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[Pyromania]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VWJj8pAUu5k

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Veyron

[koaftder]

It's not right to compare the Amiga to that car. The Amiga was never the fastest computer at any point in history, nor did it at any point in time have the best graphic capability. The amiga simply had a giant bang for the buck ratio that the average man had a chance of owning. I'd say the Amiga is more like a tricked out Honda Prelude from the 80s.

[Pyromania]

But the Amiga sure felt like a Bugatti Veyron when compared to Windows.

[Trev]

Based on the hair styles of our favorite Amiga and Commodore engineers, I'd say the Amiga is more like the Trans Am (with t-bar, of course) of computers. Supporting evidence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Haynie/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KITT/. You can easily substitute "Amiga" for "KITT" in the following cost analysis:

[The Amiga]'s total production cost was estimated at $11,400,000 in 1982. (This was [the Amiga]'s total construction cost as [it] was first built in 1982. This equals $24,382,861 in 2006 dollars. However, due to inflation and material costs $53,299,730 would be needed in 2006 to purchase the material used in 1982). The cost of subsequent equipment improvements and the installation of additional features since [its] activation have not been factored.

Trev

[B00tDisk]

I've said it elsewhere: if the Amiga was a car, it'd be lying on the ground in a traffic median, in disparate rusty pieces while five mechanics (all of whom claim to own the heaps of parts, its legacy, the car's name, owner's manual, etc. etc.) had a fistfight over who everything belonged to.

Meanwhile ten or twenty people standing around this disaster are yelling at people tooling by on their way to work, out for a pleasure drive, or whatever that when this car is finally rebuilt, everyone will want to own one.

The sad reality is that what this crowd of onlookers don't understand is that the pieces, when put together, will build a Trabant.

[Plaz]

If Amiga were a car....

http://www.noosalongboards.com/images/woody/old_woody_chris_400.jpg

I love those old "woodys".

Plaz

[SyrTran]

The car I'd equated the Amiga to over the years was the Lotus Esprit Turbo - lightweight and elegant engineering, but could keep up (and sometimes surpass) the "big boys" with their brute-force V8s. The modern equivalents would be the Lancer EVO, the WRX STi, and the S2000 (if there were still an Amiga computer).

[hooligan]

What if the Amiga was a car?

.. it was hit by a freight train at a junction and moved to cargraveyard?

[kd7ota]

I would like to think of the Amiga being the Ford Taurus SHO.

The engine was amazing for its time of release...

[Rabbi]

I would like to think if the Amiga was a car, it would be something of a cross between a Tucker & a Citroën DS21.

[matthey]

@SyrTran

I would compare the Amiga to a lightweight sportscar also. The perfect comparison is the RX-7...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RX-7

The Wankel engine has no pistons and is considered my many as fragile, unreliable, and short lived, which in some ways it is, yet it is very simple and is used in endurance racing. The engine is under respected, at least here in the states, because of it's small size (l.3 liters=80c.i.), unusual geometry, and foreign design. The engine was designed in Germany, tested all over the world including much in the U.S. and refined in Japan. The body of the car was designed at a California university by an American of Chinese ancestry. The handling and breaking are better than almost all new sportscars under $100,000 and where the 7 really shines. Although not overpowered, I have beaten a 454 Chevelle SS with cowl hood and a fox body Mustang with a Procharger supercharger with just bolt-ons (me) on my stock turbocharged 7 from a roll. V8's still have higher horsepower potential than the little Wankel engine but the 7 is still very potent helped by the 7 weighing about 2800 pounds stock. The best part is the whole package together makes one of the funnest cars ever to drive.

[DrValkyer]

maybe like this, Amica

[mendark]

What if the Amiga was a car?

... it would still run, but you would be scared as hell that'll break down be cause there is no support what so ever from the supplier. So tracking down spare parts will be very hard. But at least your are unique :-)

[Piru]

http://www.huuto.net/fi/showitem.php3?itemid=64289200

[AndrewBell]

...it would be a clown car, coughing and spluttering, jerking its' way into the spotlight before backfiring and falling to pieces.
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