odurandina

the reason i thought i might mention it is because we don't often have cool stuff like this going on with luxury sports cars in this part of the country, not to mention 6 months of crappy weather to look forward to every year.

the Gumball 3000 racing club will airlift 120 of the world's most exotic automobiles from Stockholm to Boston for the north american leg of the Gumball 3000 rally/party event during the first few days of May, 2010.

about 120 additional exotic cars from north america will join them here in Boston. I think it would be cool if many of you Porsche enthusasts joined their party and maybe run some of the interstate with them all along their route to Montreal, Toronto and then back to New York... i thought i would include a couple of cool video links to go along.

Happy Thanksgiving you all !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-CWQjeOBzI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhC12CEVxY0

white924s

that sounds awesome. I wish I had a nice enough car/enough free cash to do the whole thing...someday maybe

I thought though that the gumball was cancelled after a fatal wreck in 07...at least, that's what I read in the book "The Driver" (which is a great book, btw, about the guy who apparently holds the record for NY to LA by car, at around 31-32 hours). It has some great stories from Gumball rallies

Weston

That's a pretty huge liability. It's entertaining and all, but two innocent people have already been killed as a result of their vehicular jackassery, and there have been countless close calls. I wouldn't want to be around the next time that happens, much less be involved in it. I don't care so much about the breaking of traffic laws, but I avoid "cruises" and such when people are blatantly disrespectful and a danger to themselves and others... it's just begging for trouble, and at the very least, lots of police attention.

odurandina

i realize Nick Morley is an ***, not to mention guilty of reckless driving and vehicular homicide... and i also understand there have been plenty of near-misses that also could have ended horribly with many of these bozos... all that asside, I think the biggest problem with respect to the dangers ever-present on the roadways is poor driver's ed.

in Germany, you must earn by means of what equates to not much less than a master's degree in defensive driving and accident preventation to receive the legal permission to operate a motorized vehicle...

here, we don't have any such program that even comes close. even if everyone was made to earn a class b license, that would still fall short of what should be done... we shouldn't be giving out tickets so drastically for speeding so much as really clamping down hard on anyone who blocks the ability of other drivers to pass on the left... or for simply DRIVING LIKE AN ***... for me it would be more about the cars, and mostly YOU COOL PORSCHE OWNERS for a GTG in motion.

Weston

I agree that the driving competency in this country is rather horrible, however that doesn't really change anything here. The problems with Gumball have not been isolated to the guys who wrecked... they just had their luck run out before others. I do find some of the Gumball stuff to be entertaining, but they're playing with flamethrowers and people are going to get burned.

odurandina

in a couple of weeks, anyone going ?

SamGrant951

nope, are you?

odurandina

yep... just to check out all the cars and maybe take some video.

Chris02BoxsterS

Do you know their route or arrival time at Logan 5/4? I cannot seem to find any useful details on their website... Would like to see the show. Thanks, Chris

roman944

love their videos

gotta say, a 944 with LS1/2/3 swap could definitely run with those guys!

shiners780

Watched 30 seconds of the first video. Those guys are idiots.

Hotshoe

They came through here last here and the troopers were waiting for them. On my way home from work they busted a whole bunch of 'em and were loading one car on a flat bed.

I always thought it was funny that they picked the most conspicuous cars and graphics possible and then blast around not expecting to get busted. You would think they would try to blend in to avoid the law. I guess it just goes with the Ed Hardy shirts and tribal tats!

Dan151

when are they going to be in Boston i wouldnt mind going down to take a look at some of the cars?

roman944

yup, pretty much all its good for - you can get to see some nice cars that you probably normally wouldn't , or at least not up here

they had some kind of a BIG crash where a couple people died either last year or year before that, can't remember exactly

michel944

They will be in Quebec City on May 5th, 15 minutes from my home ! I'll go have a look at these punks....