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Tim Taylor
04-14-2011, 11:22 PM
Hello, my name is Tim I am 27 years old - and as the title says I am from germany.

As I was about 15-16 years old all my friends dreamed of their first Volkswagen GTi or even a BMW - I wanted a 69 Camaro. I collected all magazines, pictures etc. which had a Camaro pictured.

After I started my own business three years ago and earned some money, I bought a '02 Z06 Corvette from Florida. With its LS6 engine it was a great perfoming car. But I had to sell it to free up some money for my shop...

I have three cars right now - two of them for sale at the end of this summer to buy "my" first gen Camaro.

The frist one is a 2007 Audi S3 with TFSI engine. With its 300hp its nice and comfortable to drive BUT its to an "electric" car. Everything is assisted and sometimes you think the car drives you and not the other way around.

The second one is more interesting in my eyes. Its a Lotus Super Seven which is an ultra leigtweight car with lots of power an No electronics. No power steering, no power brakes, no ABS etc.... But with 650 hp per tonne.
The car weighs 660 kg without driver and has an 2,0 Audi Turbo motor with approx 420 horses.
Its exciting and dangerous.... but it has only 4 cylinder. So it has to go after we made some final tests with it.

I am sure I will find many good information on this board and perhaps someone has my dream car for sale at the end of this summer.

Tim

Chevythunder1981
04-15-2011, 12:04 AM
Hello Tim! Welcome to the board! I'm in Germany too, near Ramstein/Kaiserslautern. What kind of shop do your run?

Tim Taylor
04-15-2011, 12:57 AM
Thanks, i guess you are based in germany?
We do cnc cylinderhead porting for most VW and Audi engines. Porsche as well. Both cars mentioned above were bought for testing purposes.
Small Audi turbo engines are nice and make good power - but compared to ground shaking V8 they are nothing.

RobertGP
04-15-2011, 03:14 AM
Hallo und willkommen an Board!

wellis77
04-15-2011, 03:30 AM
Hi Tim, welcome from Zürich!

Nessumsar
04-15-2011, 07:51 AM
Yummy looking Lotus you have there!

Welcome from the States!

CruizinKev
04-17-2011, 11:55 PM
welcome aboard!

neki67
04-18-2011, 11:24 PM
Hello neighbour!