Can we roughly estimate that a 5 year loan would put it at $7k a month?

You've activated my trap card. J-A-P was the manufacturer of the original engines, they had beautiful prominent pushrod tubes that are kind of hidden on the S&S engines. JAP engines are cool sitting by themselves or on race bikes but the front of a morgan is where they belong.

Sorry, it looks stupid without jap power.

This had the smack of "east coast douchismo" all over... till I googled area code 435. This guy making fun of Ed Hardy shirts makes me have a facepalm.

From everyone who's ever had their classic "totaled" and a $2500 check handed to them... SuXXdonit?

Hmmm... it's a nice car and everything but I've never seen anyone rock that vintage 5 series that didn't have gold teeth... maybe that's why he's not finding a buyer.

He should have posted it in the tempo/topaz owners forum, maybe some of them would have wanted to climb up the food chain.

In other other news, a recent poll of anyone in charge of government spending showed that 98% of respondents planned on having a job "higher up the food chain" within 5 years necessitaing maximum instantaneous ROI for each dollar spent. In other^3 news, the states have developed an new pothole repair technique using…

Don't forget "Goodwin's law."

They should call it the Bengal... nice uniform, bad helmet. *badum-ching*

It certainly made it worth putting effort into. Plus there's no way I'm going to scroll through EVERY freaking answer, a summation the next day of the highlights was always a great read.

I like the idea of a 5.0 miata but I clicked CrackPipe because 10k is a lot of cheese for a car that won't pass smog.

GEO. I'd hire the crew from EDISON^2 to build a new fleet of green cars using lightweight recycled materials and small DI gas and diesel engines to hand hybrids their asses. Our crown jewel would be the XFI. For hypermiling enthusiasts who also care about dynamics I'd do an AWD Storm/impluse RS but with a porsche…

Damn... good one! I'll take a GT-6.

If they build that instead of a 4 door RWD sedan I'm going to hit all of you.

When you're talking about the economies of scale that ford speaks in, two rods, two pistons, six rings, 8 valves, springs, keepers, tappets, two injectors, two coils, two plugs, 4 bearings, etc etc etc add up to a lot of cost. The 4 wouldn't be any higher or lower tech considering direct injection started with diesels…

If everyone would stop whining about "fit and finish" or "NVH" they could probably build the cars for less. How come no one ever bitches about NVH on an elise or GT3? All I want is a 400 hp RWD death machine with no power windows/navigation/traction control or anything else. Refer to the Z28 thread the other day.

So Chryco can build a hemi ram for $24k but can't get the cars to retail under 8 million dollars? I bet ford ends up doing the same thing. 5.0 V8 F150 will retail less then the mustang and weigh twice as much. On the other hand I feel like punching myself in the face for not buying a Hemi Ram now.

I guarantee it has more to do with gender then nationality. I don't understand why you're you're lumping U.S. citizens in here. The issue I see is that A. people who buy commuter pods don't care about specs and b. you'd waste a half hour on specs when even a sports car ad should appeal to emotions since by its very…

If you think you develop a brand like Ferrari without managing it, you're nuts. Tires sticking to dyno rollers? Unlikely but AWESOME. This isn't "news" but high level trolling. The author is coming off as a desperate contrarian attention whore... but here I am clicking submit so obviously I've been "troll'd hard."