Tesla’s are usually tested compared to some very basic criteria. But the Jeep GC Trackhawk has actually be tracked and done extremely well for what it is. COTA (Austin Texas), willow springs (CA), among others come to mind. Has the Model X? Has it done better than a very lazy hang-on around a circle or has it actually…

I don’t really consider the current Grand Cherokee as a”hard core” off-road vehicle but is is far better at it than anything not called a Land Rover Defender or Jeep Wrangler.

1. Typidally should be “atypically”. It is NOT normal for 4500lb CUV to be good at being fast around corners.

The Trackhawk was designed nor intended solely as a drag racer. It is a unicorn of an CUV whose raison d’etre is an very typically high road course performance profile. A CUVs go, the Trackhawk is a complete performance package made from a CUV whose original raison d’etre is very close to hardcore off-road conveyance.

Some of those “shitbox” cars would be awesome background vehicles in a post-apocalyptic movie or TV show where the average people in a stabilized colony/town are driving their own cobbled together vehicles. Its not just the warriors and bandits with crazy vehicles.

With Ford cutting back on sedan production, likely cancelling the Taurus (again), they could start really looking at producing a new RWD Falcon. It would not be that much work. Just a stretched Mustang. Call it the New Taurus and let that in-fill higher performance Fusions, like the ST (which should have been called…

My bad.

It looks like a Mulsanne.

Actually, the new Conti weighs a quite bit more. The 300/Charger come in at about 4300lbs tops. The Challenger maxes at just over 4200lbs.

Because well dang it really was them trying to make it happen as second time.

Dodge had a couple of really cool RMR sport cars back in the day. They remain two of my favorites to come from Chrysler.

Actually that is the 3rd 2.5Gen Fiero. That car was designed as GM’s final nail in the Fiero coffin, after trying to kill the car for most of its 10 year run. They bascailly ordered Pontiac to make a 3rd Gen Fiero so ugly no one would want it. This after the 2nd Gen Fiero GT, easily one of the best looking cars to…

This car will likely go to production if News of GM’s drive to get a Full AV on the road very soon (like 2019) is real. So they can not toss in loads of stuff that would not pass regs and caost unnecesary amouynts of money to do so in a car that will likely only be for a few more years. It is made from an exisiting…

“Coming out swinging” is relative. Boutique brands are more like those quiet little makes you almost never know exist until you see the car. Even then its like seeing a unicorn. When was the last time you saw a Panoz, SSC, Mosler, “in the wild”?

1) If those VCs think he has a good idea, they will go for it. Lucid if a case that they are not looking to build a stand alone company. They actually WANT to be bought out by someone.

First, while still awfully convenient, your claim, truthful or not (largely irrelevant), of actually talking to people who worked there is much better than “I was near there so I know what happened there”.

“I lived/worked next to [ that place], so I know what is going on in there.” No. You read the same articles everyone else did about the company. That is how you know. That is the company that Chinese investors bought. The renamed the company from Fisker to Karma, and renamed the car Revero. Hendrick Fisker has washed…

I have a warm spot in my heart for Fisker, just for trying. That said, I retain my “ let’s see what happens”. The Karma was NOT a bad looking car in any way. I like this new “E-motion” quite a bit.

Statistically it is no different. It only seems like manuals are safer because so relatively few people use them now. Add to that people driving stick often feel more capable than they really are and more dangerous act like they are better at driving than they think they are.

Now if only Cadillac would capitalize on this and up their performance cred through racing, much like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi do. It would also lend credence to my assertion that the RMR “Corvette” I actually the long-overdue production version of the Cadillac Cien.