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Post by wilmywood8455 on Dec 23, 2020 10:27:25 GMT -8
We gathered eight legends from every corner of automotive history at Lime Rock Park to settle it: What's the greatest sports car ever made?
Curse our names at the fortune of it. The blind absurdity of these cars gathered together for two days of driving, 48 blissful hours on the edge of autumn at Lime Rock Park. Our own personal legends at our disposal, keys in hand. We invited the machines that made us. Icons that have defined Road & Track across the breadth of this magazine’s 73-year history to answer one impossible question: What is the Road & Track car?
From the November/December 2020 issue of Road & Track.
There aren’t words for it, but we’ll try anyhow. The sheer fantasy of them all. The sight of a genuine 289 Cobra lurking in its trailer. The heart-stuttering sound of a McLaren F1 firing to life a few feet away, as lethal as anything and proud of it. The impossible yellow of a 5000-mile Integra Type R lighting up pit lane like a beacon. Or the smell of a near-flawless E28 M5, the leather and the glue firing off memories of every 17-year-old back-road slide. And, Lord, the beauty. The gleam of an MG TC fender, perfect enough to check your teeth in. The flawless paint on a 911 S and the imperfect finish on Sam Posey’s personal 300SL. The sound of the playful Miata sliding its way around the track, full of glee. They turned us all into children, gawking and pointing and shouting at the unfathomable collection, never gathered before, and likely never again.
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Post by Carlo_Carrera on Dec 23, 2020 13:54:04 GMT -8
Most go gaga over the 427 Cobras but the real connoisseurs all go for the 289. The proper choice.
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Post by wilmywood8455 on Dec 23, 2020 14:35:37 GMT -8
Most go gaga over the 427 Cobras but the real connoisseurs all go for the 289. The proper choice. Yes, or the 289 Sunbeam Tiger. I knew a guy, Tom Patton, who had one in GT2 in SCCA. He may have won a Runoffs one year iirc.
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Post by sd787 on Feb 17, 2021 18:23:31 GMT -8
Porsche 959, Ferrari F40 and Lambo Countach were the standard bearers of supercars.
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Post by wilmywood8455 on Sept 26, 2021 1:02:27 GMT -8
1998 McLaren F1 LMThe Gordon Murray-designed McLaren F1 is considered by many, if not most, to be the greatest supercar ever built. The ranking remains even more than 20 years after the first one was built. But the LM specification is greater still, even among F1s. It makes 680 hp, up from 618 horsepower in the other F1s, and hits "only" 225 mph because its aerodynamic bodywork is aimed at greater downforce instead of straightline speed. It will be a joy to compare the performance of this icon with Murray's coming T.50. Can't wait.
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