What I find interesting as fuck about this is that the car depicted is clearly a Jaguar XJ220.
Why, out of every car they could have chosen, did they decide on one of the rarest cars on Earth?
58 0 ReplyBecause it's in England, and the XJ220 is objectively the coolest car to come out of said country.
50 0 ReplyApart from the McLaren F1.
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My guess is this was made in 1992 or 1993
At that point the Jaguar XJ220 was the fastest production road car in the world.
11 0 ReplyIt would have been a very short window in 92 before the McLaren F1 broke the record.
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What else were they going to use, the F1?
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Never knew ancient squids used roads.
21 0 ReplyWell, they didn't know it at the time
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Oh please, the top isn’t that level.
8 0 ReplyWould these old roads really be stacked right on top of each other with no separation from earth and other build up?
5 0 ReplySome places yes, keep in mind, some of these routes have been in constant use since the "track" era...
And especially the Roman roads have very well constructed foundations. So they were perfect for building right on top of.
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Sure, you could read Sarum (over 1k pages, onionleaf), or you just look at this picture and let the weight of history sink in
2 0 ReplyThis is just the cross section of a road.
The rest of them are made of a kind of dark cheese, and riddled with holes.
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