No, it wasn’t. It was still an S197, just with some suspension and brake upgrades.

According to Wikipedia:

I’d hit it, and I’d let it hit me back.

SVT Contour with the 3.0L block from the Taurus/Sable/Escape and the 2.5L SVT heads from the Contour plus a beefed up 5-speed with a Quaife LSD = awesome.

A few months ago, I was driving home from work, along the route shown below, which is a wide road, which then has an on-ramp to I-526, in North Charleston, SC. This whole area is frequented by trucks that are delivering wood chips for the paper plant (upper right of the picture). I turned onto the bottom of the ramp,…

Kinda like how Chevy puts a Corvette logo on their prototype racer?

Yeah, but CAFE standards aren’t going away. They need to get lighter, as evidenced by the amount they’re investing in their trucks. For the Mustang to make sense at 475 HP, they need to be down to 3400 to make it fuel efficient enough to avoid the gas guzzler tax and meet CAFE.

The S650 comes out in 2020, hopefully with a LOT of aluminum.

They are LED, but I don’t think that’s for headlight cooling. I’m hoping it’s for brake cooling ducts. I expect I’ll be disappointed.

Agreed. That car was a goddamn rocket, and was plenty of fun to drive. I’m sure it’s even better with a manual.

I’ve seen nin probably five times, including on their Wave Goodbye tour. That was incredible, at a small club in NYC. Their stadium shows are pretty lackluster, from what I’ve seen. I definitely want to see Cornell solo. Huge fan of the ‘Songbook’ album.

My wife and I saw Soundgarden with Nine Inch Nails two summers ago, and despite the fact that I’m a far bigger nin fan, Soundgarden blew them out of the water. Cornell was fantastic. He did a solo tour that came to CHS early last year, but we were coming back from a wedding that evening, and I didn’t get to go...

Yup, which was surprising, because it was a Hendrick dealership. My friend sold cars at the Dodge dealership next door, and said that she could order it for me, but I was too annoyed by then.

Nope, SC. Hendrick in West Ashley was unwilling to work with me, the Chevy dealer in Mount Pleasant didn’t have any and said they couldn’t get what I wanted, and all other dealers in the area gave me the shoulder shrug. The Jag was at Baker, I test drove a Mustang from Palmetto, but couldn’t stand the sales guy. Ended…

My mom has had three. The oldest died a couple years ago, deaf, blind, incontinent, and with two broken legs that it suffered when it wandered off the bed (on which it ate, slept, drank, and did other things), then blindly walked between the bars at the top of the stairs, and fell ten feet onto a concrete floor. It…

Every time I see one of these damn things, the front end reminds me of a Shih Tzu with those dark weepy eye stains that they get...

Doubtful that they’ll tool a factory to build and extremely niche vehicle. I can’t imagine that police fleet sales are that lucrative (probably sold at ridiculous discounts) to justify the expense. They’ll probably just push more Tahoes and Suburbans.

Before I ordered my 2016 Mustang GT, I cross shopped with the SS and the Jaguar XF Supercharged.

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Are you serious? That’s about the dumbest statement I’ve heard anyone make about the F-35, and there’s a LOT of dumb statements out there.