Oh, oh, oh, I'm making a Ludicrous Claim®! Read the first post!
- Thread starter Der Alta
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- Sandy106 // Frosty207
I dont think I said its possible if you've only driven in the GT games, it helps a bit but you definately need IRL practice too. A low speed run is probably possible but I doubt full throttle is.
Decent time = like 8:45. Thats kind of slow for a GT2, I meant competitive compared to other cars that go around there like normal sedans and stuff. The GT2 is an easy car to drive and pretty hard to spin.
This is a picture of it like 20 minutes ago. Let me know if you want more in the next hour, mom is leaving again soon.
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- RacecarBMW
I dont think I said its possible if you've only driven in the GT games, it helps a bit but you definately need IRL practice too. A low speed run is probably possible but I doubt full throttle is.
Decent time = like 8:45. Thats kind of slow for a GT2, I meant competitive compared to other cars that go around there like normal sedans and stuff. The GT2 is an easy car to drive and pretty hard to spin.
This is a picture of it like 20 minutes ago. Let me know if you want more in the next hour, mom is leaving again soon.
Well no one is going to believe you.
Write GTPLANET - Sandy106 on a paper and put it somewhere beside the car then take a picture.
Im not doubting you just saying no one is going to believe it until you do that.
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- RacecarBMW
also is that a cellphone shot if it is what phone do you use?
Also it is to dark at this time in Sweden and Germany.
And that plate number is not from Texas.
Your profile says Sweden / Texas and I assumed Germany because you were at Nurburgring there.
Also it is to dark at this time in Sweden and Germany.
And that plate number is not from Texas.
Your profile says Sweden / Texas and I assumed Germany because you were at Nurburgring there.
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- GTP_MaxAttack
I dont think I said its possible if you've only driven in the GT games, it helps a bit but you definately need IRL practice too. A low speed run is probably possible but I doubt full throttle is.
Decent time = like 8:45. Thats kind of slow for a GT2, I meant competitive compared to other cars that go around there like normal sedans and stuff. The GT2 is an easy car to drive and pretty hard to spin.
This is a picture of it like 20 minutes ago. Let me know if you want more in the next hour, mom is leaving again soon.
Thats a nice looking car, but it's still unproven mate. You need to put a piece of paper inside the car saying "Hello GtPlanet" or else that could just be a picture of a car on the street.
That may be your mothers car but no-ones going to believe it unless you can prove beyond doubt, which you haven't done yet.
I have to agree with RacecarBMW here too, I really want this claim to be true you know & right now it's a hard one to call.
Come on Sandy you've almost done it.
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- RacecarBMW
Exactly but I can already tell that it is a ludicrous claim
it is to dark at this time in Sweden and Germany.
And that plate number is not from Texas.
His profile says Sweden / Texas and I assumed Germany because he was at Nurburgring there.
Unless my brain did something wrong or he is busy lapping the car in some other country.
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- GTP_MaxAttack
I know, it's looking unlikely now but it could still be true. Let's wait for the undisputable paper in the windscreen pic 
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- BigYoSpeck
Hell he could end all debate by just showing some of the pictures from when he went to the ring in it. I mean who honestly wouldn't have pictures and/or videos of a trip to the Nurburging in a GT2?
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- Soulless_Vessel
- Soullessvessel
I'm sure alot don't camera equipment is not allowed in cars going around the track period. (or on the cars) So he would need a friend to go hiking in the woods to get trackside to get a pic or hire a pro photographer.
Exactly.
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- RacecarBMW
So how do we decide when to call it a ludicrous claim.
few hours, a day ...
few hours, a day ...
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I don't mean to be rude, but I have driven older 911s with about 150, maybe 200 horsepower and can confirm that it's pretty easy to lose the rear end on one even with minimal power. also, a heavier car, maybe a holden commondore or a jaguar XJ, is fine with 300 horsepower, yes, but something like a 911 or a corvette (I've had the pleasure of driving an LS1 C5 corvette convertible, so speaking from experience here) is a bit unstable even with relatively small power like that.
now, I'm not calling you a liar, but everything I've heard about the 997/1 911 GT2 points towards an extremely unstable car.
are you sure you didn't have some kind of advanced traction control off?
are you sure it's a GT2 and not a GT3 or a turbo?
also, the GT2 in your picture clearly isn't stock, as the stock 997/1 GT2 has a divider in the sidepod, as does the stock 997/1 turbo. only the 996 GT2s and 997/2 GT2 RSs have sidepods without dividers.
