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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:02 PM
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Is there a car that makes you sick with envy? (in the good way)
Edited on Mon Aug-08-05 02:03 PM by undisclosedlocation
I appreciate that very few here are highly possession-oriented; in fact neither am I. On the other hand, if there's something that revs the motor, so to speak, of people like us, it's probably going to be pretty goshdarned impressive. For me, it's a new, or relatively new, model Lexus. Per the internets, it appears to be the SC430, though I may be mistaken. The pictures turned up by Google Images mainly showed me that I don't like it much in either standard little red sportscar or convertible setups; here's a little picture in neither:


You?
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:05 PM
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1. The ones that generate that level of jealousy
Edited on Mon Aug-08-05 02:08 PM by Book Lover
are of course Ferraris: the Dino and Enzo make me feel faint :-)

on edit: This is the smallest photo I could find of the Enzo :-)
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:07 PM
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2. I've seen quite a few 2005 Mustangs around lately
considering that they've just hit the market. I've always preferred the classic ones, but I think these are going over well because they gave it such a classic look.



:headbang:
rocknation

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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:12 PM
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4. No matter what shape the body is, it's still a Ford.
Absolute shit cars.
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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:11 PM
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3. A few of them, to be exact:
1) BMW M-5
2) Aston Martin Vanquish
3) Maserati Quattroporte

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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:18 PM
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5. AC Propulstion T-Zero


Not that I've ever seen one on the road since only 3 or 4 exist :).

All electric, 200 horsepower, 0-60 in 4.7 :)

http://www.acpropulsion.com/tzero_pages/tzero_performance.htm
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MN ChimpH8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:20 PM
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6. Any Ferrari, Aston Martin or Lamborghini;
RUF Porsches
Bentley Continental GT

A dream car has to be a rolling work of art, staggeringly fast and totally comfortable. May as well dream big! :)
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:24 PM
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7. I'm easy to please. I'll take a Toyota Supra TT 6 - Speed
and be a very happy man.

*drool*

Forget all those 200+ grand cars, just gimmie something I can whip around some corners in. Oh, and smoke rustangs in.
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huskerlaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:36 PM
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10. I have quite a few
In a dream world, the Mercedes SL65:


In a world in which I have slightly more money than I probably ever will, the Audi TT:


And in reality, the pretty little guy I'll probably get next year, the Scion (Toyota)TC:

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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 07:52 AM
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13. Heck, I didn't know they'd used the Supra nameplate in 20 years
Dunno if the styling slipped somewhere in there or if they discontinued it for a while.

I checked Google Images; fuckity fuck fuck, that's not exactly what the Supra used to look like. Quite the thing!
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:30 PM
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8. '37 Packard
Sorry about the pic size, folks...







But is that a car or is that a car! Saw one at an auto show in college and they were selling it for 20k. Didn't have the money, but man oh man I wanted that car. Still do.....

Khash.
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:33 PM
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9. Put a convertible top on that puppy,
And I'll take it home. Love those old Packards, hell I love any old iron.
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mikehiggins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 03:00 PM
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11. I don't know how to post a pic on this site BUT
if you want to see a Volvo 1800s sportscar, just find an oldie station playing the Saint tv series with Roger Moore. That's the car.

After that, a Jaguar XK-E.

After that, well, there's nothing after that...
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 03:40 PM
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12. Posting pictures is pretty straightforward
In the strictest sense, it's stealing bandwidth to post any images from webspace not belonging to you. On the other hand, I don't think it's a particularly terrible sin so long as the pictures are little, which is one reason we're all going for small pictures here. Regardless, you can either find a picture on the web, then cut and paste its URL into your message here (right-click on the picture to find this out) or if you want to be ace-deuce-trey about it, save the picture to your hard drive, take out an account at Photo Bucket and post the URL from there. Regardless, your cars:

(the Matchbox edition):
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 07:59 AM
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14. Either a Jaguar JT6 or
Edited on Tue Aug-09-05 08:04 AM by Jamastiene
a BMW Z3 90's model without the fin thingies on the rearend. I can't find a picture of that model of that car, but it's sexy. I know this sounds odd, but that car has a cute rearend...
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 08:02 AM
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15. The BMW X5
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