Quote Originally Posted by lightspeed
This is pretty funny actually. Now, Mr German Car is trying to dump on Mercedes in favor of a Ford? Yeah, that SLR is really a piece of shit...Engineered and assebled by McLaren , with a 600+ HP, hand-built AMG engine and a carbon-fiber chassis and body...Whew...Sounds like junk to me.
Go ahead and buy a Ford GT... Then every time you go out into the garage, you can feel reassured by the fact that you just paid $170k for a FORD.
HMMM... AMG/McLaren...Ford. AMG/Mclaren....Ford.
You might was well buy a corvette z06 and save $100k more... Its as good of a performance car as the GT.
Yes, well, when certain cars are way out my price range..............

I never said the SLR was a piece of shit, but there are too many cars that outperform it in it's category, some of which are from Detroit. No denial on my part. Yes, I'm partial to some German cars, but not all of them.

McLaren? The only REAL McLaren was the F1.
The reason I brought up the Ford GT (and you mentioned the Z06, another great car) was that the SLR is simply sub-par in terms of performance in this category of supercars.

The Ford GT IS a supercar. Yes, it's a Ford, but still.

If I had the $ for a SLR, I would MUCH rather buy a Carrera GT. It's FAR superior in every way.

Or 1 Ford GT and 1 Z06 and 1 997 GT3 and 1 RS4 AND still have a little $ left over to modify all 4 cars.

Even though I can't afford them, I already know what I would buy if/when I can afford them.