Most important car spec

[henk4]

Concorde, Edinburgh airport short runway and permission to re-heat all 4 engines on take-off. one BIG kick in the back

poor people on the ground, should have been deafening

[Matra et Alpine]

As long as it has good brakes, a bad handling car with awesome horsepower can be pretty effective using the "point-and-squirt" technique.

Hi Hemi, I'll add a caveat to that ...

on open roads.

NO matter how much power, point-and-squirt isn't effective in the great roads in the Highlands of Scotland or the Spanish Pyrenees or the Alps

[Matra et Alpine]

poor people on the ground, should have been deafening

and not a single complaint
I messed up on it's last departure from Edi, went to a spot I know right under the flight path, was setting up and suddenly it was overhead. So all my plans for dramatic shots ( and sounds ) of it's last flight and all I ended up with is a couple of pics and a shaky video of the rear

[Spastik_Roach]

If every new car had done a lap of it with the Stig, the Top Gear Track Test would be the best spec, but since thats unrealistic, i'd go with the quarter mile...

[henk4]

and not a single complaint (

Could it be that nodoby complained because they all knew it was going to be the end of it?

[Falcon500]

Enough acceleration can even compensate for a poor handling car .... a brake, point, shoot type scenario.

Thats what Harry Firth thought when he made the SUPER FALCON
project in the 70s...the car had everything going for it...it even had an f1 grade fuel injection system...even had titanium wheel nuts....every detail of the car was great...other then the suspension which didnt recieve much attention...the car was a flop because it ddint handel great...and some engine problems...it was a race car but firth used drag raceing philosiphies on it....it took Geohagen to fix this problem...

[Homem de Gelo]

Pimpness.






Hehe.
Depends on what I want the car for. But I'd never buy a car based on one spec alone.

[Lagonda]

torque, duh

[HemiCuda500]

Hi Hemi, I'll add a caveat to that ...

on open roads.

NO matter how much power, point-and-squirt isn't effective in the great roads in the Highlands of Scotland or the Spanish Pyrenees or the Alps

very true; point-and-squirt doesn't work on a track that's all curves, you need straightaways in order to make it effective.

P.S caveat means beware, right?

[Matra et Alpine]

Yep.

From the Latin ...
cavere - to be on one's guard to, beware.

New line added to my sig

[henk4]

teach me master. what is "caveat emptor"

[Matra et Alpine]

teach me master. what is "caveat emptor"

buyer beware

So it's up to the receiver of an item to consider the quality/value of the item.

See, this is what happens when modern education doesn't do Latin anymore.
Only us old farts around know all this sh!t

[henk4]

buyer beware

So it's up to the receiver of an item to consider the quality/value of the item.

See, this is what happens when modern education doesn't do Latin anymore.
Only us old farts around know all this sh!t

Thanks, by the way, I had latin in school from 1962-1969, and one year less of Greek but much has escaped me.

[NoOne]

Sona si Latine loqueris.

[NoOne]

Die dulci fruere.