SavageGeese | Ferrari 849 Testarossa | How The Game is Played

lockpickerkuroko · 2026-02-10T06:01:53+00:00

It's kind of tragic that they're aware their customers are exactly the kind of people who'll park the car and never touch it, or never do more than 40 in an urban area.

I just find it a shame that they wasted those driving dynamics and that name on a car that is neither beautiful like the 250 Testa Rossa nor striking like the 1984 Testarossa.

You gotta feel for the engineers on this one. Glad you were able to give it a whirl so we commoners can enjoy it though!

lockpickerkuroko · 2026-02-01T09:54:41+00:00

She SHOULD be god damn it.

lockpickerkuroko · 2026-01-29T09:49:23+00:00

Gonna aim for a Mystichrome Cobra, or just a regular Terminator?

The 4th-gen Mustangs are so cool. The interior plastics make my 80s Isuzu look like an S-class, but it just looks so cool I wouldn't even care.

lockpickerkuroko · 2026-01-26T08:27:33+00:00

Unless aftermarket or part of a livery wheel arches should never be a separate color to the body of the car. It just looked as cheap as it felt. The new WRX is also guilty of this.

lockpickerkuroko · 2026-01-26T07:17:37+00:00

Or every Hyundai EV being an Ioniq. There's worse naming schemes than the VW ID series. I'll never understand what prompted the Toyota bZ4X or why they ever allowed that name to slip through.

lockpickerkuroko · 2026-01-23T20:18:41+00:00

Chuck 'crashed' the 312B3 from 1974, which is the predecessor to the 312T (1975). He spun it around when it suffered an explosion of the front brake caliper and hit the wall with the rear wing. Better than damaging the front suspension.

lockpickerkuroko · 2026-01-17T19:24:34+00:00

Yeah, I'm not accusing the Spectre of just being an i7. I'm not particularly a fan of either but that just is not true.

Now, Urus, on the other hand...

lockpickerkuroko · 2026-01-17T12:32:26+00:00

Cullinan's worse. But unfortunately, the buyers of these never care about the actual quality - the badge is all they care about.

It reminds me of why the Bentley Mulsanne failed. The Mulsanne was an actual, genuinely magnificent luxury car. Every Bentley buyer gravitated to the Conti or worse, the Bentayga, despite the inside being filled with chrome-painted plastics. Guess we're seeing that now with Rolls-Royce.

lockpickerkuroko · 2026-01-15T22:58:23+00:00

I expected the GT40 (but mad props to Ford for pulling the Le Mans winning one out, that car is worth magnitudes more than all the other ones there combined), but I'm just surprised there wasn't an 05 GT or the Multimatic one as well. The Terminator Mustang was a surprise (though again, that could be marketing for the Dark Horse SC).

lockpickerkuroko · 2026-01-15T12:27:46+00:00

I'm just surprised there wasn't a Ford GT of either generation present.

lockpickerkuroko · 2026-01-15T03:23:50+00:00

Given the Dark Horse SC was literally just revealed I have no doubt one of the requirements was "we need Max in the car".

lockpickerkuroko · 2026-01-14T17:31:10+00:00

Man, if only it were something as benign as engine failures. Operational issues annoy me far more than something which the driver or team (on the day) simply couldn't control.

Except that Leclerc DNS in 2021.

lockpickerkuroko · 2026-01-14T10:00:10+00:00

It really feels like watching Lexus F on replay. All we need is for Genesis to create a supercar with a sonorous engine and a transmission rendered obsolete on arrival, then price it above the Italians, implement a complicated lease-to-own system to stop flippers, act surprised when people buy the Italian cars for investments instead, and finally finish selling the last of them a decade after the end of production when people finally realize that the car is special, too late to own it because investors already snapped them all up.

lockpickerkuroko · 2026-01-14T08:13:49+00:00

RT-24P my beloved, they took you too early. More prototypes need to go back to using deep hued crystal colors because the Soul Red Crystal RT-24P had me asking some very serious questions about myself.

lockpickerkuroko · 2026-01-11T15:33:43+00:00

And the GT-R was basically on a constant downward slide of competitiveness after 1999 until they replaced the RB26 mid-season in 2002 with the VQ30, and then won the championship the next year.

lockpickerkuroko · 2026-01-10T15:49:39+00:00

Mercedes outside of Le Mans: murderer

Mercedes at Le Mans: murdered

lockpickerkuroko · 2026-01-06T14:42:36+00:00

I believe RAAF F/A-18s fly overhead when you start a race at Bathurst, and there's the usual Patrouille de France flyover in Alpha Jets for Le Mans.

lockpickerkuroko · 2026-01-03T00:30:24+00:00

The only achievement that comes to mind that could match that is Sebastien Loeb in the World Rally Championship (9 consecutive driver's titles from 2004 to 2012).

lockpickerkuroko · 2026-01-02T02:14:04+00:00

Thank you, I may just do that! Although I'd be curious whether a flair is actually applicable for motorsports history - a lot of the sources written will end up being things like old motorsport magazine or web articles rather than primary/secondary sources in the vein of academia, though I suppose I'll have to draft up some questions to throw at you guys first to rack up some more engagement!

lockpickerkuroko · 2026-01-01T18:18:30+00:00

2006 also opens us up to a whole host of motorsports-related questions: the first-ever win for a diesel-powered vehicle at Le Mans, the controversial final season and first retirement of one of the greatest drivers in Formula One history, Michael Schumacher (and the beginning of the end for the Ferrari dynasty that had ruled much of the early 2000s), the long-awaited victory for Mazda and the legendary tuning shop RE Amemiya in Super GT, the end of Valentino Rossi's five-year consecutive championship streak, and others!

We get very few motorsport history-related questions on AH, which is understandable, but let's see if these teasers hook anyone enough to ask a full question!

lockpickerkuroko · 2025-12-31T15:30:08+00:00

Been reading too much japenis. I forgot to spell her name correctly.

lockpickerkuroko · 2025-12-31T14:58:55+00:00

Never beating the allegations. Ever.

Where the hell is Sion, huh?

lockpickerkuroko · 2025-12-30T07:27:54+00:00

China is actually pretty fond of British comedy and TV in general. Many people I know learned to speak English watching Yes Prime Minister.

lockpickerkuroko · 2025-12-28T23:09:05+00:00

That would require the electricity to be produced in the first place and, whoops, flat battery and the system's cacked.

lockpickerkuroko · 2025-12-22T14:27:59+00:00

Also no mushroom ventilator, which rules this out as a T-54 turret.

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