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The previous generation is my favorite aesthetically ...but it sounds like the new one ups the game considerably.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
Beautiful car. To bad none of us will own one. I am guessing they will a excellent investment like the last run of Gt cars?
Investments, that's what there bought for. Very-very few ( maybe 1% ? ) will actually be taken out on a road course & flogged like it was built for.
As far as that Eco-Boost, great platform. That engine can be built for some big & reliable power.
Ford wants to show it off.
Ford interviewed prospective owners beforehand. Only folks who would use the cars, race them, or drive them a lot would be allowed to buy one.
So no 'investment' garage queens allowed.
Ford wants to see the cars on the roads.. at the track. Not parked with 230 miles on the odometer after twenty years,
it builds the prestige of the Ford name. When someone goes in to look at a Fusion, or a Mustang, Taurus,or a Focus,or an F150,having that GT supercar that competes with the best on the world stage,is a huge ego elevator for the brand considering the Taurus SHO and F150 use the same basic engine platform in the Ecoboost V6.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
Win on Sunday, sell on Monday. There will be a number of cars that will be built solely to compete in the Daytona/Le mans series that I think will be quite successful.
Now, customers come into the show room & the salesperson tells them the car their looking at has the same engine in it that won the 24 hrs of Daytona, OH, where do I sign.
No not really. Unless it was on the NASCAR circuit very few people would know what the salesperson is talking about.
Big smiles.
and then find out how much of the goodness can be used in the production cars.
I know they will eventually make 1000 of these but that is hardly production. We can hope what they learn here will make it down to the cars normal people can buy.
I love the FOCUS RS but worry it has too many gimmicky things that will go wrong with it. Why can't there be a performance car without the junk? Tired of the interesting cars thinking they are luxury sedans.
PORSCHE is one of the worst offenders with most of their line but redeem themselves with the GT3 which is a proper sports car; straps for door pulls, cloth on the seats, and most of the stuff that should never have been installed in a PORSCHE removed to reduce weight.
The GT is worthy of the usually overused phrase "tour de force".
I wonder how much of it was actually designed here? I suspect it is more British than US engineering. Not that that bothers me but one could wish for something as extraordinary to be US handiwork.
Clearly a design for the new world order.
Sounds like one thousand to me!
A Panamera. God that thing is gross.
ET
"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
I wonder how that would be on a motorcycle?
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Knock on hot Ford Customline (Y-block) driver's door to ask for a drag.....
and WIN!!!!
;-)!
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
A regular bicycle is tough enough. Riding a recumbent is really death defying in traffic.
I wouldn't ride either type in city traffic mind, nor would I ride a 'so-called' safety bicycle in city traffic.The now ubiquitous 'safety bike' was safer than a penny-farthing bike and that's why it is called a safety bike, Not because it IS very safe compared with a recumbent because they just aren't.
?!?!? VERY high centre of gravity and fundamentally unstable to boot.
I don't commute to work anymore.
Rode to work on a racing light-weight (1970s LW! that is), sans mudguards and re-geared for city work with narrow-7 rear gears for about 30 years*. In Gortex bike gear with a long shirt-tail I could sit on. Mostly on 'bike-paths' and avoiding main roads where possible. For about 2/3rds of that time about 22k each way, and the last 6 yrs just 9 k each ways. Canberra has lots of walking, cycling and horse riding paths which link the cities towns together.
*In that period I road to Uni 32k each way for 4 and a half years both as student and TUTOR in Information Systems Analysis (Academic Level A).
That's a lot of cycling. And I can assure you that 'safety bikes', just AREN'T.On bike lanes in a mostly flat city - IF I was commuting - I'd choose a 'built to fit me' recumbent trike any time. With a winter enclosed-body option, stream-liner type and with a Kamm tail. ;-) and lots of flashing lights - thanks to hi-tech batteries.
But I live in a hilly and very spread out city, so I ride a suspended mtn bike, with 3 nice Granny-Low gears of the 18!!! I avoid busy roads when I can. And it's only for exercise!!
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 12/07/16 12/07/16
Riding in a car this low is a very strange feeling.
The word vulnerable keeps going through your mind. Because you are even more vulnerable than you would be on a motorcycle.
That HONDA towers over the Europa!
that crossed the middle line of a 4 lane non-divided highway.I was driving a 1969 Opel GT.
Just reacted and pulled it off, but there is no way I could do the same now some 40+ years later.
I was OK with it, but my friend had a panic/breathing attack and we pulled off on a safe shoulder as soon as we could.
Edits: 12/07/16
I drive a Honda S2000. Never knew there were so many styles of exhaust pipes.
8^)
Sitting in an Austin-Healy Sprite in a freeway lane, going 70 mph, as they passed me at 71 mph, 6 feet away.
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