These replicas are getting cheaper

Saab Ed

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

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

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

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

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

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

Saab Ed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Here is a cheaper one:

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

FearDark

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

FearDark

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Midnight_EG

colm_mcm wrote: »

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

There's no replica Ferrari in Citywest


At least ....I haven't seen one around at all.

Gary ITR

i have. Tis yellow though and it's a 406 rep

seanybiker

Was one of them in waterford up until a while back. I couldnt walk passed it without laughing at it.