CP Car Draft!! (Round 18) - (RESULTS)

[arsenal]

i didn't.. I think maybe only a few may have lost a little interest. plus it was a long weekend and not everyone would have been around a computer.

[Fozzie_DeBear]

Not me...

[the lemming]

I'm still very interested in this draft. I check in more times then I would like to admit to see the next pick.

Being slow on the long weekend was understandable, I don't really expect people to be making picks on weekends. Weekdays on the other hand... we should be rolling.

[arsenal]

oh crap.. it's my turn.. sorry.
I'll get a pick up ASAP.

[arsenal]

Ok.. for my next pick.. the in the concept category, I am going to select the Ferrari 458 Italia. This is the replacement for the F430.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_458_Italia

http://www.ferrari.com/English/GT_Sp...58-Italia.aspx

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/28/o...he-458-italia/

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by the lemming

I'm still very interested in this draft. I check in more times then I would like to admit to see the next pick.

Being slow on the long weekend was understandable, I don't really expect people to be making picks on weekends. Weekdays on the other hand... we should be rolling.

Cool, great to hear!

Hasn't been just the long weekend, it's been slow for awhile plus all the people that are AK'd.

[the lemming]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

Cool, great to hear!

Hasn't been just the long weekend, it's been slow for awhile plus all the people that are AK'd.

Yeah, it has been getting a little frustrating.

I'm choosing to think of it as people are giving up because they know they can't compete with my superior stable of cars.

[the lemming]

Originally Posted by arsenal

Ok.. for my next pick.. the in the coupe category, I am going to select the Ferrari 458 Italia. This is the replacement for the F430.

Nice looking car arsenal. I'm wondering if it might be iffy not having this classified as a concept car. I seem to recall someone saying that a car had to at least have a production date.

From your wiki link...

The Ferrari 458 Italia is a sports car to be produced by the Italian automaker Ferrari, as replacement of Ferrari F430.
A price or a production start date have not been disclosed. Images of the car have been released by Ferrari to the press, and the car is scheduled for an official public reveal on September 15, 2009 at the Frankfurt Motor Show[2][3] and at Ferrari's Galleria Ferrari museum simultaneously.[3]

Perhaps it is close enough to a real car though. I don't know.

[arsenal]

If so desired, I can change it to concept.

[3 Justin 3]

I wouldn't call the Ferrari a production car yet. My guess is a 2011-2012 release.

But if the name holds true from the 360 and 430, then it will have a 4.6 (rounding up 4.58) litre engine. They got over 500HP out of a 4.3L V8 in the Scuderia, giving them another .28 litres is just mind boggling how they get so much power from them. Unsupercharged and all. I so hope this car destroys the new Lambo.

[SebC]

I'm having a hard time picking a concept and don't know my classic cars very well... that's the only thing slowing me down.

[Fozzie_DeBear]

For my 2000+ pick I'll pick the Porsche Panamera Turbo...my next family car for sure

[TimSJ]

I think i am up and for my next selection i will fill the North American Category and select the Hemi Cuda.. i love the look of the car but the 426 hemi si what really made it.

The 426 Hemi also proved to be an immediate success in NHRA drag racing. Its large casting allowed the engine to be overbored and stroked to displacements unattainable in the other engines of the day. Top-fuel racing organizers still limit the bore spacing and other dimensions to the 1960s hemi size, making it the de facto engine template. Engines with larger dimensions, such as Ford's 385-series, are banned under these dimensional restrictions. In NHRA top fuel racing, the Hemi was usually equipped with a large Rootes type supercharger and short individual exhaust pipes, and fuelled with nitromethane.
The 426 Hemi, in "street Hemi" form, was produced for consumer automobiles from 1965 through 1971, and new crate engines and parts are available today from Chrysler. There were many differences between the Hemi and the Wedge-head big-block, including cross-bolted main bearing caps and a different head bolt pattern. There were also many differences between the racing hemis and the street hemi, including but not limited to compression ratio, camshaft, intake manifold, exhaust manifold and carburetion.
The street Hemi version was rated at 425 bhp (316.9 kW)(Gross) with two Carter AFB carburetors. In actual dynomometer testing, it produced 315 rear-wheel HP in purely stock form [1]. Interestingly, Chrysler's sales literature [2] published both Gross and Net HP ratings for 1971 (425 Gross HP and 350 Net HP.) Assuming a 15% driveline loss, the 350 Net HP figure (at the flywheel) equates quite well with the aforementioned 315 rear wheel HP figure. These power figures are further supported by plugging vintage 426 Hemi road test trap speed data into Hale's Trap Speed formula, which is: Peak Flywheel HP = (Trap Speed/234)^3] * Race Weight. While urban legend might have us believe otherwise, there is no objective evidence to support the notion that the 426 Hemi's advertised output was "under-rated" by Chrysler Corporation.
The engine could produce much higher HP figures with relatively few modifications, but those modifications drastically affected the engine's drivability on the street as they usually were made to take advantage of the free-breathing nature of the cylinder heads at high engine speeds.
To avoid confusion with earlier (1951-'58) and current Hemi engines, the 426-based Hemi is sometimes called the "2G" or "Gen 2" Hemi.[3] The easiest way to identify a 2G Hemi: A distributor at the front.
The street version of the 2G Hemi engine was used (optionally, in all but the last case) in the following vehicles:

[psycho_demonata]

Aight, next pick will be Masarati Gran Turismo S under the Coupe category

[driveway]

I won't be able to make my pics until late tonight, after midnight probably, so if whoever is after me is aching to make their selection, go ahead.

[TimSJ]

I am confused with all of the AK and stuff. Am i up or is it Physco D again and then me.

Help please

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by TimSJ

I am confused with all of the AK and stuff. Am i up or is it Physco D again and then me.

Help please

Psyco_D and then you

[TimSJ]

Great thanks

[psycho_demonata]

so its my turn now? so confused haha. anyways hmmm I have nothing on my sedan list but okay I'll just pick the Mercedes Benz C55 AMG

[SebC]

LOL @ TimSJ's sig.