Evo car of the decade - Vote for Trophy!
That's good to see, I forgot to vote for a couple of days. To really make the trophy win we need to make sure no other renaultsports get into the final so the trophy gets a chance to get all the renaultsport votes. It should add about an extra £1.27 onto the value of all our cars then.
Its got my vote
Me too!!
And me. The Vauxhall Forums must be busy voting to get that where it is. Surely people can't be voting and thinking it's the car of the decade, it's a rebadged Lotus, hardly revolutionary. I think out of those the GT-R should really be the winner, but I've got to be loyal to the beast on the drive.
voted trophy 
F50? that was a 90's car wasn't it, surely not in the noughties....
These polls always amaze me as the people who vote have never driven all the cars available and go on what the mags say.
The Nissan is good, but let's face it without Europe and most prominently the UK it would have never happened, and if you don't already know, here's why;
Renault own Nissan, Carlos Goshn is the CEO of both, and he had to let the project run at a time when Nissan products were apart from 350Z poor and yet had little money for development.
The engine was designed in Northampton by Mahle Powertrain (formerly Cosworth Technology), the gearbox in Leamington Spa by Ricardo, the aerodynamics and suspension in Norfolk by Lotus because the Japs couldn't build such a car, so if voting remember if it was not for a very dedicated bunch of British engineers it would have never been built.
The Nissan is good, but let's face it without Europe and most prominently the UK it would have never happened, and if you don't already know, here's why;
Renault own Nissan, Carlos Goshn is the CEO of both, and he had to let the project run at a time when Nissan products were apart from 350Z poor and yet had little money for development.
The engine was designed in Northampton by Mahle Powertrain (formerly Cosworth Technology), the gearbox in Leamington Spa by Ricardo, the aerodynamics and suspension in Norfolk by Lotus because the Japs couldn't build such a car, so if voting remember if it was not for a very dedicated bunch of British engineers it would have never been built.
^^^ Good to see British engineering still pulling out the stops!
Sorry guys, I was looking at the 10 great drivers cars..!
http://www.evo.co.uk/features/features/ ... _cars.html
Just too many EVO polls, still 7th pretty damn good.
http://www.evo.co.uk/features/features/ ... _cars.html
Just too many EVO polls, still 7th pretty damn good.
j333evo said:
Exactly, if you haven't driven the car for a lengthy period then theres no way you can judge a car based on what so called "experts" views. What has the nissan being owned by the french and partly designed in the uk got to do with any? lol
[quote="mada88]Exactly, if you haven't driven the car for a lengthy period then theres no way you can judge a car based on what so called "experts" views. What has the nissan being owned by the french and partly designed in the uk got to do with any? lol[/quote]
What it has to do with it is this.
Many folk, especially those who like/drive Japanese cars and only drive Jap cars believe it's because they are the best, they are engineered better than anything else and only the Japs could have come up with the GTR.
For me, well I know one of the main engineers who did the work on getting his 3 GTR engines through long term durability testing and all his engines made more than Nissan quote on passing these tests. This was all done long before the car broke cover. So I have a personal interest.
And define partly designed?
Without the engine and gearbox combination it would not move, never mind accelerate like it does, without the chassis and wind tunnel expertise it would not corner/handle and the have high speed stability that it does,and are these not the things that make it stand out because its not the way it looks, so I would say hardly partly designed
In many ways I think we overlook how good the engineering talent is in the UK when it should be so obviuos when we build most of the F1 cars and in fact even lots of US Champ/Cart cars as wel as BTTC/WTTC cars etc etc
What it has to do with it is this.
Many folk, especially those who like/drive Japanese cars and only drive Jap cars believe it's because they are the best, they are engineered better than anything else and only the Japs could have come up with the GTR.
For me, well I know one of the main engineers who did the work on getting his 3 GTR engines through long term durability testing and all his engines made more than Nissan quote on passing these tests. This was all done long before the car broke cover. So I have a personal interest.
And define partly designed?
Without the engine and gearbox combination it would not move, never mind accelerate like it does, without the chassis and wind tunnel expertise it would not corner/handle and the have high speed stability that it does,and are these not the things that make it stand out because its not the way it looks, so I would say hardly partly designed
In many ways I think we overlook how good the engineering talent is in the UK when it should be so obviuos when we build most of the F1 cars and in fact even lots of US Champ/Cart cars as wel as BTTC/WTTC cars etc etc