I just bought a running one for $600! Will probably end up with less than $5k in it after resto.

Yeah, all the same car, but at 0:49 you can see the “m” for metro on the door and the “Geo” lettering on the wheel covers.

Why thank you.

Everyone is posting Ford truck/toy combos, so here’s mine:

You have to remember that is for the LRIP, which is going to include costs for non-recurring engineering (NRE) as well as setup and tooling costs. I would expect future orders to be considerably cheaper on a per-unit basis. There is a lot of development and tooling that needs to go into mass producing these -…

...Formula One (Europe’s top racing circuit) ...

Driving this to a school probably qualifies as insane:

Michele Mouton - amazing woman from one of the craziest times in rally.

Older, running, Alfas. Or anything really that was supposed to be unreliable and broken but is still glorious and running despite the odds.

An actual oil pressure gauge. Lots of newer cars are doing away with these, and by the time the little idiot light comes on a) your engine has no oil or b) your seals have completely bit it.

Your bodywork proportions can be off too. Wheelbase and track width and total LxWxH are not the only proportions on a car.

I just wish they had taken their design inspiration from the NART instead of a bush baby.

Maybe the chassis is the same, but the proportions of the bodywork are different. Mostly the front bumper/grille, the lights, and the way the rear roof-line is truncated are very different from the Vette, and, in my opinion, way too big and out of proportion. Seriously, the taillights on an ‘08 XLR are nothing like an…

Headlights, tail lights, trim pieces, mirrors - all look like they were ripped off a DTS. The car looks like a large sedan crammed into a small coupe, and the proportions are all wrong.

While Caddy has had some oddly proportioned cars in the past few years (OK, decades), I’d have to pick the XLR as the worst:

This is a good point, and shows why those people with their “performance” cars that then get touring tires so they’re a little quieter just obviously don’t get it.

The point I was trying to make is that due to a variety of design factors, CC brakes both stop harder and resist fade. It is possible to have a set up with a CC brake that will perform worse than well-designed conventional steel brakes. It all comes down to the engineering, and since CC is the newer, better tech it is…

If we’re going to be pedantic here, your statement is no more correct or incorrect than Raphael’s.

Horsepower, as it turns out, isn’t a drug. It’s just a status symbol.

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