The last day of the show was brought in by the sound of a loud twin-turbocharged V12 making its way down the highway from Chicago, at Luke’s request.
“Sounds like the old girl’s just about here. If it wasn’t for the fact that it only gets 20 MPG, I’d use it as a daily driver, but sadly, an old Mamba doesn’t quite get the gas mileage it needs to be a daily car. Lot of fun to drive, though.”
The low, sleek profile of the Stealth Black High Gloss coupe caught everyone’s attention as it crawled into the parking space left for it. The engine was shut down and all went silent, with the exception of a handful of people who’d never seen one before asking if it was something new or old.
“This, everyone, is my 2007 Storm Mamba GTRS. It’s old, but it’ll still give some supercars a run for their money today.” Luke said. “Yes, it’s an old car, but we figured we had to end on a high note, and what better car to end our display on, than one of our strongest performers? There are faster cars, there’s cars that are better around a track, but this one was our star of the show. Some companies closed with a concept, we close with a promise: The Enthusiast has not been Forgotten. We will still build crazy and fast cars, as much as we will build economy boxes and hybrids.”
The driver behind the wheel got out slowly, still wearing their midnight black racing helmet, walked to the back of the car, opened the small trunk, and removed a rolled up poster. After pinning it to the nearby board, the driver took off her helmet.
“Welcome to the show, Amy. You’d always stated you wanted to drive the Mamba, how was it?” Luke asked.
“Quite fun, and exciting to drive around a track, too. I think one of the cooling flaps keeps getting stuck, though, because I can’t get a stable lap time out of it.”
“Easily fixed back at the shop, but let’s face it, the Mamba hasn’t lapped a track in 10 years until this morning.”
Amy moved out of the way of the poster she’d put up, revealing that it was a track map, some performance stats from the Mamba, and a lap time.
“Impressive. Even I didn’t think it was that fast. Still, it’s a good old car, and if it could get better mileage, I’d drive it more often. I will, however, be driving it home. Someone else that I can trust will have to drive my 3 cylinder Surge home, though, and there’s still the matter of the Deathtrap to bring back to the shop. We’ll figure all of this out for the departure ceremony, I’m sure.” Luke said, before opening the hood on the Mamba to show off the all AlSi constructed V12 engine under the hood.
(As for clarification, I suspect this is one of my older cars with slightly wonky cooling from an overlapping vent somewhere. I really can’t stabilize the lap times, and it’ll wander from ultra-low 1:56 laps to high 1:55 laps. But the car’s still up in my thread and has a download link available, just find 2007 and try it for yourself if you don’t believe it’s that fast.)
