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Old 06-06-2010, 04:47 PM   #121
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If you were at a set of lights with a LFA on one side and a vermillion fire XY GT on the other side camming away, where would everyone be looking?

At the LFA....
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Another boring Toyota!! Give me a Mustang anytime!
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At the LFA....
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Ford have won ten Constructors championships in F1, and Schumy won two F1 championships in a Ford.
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Well it is as locally made as a Mustang.....
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Cosworth powerplants - Ford paid 100,000 pounds for the development of the engine and the right to put their logo on the rocker covers.
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Those race cars your could buy. GT40 beat them all at le mans. Heny Ford himself raced his early designs to success.
After wasting cubic dollars, effort and time at the event and early failures of the Coletti gearboxed Windsor engined GT40. I preferred Eric Broadle's aluminium-tubbed original (Cortina tail lights) design.
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But if you buy a Ferrari California, you are buying style and character. I feel that this Lexus is for geeks.
I always think of the California as an astheitically-limited rebodied Maserati with fake exhaust pipes. Maybe pick another model to defend your point of view?


This post and my previous posts aren't really bagging Ford or Ferrari. If we are truthful every manufacturer has skeletons in their closet.
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Pull your head in hava look around at well maybe THIS
Thats website has a familar feel to it.

I just priced one of those, with moon roof, $134,000 driveaway.

Is there a difference between sunroof and moonroof?
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Thats website has a familar feel to it.

I just priced one of those, with moon roof, $134,000 driveaway.

Is there a difference between sunroof and moonroof?
Its for people who want to use it once a month instead of just once a year...
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Technically they're still there when you look at the cozworth powered cars
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And who owns Cosworth now? Either the racing or the road car department?
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It looks like the illegitimate lovechild of an R35 GTR and a mark 4 Supra.

Only Porsche have a lazier design team.
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His name is Xerox.....
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If you were at a set of lights and a honda NSX was on one side and a 90's to current Ferrari on the other side, where would almost everyone be looking? If you were at a set of lights with a LFA on one side and a vermillion fire XY GT on the other side camming away, where would everyone be looking? I doubt even in Japan they would be looking at the LFA over the GT. Even the names Japs choose are un-inspiring.
or if your lucky enough........... you could be drooling over your au in the reflection of a shop window across the road........
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It looks like the illegitimate lovechild of an R35 GTR and a mark 4 Supra.

Only Porsche have a lazier design team.

You need to get out more.
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or if your lucky enough........... you could be drooling over your au in the reflection of a shop window across the road........

My car does inspire drool but not just from me.
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Technically they're still there when you look at the cozworth powered cars
Ford no longer have a connection to Cosworth.

Someone else purchased it, Audi maybe?
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Old 11-06-2010, 10:24 PM   #141
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Someone else purchased it, Audi maybe?

They're their own group owned by business guys who are into racing.
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Old 04-07-2010, 02:42 AM   #142
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Comparison: 2012 Lexus LFA vs 2010 Nissan GT-R
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400 K for a Toyota , they just don't learn their lesson do they . At the end of the day it is a Toyota and subsequently white goods on wheels . You earn a reputation in Formula One like Ford did not just (so spectacularly unsuccesfully ) try and buy one like Toyota did, or Sports car racing like jaguar did . et al et al et al . Just another glorified Corolla .
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Where did I read about the "Starion" that was designed in Japan as the "Stallion" but got lost in the translation when marketed in Australia.

That a bit like the "frux" capacitor! hehe
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http://www.topgear.com/uk/videos/bra...xus-lfa-part-2
that video sums up the LFA perfectly at the end...
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You know, I think you might be right. I see no similarities between the LFA and either the Supra or the GTR
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400 K for a Toyota , they just don't learn their lesson do they . At the end of the day it is a Toyota and subsequently white goods on wheels . You earn a reputation in Formula One like Ford did not just (so spectacularly unsuccesfully ) try and buy one like Toyota did, or Sports car racing like jaguar did . et al et al et al . Just another glorified Corolla .
I agree the price is a little outrageous but whitegood on wheels? bwhaha Glorified Corolla? You sir need to go and do some real research on this car before you're even allowed near the keyboard again....think V10, carbon fibre monocoque, etc
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I don't know, spending $750,000 (in Australia) on something with a Lexus badge... Thats top end Lamborghini money, or all the other exotics.

Or like a few Nissan GTRs, one for you, one for the missus and two for the two kids.
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You know, I think you might be right. I see no similarities between the LFA and either the Supra or the GTR
Of course not, its on the opposite side of the track from the GT-R.
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Guys, let's be realistic, it's not the car, it's the badge ...
The thing can be a VTOL and we'll still call it just a "toyota".

Nothing wrong with that, we're here cause we like Fords, no-one says we need to admire or respect Holdens or Toyota's or anything else for that matter... each to his own... as long as we don't attack each other personally.
(Unless of course you drive a Lada Niva) ...
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