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Here are a couple of photos from the Singapore Motorshow 2008.
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"Mark: Its pretty impressive that you've got the car in here today as well. Thats good.Jeremy: I don't think its a real one. I think its one of those fake ones that businessmen buy to put in their offices when you're finished with it, isn't it?
Mark: I think you're right. Yeah.
Jeremy: Yeah, I don't think you'll win... Mind you, probably faster than your one this year.
Mark: Oei..."
- Jeremy Clarkson and Mark Webber in "Top Gear" Season 6 Episode 10
"They design all this. Everything on it is all fluid and they go and put this vertical windscreen on.Thats whats slowing you down, mate. Seriously."
- Jeremy Clarkson interviewing Jenson Button in "Top Gear" Season 8 Episode 8
This is an amphibious car by RinSpeed. According to the video at the exhibition, it can actually travel underwater. It has an electric motor, so it doesn't really go all that fast. :p
"Its hard to say how much power the GTR develops, because each engine - as i said last week - is hand-built, and each one is therefore a little bit different.But i think they put a million horsepower in this one because the acceleration is just... blistering!
Its just... savage! God, its face-ripping!
With the launch control engaged, I did 0-60 (mph) in 3.5 seconds, and flat out, its even more impressive."
- Jeremy Clarkson in "Top Gear" Season 11 Episode 5
"With a 0-60 (mph) time of 4.3 seconds and a top speed of 192 (mph), the Gallardo blitz the Porsche and the Aston. And with a 100 breakhorse power more than you get in a Ferrari 360, it nukes that too."- Jeremy Clarkson in "Top Gear" Season 3 Episode 4
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All in all, its disappointing to say the least. Mostly because there aren't any european cars in it. Cars like Ferrari, Lamborghini, Audi and Volkswagon were all absent.
And because of that, the motor girls were all posing alongside with unglamorous family saloons and seven-seaters.
And the worse bit?
You have to pay for admission. (-.-)
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2 comments:
I actually think the Singapore Motorshow is rather crap and I really wouldn't pay for it. Oh well, at least you got to see the grils right?
Yeah, i wasn't quite willing to pay for it too. But its just a couple of bucks, so i thought i might give it a shot.
The girls weren't posing with glamorous cars, and that was a severe disappointment. Sigh... :p
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