This is the sexiest ever car, and is a fucking badboy!

The Aston Martin V12 Vanquish

With a maximum speed close to 200 mph the V12 Vanquish is powered by a 6.0 litre V12 460 horsepower Aston Martin engine. The six speed transmission is controlled through a Formula I style paddle gear change which permits gear changes to be completed in 250 milliseconds - less than the blink of an eye.

The new model employs space-age construction techniques including the extensive use of extruded aluminium, carbon fibre and composite materials.

It will accelerate to 60 mph in under 5 seconds and 100 mph in less than 10 seconds.

Check out the specs on The Aston Martin Website.

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Originally posted by FeNiX:
i want a lotus plan and simple exiage elise espirit all r good to me

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More english cars!
For top of the line only-afford-em-if-yer-stinkin-rich cars we make the best!

@2-d everyone else drives on the different side of the road, apart from New Zealand who also drive on the left, which of course is right!

Rule Britannia!

I like the ride you posted Bronx. Is this car strickly for the movie or will the public be able to order one?

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Originally posted by KONAN:
I like the ride you posted Bronx. Is this car strickly for the movie or will the public be able to order one?

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Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso

Ferrari 575M Maranello
^^^^ Man i'll drool over that car!

when i get the money, i'm going to buy a red Ferrari 250 Dino

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Originally posted by Shagi_Tresty:

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Originally posted by Bronx:

which of course is right!

[ June 07, 2002: Message edited by: Bronx ]

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Yes, the best side of the road to drive on is the right side. It makes perfect sense. Most everyone on the Earth is right handed... at least in the United States that is true. Makes perfect sense to drive on the right side of the road, which is the right way

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Originally posted by Shagi_Fighter:
Yes, the best side of the road to drive on is the right side. It makes perfect sense. Most everyone on the Earth is right handed... at least in the United States that is true. Makes perfect sense to drive on the right side of the road, which is the right way

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Most are right handed, which is why it makes sence to operate the gearstick and handbrake etc with your left, keeping your more dominant hand on the wheel.

I prefer using my dominant right hand for stuff like drinking my pop and stuff because I know my right hand will be better able to handle stuff like that. It doesn't take much to turn the wheel with just your left hand.

Doesn't most the world drive on the right hand side of the world though? Why be one of the few countries to drive on the left? Is there a reason?

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This strange quirk perplexes the rest of the world; however, there is a perfectly good reason.

Up to the late 1700's, everybody travelled on the left side of the road because it's the sensible option for feudal, violent societies of mostly right-handed people.

Jousting knights with their lances under their right arm naturally passed on each other's right, and if you passed a stranger on the road you walked on the left to ensure that your protective sword arm was between yourself and him.

Revolutionary France, however, overturned this practice as part of its sweeping social rethink. A change was carried out all over continental Europe by Napoleon.The reason it changed under Napoleon was because he was left handed his armies had to march on the right so he could keep his sword arm between him and any opponent.

From then on, any part of the world which was at some time part of the British Empire was thus left hand and any part colonised by the French was right hand.

In America, the French colonised the southern states (Louisiana for instance) and the Canadian east coast (Quebec). The Dutch colonised New York (or New Amsterdam). The Spanish and Portugese colonised the southern Americas. So The British were a minority in shaping the 'traffic'.

The drive-on-the-right policy was adopted by the USA, which was anxious to cast off all remaining links with its British colonial past

Once America drove on the right, left-side driving was ultimately doomed. If you wanted a good reliable vehicle, you bought American, for a period they only manufactured right-hand-drive cars.

From then on many countries changed out of necessity.

Today, the EC would like Britain to fall into line with the rest of Europe, but this is no longer possible. It would cost billions of pounds to change everything round.
The last European country to convert to driving on the right was Sweden in 1967. While everyone was getting used to the new system, they paid more attention and took more care, resulting in a reduction of the number of road accident casualties.