AbsolutDealage
Platinum Member
Same here, I live about 2 miles from Rosemont. I can't believe he got all the way down to the docks in this car without anyone noticing....
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Same here, I live about 2 miles from Rosemont. I can't believe he got all the way down to the docks in this car without anyone noticing....
prvteye2003
Diamond Member
can I use the 'BUY IT NOW" option?😉
Pepsi90919
Lifer
what the hell does everyone have against saturns. i think they're great little cars. i like the ion.
Demon-Xanth
Lifer
The F-50 is an overrated car. Car and Driver got ahold of one and found that the claimed specs were above what the car could do.
Top speed: 194@redline, 197 if you went beyond (vs. 201 claimed)
Lateral Acceleration: 0.95G, 1.2G claimed.
The tires also blistered during testing, and it's acceleration never matched the 427 SB2 Corvette they had in the issue before it, that one did 0.96G and topped 212.
Edit:
The F40 is a more impressive car, that did 200 in an age where even the fast cars could only do 150.
Top speed: 194@redline, 197 if you went beyond (vs. 201 claimed)
Lateral Acceleration: 0.95G, 1.2G claimed.
The tires also blistered during testing, and it's acceleration never matched the 427 SB2 Corvette they had in the issue before it, that one did 0.96G and topped 212.
Edit:
The F40 is a more impressive car, that did 200 in an age where even the fast cars could only do 150.
alkemyst
No Lifer
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
It's kinda hard to hide an F50
well in many countries you wouldn't have to hide it. You have possession, you own it.
If the guy was a pro, he probably did have a limo waiting 🙂 for when he got his $250k pay off at the port after he drove it into a container designed for a ship within the hour heading to columbia or the like.
Demon-Xanth
Lifer
I don't know, GM underrated thier F-body specs quite a bit and people have been dynoing Dodge SRT-4 Neons and Ford Lightnings have been dynoing at considerably more power than spec'ed (245 FWHP on the Neon, and 425 RWHP on the Lightning for cars that make 215 and 390 at the crank)
Demon-Xanth
Lifer
Oh, and the F40 is largely agreed to be faster than the F50. Though the F50 is more livable.
Ain't that a b!tch.
The F50 is marginally faster... sometimes not at all.
Circuit de La Sarthe (LeMans)
LeMans, France
8.47 Miles
Car - First Lap - Second Lap
1- 1996 Ferrari F50 - 4:32.3 - 4:25.8
2- 1991 Ferrari F40 - 4:32.9 - 4:27.1
Nurburgring GmbH
Nurburgring, Germany
14.18 Miles
Note: The first lap time is from a dead stop and the 2nd is taken when the car passes the starting line at the end of the 1st lap.
Car - First Lap - Second Lap
3- 1996 Ferrari F50 - 8:44.7 - 8:39.4
4- 1991 Ferrari F40 - 8:45.2 - 8:39.4
Fiorano
F50 1'27"00
Stradale 1'28"00
F40 1'29"60
360 Modena 1'31"50
575MM app. 1"33"00
I would take the F40 though... 😀 supercars were a PITA. 🙂
IF it was stolen to be sold in the overseas black market. In Rush hour traffic. Put into a waiting trailer. He drove up in a limo. He was dressed.
I'd say it takes a bit more planning than you think. These guys aren't just car jackers. They have a plan and purpose for this car.
Because they are the WORST offenders of those @#%#$^% daytime running lamps (those fvckers are BRIGHT on a Saturn). And, they've had that damn pod in the middle of the dash since day one.
Now, the new sedan, is that the Ion? It looks a helluva lot better on the exterior than any previous Saturn.
Oh yeah...and it's GM! 😛
alkemyst
No Lifer
i have a saturn, no daytime lights, no pod, most think I am joking when I say it's a saturn.
Ron Jeremy had a funny quote about it...."I have a 9.75" c*#k, I drive a saturn, why, because it was given to me....you ask those guys like Tom Cruise, ...etc etc etc and that @()(@* Wilem Dafoe what they drive....that will tell you something."
Ron Jeremy had a funny quote about it...."I have a 9.75" c*#k, I drive a saturn, why, because it was given to me....you ask those guys like Tom Cruise, ...etc etc etc and that @()(@* Wilem Dafoe what they drive....that will tell you something."
Chaotic42
Lifer
Originally posted by: thereds
Yeah, like you know a lot about Sheikhs.
Viper GTS is a mid-east historian and is the Australian ambassador to Quatar.
Anyway, I can't believe that they didn't make him pay a down payment. My friend's mom went to test drive a Dodge Viper and they wanted $25K before they'd let her in it.
Edit: Ok, the ViperGTS thing is just a joke. I don't want to come of as not PC and get yelled at by thereds since I don't really know any ambassadors.
DivideBYZero
Lifer
All but the top speed could be down to Tyres, which if they blistered must have gone 'off'. But then maybe the lower circumference of the tyres could explain that also?
Ferrari don't make tyres anyhow, so I fail to see how that can be their problem.
People, this story is obvious as nothing else. The salesman was cooperating with the thief and shared the profit, I'm also pretty sure he got to that salesperson job for the sole purpose of stealing the car - this way he'd know which car to steal, when, and he could help the real thief. That's a well planned theft.
alkemyst
No Lifer
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: thereds
Yeah, like you know a lot about Sheikhs.
Viper GTS is a mid-east historian and is the Australian ambassador to Quatar.
Anyway, I can't believe that they didn't make him pay a down payment. My friend's mom went to test drive a Dodge Viper and they wanted $25K before they'd let her in it.
I was reading about where many sheikh's young boys have car collections like matchbox cars, only they are real exotics. Something that the average 'newborn' was worth $XXX million or something at birth.
I would never make a downpayment before driving a car first...this is typically done though in areas that really don't sell many of those types of cars.
Here in Palm Beach and Broward (Ft Lauderdale) and Dade (Miami) you can literally see 100's of exotics sitting on lots, I think Miami sells more exotics than anywhere else in the world with most going overseas.....
My friend was able to buy these types of cars, he had them since 13 (not an exotic, but his dad brought home an IROC and told him to go to their property and learn to drive)....
Sometimes he would get crap about even looking at the cars (he understood that until he was 18, a test drive would be out of the question without his dad there since he couldn't do a deal, even if he brought cash)....however a couple times he got offered to do a test drive (once he was a repeat customer, the other time a total new customer however he did pull in with his Ferrari 328).
Of course it's up to the dealership and how they perceive you....many think they will get all dressed up and put on their 'nice' watch and shoes and no one will turn them down. Most of the times the salesman can tell you are either now overdressed or simply do not match the dress style of his 'average' customer, and the average customer is the one buying cars 🙂
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