My shop has a Freightliner chassis with the Series 60 and Eaton manual 13 speed intact. It's been sitting outside for maybe 4 years. Freightliner Superleggera. Real thing.

Krauts have keine taste.

il Commendatore rotisserie

Using the first calculator I linked, plugging in Cd=0.35, area=25.5ft^2, and weight = 4000lbs tells me a Crown Vic would need 608hp.

I would LAUGH. MY. ASS. OFF. If they teased this on The Simpsons...

There is a special place in my heart reserved for this (and the eight other cars of NFS II). First racing game I ever had... <3

I'm more curious as to their development of a truck. Not a pickemup [spits and tips cowboy hat while standing bowlegged], but an actual TRUCK. All of the space on a semi dedicated to a monstrous diesel engine, fuel, gearbox, and GIGANTIC differentials, if replaced by five motors (one for each back wheel and one…

Wow, I'm pretty sure I just read an article from 10 years ago. There's a picture of a Phaeton, a Hummer, a "new" R-class and gas is less than $2.00 a gallon. Surreal.

Do it. Do it. Do it.

You're about a generation to half a generation behind. I wholeheartedly agree on the last generation Genesis and somewhat on the Equus. Take a look at the new Genesis though, and you'll find that it is it's own car that can comfortably sit beside any of its competitors.

How on earth did you all forget this mastermind?

Yasuo Kajino.

Colani because fuck you and your normal looking cars!

LEW BRANDT

Syd Mead.

Well, you didn't say they had to be built.

Luigi Colani!

Paul Bracq is a French born mustache enthusiast who created the graceful shape of icons like the BMW 7-series, 6-series, E21 3-series, MB W113 SL, W108, W100 (aka 600 or Großer Mercedes) W111, W114, multiple Popemobiles and the French TGV high speed train. You can read more about the man here on his website…

I don't think so. We are, because we're awesome, but the regular guy sees Cadillac as a bit of an anomaly - not stodgy like your grandfather's car, but not ready to compete with the Teutonic greats.