- 30 Mar 2008 02:19
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I'm not stereotyping. It's how far you'll have to go if you want to blast a German (I'm focusing on that because it's the key example) sportscar, for these people have the knowledge, means, experience, environment to take the most and best out of what is available today in terms of motoring technology. You may manage to catch up a little, but bulking up a normal engine will do little more when the competition is literally "state-of-the-art".
They're always at the edge of progress in that department. You can only catch up. Or else you enter the dragster department, but again you'll have to do sacrifices the real thing doesn't require.
Eh, not the same philosophy.
Besides the fact that to me they are not overpriced for they will remain way ahead on every level and make you pay for a much higher level of excellence, you may say that you don't like cheap racing machines but it's precisely what you describe. You want to tart up lower units to match the bigger ones. It's bargain hooning, like there's bargain shopping.
I ain't scorning that even if looks like it maybe, I'm just highlighting that it matches in the broader picture some different philosophies on life. The little voice in my head wants to "reach higher" (incidentally Lincoln's motto), by going for the win the first time. It's achieving something, entering a world of excellence, where beauty does not take into account the price this or that solution will cost.
And I'm not necessarily thinking that on a linear scale that goes from the Twingo to the R8. It works within every category of car.
I don't want to have to climb the ladder in order to try and resemble the real thing, by making economies that will remind me I fell short of the dream.
There we're way beyond the car talk, but yeah, cars are more than a thrill or speedy steel boxes to me..
You're stereotyping, Adrien, try again.
I'm not stereotyping. It's how far you'll have to go if you want to blast a German (I'm focusing on that because it's the key example) sportscar, for these people have the knowledge, means, experience, environment to take the most and best out of what is available today in terms of motoring technology. You may manage to catch up a little, but bulking up a normal engine will do little more when the competition is literally "state-of-the-art".
They're always at the edge of progress in that department. You can only catch up. Or else you enter the dragster department, but again you'll have to do sacrifices the real thing doesn't require.
I believe in subtle enhancements to bring sport compacts up to and a little past the level of their overpriced European cousins. Create a supercar of my own making and my own style for half the price. I don't like cheap racing machines.
Eh, not the same philosophy.
Besides the fact that to me they are not overpriced for they will remain way ahead on every level and make you pay for a much higher level of excellence, you may say that you don't like cheap racing machines but it's precisely what you describe. You want to tart up lower units to match the bigger ones. It's bargain hooning, like there's bargain shopping.
I ain't scorning that even if looks like it maybe, I'm just highlighting that it matches in the broader picture some different philosophies on life. The little voice in my head wants to "reach higher" (incidentally Lincoln's motto), by going for the win the first time. It's achieving something, entering a world of excellence, where beauty does not take into account the price this or that solution will cost.
And I'm not necessarily thinking that on a linear scale that goes from the Twingo to the R8. It works within every category of car.
I don't want to have to climb the ladder in order to try and resemble the real thing, by making economies that will remind me I fell short of the dream.
There we're way beyond the car talk, but yeah, cars are more than a thrill or speedy steel boxes to me..
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