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I got invited to a track day at Goodwood and given that the words "Ferrari", "Lambo" and "Veyron" were included in the conversation it would have been rude not to go for a nose round.

A great day, loads of expensive metal and a couple I had never heard of including a Spectre but really impressive stuff. I also managed to blag myself a pit lane pass and a 5 laps round the track in an RS4 so a day well spent!

Thank you to Phil & Neil of Washington Coachworks West Sussex for the invite.

The below is not all the cars, just a selection of my favourites.

Field.jpg

ferrariread.jpg

ferrariduo.jpg

blacklambo.jpg

Bentleyfront.jpg

backtoback.jpg

awesome.jpg

astons.jpg

zonda.jpg

yespls.jpg

spectre.jpg

lambo-1.jpg

Indigo.jpg

spyder2.jpg

merc.jpg

lotus.jpg

noble.jpg

lineup3.jpg

gt40.jpg

arse.jpg
 
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My first up close experience of a Veyron
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What do you do when your £1 Million pound car gets a flat tyre??

Well borrow the pump out of a old Mondeo of course. :D :D

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TruffleShuffle said:
Peter Saywell lives across in Arundel and has a mental obsession with supercars. He's even got specially made versions customised for him.
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the Pagani Zonda PS (Peter Seywell) is pictured above. Only one in the world as it was done as a one off job for him by horatio pagani.
 
Bentley super speed mmmmmmm lovely except those wheels.
 
I personally don't think the Supersports works very well in the white. Lord knows why they chose it as the launch colour when it looks infinitely more imposing in Black/dark graphite colour they do.

It's a very odd car though. They've tried to market it towards the type of people who'd walk into a Porsche dealership and ask for a GT2/GT3 but it hasn't really worked. It still weighs far too much to be considered a proper track toy, but seems a tad too raw to be a "proper" Bentley. It's not just a few design tweaks and slightly more powerful engine in this one, they have gone to town on most settings and you can feel it. I can only tell from passenger rides but it feels like a far different car to say a Speed which still feels like a Bentley. The supersports feels like it is on a constant mission to permanently relocate your kidneys be it through acceleration, braking or cornering, and the guy that was driving is far from aggressive behind the wheel!

Sitting in one with the leather and suede clad manual bucket seats is an odd experience. It's comfortable and yet very slightly uncomfortable at the very same time. Put it this way I could not see myself touring the continent in those seats, and that is what I imagine 99.9% of our customers want to do with their cars.

I'd absoultely love one, but I imagine that the type of people who actually have the money to spend have different tastes to me. Going by what I see in the workshop for PDIs they haven't sold loads, and the majority of those cars that we do get seem to have the full interior plus normal seats specified.
 
My god all that money on a Veyron and he's put ***** black/badly spaced plates on that you'd expect to see on a 10 year old Saxo. ;)
 
Joshy said:
I personally don't think the Supersports works very well in the white. Lord knows why they chose it as the launch colour when it looks infinitely more imposing in Black/dark graphite colour they do.

It's a very odd car though. They've tried to market it towards the type of people who'd walk into a Porsche dealership and ask for a GT2/GT3 but it hasn't really worked. It still weighs far too much to be considered a proper track toy, but seems a tad too raw to be a "proper" Bentley. It's not just a few design tweaks and slightly more powerful engine in this one, they have gone to town on most settings and you can feel it. I can only tell from passenger rides but it feels like a far different car to say a Speed which still feels like a Bentley. The supersports feels like it is on a constant mission to permanently relocate your kidneys be it through acceleration, braking or cornering, and the guy that was driving is far from aggressive behind the wheel!

Sitting in one with the leather and suede clad manual bucket seats is an odd experience. It's comfortable and yet very slightly uncomfortable at the very same time. Put it this way I could not see myself touring the continent in those seats, and that is what I imagine 99.9% of our customers want to do with their cars.

I'd absoultely love one, but I imagine that the type of people who actually have the money to spend have different tastes to me. Going by what I see in the workshop for PDIs they haven't sold loads, and the majority of those cars that we do get seem to have the full interior plus normal seats specified.
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Yea i cant see the point of a 2 seater version, with them rubbish seats but the rest of it with normal colour wheels i think looks great, i love them bonnet vents.

I wonder how much they are, the vents nom nom nom mmmmm
 
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