supercars on the road

baadmw · Post by **baadmw** » 13 Apr 2006, 10:03

vellu wrote:Well, perhaps not the starting price for a C-series, but the average price definitely. Cars are heavily taxed in Finland...

The "cheapest" listed on a finnish car dealer site is:

Mercedes-Benz C-sarja C 160 Kompressor SportcoupÃ© 37900â‚¬

And that's the starting price, add extras and what ever equipment you need on top...

oh yeah sorry.... didnt remember the sportcoupÃ©. i only thought about the sedan

Post by **TheStig** » 14 Apr 2006, 07:36

Mercedes is pretty poorly equiped stockwise so if you want some comfort and even some pretty normal things the price will rise fast.

My brother once looked at a C200 compressor (sportscoupe) but as soon as he heard the final price when everything was added he suddenly lost interest

Sweet-16 · Post by **Sweet-16** » 15 Apr 2006, 06:09

not exactly on the road.. but i saw this beautiful red ferarri 348 GTS at a car lot the other day!

[if you look to the top right, yo uwill also see a late-90s STS-V and an older bmw 3 series]

xHaZxMaTx · Post by **xHaZxMaTx** » 15 Apr 2006, 08:39

I saw a black convertible M3 today. *drool*

baadmw · Post by **baadmw** » 15 Apr 2006, 09:47

Sweet-16 wrote:not exactly on the road.. but i saw this beautiful red ferarri 348 GTS at a car lot the other day!

[if you look to the top right, yo uwill also see a late-90s STS-V and an older bmw 3 series]

sry for the offtopic but the bmw is an E34= 5 series. but nice ferrari anyways

steelsnake00 · Post by **steelsnake00** » 15 Apr 2006, 10:22

baadmw wrote:
Sweet-16 wrote:not exactly on the road.. but i saw this beautiful red ferarri 348 GTS at a car lot the other day!

[if you look to the top right, yo uwill also see a late-90s STS-V and an older bmw 3 series]
sry for the offtopic but the bmw is an E34= 5 series. but nice ferrari anyways

E34 M5 or m-tech kitted 525 by the looks of it actually

Sweet-16 · Post by **Sweet-16** » 15 Apr 2006, 10:54

yeah. i have seen a lot of Ferrari's lately. the latest was an F40 TT but i didn't have my cam >_<

for anyone who has heard one of those, back me up when i say it sounds SWEET!

S2000_Skyline12 · Post by **S2000_Skyline12** » 15 Apr 2006, 16:17

i saw a Maybach yesterday

master m · Post by **master m** » 15 Apr 2006, 18:31

Sweet-16 wrote:yeah. i have seen a lot of Ferrari's lately. the latest was an F40 TT but i didn't have my cam >_<

for anyone who has heard one of those, back me up when i say it sounds SWEET!

Yes it does

I saw a Maserati Coupe today.
And a 2004 Maserati Quattroporte on thursday

Felixkissa · Post by **Felixkissa** » 23 May 2006, 21:54

yesterday saw a REAL supercar on the road as a yellow Lamborghini Gallardo passed the place where I work

also saw a mkIV Supra later that day, but it's not really a supercar...

xHaZxMaTx · Post by **xHaZxMaTx** » 24 May 2006, 00:38

I saw my first last-gen RX-7 the other day.

Too bad it was in a junkyard.

(Yes I know, it wasn't on the road)

Toshiro · Post by **Toshiro** » 24 May 2006, 01:16

I saw a FC in Flushing. It was in pretty bad shape. Rusting....

I almost cried.

Cpt.Razkit · Post by **Cpt.Razkit** » 24 May 2006, 03:22

Last Sunday I saw 4 random Ferrari's driving... Couldnt really tell which ones they were, because I had to drive so i couldnt stare.... and drool...

donaldgladden · Post by **donaldgladden** » 24 May 2006, 14:59

master m wrote:
Sweet-16 wrote:yeah. i have seen a lot of Ferrari's lately. the latest was an F40 TT but i didn't have my cam >_<

for anyone who has heard one of those, back me up when i say it sounds SWEET!
Yes it does

I saw a Maserati Coupe today.
And a 2004 Maserati Quattroporte on thursday

you would see a maserati in every one of it's colors in about a week here in alexandria virginia. but theres a 995 chance you wont belive me.

