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Spitfire vs Range Rover Sport

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Benstan
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Spitfire vs Range Rover Sport

Post by Benstan » Tue Jul 09, 2013 2:38 pm

One of these machines looks and sounds great and is a design and engineering classic; and the other....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/mot ... tfire.html

Would have been interesting to have an X line up too.  I suspect the softer set-up in the RRS would mean that the X would be last on that surface, but we'll never know.
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Re: Spitfire vs Range Rover Sport

Post by X5Sport » Tue Jul 09, 2013 3:25 pm

If they'd used a single seat later 'mark' of Spit (like Gryffon powered XIV with the 5 bladed prop) that would have been no contest.

Still Hooning an RRS on grass at that speed is an achievement - even if there were quite probably some serious noises from underneath!!

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