WAH-64 Apache vs Lotus Exige

Flatlander · Post by **Flatlander** » Mon May 17, 2004 8:08 am

http://www.sleepy-fish.com/sleepy/Top_Gear_Exige_lo.wmv

23MB - roffles

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Mon May 17, 2004 11:00 am

Correction for your title, it is not WAH-64. it is AH-64D "Longbow" Apache. none-the-less very good movie.

The Best Gunship in the world, flown by the best pilots in the world, The British Army Apache Pilots......

YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!!!! The US Army Apache Pilots are the best known AH-64 Pilots to man. END OF STORY!!!

It is the ugliest machine i have ever seen in my life.

ITS SUPPOSED TO BE UGLY !!! so it strikes fear into the eyes of the enemy.

Flatlander · Post by **Flatlander** » Mon May 17, 2004 11:20 am

No, it's a WAH-64 Apache, license-built by Westland, UK, and used by the Royal Army as the Apache AH.1.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Mon May 17, 2004 11:25 am

that video rules

and ace, shaddup..

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Mon May 17, 2004 11:31 am

Flatlander wrote:No, it's a WAH-64 Apache, license-built by Westland, UK, and used by the Royal Army as the Apache AH.1.

i stand corrected. i know the British bought some AH-64's from the US, made by US. guess they took a new route for getting Apaches.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Mon May 17, 2004 11:48 am

Blah, wasnt that intersting.

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Mon May 17, 2004 2:39 pm

yeah, there are a few more videos here
http://www.elisetalk.com/forums/showthr ... eadid=1370

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Mon May 17, 2004 4:26 pm

Here is an idea. How about enjoy/hate the movie without all the crap Ace?

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Mon May 17, 2004 5:14 pm

heres another idea...STFU and let me do what i want.

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Mon May 17, 2004 5:21 pm

asswombat, stfu

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Mon May 17, 2004 6:56 pm

The video was pretty cool, except for the few cases of below-the-belt America bashing. The line about "friendly fire" was really inappropriate in my opinion. Anyway, getting back on topic, that car handles like a beast. I was actually more impressed by the moves the pilot was pulling off. I have heard how difficult it is to fly a helicopter (see my pathetic attempts in Flight Simulator

), but this guy was going all over the place, tail-whips and all

.

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Mon May 17, 2004 6:58 pm

The Elise is supposed to be the best handling car ever, and the Exige is supposed to be even better.

Cougar · Post by **Cougar** » Mon May 17, 2004 7:41 pm

Top Gun wrote:The video was pretty cool, except for the few cases of below-the-belt America bashing. The line about "friendly fire" was really inappropriate in my opinion.

So we're just supposed to forget about the notorious-ness of American military f*ck-ups?

There's a saying, dating back to World War 2.

When the Germans flew overhead, the Allies ducked.
When the British flew overhead, the Germans ducked.
When the Americans flew overhead, everybody ducked.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Mon May 17, 2004 10:18 pm

Top Gun wrote:I was actually more impressed by the moves the pilot was pulling off. I have heard how difficult it is to fly a helicopter (see my pathetic attempts in Flight Simulator ), but this guy was going all over the place, tail-whips and all .

what FS you got, i can host a session and teach you easily. email me

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Mon May 17, 2004 10:25 pm

ccb, thanks for linking me to a page that requires registration... heh

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Mon May 17, 2004 10:39 pm

I watch Top Gear every sunday night, and the only other TV I watch is F1 every second Monday morning...

Top Gear is a GREAT car show - and because they're closest to the worlds supply of supercars, they have the best car tests of any show I've ever seen. And yes, American bashing is what they do. Make some decent cars and they'd probably stop.

A buddy of mine has a new Elise, and it rips like hell. But only with one person on board. Adding a passenger changes the power to weight ratio so much that the car feels like a totally different vehicle.

Gimme a Murcielago, a Veyron, or a McLaren F1 any day...

bash · Post by **bash** » Mon May 17, 2004 10:48 pm

Rather telling that the dinky Exige uses a Nissan engine.

The totally lame driver (look how often the guy breaks his grip on the road) spends so much time waving the Union Jack that he hopes we won't notice that nothing in the infomercial except perhaps the Exige shell (probably molded from imported composite materials) is British-made.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Tue May 18, 2004 12:14 am

Uses a toyota engine (that's who makes the celica), not nissan.

one of the hosts is driving, not a professional racecar driver.

and he's british. duh.

kurupt · Post by **kurupt** » Tue May 18, 2004 12:33 am

is it just me, or has ace regressed into

ace again?

