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  1. A Horse With No Name
    1966 Sprint 200 fastback is Turquoise and very, very rare. Ford Built the Sprint 200 special edition as a celebration of the millionth mustang, a handful of fastbacks were built. One of my fellow club members had one when I was part of the Classic Mustang Club of Central Ohio. Wild guess would be that maybe six still exist, I could be wildly wrong about that. Only about six and a half thousand 66 Mustang fastbacks supposedly still exist.
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    Next car up is a 1969 Mach 1 in either Poppy Green or Champagne Gold. While not quite a factory special edition...the Poppy Green was a run of ten cars for Russ David Ford. They did a ten car short limited edition run. This was done to promote the dealership's racing team. Champagne Gold was going to be a special edition color for the Mach 1 But Ford decided to allow it on other Mustangs as well. A very, very rare car is a GT fastback for 1969 in Champaign Gold. I guess you said special edition so we will go with Poppy Green. 1969 was a very low production year for the GT package, as the Mach 1, Boss 302 and Boss 429 overshadowed the GT as a performance car.
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    Looking forward to it. My number two list just for the heck of it is going to cheat like crazy and feature only oddball Mustangs. Car number one will be a 1968 High Country Special, much is just like a California Special but much more rare with only two hundred plus built. Keep the J code 302 4V V8 and match it with a four speed top loader please. Also make this car highland green, like the Mustang in Bullet.
  4. A Horse With No Name
    I make the same argument about vintage racing. I used to flag and do corner work at Mid Ohio. Once saw a real vintage Shelby Mustang and one of the actual Aero Monte Carlos raced by Dale Earnhardt collide and wind up in a tire wall. Both cars were rebuilt but that was painful to watch. Check out touring car masters on YouTube, it is an Australian vintage series that suppors the V8 super cars and the like. Good racing!
  5. A Horse With No Name
    I will continue with the California special edition....68 California special Mustang.....V8, 302 J code 302 4V.... 2016 Launch Edition Miata.... 1997 type R Miata as an autocross car.... 2017 series yellow BRZ....http://www.subaru.com/2017-brz-series-yellow 1969 SC rambler A edition because I feel like something funky. I would take a Spirit LHD FD RX7 but sicne there is only one in the world and Mazda is not turning lose of it, it does not qualify as a regular production vehicle.
  6. A Horse With No Name
    Indeed.....! At least if someone had made a race car out of it and it bought a concrete retaining wall at high speed....it would have had an honorable death....as it is,..ugh....
  7. A Horse With No Name
    i doubt GM is cheating the liability would be obscene. IIRC the Colorado truck went through an additional three months or testing for the diesel just to prove that it was clean. Lots of VW TDI owners might want one...not sure what is going to happen.
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    Horrible waste of a car....Then again parts from it could be sued to rebuild another C5 Z06!
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    Agreed. My diesel Jetta has done over 60 (2015) this may well replace it in the fleet when vw buys the Jetta back. Volt is also still an option. Also hopefully GM actually markets this thing. they did very little to market the last Cruze diesel, which is why it had production numbers that rivaled the 2 door Pontiac Safari wagons from the 1950's.
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    Despite my seeming cynicism in the other thread, I adore the new Mustang and crave its good looks like I crave Oxygen. This is fantastic news, wonderful that Ford is so far ahead here. Compared to the dated and Stale 370Z, the Vaporware new Supra from Toyota, the over priced and overly engineered performance cars from people like Porsche...the Stang is SUCH a breath of fresh air. Thanks for posting this, and LONG LIVE FORD AND THE MUSTANG! (You probably cannot tell that I enjoyed reading this!)
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    Love the Allante.
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    Agreed!
  13. A Horse With No Name
    Volkswagen motors are often under rated in terms of both power and fuel efficiency. I once got over 60 miles to the gallon in the diesel Jetta, regularly get over fifty. And then there is that pesky bit about what tunes like APR do to VW motors in terms of performance...
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    And this is excellent, rational thinking. I wish I could up vote it ten times rather than just once. We need rational debate and thoughtful interaction. That being said, with Britain out of the EU and Germany as the most powerful member, i do wonder how much impact this will have on the other countries and on EU policy as a whole.
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    It may not happen all the way but chances are good for a significant transition. Agree completely with this!
  16. A Horse With No Name
    The whole car looks fantastic. This is the inspiration I need to take better care of my own cars.
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    Without a doubt. this kind of dovetails with buying cars from companies where I am happy with their corporate culture. I really like VW products, but would be reticent to buy one as I dislike their internal corporate business ethics.
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    Possibly. It's also the easiest way to get into an Older TDI New Beetle-much more affordable than a Golf or Jetta. And fairly decent a reliable as cars go....
  19. A Horse With No Name
    Could not finish watching it myself. ...not making any comments as I do not want to stir crap and get banned....
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    I would put up with it to own that truck though. Body shop could fix that quick...but yes, you should not have to deal with that on a new vehicle.
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    A lot of us have owned quite a few vehicles.
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    I feel just the opposite. Fossil fuels are inherently dirty and nasty, and Europe has a high population density. This is infinitely rational. It would also be really nice if the Untied States would follow suit. Allow older ICE cars to still roam, but everything sold from 2029 onward must be electric. Grandfathering in the older stuff would ensure no ones essential rights to drive their current car were violated, and it would also get us away from importing oil-a huge source of our trade deficit. Do not want this sent off to politics, but so very tired of personally supporting other countries every time I fill up.
  23. A Horse With No Name
    This thing will be the mess that just does not stop being painful
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    I was mentioning this in another thread, this is the wave of the future, you might as well adjust emotionally now. Think this is quite a good idea actually.
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    Probably a good many of them will be sadly crushed-the gen 1 cars (2009-2014, everything other than Passat) do not have the Ad Blue/urea and will require extensive modifications to comply. Plus VW needs to warranty the repairs for a set period of time, several years and something like 48,000 miles. So it may well be more economically viable to crush these rather than repair them. At a bare minimum, VW has to cut the unibody below the doors and put a three inch hole in the engine block, they must also certify that the ECU and emissions components have been destroyed. Export is not allowed unless cars have been repaired to spec, and even then VW is required by law to warranty the cars. The crash market for 2012 Jettas parts, or (pick your model) is small enough that I wonder if it won't be more economically viable just to crush intact the majority of cars that come in. Toyota did this with the Tacoma Frame recall. I was working as an electrician and we were building a car wash across from the local Toyota dealer when the Frame buy back was going on. One day I saw five loaded car carriers of Tacomas being hauled out of there. And there were other shipments as well. Interestingly enough, multiple hundreds of cars were also hauled out of there to be crushed during the cash for clunkers thing.... Kind of sad to be crushing decent usable vehicles in any case. Ohh it is gorgeous. MINI needs to follow VW's lead and come up with some new colors. Our 03 Cooper is is Red, thought I would get tired of it, over the years I have quite grown to like it. Would love to get a Fiesta St in the bright green they had....
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