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06-24-2004 | 01:08 AM

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Originally posted by watt
Chris,

while you may pound chianti with your sausages as a GT3 pilot; I have converted to oil cured olives, carpaccio and fine pinot grigio

Nothing like fine Italian food and drink!!! Best of luck with it!!!

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#32

06-24-2004 | 02:14 AM

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We are a dying breed and the kind of passion for driving real sports cars has been relegated to a few. Porsche is catering to a softer crowd and rightly so. That is their audience. Not the canyon carving, track going few. Expect to see quieter, softer 911 in the future with them becomming more generic with each generation. This is where Lexus/Toyota will beat Porsche. They will produce a "sporty" car that is reliable, smooth, powerful and sexy. Will it be a track ready car out of the box? Probably not and they won't care either..

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06-24-2004 | 12:07 PM

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Originally posted by watt

and while you may pound chianti with your sausages as a GT3 pilot; I have converted to oil cured olives, carpaccio and fine pinot grigio

Ah, ... watt, ... I just finished a bottle (w/my wife) of Tignanello while reading your post.

I think you need to consider the medicinal qualities of RED fruit of the vine

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06-24-2004 | 11:08 PM

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Ah, ... watt, ... I just finished a bottle (w/my wife) of Tignanello while reading your post.

I think you need to consider the medicinal qualities of RED fruit of the vine

only one bottle and TWO people????

btw,

stories from the service mgr on F production:

besides the cars needing fettling [deep PDI of all softwares, electronics, etc], they find half eaten sandwiches, tools, cell phones built into the cars -- my UPS man told me they call that FOD foreign object debris in aircraft mfr

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06-25-2004 | 05:17 AM

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Originally posted by Hamann7
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Lexus may compete against Mercedes, but their target buyer is different from the typical 7 series or S-Class customer. Lexus is for people who want a nice car but don't know **** about cars. Lexus still does not get prestige status nor respect from the elite crowd-- in fact, the impression that it gives off is that you were either too clueless, cheap, or poor to buy an S500 or 745Li. That car has absolutely NO SOUL whatsoever. You might as well save money and buy a Lincoln Town Car, because that's how it rides.

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Most of my neighbors with S classes are as clueless about cars and " soul " as the ones who own LS 430s. In fact , they gripe about why their car is not as reliable as the Lexus , not how wonderfully it rips the pavement. BMW owners are a bit better.
I would venture that most flagship sedans foreign or domestic are driven not much harder than Gramps drove his Delta 88.

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06-26-2004 | 02:14 AM

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Actually, I see quite a few 7 series being driven rather aggressively.

I used to be one of those guys.

This morning some ****** is a new S55 tried to race me off the line to cut me off. Imagine the satisfaction I felt making him smell the exhaust fumes of my M5.

I hate the current Mercedes lineup almost as much as I hate Volvo.