Post by **Pabl0z** » 24 May 2006, 15:01

Well the Netherlands have like the most expensive cars in europe so that's why a Maserati isn't so often seen.
Finland has like the cheapest cars in Europe but with taxes they're just as expensive as in the Netherlands

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I don't think i've ever seen a Maserati.

Post by **TheStig** » 25 May 2006, 05:45

Master M is from Belgium

If we have to alot of Expensive cars here... I wonder where they hide them

I know a few expensive cars where I live, some I saw on a regular basis.

Last Weekend I was in belgium, and I noticed they had alot of rather expensive cars, but in general they where POS cars like the X5 and the likes. and ofcouse massive amounts of ricebuckets.

Post by **Pabl0z** » 25 May 2006, 13:25

Oh right.. i remembered master m was from NL for some reason...

TheStig wrote:If we have to alot of Expensive cars here... I wonder where they hide them

If you didn't get me i was talking about prices.
You have probably the highest car prices.
That's why there aren't so many "supercars".

Dragster · Post by **Dragster** » 25 May 2006, 13:31

Saw a white Viper with golden stripes stroked with black

License plate was from Colorado, said "mamba"

donaldgladden · Post by **donaldgladden** » 25 May 2006, 18:11

could have sworn the snake's color was black

Toshiro · Post by **Toshiro** » 26 May 2006, 01:24

Saw a really nice 03' Impreza WRX STi today. The man must have poured a shiznit of money into it....

Oh, I also saw a Peugot for the first time IRL. In Queens (NYC) of all places.... (-_-)

Post by **Pabl0z** » 26 May 2006, 01:43

Never seen a Peugeot before? ROFL

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Yeah i guess you all drive those bus-sized Chevy's...
If i go to a freeway i see like 10 Peugeot's in a minute.

Toshiro · Post by **Toshiro** » 26 May 2006, 01:53

I live in America. Never seen a Peugot before.

All of a sudden, I'm seeing a lot of BMW M3's.....

Post by **TheStig** » 26 May 2006, 07:07

Ok now I get it Pabl0z, but the reason why our prices are so high is also because of the taxes. we have to pay 2 kinds of tax.
normal tax like every other product that you buy.
and special car tax. wich is around 40% of the baseprice of the car. and above the base price you pay a other 19%. (you don't pay tax over tax. both are on the bare sell price.)
so lets say a 10.000 euro car (new base price)
you pay 1900
and a extra 4000
so the final selling price will be 15.900 euro.

Post by **Pabl0z** » 26 May 2006, 12:25

Yeah well i talked about the car prices with Kekumrulez and our prices are almost exactly the same as yours.
But i don't know which country has the bigger taxes.
I think there was only one country that had bigger taxes on cars than we do.
I couldn't find better info but it said on one webpage that our car taxes used to be 50% of the selling price of a car.
So a 20.000â‚¬ car contains 10.000â‚¬ of taxes.
They said on that page that the amount of taxes has dropped but i haven't noticed anything.
I think we still have higher taxes than you do but because we have i think the second cheapest cars in the EU region that the prices are the same as yours with the taxes.

baadmw · Post by **baadmw** » 28 May 2006, 17:31

I think it was in 2003 when the car tax was lowered abit in finland, but it really didnt do much. The biggest difference after 2003 is that we get to import cars from anywhere in the EU without having to pay sh*tloads of taxes (yes, in plural).
Im not sure but i think only denmark have more expensive cars than Finland in europe. Might be that NL has abit more expensive, but im not sure. As pabloz already said, the car prices in Finland are actually one of the cheapest in EU, but the taxes make the cars very expensive here.
Anyways, back to topic. these are the ones i cam remember now: bmw E46 M3 yesterday; a few weeks ago a saleen mustang (i have no idea what it's real name is, but it was the new mustang); bmw 760iL yesterday; bmw E60 M5, in april i think; bmw E39 M5, also in april; jaguar xkr, this month; MB cl55 AMG carlsson tuned, the owner lives near us; MB cl500, yesterday. i think it was in middle april i saw a ferrari f430 convertible. we were out driving with my dad, and he asked me if he should floor it, i said yes ofcourse. the ferrari guy didnt like that, and he flew past us with a really nice sound of a really nice V8