oldshurst442

Charcoal black. So in between yucky grey and boring black. Double whammy! And the wife's Fusion is Tuxedo black. So....I am part of the problem... When I bought the Acura: 1. Acura did not really offer great colours. And "fun" colours did not really hide the hideousness that is the TL. In black or charcoal, the car at least looks mean and stealthy instead of retarded. LOL 2. Bought the showroom floor model they had. Got a great deal on it. Usually, that is how I buy my cars. That is all they had that night available.

I find that its awesome that Dodge continues to offer crazy colours. I wish others would follow suit. But maybe its because people are drab nowadays and only want yuckie silvers and grays. Boring and safe white and black. Its a tad disappointing...

Fossil fuels prevents sexual assault? However...I do like my fossil fuels, my music and my women ENSEMBLE!

Hmmmmmmmmmmm... Ive seen this before. Cadillac ELR revisited? Chevy and GM just best leave the EV coupes alone and concentrate on giving the people an EV they actually want, need and desire. And they dont need an online website/survey to "gather data" either! All they have to do is see how many Tesla Model 3s are on pre-order and just copy THAT formula...

This paragraph is what got the +1 from me. What makes this frustrating for me when discussing EVs is that sheeple,yes sheeple, KNOWINGLY they WONT get their Model 3 in this decade STILL line-up for one. 500 000 plus pre-orders...there is a Chevy Bolt for sale and ready for delivery as of NOW! And then the OTHER frustrating thing for me is when people argue the fact that not too many consumers want an EV... WHAT?! 500 000 pre-orders and still growing on an EV that is nowhere near to be delivered any time soon. 500 000 pre-orders. Plus the other 100 000/year that buy the Model S...an EV that is fast becoming DATED! Its on sale now for 5 years...and still the best damned EV from ANY manufacturer. GM, Ford, Toyota, Mercedes...ALL OF THEM...dragging their feet. MAYBE THE BOLT IS NOT SELLING LIKE A MODEL 3 BECAUSE PEOPLE SEE GM IS DRAGGING THEIR FEET AND THEY ARE SAYING...."PHOQUE GM! ILL WAIT FOR TESLA!" Maybe when GM and Mercedes finally gives the people those 20 LEGIT AND PROPER EVs promised by 2020 or something like that, THAT COMPARE TO A MODEL S OR MODEL 3 in terms of range, SPACE and OK looks is when Tesla bites the dust! For now...maybe...alls people are seeing is an oil corrupted auto industry still in denial...

The ONLY thing I enjoyed from him was this commercial he did with the Camaro. I still get a giggle from it! The song, knowing that this car is targeting the Devilish trio from Mopar. The dark scene. The burn out. It hits all my rock-n-roll and muscle car buttons! Ive used Hennessey performance cars in the past helping me present my arguments, not as a testament to his abilities...but as a testament as how easily V8 engines could be modded to achieve great performance.

There are many links on the web to him being a con. There are some links that I just read tonight that even question his actual credentials in making those cars fast and/or reliable.

I said what I said in the other post... I HAD to let off steam... So I apologize again... And no...I amm NOT cute when Im angry... Im ugly when Im angry.

He probably does that because you always diss on EVs. He trolls you, you troll him... Ironically...you went bat shyte on me for SEMANTICALLY getting your employers domain wrong... YOU work at a body shop. A universal body shop? Repairing all types of makes from Tesla and Hyundai... But I SWEAR I SAW YOU write that your employer may own a FCA dealership...not necessarily YOU working at said dealership a few weeks ago... Its funny though...you got really really defensive about it... Fast forward to tonight and you finding it gratifying for Tesla dying... FCA aint all that healthy either... You see where Im heading with this? It shoudnt be gratifying for you when you get all uptight about why somebody asked why you own a FCA product and shyte on Tesla and I answered him the best I could WITHOUT LIES OR TROLLING BUT USING WHAT YOU YOURSELF POSTED PUBLICLY AND YOU GETTING VERY VERY DEFENSIVE ABOUT IT!!!! Know...I will apologize to you and Drew because THIS discussion SHOULD NOT be about you...but about cars... But this whole "gratifying" thing seemed to go down a human path rather than an automobile one...

"Gratifying to watch" triggered that... A -1 vote anytime somebody mentions EVs... Dont play coy...we aint dumb!

We keep on shytting on Elon Musk for being late on his deliveries and some of us even call him an snake oil salesman. A Shyster. As I have learned about what the term "snake oil salesman" means over the years...and seen this type of charlatan depicted in old Western Cowboy movies. It is befitting that Johhny boy sells his dreams and steals the money of his paying customers headquartered in Houston. Yes...Texas and westerns go hand in hand. https://www.carthrottle.com/post/wpqymry/ https://jalopnik.com/ex-employees-say-hennessey-is-a-bigger-mess-than-you-ev-1778134112 His company might be in business since 1991, building extremely fast Vipers, Corvettes, Escalades and Exorcist Camaros from time to time...sometimes he just outright frauds his paying customers by ripping parts off of one customer's car and putting that part on another car and replacing the missing part with an inferior part. And worse things than that...since 1991. Although the man has a knack and knows how to make cars go fast..and he knows how to sell that dream PERFECTLY...the man is not a very honest man. Like @Cubical-aka-Moltar said...I doubt that Dieter is worried all that much. I think Dieter is more worried what the Bow-Tie boys are doing with the Vette. And Im sure Johnny boy will get his hands on that Vette and make THAT Vette go faster and quicker...its just that people plunking down money for one from Johnny's shop, prolly will get a dud...or wont get one at all.

dont forget a crook, con artist, and fraud master from Texas.

