"Was it the art style? Was it too far removed from the Grand Theft Auto we had become accustomed to? Was it the platform?"
"Was it the art style? Was it too far removed from the Grand Theft Auto we had become accustomed to? Was it the platform?"
A good point, although all of that horse-shit can be summed up as: "leverage fear and ignorance".
Nope. Just look at a lot of the red states. By the power of ignorance conservatives are able to make the downtrodden think that voting for them is their best option. Conservatives push for "smaller government" so that means lower taxes and more money left to go around for the poor folk right!?!?!?!
Yep.
It's an 1100 horsepower front wheel drive time-attack car. That giant wing is very necessary in order to have even the slightest hope of putting all of that power down in some kind of meaningful way.
+1
+1, this has GOT to be it.
Exotic cars don't have cup holders. You won't find one in the Aventador either :p
Heh, chances are you're going to get a thumbs Down from valets since you're pretty likely to put the car in "bitch mode" before handing it over to them. Makes it all the more satisfying in my mind.
Yea, there is the whole "death trap" issue when it comes to most rat-rods. Then again, I've done dumber shit to get a woman's attention.
+1
try supplementing with keifer to give those good microbes some badass reinforcements:
You have to see it in person to really appreciate it. It looks like a stock E30 in photos, but there are tons of little details on the exterior. The fender flares are actually a LOT wider than stock. It's like an exaggerated version of an E30 M3. Lower, fatter, leaner, meaner; when you see it parked next to a normal…
Like I said, different priorities. I would personally take Wain's E30 over any $250K exotic. Remember, it only LOOKS like and old BMW. Everything about the way it rides, handles, and performs is totally modern. Even the road noise is perfectly civilized. I wouldn't want the attention that an exotic would draw out on…
It's a full instrumentation replacement. The car has ridiculously sophisticated Pectel engine management that simply can't be made to talk to the stock instrument binnacle. A bit ugly, but necessary. Readouts like this look shitty in photos, but work fantastically IRL. It is a bit of a sacrifice, but you get a lot of…
I have seen photos of builds like that. Very cool, but almost kindof the opposite. You get a really exotic-looking 60's muscle car body and drop it on fairly mundane (though robust and reliable) underpinnings. The point is to get modern reliability but with a sexy, punched-up exterior. This frankenbimmer is rather the…
It is a massively labor-intensive job, that's where all the money goes. I have seen the car IRL, but european car did a great write-up on it a couple of years ago:
Within your attitude lies the fundamental difference between people who buy off-the-shelf exotics and people who create these kinds of one-off cars. The world of automobiles is big, vibrant, and crazy; with just as much variety in the people who buy and drive them.