These replicas are getting cheaper

Saab Ed · 20-04-2010 9:14pm #1

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/1273654

I dont know lads, it wouldnt be for me but would you not look the muts nuts turning up in this thing if you were 20 odd years old.

SV · 20-04-2010 9:18pm

one of the lads around here had one before..

got nothing but slagging for it..convinced most of the women it was a real one though..till a chap in an s15specR showed him up on the motorway!

poor guy..still gets slagged over it today and still claims it was real!

Saab Ed · 20-04-2010 9:21pm

SV wrote: »

one of the lads around here had one before..

got nothing but slagging for it..convinced most of the women it was a real one though..till a chap in an s15specR showed him up on the motorway!

poor guy..still gets slagged over it today and still claims it was real!

In fairness ,convincing the women at that age is the all important thing. Who cars what the other lads think if he's getting all the action

colm_mcm · 20-04-2010 9:22pm

Put it this way. the species you'll be trying to impress (and most likely succeeding) won't have a clue it's a Toyota.

Alanstrainor · 20-04-2010 9:25pm

I've seen this one around, well at least i think it's this one. And it's seriously rough looking close up. You wouldn't be fooling many people with it imo, you'd get the slagging of your life for driving the yoke, you'd deserve it too!

colm_mcm · 20-04-2010 9:26pm

that's not the one that lives in Citywest is it?

Saab Ed · 20-04-2010 9:26pm

Alanstrainor wrote: »

I've seen this one around, well at least i think it's this one. And it's seriously rough looking close up. You wouldn't be fooling many people with it imo, you'd get the slagging of your life for driving the yoke, you'd deserve it too!

Is it that bad?

mondeo · 20-04-2010 9:27pm

The MR2 has a shorter distance between the front and rear wheels so side by side with a real 355 the MR2 is a complete give away.

Saw lots of MR2 based Ferraris in the U.K and they for the most part obvious..
However I did see a 348 bodykitted MR2 that looked very good.

I would not be caught dead in a fake Ferrari though, imagine all the blokes pulling up beside you at the lights realising what it is an "MR2" and sniggering and making smart comments to ya? haha no way my son..

cabrwab · 20-04-2010 9:27pm

Thought about it once for a brief moment when i was 17. I copped on though thank christ!
It would be kind've cool. But you just need somebody to make an idiot out of you someplace and you'd never live it down.

Plus what would be the point in having a ferrari without the V8 scream/rumble.

There have being some awful replicas out there with terrible panel gaps

colm_mcm · 20-04-2010 9:30pm

saw a Supra (old 80s model) Ferarri replica in Romania a few years ago. guy had convinced everyone in the village it was real as old Supras are unheard of over there. still had the Toyota rear lights if I remember correctly.

mondeo · 20-04-2010 9:31pm

LIGHTNING wrote: »

Until your mates tell the women in questions thats its a fake ferrari and just watch how quickly they would walk away.

What kind of women dates you because of the car you drive??? No women worth having around in my opinion....

colm_mcm · 20-04-2010 9:32pm

mondeo wrote: »

What kind of women dates you because of the car you drive??? No women worth having around in my opinion....

Don't get all moral on us! probably not looking for wifey material at that stage!

SV · 20-04-2010 9:32pm

mondeo wrote: »

What kind of women dates you because of the car you drive??? No women worth having around in my opinion....

the filthy ones do

keithclancy · 20-04-2010 9:33pm

LIGHTNING wrote: »

I would think you would look like a complete twat, just imagine the slagging you would get for driving a MR2 and trying to pass it off as a Ferrari. I know my mates would never let me live it down

Looks better than a Punto with a load of Plastic ****e hanging off it and a no fear sticker on the back window.

Can't believe yere slagging it with the amount of skanger bangers on the roads these days !!

Saying that I wouldn't have it, bet it has an almighty amount of squeeks and random noises inside it, not to mention the wind noise/cack handling.

Drove a Modded MR2 before with a bodykit on it, mother of god .. no power steering, it was shocking and smelt like a Green Tree air freshener.

