Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Slightly off topic, but sure to please the car-haters, a Fiat dealer in Brazil:
http://www.fiatfuck.com.br/v2/index.php

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Say hello to professor Luigi Colani

And see the gallery

I have had one of these - mine being a later 1950 model.

More than half of the 12000 build is still in use - many on a daily basis!
YouTube - Nimbus Motorcycle

^ WOW...

1969–1976
118,978 produced...that's a fair whack and Ive never seen one in my travels

They have quiet a racing history including Le Mans - a really nice and underrated car!

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They have quiet a racing history including Le Mans - a really nice and underrated car!

that explains it, Im a big F1 fan but not really seen any Le Mans racing in a fair while, Ill def look out in my travels

[quote=Jacob;430244]Say hello to professor Luigi Colani

between 400-450km!!! Crazy! hes like the the mad professor! great clip!

I was sure there was only the race version of this? GT1, GT2 and GT3... how much has it changed to allow it road legal?

Argh, now you've said that I've had a look and it's clearly not an RSR because there's no cage showing.

Basically the real RSR is the race car, but you can have everything you need to make it road legal put on.

The 997 RSR was/is much more popular because as Top Gear makes more people aware of the GT3 and GT3 RS, the owners of those cars want to move higher up the scale, so onto the RSR they go.

I can't for the life of me find a photo of one used for the road on the internet, but if you go to the 'ring you are guaranteed to see one.

Some of that fast ambulance response time is no doubt down to the work of Tom Lynch and his squad of **pedal cycle paramedics:
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**http://tinyurl.com/46zxcn

**The squad doing London proud at the International Police Mountain Bike Association competition in 2005:

**http://www.ipmba.org/conference-2005-stories-competition.htm
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Well, someone has to prop up those slow motorised units a bit and actually get there quickly enough to save lives ... ;)

i fix there bikes 50kg's worth of kit on the back

i fix there bikes 50kg's worth of kit on the back

Great training effect, no doubt!

Great training effect, no doubt!

they do an amazing job for shit money

The fastest production car in the world...The 9ff GT9 has recently recorded a documented top speed of 409 kilometers per hour, or 254.1 mph, enough to knock the Bugatti Veyron down to third on the list of all time fastest production cars.

The only car from my native land =P

And no, the De Lorean isn't a car.

The only car from my native land =P

And no, the De Lorean isn't a car.

True, it's a time machine, as everybody knows.

True, it's a time machine, as everybody knows.

I guess it must have come from the Iron Age then, that would explain quite a lot. =P

I do not remember mentioning that cars are the enemy?

BMWs are the enemy, everyone knows that. I am almost killed by one daily. You can always tell when one is coming up behind you as the drivers are unable to control their feet on the pedals. Much like with their knobs in the bedroom I presume

I took one of these for a test drive this summer - for the money it was the most fun car I have ever driven (except the Caterham) - it took me back to this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ym6NuQ2Jk0&eurl=http://www.musclecars.at/2007/11/07/2008-ford-mustang-jetzt-offiziell-vorgestellt

when i was a bit younger I used to love cars (just before I got my own-now sold), and dreamed of owning a ford mustang from the good old days. Today, at that dealership on the random part of the A3 between East Putney and Clapham, I saw a beauty.
that is the first time in a very long time I've been taken aback by a car.
it was stunning.
And then later in the day, was out near twickenham, and a garage had what looked like a 1920s mint bugatti or something in the front, wowser.

I blame you entirely, ms. Bellezza.

There, I'm done, now i can go back to my car hating ways.
My dad is, and always will be a car freak. doesn't have anything interesting apart from the TR6 which hes owned since his uni days.

I can't imagine trading in my bike for a car now, and driving around today confirmed it.
however as purely mechanical things, they are quite something.

but as with bikes, they are mechanical things and to that extent I find it hard to compare with other amazing things, like the fresh powder on an untracked run, or the view from the top of a big hill in London, or the unbelievable design in the new skyscrapers at the edge of the city.

thus to end my random post:
this is what i hope to be doing in 3 days time:

on these (ski porn):

this thread is both hilarious and very upsetting.

The fastest production car in the world...The 9ff GT9 has recently recorded a documented top speed of 409 kilometers per hour, or 254.1 mph, enough to knock the Bugatti Veyron down to third on the list of all time fastest production cars.

Where do they test this and what numbers are they required to produce before it's a "production car"? That thing ^^ doesn't look very factory to me. :)

ha top trumps:
this is faster:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSC_Aero

ugly as sin though

The SSC is definitely not a production car.

EDIT: Wait, I thought you were talking about Thrust SSC, the world land speed record holding "car".
I used to dream about driving Thrust 2 into the record books as a kid.

http://www.allfastcars.com/fastestcars.shtml

1. SSC Ultimate Aero TT - 411.76 km/h
   
2. Bugatti Veyron - 400 km/h
   
3. Koenigsegg CCR - 388 km/h
   
4. McLaren F1 - 372 km/h
   
5. Ferrari Enzo - 355 km/h
   
6. Porsche Carrera GT - 334 km/h
   
7. McLaren Mercedes SLR - 334 km/h
   
8. Lamborghini Murcielago - 330 km/h
   
   

http://www.carlustblog.com/2008/11/worlds-fastest.html

when i was a bit younger I used to love cars (just before I got my own-now sold), and dreamed of owning a ford mustang from the good old days. Today, at that dealership on the random part of the A3 between East Putney and Clapham, I saw a beauty.
that is the first time in a very long time I've been taken aback by a car.
it was stunning.
And then later in the day, was out near twickenham, and a garage had what looked like a 1920s mint bugatti or something in the front, wowser.

I blame you entirely, ms. Bellezza.

There, I'm done, now i can go back to my car hating ways.
My dad is, and always will be a car freak. doesn't have anything interesting apart from the TR6 which hes owned since his uni days.

I can't imagine trading in my bike for a car now, and driving around today confirmed it.
however as purely mechanical things, they are quite something.

but as with bikes, they are mechanical things and to that extent I find it hard to compare with other amazing things, like the fresh powder on an untracked run, or the view from the top of a big hill in London, or the unbelievable design in the new skyscrapers at the edge of the city.

thus to end my random post:
this is what i hope to be doing in 3 days time:

on these (ski porn):

this thread is both hilarious and very upsetting.

blame me if you must! everyone else does :p

Ill be boarding in Meribel in a week and I cant wait! ...hey... we could start a new thread, snowboard porn.... or yes... ski porn... oh but wait... we cant, its inappropriate, has nought to do with a bike now does it?

I love my bike :]

http://www.allfastcars.com/fastestcars.shtml

1. SSC Ultimate Aero TT - 411.76 km/h
   
2. Bugatti Veyron - 400 km/h
   
3. Koenigsegg CCR - 388 km/h
   
4. McLaren F1 - 372 km/h
   
5. Ferrari Enzo - 355 km/h
   
6. Porsche Carrera GT - 334 km/h
   
7. McLaren Mercedes SLR - 334 km/h
   
8. Lamborghini Murcielago - 330 km/h
   
   

http://www.carlustblog.com/2008/11/worlds-fastest.html

Hippy! the SSC has not been officially documented at those speeds so until it is it holds no bearing :]

**edit, I just read it has been verified so I retract my post and seek out why false claims are being made with the GT9

'mericans taking records?! What's the world coming to. Step the fuck up Porsche!