You're actually telling me that my -opinion- is wrong. That's pretty arrogant.
You missed the complete point of my posting. I was writing in response to someone commenting about the "instability" of the McLaren and the high amount of body roll. My response was that the McLaren was designed with "practicality" in mind - and essentially, that the body roll was probably a sacrifice for comfort. Although all supercars are supposed to have some practicality, the extent that McLaren tried to do it, is demonstrated in things like, body roll. Don't think that McLaren couldn't have dialed a lot of that out, if they wanted to.
I'm not disagreeing that in a supercar, you obviously make concessions, but the F1 was designed to be a supercar that you could actually use for regular everyday stuff. That's great that you don't think practicality matters in a supercar, but you're pointing out what I already said, that a "practical" supercar is oxymoronic. If practicality doesn't matter to you, the fact that an F50 cost half as much, also doesn't matter.
I have read various articles on the Enzo. I have the R&T article you're talking about. I'll chalk your post's insulting innuendo that I don't read shit before establishing an opinion, as an unintentional insult on your part.
What I was pointing out was that the McLaren makes more concessions to try and be more practical (as silly as that is), and that the Enzo was being compared to a car that's over 10 years old already. That, in itself, is pretty amazing to me.
Here's the info I pulled :
F50 / McLaren
Price: $480,000 / something like $1.2 million
Engine: 4699cc / 6064cc
513bhp @ 8500RPM / 627bhp @ 7400RPM
347ft-lbs @ 6500RPM / 479ft-lbs @ 4000RPM
Curb
Weight: 2710lbs / 2840lbs
Top
Speed: 203mph / 231mph
0-30: 1.8 secs / 1.7 secs
0-60: 3.6 secs / 3.4 secs
1-100: 8.0 secs / 7.7 secs
1/4 mile: 12.1 secs / 11.6 secs
Source:
http://www-atdp.berkeley.edu/9931/dfan/f50specs.html
http://www-atdp.berkeley.edu/9931/dfan/f1specs.html
(Obviously, the numbers will differ, depending on where you go and how hard you look, but that's what I found with a 5 second search on Google)
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Based on those numbers, the McLaren is faster, and significantly so in the 1/4 mile, which is one of the things people use to compare a car's performance levels. I didn't find any back to back testing on a track though,which in my opinion is very important also. Whatever the case, in the end, whether either car is .2 seconds faster than the other may or may not play a part in someone's overall decision as to which car is better.
I've never driven either car. I think I'd be pretty safe in guessing that you've never driven an F50 or McLaren and that your opinion is also based on what you've read and heard (if I'm wrong, I stand corrected and you're definately luckier than I am). So in the end, you've convinced me of nothing other than the fact that you lack tact, you don't read well or your reading comprehension skills are challenged with even the simplest of writings, you're insulting (although possibly inadvertent insults) and that you're arrogant enough to tell someone that their own personal opinion is wrong. Go fukk yourself. :fist:
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