A lot of people have touched on the simplicity of the engine itself and the shape, but the construction of the car (basically a tube frame behind the passenger compartment) gives you 100% freedom to modify.

It’s very specifically the aerodynamics. When Ford’s designers set out to design this car, they wanted to make it look as close to the 60's GT40 as possible. But when test driving that original, they found that it had dangerous amounts of front-end lift and was largely uncontrollable at speed. So they redesigned the…

That’s just good dadding.

Ford v Ferrari is on AppleTV. Having watched a lot of Shelby interviews, I realized Damon did a pretty solid job of playing him.

As someone who worked on the Ford GT program, this brings a big ole smile to my face. 2500 hp is insane.  It’s a testament to the engineering that went into this car - the strength of the Roush-tuned engine based on the F-150, Shelby GT500 and SVT Cobra R, the Ricardo transmission and the overall package. I’m actually…

It’s interesting that the way to achieve more top speed is just pure raw horsepower, as it doesn’t look like he did anything to the OEM body, to make it more drag efficient or such.

Indeed, the coupe actually had a fantastic drag coefficient even by today’s standards, but it was in such a way that it wanted to become a very bad airplane at 100+.

On top of that, I believe the C2 generated lift at speed. a 160 mph Corvette would be lethal.

Isn’t there a whole Kevin Bacon movie where he does this and gets in the middle of a gang war? *the headlights, not the blue butt plug looking thing*

Its not in the VIN itself, but it can be used to get as-built data from the OEM which includes the paint code / color.

The only thing odd about the ET landfill thing is that people started believing it wasn’t true. This wasn’t rumor, it wasn’t a myth, it was a known fact. And then some people started acting like it was a myth and ,add a documentary about it. Weird. It’s like flat earth…

That’s probably what killed it, it would compete against teh F-Bodies AND Vette! They already had that with the GN/GNX and again with the Syclone.

And ‘60s American brakes - FUCK indeed!

My favorite rumor was back when Dodge said they were going to discontinue the Viper back in 2017, and to this day, everyone still says, even FCA apparently, it was because of low sales.

As per an old Car & Driver review, the engine placement meant that there was only room for the steering shaft for RHD, because it was really only ever intended for the Japanese market.

Did someone really spread a rumor that the Skylines were never sold in the US because they’d be “too fast for our cop cars”?!

https://www.motortrend.com/features/1991-1993-gmc-syclone-pickup-typhoon-suv-turbo-awd-history/

Killed off because it was too good and was faster then a corvette you say?

There was a combination of options on the middle years of the C2 Corvette that likely would have made it the fastest production car at the time, had anyone known and bothered to test it. 

Regarding the Fiero - I was at the dinner table when an engineering exec for GM told my dad that the hot model outperforming the Corvette was the primary reason they killed it, so...Unless their upper management was prone to wild flights of fancy, I’ll take that over GM refusing to re-engineer a simple firewall...