now I'm sorry about the double post, as I understand that's a bit of a no-no here, but what do you think a regular midsize sedan is?
a 5-series or an A6 come with a mid-level 300 BHP motor, yes, but those are premium midsize sedan. a regular midsize sedan would be a camry, an accord, a malibu, an avensis, an insignia or a passat. all of those cars have, at best, a V6 that puts out about 200 horsepower, and at the base model, an 125-or-so horsepower I4.
edit: thanks to whomever combined my posts!
now, I'm not calling you a liar, but everything I've heard about the 997/1 911 GT2 points towards an extremely unstable car.
are you sure you didn't have some kind of advanced traction control off?
are you sure it's a GT2 and not a GT3 or a turbo?
also, the GT2 in your picture clearly isn't stock, as the stock 997/1 GT2 has a divider in the sidepod, as does the stock 997/1 turbo. only the 996 GT2s and 997/2 GT2 RSs have sidepods without dividers.
now I'm sorry about the double post, as I understand that's a bit of a no-no here, but what do you think a regular midsize sedan is?
a 5-series or an A6 come with a mid-level 300 BHP motor, yes, but those are premium midsize sedan. a regular midsize sedan would be a camry, an accord, a malibu, an avensis, an insignia or a passat. all of those cars have, at best, a V6 that puts out about 200 horsepower, and at the base model, an 125-or-so horsepower I4.
edit: thanks to whomever combined my posts!
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- GTP_MaxAttack
Maybe if we give it 24 hours from the original claim then ask Der Alta or His Indigoness to pass judgement
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- Soulless_Vessel
- Soullessvessel
Has a Audi S8, Volvo S60-R, 2008 GT500 according to his final gear profile, what a lucky fellow.
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- BigYoSpeck
I don't know if they've recently started thorough searches to prevent this but there are plenty of pictures and vids taken by visitors around the net from their trips to the ring. Besides even if you couldn't get any on track, you would have some from at the complex.
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- Soulless_Vessel
- Soullessvessel
Oh I'm not saying some don't do it anyways but you frisk I think a year ban if you do, so plenty wouldn't consider it worth it.
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there was a guy making similar claims to these on the FM forums about a year ago. he claimed to have a koenigsegg CCX, a 2011 GT500 (before they were for sale, mind you), a new (don't know the E/F-name for the new gen BMWs, sorry) Z4, a carrera GT and a zonda. he eventually bactracked on this, saying those were cars he drove, as his uncle owns a movie production company (likely story, eh?
), and now claims to just own a 2008 GT500. he said he was from texas too, wonder if it's the same kid?
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- Soulless_Vessel
- Soullessvessel
Well according to various backtracing I have done. (that will never be the same mind you) he is 21, so its not entirely out of the question he did this. based on that alone at least. I'm still not convinced mind you.
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- GTP_MaxAttack
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- RacecarBMW
Also on that forum he posts a picture uploaded on photobucket yet the porsche image above is on google picasa.
This doesn't prove anything Im just saying
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- Soulless_Vessel
- Soullessvessel
On an unrelated note, thank you for that link in your sig BMW, its going into my wallpaper folder..I see your in Toronto. Is that you're pic? and is the location close to the city, would love to take some buddys there for a photoshoot.
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- astrosdude91
He said his mom's car was a standard GT2, yet the picture he posted is a GT2 RS.
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- Sandy106 // Frosty207
I'm in Texas right now, the license plate is a vanity plate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_plate
You can have Euro plates on a car in Texas as long as you have the actual Texas issued plates somewhere in the car. I went outside to get a timestamp with GTP written on it but it's too dark, going to have to wait until morning :/
I'm sure an interior light would be more than sufficient for taking a photograph of the interior with a "HI GTP" placard in it somewhere.
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- Soulless_Vessel
- Soullessvessel
So..you shipped the car to Germany, and then proceeded to censor a vanity plate?
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- astrosdude91
That doesn't look like the Texas issued Euro plate.
Edit: It's because it's not.
Edit: It's because it's not.
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- GTP_MaxAttack
Sandy, your beginning to lose credibility here.
Elsewhere on the internet you have claimed to be a vegan & an environmentalist, I think it's highly unlikely that someone so concerned about the planet would be shipping cars round the world let alone driving these kind of vehicles in the first place. Either your not a vegan / environmentalist or you haven't got all these cars, you can't have it all
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