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07-15-2007, 04:42 PM
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Top Gear's "How to Spot a Future Classic"
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07-15-2007, 05:05 PM
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Ya know, I have two customers who paid me to thoroughly refresh Corrado VR6s. One of them cited this clip as his reason for the purchase.
About $3000 each went into refreshing the cooling system, brakes, A/C, and minor fiddly bits. Both cars still are awaiting repainting and interior work, but for well under $10k, these guys have a formidable piece of machinery: A Corrado with new bushings, Bilsteins, and Wilwood brakes is ferocious. It's amazing to think it's FWD- it goes exactly where pointed with the slightest of input. The MB Cosworth is something else, too! I've never driven one, and in America we only got the lesser 2.3-16 version, but I've seen a few available for sale around here, and I get easily tempted. One was clean and complete but missing the all-important 16v head- asking $1000! Thought about building a basement hot rod and sticking an M104 E320 mill in there- that would probably move better than the Cossie but it's debatable what the six would do for the weight bias. Nice clip, thanks for posting it...
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07-15-2007, 05:21 PM
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Sure, no prob. I test drove a Corrado VR6 when they came out. Neat car, but pricey. A few yrs later I noticed that owner's were grumbling about cost of owership and lack of resale.
===== For some reason my Firefox browser shuts down a few mins into the Cosworth bit. Not happy with how it works with this Mac, rarely gave me Windows trouble. Odd...
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07-15-2007, 06:17 PM
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Same here.
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07-15-2007, 06:28 PM
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I updated FF, must be a bum clip.
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07-15-2007, 06:51 PM
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Yep, completely kills my FF.
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07-15-2007, 07:57 PM
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My FF running Windows 2000 AMD Athlon box views the whole clip just fine...
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07-15-2007, 09:46 PM
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Hmmm.....
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07-15-2007, 10:00 PM
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yepp.. fine here on a windows XP laptop
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07-15-2007, 10:08 PM
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Quick test--
Trying with Safari now... Edit: Crashes at the same place. 
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07-16-2007, 02:14 PM
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What about the 99-02' E55?
Any potential future classic possibilities or were there just too many of these made?
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