Lamborghini Is Forging Ahead with Forged Carbon Fiber

Re:Lamborghini Is Forging Ahead with Forged Carbon Fiber by arcanus on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @09:11PM (#11958251)

See that's my point: you can buy a track car for a fraction of the price that is objectively more bleeding edge. The track car has faster lap times, which is the reason one is buying the car. You can argue it's the fastest car that also has an air conditioning unit, I suppose.

Hell, I saw someone running a '94 F1 open-wheel car around COTA last month. He said he purchased it for less than 100k. No supercars would come close to those track times. Probably more fun to drive, as well.

Make no mistake, F1 and automotive racing is high tech goodness. Supercars are just overpriced.

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Re:Lamborghini Is Forging Ahead with Forged Carbon Fiber by rconti on Thursday June 23, 2016 @01:48AM (#11959097)

How many track days can he run with his F1 car before he needs the engine to be rebuilt from parts that no longer exist?

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Re:Lamborghini Is Forging Ahead with Forged Carbon Fiber by lgas on Thursday June 23, 2016 @12:21AM (#11958832)

What makes you think that people only buy cars for one reason at a time?

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Re:Lamborghini Is Forging Ahead with Forged Carbon Fiber by yardie on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @09:32PM (#11958322)

At least in the US, supercars are street legal (McLaren F1 being an exceptional exception) and the only way to do it is crash test. For every model you see on the street 3 had to be sacrificed.

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Re:Lamborghini Is Forging Ahead with Forged Carbon Fiber by gaadd33 on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @11:11PM (#11958623)

Not if you import it under the Show and Display act, then you only need to meet emissions requirements. Supposedly Bill Gates helped get the act passed so he could import his Porsche 959.

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