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now to me it looks like it was designed by the boys at Hotwheels... for $350,000 minimum it should at LEAST be fast OR good looking, preferably both... and to me it's neither (for the price anyway, it would certain beat my car)

one-of or not... really now.

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Cynthetiq

hmmph.

with today's technology you can get a great one off with less than $100,000 and it would be fast and good looking.

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BigTruck1956

Come ON. Who wants drop 350K on a corvette with a body kit??

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Willravel

Ugly as sin. I wouldn't drive it for free.

ubertuber

Well, that's pretty expensive. But I like the gauges.

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catback

$350,000 for that? For that money I'd buy a corvette AND a house to park it at.

cyrnel

I'm sure they're just trying to recoup funds & get stoopid money if they can. It'll be the car's first auction minimum. With the looks of that thing there won't be more than a bidder or two whatever the price. May as well dream.

I like the gauges too, though the combination with the interior just looks like a kitcar. VDO has a series like that. Classic or something?

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aceventura3

If I had Bill Gates kind of money the $350k price tag would mean nothing. You might be able to get mass production cars that can perform better, but if you are going to truely have a "one of a kind" sports car, $350 doesn't seem that much.

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THGL

For $350k I'd at least want the exhaust tips to look they weren't made by the local HS shop class.

For less than 1/3 the cost of that, you could buy a Pontiac Solstice and have a Vette engine dropped it.

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Martian

Would I buy it? Hell no. Then again, no matter how wealthy I become I'm not likely to spend over $100 000 on a car - supercars just don't interest me.

Is it going to sell? Yes, it will and probably for a good deal more than the initial bid. There are plenty of people out there with far more money than sense and you have to consider that the sort of people who could afford this thing would probably be interested in the prestige associated with owning a truly one-of-a-kind vehicle. There is only one GDT Speedster in the world and that's going to count for a lot.

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Aro23

that car looks like it's still in the prototype stages if that's the final result it's an ugly car for 350k. as mentioned above there are so many other vehicles that you can purchase for less the price. or with that price buy a lot of cars hehehe

waltert

the powertrain definetely seems...lame... for a car of that price... they should have gotten hold of an LS7

DJ Happy

If someone gave that to me for free, I'd sell it. Luckily for the manufacturers there are plenty of complete morons with wadloads of cash in the world.

The front looks like something out of a children's book - smiling face grill and two happy eye lights. Crap.

BadNick

I see a few successful design details here and there, but IMO, overall the design is a failure because it looks like they totally gave up thinking about the front. So it ends up looking like an ill conceived and poorly executed kit car worth way WAY under the asking price. People who have no design sensibility should not be designing stuff.

ncgti

Who beat that with an ugly stick?? So close but the front end - yuck!! Hot Wheels must have had the final design contract.

superiorrain

I'm not paying for it and i certainly wouldn't want to be seen driving it. Give me a Ferrari 430 at half the price and i'll show you a real car.

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fastom

It sure is ugly and has just 300hp with an automatic and lame gearing. It's an 80's Corvette with a body kit.

Funny thing is they are all Ford employees, you'd think they would have taken some cast off GT parts home in their lunch boxes to build this thing.

shakran

so I can get a rolling pile of crap for $350,000 OR for $190,500 I can get this:



and go 0-60 in 3.1 seconds, with a second gear start.

Gee, tough choice

newtx

I don't think it will bring that kind of money. In my opinion the front end needs to be scrapped. I like what they have done with the interior. Looks like they were after the James Bond look.

krwlz

And a C-5 Corvette at that from the sounds of it

MSD

Wow, it's so ugly it crashed Firefox.

I'll take my non-existant 350k and spend it on a non-existant house.

blade02

A few comments... the back and sides of the car look nice... simple, clean, slick lines... but they let a 5 year old design the front end. And why the LT1? Why not an LS series block? Its not like they're hard to find or anything. Hell I know of S-10s with LS swaps. How could these guys who are supposedly big time designers, not get a hold of one?

Rippley

If I were king of the world, and had all the money ever printed, I'd buy one for my collection, and take it out on a sunday once in a while. Wouldn't buy it otherwise, though...

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'90silvia

not for me. waste of time in my humble opinion. I would rather have a tuned 911 Porsche and a downpayment on a beach house. just my .02 though. *a

micah67

I don't see a radio, nor speakers. For that kind of $$$, I'd expect at least an 8-track.

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Scrub0

i don't like it. i would drop the cash on a new BMW M5 and a house, myself.