Main > Everything Else
now that's a car
pointdablame:
Well supercars go into an entirely different realm IMO. They all sound great, but are also ridiculously expensive. That's not to say that the M or AMG cars are cheap by any means, but they are still in the "normal" car realm in my mind. A big stretch for most people financially, but still on the same planet :laugh2:
Supercars really do have some of the scariest, nicest, sounds ever created by vehicles though. McLaren F1, Zonda, Enzo, Veyron, Carrera GT.... it's like a damn shymphony of pistons. I'm gonna have to go watch some videos of them now.
pointdablame:
--- Quote from: patrickl on August 05, 2007, 11:46:33 am ---
--- Quote from: pointdablame on August 05, 2007, 11:20:05 am ---a luxury car sounds gay? what???
I agree that there is no sound in the world like a well tuned high displacement engine... but you sound like a 12 year old.
Not to mention there are a TON of really great luxury and sport luxury cars out there that both sound and perform amazingly. BMW M series, any AMG mercedes, etc etc....
--- End quote ---
Not to mention that a BMW or Mercedes (or any other "luxury" sports car) will actually go around a corner or bend.
--- End quote ---
A good point, but a bit of a blanket statement.
In the muscle car era, I agree... you won't find many of those cars that enjoy curves at all. However, since I mentioned newer cars, there are plenty of high horsepower sports cars that handle well around a track, and just as many luxury cars that have 500hp but weight 5000lbs and are dogs around a bend.
patrickl:
These new high horsepower cars are not the rumbling "floating ships" that they are supposed to be. So they would be considered luxury sports cars too.
pointdablame:
Again, a blanket statement. Not all high horsepower cars today are luxury sports cars. And you don't need to be a land yacht to have raw power. See the Z06.
Or the Mercedes S65 AMG - 600hp, 700+ ft/lb, and most certainly close to a "floating ship" at over 5000 lbs. Now granted, it's an extreme example... but that is certainly not a sports car in any sense. But it's high horsepower for sure.
patrickl:
I'm not saying that they are luxury cars, but more that they (not any car since 1973?) are not the "muscle cars" that were talked about earlier in the thread (and thus that the muscle car lovers will say that they are "luxury cars")
BTW that Merc is a lot more nippy than any muscle car of the 60s or 70s.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version