That's not only the goriest of the bunch by far, but also one of the most in-your-face subversive. Kinda like something you'd find on the cover of some contemporary thrash metal band.

"Mazda wanted to mess with my cutting phase so badly, they sent a whole tin of delicious cookies right to our office."

Numbers don't tell the whole story, but they are a useful yardstick for performance. And I think we all can agree that in today's traffic 0-60 in significantly more than 7 seconds is a chore.

Some of them were decent, some even surprisingly good handlers by the standards of the time, if optioned right. Mopars generally did quite well on the skidpad, as did Oldsmobile's 442 and surprisingly, the Buick Gran Sport. But others... well, lets just say when a late-60s American road test criticizes the roadability…

While NASCAR racers had a lot more in common with production cars then than the silhouette racers of today, make no mistake, they were extensively modified. Like, all-new suspension and stuff - stock Mopar suspensions of the time are notoriously difficult to adjust, especially if you want to set any kind of positive…

Which is kind of understandable given that Duchovny was a huge egomaniac who had his eye set on Hollywood from basically season 2 onwards, and had to be coddled like a baby (they let him write and direct, even moved filming to LA from Vancouver) and paid vastly more than Anderson to sweeten the deal for him enough not…

Yeah, like I said - the Germans don't have to be outstanding to win, they just need to not drop the ball. Everyone else has to bend over backwards.

I think we enthusiasts tend to get one thing wrong: it's not really about who makes the best cars. Most people in the market for a premium car choose it based on one thing only: what their peers will think of it.

I love the reasoning behind Lancia's RHD-only cars from that period: "it's much safer when you overtake, because if you buy a Lancia you're gonna be overtaking all the time!"

Of course you'll receive a ton of pushback for that opinion, true though it may be. Because white women choosing to vote Republican so overwhelmingly proves one thing: white feminism is bunk. White women don't need to be liberated - we are firmly on the side of the oppressors. It's why I no longer identify as a…

Hmm, I didn't think of diesel being more expensive... yeah, any savings in mileage would probably be eaten up by the higher cost of fuel. The discount from MSRP plays no role here - notice that the question was what truck we'd choose hypothetically, if someone offered to just give us any one of them.

I'd have to go with the diesel Ram. I don't have a boat to tow or heavy equipment to haul. But I'm financially tight enough that every gallon of fuel counts. Plus, I like the looks of the Ram line.

Not to nitpick, but 4.30 is a super short ratio, not super tall. The higher numerically the final drive ratio is, the shorter the gearing is and vice versa.

Goddamn, that dude is made of pure, weapons-grade German.

Luckily it didn't break up the band, but it frustrated Chris & Tina enough to jet to the Bahamas with all their best friends and record the first Tom Tom Club album there. That's a win in my book!

I don't agree the vanilla Mustang is "too soft". When did we start equating "performance" with "aggressive"? The original Mustang wasn't aggressive, it was elegant.

Pathetic. I mean, egos are on the line in racing, and if you blow an important event it's gonna have an effect on your ego.

Sponsors on the other hand...

Or go seriously Euro and hop up the V6 with triple Webers, a hot cam and big valves. Should net about 180-200hp without incurring the massive front weight bias of a 302 in a Capri.

Some of these aren't race cars, though. That red-and-white Mercury Cyclone Spoiler for instance. I think what race cars and classic cars have in common is that we tend to view them in a less objective, less earnest light. They look so different from the cars we see on the street everyday that they inhabit a sort of…