Why would you buy an R8?!

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OldYZRider1 10/2/2016 1:26pm
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Skidaddle wrote:
If you guys want to see how shitty production cars run, go to a place like Sonoma. Do the Audi Experience in an R8, or an...
If you guys want to see how shitty production cars run, go to a place like Sonoma.

Do the Audi Experience in an R8, or an open wheel school.

Those open wheel 4 cylinder school cars will outrun and out corner an R8 without even trying.

When they are on the track together, you see guys in helmets and R8s and some 14 year old blows past one in a tiny 4 cylinder open wheel car.

Now the stripped down Ferraris in the Challenge races, those are track cars.
They run and sound great. But up close look like shit. There is Zero fancy.
There used to be a class in the mid 1980's IMSA series (might have been SCCA) that was televised and had production based cars like Camaros, Mustangs and Porsche 924's. I don't remember there being Vettes in it though. Honestly, the US cars could hardly keep themselves on the track; they'd under steer and plow themselves off the turns or have poor and uneven braking and always seemed to end up in the dirt. It was pretty comical to watch. The Porsches always won.
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I looked into a bunch of sub $200k cars and test drove quite a few and in the end went with 2016 Z07. I realize that people say "if you can afford a $200k car you shouldn't have to worry about any external costs", but my reality was not an unlimited budget. American muscle won out in the end and for the same price of an R8 I got my Z07 and my wife's Jeep SRT. The maintenance on high end exotics is RIDICULOUS!!!!
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Not a supercar but still (to this point) kind of rare. Ford Focus RS

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bosque wrote:
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2016/10/02/154393/s1200_IMG_0092.jpg[/img] Not a supercar but still (to this point) kind of rare. Ford Focus RS


Not a supercar but still (to this point) kind of rare. Ford Focus RS
Nice. Thinking of trading in my ST.
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firemedic301 wrote:
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2016/10/02/154386/s1200_IMG_0378.jpg[/img] I looked into a bunch of sub $200k cars and test drove quite a few and in the end went with 2016 Z07. I realize...


I looked into a bunch of sub $200k cars and test drove quite a few and in the end went with 2016 Z07. I realize that people say "if you can afford a $200k car you shouldn't have to worry about any external costs", but my reality was not an unlimited budget. American muscle won out in the end and for the same price of an R8 I got my Z07 and my wife's Jeep SRT. The maintenance on high end exotics is RIDICULOUS!!!!
Nice car! Stupid gun buy Belgian FN!
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kzizok wrote:
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Sorry if I am slumming the thread. Here is my daily driver. Most people dont realize the performance of these.
I love pushing hard enough through corners that AWD activates and you feel all 4 pulling.
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TankSlapper wrote:
"sende wrote: Aston Martin all the way." I saw #66 up in Monterey this year. Gnar.... [img]https://www.lsrmoto.com/CarWeek2016/album/Exotics%20on%20Cannery%20Row%20-%20Monterey/IMGP4993.jpg[/img] [img]https://www.lsrmoto.com/CarWeek2016/album/Exotics%20on%20Cannery%20Row%20-%20Monterey/IMGP4923.jpg[/img] [url=http://www.lsrmoto.com/CarWeek2016/album/]My Car Week Pics 2016[/url]
"sende wrote: Aston Martin all the way."

I saw #66 up in Monterey this year. Gnar....





My Car Week Pics 2016

I've never been a fan of Astons (except for the Vulcan, that one is something special) but that changed when I got to film #56. I'll have to dig up some of the launch video and interior shots I have of it because it's phenomenal. It was also one of the most comfortable supercars I've been in as well and that surprised me because my 6'3" frame makes most of them very cramped.





On the thread topic though... I'll will buy an R8 v10+ when I can. Poor man's supercar and all!
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JSmith 10/4/2016 6:15am
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Cars are a depreciating asset. I wouldn't buy an expensive car.
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bkent136 10/4/2016 11:05am
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JSmith wrote:
Cars are a depreciating asset. I wouldn't buy an expensive car.
Not true with high end cars. A porsche gt3, gt3rs, and 918 won't deprecciate
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JSmith wrote:
Cars are a depreciating asset. I wouldn't buy an expensive car.
bkent136 wrote:
Not true with high end cars. A porsche gt3, gt3rs, and 918 won't deprecciate
I missed out on a storm damaged Ford GT back in 2005. Brand new and could have been bought on the cheap. Those things are through the roof. Countach's were $50,000.00 and up back around 2000, now 200K and up....way up.

I had a crackhead customer with a BMW Z8 back then. Those are bumping 200 these days. He also had a Ferrari 550 Barchetta that was about a quarter million dollar car at the time. Triple that today. Damn shame that fucker is basically homeless these days.
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JSmith wrote:
Cars are a depreciating asset. I wouldn't buy an expensive car.
bkent136 wrote:
Not true with high end cars. A porsche gt3, gt3rs, and 918 won't deprecciate
newmann wrote:
I missed out on a storm damaged Ford GT back in 2005. Brand new and could have been bought on the cheap. Those things are through...
I missed out on a storm damaged Ford GT back in 2005. Brand new and could have been bought on the cheap. Those things are through the roof. Countach's were $50,000.00 and up back around 2000, now 200K and up....way up.

I had a crackhead customer with a BMW Z8 back then. Those are bumping 200 these days. He also had a Ferrari 550 Barchetta that was about a quarter million dollar car at the time. Triple that today. Damn shame that fucker is basically homeless these days.
True, you will loose money on most cars. R8 probably won't appreciate for a very very long time, same with vetts. Some cars like the new Ford Shelby 350r and Porsche Cayman gt4's are already appreciating in value.
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Argaudas 10/4/2016 2:36pm
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Screw all the new ferraris,lambos and shit. 67 mustang where it's at. True beauty and the sound,jesus.
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mach6972 10/4/2016 2:53pm
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Argaudas wrote:
Screw all the new ferraris,lambos and shit. 67 mustang where it's at. True beauty and the sound,jesus.
or 69
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Matt Fisher 10/4/2016 9:58pm
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Argaudas wrote:
Screw all the new ferraris,lambos and shit. 67 mustang where it's at. True beauty and the sound,jesus.
The only issue with old cars is that they're old cars.

Compared to new cars they stop like the Flinstonemobile, handle and accelerate like a drunken Yak, and while very simple, their reliability is spotty at best. Things like vapor lock, and electrical systems that were full of surprises. And they rattled down the road with lousy HVAC systems, terrible creature comforts, worse safety systems all while drinking fuel at a miserable rate.

While a 69 SS Camaro, Boss 302 Mustang, 440 six pack Cuda or Ferrari Daytona (throw an exotic in there too) are all gorgeous cars to look at, 45+ years of improvement have made their mark. And yet, I would love to drop the new Voodoo motor into a fully modernized 65 Shelby GT350 replica...

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