Dream car for the One Lap of America?

With all the One Lap of America cars at the office today, a question: What's your dream car for that event?

I'm still calling dibs on JG's Roadmaster.

Super surprise bonus: I did get to play some today, too.

I'd choose an M5 or some form of AMG Mercedes.

Ooooooh you'll see ;)

Ctsv wagon

One Lap always seems heavy on interstate driving and light on track driving. So I'd go with something that was better on the interstate. E39 M5 would suit pretty well, actually...

poopshovel wrote: Ooooooh you'll see ;)

What he said. I still gotta talk you into 2015 though.

Something simple, light and under $35k that can end the reign of the Godzillas.

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Wait how about an NSX

928GTS

LS1 swapped e36 M3 - if it was absolutely stone reliable.

C6 Z06?

Godzirra

I want to do OLOA in a mildly modded P71.

I probably wouldn't even win my class, but it would be an experience.

On a semi-unlimited budget, it would probably have to be a Ferrari F12berlinetta. That way I could have some class, style, and panache to go with the Godzilla beating performance.

Keith Tanner wrote: One Lap always seems heavy on interstate driving and light on track driving. So I'd go with something that was better on the interstate. E39 M5 would suit pretty well, actually...

But I think you only get points for the racetrack stuff, right?

In some perfect future world I would go with a new ZR1, fairly plush, but still monstrously fast. In the real world where I would turn a ZR1 into a piles of glass, balsa wood, and plastic I bet an FRS would work out, or maybe a WRX.

It's all about finding the car that is fast on the track but doesn't beat you to a pulp in the transit stages.

Ford V8 Swapped Volvo 745 Wagon.

Godzilla, it's obvious that it's good on the track and the road and is much better than all the rest put together!!!

A lowered NBS 2WD Suburban with ridiculously thick sway bars, 12" wide wheels of whatever diameter they need to be to ensure a sticky yet long-wearing tire is available for said rims, 4.10's, 3 pedals with 6 forward gears and a turbo'd yet otherwise stock 4.8, 5.3 or 6.0...because berkeley it.

VF Supercharged E92 M3. 620 HP, it hauls, handles like it's on rails and has a back seat a third driver can sleep in.

Maybe a Jag XJR if comfort betwixt the stops is more important than the win.

Possibly a worked over Boss 302 Laguna but... only if the other two weren't available.

What's the goal? Overall win? Or to compete and be in (relative) comfort during transition? Different choices based on the answers. Hard to argue with the GTR when looking through the results from the past few years.

Out of lack of knowledge, is AWD especially important and/or helpful? Is that one reason the GTRs do so well?

Swank Force One wrote:

poopshovel wrote: Ooooooh you'll see ;)

What he said. I still gotta talk you into 2015 though.

Que? I have some 2015 aspirations of my own, we should discuss.

Oh and I already own my dream one lap vehicle.

Crapcan class. It's going down. Swank Force One isn't great on tight technical courses but I think road courses would be an entirely different ball game.

dyintorace wrote: What's the goal? Overall win? Or to compete and be in (relative) comfort during transition? Different choices based on the answers. Hard to argue with the GTR when looking through the results from the past few years. Out of lack of knowledge, is AWD especially important and/or helpful? Is that one reason the GTRs do so well?

From what I understand the top few GTR guys have their own computer engineer to help tune the cars dynamics during the event.

AWD, 325 wide Michelins, with tons of HP and aero........they are a sight be seen on track.

The_Jed wrote: A lowered NBS 2WD Suburban with ridiculously thick sway bars, 12" wide wheels of whatever diameter they need to be to ensure a sticky yet long-wearing tire is available for said rims, 4.10's, 3 pedals with 6 forward gears and a turbo'd yet otherwise stock 4.8, 5.3 or 6.0...because berkeley it.

I would do something similar except I would do an Avalanche and keep the auto only in 4L80 flavor.

Or a lowered Caravan, 2.4, t70-t76, A2W IC, etc.....

Are the classes still based on the car's original MSRP?

If so, I would consider an Evo VIII RS. They were just $27k when new. My Evo VIII (non-RS) was making 360 hp at the wheels and was dead reliable for the 4 years and 60k miles I drove it, including tons of track use.

Plenty of room inside. Large trunk. Turn down the boost and run regular fuel for those long highway slogs. A buddy and I drove mine from Montreal to Sebring for PBOC Winterfest a few years ago. Plenty of room for the two of us and all our track gear, including a full set of 255/40/17 race rubber.