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Originally Posted by RC45
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Originally Posted by mindgam3
Styling isnt the only thing that makes a supercar what it is, you have to take more into account when comparing supercars. Styling is just a matter of opinion, performance figures and technology aren't
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Right here is why none of you kids even know what a true "super car" is. 
The car that single handedly created this niche (which did not exist before it arrived) proves this fact.
The car I refer is not that great of a performer - yet it is the very epitome of what a super-car should look like, sound like and be like.
The Lamborghini Countach.
The is FAR MORE TO A SUPERCAR that just it's performance. (and considering to what great lengths y'all went to, to try prove this to me with regard to why the F360 is better than my Chevy - I am surpised you guys look straight past this when it doesn't suite your point of view)
The F40 is the ultimate car - the ultimate super car and the pinnacle of supercars.
The Countach is the original super car.
Everything that has followed is just a high-powered pretender to the throne.
The McLaren F1 is the last car to come close to this recipe - but didn't quite make.
So - considering the Macca F1 is the only car ever built with such single purposeness and vision and the stuff that made up one mans dreams (Gordon Murray) and spared no expense - yet even it has been unable to dethrone the Countach as the ultimate expression of supercardom -
...and the Macca has note been able to dethrone the F40 as the pinnacle of supercardom - it is not surprising that the clinical CGT or the soul-less Enzo or the committee-designed CCS or even the ostentatious Zonder are unable to.
As has been eluded to earlier, the golden age of supercars has come and gone will never be repeated.
What we face over the next 10 years is the age of hyper-fast cars.
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Firstly, i never stated performance is the only thing neccesary for a supercar. But it is neccesary. You have no performance in comparison to other cars of a similar era and you are not a supercar.
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The car I refer is not that great of a performer - yet it is the very epitome of what a super-car should look like, sound like and be like.
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Maybe so, but the fact that all these recent high performance cars aren't supercars in your opinion, is entirely that, your opinion.
Just as many posters of the enzo will be on kids bedrooms walls just as posters of the countach were back then.
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As has been eluded to earlier, the golden age of supercars has come and gone will never be repeated.
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The golden era for supercars has indeed been and gone.
But the newer modern era of supercars has brought us 6 or 7 in the past 5 years when before only one came around every so often. Therefore this newer era that has just been is arguarbly the better one.
Most of what you said is your opinion. The fact that the CGT is "clinical" is down to the people who made and designed it - the germans, this does not mean its no less of a supercar than any other.
The F40 is no closer to the "epitome" of supercars that is the countach than the enzo is.... except in respect to time.