I guess the "Continuation Cobra" market is either drying up or not as profitable as charging $150k for fifty grand (being generous) worth of parts and labor. Gotta make sure the budget for the Carroll Shelby Cryogenic Preservation Society is fully funded...Ol' Shell is 89!

I wouldn't call a $200K Mustang a pony car either

Probably beating a dead horse, but Shelby's involvement with the last few GT500's doesn't involve much more (if any) than his licensing and promotional fees.

More good points and questions you raise. I firmly believe that under late 2008's economic conditions, Honda was resigned to eliminate F1 from its ledgers, even if a championship was genuinely in the forecast. If I remember correctly, the media badged Brawn's purchase/ buyout as a public relations move by Honda.…

Your points are all valid except possibly one. I wonder how much, if any, deception occurred on Brawn's part regarding Honda's advanced and ultimately winning 2009 car. At the stage that Honda decided to relinquish itself of the red ink that was its F1 budget, there were no benchmarks for the designs of competitors…

mmm..Saab 9k Aero.... you wouldn't happen to need an Abbott Racing/ Koni suspension for it, would you?

mmmm...Saab 9k Aero. You wouldn't happen to need an Abbott/ Koni suspension for it would you?

Definitely not the only one. Not a big F40 fan myself.

You must admit that from 2001 (Montoya's 1st in F1) through 2004, Ferrari dominated and everybody "got his ass handed to him by Ferrari".

Mitt's dog was not strapped to the roof, the cage/carrier was (gotta be careful with facts these days, lest ye be marked as "pants on fire"). That doesn't excuse the act. I can't imagine the wind noise at highway speeds being anything less than unadulterated TORTURE for that helpless canine. No flip-flop there, as I…

Does that work in reverse? Can women sense a "thank god she's smart, I can use my usual vocabulary" moment? Or, almost as nice, a "wow, she used to have a 240z (rx-7/type R ,i.e., fun ride w/ stick) , I can talk about cars!" revelation?

to prove your point...how often are you fortunate enough to hear "supposably" in common speech?

That's scarier than the vid

I don't wish to disrespect your fondness for Swedish metal ( I had a long twisted affair with a young Saab 9K turbo myself), but the C30 utilizes Ford's C1 platform (Mazda 3, Euro Focus, Volvo s40). I would certainly argue that the C1 is as competent as VW's PQ35 (Mk 5 GTI) , but I think Volvo's marketing dept. is…

mmmm....850 T5 wagon with 3 pedals....did we (USA) ever get any of those?

I was thinking the same thing!

ROFL @ first sentence!

I think your initial calculation might be off. 35psi in a tire would equate to 3.38 atmospheres absolute, yielding 1.748 cubic feet (at sea level) from initial volume of .517

awesome

yeah, but the rest of the world does. Every time there was political or military tension that threatened the Straight of Hormuz (in the '70s through '90s), crude oil in the open market shot up at least 20%, many times 100%+.