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  • my dad's boss at work has like 3 porsches and gave us a convertable 911 for 24,000$

  • Add a huge wing and aero package to the ZR-1, then compare it to the ACR. The ACR is a baddass car, but let's compare apples to apples.

  • I think of BMW as a luxury auto company, like mercedes and jaguar. All three companies make fast cars that handle great, but I wouldn't say the companies make purely sport cars or super cars. A sports car company ( in my opinion ) is more like Porsche, Ferrari, and Lamborghini. I own a 02 BMW M5, and I'm not sure I like how BMW has focused their attention. The newer M5 model has sucked for the past 7 years, though the new one should make up for that. And the M3 is no longer worth the money.

  • no body has any money for these fucking cars.. cuz all the jobs are fucked here in america thanks to the fucking trerrorist government

  • i do agree with you that toyota should be left alone, but i think the only reason i would like to see a 500 hp hhr would be because of the 500 hp...personal preferance but that is just not the thing i would like to see injected with steroids...bring back the del sol or even pump up the crossfire...i know its not in the crossover section, but honestly if you want a fast crossover either buy the bmw or porsche version or just throw a hundred shot on your (fill in the blank)

  • personally i'm not a fan of porsche's :P

    but a BMW sure.

    i just hate it when ppl say shit to chrysler n chevy n toyota cuz they're not super car companies like lotus n BMW, cuz they make what the economy can afford n ppl pick on em all day but its pointless. the cars aren't made for em so just move over em.

    n idk bout the HHR, i hate the interior cuz its really inconvenient where everything is, but i wouldn't mind owning one.

  • supraz+skylines(mods of course) are best

    thats finalll

    .

  • how about everyone stop talking about any company capable of making millions of dollars a year doing what they do. they must be doing something right.

  • good point

  • SUV has become a bad word. the BMW X5 is one of the best cars you can get these days no matter how much money you want to spend. The reason why SUVs got a bad name is the recent state of the US car business. silly useless dinosaurs like Yukon, Tahoe and such gas guzzling monstrosities. They dont handle offroad, they dont go fast and arent strong. They are just big and outdated. They cant really be compared to the likes of BMW X5, Volvo XC90 or even Porsche Cayenne. These are all great cars.

  • Mike Spinelli reminds me of "Captain Slow".... James May

  • maybe it is his lost son ;) rofl.

  • BMW is doing this for the Dubai market where money flows and 1000hp patrol's are rampant.

  • in case you are wondering, it was some some guy from holland that drove the zr1 at the ring. he's a profesional gt racing series driver, and his name is something like coronel or somethin like that

  • Tom Coronel

  • The 7:26.4 time was done by a GM engineer, Jim Mero.

  • lets put a big wing on the corvette and make it a race car thats what the viper is isnt a fair race

  • WTF¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ 4 SEC??

  • you know what, i think theres nothing more boring than listening to two people talking with hardly any emotions and a video with no car video.

    What is the point of this video?

  • my question is really for all auto makers. i recently watched the video on the volt and the host said that they had to go into the wind tunnel to get the volt to be able to actually do the 40mile range i believe the host said that they dont really need to do that for a full gas car because it will just use more gas. maybe i miss intermediated that but it sounded like they dont care about gas consumption. it brought me to the quistion why are we advertising fuel efiiciant engines and not fuel....

  • efficient aerodynamics. from my stand point aerodynamics made the viper faster and Honda offers a package on the s2k that has "improved areo". I think it make more sense to make the car perform better WHILE using less or just as much fuel to move it. the flex is supposedly decent mileage on the highway because of simple things like a closed front grill. and Honda's have a closed grill on all of their cars. less make things less complicated. is it harder to make a grill or an engine.....

  • I agree with you Phara, the P11 didn't do much for me either... Looked just like the "avereage" supercar.

  • Saying an "average supercar" sound like an oxymoron lol

  • yes it does, indeed. What I meant is almost all modern day supercars look like the P11... I think that the P11 has traces of Porsche Carrera GT...

