What's the best-looking race car ever?

"saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars" (saabstory) 02/18/2015 at 02:43 • Filed to: None

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My vote goes to the BMW-Sauber F1.08. It just screams "technologically advanced".

pip bip - choose Corrour > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars 02/18/2015 at 02:47

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1984 Marlboro HDT VK Commodore Group C , finished Bathurst 1000 1-2 that year.

TheHondaBro > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars 02/18/2015 at 02:47

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I'm a TS020 fanboy, so here we go.

Dat livery.

TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars 02/18/2015 at 02:56

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Ive always loved the Mazda 787b

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars 02/18/2015 at 03:03

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Allard J2X-C would like a few words with you. It is clearly the best looking of its time (early 90s/group C) and one of the best of all time

Bluecold > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars 02/18/2015 at 03:09

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Talbot Lago T150C SS.

Yes, this was a racecar.

saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars > Bluecold 02/18/2015 at 03:21

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I saw one of those on my trip to France last summer!

kanadanmajava1 > Bluecold 02/18/2015 at 03:37

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That certain version is the best looking of of all dear drop coupes. The rest of similar Talbot Lagos had a grill in front of the headlights and that one seems to only one with exposed headlights. That is a good pick.

GhostZ > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars 02/18/2015 at 03:43

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I'm very partial to the brutal simplicity of the MP4/4.

Jobjoris > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars 02/18/2015 at 03:52

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this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata > GhostZ 02/18/2015 at 04:02

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Fuck, am I that guy now?

That's Mp4/5... you can tell by the airbox, which extends to the top of the roll hoop, as well as the much more aggressive exit ducting in the side pods. See here:

MP4/4 was even lower and leaner looking:

I can't decide which I like more. But between the two there's a definite contender for prettiest ever.

GhostZ > this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata 02/18/2015 at 04:05

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Oh man, you are totally that guy. It's the MP4/5 that I liked more because of that swooping airbox.

this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata > GhostZ 02/18/2015 at 04:09

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Shit, what am I doing with my life...

GhostZ > this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata 02/18/2015 at 04:15

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You've never seen my 4-5 paragraph FP posts correcting someone on car depreciation or engine efficiency, have you?

You're in good hands.

this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata > GhostZ 02/18/2015 at 04:22

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Good point, I keep forgetting Oppo is a magical oasis of constructive dialogue in the desert of endless uninformed digital food fights that is the internet.

Remember kids, never ever scroll down from a YouTube video. Not even once.

this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars 02/18/2015 at 04:29

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Impossible question. But I'll go with an obvious one, the glorious Stratos

and as for the street car, well, this vanity plate sums it up pretty well...

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars 02/18/2015 at 05:06

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It makes me cry

bryan40oop > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars 02/18/2015 at 07:49

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I love the bmw F1.08, but the best looking car is a porker

Clown Shoe Pilot > GhostZ 02/18/2015 at 08:04

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you're doing god's work trying to educate people on how engine efficiency works. just imagine how much better the world would be if everyone understood how energy works.

Clown Shoe Pilot > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars 02/18/2015 at 08:06

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Design inspiration for the F1.08

GhostZ > Clown Shoe Pilot 02/18/2015 at 08:29

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It bothers me how much basic chemistry/physics most people forget after high school.

davedave1111 > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars 02/18/2015 at 08:38

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The Bugatti T35. In fact, this T35:

Clown Shoe Pilot > GhostZ 02/18/2015 at 08:40

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You assume they took chemistry or physics in high school. Back when I was in high school, there were a bunch of options for science credit that would let you graduate without having to take chemistry or physics.

I was a band nerd in HS. I was also a science nerd. Last, I had what the band directors liked to call "an attitude problem". My senior year, the band had a particularly bad problem (from an extracurricular activity eligibility angle) with people doing poorly in chemistry, to the point that the directors were trawling the orchestra for chemistry tutors. Meanwhile, I was the only kid in band taking AP chemistry, and I was CRUSHING it, because I really liked the class and the teacher was fantastic. I was NEVER asked to tutor anyone, which was fine by me :)

There were a LOT of band kids that dropped chemistry and enrolled in something "easier" and now these people are all adults and a lot of them have have high school age kids now.

f86sabre > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars 02/18/2015 at 08:48

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The Auto Union Streamliners are things of beauty. Saw one at Goodwood a few years ago. Stunning to look at. Hand made.

The engines were amazing as well.

McMike > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars 02/18/2015 at 08:58

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Loved those Saubers. There were no bits more fiddly.

FlurpyTheUnicorn > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars 02/18/2015 at 09:03

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Jordan 191.

Tuned-Port-Injected-Rage > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars 02/18/2015 at 09:06

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GhostZ > Clown Shoe Pilot 02/18/2015 at 09:34

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Oh man, we share more in common than you think. They didn't have AP courses at my high school so I just took joint courses at the local community college, which counted for honors HS credit.

I really think the problem is that most of it is treated as just vocabulary and taught to the test, instead of like building tools to use later on in life. Worse yet, when it's taught that way, students lose interest because they can't see how it would ever apply to their daily lives.

ACESandEIGHTS > f86sabre 02/18/2015 at 11:33

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Never mind the car, how about that autodrome. Cobblestone and ridiculously high camber. They don't make them like that anymore.

lucky's pepper > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars 02/18/2015 at 11:53

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f86sabre > ACESandEIGHTS 02/18/2015 at 14:35

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and they were probably pushing 180 on that track.