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  1. oldshurst442
    not drunk...I did say TRICK ENGINEERING. And yes. The engineering behind the Demon and the Veyron could be compared and contrasted. The Demon has some serious forces it needed to tame to make it livable for day to day duties as well as the strip. Same as the Veyron. Cooling is another factor on how VW and Mopar went about it... How both engines are strong to withstand all that combustion... Supercharging a V8 for one car to achieve 900 some odd horses on 100 octane or something like that while quadrupling turbos on a 16 cylinder producing 1000-1200 horsepower. Awd on one car and rwd on the other and the one with rwd manages to plant the rear tires to out accelerate the one with more horsepower, double the cylinder count, mid-engine and 4 wheel traction... One trick pony? Ill give you that... But Ill taketh away... We criticize a car that is knowingly and unabashedl strictly made for the quarter mile drag race? That is like criticizing a Harley Davidson chopper for not being a crotch rocket sport bike. That is like criticizing a Hayabusa for not being a Harley cruiser. A Demon is not a mid-engined exotic, nor does it pretend to be one. A Challenger has NOT dreamed about changing vocations like the Mustang and Camaro did...partly because the platform wont allow it and the Challenger desperately needs a new one...but...isnt what the Demon could do performance wise a testament to what the SRT/Mopar guys could do with such an old platform? Do we really need to be that negative towards the Demon and be all sour grapey and whine that the Ford, Chevy, Tesla boys need not worry because of other performance metrics? At the end of the day, this is still America, the Challenger, the Mustang, Camaro and Model S are still American cars and American icons and reaching 1320 feet in the fastest time and highest speed s still THE performance metric...and as of now, the Demon holds that record...seats or no seats... And yes the Mustang and Camaro are great... So is the Demon. Could we not accept it for what it is??? Like Frisky said, I too, if I was rich beyond belief, Id own 3. 1 to be a garage queen. 1 to be daily driven. 1 to replace the daily driven one because I know Id be putting the Demon on a tree or a highway barrier because of that raw power...assuming Id survive to drive the 3rd Demon after said crash...
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    Hello. Boston Bruins 2 Ottawa Senators 1 Bruins take first game. So...has the Mustang outsold the Challenger (and the Camaro) for the month of March? You seem to have forgotten to show us in the sales thread for March... So....how are burnt LS7 valves doing in 2017? Yeah...your former name... Especially when my 1.6 liter ecoboosted Fusion is about to be recalled again for possible engine fires....again... Funny, you dont advertise fire hazard ecoboost anywhere in your sig or avatar... Yeah...tell us again how you are not a troll? Id leave this alone...but anytime GM or Mopar stumbles, you are there to pin point. Anytime Ford does something good, you gloat. Anytime GM or Mopar do something good, you try to negate. You know me well by now. I NEVER LET these kinds of things slide!!!
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    Vintage over new for me too... But..restomodded and pro-toured for me. When numbers matching cars are concerned....I'd leave the engine alone, only suspension and brake upgrades for safety Id do. Clone cars is what Id resto-mod and pro-tour with LS crate engine swaps, or Coyote swaps or 6.4liter modern hemi swaps depending on the project car... A modern Challenger would just about be the ONLY pony car/muscle car that I prefer new over vintage. But then again, a vintage 1970 Challenger Hellcat or Demon restomod sounds god to me... Dynacorn shell body. Hellcat crate engine. Swartz performance chassis. Modern suspension and brembo brake upgrades and stuff. Some fab work on the vintage hood to mimic modern Hellcat hood.... Yup....vintage over new!!!
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    nope. You a troll...always was. Now....Ive got a hockey game to watch. Our nation's capital versus the team I actually cheer for. Its an exciting game too!!! You are now free to troll away how the Demon and the Vette displeases you because RICE and tell us how the Mustang will outsell it...
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    @FordCosworth @FAPTurbo and everyone else that disses the Demon for whatever reason... THIS is what REAL car guys say about the Demon.... Anything what @FordCosworth and @FAPTurbo had to say is just pure TROLLING!!!! It aint opinion, it aint even hatred of the machine, its just pure TROLLING!!! May I say to you: JUST GROW THE PHOQUE UP!!!! LET IT BE KNOWN...BOTH ARE FROM VANCOUVER B.C.
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    Not in your case....you hold other car makers other than Ford to different standards! The Ford Mustang is the EPITOME of RICE in the Muscle Car world! Yet somehow, the DEMON bothers you???!!! AND THE VETTE AS YOU DID THIS RICER TIRADE WITH THE VETTE TOO!!! GTFO!!!
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    From your favorite Prime Minister's international airport of Montreal! The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport in Montreal Season #2 starts tonight and this is how Montreal greets its visitors as of yesterday! So.....how are those Canucks doing? Yeah....I guess that is why political talk is front and center, Vancouverites have nothing better to do just talk shyte about Liberal this and Liberal that... Well, had the Canucks made the playoffs, ya'll be complainin' about Marchand....
