I don’t know about any of you but im really bored of seeing FWD cars mostly VW’s with hugely wide wheels on the back and smaller ones up front. Then a while ago I saw this;
It looks very silly but at the same time its just brlliant. Looks like a real life Hotwheels car, or even, if you remember, Carlos Fandango! It got me thinking about when I went to Santa Pod a month or so ago for the Retro Show and the day before it was Rotorstock, so all kind of silly fast Japanese machinery was running down the strip. Included in them were two very fast Honda Civics that were getting early 11′s and late 10′s consistently. I was stunned that something FWD could get enough grip to post times like that. Being a firm rear wheel drive fan it did make me look at shopping trolleys in a whole new light.
So I did some research today and found a whole load of FWD drag racers and they even have several pro FWD series. None of them look quite as mental as the Golf above, thats not to say they dont look mental, but they manage to get 15 inch wide wheels under actually arches! Here are some of my favourites I found
Of course i’m not going to forget videos, that would be criminal!
Everybody seems to be jumping on the Satin and Matte bandwagon these days, Lamborghini does it, and there have been quite a few Porsche’s and Ferrari’s floating around on the net sporting it. Now Gemballa have done it with one of there modified Porsche GT’s. I have to say it does look stunning, well except that awful interior!
That interior looks like the kind of gawdy furniture you find in an 80′s bedroom!
Personally I love anything satin and matte, always have done, always will (no matter how hated and ‘scene’ it becomes) and there’s something very excellent about very expensive cars being painted in a scheme my mum calls ‘cheap’.
With 670 bhp on tap and a top speed of 208, its probably a fair bit faster than most ‘shiny’ cars available, although I wonder if shinier paintwork creates less drag?!
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For anyone who has no idea what im talking about, Swdubs is a south west based dub forum run by a friend. its a very relaxed place and everyone is welcome, I dont even own a VW but I still post loads. The old forum had some hosting issues and everything was lost, its very gutting so hopefully everyone can join up again and make it better than it was before
