They don’t have to be and that is an artifact for older generations but there are still plenty of youths that want the experience. I was matter of factly told that in a reply elsewhere by some Gen-Z folks. Maybe Gen Alpha will entirely eschew the internal combustion engine (although the oldest members of that cohort…

Jaguar XJ-13, test bed for what would turn into Jaguar’s V12 and meant to rival the GT40 out on track but sadly never got past the prototype stage.

The engine is physically smaller than the Coyote. The only thing massive on it is the oil pan and up-turned snout on the intake manifold. Ford Racing already has a manifold with a straight shot and slightly shorter runners. The only massive on the thing in comparison is the weight. If Ford does an all aluminum version…

Can’t disagree with you there and I think the big thing with most people are the numbers and the idea that every iteration has to be a magnitude better and also for some reason people just miss out on the fact that the Mustang has always been a sporty coupe with performance variants instead of just a dedicated performa…

Right up there with ‘ring times and MT was probably the most egregious offender for reporting on bad results. 

And in the zero-chance category, if Ford somehow saw fit to put an all-aluminum version of the 7.3 in there right before the EV coupe took over the show, I’d put down my hard-earned dollars for one. It doesn’t have to be a Shelby and it would indeed make a fine “Boss 429" since the engine is well over 400 CID (nearly…

Non-intenders want every car to be a GT-R with about 200-300 extra horsepower so the next Mustang will be a fail in their eyes.

Indeed, when my old man bought a new 2009 F150 with a V6/A6 he said he didn’t want to spend a lot. He got a base truck but man it was well equipped IMO for a beater. Autotragic, over 300 horsepower, AC, AM/FM with CD and wired input plus cruise.

Lol, beat the hell out of a new truck (1980 as I recall) he bought one…

They also aren’t V8s coupes with over 400 horsepower, some degree of down force and sticky tires making that kind of steam getting 50-60 mpg. Show me any high-performance gasoline powered coupe with over 300 horsepower and can turn in a 3 minute lap time or quicker at VIR and gets 50-60 mpg and provide a link to your…

Meh, proper tires and knowing how to drive a stick axle car help a lot. I never had problems with my S-197 GT or GT500 in the rain until I tried a little drag radial experiment. I even drove the fuckers in the snow on summer tires right up until the only decent tire I could find for the GT500 was an all-season (which…

That was a render based on best guesses. Maybe not far from the truth but IMO not that bad. If you’re gonna get bent though, blame dipshit motorists with their noses glued to a phone and the attitude that driving is a nuisance necessary to get from A to B. They fuck’n ruined everything since they insist on knocking…

Meh, around town with aggressive stoplight sprints on a 10-mile commute with zero highway mileage and a manual transmission with a 526-horsepower flat-plane crank V8 but out on the highway they can knock down decent mileage around 24 mpg doing 75-80 mph and around 55-60 you can even see 29-30 mpg on a nice level road…

The exploder platform was shot down a while ago, I believe this is just a modified S550 platform in the same way fox became SN95 - enough changes to satisfy government safety regulations with enough changes to no longer be considered S550. 

The reliability of tires and the rise of roadside assistance pretty much spelled the end of a full size spare.

Yeah I dig Waze as well, the funny thing to me is why Goggle insists on running two nav apps when they should just include all the best features in one app and go with it.

While I don't disagree, the funny thing is what passes for a stripped down peasant box these days was well equipped when I was growing up. 

V8 coupled to a a manual and driving the rear wheels.

The GT500 actually acquits itself well against the M3 xdrive. Edmunds devised a pretty good test where they stacked the GT500 and M3 up against each other. It was a standing start into a hairpin then a rolling race. The M3 took the GT500 from a dig but didn’t have enough separation in cornering performance to maintain…

the car would be broken with a manual the same way the S-197 GT500 was broken with a manual. It would have been more muscle car than sports coupe. It’s why the Boss was a better all around car with the S-197 and it would have been the same with the S550. The GT350 and Mach 1 would have been better all-around cars and…

Koenigsegg CC850 for no other reason than this is the car that will have brokered peace between the manual purist and the autotragic enthusiast.