People already know how to make serious horsepower with Ford based motors.

I wonder what a Bonneville streamliner like George Poteet’s Speed Demon would do with good traction. Driving on salt is similar to driving on a dirt road. Truly mind boggling that they run 450+ mph on salt.

The FCA mini-van is a vehicle platform that will not die. The model was supposed to be replaced around 2010...and it is still here. I heard a rumor this morning FCA wants to keep it another 3-4 years.

Neutral: without the ability to sell Al Gore dreamed up “carbon credits” or “EV credits” (or any other made up reason to funnel money to Tesla), to magically boost fuel economy ratings....Tesla would have died years ago.

$75 to drive four people 1200 miles in my little gas powered Toyota Yaris.  What would it cost to fly four people and rent a car for a week?

I know somebody that bought a mustang SVO around 1987(?) and mothballed it. He thought it was the last muscle great performance car. About once a month, he would crank it up, back it into the driveway, wash it, and then pull it back in the garage.

Neutral: I don’t think anyone survives full EV implementation. ...because I don’t think it will happen. I predict that the general public will revolt when it starts becoming “REAL”.

If there is a clump of big trucks with an opening in front of them....speed up to get to the opening, merge, and then adjust your speed to traffic.

People on the interstates around here are running 75-85 mph.  You have to get after it to get up to speed of traffic.

In a new corvette, 100 mph is basically running it hard in first and second and then making the shift to third (not running it all the way through third).

The problem is the definition of street racing. If two cars accelerate harder than what a police officer deems necessary, are they actually street racing? What if they don’t actually break the speed limit? Should they have their cars crushed? What if they don’t know each other/did not see each other/just happened to…

The spots shown in Memphis version are long time street racing spots (25+ years). They are in areas with no cross streets, and enough shut down area for 150 mph drag races. They would scope out the area before racing to make sure there were no police/no people to pull out into their path.

As soon as you have a law like that, you will get barney fife writing tickets for it even if it had nothing to do with a street race. If the DA doesn’t prosecute it, they will be called soft on crime in the next election.

But the naturally aspirated models were only about 200 horsepower.

Inline 6 crank is heavy AF.  

People didn’t get laid off because robots took their jobs. The plant closed because not enough people wanted to buy Chevy Cruises.

We had them here in the 80's (honda civic HF?/Geo metro). Problem is running that lean caused higher emissions. Burning slightly more gas is cleaner. Also, economy cars were really light weight back then. Stricter crash testing has resulted in adding quite a bit more steel to cars.

Car makers can’t win the horsepower war to rate highest in car and driver horsepower comparison stats and meet the Obama fuel rules. If they can sell killing speed as a safety item (and not as coming in 2nd, 3rd, 4th.... in horsepower), they might have a chance at meeting the fuel economy target.  ....but it will be…

Seriously, if that was available for sale right now, how many would choose to spend their money on this car vs. ANY OTHER CAR OUT THERE?