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Some Ultima pics
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 10:52 pm
by renmure
Re: Some Ultima pics
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 10:58 pm
by C7Steve
Nice car and good pictures.
What's it like compared to the Exige?
Steve.
Re: Some Ultima pics
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 11:16 pm
by renmure
Can't really compare yet. I am definitely no driving-god, but even I found the Exige to be fairly easy to drive fairly quickly on my local A and B roads. Nothing stupid mind, but I had the feeling that I was comfortably inside the limits of the car but it was still fun. With the Ultima I am not sure where I am in the performance envelope at any given time. I took it up to Turriff last week to get some custom exhaust bits fitted to make it much louder and managed to spin the wheels accelerating out of the 50 limit on the motorway at Laurencekirk and that was a straight bit of road. I think it is a fairly blunt instrument and you could almost stick it in 3rd gear and drive it like an automatic. Performance is totally wasted on me... but it looks good

Re: Some Ultima pics
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 11:17 pm
by SAJ
Great pictures of an awesome car.
Re: Some Ultima pics
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 10:43 am
by ryallm
Looks fantastic

Re: Some Ultima pics
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 2:19 pm
by mwmackenzie
What an epic car great pics bar the lightening ones lol... looks pure dead bril an oll that man! Big fan!
Re: Some Ultima pics
Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 6:46 pm
by T6 KFR
Lovely looking! Do you stay out oldmeldrum way? I past an ultima going home from work last week?!
Re: Some Ultima pics
Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 7:25 pm
by renmure
No... but I was up that way last Tuesday

I had been up to Turriff Exhausts to get rid of the big silencers and have some custom-made ones fitted.
One hour heading south, inching through Aberdeen rush hour traffic, and the car was perfect.
On the other hand, my left thigh was bursting with all the clutch use and my ears were bleeding from the recorded 97dB inside the car.
Memorable.

Re: Some Ultima pics
Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 8:05 pm
by tut
Jim, do you not really think at your age you should be looking at auto boxes?
tut
Re: Some Ultima pics
Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 10:06 pm
by renmure
.... ouch!!!
(mind you, in 3rd gear it is almost the same thing)

Re: Some Ultima pics
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 7:07 pm
by renmure
Re: Some Ultima pics
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 8:44 pm
by robin
Winner
I'll bet you hit 100 from the end of the street to there ... imagine the motion blur!
Great stuff, love the car, bonkers!
Cheers,
Robin
Re: Some Ultima pics
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 8:56 pm
by renmure
robin wrote:
I'll bet you hit 100 from the end of the street to there ... imagine the motion blur!
Great stuff, love the car, bonkers!
Cheers,
Robin
No need to imagine...
Mind you, I was behind it.. pushing it slowly.. whilst folk just laughed

Re: Some Ultima pics
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 10:09 pm
by robin
Yeah, but that's backwards - I want the car blurred, the scenery stationary. You may need to push a lot harder to achieve that

Re: Some Ultima pics
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 10:40 pm
by renmure
Next time I will take the pics.. that way everything will be blurred