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Tue May 18, 2004 4:54 am

Mobius wrote:I watch Top Gear every sunday night, and the only other TV I watch is F1 every second Monday morning...

Top Gear is a GREAT car show - and because they're closest to the worlds supply of supercars, they have the best car tests of any show I've ever seen. And yes, American bashing is what they do. Make some decent cars and they'd probably stop.

A buddy of mine has a new Elise, and it rips like hell. But only with one person on board. Adding a passenger changes the power to weight ratio so much that the car feels like a totally different vehicle.

Gimme a Murcielago, a Veyron, or a McLaren F1 any day...

It really depends on how much the driver and passenger weigh, the car itself weighs around 1900 lbs, if you add 300 (150 driver, and 150 passenger) then you increase the weight to 2200, thats a 16% weight increase; while that is substantial, I don't think it would make it feel like a totally different car

Tyranny · Post by **Tyranny** » Tue May 18, 2004 5:05 am

I never really saw a change kur, he just had a couple of good months

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Tue May 18, 2004 5:44 am

ccb056 wrote:asswombat, stfu

Hey now..... I have the copyright on @$$WombatÂ©, and my fee is $5 per use and any version thereof!!!

BTW Ace: you really need to just resist your addiction to the POST/REPLY button, Postcount junkie!! PostCombatÂ© AceCountÂ© STFUCumbackÂ©

AceCombat wrote:I have 34 confirmed kills in my F14

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Tue May 18, 2004 10:12 am

kurupt wrote:is it just me, or has ace regressed into ace again?

uhh, no i havent gone back to that. what gave you that idea?

Buef · Post by **Buef** » Tue May 18, 2004 11:40 am

http://www.sleepy-fish.com/sleepy/Top_Gear_Exige_hi.wmv

45MB hi-res version

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Tue May 18, 2004 1:00 pm

Mobius wrote:Top Gear is a GREAT car show - and because they're closest to the worlds supply of supercars, they have the best car tests of any show I've ever seen. And yes, American bashing is what they do. Make some decent cars and they'd probably stop.

See Ford GT. 'Nuff said

.

Buef · Post by **Buef** » Tue May 18, 2004 2:06 pm

http://www.fordvehicles.com/fordgt/specs.asp

http://www.btinternet.com/~tjthompson/I ... gespec.htm

Ford GT is an awesome car. But for almost 3 times the HP, you would think it would go more than 10mph faster.......

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Tue May 18, 2004 2:13 pm

Ok, now we have moved onto the topic of ridiculous super cars

Aston Martin Vanquish
Bugatti Veyron
Ferrari Enzo
Lamborghini Murcielago
Lotus Esprit
Maybach 62
Porsche Carrera GT

IMO, the Ford GT doesn't even come close to any of those.

Of course, the best car is the Lotus 340R, followed by any Seven.

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Tue May 18, 2004 2:15 pm

Buef wrote:http://www.fordvehicles.com/fordgt/specs.asp

http://www.btinternet.com/~tjthompson/I ... gespec.htm

Ford GT is an awesome car. But for almost 3 times the HP, you would think it would go more than 10mph faster.......

From the pics, that looks like an older Exige, one based off of the S1 Elise, the new Exige is faster

Buef · Post by **Buef** » Tue May 18, 2004 2:20 pm

Best supercar of all time.

1970 Daytona Charger.

1st car to go over 200mph on a closed track
1st car to be outlawed by a racing body as "too fast"
The car still has lower drag than a brand new mustang.

The original is still the best!

(ok, you can stop laff'n now)

Canuck · Post by **Canuck** » Fri May 21, 2004 12:39 am

Ok after seeing this car do 206 MPH personally (it was awsome by the way) it probably needs to go that fast to get enough air past the block to cool it

Trying to run that puppy below 70 MPH or on the street for more than 1 hour, you need to;

1) Stop and cool down, or risk cracking your block and or warping your hemi-heads into non-hemi heads,

2) Hide from the Police for a few hours while laying cold wet blankets on the rad and hood to cool it.

3) Re-fuel

4) Re-tune

Rinse and repeat as needed.

Sage · Post by **Sage** » Fri May 21, 2004 6:11 pm

are we talking about cars or helicopters?

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Fri May 21, 2004 6:27 pm

I dont know anymore...I'm so confused

Jagger · Post by **Jagger** » Fri May 21, 2004 7:36 pm

Mobius wrote:I watch Top Gear every sunday night, and the only other TV I watch is F1 every second Monday morning...

Top Gear is a GREAT car show -

Absolutely! Tiff is my hero. I loved the show where he drove the M3. That was the best.

WAH-64 Apache vs Lotus Exige

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