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goldon said:King Jack Queen Spades
King Jack Queen Spades
Enut said:As long as it's a straight line from the lights, both were a handful going round corners in the wet!
As long as it's a straight line from the lights, both were a handful going round corners in the wet!
madprof said:What was that book that Tom Hartley wrote?
What was that book that Tom Hartley wrote?
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The great road-going cars they only built once
Bugatti La Voiture Noire (2019)
©Bugatti
When Bugatti revealed its La Voiture Noire at the 2019 Geneva salon the company claimed that it was the world's most expensive new car, with a price tag of £12m. You couldn't buy it though; it was commissioned by an unnamed marque enthusiast with very deep pockets, at one time rumoured to be Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo, though he has denied this.
Maybach Exelero (2005)
©Daimler
While it looks like a refugee from a Batman film, the Exelero was never designed for a starring role on the silver screen. Instead it was designed as a mobile test bed for high-speed tyres, bankrolled by German tyre maker Fulda and based on the platform of the Maybach 57 limousine.
Rover 25 Art Car (2002)
©Autocar
With MG Rover getting up to nonsense such as this. It's not hard to see why the company went to the wall. In 2002 the British car maker teamed up with young fashion designer Matthew Williamson to create a 25 with some pizzazz, to tie in with London Fashion Week. With its various shades of pink the car was certainly not for shrinking violets.
Ford Supervan 3 (1995)
©Ford
When Ford decided to build a third iteration of its Supervan it took Supervan 2 and converted it to the latest exterior design of the Transit. That meant a new nose, the latest doors and an all-new paint scheme. However, the previous engine was swapped for a Cosworth HB F1 V8 engine rated at 650bhp to give a top speed close to 200mph.
Lotec C1000 (1991)
©Autocar
In the middle was a twin-turbo Mercedes 5.6-litre V8 developing a claimed 1000bhp – hence the car’s name. Top speed was allegedly 268mph, but this was never independently verified. However, with a race-spec chassis and carbon-fibre bodyshell, it was more high-tech than the name suggested.
In the early days of the car, when they were hand-made and based on a separate chassis, it was easy to build one-offs.
©Lamborghini
But the advent of monocoque construction made it much harder to construct a unique car, which is why it's now such a costly business. But every so often a car maker will unveil a road-going machine that's unique, either as a customer commission, a marketing exercise or it could simply be as the basis for a production model which never sees the light of day. Sometimes it's a shame that only the one was made – but sometimes it's not such a bad thing:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/the-great-road-going-cars-they-only-built-once/ss-AA1hnkmf?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=4bc58a35de0941e2841a0b9450a240e4&ei=281#image=50
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_F1&psig=AOvVaw2WD1W7mHHiboCnQKF8hJwc&ust=1707479388377000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBMQjRxqFwoTCID-xsXWm4QDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE
Tis but a small share of a Euro lottery win?
The 60 most beautiful cars ever made
1948 Jaguar XK120
1937 Cord 812
1935 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900
1959 Ferrari 250 GTO SWB
1962 Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato
2001 Aston Martin Vanquish
1938 Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic
1955 Austin Healey 100M
1934 Auburn Boattail Speedster 851
1962 Lotus Elan
1953 Porsche 356 Speedster
1964 Aston Martin DB5
1963 Mercedes-Benz 230SL
1967 Alfa Romeo T33 Stradale
1966 Jaguar XJ13
1987 Ferrari F40
1963 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray
1952 Jaguar C-Type
1994 McLaren F1
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/brussels-hits-out-at-uk-over-strike-crackdown-as-eu-claims-law-breaches-terms-of-brexit-trade-deal/ar-BB1hYSIz?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=27c7eb6380fa41bdbe9a25bd95601ed6&ei=9
.....Tho' the Ferrarri F40 was AWESOME too