  • stick better tiers and a wing on a ZR1 and see what happens

  • stick a better driver who doesnt hit the rev limiter and misshift in the acr.

  • Bertone took over the Fiat X1/9 and Pinninfarina took over the 124 Spider.

  • The viper might be the fastest american car around the ring but it certainly isnt the fastest car around the ring the ultima gtr made in leicestershire uk has lapped the ring in under 7 mins thanks to 720bhp chevy engine and less than 1000kgs 0-100-0mph in 9.4 awesome.

  • it is the fastest production car around the ring.

  • Sorry but your wrong please search radical sr8it lapped the ring in 6:55 this is a road legal car available to purchase and drive away on the road today the viper is a mighty machine but it cant compete with incredible cars like the ultima or radical,everyone knows that the uk builds the fastest cars on the planet half the F1 grid is built within 1 hr of my house and silverstone track is across the road from me so ive seen most of these cars first hand, big respect to the viper though.

  • for one we are talking full bodied cars which the sr8 is far from. plus the ring record that they are talking about is for production cars aka mass produced shure you can get a sr8 upon request but the fact is they do not produce enough units per year to be considered production. and the ultima gtr is a kit car.

  • Didn't realise that ring records could only be set by mass market producers in which case i'm not interested in tiny niche market manufacturers anymore.Please they are both road legal cars that in my book makes them eligable the gtr is available as a kit but also factory built, the other car i hav'nt mentioned is the caparo T1 i hav'nt heard about any laps at ring yet but it got within 10 secs or so of Renault F1 around the BBC Top Gear track so that should do well,nice chatting to you

  • well the sr8 holds the record just not the production record that is what the acr is compeating for.

  • UK builds fastet cars, i dont know i like british cars but i mean i dont think any country could ay that,----- USA, GERMANY, ITALY, EXT.

  • Exactly, and thats why two of the top three fastest street cars in the world are american, and the one to become to the fastest car in the world is german, and the fourth fastest car in the world is Canadian. That is definitely what makes UK produce the fastest cars.

  • BMW are struggling in europe with the M3 the standard car is already £50k this places it firmly in the junior supercar arena going forward with the csl would push it right into the 911/maserati/even aston martin market where it could'nt compete in the prestige stakes, be honest who would buy a bm over an aston V8 even if it was better

  • Matt's face at 7:27... EPIC XD

  • One question to all car maker. Why is there not a circle plate and a ball place under every car seat now. So when a seater get hit from the left side the ball will rotate clock wise and not feel the G force or impact of the accident. How many lives would been saved. It shows how much work they are doing over there testing dummies. I thought of this since 1996. Well I give it out for yah amateur car maker. Please work on it. Pity to all car maker until today on record. Universe technique

  • whatever the viper is modified if you modify the zr1 with a huge adjustable wing and adjustable suspension and put a good driver on the ring and im sure it would slaughter the viper

  • joya !

  • gossip..

  • A Porsche 996 GT2 laptime was 7:15:63

  • "The viper is the fastest production car in the world"???? Since when is America equal to the world... Get the facts straight, the Bugatti Veyron is the fastest production car in the world (not my favorite, but hey)

  • lol..nice but get ur facts straight.. the scc ultimate aero is the fastest car.. not the bugatti ^_^...bugatti is the most expensive car

  • No it's not. There's a maybach which costs 8 mil I believe.

  • wow.... i think u should do reasearch before u go blabber..cuz the maybach isnt even priced at 500,000 ...not to mention the bugattis is a cool 2 mill or so..

  • gregzy, i think you should shut up and lay off the smartass replies... there actually IS an $8 mil maybach called the Exelero (~8mil after taxes lol). so Sursion is correct.

    the maybach you're thinking of is another model; there isn't only 1 model. so don't go judging other people when you can't even get your own fact straight you dumbass

  • do not be stupid please... there is an 11 million dollar buggatti... the buggatti type 41.. WHICH is more ecpensive than that monstrosity maybach.. also .. .the maybach and the buggatti i just said doesnt count in this cuz its one-of a kind. ...so its not included in the list.. DO not b dumb please..

