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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Captain Zoom, post: 4487570, member: 74269&quot;]The DeLorean is that color because the outer body is made of stainles steel; that&#039;s one of the things that made it so unique. The body material is a part of the design and although some have painted theirs the car was never intended to be colored. And it&#039;s more of a GT than a true sports car. One can be had for about the price of a new Buick.</p><p><br /></p><p>The McLaren is a full-blown exotic in the rarified company of Ferrari/Lamborghini/Maserati/Mosler/Ruf/etc, part of the automotive pantheon that dwells in the stratospheric heights so far above the Corvettes and Porsches and other useable exotics that they mainly exist on the pages of calendars and posters and car magazines and in the minds of pimply faced teenage boys and Amway millionaire wannabes. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve seen exactly one of those on the road, a P4, stuck in a traffic jam just like the rest of us mere mortals--a fact that didn&#039;t escape the Hot Chick. I&#039;ve seen about a dozen DeLoreans in my nine years out here and thanks to the generosity of an orthodontist I met in Missouri have actually driven one (a Stage 2, refurbished to better than new condition, and the object of my pubescent lust).</p><p><br /></p><p>The Stage 2 feels about like a Mustang GT from the early 80&#039;s, but with better handling. Quick enough to be plenty entertaining at perfectly sane speeds.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, it is far more likely I will obtain a Corvette or one of my wife&#039;s dream cars before I get a DeLorean (and rightly so, as sometimes the wanting is better than the having).</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t even want a hypercar like the McLaren, unless you count one of the white and blue Mercury Capri ASC/McLaren convertibles from the late 80&#039;s. Those are beautiful and useable, if so rare as to be unattainable today.</p><p><br /></p><p>Probably gonna end up with a used Taurus anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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