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Old 16-05-2017, 03:13 PM   #260
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Default Re: The greatest ever Australian performance car

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Originally Posted by Bossxr8 View Post
What exactly is cutting edge about the W1? Pushrods, superchargers and manual gearboxes are as old as the automobile itself. Torque vectoring has been around for years and carbon fibre is old tech really. Even the GTS-R had some back in 97. The engine is a decade old Corvette model no longer in production. None of it is cutting edge. Carbon fibre wheels on the Shelby GT350R is cutting edge for example. W1 has nothing other cars don't.
Pretty much every car baring the select few hyper cars then.

Simply put, there is no other Australian car that on a performance basis that can out do it, like it or lump it, Ford didn't have the $$ and did the best they could at the time.
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