Perhaps the experience is much like the Toyabaru twins. Everyone whines there’s not enough power, but those who have actually driven one say it’s all good.

Yup. Thought it'd be slower. That's not slow even now.

1. Fuck LS’s.

Yep, most people won’t even go above 70, never mind over that. Hell even most of the guys who call themselves racers will probably never get it over 120. Anything over that and it is just horsepower (and design costs) going to waste.

I agree. The only argument people have is “It only goes about 125!”

Top speed is a function of areodynamics, horsepower, and gearing. With oppressively low speed limits in much of the USA practically nobody has really cared about top speed in decades so long as it was somewhere over 100mph.

How fast did it get to 126 though? That’s far more pertinent to an exciting driving experience

Who cares? You didn’t/don’t buy a Prowler for top speed.

Who cares? You didn’t/don’t buy a Prowler for top speed.

If the Prowler came with the exact same performance, but out of a 318, nobody would have been disappointed. It was really derided over cylinder count, and little else. The lack of an available manual transmission was a legitimate gripe, but honestly, they were going to sell very few manual versions even if they…

126 is probably the speed rating of the tires they put on it and is electronically limited.

This ^ infinity

So Chrysler should have put a Chevrolet engine in one of their flagship cars?

Does top speed really matter when you can’t reach it on the road without losing your license?

Seriously . . . it also happens to be the quickest on the list above. If it wasn’t a Chrysler product it would probably get a fraction of the hate. Still a super neat vehicle and awesome test bed for aluminum intensive manufacturing. I’m still fairly certain no other automaker in the world would have built something…

May have something to do with aero as well, those cars aren’t terribly efficient through the air.

Ugg, the whole Prowler thing again.

this is an awful list. so much just...wrong. Jalopnik is better than showing pictures of high trim models and talking about the base models. This is seriously pathetic.

The AAV wasn’t built to withstand tank or RPG fire. It was built to drive marines onto the beach facing machine gun fire. The big development was the rear opening ramp. So unlike the Higgins boats on D-Day that dropped their forward ramps and exposed troops to incoming fire, the AAV drives onto the beach, drops the…

There is a limit to how much armor you can add. First, it still has to fit on Navy ships. Second, it still has to float.