Twoo

"If only..."

What does that mean??

Cayenne. .. That'll be my ride.. Whenever i decide to start making some cheddar

The Cayenne is an amazing vehicle and the interior is the best I've ever seen in a SUV. I just couldn't get past the new designed exterior and the Rover is a better offroader and severe weather vehicle.

Back from the dead...

The Mercedes is GONE.

Purchased a 2011 Range Rover Sport Supercharged on Saturday night. Arrives at the dealership Wednesday (had to bring it in from another dealer). Stornoway Grey exterior and Ebony interior with contract stitching. Vehicle is loaded with the exception of adaptive cruise control/brake assist- which I did not want. I also did not want the rear entertainment system but every Sport model on the face of the earth has it so I didn't really have a choice. Deal worked out really well- with the trade in I financed exactly $8,370 for 12 months through my credit union. Chicago winters here I come!

EDIT: I test drove the Cayenne, Rover Sport Supercharged, Mercedes M and the GX. Couldn't stand the M or the GX, the Cayenne was fantastic but I didn't like the exterior. Settled on the Rover- which I fell in love with.

LOL. Ride in a Zr1 and then ride in an ACR and you will quickly realize they are different vehicles. The ACR is a brutal car but its a RACE CAR. The Zr1 is more of a touring car with a 638HP powerplant. Just look at the Highrise wing and styling.... No radio, lack of carpet, engine heat like a SOB. Where as the ZR1 has a plus interior and ALL the bells and whistles ( Plush for GM terms= cheap usually though..lol)

Granted the ACR does seem to be a track monster and performs as it should, you could live with the Vette on a daily. The Z06 is more of a race car then the Zr1, it just lacks the power from the blown 6.2.

Bottom line, I'd take either (Zr1 or ACR) one for a fun car. The Viper is just too much on the ragged edge of streetability for me to choose it over a Zr1.

Ride in them? My father owns a ZR1 and he used to own a 2002 and 2006 Viper Coupe. I've put a few hundred miles on all 3. That being said, I've DRIVEN them.

Like I said, performance wise... the Viper maims the ZR1. The Viper wasn't designed to be a nice Sunday sports car. It was designed to be a all out track car that you can legally drive home and park in your garage.

If you want a comfortable car with power steering, ABS, cool air conditioning and won't require a visit to the chiropractor after a spirited drive... then you want the ZR1. If you can't zip the zipper on your pants because your cojones are so big, you sweat bullets when it's 30 degrees outside, and you once beat up Chuck Norris... then you want a Viper.

The point you were trying to make was about performance figures, not drivability.

Dang what the heck is that? It looks like an Audi in the fist picture.

And are you kidding 549, the ZR1 would SPANK a Viper.

The reason for the Camaro is there are only going to be so many made, ole man doesn't want what everybody else has.

Are we talking on a track or 1/4 mile? A quarter mile means about as much as my arm pit when it comes to a cars performance figures. On a track a Viper smacks the ZR1 around like a school girl.

On the Nürburgring (for those who don't know, it's THE racetrack all car companies use to benchmark performance figures)...

- Viper ACR ran a 7.22, which by the way was the fastest time ever for a production vehicle

- ZR1 ran a 7.26.

Winner: Viper

BUT... if you want to play the 1/4 game.

- Dodge Viper (NOT EVEN THE ACR) 10.92 seconds

- ZR1 (I should be doing the normal Corvette, but just to prove a point) 11.2 seconds

Winner: Viper ACR

Breaking: Viper ACR

Skidpad: Viper ACR

0-60: Viper ACR

0-100: Viper ACR

0-100-0: Viper ACR

Shall I continue?

quad turbocharged.... oh my haha. Couldn't they get 1000 hp out of the engines in the Toyota Supra with only a twin turbo?

It's a 16 cylinder, 4 turbo motor making actually around 1100 horsepower, it's under-rated from factory. FIrst car to break the 250mph mark. It needed the power because at 200+ mph it uses most of the power to push through the wind and not actually power the wheels.

The car is a work of art, each piece specifically engineered for high speed travel. It uses carbon fiber, kevlar, gold, titanium, 2 diamonds, 10 radiators, makes 1.3g's at full breaking, 0-60 in 2.5 seconds, top speed of 253mph and only 200 have ever been produced. Best of all, it will outrun a F-16 taking off at a dead standstill... giving the jet fighter a 2 second head start.

