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Saw my first GTR last night

AMCRambler

AMCRambler

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I was on my way home last night around 6pm and was going to stop at Wendy's to pick up a salad and then hit the car wash quick before the temps dropped below freezing again today.
As I was driving along in the right lane, I noticed a car up ahead two lanes over with some pretty cool looking tail lights. There were four tail lights all round made of LED's arranged in a circle around the backup lights. Or at least they looked like LED's. I was thinking to myself that kind of looks like a GTR but it was dark so I couldn't see the body and I was thinking there's no way it could be as they were so new and what idiot would take one out with salt all over the roads.
Well sure enough as I get alongside it, it was. It was charcoal grey and definitely sexy looking. Real clean too so maybe he just bought it or just washed it. I was pretty tempted to get over in the middle lane so I could rev the goat at him at the next light and see if he'd flex his nuts. I had to make the next right though so I gawked at it and then made my turn. It made a nice noise when it went by too. Sounded almost like a Ferrari v12, just a little deeper.
 
Yep. Very cool stuff. They're god damned big as well, a bit more hulking than the C6 Vettes. It looks more along the size of the C5.
 
Yeah it looked decent sized to me but not massive. I think in length they're probably close to the vette, but they're alot chunkier in the vertical proportions while the vette looks shorter and lower to the ground. The front end in the hoodline and fenders reminds me of an Aston Martin Vanquish while the backend is more like a G37 with some Acura TL thrown in around the exhaust pipes and lower rear fascia.
 
I was in the 3rd row of a minivan and I noticed one pass us in the left lane... very noticeable, one step away from supercar status.
 
I was walking around our building this morning and saw one at HRE Wheels getting a new pair of shoes. It was black on black with black HRE wheels. Looked pretty sweet. That turbo can be heard even at idle.
 
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
I was walking around our building this morning and saw one at HRE Wheels getting a new pair of shoes. It was black on black with black HRE wheels. Looked pretty sweet. That turbo can be heard even at idle.
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I very much doubt that. If you can, it's fucked. 😀
 
I have seen several here in DC. One on the road in Georgetown and two others parked on the street in front of homes.

I honestly think it's insane for anyone to street park one of them.
 
I've seen about a handful of them around the Atlanta area. The thing that strikes me the most is the size in the same manor that a Challenger looks too large.
 
Saw about 6 of them with a couple of other cars mixed in, 2-3 subies and a couple bmw's while I was driving up I-5 from socal to Sacramento. Gawked at them while I sat in my legacy eating my subway sandwich. Made me feel kind of poor.
 
Overall - nice-looking car. I like the throwback to the 240-280Z with the rear window/C-pillar treatment. The nose... yeesh - they could've done a much better job with that. I'd have to have a Black or Gun Grey car to be happy with that ugly-ass 'hole' in the nose design that seems to be the rage these days. I'm also not so keen on having more than half of the 'headlight glass' pointing straight up.

Interior's nice - probably not made for people over 6'2" though. Nissan's always been stingy with legroom.

Supercar? Not in my book. Supercar price? Almost. Worth it? Doubt it.
 
I saw one on Thursday at Microcenter. It was caked in salt. I suppose if you are loaded you really don't care.
 
Saw one in a showroom. You know how salespeople are, but the salesman's story to me was it's for a local dentist who has a ferrari and lamborghini but they are not suitable daily drivers, so this was a daily driver for his wife and he'd bought it but not picked it up yet. At the time it sounded like a stretch but now that I write it out that taste of bullsh*t is overpowering, isn't it?
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Saw one in a showroom. You know how salespeople are, but the salesman's story to me was it's for a local dentist who has a ferrari and lamborghini but they are not suitable daily drivers, so this was a daily driver for his wife and he'd bought it but not picked it up yet. At the time it sounded like a stretch but now that I write it out that taste of bullsh*t is overpowering, isn't it?
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Depends on the area. There are gobs of extremely high-end Ferrari/Porsche/RUF/Lambo/etc in certain areas of DFW. It's not unusual for a wealthy person who is an auto enthusiast to have many high-end rides, and end up with a Vette or something like a GTR as a DD/runabout. I personally know an old-money guy in Highland Park that has a Mercedes G-wagon (not the AMG one, but still $$$) that's just a 'spare' for odds and ends, to go with his AMG S55, his wife's Continental GT, and so on. To him, it's chump change, but to most people, a vehicle is a significant investment.
 
Originally posted by: Arkaign
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Saw one in a showroom. You know how salespeople are, but the salesman's story to me was it's for a local dentist who has a ferrari and lamborghini but they are not suitable daily drivers, so this was a daily driver for his wife and he'd bought it but not picked it up yet. At the time it sounded like a stretch but now that I write it out that taste of bullsh*t is overpowering, isn't it?
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Depends on the area. There are gobs of extremely high-end Ferrari/Porsche/RUF/Lambo/etc in certain areas of DFW. It's not unusual for a wealthy person who is an auto enthusiast to have many high-end rides, and end up with a Vette or something like a GTR as a DD/runabout. I personally know an old-money guy in Highland Park that has a Mercedes G-wagon (not the AMG one, but still $$$) that's just a 'spare' for odds and ends, to go with his AMG S55, his wife's Continental GT, and so on. To him, it's chump change, but to most people, a vehicle is a significant investment.
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The president of the company that I formally worked for was like that. His daily driver was a MB AMG E55. He also has a Brabus CL65 I believe as well as a new Ferrari. During the snowy days he had a high end Land Rover.
 
Originally posted by: Arkaign
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Saw one in a showroom. You know how salespeople are, but the salesman's story to me was it's for a local dentist who has a ferrari and lamborghini but they are not suitable daily drivers, so this was a daily driver for his wife and he'd bought it but not picked it up yet. At the time it sounded like a stretch but now that I write it out that taste of bullsh*t is overpowering, isn't it?
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Depends on the area. There are gobs of extremely high-end Ferrari/Porsche/RUF/Lambo/etc in certain areas of DFW. It's not unusual for a wealthy person who is an auto enthusiast to have many high-end rides, and end up with a Vette or something like a GTR as a DD/runabout. I personally know an old-money guy in Highland Park that has a Mercedes G-wagon (not the AMG one, but still $$$) that's just a 'spare' for odds and ends, to go with his AMG S55, his wife's Continental GT, and so on. To him, it's chump change, but to most people, a vehicle is a significant investment.
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It is possible, but if I rack my brain I think in 2 years here I've seen one murcielago and otherwise a few vipers and that's it!
 
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