Technically, this is correct: the best kind of correct.

Died... of diappointment upon receiving his GT purchase rejection letter.

It looks fantastic, ergo, it will never be sold here.

Even if it was for sale, it’d never hit american shores. Your wallet is safe.

If they can’t get enough air in that front end, nothing will do it.

Which is a real bummer. I poked around a few dealers and couldn’t even find one with a stick.

You’re right, GM has a tendency to squash anything that even has a shot of beating the Vette. Not always - I think the Grand National was a Vette-beater in it’s time, but it’s a good general rule.

I’m interested to see back-to-back lap times for the two once they’re available.

Seriously... has the Dodge actually achieved anything further than dick-waving with their Hellcats? Record lap times? Quarter mile times? I don’t follow it closely, but I can’t recall anything special beyond a horsepower number.

Canada, either. ...

High mounted factory engine, I’d guess. In the cars, the crossmember/subframe can be 6 or 8 inches off the ground. The hood on the car is much lower, too... but the subframe on that truck engine is probably a foot higher than the cars’ are.

I’m pretty sure that here in Ontario, the laws say that any non-stock engine installed has to have equivalent or better emissions than the stock engine. I wonder if that is truly the case for the hellcat engine that went into this thing. Midland is just a few hours away, I should go visit this thing over the weekend.

Is the Merc logo.... illuminated? Cheese.

Yes. August is generally the month where manufacturers will schedule plant shutdowns for retooling and maintenance. After the shutdown, the vehicles produced are for the next model year.

Only at Cars and Coffee meetups.

They don’t idle NA plants for no reason. The planned shutdown happens in summertime at any plant where the new model year requires retooling, which is pretty much at least part of every plant, every summer.

Ford has simply seen too many orders to fulfill before the shutdown to retool for 2017s, and so they are moving…

I’m rolling in a 2003 and I’ve decided it’s not worth the effort to fix anymore. I figured I would keep fixing it forever, but I have more interesting wheels to take care of and wrenching on the DD has lost it’s allure.

Huh, my guess was lunchbox.

You rent? And you landlord hasn’t machete’d your head off for having a half dozen occasionally-running cars on his property, or tie-die-ing your clothing with used motor oil?

I’ll cross my fingers that I don’t get this sort of gearhead renting one of my properties, I hadn’t thought about this nightmare fuel.

I went to VW for a test drive on Saturday, explicitly asking for a manual and stating I was out for the day for many test drives across brands. I’d already done my research and did not want any of the sales pitches, in an effort to get as many different brands road tested as possible. He confirmed they had manual…

The trick is to have something resilient enough to withstand hundreds of thousands of miles’ worth of heel-rubbing (and shifting, to boot), while not being slippery when snow or other moisture is present.