Top Gear Lap Record Smashed...

ryallm · Post by **ryallm** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:10 am

I was chatting to a guy with an Ultima at Croft last year. He said he found it terrifying on anything other than a bone dry track, and was thinking of selling it to buy an Exige. I still really like Ultimas though. If I didn't have to work for a living I would love to build one. If it takes circa 200 hours to build a Westfield I'd imagine you could easily treble that for an Ultima with no doubt a whole heap of hassle along the way. Fun if you had the time though.

Mark

tut · Post by **tut** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:29 am

I have found the same with Ultimas on track, been on with a few but either the driver has been slow, driver/car have been slow, or they have broken down, once on the second warm up lap.

However there were two cars that outdragged me on the straight recently at KH, a 750hp Escort and an Ultima that I had not been on with before.

tut

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:37 am

I've got a vid of you sything past one at KH on maxsports in the rain Tut

Think I posted elsewhere that this month's evo is a bit light on reviews, and too heavy on the ads for Audi & Shell. There seems to be far more 'we went on the presh launch and drove these cars at 8/10ths on the specifically chosen test route' articles now than before. eCoty will be back soon though, that promises to be a great read.

I was quite disappointed with the M-Cars review, far less entertaining than the similar Lambo one they did previously. Perhaps they should re-run the Porsche supertest, or the Fezza test in the coming months?

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:57 am

I liked this one (spotted on a swealtering day in Le Mans, we were in a beer garden, they were in a queue of traffic with betty swollocks)

ryallm · Post by **ryallm** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:08 am

Nice

Can't think of any car more fitting for a trip to Le Mans - well, 911 RSR maybe. Must be a bit of a mare in that heat without decent aircon though. Can they have aircon?

tut · Post by **tut** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:11 am

What size is it Greg?

tut

Scotty C · Post by **Scotty C** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:16 am

Remember them at Spa 2 or 3 of them. It rained off/on for 2 days never seen them out much on track, but they sounded nice in the garage

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:02 pm

They have an option for Aircon. How good it is though....

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:18 pm

RICHARDHUMBLE wrote:They have an option for Aircon. How good it is though....

The doors open in my pic tell all...