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  1. What a machine! And the Ferrari's nice too.
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  2. If given a head start, the Mk7 GTD can win any drag race by choking the driver behind him with its emissions.
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  3. I'd have the regular XFR despite this. The spoiler on the XFR-S is just too much on a classy car like this.
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  4. Now do Alfa Romeo Giulia QV vs. something out of Germany with four doors.
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  5. This one, I assume, is self-assembly, like IKEA furniture. The Zonda R is a boring old pre-assembled car. This one's better for technical people.
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  6. +sikedropZz +youngprankster94 Oh, how amusing it is to see the daily endeavours of a frustrated young troll in its natural habitat: the Youtube comment section.
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  7. I'd still have an M5 from around 2000 (that's the E39 model, right?)
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  8. MagicAyrtonforever If you determine your choice of sports car by how good of an investment they are, you should've spent the money on a stock investment.
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  9. I'd have the 1.5 and rev its bollocks off everywhere.
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  10. Underrated comment.
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  11. Beautiful for an SUV, ugly for a MaseratI: the Levante is to Maserati what merchandise is to Ferrari. Purists call it blasphemy, and it is stretching the heritage, but it will ultimately bring in revenue and customers to fund the development of 'proper' cars. One might call this the 'Cayenne effect', after the car that Porsche quite possibly owes its current healthy state to. For that, I approve of the Levante, as much as I dislike the car itself.
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  12. I love the MX-5. They're surprisingly expensive secondhand, though. I'll still try and get one as my first car.
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  13. +FreestylerAlbert It's a secondhand, though. Not a good comparison. But yeah, the S2000 is a masterpiece.
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  14. +Kings mario Frankly, the most expensive Range Rover is more capable, more spacious, better looking and infinitely more stylish, not to mention a lot cheaper. A lot cheaper. And yes, the interior is not as crushingly good, but the RR's inside is already very nice to begin with. And speed? In a 2,5 tonne off-roader? Come on, that's just bollocks.
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  15. I think all the flaps and diffusors and the enormous wing defeat the purpose of having an Aston: understated style and luxury. I'd have a regular Vantage.
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  16. MagicAyrtonforever It's money well spent. All that extra 'money down the drain' buys you non-material things. Of course, your bank manager won't care, but bank managers tend to be deeply uninteresting people anyway.
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  17. +Bat MikiPig As fast as a fridge and as cool as a rocket. Wait, it's the other way round.
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  18. Kristóf Szél Especially if it's a Jaaaaaag.
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  19. +stillwaiting4Wonder The OCD man inside me came a little when he saw that...
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  20. I'd want the MX-5's front with this one's rear. Mainly, the front looks a bit too agressive and not... Italian enough. Good review, by the way.
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  21. +POWER!!  Drift Mode.
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  22. AUDIH8R You work for IGN, right?
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  23. +Audi Hater Your name makes your comment drastically less convincing. And it wasn't too convincing to begin with.
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  24. girlncarorcarngirl I'd have an S2000 over a Porsche Carrera S any day. That said, if I got them for free, I'd sell the Porsche (if it were more valuable than the Honda, so no 250.000 km, run down Porsche 996), I'd sell the Porsche and then buy an S2000, but still have lots of leftover money.
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  25. So does Mat, clearly.
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  26. +Evilbowmaster63 You beat me to it. I couldn't agree more.
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  27. MagicAyrtonforever Which is why I'd always have the Alfa, I guess.
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  28. MagicAyrtonforever Modern Alfas are actually very reliable. I don't know if the same goes for the 4C, but I doubt it's unmanageable. Reliability isn't all that important for a second car.
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  29. MagicAyrtonforever The engine itself has proven its reliability in the Giulietta QV. Merely dysfunctional airconditioning, or anything of that nature, would be the case. And would it even be unreliable?
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  30. +TruthSeeker Calm down, you. You shouldn't be comparing an estate to a sports car. The charm of this car lies in the fact that, despite having all the practicality you need if you have three children or less, is very fast, fast enough to keep up with many sports cars. It's not the most exciting car to drive, or the sharpest, but it's a car that combines estate practicality with sports car speed. It's an Autobahn stormer, not a track monster. The mere fact that you are comparing it to a sports car says enough, in my opinion. The previous RS6 had a second charming point: the fact that it looked almost exactly like a 2.0 TDI, yet carried a 580 bhp 5.2 litre biturbo V10. Needless to say, the thing was a rocket. A really heavy one that wasn't all that good in the corners, but even then, it was very, very fast, and nobody saw it coming. It's what they call a 'sleeper'. Sadly, the new one has too many spoilers, diffusors, exhausts and so forth on it.
