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Which IDIOT in their right mind would buy a CGT or a 360M, or a Zonda or a GT2 to track it?
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IN THE REAL WORLD, cars like this ARE bought to show off and make the owner feel good that they can afford such cars, not what time it can lap the nurburgring or whether they can drive like Schumacher to subtract the best possible performance out of their CGT.
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And if you say that was to show the handling ability of the car then you must be a very careless guy, who intends to TRACK his CGT. Why didn't they let owners take the cars out onto the road, I'm curious...
Wow, Bilal, I barely know where to start!
You and Nick should form a tag team!
Nick thinks that I, and other mortal drivers, won't be able to extract the CGT's potential. Since he eschews driving to the limit on public roads, one must assume he means on the track. Now you attack from the other flank, saying only idiots would take such a vehicle to a race track to exercise it. You guys are quite a pair!
The real world that you claim to inhabit must have tons more show-offs than the one I know about. My real world is populated by fellows (and gals) that have
earned their own way to be able to afford these cars.
A CGT (or SLR, Zonda, Enzo, etc.) can be appreciated from a number of angles by each respective owner. Some may like to own a superlative piece of engineered art in metallic form just for the pure love of the artistic content, and may never drive it. Surely you wouldn't ridicule the owner of a Michelangelo just because he enjoyed being near it, would you?
Others enjoy the driving dynamics of a car that can lap the Nordschleife in seven and a half minutes. Why? Because they know (I mean
really know) what it takes to get the job done without ever having driven the car in question. This level of street-car dynamic perfection is romantic in its own way. The only safe way to approach this level of performance is at the track (or at least a closed course). Are you advocating street driving at this level?
It is axiomatic that objects are worth whatever freely consenting parties are willing to exchange for them. Perhaps your perception of value is colored by your inability to participate in the exchange at hand. Sour grapes?
Your condescention towards CGT buyers who want to enjoy their cars in the way they see fit, and your insistance that any super-car customer is a show-off, doesn't become one who fancies himself a "car guy".
Give it a rest!