  • yeah the royale or whatever. right? yeah i kno that its the most expensive

    but dude i was talking about the maybach and its price and the fact that it is model that went for 8 mil right after production

  • perhaps you should do some research yourself about the fastest production car in the world because the Bugatti Veyron is not the fastest production car anymore.

  • uh no its the ultimate aero tt

    made by americans

  • i wanna see a prius win a race?

  • HAHA!

    that would be Funny if it ever won a GT race or something hahaha xD

  • Do these guys have anything past a GED/HS level of education?

    NO ONE with money and more than half a neuron buys scrap like Z06's/ZR1's/Vipers/Bullet's/Ch­arger's ad nasuem

    When a Ferrari/Viper/Corvette Muscle car can drive(and win) the Paris Dakar Rally, the 24 Hours of Lemans, drive the streets of NY and do it all over again, then you got some prop's. Even the McLaren F1 can't hold a candle to the greatest technologically advanced super-car devised by man...

  • If you all were actually interested in this, you would listen because you care about it.

  • It will be interesting to see what happens with McClarin

  • Spinelli. Lettin' the hair grow out!

  • fuck this stupid shit, i want CARS not two ugly men talking with each other

  • ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

    i have no time to watch it all!!!

  • its McLaren f1 right.

  • DUDE i WANT TO SEE HOT CARS NOT SOME TWO GUYS TALKING.

  • i think it would be funny if the driver for the ring was the stig from top gear you half to admit if you have seen him drive you know he has crazzy skills

  • The original stig was better. But the current Stig is ex F1/BTCC.

  • they didnt show any fukin cars!!

  • the mclaren f1 is the most beautiful car ever made ... why don't they just keep the same basic design but make it handle like a million dollars - it's got 2 m3 engines ... why not handle like one too - - - and why don't somebody tell the boys at RR that the phantom is ugly as all git out and do something about that too

  • and my ? is if ford got rid of its super car and now dodge is too who care about the track record of the acr the vett is still alive...

  • were i live i see at least 2-3 vipers aday their like the camry supercar

  • I would ask GM what the future of Corvette Racing is, GT2?

  • I have a donkey who rides fast enough!

  • check ou Thom Robertson

  • i have a 8 1/4 inch penis!

  • rascists are so stupid haha

  • i wasnt being rascists...haha

  • ...

    read your sentence one more time

  • wow the p11 was loking sweet i wonder what the new desingner is gonna make

  • I have pagani zonda

  • hmmm...for some reason, I seriously doubt that...

  • Boring

  • I HAVE SLR!

  • You Don't Have An SLR You Dumbass. You Have Six Videos That YOU Put On YouTube Yourself, Yet You Don't Have One Single Video Of Your "SLR". Plus You Can't Even Say A Correct Sentence. It's "I Have An SLR" Not "I Have SLR". So Stop Saying Shit That Isn't True.

  • ahhh, crashed a zr1. i little bit inside of me just died.

  • this car is fucking awsome

  • Bimmer should shelve some of these suv idea's; I'd love to see the csl, but if you toke the extra money they would charge for the csl and put some extra tuning into the car I doubt there'd be that big of a difference. Whatever they do I hope they don't scrap the cs concept I have a feeling they're just going to use some lines from that concept in the new 7 but I hope they make the whole car.

  • good job bmw your cars suck ass.

    i wish the viper would fold also not that impressive my uncle has one with 22,000 miles and the steering colum is all busted and the front end vibrates bad he took it to the dodge dealer and the only thing they do is replace the whole front end and steering cuz its shot funny thing is the dealer told him its a very common thing in then. 90,000bucks of junk,

    bottom line buy a vette. america real sports car.

