WHAT IS YOUR DREAM CAR?

[Larz]

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WHAT IS YOUR DREAM CAR?

Imagine no obstacles, no financial limits, no limits on how many cars you can own, and pick one car that you must add to your massive 5,000sq ft air-controlled garage.

Mine is the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Vitesse (open-top roadster)
This is the video that made me fall for the car over a year ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAKzAGjLr14


Selling price new and hand-built from factory: $2.5-3 million US
FEATURES:
It's <gulp> French but don't let that influence you at all. Body sides are carbon fiber with a titanium front end.
It has a constant link back to Bugatti and sends data so they can manage and contact you if anything is needed.
It has 11 radiators, quad turbos and air coolers, quad fuel pumps, an 8L W16 engine with 1180Bhp, 1100pd ft torque and goes from 0-60 in 2+sec, 0-100mph in 5+ sec. It has 4-wheel drive, a 7speed dual clutch trans and top speed over 250mph. Required tires from Michelin made solely for this car ($10k per set). It barely makes 10mpg and if you run it at top speed it runs out of gas in 12 minutes LOL!
(Available in any color scheme you request. Optional highly polished aluminum trim instead of carbon fiber is also available for an additonal $600k.
It's average owner is a male who also owns 35 other vehicles, is driven an avge of 2,500 miles per year and previous year models have no depreciation at re-sale.

[rxmclaren7]

i would have to say for current (albeit not yet in production) a McLaren P1, as my track toy and then as a daily driver the Maseratti Quatroporte GTS, i would still keep my Infiniti M35x although with no financial constraints i may as well upgrade to the M56XS......

[confused9]

GT-R R34. Top Gear makes that car look BOSS

[merlinq2]

2012 GTR- good in the snow too-------

[Ilya]

GT-R R34. Top Gear makes that car look BOSS

Top Gear is the best show ever. I can't wait till it's back. All top gear fans should know of http://www.finalgear.com.

Anyhow...for me, it would probably be a Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4. The lines on that car are simply epic. Even completely filthy that thing looks so sexy.

Here is the ad for it:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvBbNe3rqU[/youtube]

[TDot]

Well damn, that's 2:53 of my life ill never get back for that underwhelming commercial, they could have done much better. Anyway, I have to go Avant-garde, I'm going with Koenigsegg Agera R, the fastest car, and sexy as hell. Outside looking like the stealth b0mber and inside looking like a rocket ship.

[CPJ LB]

I will go with a sleeper...

... The Audi RS6 Avant!!! Since its 'only' sold in Europe, its exclusive to the U.S.

i'll use it to drive the family around, get groceries, spend time tuning the car and on the weekends I'd go 'game hunting'

Specs:
Stock!!!
4 liter V8 twin turbo
560hp/516tq
AWD Quattro
0-60: 3.9 seconds

**tuning this wagon will yield more power**


Ultimate stealth wagon!!!

http://youtu.be/EZJIVHbNfro

[wingFeather]

Hard to decide, but it would be one of these:

1. Dymaxion
2. Bertone Lancia Stratos Prototipo
3. Ferrari 250 GTO R
4. Bugatti Type 37 GP Race Car

[merlinq2]

Hard to decide, but it would be one of these:

1. Dymaxion- Don't get it at all a good year blimp with wheels?
2. Bertone Lancia Stratos Prototipo- this is such a strange looking, well I guess it is a car
3. Ferrari 250 GTO R - the best of the best
4. Bugatti Type 37 GP Race Car

- kind of cool if you like vintage

[merlinq2]

Hard to decide, but it would be one of these:

1. Dymaxion- Don't get it at all a good year blimp with wheels?
Wait - now this is cool:
World's Fair accident [edit]

An accident at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair damaged the first prototype badly, killing the driver, and seriously injuring the two passengers, one of whom was William Sempill, aviation pioneer and Japanese spy. The Dymaxion had rolled over, and although the driver was wearing a seatbelt, the prototype's canvas roof had not offered sufficient crash protection. The cause of the accident was not determined, although Buckminster Fuller reported that the accident was due to the actions of another vehicle that had been following the Dymaxion closely.[5] The crash prompted investors to abandon the project, blaming the accident on deficiencies of the vehicle's steering.
In his 1988 book The Age of Heretics, author Art Kleiner maintained the real reason Chrysler refused to produce the car was because bankers had threatened to recall their loans, feeling the car would destroy sales for vehicles already in the distribution channels and second-hand cars.

