Elite ships vs. real-life cars!

DidierDrbois

DidierDrbois
As our shipyard grows, this is what struck me on the drive to work today. Some of the most outstanding ships in this game have a no-brainer real-life car counterpart!

The Eagle, little, nimble, and screaming, is a 1967 Mark II Mini.

The Viper, spitting furiously away, is the ELMS Dodge (ahem) Viper.

The Cobra, a do-anything quickly and properly, an immortal icon, is the BMW E30 M3.

The Asp with its out-of-the-box go-anywhere workhorse attitude might as well be the Toyota FJ Cruiser.

The Clipper's looks, mile-devouring GT nature and generous offering of luxury space reminds me immediately of the Aston Martin Rapide S.

And that brings me to the Fer De Lance :D. A god-awfully ugly, pointless tin can for people with infinitely more money than sense, here it is ladies and gentlemen, the abysmally stupid, BMW X6M!

Thoughts?
 

acg515

acg515
At first I disagreed with these but after thinking about it most of them make sense. I would add that the Cobra Mk 3 is kind of like a cross between a ford F-350 and the E30 - very fast and can do anything.
 

Shanaeri

Shanaeri
At least the m6 can drive more than 100 miles without refuelling. The FDL is like a race car, cheaper cars are better on the road, it's got a tiny fuel tank so you can't drive it anywhere , costs a complete fortune and all its good at is going round and round the same piece of Tarmac.. I mean nav point.
 
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Kyokushin

Kyokushin
FDL is like a Aston Martin DB9, but electrical, with a 13km range limit. You can get a sunday ride around your house and OWE it, nothing more. Beautifull and useless (however in DB9 you can ride somerwhere, in FDL not). Pretty nice ship with totally wasted potential.
Vulture - BMW M4. Not big, a bit slower than DB9, but deadly, and you can ride whatever you like.
 
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Shanaeri

Shanaeri
Kyokushin said:
FDL is like a Aston Martin DB9, but electrical, with a 13km range limit. You can get a sunday ride around your house and OWE it, nothing more. Beautifull and useless (however in DB9 you can ride somerwhere, in FDL not). Pretty nice ship with totally wasted potential..
Vulture - BMW M4. Not big, a bit slower than DB9, but deadly, and you can ride whatever you like.
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you mean one of those tesla sports car things, really fast and nippy for about 20 miles and you then need to wait a day to get back while it recharges?

Ladies and gentlemen we present the Fer De Lance, the Sinclair C5 of the elite dangerous universe..
 
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COOPER TTE

COOPER TTE
Nice post idea, and good punchline :) For me the Cobra (my favourite) is an Audi RS6 - super fast but unassuming in looks, with practicality and versatility thrown in.

So yeah, that makes me sound boring...
 

Kyokushin

Kyokushin
Shanaeri said:
you mean one of those tesla sports car things, really fast and nippy for about 20 miles and you then need to wait a day to get back while it recharges?
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Exactly. Yesterday i tried to fly in wings with a colleagues...
They had a vultures and anacondas. We jumped in a group... and i had 'range exceeded', because of 13 ly in FDL (without armour etc, to get some 'range'). They makes a jump about 15. And every jump i was needed to jump twice, change route, getting a map and scoop a fuel. Ship with worst range in game. Everything is better.
Today i put FDL into a garage and get my M4 Vulture.
 
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Dr Roly

Dr Roly
Sidewinder - Mini
Eagle - Lotus Elise
Hauler - Ford Transit (obvs!)
Adder - Ford Focus (diesel)
Viper - Subaru Impreza / Mitubishi Evo i.e. hooligan's car
Cobra - Mercedes AMG E63 estate
T6 - 7.5 tonne truck or box van
Asp - Toyota landcruiser (or possibly Landrover Defender with TVR engine upgrade)
* Car analogy breaks down (pun intended) - on to military and heavy goods vehicles
T7 - 35 tonne truck
Vulture - AH-64 Apache (agile, lots of firepower but slow and fragile)
Python - Something like the Warrior or Bradley IFV
T9 - Aussie road train
Fer de Lance - Rolls Royce Drophead Coupe (fast, expensive, impractical)
Anaconda - Some sort of bizarre main battle tank / articulated truck hybrid
 

Dr Roly

Dr Roly
I used to drive a Merc and fly a Cobra, now I drive a Ford and fly a Python. Ship ranking up, car ranking down - FTW!
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Actually, if the Cobra Mk3 was anything like a Mercedes, the ****ing thing would be much less well put together than the older Cobra Mk1, and I'd have to keep taking it back to the Faulcon de Lacy dealers for a stupidly overpriced service.
 
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