As has been previously the Guara is an enormously raucous car to drive but they really do handle and to date I haven’t actually managed to unstick her, that said with parts availability as it is I always prefer the slightly cautious approach.
Performance wise it’s a tough one, I did an event called VMax here in GB which is run on the main runway of an old RAF base and essentially you roll into the first beacon and then it’s flat out to 1 ½. Miles and then it’s on the anchors again. By and large this should see a car pretty close to its maximum, the trouble with the Guara is its still got its old BMW electrics and I suspect it thought it was flat at 155 when in reality she stopped at a rather tardy 144 MPH. Be assured that with the amount of front end lift and cacophony in the cabin 144 felt a damn sit faster than the 186 I saw in my Alpina B5, records stand at 211 for a RUF Porsche and a modified Viper I think.
A real bonus with fuel at £1.10 per litre these days is she does 25 mpg on a run, compared to my Windsor powered Longchamp that does about 8 mpg with the wind behind and going downhill it does hell somewhat but there again lot of you guys don’t suffer quite the same but it would seem I couldn’t bring them to the US even if I wanted to