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6. "RE: you wanna drive like a super villain"
In response to message #4
 
   >Ironically, the DB5 is only so valuable now because of James Bond in
>the first place. They weren't really very good cars. Top Gear
>did a segment on the DB5 a few years ago; they got one down to their
>test track and determined that, by modern standards, it's
>absolutely hopeless. It's a very pretty car, but it was
>never particularly fast, nor did it handle all that well, and
>nowadays, well... it's really astonishing how much advanced technology
>is jammed into even the crockiest cheap compact car these days. Even
>your mom's Honda hatchback* makes a DB5 look like an ox cart in terms
>of suspension, brakes (oh God, especially brakes), and so forth.

The feeling that I got from that segment was more "wow, cars these days ROCK in comparison to cars from 50 years ago."

Also, it got the feeling that I would, in fact, pay very good money for one of those updated E-types.

--
-Pasha (Who still thinks that the Z4 is the best looking production car being built now.)
What was that feeling again?
Oh yes.
-Rage-


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