR2-Based Fake Ferrari 360 Spiders
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    02/13/09

    In reply to Top Scandal: Top Gear Live Using MR2-Based Fake Ferrari 360 Spiders
    At long last, have they no shame?


    I'll have to stop asking rhetorical questions, someday.

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    Image of Brady Butterfield Brady Butterfield
    02/13/09

    In reply to Top Scandal: Top Gear Live Using MR2-Based Fake Ferrari 360 Spiders
    Top Gear really is a bunch of douche bags, even if they love the ZR1. I thought I would get to work on these this morning.


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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    02/13/09

    @Brady Butterfield: Wow. You didn't really leave us much to work with.
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    Image of Bumblebee Bumblebee
    02/13/09

    In reply to Top Scandal: Top Gear Live Using MR2-Based Fake Ferrari 360 Spiders
    What is Top Gear Live?
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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    02/13/09

    In reply to Top Scandal: Top Gear Live Using MR2-Based Fake Ferrari 360 Spiders
    I think the bigger shock would be learning that;


    Clarkson really isn't a pompous ass, and secretly craves eating Sonic and sightseeing in a PT Cruiser around downtown Dallas.


    Hammond is really the brains of the operation.


    and


    May is really Max Mosley is disguise.

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    Image of GDUB GDUB
    02/13/09

    In reply to Top Scandal: Top Gear Live Using MR2-Based Fake Ferrari 360 Spiders
    The real story would have been if the tree stooges who are top gear were in fact just vessels for our new alien overlords Kodos and Kang.
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    Image of layabout layabout
    02/13/09

    @GDUB: So you've outed them,feel good now do you,do you?
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    Image of roaduscarnivorous roaduscarnivorous
    02/13/09

    In reply to Top Scandal: Top Gear Live Using MR2-Based Fake Ferrari 360 Spiders
    who cares? and they're really gonna lug 3 ferraris all over the world?
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    Image of LTDScott LTDScott
    02/13/09

    Who cares? @roaduscarnivorous: My thoughts exactly. Hell I would have been just as impressed watching MR2s doing the same thing, but then again I'm not a Ferrari nut swinger.
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    Image of muhnkee_2 - Avantime Owner and 100% Jaloper muhnkee_2 - Avantime Owner and 100% Jaloper
    02/13/09

    In reply to Top Scandal: Top Gear Live Using MR2-Based Fake Ferrari 360 Spiders
    here is one MR2 Ferrari:



    and the real mccoy:



    i think its pretty close, but i aint a ferrari lover!

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    02/13/09

    @muhnkee_2:

    the MR2 above is made here:

    [www.mr2bodykit.co.uk]

    the dimensions are as follows

    Mr2 Ferrari Ferrari

    Length: 4327mm 4477mm

    Width: 1925mm 1922mm

    Height: 1235mm 1235mm
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    Image of layabout layabout
    02/13/09

    @muhnkee_2: The biggest give away is the engine cover,other than that looks wise the clones are good. I still wouldn't buy one though,but then i wouldn't buy a 360 either.
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    Image of RegalRegalia RegalRegalia
    02/13/09

    In reply to Top Scandal: Top Gear Live Using MR2-Based Fake Ferrari 360 Spiders
    if that pic is from the event it seems like only someone who doesn't know ferraris would be fooled, wheelbase is way too short/overhangs too long.
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    Image of layabout layabout
    02/13/09

    @RegalRegalia is the AntiChrysler: Spot the fake from these two...
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    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    02/13/09

    @layabout now with V8 power: The big problem with any of these kits (besides the fact that they exist) is they can't match the wide stance of the original. They're stuck with the original windshield, which is always a dead giveaway.
    Oh, and I choose the one on the right. Completely fake.
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    02/13/09

    In reply to Top Scandal: Top Gear Live Using MR2-Based Fake Ferrari 360 Spiders
    Meh. The only Ferrari I'd ever be interested in owning:
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    Image of Feds Feds
    02/13/09

    @Slantsick, Murilee's lovechild:


    JERRARI! If I could heart you twice, I would.

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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    02/13/09

    @Feds: I like to believe this means there's a Ferrari convertible somewhere out there presenting this face to the world:

    Perhaps with a rear-mounted Hurricane 226 L6?
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    Image of acarr260 acarr260
    02/13/09

    @Slantsick, Murilee's lovechild: That earned you a heart click. Doesn't that Sultan of Brunei guy have some kick-ass, one-off Ferraris too?
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    02/13/09

    @Slantsick, Murilee's lovechild: Heart-clicky for that. Let Project Ferragoneer begin.
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    Image of 16X4ME 16X4ME
    02/13/09

    In reply to Top Scandal: Top Gear Live Using MR2-Based Fake Ferrari 360 Spiders
    Ferrota MR360?
    Toyari Modena R2?


    Actually sounds like a good idea. Italian beauty and passion paired with virtual indestuctability.


    Of course I suppose that could go the other way. White rice blandness combined with Fix It Again Tony reliability.

