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I guess I just don't get it. Are some people looking at this car the same way I looked at a Cobra in 1966 and having a life-shaping experience?
The front end looks like female reproductive anatomy. That's great on a female but not on the front of a car. The interior looks like, what, a 1957 T-bird? That's OK on a two-seater T-bird (which I also happen to like) but it's a little retro on the fastest car in the world in 2003.
To me, it looks like a car being built to be "the mostest" something. Another "mostest" will come along and surpass it and then it will look dated. It's a car built to sell to the guy who has to have the fastest or the biggest or the most expensive or...whatever. For now.
Call me a Philistine if you will, but I'm afraid I have to compare every such car with the ultimate automotive yardstick (in my limited scope): the Cobra, which was built as nothing more than a tool to do a specific job. The fact that it succeeded so handsomely is, in large part, what made it so attractive. Well, that and the fact that it's powered by a good ol' American V-8 and the big, fat tires and the rumpity exhaust and the fabulous body which NEVER seems to go out of style and the fact that people who have no idea what it is just go nuts over it and on and on...
I'll bet you'll enjoy your ERA much more than you would a Veyron!
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