Ahhh, that’s probably it. I drove one in like 1995, so it was still fresh-ish.

You found the lag to be bad? Interesting. I drove one back when these were only a few years old and thought the turbo lag was pretty minimal. We had a Thunderbird Turbo Coupe that was way worse, and the Grand National I spent a fair amount of time in was considerably worse, too. Maybe there was a lot or production…

I drove one of these back in the late 90s and rather enjoyed it. It wasn’t laggy, had plenty of power (which wasn’t saying much back then), and sounded good. It had shitty brake feel, but that was par for the course at GM until like yesterday.

Shelby was based in LA and operated the LeMans program from there. Ford SoCal connection: established. Not many people these days remember the GT40s running on the tarmac at LAX... Pepperidge Farm remembers.

THIS.

Most of my friends are terrible at reading directions, so I have zero faith that Apple will get this right. Their track records with map applications doesn’t help their case.

That makes a lot of sense. I know I can’t fit in a friend’s 72 without complaining, but I spend a fair amount of time in an 82 without issue. I guess I never considered the difference between power and manual seats...

Luckily, it just takes sway bars and real tires to make these surprisingly fun.

The seating position was actually addressed in the later cars. I’m 6 ft and 220 lbs and really can’t sit in an early C3 hardtop, but the later cars (after the sloped rear glass was added) have a significant amount of room and adjustability that the early cars didn’t possess. I believe they moved the seats and changed…

+1,000 for the Tornado engine! It uses the same cam lobe to run both intake and exhaust for god’s sake! Why have 12 lobes when you can get by with 6???!

GOLD!

With ya. My assumption is that she, like most of us, has better shit to worry about than an ex.

DISAGREE.

WELL PLAYED!

“FINISH HIM”

For the record, my Jeep has never been on the trails so it remains undefeated! It slogs through the mud in the Back 40, pulls my step-mom’s Lincoln out of snow drifts (often), drags logs out of the woods for camp fires, and once engaged in a drunk tug-o-war with our 1949 Ford 8N tractor (and won), but still no trails!

I’m 100% on board with ya.

THIS.

Nah, half-dead XJ winter beater. I park it in the woods for most of the summer...

I’m simply saying that adding a metric buttload of inertia to the rolling stock (the absolute worst place to add it from a vehicular acceleration standpoint) and simultaneously going backwards by 22% on the final drive ratio will indeed make it not behave like stock “in the engine department”. Especially at low speeds…