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    Image of Maymar Maymar
    02/13/09

    @16X4ME: Just ask Nissan how that turned out.
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    Image of BTLFED BTLFED
    02/13/09

    @Maymar has too much utility character: See: Nissan Versa.
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    Image of Maymar Maymar
    02/13/09

    @BTLFED has two bottles, big ones: Older - the Nissan Cherry/Alfa Romeo Arna.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    02/13/09

    In reply to Top Scandal: Top Gear Live Using MR2-Based Fake Ferrari 360 Spiders
    So they would be Toyrraris? Ferrotas? MR360s?
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    02/13/09

    @Mike the Dog: Ferryota...as in Fairy-yota.


    Confuse with fairy yoda do not. Committing blasphemy you will be doing.

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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    02/13/09

    In reply to Top Scandal: Top Gear Live Using MR2-Based Fake Ferrari 360 Spiders
    This is pure comedic irony. A Toyota passing itself off as a Ferrari? The most bland car company in the world now has people making body kits for one of their, admittedly, more exciting models to pass it off as a Ferrari? Would it be a Toyarrari?


    Gold. That's what this is. The irony is pure comedy.

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    Image of layabout layabout
    02/13/09

    @engineerd confused n00b: I must ask where have you been the last 15 years? Ferrari kits for MR2's isn't exactly a new concept. The 355 kit was a big seller for depressed MR2 owners that felt insecure,it's always fun to point at them & laugh.
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    Image of something_unique_and_descriptive something_unique_and_descriptive
    02/13/09

    @engineerd confused n00b: Toyota hasn't always been the bland, sleep-inducing, appliance-of-a-car producing behemoth it is today. For most of their history they've had at least a couple interesting cars.
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    Image of layabout layabout
    02/13/09

    @something_unique_and_descripti...: I can think of 3.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    02/13/09

    @layabout now with V8 power: I guess I never came across one. Or I have and my brain protected me from the memory of it.


    @something_unique_and_descripti...: I know. I think the comedy comes from the perspective of their recent product history.

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    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    02/13/09

    @layabout now with V8 power: Here in the US all (98%+) of the mid-engined kit cars are made using Fieros. A nice used Fiero goes for $1,000-$3,000. A nice used 2nd gen MR2 goes for 2-5X that and most of those have been attacked by the ricers by now having had body kits and snorkel scoops added to them. Sometimes they will add Ferrari badges too without making any attempt to make it actually look like anything Italian. The main thing anyone bulding a kit car is concerned about is the cost, otherwise they would just go buy a nice used example of a 308 or Esprit for about the same money as your new fake 360/430.
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    02/13/09

    @layabout now with V8 power: 1968 2000GT, 1985 MR2, 1993 Supra Turbo.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    02/13/09

    @brandegee: Don't forget the Celica All-Trac Turbo.
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    Image of Maymar Maymar
    02/13/09

    In reply to Top Scandal: Top Gear Live Using MR2-Based Fake Ferrari 360 Spiders
    Oh damns, next you're going to tell me that they didn't really crash a Challenger at the end of Vanishing Point.
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    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    02/13/09

    In reply to Top Scandal: Top Gear Live Using MR2-Based Fake Ferrari 360 Spiders
    This is like a Dixie Stampede for British rednecks.
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    SirNotAppearing was starred SirNotAppearing was unstarred
    Image of layabout layabout
    02/13/09

    @SirNotAppearing: We don't have rednecks here,they live in Wales & the correct term is Grockles.
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    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    02/13/09

    @layabout now with V8 power: A redneck by any other name...
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    Image of Feds Feds
    02/13/09

    @layabout now with V8 power:


    Is it just me, or is making up a derogatory names for Welshmen redundant?

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    Image of layabout layabout
    02/13/09

    @Feds: Haha,true.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    02/13/09

    @Feds: Does it have something to do with their aversion to vowels?
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    Image of layabout layabout
    02/13/09

    In reply to Top Scandal: Top Gear Live Using MR2-Based Fake Ferrari 360 Spiders
    Why so shocked? Who's stupid enough to risk smashing up Ferraris,when pleasure can be had destroying Toyotas.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    02/13/09

    @layabout now with V8 power: I think the shock is more with the fact that the up-until-now-reputable Top Gear has betrayed our trust by passing something off as something it isn't. Its never happened before and let's all hope to God it doesn't happen again!


    /sarcasm

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    Image of layabout layabout
    02/13/09

    @engineerd confused n00b: The hard part is living near two of the presenters & not going to their houses to kick the smug out of them.
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    Image of acarr260 acarr260
    02/13/09

    @layabout now with V8 power: That would be a lot of kicking... better pack some energy drinks!
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    Image of layabout layabout
    02/13/09

    @acarr260: Oh,it'll be a three day event. I doubt anyone will be shocked to know that Clarkson is even more arrogant in real life & Hammond has short mans diesease & is a very shouty sort of bloke.
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