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#76 2015-09-18 16:59:17

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#77 2015-09-18 17:24:12

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Re: The Automobile Thread...

Aston Martin make some of the most beautiful GT's around, the convertibles are drop-dead, or should that be drop-head gorgeous. Bentley and R.R can't touch them, and neither can any of the modern Italians either IMO.

The convertibles go nice with linen, the hard tops, Lesser's Golden Bale.

I do fear for their future though without an automotive sugar-daddy.


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#78 2015-09-19 00:35:39

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Don't all laugh, but I think Citroen got the style of the Cactus spot-on.


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#79 2015-09-19 06:33:10

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ok in full disclosure: i am currently scratching my head whether to get an AM Vantage V8 (the current one, unfortunately not the 1980ies one) or a Bentley continental GT


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#80 2015-09-19 06:53:48

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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin

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#81 2015-09-19 07:04:03

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Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare

 

#82 2015-09-19 07:18:23

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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin

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#83 2015-09-19 07:48:49

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^ I'd totally believe that story.

The Bentley GT3R is a pretty sweet bucket of bolts. Partially because it doesn't look very Bentley like. The platforms are all solid, I just don't really like they coach work on most of them.


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#84 2015-09-19 08:03:16

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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin

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#85 2015-09-19 08:21:05

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#86 2015-09-19 09:45:33

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I would go for the Bentley, only because it's that particular type of car that I know could get me half-a-cross a continent before the police and the heat closed in on me. I would be in Marbella before they realised I was already long gone.


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#87 2015-09-20 12:10:32

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I already have a car for very long journey, so a rough-ish sports car would be a good addition. Where I live, Contis do not have the typical footballer image.

First word problems, I know.


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#88 2015-09-20 12:52:52

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#89 2015-10-03 05:16:40

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Vantage!!!!!


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#90 2015-10-03 05:38:29

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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin

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#91 2015-10-19 11:59:13

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Re: The Automobile Thread...

I haven't considered the automobile/fashion connection previously. I would say the most attractive designs have yet to come. Given 3D printing, we'll likely see additional boutique entrants into the market soon since it takes less parts to 3D print a car than traditional manufacturing.


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#92 2015-10-19 12:23:07

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Re: The Automobile Thread...

Part of me feels a bit of unease when the commercial shows constant burnouts and reckless driving and then some pumped up idiot can just walk into the dealership and drive out with 707 horses under the hood and he's chomping at the bit to get to the first red light so he can blow everyone's doors off when the light turns green. 

http://www.autoblog.com/2014/07/01/2015-dodge-challenger-srt-hellcat-707-horsepower-official-video/


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#93 2016-10-25 13:57:10

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#94 2016-10-26 10:04:18

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#95 2016-10-26 10:20:41

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Aston Martin...

 

#96 2016-10-30 06:02:00

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And it is amazing. Job done. So far, I cant see any other car that I would like. Italians - too midlife crisis. 911 - too Germanic. Conti GT - too Germanic underneath. Maybe going vintage, but I have been there before.


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#97 2016-10-30 07:20:27

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Which one did you get? A fellow down the road has a V12 Vantage S in a darker silver, it makes a wonderful noise.

I still regret not buying a DB5/6 a couple of years ago. At the time my father and I looked at various cars but weren't really willing to take the plunge. We even test drove a blue and a silver one, prices back then were around the 50k€ mark. Looking back that was one of the worst decisons we ever made. Though probably not worse than my parents neighbour who gave away his 993 Turbo S for peanuts.

 

#98 2016-10-30 07:24:52

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Yes, Vantage - the very original one, a 2005 in its original form, absolutely nothing had been "modded".

I regret not having bought a 1980ies Vantage (when "Vantage" meant "batshit top of the range model", not "AM's Boxster") when they were dirt cheap.


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