Spotted this yesterday in LA, surprisingly small. About the length of a Honda civic and about a foot shorter in height. Wide as hell though. I was just shocked how small it actually is in person.

I'll split the down payment with you.

Feel free to split my payment if you'd like! Only 19 more to go.

Okay, so I been a busy bee this past week.

Sold the 525i on Tuesday, and today I picked up a 95 740iL.

Unfortunately, its an automatic. And it's in need of tires, brake pads and brake lines.

So anyway, has the 4.4 V8, 282 HP / 296 ft-lb. Problem is, aftermarket support is practically non-existent for the 7 Series.

Here's the really strange part (to me). You'd think that with a motor like that, and BMW's rep for making killer cars like the //M cars, you'd think that the 740iL is smoking fast, even with the slushbox rather than a proper 6 speed. It's not!! A friend of mine stomped me in his RX8. They're not slow cars by any means, but after a 55 mph rolling start to 100 mph, he walked me by at least 2 lengths. And to make it worse, he had his brother with him; the guy is at least 220 lbs of added weight.

So, now I have two Bimmers...one is a 6 cyl with moderate aftermarket support, but unless I go with forced induction won't ever make some serious power.

The other is the one I got today, with a beastly V8 that is just begging to be unleashed, but 4100lbs, a slushbox and practically no aftermarket go fast goodies conspire to keep this car in the "pretty quick" category instead of the "holy $#!t" category.

But that aside, it is one sick car! Ridiculous amount of gadgets that will probably take me 6 months to discover them all, interior is just amazing, and is going to look spectacular with a set of 18" and coilovers.

Think I'm going to gut the 535i, remove EVERYTHING including the rear seats, and continue with the home brew turbo kit as originally planned. Work on the suspension and slap on some slicks, and call it a day. If all goes well, should turn out to be a pretty fun trackworthy car.

Not sure what to do about the ML320 now that I have the 740iL...pretty useful for bad weather and going on trips, but not sure if it's worth keeping around when I can just trade it in for a cheap beater truck that does the same things, and probably does it better.

Do know that I love the 740 though. Other than the usual wheels/coilovers/navigation, probably not going to do much else. The 535 is going to keep me plenty busy anyway.

Anywho, thats my story for the day. Going to start posting pics soon, probably next weekend, of the 535i teardown and rebuild.

Get the feeling its going to be a looong week..

95' 740iL in silver... quite possibly one of the best looking cars of all time. A shame a new BMW's look like crap.

I ordered the Hennessey 6.3L engine software update about a week and a half ago, arrived yesterday. I had them ship me a new core and I'll mail the one out of my car back once I do the instal. Pretty painless procedure, couple screws and three wires With my exhaust and headers combo it adds roughly 35hp and 40lb tq. Going to be doing 2 dyno runs next weekend.

Should put me around 600 horsepower and 560 lb torque. According to TorqueStat (plug and play gps performance calculator, it records as you accelerate) I pulled 0-60 times yesterday, which are 100% accurate, of 4.02, 3.96 and 3.92. I wonder how the numbers will be effected after I upgrade the engine software.

Not bad for a 3,800 lb 4 door luxury sedan.

Twoo i got 3 words for you

Buick Grand National!

The GNX, eh? My buddy used to own one. Thing was deceivingly quick. Then he sold it and bought a Mercedes 500e. Quite possibly the best car I've ever driven. For those who don't know what a 500e is-- MB and Porsche got together to make a sports oriented sedan. Porsche brakes/suspension, AMG engine, PERFECTLY laid out interior and it went like stink. MB also under-rated it's power and skidpad. They reported 0-60 in the low 5 second range, some owners/magazines were hitting 4.2-4.5s. AMAZING car.

Truth be told, I've considered trading in the e63 for a AWD vehicle. In a few years I'll be moving to Chicago for my specialized residency and I'll need a vehicle I can drive in snow.

Yeah I definitely am way under the efficency zone. I will definitely crank the boost up once I get my bottom end built up to handle it. Though with great tuning I have seen some RSX Type S' push up to 26lbs of boost on stock internals. I cant say for how long their engines held up but the K20A2 eats boost and loves it.

I miss turbo engines- the sudden kick of the engine, the spool of the turbo- I miss it so much. Especially my little turbo GTI I had when I was younger, that car was a hoot. More than anything I miss having a manual transmission.

