Dream Car
 

Oh shit, just go there.

IotD worthy...

http://autoshow2002.carpoint.msn.com...-Maserati.aspx

Belh. To quote Bad Bays "its liek a big shiny dick with wheels".
If you want power, pump up a WRX and add dual nos tanks. If you want style, get a Audi TT. The styling is nice, but nothing even close to groundbreaking, powerful, but nothing eyepopping. Lotus Elise woud be preferable.

C'mon, Jag. You can't tell me you don't like that silver one.

When I get my inheritance, I'm buying one....

The funny thing is, when you click on the Maserati picture you get ads for Toyota, Ha Ha!

looks liek someone too an anglegrinder to a porshe, the design is so...mundane.
I expected better.

Autolinks
 

As the debate above indicates, no car is perfect for everyone.

Check 'em all out at the North American International Auto Show recently held in motor city.

(btw, why hasn't anyone in the Cellar from motown got their city up in the Cities forum, yet?}

Some car companies are doing great stuff on the Internet, these days:

Ferrari
Maserati
Audi
Volkswagen NewBeetle

The big news this summer will likely be the new Mini by BMW, a toy most of us can afford to enjoy!

From an Internet perspective, it's fun to look at how each country in Planet Mini has developed their own unique web experience. Which Mini website is the best, in your opinion?

It sure is fun to dream cars!

A 163 horsepower BMW-built Mini with a 0-60 time of 6.9 seconds? This thing is a motorcycle that forgot it was only supposed to have 2 wheels. Color me impressed.

American Iron-y
 

http://images.forbes.com/images/2002...ch_415x222.jpg

The Merlin, which its maker claims will hit the streets this summer,
is powered by a walloping 1,400-cc fuel-injected V-twin Harley-Davidson.

Veyron
 

How about this:
http://www.vwvortex.com/news/09_01/bugatti/01.jpg
Bugatti Veyron W16 Does 0-300 km/h in <14 sec. Which means one averages ~6 m/s^2 (over half a gee)
and you reach 300 Km/h in 583 metres or ~640 yards.

Dig the second one. The first one is fugly!

Best Dream Car I ever owned
 

http://www.mcp-motorsport.co.uk/images/audi_q2.jpg

The world had to take a fresh look at what constituted a supercar in 1980 when Audi launched the first Quattro. The fat-arched coupe had a 200 bhp turbo five cylinder engine, but more importantly, drive went to all four wheels.

As an all weather road car it was pretty much uncatchable at the time, and competition versions quickly cleaned up in the World Rally Championship.

After consistent winning seasons, they had to ban the damn thing to give the other manufacturers a chance. :)

Mine was a 1984 with black leather on charcoal metallic. It was the most fun car I ever drove, in any weather conditions. I'd like to relive those experiences in an Audi TT.

I heard when the TT first was introduced in the Motherland, they quickly had to recall it for maufacturing problems. Something like the braking system wasn't up to par with the speed it delivered. I guess the go-power isn't worth anything if you don't have any stop-power.
<a href="http://detnews.com/2000/autos/0002/11/02090104.htm">Here's</a> a little more info.

A TT Roadster is one of the cars I *will* own before I die :) Those things are just cool as hell. Little bit expensive for me at the moment though - maybe in a couple of years. I dunno. But I'd definitely like to have a nice silver or black one. :)

Re: American Iron-y
 

Is it me, or does this strike anyone else as a pod from the Cloud City cloud cars in Empire Strikes Back?

Or, for the cinematically-challenged geeks out there, a bumper car? :)

~mike

Heh. Love it. What the article says, basically:

"If you go faster than 110 miles per hour, you might have trouble slowing down and die."

Well... DON'T DRIVE THAT FAST! :)

All five fatal crashes were apparently on the Autobahn. Go figger.

I was in Germany just over a year ago visiting some friends. We headed up from Braunschweig (where I was staying) to Kiel (up north, on the Baltic). Most of our road-time was on the Autobahn, and we were in my friends' parents' Mercedes wagon. This thing was quite nice, had the onboard GPS and voice-navigation (though it <i>was</i> in German), traction control for winter/summer modes, and many other features that I was more than impressed with; but I can't seem to remember the model.
On the Autobahn, as with most German roads, it's illegal to pass on the right. We were in the middle lane going ~160kpm (100mph), and I saw about a dozen TT's passing us going at least 150mph. Then there were the 911's passing them - <i>that</i> was a sight. The whole car ride seemed very comfortable, and we were actually keeping up with most of the traffic.