2. Bertone Lancia Stratos Prototipo- this is such a strange looking, well I guess it is a car
3. Ferrari 250 GTO R - the best of the best
4. Bugatti Type 37 GP Race Car

- kind of cool if you like vintage

[Ilya]

Well damn, that's 2:53 of my life ill never get back for that underwhelming commercial, they could have done much better. Anyway, I have to go Avant-garde, I'm going with Koenigsegg Agera R, the fastest car, and sexy as hell. Outside looking like the stealth b0mber and inside looking like a rocket ship.

Eh, first video that caught my attention on YouTube. I could probably find a much better video by someone else from something like the Gold Rush series that would have been better lol.

The Agera is pretty sweet though.

[robert_4.5_S]

Mine would be Brabus Rocket 800 which is mercedes CLS 63 amg
789 HP
0-60 3.7 sec
Prices go over $580 000

[wingFeather]

0-60 3.7 sec
Prices go over $580 000

I don't mean to come across harsh, but it better have more going for it than it's 0-60 time.

[CPJ LB]

0-60 3.7 sec
Prices go over $580 000

I don't mean to come across harsh, but it better have more going for it than it's 0-60 time.

That is a steep price tag... Brabus is known to push the limits on the AMGs as well as sticker prices on their products lol....people will spend money to have the Brabus badge on their cars....

[Larz]

Hard to decide, but it would be one of these:

1. Dymaxion- Don't get it at all a good year blimp with wheels?
2. Bertone Lancia Stratos Prototipo- this is such a strange looking, well I guess it is a car
3. Ferrari 250 GTO R - the best of the best
4. Bugatti Type 37 GP Race Car

- kind of cool if you like vintage

Oh yes! Nexty to my Bugatti would be both the Ferrari GTO 250 and the 250 GT California (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) - both are examples of cutting edge super cars of their time.

[robert_4.5_S]

The brabus is expensive but when you get it price tag wont matter.

[wingFeather]

the 250 GT California

I had a difficult time choosing between that & the GTO... glad to see I'm not alone in my admiration of this artwork!

Don't get it at all a good year blimp with wheels?

just kidding... it really stood out when I was a young child visiting my first car museum. Back then, there was no internet, so not a lot of "different" cars to know about unless you stumbled across one in person. I guess I'm taken in my the historic context. This thing was created back when the auto industry was new & there were plenty of mistakes to be made. These days all cars look, feel and drive the same, and are made to be boring disposable safety bubbles.

To this day I still admire the products of those who dared to be different and experiment... Tucker, DeLorean, etc... which other automaker released their own in-house gold plated stainless steel car (with gullwing doors even)? And until the M35/M45, no other had headlights that pivoted in the direction you were turning. In a small way, this was a reason I was attracted to our M's (the pivoting headlights I mean... still waiting for Infiniti's gold plated gullwing model).

[wizard8873]

Ferrari F40. There are nicer and faster cars out there but nothing that is more exciting than an F40 to me. Lots of power, no electronic nannies, and really being connected to the road.

[MOWellsinVA]

Bentley Brooklands.

[pedsemdoc]

Koenigsegg Agera R

[jmichael97]

2012 Lex LFA, 2013 Aston Vanquish, 2014 GTR, are my toys my dailys: 2013 M56s, 2014 Audi RS7 and 2014 Tesla Models S trucks: G wagon (duh), QX56 and last An Audi A8 L w12 incase i need to be chauffeured lol

[jbracy7]

94 gts skyline, with 3 vh45's.one for long tracks,one fhor landspeed,and ill have one with indie carbs no computer assit,why cuz I like the sound. after that a 2013 GTR,that specs match a nascar. That's all

[Larz]

I'm adding a Jaguar XK120 drop top. I saw it on Top Gear yesterday and it's brilliant!

[wingFeather]

2012 Lex LFA

Lexus??? Traitor!!! j/k

[myother45isalesbaer]

Forgive me if this sort of thing is frowned upon -
Moderators, let me know and I will not post this sort of stuff anymore.

WHAT IS YOUR DREAM CAR?

Imagine no obstacles, no financial limits, no limits on how many cars you can own, and pick one car that you must add to your massive 5,000sq ft air-controlled garage.

