| Author | Message | ||
| Tim N (Timn88)
Member Username: Timn88 Post Number: 786 Registered: 6-2001 |
LM;s look nice on practically everything. I want them for my audi but they are expensive. | ||
| Andrew Menasce (Amenasce)
Junior Member Username: Amenasce Post Number: 56 Registered: 10-2001 |
this car looks nice bar the rear.. would love to see one in black with BBS LM rims. But even if its a faster car , i would get a 360 for 160k$ ! | ||
| Nunja Bitness (Jaxfl)
New member Username: Jaxfl Post Number: 34 Registered: 11-2001 |
A twin turbo vette motor in this thing would be sick. You'd be pulling McLaren F1 road cars in that thing. | ||
| Tim Gendreau (Tim)
Junior Member Username: Tim Post Number: 75 Registered: 3-2002 |
I agree with Scott. just saw one yesterday at the Grand AM race here in Phoenix. they look very cool from a distance up close it is a HUGE car, very long, or at least it looks this way. i'm sure good dependability with vette motor, etc. but something does look out of wack with the car, it just doesnt look right. $160 ? buy a used F car. its a home built like the saleen but for a lot less dough so it has that going for it. saw it running with the saleen this weekend and I think it handles better, less bounce, etc than the saleen and for a lot less money. who knows if they will build many of them, same with saleen and if they dont what do you have? a dolorean? my 2 cents | ||
| Tim N (Timn88)
Member Username: Timn88 Post Number: 771 Registered: 6-2001 |
They are built in riviera beach. I wsa there in februaryand drove by it but for some reason i didnt make the connection untill i saw a consulier body shell in the garage, but that was on sunday and i was leaving on monday morning, i was pissed. Martin, you should check them out. Mosler just builds cars as a hobby, in an article i read he loses money on his car co. but hes loaded and has alot of hobbies like that. | ||
| Racer 001 (Mr_0011)
New member Username: Mr_0011 Post Number: 39 Registered: 3-2002 |
That's an awesome car.  More exotic than the ZO6 as well. | ||
| Scott Anderson (Srandrsn)
Junior Member Username: Srandrsn Post Number: 102 Registered: 4-2001 |
I've seen them up close. They/he (mosler) always have a finished car and a rough body shell hanging around the pits at the 24 hours of Daytona. I believe they are built somewhere on the east coast of Fla (could be wrong). The finished car I've seen is either the one pictured or one of the same color combo. From what I remember fit and finish is pretty good, interior was actually pretty well finished, good leather work, good layout... over all pretty good. Up close though it felt like something was out of proportion. I can't really put my finger on it...but the lines of the car just gave me the feel of a kit car or something (don't know how else to put it, don't mean to offend anyone) The race cars do very well... the car seems well put together...but for me there just seem to be some sort of "home-built" flavor to it. It takes a hell of a man to go out and build his own brand of sports car (take Saleen for example) so I aplaud the men who take those chances but it just doesn't have the "presence" of a Ferrari or Lotus or other cars it could be compared to...just my opinion. | ||
| Hubert Otlik (Hugh)
New member Username: Hugh Post Number: 44 Registered: 1-2002 |
I see. Oh, I didn't mean to imply that the z06 chassis was used, just drivetrain. | ||
| Tim N (Timn88)
Member Username: Timn88 Post Number: 770 Registered: 6-2001 |
They are used in racing alot now. They are constantly winning in grand am races, which is in the mosler tradition. In the past, mosler cars such as the raptor and consulier won everything but were ugly. They were eventually banned from racing because they won too much. It sounds hard to beleive but its true. Warren Mosler beleives weight is the enemy of performance, so all his cars are as light as can be, which is why they won so much in endurace races. | ||
| Tim N (Timn88)
Member Username: Timn88 Post Number: 769 Registered: 6-2001 |
No i havent. It doesnt use a corvette frame. Its all carbon and kevlar, with titanium subframes. It just uses a vette engine and tranny, and a few suspension and interior peices. | ||
| Hubert Otlik (Hugh)
New member Username: Hugh Post Number: 43 Registered: 1-2002 |
Have you driven one? If so I'd be curious to know what you thought-performance, sound, fit and finish, etc.? From the looks of it, I would seem like a beautifully skinned z06, so reliability and servicing shouldn't be all that more? But, I have yet to hear of one being used/bought for street use, endurance racing, well yeah. | ||
| Tim N (Timn88)
Member Username: Timn88 Post Number: 766 Registered: 6-2001 |
I know this should go under a different topic, but not as many people will see it. Anyway, who likes them? For about 160k they look like one hell of a car. I know some of you wont like the 425hp z06 engine, or some of the corvette parts used in it, but this car performs incredibly.     |