lol top gear

New season starts on the 27th!
And if you have the opportunity, I highly suggest watching the full BBC versions over the BBC-America ones broadcast a season later.
 
And look what that Caddy can do... :)

Odd, they aren't running any Lincolns ;)

mespock - I will leave the politics by the side of the road when I am in Wisconsin in a few weeks - but, it will be hard not to gloat a little about the superiority of Caddys... Heck do they even make a manual Lincoln any more?

Top Gear - best show on TV right now.
 
foxpaws said:
And look what that Caddy can do... :)

Odd, they aren't running any Lincolns ;)

mespock - I will leave the politics by the side of the road when I am in Wisconsin in a few weeks - but, it will be hard not to gloat a little about the superiority of Caddys... Heck do they even make a manual Lincoln any more?

Top Gear - best show on TV right now.
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Reason why they aren't running any Fords in that show is because they are racing in Salt Sands...and knowing how much Clarkson LOVES Fords, he won't put a Ford in that kinda danger...as Salt + Sand is a double danger. Those GM cars were probably bought from a Debt Auction so they got them for cheap and thought "Why not F*ck these up doing something fun?"
 
Hands down best show on TV! I have been watching episodes back to 1988!

Its hilarious seeing Clakson with a huge afro before he became a regular on the show and then his fro was shortened but still huge!


Old presenter Tiff was their resident best driver for the presentors and man Jeremy always gave him props but still tore him up on the track. :)
 
PetesSweets86 said:
the new Shelby is already faster than the CTS-V and Challenger
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Mustang Shelby GT 500 2011 -
0 to 60 4.1
quarter 12.4 – 117
top - 155 (gotta love the Ford limiters...)

CTS-V - 2009
0 to 60 3.9
quarter 12.3 – 117.5
top - 191

And only $10,000 more for 2 more doors… ;)

I adored James - one of my favorites is when he took out a Countach, dream car of his youth - and was so 'underwhelmed'. With cause - they are weird, beastly things to drive....

YouTube- Top Gear Lamborghini Countach
 
As good as Top Gear is, some of the side-projects that James May and Clarkson have done are every bit as good too.

The Clarkson specials have been incredible.
Particularly the "Inventions That Changed the World"
and "The Greatest Raid Of All Time." In fact, The Greatest Raid is an absolute must watch.



Also, the Richard Hammond meets Evil Knievel special was excellent as well.
 
I used to enjoy Jeremy Clarkson's Motor World, which aired some years back in England.
 
Land Speed Records

Regarding your Cad excitement, my '02 LS holds the ECTA (one mile) E/F CC record at 140.106 MPH. Please note that this is one mile from a standing start. Done in full street trim by a car with over 100K miles on the clock. All out top speed, attainable in much less than the three miles used at Bonneville, is somewhere above 160. (I've been to 160 on the street.) An article in Hot Rod about racing at Maxton listed speeds for more than a dozen representative cars. The only cars faster than my record---I actually set four of them in two classes that day---were dedicated race cars with much larger engines than my 3.9.

I really don't think that Lincolns need to take a back seat to a Cad. (Neener Neener :N )

KS
 
PetesSweets86 said:
10k more and I can make that stock shelby wayyyy faster than 4.1 secs
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sadly enough for the shelby the LS9 can be woken up a huge amount easier than the 5.4L

people quickly forget that the engine in the CTS-V is the same exact engine in the ZR1... only the CTS-V is claimed to put out 550BHP and the ZR1 is claimed to put out 640BHP

so in retrospect just a 400 dollar rolling dyno tune with no aftermarket parts or pulley sizes will wake the car up around 90-100RWHP I'm sure

@ cammerfe

as far as performance... Lincolns DO need to take a backseat to caddy unless it cooks something new up (which I hope it does)

also... they only did a mile on those flats... not 3 miles like you say

so a 100% stock Cadillac down to the paper air filter beat your completely worked lincoln LS in standing mile time... on salt, which is harder to attain than on pavement
 
Ford looks like it's bracing itself for another jump in gas prices.
They are moving the R&D away from monster engines right now. The new Mustang motors were almost killed during their development, and renamed, repeatedly.

I'm impressed by the V6 Mustang with it's 305hp and 5.1 second 0-60 time. That's the same as the 3v V8.
 
I wished I coulda Married Christina Applegate. I LOVE her hips...I'd pound that 'til the moon breaks
 
Morbid Intentions said:
sadly enough for the shelby the LS9 can be woken up a huge amount easier than the 5.4L

people quickly forget that the engine in the CTS-V is the same exact engine in the ZR1... only the CTS-V is claimed to put out 550BHP and the ZR1 is claimed to put out 640BHP

so in retrospect just a 400 dollar rolling dyno tune with no aftermarket parts or pulley sizes will wake the car up around 90-100RWHP I'm sure

@ cammerfe

as far as performance... Lincolns DO need to take a backseat to caddy unless it cooks something new up (which I hope it does)

also... they only did a mile on those flats... not 3 miles like you say

so a 100% stock Cadillac down to the paper air filter beat your completely worked lincoln LS in standing mile time... on salt, which is harder to attain than on pavement
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then lets see a 650+hp CTS-V.....i wanna see it
 
PetesSweets86 said:
then lets see a 650+hp CTS-V.....i wanna see it
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Here you go Pete... try on this tidbit from Top Gear

Tyre fighter

It was never going to take long. With Cadillac finally getting round to making a proper muscle car – the M5-rivalling CTS-V – the tuning houses and their greasy spanners were sure to be close behind it.

Enter, then, Hennessey Performance, the Texas-based tuning firm responsible for the mad ZR1-engined Camaro.

Evidently deciding that the CTS-V’s 550bhp supercharged V8 was a bit, well, underpowered, they’ve treated the 6.2-litre unit to a brace of massive turbos, new camshafts, external wastegates and, er, lots of other big shiny things that make a sort of clanging noise when you hit them with a monkey wrench.

The result? An unhinged 800bhp and 780lb ft of torque, good for a 0-60mph time under three seconds (sweet lord) and a quarter-mile time under ten seconds. Sheesh.

Even better, the Hennessey CTS-V looks near-enough stock, save for a new set of 20-inch wheels.​

Burn baby burn... And this is a 4-door sedan...

Heck - Morbid is right, it is an LS9 under the hood - with lots of aftermarket toys available - but just get it tuned correctly and you should be able to closely match the Corvette ZR1 - with some deducted for exhaust and intake.

And KS - that is standing mile - not the last mile of a 3 mile go - otherwise, why worry about grip on the start - no need to if you got 2 miles to get up to speed.

That caddy should have been able to hit probably 180mph on the salt, which it would have made on a 3 mile run - they do about 190 on tarmac. The 'vette well over 200. STOCK!

GM is notorious for this -
1. Nothing can bet a Corvette in the line-up
2. God forbid we actually use a racing engine in a car and let it do what it wants to do.

Heck - on my N* we just let it breathe - opened up the intake - added a racing type exhaust and we gained 40 on the dyno just by doing that.

And they hit 165mph with it - before they were worried about the top - we had to have the hard top on it for the runs - and it isn't the original hard top for the car - so we had it latched, wired and taped, but it still was wanting to lift...

Stock N* - tuned and with the intake/exhausted opened up - still street legal and passes emissions. ;)

Less than $1000 in mods to do that... (including labor)
 
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