I see where you are coming from. I dont necessarily disagree with your point of view. I just dont see the merits of a Huracan waiting to get a technology to get passed down to it from an Asterion to a future Egoista/Sesto Elemento/Veneno to the next generation Aventador and then FINALLY to the Huracan when this hybridisation is already happening in the Huracan's class today. OK...a class lower. The NSX is what I am talking about. https://www.caranddriver.com/acura/nsx Long story short. Why prolong it? Lamborghini maybe thinking about the NSX. Maybe not. Then there is the next generation C8 Corvette. It may or may not be mid-engined in the supercar sense of it being mid-engined...as in behind the driver...and the C8 Vette recently trademarked name of E-Ray may or may not be a hybrid electric variant sold sometime in the early 2020s... So...Lambo may or may not be thinking about a C8 Vette either. But maybe Lambo wants to be ahead of the bell curve rather than just waiting to see which sports car will be next to get hybridised. And I dont have a problem with that. Full on electric though is where I might be reluctant to accept at 100%. Its fine for a sedan. Like a Tesla Model S or a personal project classic car going full-on EV...but to lose a V12/V10 Ferrari or Lamborghini (and even V8 pony cars) so early in the EV age (if we could even say 2017 is the dawn of an EV age to begin with) is...not acceptable!

I miss those old Car and Driver and Motor Trend and Road and Track articles. Along with High Powered Pontiac? and Muscle Car Review and magazines of that nature. The articles then were written by and for the real car guy and the cars that were featured were made by the sweat and tears of real car guys. Today...its all about the 'ratings' on who will buy the subscriptions...ie sales sales sales no matter what bullshyte they spew... And the cars that are featured are about the SEMA shows or the high dollar resto-mods that are made for the millionaires that pay garages that have television shows to make them... Sure Boyd Coddington and Chip Foose and others were superstar hot rod mechanics before their TV shows... And this was also a time before Barrett-Jackson and SEMA was a popular fad. I feel as that pop culture has turned hot rodding and tuning into an entrepreneurial and profit making endeavor rather than stay to its roots as a pure love for the automobile itself.

THAT is the VERY definition of a sleeper if I have ever seen. THAT is what I was referring to when we had the discussion a while back on sleepers. Sure that Seville always had a V8...but nobody would ever think this particular modeled Cadillac would be hot rodded...like ever!

That is what I also was referring to. I never noticed it before you mentioned it, but both from the windshield onwards to the back have a very similar shape, and aerodynamic sleekness. And, the C-Pillar has the same rake and the rear fenders have the same roundness to them. They are like brothers from another mother!

I also know what I wanna put the Ferrari derived 2.9 liter Twin turbo V6 Alfa Romeo into. A Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4 or Dodge Stealth R/T And yes @Cubical-aka-Moltar Since you posted in the other thread regarding the 3000GT that you think of the 3000GT as a Japanese Trans Am, I had time to reflect on that statement and I agree with that sentiment 100%.

This is good. I like! I also want to do an AMG M156/159 motor restomod of some sort. I took my time to think about it! And I think I got it! Id do a German car with it, but it wouldnt be a Mercedes-Benz. It be a BMW. Id try to shoehorn it into a BMW Z8. Making this a pure German Shelby Cobra complete with the looks and bad-ass engine. Plus the awesome sounds it be making. Id also use that AMG motor in a Plymouth Prowler. Ive seen too many LS swaps and HEMI builds in a Prowler on the net. Me...Id use the Daimler-Chrysler merger to make me a proper hot rod Prowler.

And to boot... the word engine... (not an engine powered by words...) But the word "engine" is a word rooted in two different languages... From the same wiki link as above... The word engine in other words...is not a pure English word...like most English words...making this turn of discussions concerning the English language and the definitions of very very ironic... And the word "ironic" is another word rooted in another language. Greek this time. Creating another ironic moment when a Greek descendant is pointing out ironies... SHYTE! This post did not make the 3-word rule that @ocnblu wants to muzzle me with... Oh well...better luck next time...I guess!

Happiness! I like the idea of hybridisation. I am not ready for a full-on electric Lambo or Ferrari or even Porsche or Corvette, but I am on board for hybrids. In hindsight, Im more saddened that the new Ford GT is NOT a hybrid rather than having an ecoboosted 6 cylinder as an engine. That is the reason why I prefer the new NSX over the GT. Therefore...for me...this is awesome news!

^^^ Swartz's performance chassis. That is kinda what I want to do with a restomod and pro-toured 1970 442.

Or we could just bludgeon ourselves to death when we disagree with each other. It is Halloween after all!

Ive actually got to listen to the Alfa Romeo Guilia's roar up close. Saw one on the road a month or two ago. I like the way it sounds! I havent thought of what car I want this engine in just yet...all I know is this engine sounds sweet and I would want it powering a classic of some sort.

Ive already stated many times that I would drop a LSΧ small block crate engine naturally aspirated but with at least 500 ft.lbs of torque into a cloned 1969 or 1970 Olds 442. I also stated many times that I would get a Dynacorn GM A-Body body shell and parts and do a Tesla Model S swap with it. Chevelle or Lemans or Cutlass or Skylark...any of these would do. Of course cloned to look like the muscle cars they represent as in SS/GTO/442/GSΧ.

I would put the Voodoo V8 into this Ford 1967 Fairlane. I would also drop the Voodoo in the Pantera