I had a blue ‘85 in high school back in 1996-98, it was awesome. It handled very well with a set of G-Force TAs but it wasn’t too fast. Although I’ve owned much better cars, that car will always be my favorite.

When you can buy a new one for $17K out the door it makes more sense than a $22K Fiesta ST and a Ford dealer that won’t budge.

Get off the cars you twits! My Abarth would like me to post the following in revenge:

17.9 sec 1/4 mile, bleh

I was there Man as a kid graduating high school, the C5 was wide, low, and freaking fast for 1998. A base C5 doing 0-60 in 4.9 seconds was extremely fast and is still fast today. The LS1 was amazing along with the rear mounted transmission, the torque tube chassis, balsa floors, etc. The car was simple, powerful,…

That’s what I figured, I love Dodgems but even I can’t get excited about a Dakota. I guess maybe a convertible/Shleby Dakota?

The C5 was revolutionary, suddenly the was a Corvette again faster than most new Ferraris. The C6 was only a continuation of the C5.

Murderous beast

I freaking want that.

Why?

I wonder who will fit the bill when pain and suffering due to self-driving cars becomes a major funding source. Will insurance make self-driving cars too expensive like the almost-dead private aircraft market? We all know how much healthcare costs due to malpractice insurance.

When there’s 50 manufactures selling kits, which one do you choose to build?

I can go out a buy 2-wheel death machine that is insanely fast. Tough luck if I want to add two more wheels because that vehicle would then be terribly unsafe.

Too bad we can’t buy a $20K version in the US that uses an EPA- approved Ecoboost 1.0L.

Back in Jan. that was the case.

This or that...

The magical combo of a Cummins with an Auto Allison,

You actually need better exhaust to make substantial horsepower with a S/C. The stock manifolds/cats are usually too restrictive for such big increases. Just saying...

A centrifugal supercharger is essentially a turbo compressor wheel bolted to a pulley. Exactly as your chart illustrates, manifold pressure is increased with engine RPMs. So high boost is made at red line. This is great for max-power dyno runs but but horrible for daily drive-ability.

Why use a centrifugal supercharger at all? You get the lag of a turbo without the low-end torque of a roots/magnuson.