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Most important feature of Supercars

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What is the most important feature of a Supercar

  1. Acceleration

  2. Top speed

  3. Styling

  4. Number of mirrors in interior

  5. Racing histories/potential

  6. Brokerage potential/net profit on deal

  7. Number of airfoils and aerodynamic devices

  8. Fame of owners

  9. Sunglass and cupholders

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  1. Sfumato

    Sfumato F1 World Champ

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    Please give reasoning if possible, facts optional.
    Please be most interesting. Name drop if you can.
     
  2. snj5

    snj5 F1 World Champ

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  3. RufMD

    RufMD F1 Rookie
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    I voted sunglass/cupholder....a rearward facing suction camera mount on the hood is important too, in order to snap important looking pictures of the driver....
     
  4. Sfumato

    Sfumato F1 World Champ

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  5. ralfabco

    ralfabco Two Time F1 World Champ
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    I'd have to say it is good, if the car is loud (in addition to the vanity mirror features).


    This would be a good feature to have, if you don't want to hear the senseless babble from the passenger and or auto enthusiast etc..., who may know more trivial information about the car than you do - and keeps on talking and talking.
     
  6. SRT Mike

    SRT Mike Two Time F1 World Champ

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    Sorry but this thread misses the mark - you only allow me to select one option?

    I can't really do that, at least, not while being extremely interesting.

    I would say the person representing the car is the most important component. After all, there are good and bad cars, and who is shilling, I mean selling it, is probably more important than what they are selling, is it not? I dunno about you, but I'll buy a rotten cabbage if the salesman is in interesting enough. I'll take it a step further and suggest that the proximity of the seller to important and learned people is probably the key factor. I want to know that my salesman is interesting enough to wave to Mario Andretti as they pass on the road. Not only does this boost my ego by 3rd-hand association, it also infinitely adds to the knowledge of the seller.

    I remember at Monza last year, I shouted out to Ross Brawn as he walked past. He turned and smiled, and I instantly had a working understanding of F1 aerodynamics.

    As for name dropping... it's lame. "I have no need to drop names to make my point". That's what I told Jay Leno the other day when he called me seeking car knowledge.
     
  7. judge4re

    judge4re F1 World Champ

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    Classic.
     
  8. #Lennard

    #Lennard Formula 3

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    A combination of styling and performance figures
     
  9. PAP 348

    PAP 348 Ten Time F1 World Champ
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    I reckon its a combo of speed, acceleration and styling. :):)

    But, as you can only vote for one..........I voted top speed. :D:D

    No one wants a Supercar that only does 200 mph. :eek::eek:
     
  10. trmather

    trmather Formula Junior

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    It's a combination of the top three, everything else is just rediculous.

    I subscribe to the above theory that noone wants a supercar that can do 'only' 200mph, they always want more, so it's top speed I'd say.

    Besides, there are cars like the Ariel Atom that accelerate just as quick as most if not all supercars and aren't supercars themselves.
     
  11. Sfumato

    Sfumato F1 World Champ

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    I remember Ross telling me-"Gee, Mike is interesting" that day at lunch.
    Dan Gurney and I discussed Jay's superior aerodynamics, a "chin spoiler" as it were. Really helps on the bikes.
     
  12. FluidPrawn

    FluidPrawn Rookie

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    Where is the *Noise* option?

    One of the main reasons I love Ferrari's is the sound they make!
     
  13. bgck13

    bgck13 Formula Junior

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    The construction process and "radicalness" of the design

    Nissan GTR, ZR1 don't even qualify as wanna-be supercars. The problem is the guys writing the magazine articles have the mindset of a starbucks employee and generally don't deserve to be qualifying these amazing machines. Now they are "hypercars". -->That is the dumbest word I have ever heard. Especially out of the mouth of a grown up. The murcielago is the closest exotic to a supercar, without being a supercar. CGT is the entry-level supercar. 1 thing for certain, if it is practical it is automatically not a supercar, regardless of all other conditions being met.

    (written in pieces...thus the choppy message)
     
  14. Sfumato

    Sfumato F1 World Champ

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    CGT is a real supercar, not entry level. SLR probably closest to entry level. Murc exotic but not supercar. Not enough airfoils.
     
  15. carsinxs

    carsinxs Formula Junior

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    1+ and thus interesting
    the terms supercar and entry level should be mutually exclusive
     
  16. 2000YELLOW360

    2000YELLOW360 F1 World Champ

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    What do you do about what used to be a supercar, but now it's old and slow, some even slower than the entry level exotics, like the F40, 288 GTO, etc.? Most of those were pretty good in their day, now about all they are good for is getting money out of people who want to live in the past. Maybe we need a new category: supercars beyond their prime?

    Art
     
  17. anunakki

    anunakki Seven Time F1 World Champ
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    I would have voted MSRP if it was there....

    For sake of stirring the hornets nest....

    What is the difference between a ZR1 and a CGT, Enzo, etc ? performance numbers are so close to be meaningless. So it must be something else...

    Styling ? Price ? Heritage ? Quality of materials ?

    because if performance were the qualifier the ZR1 would be a supercar right ???
     
  18. SSNISTR

    SSNISTR F1 Veteran

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    Ha, I got a good laugh out of that....
     
  19. carsinxs

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    that was funny, far from interesting, but funny
     
  20. Tenney

    Tenney F1 Rookie
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    That's nothin'! How 'bout a lowly ACR smoking an Enzo! (anybody worth their red shoes and keyboard knows Vipers don't handle!) 'Course then you have your ZR1 gapping the home-team test-track champ Scud pretty handily - and not just in a straight line ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nürburgring_lap_times

    New and slow. Guess that means all Enzo's and Scuds are good for is getting money out of people who want to live in the present?
     
  21. joe sackey

    joe sackey Five Time F1 World Champ

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    +1
     
  22. 2000YELLOW360

    2000YELLOW360 F1 World Champ

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    Probably more truth in that than you thought.

    Art
     
  23. judge4re

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    I wouldn't kick #3, #4, or #5 out of my garage...
     
  24. Tenney

    Tenney F1 Rookie
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    Exactly!

    ... and don't get me started on what a dog the 250 Goat is. For the same money I could have a Pep Boys franchise, the strip mall it sits in, and it'd only take a fraction of the nifty doo-dads inside to make my Schwinn smoke that "Old and Slow" rig like the fossil it is! Then I'd drop some of the $ left over on a spankin' new 430. Stick or F1, many might ask? There'd be enough spare change to bypass that ultimate windbreaker dilemma and score both - then a Z06 could put me on the trailer twice ...
     
  25. synchro

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    Only 13% chose "Racing histories/potential"
    The world is changing...
     

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