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You're all bastards, you lucky SOBs.

*starts throwing feces at you*

*realizes what he has done and tries to wash the feces from his hands, but can't get the smell off*



Damn it, you win again!!!
 
Nicest car i've actually been in, was a customised BMW Z3 Alpina... going from London to Brighton at 130 miles/hour with the top down. Needless to say it was not a good hair day for me...
 
Abstract said:
You're all bastards, you lucky SOBs.

*starts throwing feces at you*

*realizes what he has done and tries to wash the feces from his hands, but can't get the smell off*



Damn it, you win again!!!


Exactly how I feel. :eek:

I must be one of the poorer people around here; what most of you term "wealthy" I would call "fantastically rich beyond my wildest dreams". Vanquish S? MacAztec, you're moving in rather high financial circles.

I've ridden in a ZR1 Corvette, a 90's BMW 750iL, and a '68 (I think) SS Camaro convertible.

The most expensive car I've ever driven was an Audi S6. I was at the Porsche/Audi dealership looking at a used Porsche 944 and when the salesman asked if I was interested in a particular car I said, "yeah, I'm looking for an S4". I figured he'd get the joke but instead he said "At the moment we only have an S6". So I test drove it, just so I could say I did. If I thought I had any chance of success I would have asked about driving the 911 GT3 Cup they had in the showroom. :eek: :D
 
Porsche 911, there are nicer, faster, and badder cars, but something about this one just moves me. :D
 
I would say a Rolls Royce stretch limo back in the late '90s and my boss's Porsche 911 Turbo (its sooooo awesome). I cannot forget though my beloved Rangey though. What a beautiful car :)
 
MacAztec said:
I can't wait for this weekend, I am going to take him up on his offer of letting me drive the car.

This guy is worth quite a bit, probably around $5 billion, he almost bought the Redskins (football team) a few years back.

Maybe I can convince him to get the new BMW M6?

I thought you said he owned a baseball team in some other thread.
Or is it a different girl, and if so, how do you find them? (btw, don't ever ever give'em your handle here :) )
 
i have been driven in a whole bunch of Rolls Royce's, but i dont particularly like them, damn millionare grandpa, the nicest car i have ever been driven in is probably an E type jag, man those cars rule.
 
MacAztec said:
This guy is worth quite a bit, probably around $5 billion, he almost bought the Redskins (football team) a few years back.

*looks at Forbes rich list..scans MacAztecs profile...looks at who on Forbes rich list lives in CA...looks who's worth between 4 and 6 billion and has at least one child*

So..is it:

Eli Broad (39th richest)
Gordon Earl Moore (of Moores law fame) (44th)
or
David Howard Murdoch (52nd)??

I should be a detective. Well..as long as my only detective tool is Google and I don't have to meet any nasty people.

oh..and to be slightly on topic..

Nicest car i've ridden in is a Porsche 911 or an old school Rolls Royce.
Nicest cars I've sat in: Aston Martin Vanquish, Porsche 911's (several different models), Mercedes S Class, and generally anything expensive looking when I've been to motorshows!
 
I've been in a few nice cars but never driven anything other than my ford Fiesta (the new model mind :p ) Oh yeah, she's a beast :cool:

The best one though was defiantly the Mazda Rx 8. I'd give me right arm for one of them. My favourite car!!
 
EGT said:
I've been in a few nice cars but never driven anything other than my ford Fiesta (the new model mind :p ) Oh yeah, she's a beast :cool:

The best one though was defiantly the Mazda Rx 8. I'd give me right arm for one of them. My favourite car!!

I've sat in a pre-production RX8 and it was really nice. Same one that had done the rounds with Top Gear and some of the car magazines but it was still in really good condition.

Shame that the next stop for it was the crusher as they destroy the pre-production ones apparently. :(
 
The BMW 7-series are really really really nice cars. My girl friend used to have one and I loved it. It was one of nicest cars under $80,000 I've been in.

I must say that Jaguars interiors are not that great. They're above average but personally they are nothing special. I really do love the XJ series (I only like the normal wheelbase models).

My neighbor just got the XK coupe. It is such a cool car. I haven't seen it up close but I see him driving around. It is a very hot car though.
 
Wow,..... how is it that so many people around here are so rich?

