lol, in Bad News Virginia (some people might know it as Newport News but that is a false name) on the north/south bound I64 exchange right around Patrick Henry Mall they built feeder roads that are probably a quarter mile in length so people could merge at speed on to the highway and you have drivers that will ride…

Also, the safest, nothing worse than a “courteous” driver that will flaunt established rules in an effort to be nice. My current AO has a lot of four way stops and I routinely run into that - please for the love of God just fucking go, you have the right-of-way. The other problem are drivers that see you pull up to…

That really is situational for me, if somebody is riding the right lane and otherwise just blocking cars from turning right its a dick move, but say if they are crossing the intersection to make an immediate right into a parking lot or even a right a little bit up the road they get a pass since I’d rather somebody…

The two that drive me ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NUTZ are people who pull out right in front of you and take their sweet time getting up to speed. Especially when you’re effectively the only person on the road and they could have waited for you to pass and pulled the same stunt without impeding anybody. It just feels like the…

I was thinking the same today when an article popped up for Ford’s stillborn 2007 FR500GT Mustang track car which was supposed to have a 550 horsepower Roush built naturally aspirated V8. Fast forward nine years to 2016 and you could literally buy a 526-horsepower streetcar that handled and braked nearly as good as…

The Viper’s engine had to be dyno’d with all the accessories in place with the production car’s intake and exhaust systems in place as a well and the engine run with the production car’s tune. When engines were measured in gross horsepower, they likely just ran the water pump and used the exhaust manifolds with an…

The electronics had more or less be figured out in the ‘80s and while they steadily improved the big difference was in the approach to the engines themselves. Manufacturers really started to tighten up tolerances and improve engine design as a means to reduce emissions and improve economy in the ‘90s. The LS for…

Mustang was definitely a sporty car rather than a sports car until the S-197 since the SN95 was based on the fox body which was designed from the outset to be an econobox in line of econoboxes. They managed to band-aid it a bit with a slightly revised front suspension and slapped a bigger band-aid with the IRS…

Yeah, the SN95/New Edge cars where an incredible “Fuck-You” to Mustang fans until the Terminator. Even worse Ford poured salt on the wound with cars like the 1995 and 2000 Cobra Rs which were the Mustangs that should have rolled out day one and been regular production models instead of the mostly anemic stuff that left…

No GT350 action on the list? 60k with get a nice GT350 (and to be fair unless somebody is mostly tracking the car or just wants the top dog NA S550 there is no reason to get a GT350R). The S-197 GT500 is a good car if somebody is looking for a “muscle car” experience but they are pigs, granted they are flying pigs and…

Women have been a pretty sizable demographic for a long time. Maybe not the largest but they do love buying fast cars. Probably the biggest change is access to better paying jobs and the lessoning of non-traditional roles. My mom for instance was ecstatic the day she bought her Mustang after my dad had passed. 

Right in the story it says the parents accidently locked the keys in the vehicle and needed assistance getting the child out and in no way abandoned the child so what is point of that? The idea that self-righteous posturing pricks are fucking assholes needs to be reinforced? Not to mention the most extra mayo and raisi…

Fun story, the German sourced V4 in the Sonnett is the great grandfather of the SOHC 4.0 V6 used in the S-197 Mustang and so many Ford Exploders and Rangers. 

10 more net horsepower compared to 10 less gross horsepower so as choked as the engine was it was more like 20-30 more horsepower if they were to measure it in gross. Not great but still a factor. When they ran the original Blue-Flame Six it probably just had to contend with the water pump, and they likely tossed it…

You’re also talking an era where the supercars of the day were less than 400 horsepower and, in some cases, less than 300 horsepower. You can always cite hp/l but they cost six to seven times as much for that kind of power so kind of appropriate in retrospect. The other problem with the malaise era was that emissions…

Yeah, my constant refrain with that car is it should have had a kick-ass V12. I know that wasn’t the intent, but it had the look and should have been a nice V12 powered GT.

They were the bread-and-butter cars, they allowed people to get into the brand and later the aspirational cars or for somebody that wanted a pony car but didn’t care for the V8 cost of ownership. People rag on them, but the truth is they made the V8 cars of the era more affordable and of course get people into the…

To be fair, the Prowler was a design study in bonded chassis materials. Chrysler wanted the experience and came up with a quirky design based on hotrod aesthetics. I think GM also did the SSR for similar experience. In either case it was to explore the concept of building cars from extrusions and bonding them together…

Indeed!

That’s if they made Mustangs today with the same Conestoga wagon suspension, a 4-speed manual or 3-speed slushbox, disc/drum brakes and the same 260 gross horsepower (or 271 hp K-code) 4.7-liter V8 with a distributor, points and a carb. Not to mention the Mustang shared a platform with the Falcon which came in sedan,…