I think the fact that you have to compare the V6 Accord to cars from a time when "digital" meant something you do with your fingers says more about the V6 Accord than the muscle cars.

So?

First off, you are still comparing a modern car with a modern driveline, transmission, wheels, tires, and, really, everything else, to one that's as old as I am.

I'll stick with my Viper transmission, but I love my Challenger as well. Looks a lot like yours, actually.

Actually, that's not true either. In fact, it's pretty much the reason that the Feds instituted net as standard. Ford and Chrysler in particular were outright lying about their horsepower ratings. The Cobrajet and Hemi could be and usually were factory tuned to well above the stated number. Since testing horsepower at…

Also, I don't think there is anyone who reads this site who doesn't understand that you can't compare gross and net horsepower ratings.

No, the cars were that slow because that's what they were capable. What you are doing is comparing two different units of measurement and calling one of them wrong. Gross HP wasn't wrong, it was an estimate of what power the engine was capable of before taking into account all of the things an engine has to do before…

So, let me get this straight....Are you saying that one type of car is roughly as fast as another type of car that was made roughly half a century earlier?

So, why do you think that a random burst of bass while I'm sitting in my house watching television is something that I want to hear? I'm not bothering you. I'm not projecting my television programming onto the road so that you have to see a tiny snippet of it as you go past. Why would you force that on me?

Yeah, the Top Gear guys really like the Mondeo/Contour on which the Cougar was based. But, well, two cars on this list were based on that...

I kind of want the R/T (V6) version. Mostly because I just love that they make one.

1975 Charger, sorry. My brain still doesn't want to admit that abomination existed.

Neutral: Why choose? I have a Challenger (2012 R/T) and a Mustang (1968 GT...not running...)

The Comet/Maverick wasn't based on the Mustang (outside of styling), they were, however, both based on the Falcon, but were different evolutions of that platform by 1970. In a further twist, the second gen Mustang was originally going to be based on the Maverick, but Ford eventually decided on using the Pinto instead.

My second car! The first was a Maverick, actually, with a V8. The Mustang was generally nicer (Bucket seats! Fourth gear!), but it was slower, uglier and...browner (mine was brown).

I'll do mine...

My Challenger has 1—>4 shifting. This first came about on the original Viper, I believe, and what it means is that when the car is slowly accelerating from a start with the gas pedal down less than 1/3 the way, at a certain RPM threshold, the little LED in the center of the instrument gauge will say "Shift 1—>4". If…

Oh, on mine, they didn't even bother cleaning the car after it was driven from Atlanta before they put the sticker on, so there is road funk that you can see under the clear parts of the sticker.

That's kind of the thing. Badge-engineering doesn't really work anymore. 40 years ago, if you wanted a base coupe, you bought a Thunderbird. If you wanted a nicer one, you bought a Cougar. If you had the money and wanted a really nice one, you bought a Mark series. These were all basically the same cars, but you got…

So, a tarted up Honda gets a special edition for a feature that I was forced to take on my lowly Dodge because it came with the heated seats and 0-60 timer? Admittedly, I've grown pretty fond of it over the last year and a half, but...Really?!?