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#131
10-01-2010, 08:13 PM
Haha the 911 and the R8 might be 2 or 3 tenths of second faster in the quarter and like you said the interior might be made with materials that a little better in quality, but not at the expense of $30,000 to $40,000 more.
#134
10-01-2010, 10:26 PM
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Canada
Posts: 973
When was the last time you got behind the wheel of a Corvette? So what if a few of the body panels are made of plastic? It's still a damn nice feeling to be there. But you wouldn't know that, would you?
Stop pulling the "it's not fair" bull, by the way. Going by engine displacement here, the Dodge Viper, with the 8.3L V10 in the current model, will run a quarter mile in 11.6 seconds for $90,000.
But the Bugatti Veyron, which has an 8L W16 engine with four turbochargers, will do it in 9.8 seconds. That car will run you around $2,000,000, though. It'll also cost you ~$300,000 a year just to keep it running.
On your income, which car would you rather buy?
Another example. I can walk into a BMW dealership tomorrow and drive an M3 home for $75,000. The best thing about it? Nobody gives a ****. Sure, it's got 400 hp, but nobody is ever going to give it a second look. Do what you will with it, it's boring. It's 15 feet of generic car.
I'd much rather walk into the Chevy dealership and bring home a Z06 Corvette. For $75,000, I'd have 505 hp to peel off the lot with, I could do circles around that BMW on the track, and get the thumbs-up and the waves from everybody I drive past, and when things do eventually start to go wrong, I won't pay out the nose to fix it like you will with the BMW.
Or, I could buy a 10-year old Honda Civic for $1000, spend another $15,000 making it look like this and then get constantly laughed at every minute I spend driving it while failing to outrun the middle-aged lady in the '76 Chevette in the next lane. And then crash it into a tree trying to show off to my girlfriend.
Which of those sounds like the best choice to you?
Why are you still posting here, anyway?
#135
10-01-2010, 10:36 PM
Wrong. A car's value is exactly what someone is willing to pay for it. No more, no less.
When was the last time you got behind the wheel of a Corvette? So what if a few of the body panels are made of plastic? It's still a damn nice feeling to be there. But you wouldn't know that, would you?
Stop pulling the "it's not fair" bull, by the way. Going by engine displacement here, the Dodge Viper, with the 8.3L V10 in the current model, will run a quarter mile in 11.6 seconds for $90,000.
But the Bugatti Veyron, which has an 8L W16 engine with four turbochargers, will do it in 9.8 seconds. That car will run you around $2,000,000, though. It'll also cost you ~$300,000 a year just to keep it running.
On your income, which car would you rather buy?
Another example. I can walk into a BMW dealership tomorrow and drive an M3 home for $75,000. The best thing about it? Nobody gives a ****. Sure, it's got 400 hp, but nobody is ever going to give it a second look. Do what you will with it, it's boring. It's 15 feet of generic car.
I'd much rather walk into the Chevy dealership and bring home a Z06 Corvette. For $75,000, I'd have 505 hp to peel off the lot with, I could do circles around that BMW on the track, and get the thumbs-up and the waves from everybody I drive past, and when things do eventually start to go wrong, I won't pay out the nose to fix it like you will with the BMW.
Or, I could buy a 10-year old Honda Civic for $1000, spend another $15,000 making it look like this and then get constantly laughed at every minute I spend driving it while failing to outrun the middle-aged lady in the '76 Chevette in the next lane. And then crash it into a tree trying to show off to my girlfriend.
Which of those sounds like the best choice to you?
Why are you still posting here, anyway?
When was the last time you got behind the wheel of a Corvette? So what if a few of the body panels are made of plastic? It's still a damn nice feeling to be there. But you wouldn't know that, would you?
Stop pulling the "it's not fair" bull, by the way. Going by engine displacement here, the Dodge Viper, with the 8.3L V10 in the current model, will run a quarter mile in 11.6 seconds for $90,000.
But the Bugatti Veyron, which has an 8L W16 engine with four turbochargers, will do it in 9.8 seconds. That car will run you around $2,000,000, though. It'll also cost you ~$300,000 a year just to keep it running.
On your income, which car would you rather buy?
Another example. I can walk into a BMW dealership tomorrow and drive an M3 home for $75,000. The best thing about it? Nobody gives a ****. Sure, it's got 400 hp, but nobody is ever going to give it a second look. Do what you will with it, it's boring. It's 15 feet of generic car.
