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I drove a Bullet today. It was amazing, coolest car I've ever had the pleasure to drive.

It's a tuned up Lexus LS400 engine built around a space frame with a Mazda MX5 body on it, only the body is mostly Carbon/Kevlar with carbon-fibre goodies and looks shed loads better than an MX5. The suspension is awsome to it feels like a giant Indy car/go kart thing.

Oh, and it sounds like giant God farts or a XR8 on crack! It sounded so good I don't know how to describe it, but it made my nipples very hard :D

It was made on the Gold Coast. I don't know if they still make them though.

Anyone seen one?

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its one of those cars that is custom made - they had a few models. Cheapest was around 100 grand....

but apparently it was soo fast that it was up there with the likes of porsche and the current m3...

http://autospeed.drive.com.au/cms/A_2800/article.html

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The interior looks gay in the pic's but it's all leather and Recaro seats so it's pretty nice.

My Brother and I drove it from Brisbane to the Sunshine Coast and the traction was awsome? I heard it's 0-100 in about 4 seconds and it felt like it! It makes you floor it just so you can hear it!

I think an Arial Atom would whip it hands down but it's certinly more practical than the Arial. I thik a Gtr would beat it to as a Gtr sort of makes you into a better driver and helps you out as this would just oversteer you round in circles if you were ham fisted. It was really easy to live with in town or the highway, it's cool when people flip out when they hear it :(

We ended up swapping my 98 Gtt and an old Stagea for it! It's only got 20,000k's.

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The interior looks gay in the pic's but it's all leather and Recaro seats so it's pretty nice.

My Brother and I drove it from Brisbane to the Sunshine Coast and the traction was awsome? I heard it's 0-100 in about 4 seconds and it felt like it! It makes you floor it just so you can hear it!

I think an Arial Atom would whip it hands down but it's certinly more practical than the Arial. I thik a Gtr would beat it to as a Gtr sort of makes you into a better driver and helps you out as this would just oversteer you round in circles if you were ham fisted. It was really easy to live with in town or the highway, it's cool when people flip out when they hear it :(

We ended up swapping my 98 Gtt and an old Stagea for it! It's only got 20,000k's.

I am jealous! They are so good!

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Nice stuff, but damn they overcharge. I have plans to import a Miata under Race Rally scheme and slap a Soarer V8 in it for track. <$5K for the car, $1K for the engine so I'm thinking it will happen for under $10K doing the conversion myself.

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