Mine is the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Vitesse (open-top roadster)
This is the video that made me fall for the car over a year ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAKzAGjLr14


Selling price new and hand-built from factory: $2.5-3 million US
FEATURES:
It's <gulp> French but don't let that influence you at all. Body sides are carbon fiber with a titanium front end.
It has a constant link back to Bugatti and sends data so they can manage and contact you if anything is needed.
It has 11 radiators, quad turbos and air coolers, quad fuel pumps, an 8L v16 engine with 1180Bhp, 1100pd ft torque and goes from 0-60 in 2+sec, 0-100mph in 5+ sec. It has 4-wheel drive, a 7speed dual clutch trans and top speed over 250mph. Required tires from Michelin made solely for this car ($10k per set). It barely makes 10mpg and if you run it at top speed it runs out of gas in 12 seconds LOL!
(Available in any color scheme you request. Optional highly polished aluminum trim instead of carbon fiber is also available for an additonal $600k.
It's average owner is a male who also owns 35 other vehicles, is driven an avge of 2,500 miles per year and previous year models have no depreciation at re-sale.

Wait a minute. This is not fair. I have to pick one? The Bugatti would be at the top of my list as are most other posters cars. Very interesting question. If I had to pick one, today, it would be a Lincoln with the suicide doors. If I could get that I would get an old Doozy. Both would have to be restored to like new condition. WOW! You are twisting my feeble mind just thinking about just one of many I would love to own. I am driving myself nuts, thinking on all the other one's I like. Very good entertaining post.

[Larz]

LOL baer - let's twist the mind a bit more, shall we?

Consider the transmission:
The transmission on the Bugatti is a double-clutch transmission - It's two individual transmissions working in tandem to allow shifts to be completed in just 150 milliseconds. It's not actually an automatic trans, but an automatically-controlled manual transmission. Having two clutches allows the car to have two different gears completely engaged at the same time so that the car can be accelrating in one gear and aleady have the next gear ready to go. The transmission never shifts actually 'gears' - it simply switches from one clucth to other. This way, there is no lack of power, no pause, and no evidence of a shift up or down. The transmission never stops spinning gears and always has the next gear at the ready on the opposite clutch.

This video of the how the car was created will blow your mind. It took the best minds from automotive and aerospace to do it. It takes a team of 17 people 4-5 weeks to build each car by hand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9lsrV3ndRw

[myother45isalesbaer]

OK Larz,

The youtube video did me in. Now I have to take some medicine before my head explodes. LOL.

[N8NiTTY]

LOL baer - let's twist the mind a bit more, shall we?

Consider the transmission:
The transmission on the Bugatti is a double-clutch transmission - It's two individual transmissions working in tandem to allow shifts to be completed in just 150 milliseconds. It's not actually an automatic trans, but an automatically-controlled manual transmission. Having two clutches allows the car to have two different gears completely engaged at the same time so that the car can be accelrating in one gear and aleady have the next gear ready to go. The transmission never shifts actually 'gears' - it simply switches from one clucth to other. This way, there is no lack of power, no pause, and no evidence of a shift up or down. The transmission never stops spinning gears and always has the next gear at the ready on the opposite clutch.

This video of the how the car was created will blow your mind. It took the best minds from automotive and aerospace to do it. It takes a team of 17 people 4-5 weeks to build each car by hand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9lsrV3ndRw

umm the current Nissan gtr has a dual clutch...it shifts faster than humanly possible...limited edition comes in around 114k...

My favorite car every made was GTR R34 Skyline.

My dream car would be a WHITE 2016 infiniti Q70- All Wheel Drive HYBRID- nismo /IPL editon
Red IPL Leather interior.
SBW-steer by wire
Panoramic roof..(For the love of God can we please have Panoromic roofs as an option in the luxury nissan line in the united states --- Sheesh its available in a maxima- -)

Its cost 105k right now (i'm already saving for it...if you think i am crazy .. : so does my girl friend.lol )

if you want to see what one looks like
http://www.batfa.com/new-car-nissan-cima-hybrid.htm
more pics
http://www.batfa.com/photo-newcar-cima-hybrid-01.htm
http://www.batfa.com/photo-newcar-cima-hybrid-07.htm
http://www.batfa.com/photo-newcar-cima-hybrid-08.htm

I will test drive on later this year(october/november) when i go barbados to visit my father.
@Iylakol I know your a fan of that lexus LS... but i think this put that to shame

[wingFeather]

Even the Hyundai Veloser & the Dodge Fart have dual clutches these days. This is why I'm not big on "modern marvels" if I had to choose only one car... if technology is the only thing making them interesting, then it's only a couple of years until the guy with the rental car will have your same exclusiveness.

[myother45isalesbaer]

If I had Jay Leno's money I could own all my dream cars. Although the Bugatti has a ton of history behind it, and its a techno marvel, where could I drive it besides on a race track to fully appreciate it? No way I could take it out to go to the grocery store or use it to go to work and back. So as a practical car, even if I could get one, its really useless. I am still sticking to my old Lincoln with the suicide doors.