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    A Stock ZR1 spanks its ass badly.
    Only fags use a paddle to shift,real men have the arm and skill to row a Tremec.
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    A $500,000 Lexus?!?!?!

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    Quote Originally Posted by kevin7 View Post
    A Stock ZR1 spanks its ass badly.
    Only fags use a paddle to shift,real men have the arm and skill to row a Tremec.
    I like how you think Kevin. There is nothing like grabbing gears. I don't care what they say, paddles just aren't the same; no style to it.
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    Jaguar had that beat almost 20 years ago with this:



    Jaguar XJ220
    542hp V-6
    Top Speed: 217 mph
    Price is right around the same, $580,000.00
    and it's a much better looking car than the overpriced Lexus.

    I'd rather have this than whatever it is those Japanese yahoos think they have.
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    Oh yeah and that dude on top gear may not eat meat but he sure likes the bone
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    Quote Originally Posted by CoventryCat86 View Post
    Jaguar had that beat almost 20 years ago with this:



    I'd rather have this than whatever it is those Japanese yahoos think they have.
    I agree CC. the jag is a sweet ride.

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    Ah XJ220, used to run the hell out that in Need For Speed II for PS1. I played that game so much back in the day.

    Personally, my all time favorite super car is and always will be the McLaren F1. Just love that car.
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    Awww, they didn't give the stig a shot?

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    Cute car, but this is more my speed: The Chevy C-10





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    A real engineer's viscous dream:

    http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/...To-Better-Tech

    "This revelation comes after a team of Japanese and British researchers observed that the slime mold connected itself to scattered food sources in a design that was nearly identical to Tokyo's rail system. Atsushi Tero from Hokkaido University in Japan, along with colleagues elsewhere in Japan and the United Kingdom, placed oat flakes on a wet surface in locations that corresponded to the cities surrounding Tokyo, and allowed the Physarum polycephalum mold to grow outwards from the center. They watched the slime mold self-organize, spread out, and form a network that was comparable in efficiency, reliability, and cost to the real-world infrastructure of Tokyo's train network."
    "If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair." -C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mizicke5273 View Post
    Ah XJ220, used to run the hell out that in Need For Speed II for PS1. I played that game so much back in the day.

    Personally, my all time favorite super car is and always will be the McLaren F1. Just love that car.
    Yep, that's one heck of a car! The XJ220 held the record for the highest top speed for a production car until the McLaren F1 arrived on the scene.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eville View Post
    Awww, they didn't give the stig a shot?
    I agree. Having Richard Hammond drive any car doesn't do it justice. He's out there sliding it around like he's in a drifting event. The stig would've shown what the car could really do.

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    I watched another video where they did give it to the Stig. He ended up doing the fastest wet lap ever and 3 seconds faster than the Gaillardo. "3 seconds faster than the Gaillardo for 3 times the price."

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