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Old 12-10-12, 12:30 PM
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Aww come on Jay where's the tire smoke? lol i'm sure we'll see it next month...
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Where is that sexy interior video!?! The new tachs are LFA like. Drool.
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at least he reviewed it flatteringly!
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Nice honest review.
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Zzzzz he could do better.
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8 speed tranny
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For a man that pretty drives a supercar every day of his life, it was a pretty generous review by him. I'd be like... This ****s slow, where's my Ferrari?! Haha.
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boooo - longer wheel base = less sporty. I wants to be a bmw5??
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IMO, there's too much secrecy from auto-manufacturers before new models are released. Even over and above that silly speckled-tape all over the body, I thought the engineer/rep was quite rude to Leno by total silence and blatently ignoring all of his real questions...and just nodding his head ever so slightly on the general-satisfaction question. Another thing neither one of them seemed to notice...if it was a JDM (Japanese-Home-Market) vehicle, then why the left-hand-drive?
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Originally Posted by mmarshall
IMO, there's too much secrecy from auto-manufacturers before new models are released. Even over and above that silly speckled-tape all over the body, I thought the engineer/rep was quite rude to Leno by total silence and blatently ignoring all of his real questions...and just nodding his head ever so slightly on the general-satisfaction question. Another thing neither one of them seemed to notice...if it was a JDM (Japanese-Home-Market) vehicle, then why the left-hand-drive?
The Engineer bit was obviously set up and done for humor.
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Originally Posted by mmarshall
IMO, there's too much secrecy from auto-manufacturers before new models are released. Even over and above that silly speckled-tape all over the body, I thought the engineer/rep was quite rude to Leno by total silence and blatently ignoring all of his real questions...and just nodding his head ever so slightly on the general-satisfaction question. Another thing neither one of them seemed to notice...if it was a JDM (Japanese-Home-Market) vehicle, then why the left-hand-drive?
this was done and released few months ago and done for fun.
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