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  31. Kay A You. Well, not literally. However, you said: 'No he wasn't you guys only way that because he's doing well, whereas if he kills someone he'll be born from Nigeria. ' In other words, you're accusing us of double standards based on race: if he's successful, we apparently think he's British, whereas if he's a murderer, we think he's Nigerian. So, racism.
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  32. +Nik Brudar True, though thanks to the price difference, I think I'd rather have the bonkers VXR8. Mind you, I'd have an F-type R or an Alfa Giulia QV over either.
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  33. Not in the same price or size class, you can't really compare the two.
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  34. Well, to be fair, it's a Lamborghini engine.
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  35. Nik Brudar Well, I guess some plastic is allowed, for example on the buttons, but some aluminium or wooden trim and a leather-wrapped dash are quite welcome.
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  36. Steve Hash I dearly, dearly hope you're a troll. You probably are. 5-year-olds usually don't have access to Youtube and if they do, they don't have the taste to come to these videos. Anyone who speaks/writes like a 5-year-old here (you) is probably a troll, then.
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  37. In The Netherlands, car prices are influenced by an extremely sensitive CO2 tax system. As a result, plug-in hybrids like this one, with their extremely low theoretical CO2 figures, are very cheap. Thus, the 308 R HYbrid will be extremely good value here, if they put it into production. Let's just hope they will.
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  38. +Emanuele Croci Well, in a way, it tests how much faster (in this case) the Astra has become over the years, in comparison to the Golf and the MX-5 that came before it. But doing that in an MX-5 is pointless, as the point of that car is that it's rapid, but not fast. Thus, the overall improvement is quite small. Putting the fastest version of the old model up against the slowest version of the new one is silly as well.
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  39. DPPremier Personally, I'd love to see an MX-5 with the Wankel rotary engine from an RX-8.  I love the look of the first MX-5. Despite the pop-up headlamps, the design has never gotten old-fashioned. The second generation is just as pretty, but it looks a bit more soft. The third generation is my least favourite; it looks quite fat, to be honest. That might be because it is; it's 100 kilos heavier than the other generations. The new one looks sleek again. I love the small headlights; they go against the modern day trend of mounting enormous fish bowls that go all the way to the door mirrors. Yes, I'm looking at you, Renault Clio.
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  40. Please don't make wild accusations of racism, that's ridiculous. Joshua was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, UK, making him UK-born. However, both his parents are Nigerian-born, making him ethnically Nigerian. That's not the same as being Nigerian-born.
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  41. ***** And May did the same thing for the Virage, if I recall correctly.
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  42. ben firthy How does that deprive him of his right to criticise a car?
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  43. +jvgp142prt Audis are generally driven by cocks. Renaults with an RS badge are generally driven by people who can enjoy a true driver's car.
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  44. Nik Brudar I've looked at the possibility of buying an Alfa Romeo as my first car, but sadly no good options were available. The GTV is too unreliable and the 147 and 156 aren't special enough (they are, after all, a hatchback and a saloon). The 75, one of the last 'true' Alfas, is surprisingly expensive these days. I've seen a restoration project Giulia from 1975 for 2 grand, but I'm a completely inept mechanic so I wouldn't be able to do that. Alas, it's not like an MX-5 is a punishment. No, I think the car you're referring to is the 'Shanghuan S-CEO HBJ6474Y' (had to look that up), which indeed starred on Top Gear. This is Qoros: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qoros There's pictures on this Wikipedia page. It does, as illogical as it may sound. Sometimes, unreliability makes a car more...exciting, somehow. More... human. True... sadly. Well, an MX-5 is hardly thirsty too, but as a poor student, I can't really afford to rev it all the time. I'd be shocked at your engine sound? Why so? Yup, ricers are a horrible part of car culture. At least tuners do something productive alongside adding too many tacky accessories. Sounds like a great car! It comes to life past 4000 rpm? But where's the redline, then?
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  45. Financially, it is. Shows how bad people's tastes are.
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  46. +Laurynas S. That's funny :D +Nik Brudar You seem familliar.
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  47. Nik Brudar You used it correctly! ...If you meant 'where do I know you from', that is.
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  48. I'm sure the Porsche is better. But the Merc is nicer, I think I'd have that. Though given the choice, I'd take the F-type R Coupé. It's even more bonkers than the AMG GT.
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  49. +dietrichwagner Or just Mazda in general. I'm telling you, modern Mazda's are easily some of the best cars you can buy today, but nobody seems to realise it.
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  50. Fabian Espinoza The F-Pace is in the same class, though it's slightly cheaper and perhaps not as mesmerizingly perfect as the Macan, but it's a whole lot more appealing and charming. It stands a chance, I think. The Levante was made to compete with the Cayenne, and it holds up surprisingly well in the areas where the crushing, German perfection of the Cayenne runs rampant, without losing the Italian charm. It won't outsell the Cayenne, but will nonetheless do well in this expanding market.
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