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Old Jan 25, 2004 | 04:11 PM
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Flattering Review from South Africa
Written by a Canadian test driver. Pretty exciting stuff:

http://automotive.mytelus.com/automo...es&artid=20381

A daily driver super car has been created?
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Re: Flattering Review from South Africa
Originally posted by ChrisB
Written by a Canadian test driver. Pretty exciting stuff:

http://automotive.mytelus.com/automo...es&artid=20381

A daily driver super car has been created?
Yep, read the article in Automobile about the SLR and their test in Africa. Raving reviews about it. And it's a daily super car driver

Performance, braking, handling, etc, all great. They say it's just like the Enzo and GT, except it's a street car you can take to the supermarket :p

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Re: Flattering Review from South Africa
Originally posted by ChrisB
Written by a Canadian test driver. Pretty exciting stuff:

http://automotive.mytelus.com/automo...es&artid=20381

A daily driver super car has been created?
wow it weights 4200 lbs???
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in the magazine i read it in, it was about 3700 pounds...none the less, super fast, 0-60 in 3.8s (conservative)...editors said 3.5 seconds.
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