29 April 2009 - 10:00
Configure this
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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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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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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You'll love it: it looks just like a Telefunken U-47, with leather. It's a way of life.
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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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I once messed around and got a Gti to around £33k!
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i actually discovered that last week. no matter what your configuration is, this is just one of the most hideous car to look at and i'd rather take a bus than driving one of these... just can't believe how ugly this thing is!
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Why the green paint? Is that the cheapest paint option? Or was it the most expensive? Hey hey, why not configure Merc's new E-coupe? I mean, I had fun for hours...
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i did this but with a 911 GT2, nice paint NOT
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Well the idea of a 4-door Porsche was very good indeed. Until I've configured my own. Seriously, a purple Porsche? Who in his/her's right mind order's a purple Porsche?!
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any one know any more configurators?
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I bet James designed that (with the help of the Stig)
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i made a quattroporte it ended up at 98k
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the fiat 500 one is fun
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a fiat 500 for £13,100 base its 10k
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http://www.ferrari.com/English/GT_Sport Cars/CurrentRange/Ferrari_599_GTB/Pages/599GTB.aspx chocolate brown hoorid
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I built a VW with every bit of the most expensive parts, some of which I don't even know what they do, My Total Price:£29,250.00 ...Book a test drive... I think not... Why don't Bugatti offer that with the veyron?
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the chevrolet camaro SS starts at $ 34,225 for the 2SS level trim i speced one up it ended up at $ 45,320
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i just speced up a honda civic type S GT it starteed at £17,145 its now at £21,801
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We Germans do things thoroughly. When we build something dreadful (and believe me, that's our greatest joy), we won't give it a tasteful finish. It's sort of logical, isn't it?
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I hate Porsche's configurator because it never, ever seems to work. VW's configurator? No problem. Bugatti's? Works a dream. But Porsche's? I can't even get past the page where you select 3D or 2D modes. Which is a shame because my dream car is a 911 Turbo...
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Bugatti Veyron configurator.......hours of fun!
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Damn, the configurator is worse than the Ford one.
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I take that back. It is awesome.
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AshHorne, what OS do you use? Because it works fine on XP, but my Vista laptop keeps screwing it up.
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JoeyV8 commented on this article
29 April 2009
Heh, oh god the one you guys built looks horrible! God that colour is ugly. :D
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