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    *SIGH* Another gigantic wing on a Mustang Yet another useless wing on a Mustang with ground effects...especially when an LX was FASTER!!! This one is channeling its inner ricer PONTIAC TRANS AM Complete with Trans Am engine turned dash But the thing is....MUSCLE CARS ARE RICE!!!! What I wanted to point out is that from 2016 to 2012 to 2001 to 1990 to 1976, the Mustang sells to the adolescent crowd because well.....MUSCLE CAR!!! Scoops, air vents, racing stripes, wings....functional or not, part of the Muscle Car persona.... So... GTFO with that SHYTE @FordCosworth PS...I KNOW YOU LOVE THIS CAR....AS YOU SHOULD!!! ITS A BEAST!!! GREAT ENGINE!!! BUT THAT WING, BRAH!!! SO...I REPEAT....GTFO WITH THAT SHYTE!!!
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    @smk4565 It looks like the Battle of the Bulge is won by the Americans...again. AMG is like Rommel and SRT is like Patton. See you in Berlin, SMK.
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    There is some serious trick engineering regarding the Demon to achieve this. On a Dodge. Think about that. Bugatti is revered for having 4 turbos and 1000 plus horsepower and a price tag that costs more than my house! Tesla...its a great engineering feat. Its fast. Its also a luxury name plate sort off. This is a..... DODGE. LOVE IT, HATE IT. ITS A MUSCLE CAR TO END ALL MUSCLE CARS. STRAIGHT FROM THE FACTORY. It aint home built. It aint built by a hot rodder on a dime and time. It aint made by a crooked shyster a la Hennessey. But by Tim Kuniskis and his Auburn Hills palls! Take it or leave it. Love it or hate it. Just be glad that Dodge is still alive to at least make one last hoorah at the Alamo. Just be glad this aint a Prius....but a muscle car that could propel Musk to up the ante on his Model S. Who the phoque said that the good 'ole pushrodded internal combustion V8 engine is dead? Grim reaper...you better look elsewhere...perhaps towards Ford and its ecoboost bullshyte!!! Thus maybe Ford and GM could exercise their horsepower demons to exorcise this Demon and give us another V8 horsepower war. Because as of now....it takes a Mopar to catch a Mopar!
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    Not in the quarter mile and the front end dont lift...that is some serious shyte! Let Elon do the same shyte to his Model S and take out some seats if he wants to rule hell!!!
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    My post above seems like Im against this technology. Well...yes and no. As long as humans can have the option of driving themselves Im all for it. And Im for it because most humans dont have the mental strength to be 100% focused at all times to drive safely...and humans also lose brain and reflex power as they age. So 100% full autonomous tech does have a place in our human evolution...
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    Well, even Jedis using the force actually do all the driving and flying themselves, and they also have an R2 unit computing all the stuff it needs to compute as a co-pilot... This is how I view full autonomous driving: Either it will be the best thing since slice bread sometime in the near or very far future or will be humanity's greatest disaster in history both in economic terms of embarrassingly tons and tons of money wasted in epic proportions of bankruptcy failures and in disastrous accidents in holocaustic levels of mass human extinctions ... Time will tell. The rise or fall of this 'saving from ourselves' technology will make for an epic Hollywood movie sometime.
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    alternating current, direct current, stators, rotors and commutators, electromagnetic coils and fields is as exciting as it gets when that electricity is sizzling and cracking! But.... V or inline or on the side cylinders, camshafts, crankshafts and pistons, valves, connecting rods and spark plugs producing wild and unstoppable horses is just brutal...and just as exciting! I agree...this shyte down below puts the fear of God in one even if that one happens to be atheist! But.... Sometimes...there is nothing like a nice Italian symphony playing or American Rock-N-Roll in the backround.... Rome might have been burning, but Rome maintained her superiority for another 400 years after that and is still standing 2000 years later! As much as I LOVE EVs and I LOVE the Model S and as much as I HATE SUVs.... The Model X is one UGLY SUV...Elon Musk could screw himself with it! That Jeep is GORGEOUS and 700 satanical horses suits me just fine! Unfortunately for us, Sergio is in charge....its not Rome is burning, its more accurate to say weasels are running the chicken coup!
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    Well...what Hyper mentions is that the Impala rendered the Lacrosse obsolete, and in turn the Malibu has rendered the Impala obsolete and not any of those 3 sell as much as their CUV/SUV counterparts and now, GM is introducing yet another 4rth model into the mix with the corporate V6 under the hood. OK, the Malibu does not and will not have it... And sure turbo engines can be fun...turbo the V6 and drop it into a Buick for some pizzazz! It worked for Cadillac to some degree with the TTV6 XTS.... Drop the XTS all together and give some of that excitement back to Buick!
