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I have respect for cars that are difficult to drive... learning to drive one was a skill you developed and to drive one fast meant years of practice (and large balls)

of course cars are much better today but any douchebag with a license can jump in and think they're a driving god

that's why I like my R to be 'period correct'... meaning its grumpy, laggy, difficult to drive etc... what's the point of updating everything to make it as modern as possible when a stock R35 is going to whoop you all day even with an average driver behind the wheel

a 80's/90's turbo car should shoot flames, be gutless off boost and try to kill you every now and then... otherwise whats the point?

yeeha, was hoping someone would bring up the hardcore 930S turbo with the flatnose/slant nose. best front end on a 911 ever I reckon. they are so hot and again very distinctively 80s.

they are also in my top list of cars I want badly.

just so tough, and bullshit fast too.

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here's a nice one in japan of all places.

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You've lost me on slant nose Porsches mate....... you've driven them, and therefore you should know that one of the allures of punting them through corners in the pair of pontoon gaurds aiming out in from of you. The slant loses that.

Now, Corvettes have been mentioned, and if I knew how, I would furnish you with an image of a 1991 ZR1, complete with the Quad OHC alloy V8 made for Chev by Mercury Marine. Now THAT, is a 'Vette to own :)

or go straight to the source of the slant nose.... the 935 race car.

super hot (but outside of my 80s/90s time frame). they eventually made versions of it with up to 800hp!

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You've lost me on slant nose Porsches mate....... you've driven them, and therefore you should know that one of the allures of punting them through corners in the pair of pontoon gaurds aiming out in from of you. The slant loses that.

Now, Corvettes have been mentioned, and if I knew how, I would furnish you with an image of a 1991 ZR1, complete with the Quad OHC alloy V8 made for Chev by Mercury Marine. Now THAT, is a 'Vette to own :)

yeah fair enough. in fact probably my favourite 'hills run' car would be a 996 GT3. sound great, go hard and lovely to drive. don't get me wrong a 997 turbo is 'fk me dead' fast but the GT3 is cool. still it's out of my time frame again. lol.

the slant nose is just so 80s! can you not picture yourself in one in miami, 1986, summer, you come up to a set of lights in your white countach and there I am sitting in my black 930 slant nose. we exchange knowing looks and then it's on! :action-smiley-069:

ok, will give you the vette. i have to say though unlike the japanese and euro makers (who really hit their glory days in the 80s and 90s) the yanks lost some of the respect they'd earned in the 60s and 70s. if we're talking euro or japan, for me it's 80s/90s. if we are talking USA it's got to be 60s/70s for me. there were just so many horrible yanky cars made in the 80s/90s that I struggle to remember any good ones.

I mean 60s and 70s stangs, vettes, for GT40 etc all awesome.

oh, and BTW yes lancia delta integrale and the audi quattro also rate on my list. fk it's a long list. I guess I'm just a car nut. I practically love them all. not enough time and money to own enough of them. perhaps need to consider a nicholas cage style gone in 60 seconds type theft spree but I don't think I could bare to steal some poor bastards car. unless it's mr bean and a maclaren F1...

oh, and BTW yes lancia delta integrale and the audi quattro also rate on my list. fk it's a long list. I guess I'm just a car nut. I practically love them all. not enough time and money to own enough of them. perhaps need to consider a nicholas cage style gone in 60 seconds type theft spree but I don't think I could bare to steal some poor bastards car. unless it's mr bean and a maclaren F1...

I would be happy to own a collection of anything ever homologated for Group A and/or B. Preferably the evolution versions.

Question of the day: Long tail McLaren F1 or the original version?

I would be happy to own a collection of anything ever homologated for Group A and/or B. Preferably the evolution versions.

Question of the day: Long tail McLaren F1 or the original version?

agreed, a 80s/90s group A and Group B full set of the road car evo versions would be nice.

some good cars in that group. well we each have a start with the 32.... lol

hmm, that is a tough question. you know what, I'd probably go with original big mac. I think the proportions just look right and i've only ever been in 1 and it was an original road car F1 in silver. hell, can't I just have one of each? or is that being too greedy?

Long tail is tough as nails but the original recipe just looks so right. and what other car allows you to sit in the middle with a super model on either side but sitting slightly behind you so as not to interrupt your driving experience and/or f**k up the weight balance?!?

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The original F1, short tail, road version for me, without a shadow of doubt. The #1 "own above all" car for me.

you would have to outbid me to get it! same for me. short tail roadie and has to be SILVER too. and yeah it's probably my "if I could only have 1 car this would be it" car too. fairly close race between it, an F40 (would be a cranky road car though), a Merc CLK GTR roadie and maybe one or two others, but I can't help but want the maclaren more. especially considering it's title as fastest road car in the world for years and years.

I mean look at the current crop. veyron? yeah it's cool as an engineering piece but it's heavy as all fk, drinks fuel like it thinks you're a saudi oil baron and is just not nearly as sleek or 'clever' as the big mac. i mean it needs something like triple the power of the mac to beat it's long standing top speed record. what's up with that?

And Baron, I really think the '91 ZR1 was the ONLY decent US car of the era.... hence it deserved a mention.

yeah. 80s/90s 'great' american cars are certainly a small group..... "fking shithouse" and "vomit inducingly ugly" 80s/90s american cars on the other hand is a long list.. and there were some real standouts. and the quality! jesus wept. their stuff was better built in the 60s FFS. I can only assume they spent the whole 20 years from 1980 till 2000 massively drunk and high on coke. not hard to believe if you've ever 'admired' the fit and finish of interior and exterior panels on anything american from the era.

If by some travesty MY F1 couldn't be silver, I'd bend, and take it in antracite. I'd then prompty go and to emaulate Peter Robinson's original road test in an antracite example, and aim to get my own version of a picture where he got it completely airborn over a rise tapped in 5th gear.

That same test is the first time I ever read the now often used line; "Every time you use full throttle.... it's an event".

In fact, there are so many great descriptions in his article, you re-read it now and quickly remember what a goal post moving car the F1 was.

The trainspotter is coming out in me now.... not something I usually share. haha

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