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#26 2003-02-05 3:44 pm
- Golden Nose
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Re: Your fantasy vehicle!
Well since this is now an oficially geeky thread, my fantasy cars definitely fit in:
The Nash Metropolitan
The Austin Mini Cooper
'63 Dodge Dart Convertible
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#27 2003-02-05 3:56 pm
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Re: Your fantasy vehicle!
A Shadow Battlecruiser.
Damn this is a geeky thread. You all knew that though.
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#28 2003-02-05 4:24 pm
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Re: Your fantasy vehicle!
It's called the Blackbird.
YEAH!!! Well, since i shall one-day own a Beamer....and a hummer of course...I gotta go with the Falcon....Although, how can you NOT put a Star Destroyer or SSD up there---those are the ultimate...or maybe either Darthy's or the emperor's personal shuttle(s).....hmmm, so many options.
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#29 2003-02-05 8:08 pm
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Re: Your fantasy vehicle!
i dunno, i would have to go with green goblins thing because its the most like an extension of your body and you can be all maneuverable. mmmmm cool
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#30 2003-02-06 2:11 pm
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Re: Your fantasy vehicle!
Helloooooo!!!! What about the Enterprise D? I'd much rather have that than the Defiant.
The car of the future is a train with a bike waiting at the other end.
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#31 2003-02-06 2:17 pm
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Helloooooo!!!! What about the Enterprise D? I'd much rather have that than the Defiant.
I guess that it would make a really good travelling hotel, but not much more than that. The defiant on the other hand doesn't have all the creature comforts, but is one hell of a machine.
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#32 2003-02-06 3:08 pm
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I can't believe the Delorean from Back To The Future isn't on there!
Yeah! This poll is rigged!
Barring that extrememly large oversight, I'll have to go with the Millennium Falcon...provided Han teaches me how to drive it first. 
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#33 2003-02-06 3:18 pm
- DavidMichael
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Re: Your fantasy vehicle!
My Ferrari 355 is my fantasy vehicle. Only comes out in summer and with the roof off there is no therapy like it for a 60 + year-old!
(but why is it that we can only get these htings when we are my age? I would have had a scream of a time if I'd had my 355 when I wa s20! C'mon God, what did I ever do to you to derserve this reversal of fortune?)
HILLARY FOR PREZ!!!
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#34 2003-02-06 3:30 pm
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Re: Your fantasy vehicle!
I don't know what's geekier: the thread, or the people that complain about omissions. 
Sorry about that guys, I really am. After this thread dies out, I'll post a new poll with the winners from this one and some of the omissions.
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#35 2003-02-07 4:33 am
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#36 2003-02-07 9:47 pm
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Re: Your fantasy vehicle!
A 1967 or '68 Porche 917 or an original 289ci Shelby Cobra based on the Alpine chassis NOT the bogus Ford Mustang pretenders.
A 1974 Aston Martin Vantage Volece would make me pretty happy too!!.
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#37 2003-02-07 9:54 pm
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An Eclipse-Class Super-DuperStar-Destroyer.
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#38 2003-02-07 10:29 pm
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You forgot the sovereign-class starship
And the borg cube you bastards. You forgot them all! 
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#39 2003-02-09 10:49 am
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Re: Your fantasy vehicle!
ill take a starbridge class-E or maybe a kestrel
err, how about the delta flyer?
bah, ill splurge and take the Federation timeship Relativity
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#40 2003-02-09 11:10 am
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Helloooooo!!!! What about the Enterprise D? I'd much rather have that than the Defiant.
I guess that it would make a really good travelling hotel, but not much more than that. The defiant on the other hand doesn't have all the creature comforts, but is one hell of a machine.
I think the Enterprise D would get more chicks than the defiant. I mean, you can have more fun in a nice, big van than you can in a sports car, right?
Besides, I won't be using it for battle, I'd be using it for exploration. It wouldn't be nice showing up in orbit with a warship.
The car of the future is a train with a bike waiting at the other end.
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#41 2003-02-09 12:12 pm
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aye but with a timeship I could influence people to do anything.
[not to mention that even defensive weapons from that era would blow the enterprise E out of the water.]
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#42 2003-02-09 12:34 pm
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Re: Your fantasy vehicle!
Just see my avatar for my dream ride!
1959 Lambretta Li150.
Runs great, 120-150 mpg.
No rearview mirror or turn signals (hey, it's italian).
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#43 2003-02-09 2:12 pm
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I really, really want a custom pink 2003 Thunderbird convertible.
WTF is wrong with me???
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#44 2003-02-09 3:56 pm
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Re: Your fantasy vehicle!
Just this one:
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#45 2003-02-09 4:34 pm
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Re: Your fantasy vehicle!
Sure, the Murci
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#46 2003-02-09 5:10 pm
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well first emphasis is on the word will 
Maybe in speed, but not in grace.
In speed this is it:
0-60mph (0-100km/h) = 3.45s
top speed = 240mph (390kph)
it beats the McLaren F1LM
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#47 2003-02-09 8:13 pm
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Yeah, it's unfortunate they're not being quicker than they are about bringing the Veyron to the market, but as for specs, it'll even beat your second car;
top speed on the Veyron is 253mph (406km/h)
0-187.5mph (300km/h) = under 14 seconds
And it's classy, too... has more features than the Lambo (and still goes faster):
As for price to speed or features ratio, well, you've got me beat there. Realistically, one would have to go for the Lamborghini as it does represent a far better value.
Best of all, all that speed doesn't rely on the driver's ability. The trans. is a 7 speed automatic the makes shifts in .2 seconds; all I'd have to do is stomp on the pedal and the Veyron would turn in similar numbers time after time.
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#49 2003-02-10 4:50 am
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Ha! what a dork, he's wearing a helmet!
He looks like he's trying to impress that lady, but it's not going to work!!
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#50 2003-02-10 6:07 am
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...<snip>
Best of all, all that speed doesn't rely on the driver's ability. The trans. is a 7 speed automatic the makes shifts in .2 seconds; all I'd have to do is stomp on the pedal and the Veyron would turn in similar numbers time after time...
yeah, the same goes for the Koenigsegg above 
the same company will also do a V12 powered car, whoose top speed will be more then 400kph
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