I'd much rather walk into the Chevy dealership and bring home a Z06 Corvette. For $75,000, I'd have 505 hp to peel off the lot with, I could do circles around that BMW on the track, and get the thumbs-up and the waves from everybody I drive past, and when things do eventually start to go wrong, I won't pay out the nose to fix it like you will with the BMW.
Or, I could buy a 10-year old Honda Civic for $1000, spend another $15,000 making it look like this and then get constantly laughed at every minute I spend driving it while failing to outrun the middle-aged lady in the '76 Chevette in the next lane. And then crash it into a tree trying to show off to my girlfriend.
Which of those sounds like the best choice to you?
Why are you still posting here, anyway?
#136
10-01-2010, 11:16 PM
#137
10-01-2010, 11:21 PM
Actually there have been no reports of the viper's exhaust catching the car on fire, if there was then my aunt would've had all the vipers she's sold coming in for recall. I think you meant to say ferraris and lamborghinis catch fire because of the exhaust
#138
10-01-2010, 11:27 PM
Wrong. A car's value is exactly what someone is willing to pay for it. No more, no less.
When was the last time you got behind the wheel of a Corvette? So what if a few of the body panels are made of plastic? It's still a damn nice feeling to be there. But you wouldn't know that, would you?
Stop pulling the "it's not fair" bull, by the way. Going by engine displacement here, the Dodge Viper, with the 8.3L V10 in the current model, will run a quarter mile in 11.6 seconds for $90,000.
But the Bugatti Veyron, which has an 8L W16 engine with four turbochargers, will do it in 9.8 seconds. That car will run you around $2,000,000, though. It'll also cost you ~$300,000 a year just to keep it running.
On your income, which car would you rather buy?
Another example. I can walk into a BMW dealership tomorrow and drive an M3 home for $75,000. The best thing about it? Nobody gives a ****. Sure, it's got 400 hp, but nobody is ever going to give it a second look. Do what you will with it, it's boring. It's 15 feet of generic car.
I'd much rather walk into the Chevy dealership and bring home a Z06 Corvette. For $75,000, I'd have 505 hp to peel off the lot with, I could do circles around that BMW on the track, and get the thumbs-up and the waves from everybody I drive past, and when things do eventually start to go wrong, I won't pay out the nose to fix it like you will with the BMW.
Or, I could buy a 10-year old Honda Civic for $1000, spend another $15,000 making it look like this and then get constantly laughed at every minute I spend driving it while failing to outrun the middle-aged lady in the '76 Chevette in the next lane. And then crash it into a tree trying to show off to my girlfriend.
Which of those sounds like the best choice to you?
Why are you still posting here, anyway?
When was the last time you got behind the wheel of a Corvette? So what if a few of the body panels are made of plastic? It's still a damn nice feeling to be there. But you wouldn't know that, would you?
Stop pulling the "it's not fair" bull, by the way. Going by engine displacement here, the Dodge Viper, with the 8.3L V10 in the current model, will run a quarter mile in 11.6 seconds for $90,000.
But the Bugatti Veyron, which has an 8L W16 engine with four turbochargers, will do it in 9.8 seconds. That car will run you around $2,000,000, though. It'll also cost you ~$300,000 a year just to keep it running.
On your income, which car would you rather buy?
Another example. I can walk into a BMW dealership tomorrow and drive an M3 home for $75,000. The best thing about it? Nobody gives a ****. Sure, it's got 400 hp, but nobody is ever going to give it a second look. Do what you will with it, it's boring. It's 15 feet of generic car.
I'd much rather walk into the Chevy dealership and bring home a Z06 Corvette. For $75,000, I'd have 505 hp to peel off the lot with, I could do circles around that BMW on the track, and get the thumbs-up and the waves from everybody I drive past, and when things do eventually start to go wrong, I won't pay out the nose to fix it like you will with the BMW.
Or, I could buy a 10-year old Honda Civic for $1000, spend another $15,000 making it look like this and then get constantly laughed at every minute I spend driving it while failing to outrun the middle-aged lady in the '76 Chevette in the next lane. And then crash it into a tree trying to show off to my girlfriend.
Which of those sounds like the best choice to you?
Why are you still posting here, anyway?
#139
10-02-2010, 07:48 PM
