Don’t forget that all of these cars rode on the W-body platform that launched in 1988!

The 2010-2018 Ford Taurus SHO. Durable as all hell, comfy, 0-60 in 5.2 while weighing 4400lbs, with a tune it’s a low 12 car. It’s no track car, but it is a fantastic daily driver.

Unreliable? I agree with the rear leaf spring suspension being obsolete (it has been for years) but there are few powertrain combinations as reliable as the small block V8 and a Hydramatic transmission...

Are we sure this isn’t Pavel Datsyuk in a costume?

Thank god. I hope he didn’t do too much damage to the brand. Good riddance!

Proof that money can’t buy taste. God that thing is fucking ugly. Giving the 19 Camaro a run for its money.

This is why you need a sloppy LS powered project. If anything fails its less than $350-$500 to replace.

That just sounds like I’m comparing rational folk and bougie fucks with more money than brains.

Clearly you are failing as a father.

Not sure where you’re at but here all the Bro’s drive M3's usually in some obnoxious color.

Ugly, AND it’s slower than a Camaro that’s almost half the cost. I will say the wheels are cool though.

The prototype with the body cladding is better looking than the actual car.

I agree, As stated compression ratio, however in the actual engine, the valve opening and closing events affect true measured compression.

Compression ratio is not static, it is dynamic based on the valve opening and closing events.

yes, valves have to rotate

You’ve thorougly covered static compression ratio, but engines don’t care about static compression ratio, they care about dynamic compression ratio, which is affected by the camshaft. For instance you can run a much higher compression ratio with a cam with lots of lift and duration than you can with a tiny cam.

I mean didn’t the brawniest V8 of that year only make 165HP? Sure its almost double, but its not like it was a barn burner.

Yeah, not a lot of 5 speeds from the 80's can handle much torque. T-5 breaks above 330 ft/lbs, The Dough Nash 4+1 wasn’t much better, Mopar still used the A833 albeit with an OD gear set. Wouldn’t be until the mod motor era that the T-45 and TR-3650 started being decent transmissions.

I mean a 4L80 with a Transgo 2 HD shift kit will handle more than double the horsepower it was rated for originally. a 200-4r in Grand National built properly is good into the 8's in the quarter mile, Turbo-Hydramatic 400's are damned near indestructible. A TR3650 in a 05-10 Mustang will comfortably handle 500+…

God I remember these things, they were abso-fucking-lutely awful to drive, and they had a tenancy to explode above 300 hp.