Saab Ed · 20-04-2010 9:34pm

mondeo wrote: »

What kind of women dates you because of the car you drive??? No women worth having around in my opinion....

.....the type who dates you because of what you drive , thats who....and my God you'd only want her around for a short while to fulfill a purpose. Oh to be young again

peasant · 20-04-2010 9:34pm

colm_mcm wrote: »

Put it this way. the species you'll be trying to impress (and most likely succeeding) won't have a clue it's a Toyota.

Lovely and all that the seats are ...they probably don't tilt far enough back ...and that middle tunnel is a bit cumbersome too

colm_mcm · 20-04-2010 9:35pm

friend of my ex texted to say she'd met this guy and gone back to his, he was dropping her home in a Ferarri. turns out it was a totally standard Mk2 MR2. no need for a bodykit in this case.

robtri · 20-04-2010 9:39pm

think it is the worst thing you could buy and drive....

but on that see a 360 kit based on a Pug 406 coupe.... very good make.. and expensive

still wont be seen in one...

heres the crowd that did it

http://www.extreme-sportscars.com/

keithclancy · 20-04-2010 9:51pm

LIGHTNING wrote: »

But the Punto is not pretending to be anything other than a bucket of crap:D

Maybe not to you but the guy driving it thinks he/shes the shiznat :P

bazz26 · 20-04-2010 10:43pm

Here is a cheaper one:

http://www.adverts.ie/showproduct.php?product=212433&cat=2

FearDark · 20-04-2010 10:52pm

Pfft, if it helped get a few more vaginas id drive it.

FearDark · 20-04-2010 10:54pm

bazz26 wrote: »

Here is a cheaper one:

http://www.adverts.ie/showproduct.php?product=212433&cat=2

Yeah, note the horrible camera angles...

Id say gaps as wide as wide as the grand canyon.

KamiKazi · 20-04-2010 10:55pm

bazz26 wrote: »

Here is a cheaper one:

http://www.adverts.ie/showproduct.php?product=212433&cat=2

All the angled pictures make me suspicious that it looks terrible up close

mondeo · 20-04-2010 11:02pm

KamiKazi wrote: »

All the angled pictures make me suspicious that it looks terrible up close

I'd say it's as rough as a mangy cat doing the night shift in your wheely bin.

What exactly would one insure that car as? An MR2 with a bodykit? A kit car?
These kind of things are not popular here so I bet it would be cold day in hell trying to insure it properly without bullsh!tt!ng your way to a quote.

bazz26 · 20-04-2010 11:17pm

FearDark wrote: »

Yeah, note the horrible camera angles...

Id say gaps as wide as wide as the grand canyon.

A bit like the type of women it attracts I'd say..:pac:

vectra · 20-04-2010 11:24pm

mondeo wrote: »

What kind of women dates you because of the car you drive??? ..

The (Easy-Sleezy) kind every fella wants when they are at that age.:D

There was one of those 355 reps around here for a while. At the same time a friend of mine had a genuine 355 spider.. The rep looked exactly what it said on the tin.. :pac:

Alanstrainor · 20-04-2010 11:31pm

Saab Ed wrote: »

Is it that bad?

The one i saw was THAT bad! I couldn't get over the wheels on the yoke, they weren't spaced out far enough which left a considerable gap between the arches. And there were huge gaps in some of the panels, and to top it off, the engine bay just looked daft, of all the things, i only caught a glimps of it, but it looked like they tried to put there own twist on it to try and show off a fake engine or something. Oh and then there was the sound of it...hardly ferrari V8 material!

mondeo · 20-04-2010 11:35pm

Alanstrainor wrote: »

The one i saw was THAT bad! I couldn't get over the wheels on the yoke, they weren't spaced out far enough which left a considerable gap between the arches. And there were huge gaps in some of the panels, and to top it off, the engine bay just looked daft, of all the things, i only caught a glimps of it, but it looked like they tried to put there own twist on it to try and show off a fake engine or something. Oh and then there was the sound of it...hardly ferrari V8 material!

Sounded like a glanza did it?:D