Oh how things have changed

[Twitch]

I dont get into cars much anymore, but I caught a snippet about this one on yahoo. I havent payed much attention to the high end sports car market since McLaren F1 took the production speed record from the Jag XJ220 and I reached an age where I knew Id never afford a Ferrari or Lamborghini or anything of the sort.

http://www.koenigsegg.se/models.php?model=agera&model_submenu=info

If I had $1.5M left for nothing else, this ones the one Id buy.

[Trem]

cool looking, but i don't like a lot of things about it as far as driving, the inner controls, no rear view to speak of, the pedals are wtf. so i'd rather keep my 1.5 mill even if i had it to burn.

[Twitch]

The way I buy guitar equipment, Ill never have $50 left for nothing else.

[Grandturk]

Does nothing for me.

[Nightbat]

I'd still rather buy a 12 year old Mclaren F1 for that kind of money instead of a Koenigsegg

[roodyrocker]

I'm more interested in straight line acceleration, you know Musclecars. And for about $1.4 million less I can build something like a Mustang that will make a heck of a lot more than 850 hp. IOW, it would eat that Koenigsegg for breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the drag strip
Just don't ask it to go around the road course though

[Endrik]

I'm more interested in straight line acceleration, you know Musclecars. And for about $1.4 million less I can build something like a Mustang that will make a heck of a lot more than 850 hp. IOW, it would eat that Koenigsegg for breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the drag strip
Just don't ask it to go around the road course though

Drag racing is as interesting as a competition of who can blink his eyes the fastest. There's a dude living downstairs of my downtown apartment who's into that shit, schooled every musclecar with his 1000hp Supra, + Supra can take corners unlike Mustang. Doesn't cost that much to upgrade HP's. On a track he got schooled by Lotus (5 times less HP's).
Big bucks are spent to make the car drivable, caring about mere numbers and straight lines is like caring more about the scale length of a guitar rather than how it sounds.
Koenigsegg is very small company with tons of cool and innovative ideas. I'd take it over most big manufacture super car builders.

[zeegler]

Drag racing is as interesting as a competition of who can blink his eyes the fastest. There's a dude living downstairs of my downtown apartment who's into that shit, schooled every musclecar with his 1000hp Supra, + Supra can take corners unlike Mustang. Doesn't cost that much to upgrade HP's. On a track he got schooled by Lotus (5 times less HP's).
Big bucks are spent to make the car drivable, caring about mere numbers and straight lines is like caring more about the scale length of a guitar rather than how it sounds.
Koenigsegg is very small company with tons of cool and innovative ideas. I'd take it over most big manufacture super car builders.

I'm with you man. My Mustang was a lot of fun, but it drove like a hay wagon. I'd much rather have a Lotus Exige that I can give a good workout on the twisties.

[Scooter]

I like them all. Big blocks that beat your chest from a hundred yards away, fat slicks on a narrowed Ford rear end, slap shifters, etc and then there's 1200 lb 1000+HP go carts on road tracks, oh yeah! I like them all, cause I'll NEVER have one. I'll just cruise around in my S10 with LoG at full volume. The closest I ever came to anything like that was an old Honda CBR900F2 that made me quit going fast.

[RacerX]

Cheap speed = Superbike


-Hayabusa owner

[Snoogans]

I'm with you man. My Mustang was a lot of fun, but it drove like a hay wagon. I'd much rather have a Lotus Exige that I can give a good workout on the twisties.

How about an Elise with a 1200-brake ZR1 lump?

http://jalopnik.com/5562520/hennessey-venom-gt-the-1200-hp-veyron+killer

[zeegler]

How about an Elise with a 1200-brake ZR1 lump?
http://jalopnik.com/5562520/hennesse...-veyron+killer

Jesus, that's just plain scary!!

At first I thought it was an actual Elise that someone had stuffed a ZR-1 motor in. I was gonna say "that's just not possible!", but it turns out it just looks like an Elise. Still pretty cool.

[Scooter]

Cheap speed = Superbike


-Hayabusa owner

I saw pics of your bike here, and its a beaut. I just can't ride anymore because of the other idiots on the roads. In '91 some drunk bitch knocked me down and crushed my GXSR 750 with a jacked up Ford truck. She got away, and thankfully I walked away, sore. Never did find her.

[Scooter]

How about an Elise with a 1200-brake ZR1 lump?
http://jalopnik.com/5562520/hennesse...-veyron+killer

That is insanely cool. And its only 1/2 the price of the Veyron! I'll take 2.

[roodyrocker]

Straight line acceleration is where its at, I'm telling ya' When your Elise/Supra/Koenigsegg/Whatever pulls up next to a Musclecar at a stop light guess whats gonna happen to prove who's boss when the light turns green? Yup, you guessed it, you're both going to drop the hammer and only one of you is going to win the drag race!
I've had the opportunity to ride in a fully prepped road race car for a 20 minute session and been to the drag strip many times. Both are fun but there is nothing as fun as accelerating from a dead stop in a Musclecar