  • Well, I guess that's why people like Dinan exists.. Get a stroker engine that'll put 550 horses in the new M3 : ) It's still a shame that BMW cancelled the CSL for performance SUVs. I see that they are trying to compete with Porsche and the AMG line though. The Cayenne is a big money maker for Porsche... *shrugs*

  • It doesn't suprise me at all that BMW wants to focus on the SUV segment. For some reason people STILL want SUVs, but they don't want to pay for gas-gulping american V8s that have low overall fit and finish and have maybe 350hp. American companies haven't figured out that people are going to pay more for high quality, i.e. BMW, Porche, Mercedes

  • "For some reason people STILL want SUVs, but they don't want to pay for gas-gulping american V8s"

    That is an ignorant comment. If you own an SUV (or any car that costs $30k+) "Gas Gulper" then $5 gas is a piss in the wind. Those aren't the people complaining about gas prices, the lower class is.

  • That's not my point. You can easily buy a 1-year-old full size SUV for less than $30k. Probably even less now. What I'm saying is there is still market demand for SUVs, although it's lessened recently. So someone shopping for a large vehicle for whatever reason isn't going to jump at the chance to buy one of the less efficient and lower quality American SUVs when they can afford a European or even an Asian models that beats them hands down.

  • well BMW cant use the MX5 name (remember Mazda's roadster?) but it still sucks that the CSL wont make it...

  • Um, I thought MCLAREN was the designer? Maybe I'm an idiot, but wasn't the McLaren F1 all headed up by his own design?

  • ничего не понимаю

  • bmw should make an M version of the 1 series. the hatchback though, not the one that looks like a smaller 3 series.

  • If you wanted a hatchback M why don't you just buy the 01' M coupe with the e46 engine that's a bad ass little car...

  • To the car manufacturer, I would want to know why do you produce a car, truck, or suv and say how good it is, get the best car of the year award, then put a 100,000 mile warranty on it and I just happen to use that warranty at around 2,000 miles, and again at 4,600 miles, then again at 12,000 miles then again at 15,000 miles. I mean I don't own a ZR1 or Viper but I hope that they have better engineering than the rest of the manufacturer line.

  • my question is: why is are they going to stop makin the viper in 2011

  • If u like it sooo much buy one. Simple economics if poeple dont bye enough then they cant afford to make them. its a straight line supercar any way if your gonna spent that much on your car bye a porche. at leats u won't die when u get to the corner.

  • Leo is a douche..

  • my question is what will b the next vette supercar thats not the ZR1?

  • leo kicked your ass, he is right, its not an opinion its a fact

  • For the American Designers and executives out there, I want to know how come you can't compete with my demographic? (you know the subaru WRX one) Lets say I wanted a awd 4 door sporty sedan, or what the hell 4 door awd hatchback, You got nothing. Well except for the chrysler Sebring,and 300. Were you jokeing when you made those? I Dont want an 80 yr. old man car. Pontiac is so close. There new line up looks good, but is underpowered and for my 30k I think I would take A new Evo.

  • I got a question for Chevy. Who's the guy who came up with the Cobalt? It sucks! I like thee SS, but the supercharged one has a lot of issues and all the other ones look cheap.

  • My question would be to ford. Why is the new focus so ugly?

  • the driver of the vipper was duncan huisman.

    the gear stig wibs are amasing

  • As far as the fast SUV stuff goes, they are really hot in Southern California... I hate them tho

  • Did Mike really crash a ZR-1?

  • the IS-F is sweeeet

  • i would ask them like all of the car manufacturers they want to go nestalgic making mustanges ans chargers but they are so ugly compared to the old school ones why do they not make brand new dewplecits of the older cars everybody would want one nova ss mustanges chargers challangers all of them how cares about airodynamics most people dond drive 200 mph

  • The X6 is so homosexual and whats the point of doing M versions of X5 and X6?? No 1 wants them coz of the gas prices.

  • I will always like GM more than Chrysler, BUT...

    Maybe this will make Chrysler reconsider cancelling the production of the Viper...maybe.

    This is another perfect case in which American cars are better than foriegn cars, we have the top 2 spots in the Nurburgring list of times. (I still love the GT-R)

  • the viper is the best ever and i will kill my self if chrysler drop its production

  • I'd be right behind you

  • you should kill yourself for not being able to afford one LOL

  • I guess I won't be hearing from you for a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time...