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    IMO...this move will render 1 out of the 3 or even 2 out of the 3 obsolete, especially when big/biggish midsized sedans are falling victim to CUV and SUV sales! I also said earlier that a Buick CUV with a turbo V6 with a trim called a GS could benefit Buick... I think they should just nix the idea of a V6 Regal GS and just go the Envision GS route! The Envision is where Buick's money will come from.
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    But....I did research on my own too.... What I found out was: Regal will be 192.8" long Malibu is 193.8" long Lacrosse is 197.5" long (car&driver website) or 198" long (Buick.ca website) Impala is 201" long. All have 73" of width but the Lacrosse is said to be 74" Between the Regal and the Lacrosse, we are looking at a 4.7/5.2 inch difference depending what source is correct and visually speaking even if comparing side by side, not at all a big difference... So...my rant through my though processes seems to hold water without trying to semantic the hell out of my point of view... Which is: 1. too many models (3) sharing the same more or less exterior dimensions give or take, sharing the same interior specs more or less give or take and sharing the same bloody corporate V6 in the same more or less give or take price range and more or less give or take market niche... 2. A corporate V6 option is not what I think the Regal and Buick needs to spice up their line-up and image. 3. A corporate V6 option on the Regal is not worthy of the GS name.
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    @Cubical-aka-Moltar Thanx!
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    Not that much smaller Im presuming. The Regal is closer to the Malibu's underpinnings Im assuming which is smaller than the Impala, but not considerably smaller and Im guessing and assuming that the Regal will be a tad bigger than the Malibu itself making the Regal a tad smaller than either the Impala and Lacrosse. And...OK.. the V6 Regal will as quick as an ATS V6 which is great! Why not make the V6 Regal a turbo and make it that much quicker than an ATS V6? GM/Buick wants to use the GS name, why not go full on and make a REAL GS? That Buick Skylark GS above was one of the fastest original muscle car era muscle cars. (A Skylark could be argued that it eventually became a Regal....) So...why does GM still insist on under delivering when they bring on historical name plates? For me at least, they should leave out the GS bullshyte and give a V6 Regal a different trim name... GS, GSX, GN, GNX should either be revived ONLY with WORTHY successors which would REALLY give Buick a boost in image or just plain forget about that past and start with NEW nomenclature! a REGULAR 300 horse regular corporate V6 Regal sounds boring enough, maybe Regal V6 should just as well be its trim name and cut out the BS need to re-kindle any thoughts of excitement.... The Sportsback Χ naming they are doing now seems to be pointing to the future. GREAT! OK....on with the future and forget the past if Buick is to sully the GS name as I think a corporate V6 engine option is not worthy of the GS name... So... I really have 2 issues with this... 1. A corporate V6 option is not what I think the Regal and Buick needs to spice up their line-up and image. 2. A corporate V6 option on the Regal is not worthy of the GS name.
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    You know what would really make a better GS? You combine the two ideas of the turbo 4 and V6 and make the GS a turbo V6...and charge a premium for it making sure the interior is worthy of the premium price tag giving Buick some needed excitement while at the same time making sure there is some room and distance between the V6 Chevy Impala and the V6 Buick Lacrosse which all have the same V6 engine and not one of the three cars (Regal, Lacrosse, Impala) really making a solid case to buy either of them between them. All three in the same showroom all get lost with each other and not one standing tall against the other to shine or offer something.....DIFFERENT from each other! All three will probably have the same boring 3.6 V6 producing the same 300 or so horsepower output. The Impala will hold the price advantage with it being the least costly option while the Lacrosse over the Regal will be the bigger option while looking very similar. With a turbo version of the V6 in GS Regal form, there is a different element to that trio. And it gives Buick a much needed spicier offering in their model line-up. A turbo V6 GS trim for Buick should also be an option on ALL of their CUVs as well!!!
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    I never ever thought of that. About the Eagle Talon... I refrained from commenting because I really had no idea what opinion to have about this latest Civic. Now, thanx to your insight, I have my opinion. Yeah...Im not into this car.
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    Hello! We've exchanged pleasantries at Motor Trend. I enjoyed your posts there...good to have you here!
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    It has never happened to me...so I dont know...BTW, this site is a trillion times more stable than Motor Trend! Maybe get @Drew Dowdell attention to it... But yeah, great minds think alike!
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    I too share this sentiment with all classic cars! This train of thought is how Jay Leno views his restorations. Its OK to modernize certain things like brakes for safety reasons, but the clone route is perfect for the sawzalls and the body tucks and the blacking out of the chrome trim and stuff!
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    The Orioles beat the Blue Jays twice so far to open up the season... That Impala with the 18s up front and 20s in the back has a very nice stance to her. Classy and aggressive at the same time. That is a knock-out look you should be striving to achieve as well since you just mentioned that you are willing to open the door to customization more than just taking rims off of one car and putting them on the Impala. Pin striping is also a must with this car! You should do it! Not too crazy like those low riders, but a nice hood pin strip and some that goes along the side of the body complimenting those long sides!
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