Very nice. By the way, you have a rare vehicle, a 1-year-only special: the 2008 E-series is the only year with the “new” front clip [grill and headlights] but the “old” interior.
The updated interior (dash and doors) arrived with the 2009 MY.

Fired for neglecting to turn on a body cam. Not fired for killing an innocent kid. In what fucking backward assed world does this make sense?

Don’t get me wrong - glad he’s off the force but what a ridiculous thing to read.

LOVE IT. 

It’s a 5-cyl, not a 4

The obvious answer is a Crown Vic. Easy to work on, can be sort of fast, and the parts are basically free.

Buy him a Malibu 😉

And then you step up to an 05 with the 400hp, and its gets even crazier. While not a super fast car by today’s standards, those Goats are surprisingly quick. Turning the traction control off of mine makes it interesting. 

RE: 1st gear: The local Toyota dealership, I swear the building is only three years old, has about 20 new Toyotas on the lot. It has capacity for a couple hundred, it’s the most ridiculous thing. And I cruise past them with my geriatric, rust-holed Toyota pickup...to the Tractor Supply store next door. I can almost…

My local Toyota dealership has no new Camrys on the lot. So, 1st gear checks out around here.

I remember the 2002 Altima getting the 3.5 V6 and it’s 240 hp from the bigger Maxima. Then I saw it on motorweek liquify it’s front tires doing a 0-60 run. To my 15 year old brain it seemed outrageous that a boring family sedan couldn do that.

A friend of mine bought an 04 Pontiac GTO with the 5.7l in the late ‘00's. I had driven tons of Chevy Trucks with the 5.7l, so I wasn’t initially not intimidated by the car. The first time I turned off the traction control, the car grabbed 2nd gear and we went sideways, I was terrified. Just the 350hp/365 ft-lbs was…

I once dropped a 400 ft lb Ford motor in my Franken7 and rendered it completely undriveable. It was amazing for donuts, and terrifying the rest of the time.

Kinja’d link, but Grassroots Motorsports covered this a looong time ago...

Well, you see, his username is...oh never mind, I gotcha. ;)

My Dodge Stealth R/T Twin Turbo with 300HP and AWD. Getting that thing squirrely when the boost kicked in hard and starts going sideways like a RWD car. 

I used to think the same thing, but I don’t think that Hellcats will ever depreciate enough to be driven by many 17 year olds. Yes there will be kids who want nothing more, and save a ton of money to buy one. And there will be well-off parents who don’t know better and will their son one, but by and large I don’t see…

My threshold was finally crossed when depreciation hit and the mid 2000s S600s dropped below the cost of a new corolla.

My e39 M5 wasn’t that fast by todays standards, but was fast enough that the power became frustrating. I’m a firm believer that to really get a thrill out of a sports car you need to be pushing it a bit, and pushing the M5 meant I was in go-to-jail territory pretty quickly, which also meant I didn’t get to push it…

I’m not the target market (middle age dad with kids), but I hate the design. Front end is butt ugly and the rear looks cheap/old - not retro in a good way. They’re mismatched design directions imo. The headlights suck too, they look goofy not aggressive (they could have copied a million existing LED DRL patterns for a…