  • X6 no car I dont need that car for free

    its ugly and stupid

    I need smoll sporty car

  • I guess people are still buying alot of SUVs for BMW to focus on those X5 and 6 which I think isn't such a smart idea.

    My QOD: Why are entry level car designs so ugly. I mean the only cars from detroit that are the ones I can't afford till I finish my degree. Don't get me wrong alot of the cars are good looking but I mean the cobalt is kinda like meh, neon meh. New civic looks good the euro FORD focus (2004+)looks good. I mean I know they can do it so just you know do it.

  • YESS YES YES MCLAREN EVER

  • I...Want...That...McLaren...NA­OOOOO!

  • BMW is the stupidest carmaker. Period.

    Who cares about SUVs?

    I'd like a new V8 manual Camaro for the weekend.

  • that's a pretty strange comment considering your user name...

  • I dont like BMW's ecxept E46 M3. Late models are ugly as hell..

    Im into Audi's and Porsche's.

  • QOD: How do you answer skeptics who claim every car magazine is biased... are they? aren't they? Do manufacturers influence good reviews?

  • QOD: Why don't you stop making SUVs? Make estate cars instead.

  • this guy mummbles big time . i cant hear the guys half the time . You would think they would have a person on camera that doesnt mumbles half the time ..

  • Its a shame the viper still keeps that ugly ass 1990s look to it.

  • Hey Farah, **newsflash** -- The viper is quick. BUT it's still a piece of American crap when it comes down to fit and finish. Zero reliability. Oh, and that 'design' is straight out of 1985.

  • true, but I would argue that it does at least look bad ass in pictures.

  • Heres a question ... Why doesn't the Bugatti Veyron get Variable displacement / cylinder deactivation, cause i honestly believe it would get great mpg, i mean it obv must use its fuel very efficiently????

  • if you can afford a million dollar car, you don't care about what kind of gas mileage it gets. and with fewer than 200 examples built so far, making the car fuel efficient would hardly make a dent in the world's fuel economy problem.

  • Horrible gas mileage. I forget the real numbers and too tired to look it up, but if you have the power boost key in and run the car full throttle, you can go from full to empty on your gas gauge in like 18 minutes...

  • YES YES but in these recent times with eco maniacs, how would you like to turn round and say "Yeah 253 mph, 1001bhp, 0-60 in 2.5... and oh yeah it gets 30-40mpg in town" ... btw its empty tank in 12 mins :P mental! an the 11000 pound tyres, roughly $22000 would go in 50mins at 253mph ... not thats anyones put of, and there are gorgeous cars, i keep reading people saying they arnt, but your wrong lol

  • QOD: How much longer are automakers going to drag their feet with alternative fuel sources? I've done a little research, and besides the federal government doing a bunch of research, automakers only seem to do alternative fuels when they are forced to. I know its supply and demand for automakers, but if there is nothing out there other than fossil fuels and ethonal, how can there be a demand? The US military is making Hummers right now that run on water that is converted to HHO.

  • M3 upgrade. i don't know who needs a 500bhp X5/X6 mule. what are they going to do with it? drag or offroading? they are not suited for either. rubish cars...

    QOD: the electric cars and tecnology exists. the cars are good and perform (tesla for example). what is the problem with implementing the GM idea of arriving at a gas station and instead of filling up the tank replace the empty bateries for charged ones?

  • QOD responce:

    With the up coming arrival of the 2010 Mustang, and spy video showing a HUGE similarity in the previous model series. What is the expected reaction of the people if there is not a dramatic redesign? (in such cases as the difference beteween the '98 to'99 and of course the '04 to '05)

    Could be a good topic discusion Matt...

  • QOD- with the growing popularity of drifting, are any US car makers coming up with a light,small inexpensive RWD car?

  • the pontiac solstice and saturn sky are slow-selling and expensive to build, so it seems unlikely that GM, at least, will build something similar any time soon. Besides, the ratio of people who actually drift their cars on tracks is smaller than the percentage of Greenwich mom's who go off-roading in their Range Rovers.

