David Jenkins
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 12:30 PM |
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Yikes! The Venom GT has been announced...
A 1000-ish Kg Elise tub with a nearly 1200 BHP twin-turbo engine... 
PistonHeads
[Edited on 29/3/10 by David Jenkins]
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turbodisplay
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 12:34 PM |
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With that much power, with little weight 4wd would have been a sensible idea!
Darren
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skinned knuckles
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 12:56 PM |
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quick pause for change of underwear.......
me likey a lot
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speedyxjs
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 01:04 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by skinned knuckles
quick pause for change of underwear.......
me likey a lot
x2
Looks like a slightly oversized elise!
How long can i resist the temptation to drop a V8 in?
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eddie99
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 01:05 PM |
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Its been designed by a good english company as well so has nothing todo with henessey apart from they paid for it...
It'll be good! 
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MikeR
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 01:07 PM |
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and he supplies the engines.
curious how it will handle with the engine weight / longer body compared to the shorter elise / lighter engine.
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skinned knuckles
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 01:10 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeR
and he supplies the engines.
curious how it will handle with the engine weight / longer body compared to the shorter elise / lighter engine.
wouldn't really matter if it went round corners worse than the titanic, it'd have anything away on the straights
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smart51
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 01:15 PM |
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1000 lb ft. You can not put that much torque onto the ground using tyres. Not until you're in 7th gear at least. Surely there's nowhere
in the world that you could use that much power, except perhaps the nardo bowl.
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Miks15
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 01:17 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by speedyxjs
Looks like a slightly oversized elise!
Thats because it is! haha
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Peteff
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 02:40 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by turbodisplay
With that much power, with little weight 4wd would have been a sensible idea!
Darren
Stick another four wheels on it and drive them all and it's still not going to be anything like sensible
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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MakeEverything
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 03:10 PM |
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Love it.
Kindest Regards,
Richard.
...You can make it foolProof, but youll never make it Idiot Proof!...
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Steve Hignett
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 03:27 PM |
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I think the concept is good, and the power is cool, but I'd rather it had been done to look slightly different!
The Elise is such a good looking car, that to stretch one make it (IMO) look a little awkward?
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blakep82
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 03:48 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve Hignett
I think the concept is good, and the power is cool, but I'd rather it had been done to look slightly different!
The Elise is such a good looking car, that to stretch one make it (IMO) look a little awkward?
i think the elise has always been far too small, and to me makes it look wrong. fast cars should be big i think. with this stretched, i think it looks
a lot better
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russbost
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 03:55 PM |
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Yeah, but come on - £400k!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Liam
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 04:21 PM |
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Reminds me of this...
Looks too much like a breathed on Elise to be worth the £400K (!!). Well I suppose it is a breathed on Elise, so it really
isn't worth the £400K .
LOL at the 1200bhp version! Think smart51 has a point. I mean even an F1 car with sticky race tyres has to wait until the downforce builds up a bit
until it can use full throttle. This thing, loads more power, low revving torquey delivery, turbo kick, road tyres, naff all downforce... well
you're gonna have to be pretty good at using part throttle! (or drifting )
Liam
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Rod Ends
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 04:27 PM |
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There's strong smell of BS about this car.
Hennessey has a dubious reputation.
Wait and see. 
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dlatch
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 04:53 PM |
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completley mad idea what they thinking
i want one
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scootz
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 05:08 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by turbodisplay
With that much power, with little weight 4wd would have been a sensible idea!
Darren
Sensible?
It's Evolution Baby!
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flak monkey
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 05:24 PM |
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I like it....alot.... 
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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RK
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 05:28 PM |
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They wait til some sucker spends 400 k and then they build another one. Conceptually, it isn't much different than the original AC Cobra though
is it? Those things still can't go around corners, but it doesn't seem to bother anybody.
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speedyxjs
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 05:48 PM |
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I dont think 400k is all that much when you consider it is more powerful than the veyron which cost £1,000,000.
How long can i resist the temptation to drop a V8 in?
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BenB
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 06:48 PM |
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I like it. A hell of a lot. Now where can I get my hands on 400k......
Just watched the F1 BTW. I normally like Mark Webber but WTF was that Koala hugger doing?
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dazzx10r
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 06:48 PM |
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fu##in mad! I wonder how long it'll take me to save £400k....
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Liam
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 07:09 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by speedyxjs
I dont think 400k is all that much when you consider it is more powerful than the veyron which cost £1,000,000.
But the Veyron is a hell of a lot more than a 1000bhp engine. Now every man and his dog thinks you can stick a 1000+bhp engine in any old lump of
fiberglass and they've created a super-supercar deserving of a higher pricetag than your average lambo, zonda etc. Er, no.
At the end of the day this is a fettled elise with a GM crate engine with some bolt-on go-faster bits thrown in. Definately not worth anywhere near
£400K, though it is quite cool.
Liam
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Triton
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| posted on 29/3/10 at 09:24 PM |
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What a waste of time and effort, what's wrong with a pinto and screaming it within an inch of it's life and still being able to control
the car...perhaps I'm just too old but it's all playstation gone mad to me
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