ScottSwenson
Scott Swenson
ScottSwenson

I used to live in Dover, before that in the Great North Woods, now in northwestern ME. I see your Forester and raise you a Ram 2500 with 3" lift. The banks are currently as high as my mirrors. Oh, and more snow this weekend...do we love New England yet?

One has to wonder what the color of that Spark's license plate

People have long memories. The first Colorado was a piece of shit. They would have been smarter to call it the S10. Do you think people would suddenly love the Charger if it was named the Aspen? Hell no. As a side note, Chrysler DID try to sell and Aspen and it bombed. Miserably. What's in a name? More than you think.

NAILED IT!

While some people want to slip below the radar, most don't want to do it at $50k. When you start hitting those price points, you also want to have a little status. While it's direct competitor is also available in fleets and boring bent-6 configurations, at least the Charger looks tough, even more so when

"You know I'm on a slick trip, I'm always ready to kick ass"

Depends, are we talking the street model or the race car? Because Buddy Baker held the closed course record with a Superbird at 200.47mph. The street hemi was only good for 145.

I believe he's talking about Generation Kill, that was what first came to mind on his response.

I respectfully disagree. The LFA looks like a 350Z that got confused at what company made it, went to finishing school and still is confused. Park it next to any of its competition and no one is going to notice it. More likely, they will ask who is the idiot who brought the F&F car to the big kid's party. Lexus has

Dual 440s for $5000. That's 880cui. or $5.68 per cui.

No, the kudos should go to Peter Brock. He designed:

The 2015 Dodge Viper Ego Edition.

Check for termites. IIRC, these were plywood construction.

Some years they aren't that bad. This year it's bad already because we had an unusually wet summer and fall with an early winter and sub-zero temps, and I live in an area that predominantly lakes and ponds. Throw in a January thaw where the temps two weeks ago were in the 50s and raining, then overnight dropped to

My concern isn't as much about snow performance as bad road performance. It's rather common up this way to have frost heaves that are 6-10" tall, as well as random cold patch repairs. I get air regularly in a 8100# truck, even at about 45mph, cannot imagine what would happen to that single rear wheel going over them.

Yup. A transplant from NH in the land of Mainiacs. Growing up in NH, my sister hit a moose on I-93 in a '71 Super Beetle. The moose and sister survived. The VW did not. Two years later, ripping up US Rt 3 with a buddy, him on an RZ350, I was on a GPz550. Came around a corner and a bull and cow moose were crossing the

I will admit that I'm about as far removed from my impression of their demographic not only in age but in wanting one. I have enough cars as it is, I don't commute, I have a couple of motorcycles, and honestly, I think it's homely as shit. The most important factor - even beyond my points above - is that would never

Not being argumentative, because I do see your points, but I'm suspecting their target demographic isn't everyone. I strongly suspect someone shopping for a ZX-10 or M3 won't even have this on their radar, but the urban-living 20-something looking at a Vespa or 5 year old Yaris to get back and forth to work just

There's a significant difference between $12k and $7k for a young buyer who might be lucky to knock down $10 an hour. That comes out to be about $100 a month based off 48 months at 10%, or probably the insurance cost per month.

You ever ridden a motorcycle in the rain? How about a snowstorm? -30F weather? On the opposite end of that, ever sat on a bike in traffic for 45 minutes - feet up, feet down, up, down, up, down, hot motor inches from your knees, heat from the pavement cooking up inside your helmet?
While I wouldn't get one, I can see

Guy I used to work with wrote the AI software for the first Ripsaw, I remember him showing us videos of prototype testing long before anyone knew who Howe and Howe was. You should have seen some of the stuff they were working on that didn't get to see the light of day.

1968 VW Baja Bug - 61-70%
Fox-body Mustang GT bracket car - 41-50%
Dodge RAM 2500 Rally support truck - 6-10%

I think some tweaking is in order.