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Uuuuuhhh, is that legal?
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boost_it7
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Posted: 01/23/06
07:04 AM
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In this month's mag, SCC did a race between a GT-R and a passenger plane. Top Gear did that same thing a couple of months ago with a Ferrari 612, didn't they?
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Posted: 01/23/06
07:40 AM
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i find that type of comparison really stupids, its like comparing apples to oranges.
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Posted: 01/23/06
08:58 AM
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Well, the comparison is really more toward is air travel faster the driving to a location, not whether the car is actually faster than the plane. I was actually surprised that the race was so close, even though the gt-r was breaking alot of laws in the process.
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Posted: 01/23/06
12:18 PM
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i find that type of comparison really stupids, its like comparing apples to oranges.
It's like when one of the bigger magazines like R&T or MT does a drag race between a sports car and a fighter jet- two awesome pieces of machinery in one silly test.
The forum member formerly known as GTFan018
1995 Saab 900S 2.3L (Going autocrossing August 5th!)
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Posted: 01/24/06
06:30 AM
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of course it is not legal.. but it is a test most magazines have done at one time or another. I remember R&T or C&D did one with a Ferrari 456 and a cessna. While the Ferrari was faster.. it had to take a more indirect route.. it lost.
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Posted: 01/24/06
09:19 AM
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of course it is not legal.. but it is a test most magazines have done at one time or another. I remember R&T or C&D did one with a Ferrari 456 and a cessna. While the Ferrari was faster.. it had to take a more indirect route.. it lost.
I saw one between a Ferrari 612 Scaglietti and a 747, trains, and buses. It was on Top Gear one night, and the editor and two other guys bet that the editor couldn't make it to a Swiss ski resort before they could. Surprisingly, the car won. You should have seen the looks on the two guys' faces. 
Speed and power are a mix of mostly three factors: money, motivation, and time. How fast do you want to go and how broke do you want to be when you get there?
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Posted: 01/24/06
06:02 PM
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I remeber two tests. One was an older MT and it had a C4 Corvette, IIRC driven by Chuck Yeager, vs. a T-34 Talon training jet. The other, an R&T article, was much more recent and it was a sports and tuner car comparo with a Hayabusa and an F/A-18E Super Hornet jet thrown in just for shits and giggles. I don't remember any of the results except the 'Busa whupped most of the cars' asses.
The forum member formerly known as GTFan018
1995 Saab 900S 2.3L (Going autocrossing August 5th!)
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0m3g4
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Posted: 01/24/06
08:47 PM
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I know that the R&T guys have a new little sub-magand they ran a yamaha R1 vs a tuned Skyline R34 GTR
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Posted: 01/25/06
07:37 PM
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"It's like when one of the bigger magazines like R&T or MT does a drag race between a sports car and a fighter jet- two awesome pieces of machinery in one silly test. " -GTFan018
Yeah see I liked those tests. I thought the whole GTR VS jet thing was kinda lame. Personally. Should have been more of a performance showdown. Show all the GTR junkies there IS something faster. LOL!
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Posted: 01/26/06
06:54 PM
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Should have been more of a performance showdown. Show all the GTR junkies there IS something faster. LOL!
I'd buy that for a dollar!
Speed and power are a mix of mostly three factors: money, motivation, and time. How fast do you want to go and how broke do you want to be when you get there?
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