But, I quickly found myself getting used to 0-60 in 3.9 seconds and 518 lbs tq of naturally aspirated v8 sweetness-- and believe it or not, once I got used to paddle shifting... it's not half bad.

It's not hatin' its fact.... My brother had one and it was a TOTAL DOG.

1. Ford Mod motors have NEVER made more TQ then a GM Gen3/4 V8.

2. The Mod motor ( Triton) has a more peaky powerband then the Ls

I think you guys are clumping numbers, the Diesel F250 are B.A but before this year, the F-150 truck motors have been weak.... Does the 4.6 not scream lack of TQ and HP?

HP and TQ numbers don't matter in a truck as much as WHERE the power is available in the RPM band. You could have a truck that makes 700 lbs TQ but doesn't peak until 6k rpm's... so it's useless as a towing vehicle.

Just to prove a point:

The F-150 has the weakest engine, yet it tows the most and tows it faster off the line to 70 mph.

My bad, I meant the Cobra R from '00. They were the n/a motors making 385 hp 385 ft-lb.

Although I remember reading some tuner magazine back then that they put down nearly that amount of power to the wheels, so Ford was actually under rating them from the factory.

They just were the total package...killer looks, power, 6 speed V8, and pulled over 1.0g on the skidpad. Just nasty!

Fun fact- in order to buy a brand new 2000 Cobra R you had to have and show SCCA racing license (minimum of a regional racing license) before you could even buy the car. A copy of the racing license even needed to be photocopied, sent to Ford and verified before you could drive the car off the showroom floor.

Yeah, Ford trucks have been pretty vanilla since the introduction of the 11th generation- 2005+.

I thought the 1997 model was pretty nice and forced Chevrolet to step up and make a larger, better looking truck.

Now the F150 is just a big box covered with tacky, plasticy, chrome trim.

The Sierra is a much more visually appealing truck, imo. Chevrolet has always trumped the other 2 in technology and power. Ford and Dodge are always chasing the Chevy's power.

I still would love to have an SRT-10 Ram or Jeep GC though. Those things are sweet!

Problem with the Dodge, Silverado is the torque and towing. They make all their torque at EXTREMELY high rpm's, making towing off the line absolutely appalling. F-150 makes 90% of it's torque at 1,700 rpm's while it takes the Chevy and Dodge 4000 rpm's.

Granted, Silverado is a better looking truck exterior wise... but the F-150 kills the competition interior wise.

You speak in past tense when refering to SVT....I know SVT hasn't put anything out for Ford in a while, but do they still exist?

Both recent GT500's have SVT emblems all over them. My 08' had 12 to be exact.

Technically speaking, according to Ford- the Raptor, GT500 and SHO are SVT models (all in production currently).

SVT is the ford mustang right you are. F150's are cool, but the Doge Ram won Motortrend truck of the year....

The F-150 tows more, carries more, has more interior/exterior options, has a better engine/transmission, better brakes, completely flat behind the front seats, better frame, better crash safety ratings, better suspension, longer intervals between service and is worth 20-30% more when you go to sell it.

Ford > Chevrolet > Dodge > Toyota

Ford F-150 is and always will be the best truck in it's segment.

Motortrend truck of the year goes to WHATEVER truck is new that year. They do it every year.

2010 Ram gets a refresh - truck of the year

2009 F-150 gets a refresh - truck of the year

2008 Tunda gets a refresh - truck of the year

2007 Silverado gets a refresh - truck of the year

2006 Ridgeline is released - truck of the year

2005 Tacoma gets a refresh - truck of the year

2004 F-150 gets a refresh - truck of the year

Motor-trend truck of the year is a COMPLETE JOKE- and anyone who uses them as a means of information towards a car purchase is a moron. Whomever refreshes their truck wins that year.

Damn, playboy! That is a serious machine.

Thanks.

Here's the interior. Photos are from the day I bought it. I have quite a few more on my laptop.

EDIT: Forgot to add "modifications". The exhaust and headers were upgraded at the dealership before I bought the car. Apparently added 44 horsepower and 54 lbs of torque. So it's turning roughly 550 horsepower right now with full warranty

Sweet Ride Twoo!

Thank you =)

Currently drive a 2010 mercedes e63. Well, I should say "drive" being I've put less than 200 miles on it in the last 2 months. 36 hours on, 8 hours off at the hospital doesn't leave much time to drive- leave alone leave the hospital.

I was born in Georgia, raised in Germany, currently live in South Baltimore City in Union Square.