Bugatti VGT? #imaginEBugatti (Update 15/9: So many screenshots!)
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It's inspiring in a historical way, but IMO hearing Aston Martin Vulcan is a lot more awesome than Dee Pee One Hundred.
Same case with McLaren and their road car division. The MP4 nameplate is legendary, but MP4-12C just sounds like a fax machine (excuse the stereotype).
Anyway, each to their own
👍 I was just making an observation that the VGT cars rarely have word names (also including the Citroen GTbC and Red Bull X cars, if you count those as VGT forerunners).
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Then you know more than I do. I don't hate Clarkson at all.
Except for people who know what the Aston Martin DP line was.
That's because it's a name for F1 geeks only. Normal people don't know what the McLaren F1 cars are called.
By contrast, the Aston Martin DP212 was actually called that... And, after it stopped being a prototype racer, it became a road car, still called that... Lest we forget, the road car range for Aston Martin has also been called DB or V8 for forty years too - the use of names has only been more recent and even then we still have the DBX & One-77.
The use of names inspired by famous cars of old is the actual definition of "inspiring".
In the meantime, your exception the Tomahawk actually comes in three flavours called S, X and GTS-R - uninspiring letters, I think you'll agree - and the full name of any version is "SRT Tomahawk _ Vision Gran Turismo".
Oddly, the last vehicle from FCA called "Tomahawk" was also a concept vehicle - a Viper V10-engined, four wheel motorbike, with a top speed claimed as 420mph. Sounds awfully familiar - and if you're busy ditching named cars because there's other concept cars with the same name...
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So do "VIZIV" and "Clubman", but they were discounted on the grounds of being names on existing concept cars. So is "Tomahawk", but that wasn't discounted.
And GTI Roadster and GTI Supersport were discounted on the grounds of being "labels" and "not proper names"!
Like it or not, some letter/number combinations are evocative of successful, famous or pretty cars from motoring history - more so than some name plucked from the ether for no particular reason. I find DP100, LM55 and 2X more interesting than "Tomahawk" because they are inspired by famous cars - so to call those names "uninspiring" simply because they're letters and numbers is so far wide of the mark it may as well be a 2,500hp car with pneumatic ERS...
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Aaaaand another thread that's being derailed off topic because someone can't let anyone have their own opinion. If that's not related to the Bugatti VGT keep it to PM. I came here thinking there was something new but there's nothing new about the Bugatti VGT.
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Sees more than 10 posts more than before.
Enters the thread thinking about a new teaser unvelied.
Finds an argument over the coolness of car names.
K.
Edit:....kinda tree'd
Enters the thread thinking about a new teaser unvelied.
Finds an argument over the coolness of car names.
K.
Edit:....kinda tree'd
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Ok, we get it! You know stuff about cars. Get over yourself!
All the guy was trying to say was that the usage of the word "Tomahawk" made the car sound like a weapon. DP100, 2X or LM55 will never make anything sound like a weapon. The history behind the name DP100 may be inspiring but the name itself isn't (it goes for any car that uses letters and/or numbers as a name) so i get why he used the term "uninspiring".
DP100, 2X and LM55 are more inspiring to you than Tomahawk but it doesn't mean that they really are (and it doesn't mean that they're not). It's just YOUR OPINION and I respect it even though i disagree.
Opinions are opinions, they're personal. There's no need to go to war and try to prove others that they're wrong because they don't agree with you.
Now, about the Bugatti VGT, it looks strange. I'm not sure how i feel about it.
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Can you try to express yourself without being so boorish in future?
That's odd, as that's not what he said...
What he said was that all of the VGTs released so far have been named "Manufacturer Vision GT or some combination of uninspiring letters and numbers, with the exception of the Tomahawk.
The combinations of letters and numbers in the DP100, 2X and LM55 are literally the opposite of "uninspiring", because they have historical reference to famous cars of the past. The Tomahawk is also not the only one to have a "proper name", but he discounts those that do as being named for other concept cars - which Tomahawk also is - or because he doesn't like the name...
Nothing about weapons.
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Not if my opinion is that theirs is wrong, no.
The difference is that exchanging opinions is not something discouraged here. Being exceptionally rude is. Be civil.
Which isn't the case. I just wrote it for a second time, but for a third go, the VIVIZ and Clubman VGTs both have names, as do the GTI Roadster and GTI Supersport.
Two of these were discounted because they're apparently not the right kind of name and two because other concept cars from the same maker have that name. As does the Tomahawk, which wasn't discounted.
Not really, no.
I'm not really bothered if anyone's not excited by the names, but DP100 is inspired by the DP212, DP214, DP215 and DP216, 2X is inspired by the rest of the Chaparral 2[letter] names and LM55 is inspired by Mazda's Le Mans winning #55 787B.
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They'll call it the Bugatti Reginald Vision Gran Turismo, I'm calling it.
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Naa, it'll be Bugatti VGT1700 Ettore Bugatti obviously.
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It obviously needs a proper name like Reginald, or Andrew.
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Finally, something which is on-topic for a change, thank you Carffeine. As for wheel, nothing entirely new, it is a classic multi-spoke wheel design that looks oddly similar to that found in the SRT Tomahawk GTS-R. Nothing wrong with that, mind you, it looks nice enough in my eyes. And as GTRacer said, the detailing seems to match the description of a racing car.
