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We like a good online car configurator here at Top Gear: speccing up cars we could never hope to own, seeing how much we can hike the price by ticking our favourite option boxes (carbon ceramic brakes are always a pleasurably expensive addition).
Happily, Porsche has just released a shiny new configurator for its four-door Panamera, so we’ve been getting busy on that today. In just a few happy clicks, not only have we wracked up just shy of £120k, but we’ve also chosen a horrid paint option. Get us.
We then moved onto VW’s site to have a shot at the new Golf GTI, and were slightly shocked to find that we’d accidentally built one for just over £30k.
That’s a lot of dough to drop on a Golf, especially considering what second hand bargains you can pick up at the moment.
But finally, as is always the way with this game, real world considerations went swiftly out the window. Hence this black-with-gold-wheels Ferrari 430 Scuderia. We can’t help ourselves.
Let us know what deeply geeky car builds you get up to.
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JoeyV8 commented on this article
at 02:18 pm on 29 April 2009
Heh, oh god the one you guys built looks horrible! God that colour is ugly. :D
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tr226 commented on this article
at 02:19 pm on 29 April 2009
Always a great way of killing time - my favourite is the Maserati car configurator at http://configurator.maserati.com/gtcc/landing.page?lang=en¤tCountry=81 It's amazing how fast you can turn a gorgeous, glorious Granturismo into a green and orange mess with black alloys, blue calipers and a huge array of colours for all the surfaces, the stitching, the carpets... Everything.
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Mikeado commented on this article
at 02:55 pm on 29 April 2009
What about the 'Amethyst' colour for the Panamera? It's just a ghastly shade of purple! Plus you can have a bright red interior to really set it apart from, er, good specs. But, and I can tell you from far too much experience, that's nothing compared to what you can do with a 911 or Cayman (Ladies and gentlemen, I give you 'Cayman skin pattern' leather for the centre console). Try it and see. I recommend a Carrera if you go 911 - more options than the more special versions.
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Takk commented on this article
at 03:11 pm on 29 April 2009
You'll love it: it looks just like a Telefunken U-47, with leather. It's a way of life.
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Takk commented on this article
at 03:15 pm on 29 April 2009
Any colour you like. But this one, that is. Then again, there's no colour in the world that'd make this car look uglier than it already is. Why, Porsche? Why? They really lost it, ever since the 996.
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