[siglite]

Super car: yes. Exotic: I don’t know maybe? I always tell people “it’s just a VW” and don’t get all wrapped up in that lol

 

[Joet34712]

@siglite IDK man, this just looks like an average car to me.

 

[wobble1]

Then you should buy a Lamborghini if you want the benefits. It’s all about the badge. LOL

This

 

[Tupper]

Good lord, hopefully you have a thicker skin than some of your milquetoast brethren...

^ LOL, I take it you've had a bad experience with Porsche fanboys?

 

[extrablack]

Where does the LFA fit into this? What about the Carrera GT or the 918?

Not really supercars I guess. Just exotic.

 

[ezmaass]

Somewhere on a yacht forum...

Guy 1: "Is my Princess Y85 a superyacht? Some guy at the boat show said no. "

Guy 2: "No, you'll need at least the Y95 - that's the top of their Y line."

Guy 3: "Well, no, Sunseeker says their superyachts start at 116 feet, so you're both wrong!"

Guy 4: "It's not a superyacht unless it has at least 4 full-time crew."

Guy 5: "Well, I have the 159 foot Sunseeker Ocean, and I think nothing under 150 feet qualifies as super!"

Guy 6: "Wikipedia says: A superyacht or megayacht is a large and luxurious pleasure vessel. There are no official or agreed upon definitions for such yachts, but these terms are regularly used to describe professionally crewed motor or sailing yachts, ranging from 40 metres (130 ft) to more than 180 metres (590 ft) in length, and sometimes include yachts as small as 24 metres (79 ft)."

Guy 7: "My 500 foot yacht is definitely a MEGA yacht, not a plebian SUPER yacht... especially if some little 79 footer can be included in that definition."

I think it helps to add some perspective here and consider that most of the world's population who owns a car will never own one that retails for more than half the price of an average US home... nor accelerates more than twice as quick as an average car, or reach a top speed near 200mph. That's "super" to most people... just as a 95 foot yacht OR 116 foot yacht would be equally "super." Exotic? As I said - there are about 6,000 R8s in the US for the entire Gen-1 run of 8 years. Consider this - Toyota sells about 6,000 Camry's in the US in roughly a single week! In fact, in the 8 years the Gen-1 R8 sold roughly 6,000 units in the US, Toyota sold 3,098,834 Camrys over that same time period... a staggering 516 times more cars. So yes, to most people who drive a Camry or something like it, which is most of the population, an R8 is going to be very rare and exotic.

Perspective!

 

[torqueit]

Perspective!

Yep! And also, regarding all of this, according to who and why do I care? Really doesn't have a thing to do with why I enjoy the car so much.

 

[.104678]

I call it an Audi, maybe an exotic. It is certainly a unique vehicle with attributes of a "Supercar." The V8 is a high performance Audi, with a mid mounted engine, not sure if the extra two cylinders make mine anything more than an absolute riot to drive.

This book showed up today, I can not recall seeing Audi call it a Supercar before, it raised my eyebrows based on this conversation being had:

 

[Ironman007]

For me it’s a super car, whatever “people” say [emoji1][emoji3590]


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[siglite]

Yep! And also, regarding all of this, according to who and why do I care? Really doesn't have a thing to do with why I enjoy the car so much.

And, in the end, h8rs gonna h8.

 

[r8rwd]

I bought the car for my wife as she hates the 911 TT so to me it's simply a chick car...

 

[bavarianstance]

911s are not supercars, they are common and normies can't tell the difference between a Base Carrera and the Turbo S

 

[Tupper]

911s are not supercars, they are common and normies can't tell the difference between a Base Carrera and the Turbo S

^ True, but I'd consider a Turbo S a supercar, not the regular Carrera models though

 

[bavarianstance]

^ True, but I'd consider a Turbo S a supercar, not the regular Carrera models though

like I said it's about the normies not enthusiasts. If a non car person can't tell the difference then it doesn't count as a supercar

 

[r8rwd]

911s are not supercars, they are common and normies can't tell the difference between a Base Carrera and the Turbo S

Who said they were supercars?

 

[r8rwd]

^ True, but I'd consider a Turbo S a supercar, not the regular Carrera models though

Personally I wouldn't, too run of the mill...

 

[Scott-AhlmanPerformance]

Supercar and exotic for me (and the '05-'06 Ford GT team) = Aesthetics, performance (~200 mph confidently and carves corners like no tomorrow), ~500 HP+ mid-engined, sound, two seats (not 2+2) and yes rarity (the Lambos have similar production numbers to the R8). They look crazy fast sitting still.
(of note...the McLaren F1 anti-social three seating...clearly exotic)

Sorry, yes this criteria would exclude the 911's...but the Carrera GT and 918...like the R8...exotics all day long.

But frankly anyone discounting bad ass cars for their exclusive front row "club" is not worth joining IMHO.

 

[JuddS]

A few months ago, I spent the night sleeping on a wood floor in the "school" in this village and eating fish out of the Amazon river. They had a donkey and were pretty sure it was a super donkey because no one within a 4 hour boat ride had anything that nice. But I told them the guys in the "city" 8 hours away by boat had a much nicer actual horse so they could suck it.

 

[ezmaass]

^ True, but I'd consider a Turbo S a supercar, not the regular Carrera models though

Yes, I would agree.

I feel like people conflate "supercar" and "exotic." They're two separate terms. Supercar implies the car can perform in ways that other cars can't - it's super, or "greater" in some way. Exotic implies that the car is rare and unique in some way. A supercar is not necessarily exotic, and an exotic is not necessarily a supercar.

A Porsche 911 Turbo S can do things that are far outside the capabilities of normal cars OR regular sports cars. It goes 0 - 60 in 2.6s, has 640hp, and a top speed over 200mph. That's competitive with any other supercar. Exotic? Well, this is where you could argue for or against it. In one way, it's definitely exotic as it's over $200k, and there simply aren't Turbo S's everywhere. There ARE many variants of the 911 all over the place, however, and therefore the basic shape and model is well-worn into our eyeballs - most people unable to discern the difference, as well. So, I'd probably say it's a supercar but not necessarily exotic.

On the opposite end, you could look at a car like a Rolls Royce Phantom or a Messerschmitt KR200 and say it's clearly an exotic (rare and unique), but it's not a supercar.

 

[Scott-AhlmanPerformance]

Yes, I would agree.

I feel like people conflate "supercar" and "exotic." They're two separate terms. Supercar implies the car can perform in ways that other cars can't - it's super, or "greater" in some way. Exotic implies that the car is rare and unique in some way. A supercar is not necessarily exotic, and an exotic is not necessarily a supercar.

A Porsche 911 Turbo S can do things that are far outside the capabilities of normal cars OR regular sports cars. It goes 0 - 60 in 2.6s, has 640hp, and a top speed over 200mph. That's competitive with any other supercar. Exotic? Well, this is where you could argue for or against it. In one way, it's definitely exotic as it's over $200k, and there simply aren't Turbo S's everywhere. There ARE many variants of the 911 all over the place, however, and therefore the basic shape and model is well-worn into our eyeballs - most people unable to discern the difference, as well. So, I'd probably say it's a supercar but not necessarily exotic.

On the opposite end, you could look at a car like a Rolls Royce Phantom or a Messerschmitt KR200 and say it's clearly an exotic (rare and unique), but it's not a supercar.

Hmmmm....agreed they are two separate terms but usually go together when people think of supercars...exotic has multiple definitions and agreed on unique and likely rare, but beauty is often part of that definition (at least the one I favor ). Many other "exotic" definitions also include the word "foreign"....a rolls or a super donkey doesn't fit to me. Lol