Except that the Z06 doesn't.

What you've said doesn't really mean much without numbers. If I sold 1 car in January and 2 cars in February that would be 100% growth but it's still only two cars. The market share dropping 25% is still hardly affected by that kind of growth. What you want to do is quote market share.

No no, what you've said about "a leap forward in turbocharging" is not a leap forward in elegant design. It's a leap forward in meeting certain design criteria that have been artificially placed upon manufacturers. These are not design criteria chosen by the end user. After all, the buyer is the one that has to live…

The problem with your statement about ingenuity and adapting to different markets is that those markets discourage ingenuity. They artificially place design constraints that would not be there if engineers had design freedom. By design, anything that is a rule in this regard exists only to ensure inferior products can…

Nah, I live in Europe. It's xenophobic big time. It's also very arrogant. The way the laws are written specifically hobble American car makers such that they are at a disadvantage from the start. Taxes on displacement (hello? It has almost nothing to do with fuel economy) taxes on importation, etc. This is why it's…

Because Japanese dominate the small car market in the U.S.. Here in southern Europe I rarely see Hondas and Toyotas but in parts of the US (like Southern California) they are more than half of the cars on the road. In places like San Francisco, there aren't even any American car dealers. Small European cars are…

I don't know how you figure that given that in the US most people don't see American car manufacturers as the best for small cars. Talk to anyone on the street and ask them about small cars and the vast majority will probably tell you that the Japanese make the best small cars.
I think what a lot of Europeans have a…

I think his overall point is spot on even if maybe he is a little off on the particular brands. Here in southern Europe, the "cheap Japanese appliance" is more like a Fiat, Renault, or Peugeot.
The only truly American cars (not Ford Europe) I see around are the shittiest Jeeps and Chryslers which is laughable to me, as…

I was literally about to post almost the exact same thing.

My post about the safety of your car wasn't about it being inherently difficult to drive, only that if you happened to be in a crash, you'd be less safe than many other vehicles. I'm not sure if you were making a different point or just telling me about how well it runs. If the latter, that thing must be a blast to…

Bravo. This is one of those rare instances where a conversation on the internet evolved vs devolved.
I also give you a lot of props on working on an under estimated and under appreciated car. I remember those things being a real hit in the AutoX scene back in the day. I too run a car that gets no respect until lap…

Oh you college kids never change.
First off, if you are telling me that engineers must be able to know what level of risk a given design incurs with 100% accuracy then you might want to wish to be wealthy and good looking while you are at it. You are asking for something that is an impossibility for humans, i.e., to…

Whoa, who told you that GM preferred to save 50 cents over people dying?
You have to be careful where you get your information from, especially as a young guy. Some people see you young guys as an opportunity to feed some sucker a line. It's sad, but you have to learn to be more cynical.

So your friend told you.
Thanks, I was wondering about that.

Given your superior education I thought you'd recognize that I never used the word "all". That said, as a whole, there seems to be an enormously great percentage of the European population that is indeed extremely arrogant, particularly on comment sections of the internet.
In person of course your kind is a bit more…

It isn't a pissing contest, because there is no contest here. A contest generally has a conclusion. Given that I have seen this same mentality from Europeans expressed on the internet for over 20 years now, I think it's safe to say that there is no conclusion to this compulsive one-upping. If you're observing the…

A guy posted a picture of the Iacocca minivan prototype from 74 on this thread and you are still going on about the Renault design that didn't even exist yet.
It's not paranoia, it's called observation. For some reason, Europeans cannot help but try to top any claims made by Americans. I mean, anyone that has been…

Except that's not true. The Espace wasn't even a design until '82.
Would it kill you to give credit where it's due? Or will you not risk it because you'd be giving credit to an American?

I know that Europeans really like to top Americans in all things but in this case, Lee Iacocca presented the idea as early as 1973 and built a prototype in 1974 while he worked at Ford. Henry Ford II rejected it. When Lee Iacocca left Ford, he took the idea with him and turned it into reality at Chrysler. The idea,…