FoST owner here as well, the steering on these things is phenomenal. I’ve owned many cars including an E36 and E39 and driven hundreds more and the FoST has better steering than all of them. The on-center feel, the rigidity, the feedback, and razor sharp precision are really fantastic.
It’s even led me to put quite a…

Might as well put a plate on the sides too to be sure.
Fuck it, how about a huge N-number on the side like the FAA requires on planes. That should stop vehicle crime cold!

Having lived in Europe for 3 years, I can confirm this is, in fact, a normal European thing.

It’s ok, you can like Toyota without a long story that feigns impartiality.

Show up to the track (So Cal, pick one, I can be there) with that bug, or any bug, and we’ll see who needs to keep up ;)

So you are saying that ham fisted driving produced more oversteer in a RWD performance car than a FWD economy car? Strong work.

I have a fairly unique perspective on this, not specifically about the 4th gen Trans Am, but on Europeans talking about American cars.
I actually lived in Italy for 3 years and took my Z28 with me. Primer paint job and all. For years I always read about how much better european cars were at handling, and speaking to…

Your beetle outhandled it? You just gave your story up as bullshit, actually most of your post is bullshit. Thirdgen F bodies have held many national titles in scca solo II and are still quite competitive even today. Very few european cars of the same era could even come close when performance variants were compared;…

Well, a 350 of the time with the 5 speed would have been even more dominant on the racetrack than they already were. They didn’t do so because of emissions certification challenges that would have made the pairing cost prohibitive. They did however run this combination (manual trans/350) in the corvette except the 350…

LT1 first appeared in the 92 Corvette, and debuted in the F body with the 4th gen in 93.
In 1989 a thirdgen with a V8 could have been a TBI 305 (L03) TPI 305 (LB9), or a TPI 350 (L98).
The LB9 with an auto got a really shitty camshaft that made it a turd. The 5 speed cars got a good cam and it was fast. The TBI 305 was…

who put the lt1 in it?

The TPI 305 5 speed cars were really the way to go. I have one.
The problem with these cars is GM built way too many variations, so you had some that at first glance were supposed to be “fast” but were pigs. Namely because of different exhaust systems, rear end gearing, and camshafts. Nevermind the multitude of spring…

I wish that were true. I’m the guy that would be doing it. Built a few, run time attack with mine regularly, built many custom parts. There isn’t a market yet, possibly ever. Most thirdgen owners are still broke. That’s seems to be changing slowly, so we’ll see. I’ll dream about it though.

Who told you they handled like shit?
Was it the multiple SOLO II national titles? Or was it the Players or SCCA Showroom stock series?
A thirdgen Trans Am won the national title in ESP as recently as 2 years ago.
But yeah, they “handle like shit”

Well, he’s Jewish, and the Gawker network is a leftist jew media outlet so this is sort of par for the course. The majority of Jalopniks writers are jewish by the way.

It does. It has a continuously variable power output modulation that allows the driver to adjust to virtually all road conditions.
The system is called a gas pedal.

So you’re saying you have nothing of substance to add?

“I’m done arguing here”

And I’m sure those grants are conferred no beneficial tax shield, amirite? Or do you happen to work at a non 501(c)(3) or other special tax status organization that manages to exist soley out of the kindness of wealthy donor’s hearts? If so, amazing work, my compliments. In that case, I’d be surprised if the “donor”…

Modern academia is probably the most anti-intellectual and conformist environment of all. It is also synthetically sustained by violent coercion which is what allows people like you to avoid being subject to the same market forces the rest of “us” face.
You don’t have to create anything of tangible value and have…