Firstly i’d like to say I have love for all cars (especially sports cars) but do you ever feel we’re paying more for the brand/corporate marketing budget than actual performance?? There is a 911 (air cooled 3.2) in my garage as well so its not like i am biased (well a more of a slant to what i have built with my own two hands) either way. The Ultima Top Gear test debacle is a real indicator of the problem. For a good few years they have refused to compare it to the heavyweights (Ferrari, Porsche, Lambo etc) or the minnows (Pagani, Gumbert, etc) who keep the high £$£ cost performance ratio myth going. Now I know a good few people frown at kit cars due to lack of pedigree (How much pedigree does Pagani have apart from meeting Fangio, or Koenigsegg CCX (A swedish guy with no car background shoehorning rebuilt Ford V8 into a car and asking thru the nose for it). Whatever they say it doesn’t match with the Ultima. Designed by Lee Noble (Top Gear happily test his later Noble Car), Used as a test bed for the legendary Mc Claren F1 (I’m sure Ron Dennis and Gordon Murray wouldn’t have picked a crap car to test a legend) running gear/engine and a car with raw power. Now do you feel the big boys are scared of having their image shattered (like the Banzai runners did in 70s/80s california beating established sports cars with Can Am specials) by a Kit Car and have forced Top Gear not to run it (or they will veto the show) or Top Gears producers are ignorant? I’m not saying a car cannot be worth alot of money (i was always told anything i worth whatever someone will pay for it) but some over play the issue. What’s your take on it?
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