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67 wagon hands it to a Ferrari 120-130

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posted by  JohnMc on  Wed Nov 23 08:41 CST 2011
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True, but it also misses the point.

The point being that it's not just an all-show, no-go project. he built a car that both looks fantastic, and performs fantastically.

Which really isn't as easy as you make it sound. Try it, get back to us.

This isn't a checkbook project either. Mattias Vocks has a day job at Koenigsegg, making exceedingly low production exotic cars. Is their performance more or less impressive, since they're built by hand and also just an amalgamation of parts too? or is it more impressive, since there's a brand name, and a small but existent production line, and such?

And this isn't jsut a rote collection of parts either. Volvo performance isn't a big business, there aren't catalogs full of the sorts of parts you need to build something like this. Which means you either have to be able to make a lot of the parts yourself from scratch, or know people who can make one-off custom parts.
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