RE: HWA Evo: 'Please don't call it a restomod'
Discussion
big_rob_sydney said:
I wonder if it's just me, but I dont see the value in this restomod version of the original car. With the Prodrive p25, you can buy the original car for a fraction of the price; is the same true here?
Why on earth would you buy a compromised frankenstein version of a car at huge expense, when you can get the original, PLUS things like purpose built race cars, bikes, planes, helicopters, and art, all for less than the price of one of these, AND still have enough money left over for hookers and blow?
The way I see it (and linked with the post above which is similar), as the article points out the originals whilst not as much are still very pricey now. Should you pick up an original, you'd have to be prepared to thrash it and lose a big chunk of change on it's value if that's what you were buying it for (and all the more power to you if you did actually buy an original and drive the nuts of it), Why on earth would you buy a compromised frankenstein version of a car at huge expense, when you can get the original, PLUS things like purpose built race cars, bikes, planes, helicopters, and art, all for less than the price of one of these, AND still have enough money left over for hookers and blow?
This one, has all the look of the original but the performance of a modern car plus the ability to put miles on it without worrying about the value (maybe, it's super limited and bespoke one would assume it won't lose value).
I imagine the people that buy this probably already have an original or at least a collection of cars so it won't really be a worry to them.
howardhughes said:
Im a big 190E 2.3 / 2.5 fan. Gorgeous cars, but this does absolutely nothing for me. As does the Restomod Lancia 037
There is absolutely no need to f
k about with an original masterpiece of engineering.
If they sell all of them, it proves that there absolutely is a need to "fThere is absolutely no need to f
k about with an original masterpiece of engineering.k about" with the original. It's simple supply and demand.big_rob_sydney said:
I wonder if it's just me, but I dont see the value in this restomod version of the original car. With the Prodrive p25, you can buy the original car for a fraction of the price; is the same true here?
Why on earth would you buy a compromised frankenstein version of a car at huge expense, when you can get the original, PLUS things like purpose built race cars, bikes, planes, helicopters, and art, all for less than the price of one of these, AND still have enough money left over for hookers and blow?
I suspect the people buying this have enough money to have this, an original and 100 other cars, plus a good few years worth of hookers and blow.Why on earth would you buy a compromised frankenstein version of a car at huge expense, when you can get the original, PLUS things like purpose built race cars, bikes, planes, helicopters, and art, all for less than the price of one of these, AND still have enough money left over for hookers and blow?
big_rob_sydney said:
Why on earth would you buy a compromised frankenstein version of a car at huge expense, when you can get the original?
Because this car is built by proper racing team with a proper connection to Mercedes-Benz - HWA are in charge of Mercedes-AMG official factory entry in DTM and have been for almost 25 years. Not to mention the "A" in "HWA" is also the "A" in "AMG"...looking/listening to the video, wow... ok it sounds ok-ish in the higher rpm, underthat its worse then most Diesel cars.
also looks not to good in the video, then i much rather like this cheap-ish 23k Evo 1 look (great looks and parts) and plant in a cheap-ish AMG M113 V8 which sounds good and decent power compared to what it was.
also looks not to good in the video, then i much rather like this cheap-ish 23k Evo 1 look (great looks and parts) and plant in a cheap-ish AMG M113 V8 which sounds good and decent power compared to what it was.
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