Well, being only 17 I am at a disadvantage but I recently road in a 2005 Lotus Elise when my dad was test driving it. Its a pretty sweet car. Thats what stickes out in my mind right now.....
 
MacAztec said:
I can't wait for this weekend, I am going to take him up on his offer of letting me drive the car.

This guy is worth quite a bit, probably around $5 billion, he almost bought the Redskins (football team) a few years back.

Maybe I can convince him to get the new BMW M6?

I guess you made up your mind which girlfriend to pick....
 
To preface, the guy who lives next to my aunt and uncle, just up the street from me, is a VP for Hasbro. Yes, THAT Hasbro. SO they get company cars. Their current one is a slightly used 745 (and not the Banger'ed one). Before that, though, they had a 545, which I rode in on one occasion. I believe it was a 2001/2002-ish.
The nicest car I ever drove goes to a 2000-04 (not sure of the year) Land Rover Discovery (II?). That was a pain. I had to move it from the side of the (very busy) street, down the road a bit and move it onto the sidewalk. The reason being, an elderly gentleman was walking down the sidewalk, and missed the curb. My parents stopped, and while my father and some others were helping him out, I offered to move some of the cars they were in. This particular one belonged to a nurse. She also happened to be almost a foot shorter than me, so I barely squeezed into the drivers seat, with my knees hitting the lower dashboard. I couldn't find the seat controls, so I started to attempt to put the key in the ignition. After some trouble, I finally looked at the key, and saw the Corvette logo on it. :rolleyes: I finally get the right key in, and the car started and finally move it. Of course, as I get out, I find the seat controls...

An honorable mention has to go to a Mercedes kit car I got to drive once. It was a body kit to make the car it used to be (an Escort) look like an old school MB convertible/sportscar, chromed exhaust tubes on the engine bay and everything. I'd say its overall size was about the same as a Morgan 4, perhaps sitting a little lower, like a Caterham. Of course, despite the eight pipes, it only had four cylinders, and thus needed about 1/4 throttle to move from a stop, even with an automatic! :eek:

Nicest car I've ever sat in was some type of Ferrari from the 1980's, not sure what kind though. It was in the car museum/collection at the Yankee Candle main store in South Deerfield MA. It was wired to make engine noises when you stepped on the gas. :(
 
Don't panic said:
I thought you said he owned a baseball team in some other thread.
Or is it a different girl, and if so, how do you find them? (btw, don't ever ever give'em your handle here :) )

Same girl, Dad is part owner in about 4 sport teams.
 
Her Dad isn't on the Forbes list, I'm not sure why. I know he has a lot of money, and I would say one MAJOR company he owned but sold, but that would give it away, and I don't want to do that.
 
Maybe he's worth $5 bn Canadian dollars. That would mean he's off the US list completely.

*looks at exchange rate*

Okay, that joke doesn't make sense anymore.



My parents own a Volvo S70, and I have been in an early 80's Mercedes 500 series model (it's equivalent to an S500 today, but it didn't used to be called the "S" series. It was the "Sxy" model, where the "x" and "y" mean that I don't what those letters were way back when).

I drive a 2005 Hyundai right now. Sweeeeet.
 
Not my favourite car but probably the fastest was my friends Porsche 993 C4S like this one:
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My favourite was my other friends Lancia Delta HF Turbo or our Alfa Romeo
 
MacAztec said:
Her Dad isn't on the Forbes list, I'm not sure why...
Depends where they get their information, most of these 'rich lists' should be taken with a hefty pinch of salt. The Sunday Times do one for the UK each year, I've been on it and while I wish their facts were right they're sadly not. :(

OT
At 17years old my boss, a mad keen car collector offered me the keys to plenty of his cars. I took him up on the Lancia Delta Intargale, Porsche 944 Turbo convertible & coupe, BMW 750i, Land Rover, Citreon 2CV(he was a proper collector of cars) but had to decline his classic Bentley as it cost £600,000. I also missed out, 'cause I wasn't at work that day, on taking a ride in his F40 :mad:. Also in his collection were various other Bentley and Ferraris as well as a Porsche 959.

Another job, for a car dealership this time, got me drives in a Honda NSX, Merc. S600, BMW 850, Merc. SL (in fact all of the BMW/Merc./JEEP range of the mid 90's) also got to be driven in a TWR XJR15 by a F1 driver :D
 
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