The Otto Kross I was a copy of the Deserter GS. The Deserter GS was a very successful autocross car, with one (the one I now own) winning three SCCA Solo II national championships in B Modified in 1976, 78, and 79. Most Deserter GS buggies had a Corvair engine, but many also had VW engines and a few (like mine) had…

As someone who has autocrossed most of my 59+ years on the planet, I have said the same thing more than you can imagine in my years of instructing at this sort of autocross school. I always get asked by beginner students, “What is the best thing I can spend money on to make my car faster?” My answer is always the…

I just don’t see how you can do this article and skip over the first gen RX7. It is the car that really introduced the rotary to Americans and the world. The early RX sedans were for sort of “car geeks”, but the FB took the rotary to mainstream. People bought it because it was a good car, not because it appealed to…

I guess to me anyway, I think the early Super 7 with the clamshell fenders is such a simple gorgeous sports cars. All attempts to upgrade it aerodynamically have resulted it really ugly cars. There is something Lotus (and now Caterham) got right that all of the others fail. The S7 was fast in its day for what it was…

And comparing the X-90 to the Samurai is very incorrect. The Samurai has a 1.3L engine of about 60HP. The X-90 has a 1.6l 16 valve with about 100HP as I recall. Their performance is not a close comparison. 100HP for a 2300 lb vehicle produces decent performance. I would love to find one for the right price. They are…

Impractical? Yes! But I want every one of them.... except the Nissan Murano and the Reliant Robin. You can keep those. I like the Suzuki X-90. It is the same vehicle as the Sidekick with the 2 seat body. They make great beach fun vehicles and have decent sized trunks. Give me an X-90 and a ORV access beaches on…

Smokey Yunick's Sidecar Indy Car should have made the list.

I absolutely refuse to watch the reality show on whatever channel it is, about street racing in Oklahoma City for exactly this reason. I have participated in all sorts of racing activity on race tracks, and I appreciate fast and cool cars. In my area there used to be a location that street racers got together and…

Agree 100%

There are a couple of these that would be a dream summer road trip for me. You mist not appreciate true performance cars.

My mom used to race an SCCA GT1 Mustang for about 15 years and autocrossed her Shelby GT350 until she was about 70. She was doing hot laps in the Shelby at VIR at 72, so this is just not a big deal to me.

But by the title of the list, the HUMM V can go pretty much anywhere, crush cars like a monster truck, can carry pretty massive weapons, can have tank like shielding from bombs and bulletts. They pretty much do everything and do it all pretty damn well. They might be plentiful and fairly common. They are far more bad…

All of the "controversy" is just being made up in the left wing, gun grabber media. The general public and for surely the overwhelming majority of NASCAR fans haven't seen any crontroversy. The president and his cohorts were waiting for the next event like Sandy Hook to take advantage of the emotions of the tragedy to…

You can make this list and not put the HUM V on it?

Take back the $250 Million that John Kerry announced was being given to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt right after the sequestration happened. That would fund the Blue Angels for what 9 years or so?

A friend used to work at a Nissan Dealership and called these car a Pulsore.

The X90 and the Sidekick both share the same chassis and mechanicals. A friend of mine builds V8 Sidekicks all the time. He even had one that was on an episode of Pinks. This is fairly common and they make decent performance cars. He thinks the GM V6 is a better option than the V8.

Now that I think about it, Shelby brought performance to the '60s, '80s, and 2000's. I guess he only liked even decades :-)