Originally Posted by
roosterjuicer
Here's my take on rather why i am not crazy about this car.
I feel like this car, like its predecessor, and other cars in the same vein such as the saleen s7, the mossler, the konisegg, etc...all seem more like "kit" cars rather than true production cars. Maybe they are faster or as fast (or just really really fast) as the Veyron but they dont seem like real production cars while the Veyron seems to me to be a "real production car"
Dont ask me how to differentiate between a real production car and a Kit car because logically i cant really explain it. Its kind of like the "hardcore pornography" standard (I know it when i see it).
But this is why cars like this dont really excite me. When a "real" manufacturer makes a super car, i get stoked and start making "mine is bigger than yours" comparisons but when someone just makes a badass light kit car with a huge engine in it, i dont get that excited.
that being said, this does seem to be getting closer and closer to areal production car.
Personally, I think cars like this might be more driven to "why" a supercar is build than Veyron. Veyron started out as a design exercise from a pretty picture to a concept car. Handed to a group of engineer and someone(Ferdinand Piech, probably) said, make it happen. All the others you mentioned, at least to my mind, started as some dude dreaming of building a supercar, and end up creating one. Sure I think on the level of execution, they are not on the level of Veyron or McLaren F1, but in that unmeasurable quantity of "passion", they are probably pretty high on that.
McLaren F1 to me is the ultimate, started out as a dream, and executed to perfection, the Koenigsegg, the Pagani, the SSC or the S7, are like that but without necessarily the detail or execution, but then no one is really like McLaren to be anal to the extreme. Veyron is a committee trying to do a McLaren. Its all very clinical IMO, but in the end less "exciting". And ultimately, from an engineer's point of view, wrong....
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