Looks really nice, that.

With the GT86, and now this, Toyota has me tingling all over. Just as with their Le Mans debut 2 years ago,

The only reason I would take a car made after ~'72 would be to sell it and buy a car made before '72 and have some extra cash.

It's not about how fast you go, it's about how good you look when you get there.

fucking aston martin db6 <3

Indeed.

I'm currently restoring a '67 Sprite. Then I'll pick up my buddies Hillman Minx. After that I'd like to hunt down a Triumph TR6, what a beast.

were you a hero in the war grampa?

out of those cars only the tr6 looks ok, otherwise you might as well be restoring a moskvitch

way to get with the times

I'm 23.

It doesn't take a genius to see that around '72-75, the quality of cars plummeted. Generally speaking, cars are now badly engineered, unreliable, and aesthetically putrid. Worst of all, they depreciate in value. The moment you drive your 2014 car off the lot, you've lost money.

As for me. I'll be picking up that '64 Minx for $500, maybe $300 to tow it back home. After I clean up the interior and get the injection system working I could sell it off easily for $4000, but it's an investment! A small collection of cars that will appreciate in value will be worth the troubles. Sell it when the time is right $$$.


PS. My '67 is in pieces and I've already got mad chiquititas wanting to go on scenic rides in the desert town I live in.

Damn, I'll be quoting that.

"the world went to shit after 1972"

Just about anything anyone produced did, anyways.

Yep.
Confirmed

http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2014/02/to...supra.html

car for fags and pedophiles.

how you figure?

I like how we talk about these cars when only football players and movie stars can afford them.

and jamerio, don't forget jamerio.

supra is supposed to be kind of affordable, that's what made it cool. maybe lexus makes purposefully expensive (luxury) cars, but toyota is not supposed to.

lexus IS an affordable car by toyota for american market...

$36k? not really, for most people. it's on par with bmw 3 series (33k) and mercedes c-class (36k) . it's not any less overpriced than any other luxury car..

nowadays perhaps, but it did start off as an low cost luxury car to compete on american market.

You are right, and in addition to not be affordable to 99.9...% of the peoples that likes them, they are also not easy to drive and often not even comfortable, with minuscle trunks, a lot of internal noise, absence of air conditioning, or stereo, or soft cushions and whatever.

But it's not really about owning those cars.
Supercars are nice to watch, to listen, they are like art pieces.
When you watch a Veyron, and you read all its amazing tachincal specs, you are amused and chilled like if you were listening to a music you like or watching a fine painting.

Apart of the strictly aesthetic, they have the fact that their shapes, external and internal, must also, and often mainly, be functional.

So every supercar is the result of the effort in trying to reconcile weights, power, power gestion, structure, geometry, heat, noise, aerodinamycs, downforce, and... aesthetic.

That makes supercars, and other fine vehicles like supersonic planes, or high speed yacths, under a certain way to see them, like an ingenuous kind of art that isn't "limited" to one sense, but embraces eyes, ears, touch, and the psychological aspect of knowing or just perceiving, the immense dimension of the work and the refined mathematics behind it.

Have you not heard of the GTR?

It's still a joke that the people that get to actually enjoy them beyond observation are celebs.

You don't have to spend big money to get super car performance.

Im Euro so no Skyline for me, also it's not just about performance, it's about the fact of "owning a Ferrari" or any similar tier brand. No matter what you do your vehicle, it's just cooler to own an actual exotic expensive car.

But imagine how cool it is to beat an exotic car?

Trust me, people in ferrari's don't look so cool when they get owned on the road :)

Yes but by the time they get back to their mansion, they've probably forgotten.

People will think you are a douche by doing races on the street. You cant beat a Ferrari.

I see more Ferraris on the road than R34 GTR's.

meh, in a way it looks neat, but its so overdone i will prefer the old supra every damn time :>

Looks like an RE-Amemiya creation.

I can imagine the actual production car being a slightly toned down version, depending on the cost they're aiming for.

only car that has captivated me lately is F12 Berlinetta. It's simply magnificent.

But sounds italian.

I take that.


k thanks.

You take LaFerrari, doubt you can get a FXX anymore.

When you buy an FXX you can't take it on the road anyway. Your car gets shipped to whichever race track Ferrari are holding the 'meet' at and you drive it there , on the track.

You can't buy a FXX anymore and not everybody could buy it when it was on the market.

Well yeah seeing as only 30 were ever built.

urban myth, you own the car and can do as you please with it - most don't though.

the reason why i like ferrari is cause they make the cars that fit the road.. not some spaceshit like lambo and other manufacturers. so fxx or laferrari is not my thing.

Give me a mustang from the 65-70's era and I'm a happy man.

Give me an Audi A5/S5 and I'll be happy for life.

Give me a [-] button and I'll neg you for life.

:*{

rofl. Mustang and Man are contradictory.

It's an abomination

I'm glad I was not the only one thinking of efukt when see this thread :S