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Old 23-03-2008   #51 (Post Link)
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Re: Lamborghini Gallardo: Test Drive Review

Ha ha ha...small world. I would not be surprised. the Gaigokujin world is VERY small in Tokyo.



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He may actually be the same guy who's trying to sell it to me.
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Hey BF...thought you were in Hokaido now
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yes I can relate to that, some the chaps I know are much like that...and become worse when they hang out with other chaps with a similar disposition...I HATE it, as if we dont already have enough probs in the world with elitist buggers like that. The crowd I associate with are a very different breed of peoples...we have the money, but we dont act, display or franchise our attitudes towards others about it. And we certainly dont display our toys in that kind of manner either...
I have a lot of "rich" friends - most of them are wonderfully nice - just every once in awhile you run into a person where they got too much money, too early in life, and the money takes the worst parts of their personality and magnifies them until they become the person's defining characteristics... (and they usually drive black lambos... )
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ha ha ha...you have that right. you know of course though, I was not referring to ALL people with money....just the esoteric minority who pander unto themselves with that attitude...and drive black lambos - with the exception BF if he bought that.... Which I doubt, the GT masser is whole lot more sophisticated than a lambo.
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Well, the deposit on the GT S is still there but ... I am tempted
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the car just took off like a friggin' rocket

this tells me all i need to know, any car that has made biggie swear must be absolutely bloomin AWESOME!!!

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Yeah...its GREAT car for a short term thing, but terrible for the long term due to the fact that its about as functional as mesh screens on a submarine.


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Yeah...its GREAT car for a short term thing, but terrible for the long term due to the fact that its about as functional as mesh screens on a submarine.
As someone famous once said: we'll all be dead in the long term
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this tells me all i need to know, any car that has made biggie swear must be absolutely bloomin AWESOME!!!

It was mate!

And I am not kidding you, I dreamt the car last night
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As someone famous once said: we'll all be dead in the long term
Spoken like a true car aficionado! Life is short - get the Lambo (and take me for a drive cause my life is short too )
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If I do (not very likely at the moment given the shakey markets), I'll give you the keys and you can have a go
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Well if thats the case, zoom over and pick up in the interim...ill watch GTA say the achronym, "its Got Too much Accelleration"...



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Well if thats the case, zoom over and pick up in the interim...ill watch GTA say the achronym, "its Got Too much Accelleration"...
No such thing as too much acceleration!

"I feel the need, the need for speed!"....
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Agreed, it's just never fast enough
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Now where did I put that afterburner for the jet engine I have, thats to go into the Gallardo...?
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Nah mate, twin turbos is the way to go

A bloke on the Lambo forum did the conversion and it's made the car go like a ... well, very fast
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