Awesome car; Terrible movie. Cadi Sixteen in Click

96. It was long before LNHS was around. I lived in Troutman for a while - the source of the "White Trash" moniker. I was in a doublewide off of Rankin Hill road, with broken down cars out front (Including my Taurus SHO) and my neighbor had a toilet as a planter in her front yard. There were flowers in the bowl. …

I had an 81 V6 esprit. It hit a peg at 85. After I blew up the V6 and dropped in a built-up chevy 350, I stripped the speedo gears in the dash by running it pegged for about 20-30 miles on the way up to PA. After that the speedo would jump haphazardly between 0-45 mph and didn't really do anything otherwise.

I agree. It's very much a forgettable melange of Clutch/CKY/Queens of the Stone Age but without the creativity of any of those bands.

I've been on Perth road many times. It was the most fun way for me to get from South Iredell High School to my home off of Langtree Road in Mooresville. I never had a car up to 128 mph but I did have my Firebird pegged at 85 during the long straight over the Lake Norman bridge close to NC hwy 150. It's a curvy…

I have to agree with you. My girlfriend's Malibu (2005, with 3.5L V6, 200 hp and 230lb-ft) is far more powerful than it needs to be, but it moves effortlessly through traffic. She berates me when I put my foot to the floor while driving it because she thinks that it's going to blow up. It's the same with nearly…

When I was a kid, my friend's grandfather would buy a new Suburban Diesel every few years because of the business he ran. I can't remember what kind of business he had, but he'd run the truck until the transmission went at about 200-250k. He'd replace the transmission and sell it cheap to an employee or friend. He…

There are a few of these for sale around me, all powered by some diesel engine contemporary to their manufacture. Perfect for the tribulation, especially with 10-wheel-drive on some models.

I know I'm not the only Jalop who thinks that the Toyota version of this car should have a high-revving inline 4, maybe forced induction, and the name "Celica."

To be fair, he forgot to end his statement with QED.

Rectify doubleplusungood malreps ref unpersons.

Wouldn't you have rather had one of these than the mustang II?

The thing that gets me most about these road tests is the braking tests. Even under 40+year old technology a lot of these 35-4500 lb beasts stop from 65 mph in under 160 feet. A modern sedan just barely beats that.

Keep in mind that for its time, it was a very good car. Its modern equivalent is the top model Camry, Accord, or Taurus. Sure, the modern cars are faster and handle better, but you expect them to handle better. It's 40+years of technology, dude. For its day, it handled well for its price and size.

I'd have one now. The newest focus is good but looks too boy-racy

No. For an ass like that, you have to at least head to Italy

A friend of mine had a 93 'hawk about 8-10 years ago- I think it was #101. Formula in the same color scheme as the one pictured and the wheels just looked beautiful

and even better on a Formula Firehawk...

This happened to my cousin a few years ago - on thanksgiving 2006. He hit a patch of ice while driving his brother's Ranger, the truck got away from him, he crashed through a fence and had a 3" diameter metal fence pole go through his head - it shattered his skull around his eye.

I read the article and found that there's a lot in common with the engineers' attitudes in that article and the attitude of willful ignorance that makes people believe that SUVs are safer than cars and that there was no market for sports cars in the 90s. There are representatives from Packard (which was soon to die)…