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01-27-2010, 11:29 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Provo,
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Cobra Make, Engine: HiTech Legends GT500
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258 mpg VW
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01-27-2010, 11:35 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Santa Cruz,
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF 2613 Titanium w/Black, Roush 402SR
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Wild looking! The Jetsons are finally here! 
Looks much better from the back.
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No stop signs, speed limit - Nobody's gonna slow me down - Like a wheel, gonna spin it
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01-27-2010, 11:52 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Carlsbad,
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF 2932 with 438 Lykins Motorsports engine. Previous owner of FFR 5452.
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Kind of looks like a suppository!
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01-27-2010, 01:10 PM
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Location: Chicago, Oscar winner, my kind of town,
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I notice they don't mention any 0-60 times?
How do you get in? Looks like you might have to clamber over the side and then under the lift-up canopy? What happens in a rollover? Is there some escape route other than through the one on top?
No rear bumpers? What would it look like in a legal version? Couldn't they make it a tandem so you could carry at least one passenger?
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01-27-2010, 01:20 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Yorba Linda,
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF w/392CI stroker
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It's fugly. 'Nuff said.
-Dean
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01-27-2010, 01:21 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Cobra Make, Engine: KMP 539, a Ton of Aluminum
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My Cobra gets 258 MPG...uh, down wind in a hurricane with the ignition off. 
Kinda looks like a Sparrow. |
01-27-2010, 01:43 PM
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Location: Bethesda,
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Cobra Make, Engine: CSX 6022, navy blue, period correct 427 SO
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sizzler
I notice they don't mention any 0-60 times?
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It hardly goes over 60, so I'm thinking you could use a sun dial to time it....
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01-27-2010, 02:11 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dcdoug
It hardly goes over 60, so I'm thinking you could use a sun dial to time it....
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so you're saying a nitrous kit and/or (larger) turbo, maybe another whole engine (which would bring your mileage down to "only" 129 mpg? |
01-27-2010, 04:55 PM
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The rear end design looks like it was first scribbled out on a napkin by Peter Brock.
...hey, wait a minute, last time he did that it turned out pretty good.  |
01-27-2010, 07:41 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA FIA, 1964 289->Webers
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Says LA to NY on 10 Gallons. Where are you gonna get two Americans that will fit in it? 
None the less, I applaud VW for pushing the envelope! We need vehicles like this for utilitarian purposes.
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01-27-2010, 08:27 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: R.U.C.C. with a 427FE, toploader
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I like how all the other cars have there lights on and the VW, not so much!
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01-27-2010, 08:47 PM
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Actually old news.
2002 design.
The release for production will be quite a bit different.
Things have changed.
Now it is a hybrid with many options.
I think it is excellent concept from a pure engineering standpoint.
Maybe not fun for the type of folks here however.
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01-27-2010, 08:53 PM
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Location: Manteca,
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So Tom. Is that the NEW item at your get together in March? In aluminum of course.
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01-27-2010, 10:04 PM
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Haven't seen you around for a bit Richard, nice to have you drop in.
Ah, I see the mpg may vary with the final design and specs. Still, pretty extraordinary!
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01-28-2010, 03:01 AM
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Location: Crawley,
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Cobra Make, Engine: AC427 MkIII of 2004 vintage
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Obviously developed around the remains of a crashed Messerschmitt 109 cockpit.
I wonder if the registration plate 'WOBBLE ONE' is trying to say something?
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01-28-2010, 06:16 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: KMP532, KC427FE, TWM
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Tom,
I just can't force my way into buying one.... I'll have to continue my contribution to global warming.
Although... If you get one and put it on blocks for 50 years I bet it'll be worth something.
len
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01-28-2010, 07:03 PM
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Upon further review, I was too harsh with my earlier "fugly" assessment. It is clearly function over form and asthetically challenged.
There...I feel better now. 
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