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TurboGallardo

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  1. I think Ferrari will dump the V12 first. They were the first to embrace the turbo. They are in F1. I think Ferrari are more technically advanced and Lamborghini is more about flash and emotion.
  2. I had two Bend-Pak single post lifts in my garage for many years. Never really felt comfortable with the way they leaned in toward each other. Never had a problem with them but still. Also, the foot of the single post lift was really high and I used to scrape the bottom of some of my lower cars. And the platform had raised edges for structural reasons and it was too easy to curb a wheel on them. Eventually I got two American Custom Lifts. One was a double wide lift. Four posts, two platforms. And the other was a single four poster that I had custom made to have greater clearance so I could fit my Ford F250 underneath if I had to. Worked out really well. https://aclifts.com/products-2/automotive-l...-model-bu-9000/ https://aclifts.com/products-2/automotive-l...post-auto-lift/
  3. I had a Noble M400 for a while. Really liked the car but never tracked it. You will have an issue with heat soaking the intercooler. Also, like someone else said, don’t crash it. Not that a Radical would fare much better in a crash. Got any pics?
  4. Congrats Bill, the color and the car is amazing. I knew I should have held out for the Spyder!
  5. 720S is just a beast. My 720S is the first production car I've driven in a long time where I feel like it has a little too much power for the chassis. ZR-1 I'm sure has difficulty getting the power down even from a roll, but I didn't expect the 720S to be that much quicker.
  6. Congrats Brooks! Car looks amazing. I'm not gonna lie, I'm a little jealous. ;-)
  7. Walter Rohrl is my hero. As I read the interview I was thinking I'd be saying the exact same things about electric cars and the future of driving.
  8. I've driven that thing on my simulator a bunch of times. I think I did a lap around the 'Ring in under 4 minutes if I remember correctly. I wonder if, 8 years on, the specification of that purely theoretical vehicle would be any different. Would it be hybrid? Would it be pure electric?
  9. Cool stuff. I wonder, if you gave an engineer an unlimited budget to build a car with no restrictions with the sole objective of setting the fastest lap time around the greatest road courses in the world, what that car would look like.
  10. Back in the day I wanted a 928 so bad...Ended up getting a 3000 GT VR4 instead. So much regret.
  11. Love the Diablo. Is that Verde Ithaca?
  12. http://www.lambopower.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=53128
  13. Oh my, HAHAHA...I haven't laughed that hard in a while. We need to get Ronin back on here so we can be entertained.
  14. My experience racing my 488 against a stock Huracan coupe on five back to back runs were quite different. The Huracan definitely got out of the hole harder, but the 488 reeled it back in each time by the end of the quarter mile. As the speeds increased, it seemed like my 488 was picking up more speed over the Huracan, not the other way around. I think there are some videos of those runs somewhere, I'll see if I can find them.
  15. Considering how quick my 488 GTB is around a road course I think this car is going to surprise a few people. It won't have the straight line speed of the 720S but it will be a beast on track.
  16. Can't wait for this one. Should be an absolute beast on the track. I wonder if it will have the straight line speed of the 720S.
  17. Not to browbeat but I would say there is zero chance that the Apollo IE will be able to turn a quicker lap time or accelerate harder or anything else performance related than the McLaren Senna. "As if that was important even..." These are performance cars after all, how they perform is pretty important unless you just like cruising down the boulevard getting looks. Roland Gumpert built the Gumpert Apollo but the IE is a completely different chassis and I don't think Gumpert had any input on the IE's design. And whatever achievements Gumpert has had in his career it pales in comparison to the racing lineage of McLaren. Looks better, yes, sounds better, yes. But it will not perform better. I would venture to say they won't even be in the same bracket performance wise. Not defending the Senna...It's ugly as sin and I'm not going to buy one as a result. But you can't deny that it will be a stunning performer.
  18. The Apollo is much better looking than the Senna, (so is pretty much any other car) but it is highly doubtful that the Apollo will best the Senna in any kind of speed competition.
  19. Yes! Are you going to be there? I’m working on it. The three cars haven’t all been together yet. The Veyron and the Chiron were on display at the Philly Auto Show on behalf of my friend’s charity for the last week or so when the EB110 came in, and I’m going to be sending the EB out for some detailing work next week so it might be a little while longer.
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