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Writer/Teacher
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Wandering Connecticut
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I was just thinking about starting a thread like this! Weird. Anyhow, here we go, in chronological order:
1962 FERRARI 250 GTO LUSSO - One of the rarest, most expensive, and most beautiful cars ever produced. To see one is to love one.
1969 CHEVROLET CORVETTE STING RAY 427 -If you're gonna have a muscle car, it might as well look good and have the biggest engine.
1973 PORSCHE 911 CARRERA RS 2.7 - The ultimate Porsche to many purists, it is the quintessential "early" Porsche 911 - and still fast as hell even today.
1981 DELOREAN DMC12 - This is the car that got me interested in cars. Even though it is slow and really not that great of a car, it looks really, really cool... the stainless steel and gullwing doors don't hurt, either.
1987 PORSCHE 959 - It was the ultimate sports car at the time; a road version of Porsche's Group 'B' rally car, it had twin turbos, all-wheel drive, 445 horsepower, and could do 0-60 in 3.6 seconds! IN THE 1980s!
1988 PORSCHE 911 TURBO 3.3 (930) - At the time it was the ultimate symbol of 1980s excess. Now it is seen for what it really was: a driver's car with scary accelleration and menacing looks. Especially in black.
1993 PORSCHE 968 ClubSport - The final version of the Porsche 944 lineage. Even though the 944 was a best-seller in the 1980s, a worldwide recession effected midrange car sales. The 968 CS was a slow seller, but turned out to be one of the most respected trackday cars of all time. It is basically a street-legal race car, and is arguably the best-handling car of the last 20 years.
1995 FERRARI F355 - Ferrari's best-looking modern car. If you ever HEARD one go by you at high-RPM, you'd know exactly why I want one.
1996 PORSCHE 911 TURBO (993) - Without a doubt the best-looking 911 ever. The last of the air-cooled 911 engines was 3.6 liters with twin turbos that cranked out over 400 horsepower. Accelleration was 0-60 in 3.7 seconds, the best in the world at that time. All-wheel drive means I can drive it in the snow!
1998 LOTUS ESPRIT V8 TURBO - the last and best of Lotus's Esprit. The Esprit always had quirky handling, but this is offset by quick accelleration (0-60 in 4.4 seconds) and is one of the most beautiful cars made in the 1990s.
2002 PORSCHE 911 GT2 (996) - The 996 version of the 911 Turbo was considered a step backward from the 993 version in the eyes of many purists, but the GT2 fixed all that. 0-60 in 3.9 seconds, 0-100 in 8.4 (!!!), and damn it's good-looking.
2002 BMW M5 - Nobody said that the family car needed to be slow. Love the 'angel eyes' headlights.
2003 PORSCHE BOXSTER S 3.2 - Probably the most fun car on the market right now, the Boxster S is a car that handles as well as the Porsche 944/968, but is almost as fast as a 911 Carrera. Being a roadster helps, too.
2004 (?) PORSCHE CARRERA GT V10 - Nobody's actually driven it yet, but Porsche IS making it. Expect performance to be in the McLaren F1 league.
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