Yeah, I’m with you on that. And the design is pretty, but not nearly stunning anymore. Also, jesus what an arcane piece of iron and lead that thing is. The only thing that comes to mind with the new drivetrain is more weight and underhood heat.

I’m not sure what his point was. Maybe that we can do better? Maybe that cars are getting piggishly heavy (which, they are), or maybe he just really likes the 1908 Ford.

Ha! Well, I guess I counts then... I mean, you couldnt homologate them... But still.

I’m 32, used to make a decent living writing about cars, and you’re a prick who can’t support his arguments without insults.

A gen III fire hawk is barely memorable. Are you sure they built one?

One sled, an Acura no one remembers thanks to the Type-R,, a fragile and underwhelming (but beautiful Jaguar, and is that a Volvo??

ZR-1 came out in 1990, and 1992 saw the introduction of the 300 horsepower LT1. Yes, I did forget to mention it.

C5 Corvette, Z/28 - Trans Am, E46 M3 (first year), Audi S4, SVT Mustang, Civic Si... there were actually quite a few.

It was kind of the end of the Japanese muscle car, but the beginning of the rebirth (sort of) of the American muscle car. The LS1 debuted in 1997, and you could get it in the Camaro and Firebird in 1998, the quad cam mod-block 4.6 Ford came along (wheee 302 horsepower... which was a lot...), and the E36 was (I think)…

Honestly, I’m going to say 1992. While other years had bad performance cars, at least they had performance cars that, for their day, were... okay they were still pretty terrible. But, they were there. People could get excited about them. You still had terrible quality control, and the fastest cars were also ticking…

Har har har. Yep. It’s easy to mock the stereotypical car salesman. And, as those assholes DO exist, and help make honest and straightforward salesman money, I’m all for it.

So, if you want a real inside view, I provide this wonderful docu-drama with Mr. Jeremy Piven.

This sort of goes back to Car Hacking. If you’re 99% of us, and you make damn near no money, and you’re running an old ass macbook, and you don’t click on phishing e-mails... why are people targeting you?

I’ve always thought that is more the Corvette’s realm. Just like Continental Tire is the Camaro’s realm.

Tom,

You wouldn’t believe how often people are completely confused by my want for a column shift. Why would I want the damn shifter in the center console taking up space?

Pretty simple answer actually. Outside of the workers that build the cars here in the U.S., domestic companies pay taxes to your government (or at least they should). And I’ve had terribly unreliable imported cars for the most part. So I buy into it. That being said, I did have some very reliable Hondas from the early…

IIRC, you have to be selected to be an Alfa dealer, and then you can lose that right if you can’t move units or slip on CSI.

This is one of the major reasons Johan De Nyscchen at Cadillac has been so vocal about not wanting a Cadillac sold out of the back of a Chevrolet store. Two different client levels, and two vastly different selling styles.

The Roman Dumas wreck looks like more than just tires not gripping. The sparks from the aft of the car are strange, and judging by the twitch, he could’ve overmatched the traction control? It’s an odd way to go straight into a wall.

To be fair, I qualified the statement with “If you aren’t using your awkward sense of humor”. I suppose I should’ve just said sarcastic sense of humor.