Big disp/cyl for what it’s spinning.  A 9k RPM V8 would be a compromise on other things, I’d think. 

Branding our currency under Stellantis changed nothing!

Maybe there are foreseeable threats to the sector for young newcomers, but... if you’re middle class (and no boku savings) then doing this and trucking for several years until you hit federal aid independence—and then going to college cheaply with money in the bank— seems like a quick route to financial stability.…

Not a lot of engineers left on this site, my condolences.

Downforce

Yawn. They’ve pushed prices up so far beyond most westerners’ retirement fun-money through speculation that it removes the aspirational value; it is less injury that we now can’t have the pleasure of hearing and smelling as many of these legends from the outside.

Which console do I need for a GS400?

In Cyrillic it would just be missing a letter, I believe.

LOL it is even funnier the second time.

HELL YEAH DTlopnik

Yet it was a continuation of the ‘space-frame’ enclosed design that the C4 introduced as a departure from a ladder frame! For illustration (in consecutive order):

I just mean that, in terms of capability out-of-the-box, the last of the C4s and first of the C5s were rougly par. The LS was certainly a superior engineering showcase which enabled 20 years of superiority, but it took the Z06 to split the price gap of LT1 and ZR1 without compromising on the performance of the latter.…

I don’t quite see it. Suspension, steering, structure largely unchanged whereas they had been largely with previous gen. From 330 to 345 hp for base stick, not a huge jump. LT5 to LS6 also not a huge jump. Transaxle and rigidity improvements were about all the tech that really warrant distinction that I can think of…

You mean you aren’t influenced? Take some time off from the real world!

New: CT4-V BW

LS7 ATS guy, we hardly knew ye. Bob Lutz wearing a fake ‘stache?

The consumer had access to far more numerous configurations and technologies, which isn’t to say that the most viable didn’t survive until today. But the degree of choice from any year in the 80s, let alone taken from the entire decade, is something pretty foreign to the present new-car buyer. Body configurations,…

If the bad was shit, then at least let’s admit the good things were great.  So many cars released during the first half catapulted the industry by bounds. Such variety does not exist today, and there’s no reason to ignore that.

The Toyobaru rear fascia makes so much more sense now. Sorry to say it, but it’s a super lazy design choice...

I seldom play any video games, but I remember picking up a copy of GT Sport when I first saw one for cheap after a buddy of mine got a PS4. He shared a house with another friend, and we’d plan runs around the city. I’d go over there and brew some coffee, but then we’d end up just sitting in front of the TV playing and…