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Who cares if a car can go 250 mph? Where in the world are you going to drive it? Would you seriously take it out to the salt flats?

I still think a Corvette is the best bang for the buck when it comes to these things.

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^Agreed on the Z06
The Veyron, I love this car. I hear that it can run on multiple even number of cylinders by driver control. It gets to 186 mph in 14 seconds i believe. 0-60 in low 3's. It has a tail that flips out to provide Down force at high speeds. It has a turbocharged engine.
From some of the magazine I have read, McLaren will still have it for fastest producation car and that even though the Veyron can hit 252, the production car will hit only 218. Only being used loosely here.
And there are proving grounds and other tracks that you can take these cars out to to get them up that high.
If I had the money I sure would buy it.

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nahh. ill take the ariel atom. well..... the problem now is to get my daily driver s10 running again. :p

-edit- AHA. found the video i wanted people to see
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...3&q=ariel+atom

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I saw a new Ford GT40 going down the street here in rochester this summer

I was SO tempted to follow it :^)

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btw didnt the koeniggsegg ( or however you spell it) ccr beat mclaren's record?

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I'm very happy with my new car. It gets a little better than 3mpg on the highway. :D

Wetzel

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Here's what I want. Very cheap, lotsa fun, really unique.

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The Veyron is very nice, and very very fast. But for 2.5% of the price of the Veyron, I am saving up for my downpayment on one of these, complete with an original Carroll Shelby signature (only 11 months to go until they are available)...

-dave

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Dave, do you know of any plans to make that body style mustang avaliable with the hood shaker from a couple years ago an option as well??

That would complete the look, and then we would have to go out and buy one at my house here to match it's then would be twin 70 Mach 1 in the garage. lol

Oh, and the 65 too.. but who keeps track of all their mustangs nowadays? :rolleyes:

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From what I have seen and read so far, there is not a plan to have a factory stock Mustang with a shaker hood. The standard V-6 doesn't need it, and the GT doesn't come with a factory Ram Air, Shaker, or similar intake option (but it does have a nice beefy bulge in the hood to fit over the V-8). But you can get them from several after-market sources, either just for looks, or if you want to pull the huge intake ducts out of a GT and replace them with a shorter flow path, or if you want to stick a blower on the block and need the extra room. You can get either straight-forward hood scoops, or a real shaker two-piece set up with a big hole in the actual hood. There are also a lot of after-market builders that have them as standard equipment on their re-builds (e.g. I think that both the Roush Mustang GT and Chip Foose Mustang GT have them).

The hood vents on the Cobra GT500KR are actually designed to get air out from under the hood, not pump air in like a hood scoop. The acceleration is fast enough, and the front air dam effects are strong enough at speed, that the car has a considerable pressure build up under the hood. The hood vents are there to dump the pressure out the top of the hood so that the hood does not blow off, similar in function to the hood vents on the Ford GT. Oh yeah, and they look cool.

And now back to our regularly scheduled episode of Car Talk... :)

-dave

[edit]If I remember correctly, the last factory option Mustang with a shaker hood was the 2003-2004 Mach 1 special edition. They are no longer available.[/edit]

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Red, shiny, and convertable... say, you wouldn't happen to be planning on having a midlife crisis in about eleven months, would you? :p

Back on topic: 3 MPG? I get better milage than that! Though I suppose if you can afford the car, you can afford the gas.

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AC Cars just announced plans to build a factory here in CT for their AC Ace, AC MCKVI and AC Mamba carbon fibre coupes (all priced between $90-150K). Maybe if I get a job there I can get a discount??? :)

"The new AC Ace, a modern successor to the lightweight British sports car which inspired the much more powerful AC Cobra in the 1960s;
The AC Mamba, the first closed coupe version of the classic AC Cobra shape; and
The new AC MK VI – this is an all new design which updates the Cobra for the modern world."

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I've been saving all my loose change to send Jack Roush.

If you like small cars. Check out his version of the Focus

http://www.roushperf.com/focus_st2.shtml

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Nope, just planning on continuing the one that I started 20 years ago with my 1985 Mustang GT black shiny conv.... :)

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thats 3mpg at 200+ mph

the only way you will ever see your honda go 200mph is by driving it off a very high cliff!