  • last thing i wanna hear about is 2 chodes chatting about cars they know nothing about.

  • QOD: Is anyone trying a hybrid using solar charging as well as regenerative braking on diesel? I park my car in the sun for 10 hours a day, They is a good amount of juice that could be used for driving or air conditioning.

  • a while ago there was solor power cars being tested. I think VW had a huge project with it, but could be wrong. Plug in is just easier and more reliable. Especially with cars like the lightening that charges in 10 minutes.

  • QoD:where are the real light weight sports cars ~2000lbs? example, first generation miata.

  • the viper is not the fastest production car in the world, the ssc ultimate aero is,

  • I would like to know why Automotive manufacturers are phasing out Manual transmissions?

  • SUV market is dying give us a CSL!!!!!!!!

  • The viper acr beating the zr1 or anything around the ring for that matter is completely meaningless to me, and should be to anyone else for that matter. Its cool, dont get me wrong ... fast 'ring times are always cool, but saying that the ACR shattered the ZR1's ring record is just like saying a Ferrari F1 car shattered a ford focus' record. Put that much race kit on anything and you no longer have what I would consider a road car.

  • though it is a road car, and I am sure you know that, I compare it to the models like the CSL and Ferrari's Scuderia, or Porsche's GT3 (especially the RS). Though they are road cars, they are intended for track days. Dodge never denied that the ACR is a track day car, but it is also road legal. In that case, you have to respect the time. Though all of us agree, there should be standards to the ring. Where to start, how to start, when timing starts and stops, etc...

  • Yes I see your point but I dont know if you see mine. Put blinkers on an F1 car and its road legal too. That doesnt make it a road car; granted, really sweet, but not a road car. Anyway my point is zr1 or GTR against the ACR is not comparing apples to apples.

  • Please tell me where to go to college to get into sportscar design and what else can I do?

    Im going to college next year. For the love of GOD please answer me

  • Art Center in Pasadena CA, GM regularly raids this school for its top designers. $30K a year aint cheap though.

  • WOO WHAtS THE GAS MILeAGE ON THIS THING? XD ncie card where can i buy it (when it comes out)

  • Suppp FARAHHH!!!!!!

    I do not like the fact that they are not gonna focus all there time on the m3 CSL. the market already has all those hopped up suvs anyway they come from porsche.

    itll be interesting what BMW actually does and im sure it will still be and awesome piece of machinery.

    PEACE

  • QOD Why are some cars so detuned? Why does it hurt to have a cars engine running at its full potential?

  • one word: warranty. If the manufacturers are going to guarantee their engines against breaking for 30k, 45k, or even 100k miles, they had better make sure that those engines are so conservatively tuned that you can beat on them all day long and they (mostly) won't break.

  • QOD: To chrysler. What what the hell possesed you to "create" a 14 special edition pt cruiser?

  • my one ? is for dodge chrysler whatever there name is , why in the hell did you make a charger 4 dour and to call a 4 door srt8 charger a superbee wtf , and when are you guys going to get back to 2 door cars that are cheap with a v8 dam bring back a duster or a real 2 door superbee god u guys have the cards play them for god sake and i know u have the challenger srt8 but who has 40thousand for a 2 door car come on dam

  • for QOD, something mentioned before, Ford, at least its international brands, have some amazing cars, the FPV models in Australia, and that rockin Focus RS in Europe. To me, they need to get out of the board room and hear the customer and see the competition. Why are they being beat out, and not only match it, but beat it!! They have come a long way recently, keep pushing it. Also, for Chrysler, coming from Iacocca's home town, take some notes from your old owner, get smart, takes risks!!

  • hey you guys put m3 cls in your description, it should be m3 csl - but i think you knew that. good vid otherwise.

  • My question to the automakers is this. When will we see a MEGA GAINT BREAK in the motors for the commom man. When I say BREAK, I mean revoltion. NOT tiny steps.?

  • huge time?