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I love the Gran Turismo, this looks dated.

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On another note, this thread is more entertaining than the actual sport.

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http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/22/europes...-pontiac-trans/ "Have fun with KITT," sniffed some AMG engineers when a group of Norwegians showed up at Germany's Papenburg test track with a 1987 Trans Am. The smug smiles were quickly wiped off the faces of the Mercedes tuner crew when the ancient Pontiac's practice laps were as fast as the AMG cars, and the F-Body wasn't even working hard. Once warmed up, the 8.9-liter V8 unleashed all of its 1400 horsepower on the circuit, delivering a startling 407 kph (252 mph) also known as Bugatti Veyron fast. Better still, unlike the Bug, the Pontiac's lap is official. Needless to say, there's not much stock underneath the skin on this particular Trans Am. The car is the work of Polly Motorsport of Norway, and there's a wealth of top tuner expertise beneath the mostly stock exterior. We're sure even in its heightened state of tune, the Polly Trans Am is infinitely less expensive than the $1.6 million you'd have to cough up for a Veyron, and its creators say it's still street legal. Hit this link for some videos, which would be even more entertaining if we could understand what they were saying. Props to reader Mitka who provided the synopsis that we've posted after the jump! Subject: Fastest street legal official road car in Europe! A 1987 Trans Am fastest official street legal road car in Europe! Paul brought his Pontiac to the Papenburg car testing track, one of the newest and most advanced test tracks in the world. Mercedes where testing their new AMG sports models the same day as Pal was going for his personal speed record. Some engineers from AMG team criticized the optimistic Norwegian team for bringing an 80's trimmed American car to this super test track for the advanced European supercars. But what they didn't quite comprehend is that Pal Arvil Blytt and his Polly motorsport team from Norway works at a motor tuner garage in Godvik Norway and most important of all nothing more than the shell of this car resembles the stock Pontiac. With a brisk 8.9L V8 producing a whopping 1407 HP, Pal was soon doing AMG top speeds of 300km/h in his warming laps. After driving a couple of rounds around the track, Paul felt ready to see what his road machine would do! And after pressing the pedal to the metal the ARP technician Christoph Tharrey came over with his laptop computer with a big grin. Here we have the official numbers: 407.134 km/h You may say well the 9FF team drove 409km/h in an extremely rebuilt Porsche 911 at the same track; this speed was recorded with their own equipment and therefore can be fixed and therefore is not recorded as an official speed record. Bugatti Veyron 407km/h is also recorded with their own equipment. As the Papenburg track is to small for the Pontiac to reach its potential top speed of 435km/h and Volkswagen's test track costs 25.000 Euro an hour to rent. Paul is bringing his road legal car to the US in 2009 to challenge Shelby supercars official record of 412km/h.

They could have done small RWD, after all it's the government's money and they have plenty of it now. Too bad The higher-ups won't allow them to.

You've never been to MA then.

Well if you want unique you'll notice that this is the first vehicle (unless maybe you count the CTS) to have it's own, fully integrated center stack controls. That's pretty unique IMO.

I've always said the G6 looks like a Japanese Pontiac.

This, I agree on wholeheartedly.

A papercut and a severe car wreck (not fender bender) aren't exactly apples to apples. I'd like to know whether the GS actually caused the paralysis or the wreck did. Also, I somehow doubt that being pulled out of the car by the arm, as this woman alleges, would injury your back and lacerate your liver, the most that would happen is your shoulder gets dislocated. That's assuming she even was pulled by the arm and not by how the GS described it.

I don't argue with you because it's you, I just feel it's BS to sue someone who was trying to help and had the best of intentions. Maybe he could have done it better? Who knows, we weren't there to judge, and in this day and age, a lot of people with the slightest reason will try to sue. I just think it turns off people who want to help, but now have to think twice about being sued for it.

thanks Camino. If you could lock the voting thread for the Riviera competition that would be great.

Again, our deepest apologies Gizhost.

We shall, and hopefully things will only get better!

Isn't it so much better when you look up the info? Now if only you did that before hand.

Why?

No worries, get some sleep.

YJ and I are discussing doing away with the old point system in favor of a single point system. You cast one vote for your favorite. We can use the forum's poll system as a more effective way of tallying the votes too.

I don't think so.

Right...oh sh*t!

There's something mystical about the way snowflakes gently coast through the air and to the ground. I enjoy watching the height of snow storms because it shows the awesome power of nature in a display that's beautiful, then watching the gentle flurries dancing in the air after the storm. It reminds me why I like winter so much. We've had 2 snow storms in 3 days, I'm quite enjoying it. It also helps to have a snowblower so cleanup doesn't suck so much.

I think itt would be great if YJ and I worked together, so the two of us combined can ensure the competition forums become active again.