And on another note, the Camaro in the most current IIHS report is in the top 10 for the most wrecks with injuries with Mustang four spots lower. To put this into perspective - we know the Camaro riding on alpha is a better more advanced chassis compared to the S550 and likely still better than the SN55... I mean S650…

lol, tell that to the millions of people forced into defined contribution plans. The stock market was made into a nessecary evil for millions of wage slaves amd that's not going away. At least not before social security and Medicare do. 

If Ford wants to be Tesla, they need to file for bankruptcy, then dump the legacy costs and relocate their manufacturing to say Mexico in order to minimize costs and allow them to run a fatter margin.

As long as it doesn’t intrude on the passenger space allowing you to flop around the interior (caveat while belted in) without contact its good. If it impinges on that flop around area even if padded, then you need to wear a brain box otherwise the cage can be bad news. The hoop in the middle and along the roof are…

lol, as far as Mustang and Camaro go that either indicates Camaro is inherently less safe to operate and/or the operators are inherently less safe. Alpha and Zeta are touted to be superior to the S550 and S-197 Mustangs in every way, so I know what I’m going with.

Nothing really wrong with that unless you, your spouse or your progeny are the reason for the wreck or a significant contributing factor to a wreck. 

That goes without saying since a smaller car generally loses thanks to physics, unfortunately manufacturers are encouraged to maximize the size of their vehicles thanks to government fuel economy regulations (smaller and lighter cars need to get increasingly better fuel economy compared to their larger counterparts…

I think addressed that in one of my replies. The answer is simple, marketing pulled a dump truck full of money up to the back door of various auto rags and told them to tell the public how to think. There is no mystery there, like radio stations spamming some shitty song ad Infinitum consumers are deluged with lies…

Won’t argue with bro-dozers since that is the go-to vehicle for the freedumb crowd. If ever there was a group of people with a complete disregard for everything else on the planet it’s those guys. Bring up the fact that raising the bumper height on a vehicle that have had the bumper height unreasonably raised for no…

Well at the least they are forcing municipalities to up the penalty for things like that. The only downside of course is that I’m sitting there thinking you chumps need to go big or go home on the penalties like instead of a thousand dollar fine and confiscation it should be more like a 50,000 dollar fine, automatic…

no lies spoken here

Space Trump is annoying, it’s the stans that ruin the car for me though. I can appreciate enthusiasm, but the car attracts the sort of fan that has no problem calling people stupid (it usually begins with “I pity”) and convinced they are some sort of evolved hominid. Definitely one of many groups I’d love to send to…

I wouldn’t call that irrational hatred, when I was at a new vehicle car show some years ago and sat in the back seat of the then new Lincoln Continental and brushed my head against the roof (I’m only 6'2") on such a large car meant to carry a minimum of four adults in comfort I was pretty disappointed. The whole point…

My most irrational hatred is reserved for the 1969 Camaro when the car was plastered all over everything in print in the ‘80s and ‘90s from feature articles to tech articles (no joke, even Mustang magazines were using the car in basic tech articles for things like bodywork). I can even remember going to car shows…

I was mostly being facetious in my previous reply, but all the same, I dig your philosophy.  

Okay, misread that. If we disregard the media hype then I would say maybe it was something as close to a musclecar as the public could get. Styling that evokes a bygone era and a big powerful (and supercharged) pushrod V8.

lol, betrayed by our worn-out dopamine receptors! We start to enjoy familiarity more than discovery since those things that we enjoyed are already programmed in compared to new experiences we simply don’t enjoy as much anymore.

Like my old man used to joke, “son, trust me, it’s hard getting old”. 

Heel toe, I don’t get enough track time in regularly, so I don’t get a chance to really practice. I know people will say “you can on the street” but I’ve gave it a shot and the way the brakes work on my car I end up trying to eat the steering wheel every time. It seems like all the grab is at the top of the pedal so…

No, the S-197 GT500, I was able to get one at MSRP two years after the car launched thanks to the cash for clunkers program, but I remember looking at a 2014 GT500 and the dealer wanted 25k over the GT500's msrp. That’s my point though, the Hell kitty has a massive following because the cars were readily available…

The were fairly quick for the period (and some cars like the 1970 SS Chevelle for example were the M5s of their day when correctly ordered). The problem though is that muscle cars came along when the US was at the top of its game and then the party was over so they coasted on as an example of when times were better.