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    Quote Originally Posted by Coventrysucks
    Don't go at the weekend?

    Friday it was almost empty.



    You don't want a SEAT or Bentley?

    VAG aren't trying to sell cars, they are selling cars.
    friday - school

    what I meant was that unlike whoever put jean alesis dtm car and a mclaren f1 weren't trying to sell them, but VAG (except Seat and Bentley) are, and I'm syure having a stand helps, without them it felt a tad... empty

    And I wish that they wouldn't let the kids touch the car, one days worth of little hands has left the finish above the door ruined and the door trim above is hanging off on a poor elise

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    I like the fact that they put an SLR next to the McLaren - it's like a mobile fanboy detector.

    Anyone who isn't staring at the F1 LM is clearly a Skyline boy!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Coventrysucks

    VAG aren't trying to sell cars, they are selling cars.
    What are the blue and black cars behind the McLarens (not the CLK-DTM)? The blue one looks like a Panoz.
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    Quote Originally Posted by F1_Master
    What are the blue and black cars behind the McLarens (not the CLK-DTM)? The blue one looks like a Panoz.
    Blue - Bristol Beaufighter
    Black - MB CLK 63 AMG

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    Good pics, Coventrysucks.Drove 4 hours sat morn just to see the LM.Last saw it at Goodwood 1996.It was worth the wait,could have sat looking at it for hours.Have been a Mac fan since 95.Just joined forum to share my passion with others.

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    welcome to UCP, LARK 60... and very nice avatar.

    and alot of people on here are McLaren fans, so you'll fit right in!
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    Mclaren fever

    Thanks Equinox,unfortunatly i have never seen the lark liveryed model ,but it looks great.I can never decide which was my favourite race colours,most looked good.
    I have been amazed by people knowledge about the F1,especially Peloton25.I thought i knew a bit,but nothing compared to him !
    The Mclarens popularity is amazing how it has gone up over the years.Price's of memorabilia & models on E-bay have rocketed.
    I first saw them race at Donington in 1995,and have usually managed to see one each year since then at some show.Got a decent collection of photo's,models,programmes,press packs etc. Funds allways limit how far you can go.
    Last year called at a garage in UK who had a Ferrari F50gt & a orange GTR next to each other.What a sight.Obviously it was not something you see every day.It was a shame the salesman would not let me photograph them!!!.

    Look forward to more Mclaren talk

    All the best

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    yeah sounds good... to bad about not getting the pics, i would have loved to see them!

    and yeah the poulatrity of McLaren has exploded... i remember people would ask me what my favorite car was and i said McLaren and most people would say... "whats that", now everyone knows about the car and company!
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    Hey Mr. Kipling, who do you work for and how did you break into automotive jurnalism (which I assume is what you do)? I'm working as a reporter for an understaffed medium-sized daily newspaper here in pig-fuk'd Arkansas, but I really need to be writing for a car magazine. I've heard that it's one of the hardest divisions of journalism to crack into...
    But I've got moxy and spunk and lots of American sass, so I'm sure that somethign will work out.

    Anyway, the Briston Blenheim is my new favorite car in the whole world. It's the perfect "trans-continental express" for gentlemen of refined taste with a keen sense of melancholie wistfulness for the days of the Berlin Wall.
    I understand that when you turn the key in a Blenheim, an eerily glowing mist fills the cabin and the voice of William Hurt bellows powerfully "THOOUUSANDS OF YEEAARS AGOOUGH, AAALL THAT YOU SEE BELONGED... ... ... TOTHEDRUIDS!," accompanied by nightmarish flugelhorn and pipe organ music.
    Then the engine may or may not start, depending on the fancy of the ghost of Queen Victoria, who personally haunts each and every Blenheim for the first 60,000 miles (extendable to 100,000 for a few hundred thousand pounds).
    I hope they go on making Blenheims for another 30 years, and I'm being very serious. As far as I can tell, they're still the only purveyor of genuine British luxury cars.
    That Connaugh (or however it's spelled) is very interesting too, with its tiny V-10, and I love the styling. It looks a bit like a new-age Mk 1 Escort.
    Cheers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LandQuail
    I'm working as a reporter for an understaffed medium-sized daily newspaper here in pig-fuk'd Arkansas, but I really need to be writing for a car magazine.
    Here's something you can do to fill your day:

    Whenever one of your collegues writes anything in "USNewsspeak", break one of their fingers.

    Endemic example of USNewsspeak: "...bit her dog Sunday...".

    Interesting name for a dog, however I wonder if they mean "...bit her dog on Sunday..."?

    All these news stories from small/medium/large news sites I get linked too on Fark are almost always written in this useless gibberish. It makes no sense, they might as well be writing it in French.

    As for becoming an auto journalist - have you done any writing about cars?

    Does your current employer have an automotive section?

    If yes, ask if you can write anything for them.

    If no, suggest they do, and ask if you can write anything for them.

    Quote Originally Posted by LandQuail
    That Connaugh (or however it's spelled) is very interesting too, with its tiny V-10, and I love the styling. It looks a bit like a new-age Mk 1 Escort.
    Cheers.
    IMHO it looks awful, but nice to see it turned up to this event with an interior
    Thanks for all the fish

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    That's not U.S. Newsspeak (though that's a good name for it.) That's Associated Press (AP) style, and it's the norm throughout the journalistic world, except in England where English still survives in isolation.
    I've written an article about hybrid in which I snuck in a few "test drive" paragraphs from driving a Toyota Prius, and somehow I got paid to compete in a SCCA Autocross (and won my class). But I didn't get to put much "thrill of driving" into it.
    The big story I'm putting together this week is a roundabout's impending construction on one of my town's busyest roads. People here in Arkansas seem to have roundabouts confused with crop circles, are ****ing terrified and furious. It's really amazing. One random citizen I enterviewed said "I've gone through two of those damn things. One in Missouri and the other in Kansas, and I almost got killed both times..." Crazy old hag.
    People here are actually so stupid that they think a roundabout is much more dangerous than a 4-way stoplight.
    Maybe I'll change somebody's mind. I've been working all week compiling fifteen different kinds of shit about how much safer, more efficient, looking good on charts and graphs and pie-slices and every other ****ing argument for them, but it will do no good. Even some of my fellow reporters in the news room are terrified of roundabouts (increasingly referred to as "roundy-rounds" in this town.)

    This is what H.L. Mencken called "The Sahara of the Bozart." read it and understand my pain: an honest hillbilly living among rednecks.
    Anyway, the paper's too small to break itself into specialized markets, and Americans, for the most part, know ****-all about cars, and don't care to learn. That's why most of our car magazines suck; they're all sizzle and no steak, sort of like Top Gear. But the paper's going through some changes and the fat chick that sits across from me is doing movie reviews. Maybe I could propose a monthly car review. Intriguingly, the local Ford dealership somehow has a GT... Ideally, I'd get hired onto Evo or Octane, as they seem to have the most integrity of any car magazine I've come across.
    Squawk.

    This is a picture of a meeting of the Conway, Arkansas, City Council last week, halfway through debating new recycling measures and firing the police chief.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LandQuail
    People here are actually so stupid that they think a roundabout is much more dangerous than a 4-way stoplight.
    send them over for a weeks training in Milton Keynes
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    They'd never make it. It'd be like "The Beverly Hillbillies" if Rob Zombie and Charles Dickens worked together to write the script.

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    I really like the yellow one.. How fast is it and how much does it go for?

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