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09-10-2007, 05:39 AM
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One expensive transport!
The cars from The Challenge-Ultimate Edition, beeing shipped back into Holland 
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09-10-2007, 07:39 AM
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id shit myself driving that truck
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09-10-2007, 09:57 AM
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What? Europeans have never heard about enclosed transport before?
I mean in the US, if some bloke buys $30,000 junker '69 Camaro, he would have it sent by enclosed trailer for $1000 - looks like the "1st world europeans" are pretty backwards.
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09-10-2007, 10:10 AM
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we in europe like to show everybody what we got or what we "maybe" have 
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09-11-2007, 11:30 AM
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What? Europeans have never heard about enclosed transport before?
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Most cars down here are transported on similar trailers. More efficient this way, if you're transporting many cars. It's different if there's only one.
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09-11-2007, 11:56 AM
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Originally Posted by RC45
What? Europeans have never heard about enclosed transport before?
I mean in the US, if some bloke buys $30,000 junker '69 Camaro, he would have it sent by enclosed trailer for $1000 - looks like the "1st world europeans" are pretty backwards.
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Having invemted the ICE obviously.
All BMWs are delievered around the UK open, all Porsches, closed and that's between official dealer networks.
I once had a customer who wanted a car on a dealer swap and just drove it 60 miles without PDI on trade plates cause he wanted it so much.
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09-11-2007, 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Mattk
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What? Europeans have never heard about enclosed transport before?
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Most cars down here are transported on similar trailers. More efficient this way, if you're transporting many cars. It's different if there's only one. |
The point being those were not "dealer" deliveries but private cars 
Again - how primative and backwards... the "civilised" europeans don't even have enclosed trailers ... but neither do their women shave... 
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09-11-2007, 12:24 PM
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Yes they need to choose their best driver for this job :shock:
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09-11-2007, 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by RC45
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Originally Posted by Mattk
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What? Europeans have never heard about enclosed transport before?
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Most cars down here are transported on similar trailers. More efficient this way, if you're transporting many cars. It's different if there's only one. |
The point being those were not "dealer" deliveries but private cars
Again - how primative and backwards... the "civilised" europeans don't even have enclosed trailers ... but neither do their women shave... |
At least they're not fat, ugly, inbreds eh?
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09-11-2007, 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted by RC45
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Originally Posted by Mattk
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What? Europeans have never heard about enclosed transport before?
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Most cars down here are transported on similar trailers. More efficient this way, if you're transporting many cars. It's different if there's only one. |
The point being those were not "dealer" deliveries but private cars
Again - how primative and backwards... the "civilised" europeans don't even have enclosed trailers ... but neither do their women shave... |
yep, Britney flashed it again 
about the enclosed trailer, we don't have to hide our European cars :prr:
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09-11-2007, 01:24 PM
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Ho ho ho.
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09-12-2007, 10:00 AM
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I think size wise these open and linked trailers are more user friendly on small and twisty european roads with low bridges and narrow passes.
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09-12-2007, 10:53 AM
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about the enclosed trailer, we don't have to hide our European cars
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Yeah, only Americans have to hide the shit cars they make and drive. I guess the transporter did a cost-benefit analysis, balancing the much higher cost of an enclosed trailer with the (rather minimal) benefits of keeping the car enclosed. They figured it wasn't worth it. They're probably right.
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09-12-2007, 10:59 AM
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^well, I remember seeing a ferrari 360 that had been on the highway on an open trailer in texas when a sandstorm hit, it was almost perfectly stripped of paint
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09-12-2007, 11:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Mattk
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about the enclosed trailer, we don't have to hide our European cars
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Yeah, only Americans have to hide the shit cars they make and drive. I guess the transporter did a cost-benefit analysis, balancing the much higher cost of an enclosed trailer with the (rather minimal) benefits of keeping the car enclosed. They figured it wasn't worth it. They're probably right. |
Other than the bullcrap about "hiding American cars" being just that bullcrap - as there are many thousands of cars of the calibre represented in the opening post carried in enclosed trailors in the US..
BTW the transporter is not "right" - just cheap.
I am pretty sure every one of you cocksuckers would have a lot to say if your Enzo came home driving on an open transporter with paint chips and dinged windshoelds from road debirs.
That was the point - these are not "dealer delivery Golfs and Jettas" being transported... but no doubt the magazine/TV station/test organizer was too fucking cheap to spring for a decent enclosed trailer.
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