So if you pretend for a moment that you don't give a crap what anyone else thinks ("cool" people don't), you already understand what several of us have told you on a number of occasions.
That's why I said "maybe". And yes, it could be fun, though I'd still rather have a car that can be fun in the corners
and on the straights.
Thanks.
I realize you're a man of straightaways, but to be clear, the fun is less about flooring it and more about driving the car to its ragged edge, in a manner that would require triple-digit speeds in any high-performance car.
I get what you're talking about, but I still don't think it makes the car cool. Fun to drive is not the same thing as cool.
So, on the other hand, I guess the coolest possible car would be something like the Hennessey Venom. On spacesavers. I mean, since the accessibility of all that power isn't important.
I didn't say accessibility was a bad thing. What I meant was, some pathetic little excuse for a car, like a 2CV or a kei car, isn't automatically cool because you can drive it at 10/10ths all the time and not get pulled over. IMO, that's grasping at straws. The only reason a car can do that is because it's pathetic and being pathetic isn't cool.
Maybe kids. Scratch that, maybe kids with incredibly narrow views. You do have more insight into that particular demographic than most.
Contrary to GTP belief, you don't have to be too young to drive to appreciate horsepower.
Funnily enough, my dad and his wife just got a 330+ bhp Genesis Coupe this summer. He doesn't like to drive it. Not because it isn't fast, but because it absolutely is, and he recognizes how easy it is to break the law without even meaning to with it - he nearly doubled the limit when he first drove it, just pulling around a slower car. And that's just the straight-line stuff - he's also commented on the scary levels of grip the car has compared to both the muscle cars of his youth, and the econoboxes he's driven as dailies for the past decade. He doesn't like that he has to break the limit to even get near the edge of the car's limits.
Tell him there's a guy in Alaska who'll gladly take it off his hands if he doesn't like it.
So, I take it this soccer-mom-mobile is one of the coolest cars on Earth?
I was talking performance abilities, but (although I probably really am the only person who thinks this) I consider wagons cool anyway, simply because, in today's automotive climate, they're a rebellion of common sense against the crossovers. Plus, the one in that photo is the R63 variant, which is fast anyway.
That's because of the feature bloat you so often lament. Drive an old car at 70 mph and it feels like you're going 70 mph. Drive a modern car at 70 mph and it feels like you could step out the door and onto the sidewalk without stumbling. Just like George Michael did. Now if he were in a Defender instead of a Range Rover... well, let's be honest... he might still have done it, anyway. 
I know what you speak of, and lament the lack of a sense of speed in a high-riding, isolated car, but knowing me, having that sense of speed may just egg me on to go faster anyway, depending on the circumstances.
Well, sure, some supercars are ugly, but at least as many aren't. IMO, Lamborghini has had the Countach, Diablo, Murcielago, Gallardo, Huracan, and Aventador, which are all at least passable in the looks department. The Hennessy Venom GT isn't bad either, and any of the bespoilered special edition Koenigseggs is pretty good looking too.
Not if it's good looking.
This:
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2013/04/review-morgan-3-wheeler/
attracts more attention from the opposite sex than a Ferrari. Even though on track, as the owner explains, it's "slower than the safety car."
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Ability =/= coolness. Women aren't as impressed with manly power as men think. Which is why a slim and trim Jason Statham pulls more interest from the opposite sex than Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson does.[/QUOTE]
A lot of those slower cars don't really look good. The 2CV's snail-like looks match its snail-like performace. The AZ-1 looks like a toy car. More typical kei cars (and a lot of other super-small hatchbacks) have the appearnce of being taller than they are wide, which is a rather unfortunate look.
Sure it does, because if you can't use it then it's just there to be a measure tool for your ego among group "well I have 577 hp that I can't fully use...but I have it!"
I mean the same concept with top speed number, so what your car can do 195 mph where do you plan to do said potential?
But that's just it. It's the impressive performance that makes them desirable and cool.
