CGT review
07-28-2020, 12:38 AM
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I have to say it was one of the fun videos and very much right on.
07-28-2020, 10:58 AM
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Very much enjoy Cammisa's videos....including this one...but if I may add a few comments:
- a CGT is a very natural handling car and is a honey to drive (with updated tires). Its reputation for being tricky to drive comes from a number of factors - cars with old/aged tires (such as Paul Walker's), and it will bite if your head off if you are used to cars with electronic safety nets such as stability control. Provoke it and it will kill you. But a complete joy if you treat it with respect and know what you are doing.
- very much prefer the CGT to a LFA. Noise wise, CGT sounds like a 60s Le Mans sports racer from the outside with its exhaust, and inside with all the mechanical gear clatter. A LFA sounds like a digitized version of an F1 car both inside (piped sound) and outside - very cool but a little artificial. Also, LFA burdened with an ancient single-clutch paddle shift and the worst mouse-based Lexus infotainment - I wish I could rip it out. Finally, a LFA is a GT car not a supersports car like a CGT. With all that said, the LFA held the Nordschleife record in its day - beating its contemporary 997 GT2 RS. I would take an LFA over a Ferrari 599/599 GTO/F12/812.
Would love to hear from anyone else who has owned both V10s
Ok, that is my 2 cents. Thanks for reading!
- a CGT is a very natural handling car and is a honey to drive (with updated tires). Its reputation for being tricky to drive comes from a number of factors - cars with old/aged tires (such as Paul Walker's), and it will bite if your head off if you are used to cars with electronic safety nets such as stability control. Provoke it and it will kill you. But a complete joy if you treat it with respect and know what you are doing.
- very much prefer the CGT to a LFA. Noise wise, CGT sounds like a 60s Le Mans sports racer from the outside with its exhaust, and inside with all the mechanical gear clatter. A LFA sounds like a digitized version of an F1 car both inside (piped sound) and outside - very cool but a little artificial. Also, LFA burdened with an ancient single-clutch paddle shift and the worst mouse-based Lexus infotainment - I wish I could rip it out. Finally, a LFA is a GT car not a supersports car like a CGT. With all that said, the LFA held the Nordschleife record in its day - beating its contemporary 997 GT2 RS. I would take an LFA over a Ferrari 599/599 GTO/F12/812.
Would love to hear from anyone else who has owned both V10s
Ok, that is my 2 cents. Thanks for reading!
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