this is how automakers make money - take a well-engineered, well-built part, then engineer it downwards to make it as cheaply as possible. they could make a car that would last a lifetime, but that would be dumb.

as an ex-mini stock 2300 mustang racer, i'm glad the new ecoboost is a 2.3. our motors were 300hp too, only at 10,000 rpm!

nothing stock can take that much torque!

no

right? there are plenty of fox bodies out there to desecrate

i don't hate torque - i own an ecoboost! (420 lb/ft)

*plus fuel is more expensive and it does not have more torque than the ecoboost. and much less horsepower. and about 2 seconds slower 0-60. thats enough to get blown away at stoplights by an '89 geo metro.

i would like to meet your mom.

nobody wants a diesel half ton except for the same three guys on jalopnik comments.

just like everyone else, it all boils down to "why spend all this money when the US will handle it, eh?"

i was in a hailstorm once that killed cattle out in a field. stripped trees completely bare and killed them too. it was baseball size and almost killed two people driving down the road because it went right through their windshields.

ummm...nevermind.

that's why he's leaving

as a representative of the jalophik crowd that doesn't understand why a grown man thinks miatas are cool, i'd just like to say that this video is pretty funny, and in no way upsetting.

government consulting job, probably starts in the six figure range.

FYI it also helps to not drive up the ass of the car in front of you on the highway

a vette will never look as badass as a viper. not much they can do about that.

i think the last paragraph implied it was more the equivalent of jerking your dog off

as ridiculous as it sounds, i'm somewhat surprised you can build something like that for only 1.3 million