A Horse With No Name

Again waiting for the diesel...and methinks 4 cyl is the wave of the future....

I really probably would not find it too stiff. Glad your passionate about selling the K...guys at the local Suzuki store seem like they could care less...

I'm living that sort of life, sorry to hear we got trapped in this screwed up dimension together. Not that I mind your friendship while we mutually suffer....

Interesting....I wonder if it will feel more cheap inside like the Dart? Dart is a nice car, but I think if Barracuda comes back it should be something special.

So Dwight, let me ask you one question...why the hell are carmakers building DOHC and turbo motors if simple pushrod motors will do the trick more easily and more cost effectively? They don't randomly upgrade to a higher form of leather for the interior, or put ten coats of paint on a car rather than three just for the fun of it...so why DO they build the DOHC motors?

Methinks we are getting a little off topic....

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/pebble-beach-faux-pas/53459/page1/ I guess I need to write a column on this stuff for our sister magazine, Classic Motorsports, but I will share this with you guys first. I am always nervous out here representing at Monterey and Pebble Beach. Those of you who know me, know I am much more comfortable in a junk yard, than at the Rolex dinner. So last night, I am talking to long time friend and GRM supporter, and west coast Ford P.R. guy, John Clinard. He is standing and talking to another guy as well and I nonchalantly ask this guy, if he too is a Ford Guy. He quickly retorts, “no, I am a Chevy guy... what do you think!?“ John Clinard looks over at me and says, “Tim, I would like you to meet Edsel Ford" After much embarrassment, I end up talking to Edsel and his son, Henry Ford III for half an hour. Hard to believe these guys can be so down to earth.

http://www.leftlanenews.com/chrysler-to-replace-challenger-with-barracuda-in-2014.html And why can't I start a new topic in the Chryco sections?

6.0 would be a big selling point for me if I were using it like you use your truck....WTF happened to Arkus?

Would like more input on AWD handling and fuel economy, please. From Olds prev. experience, reg's experience with customers, and MM's experience with the Kisashi....

Too bad, keep looking...and how is Arkus doing?

Which is exactly my point. Having DOHC doesn't matter if the car is lame and having pushrods doesn't matter if the car is awesome. The configuration of the valvetrain does not matter as long as the car performs in a manner the customer expects. And I am agreeing with you....we just bought a car three months ago. OHC VS OHV isn't even on the radar in terms of what we were looking at, and I am a car guy.

Sorry to hear about Arkus....I wish him well. But here in Ohio Farm country, $2800 doesn't buy much of a 4wd truck....

Loki, let's go racing bud... Rallycross is like autocross, only on dirt. Since you obviously believe that the government should fund nothing.....your Monte Carlo should be set up perfectly to run in a dirt field and nowhere else. After all, driving on a government funded interstate with that car would be hypocritical.... So let's let em rip...when the green flag drops, the bull crap stops....

quote] [quote name='Oldsmoboi' timestamp='134525 Cadillac has been 90% DOHC since 1992 and 99% DOHC since 1997. Perhaps there is another reason for the difference or do you just wish to wish to continue to harp on the inane? Oldsmobile was the division inside GM with more DOHC models than any other outside of Cadillac..... It really helped them. In fact, I'm probably buying a 2012 Toronado tomorrow. In all fairness, the cars that the OHC Olds motors were married to were pretty lame, though. OHC Olds V8 was the starting field at Indy at one point, so you can't write off that motor entirely. I appreciate Dwights viewpoint, however, I am pretty much with Hyper on this....carmakers are going OHC for a reason, which hasn't been discussed. Also, the move to 4 cyl motors hasn't been discussed, nor has the fact that everyone is downsizing. Hell, even Bently IIRC went from a w12 to a V8 twin turbo... And I really think Hybrid is going to be the role of the future, like it or not. Porsche has already started using 911's in racing with hybrid drivetrains, and I read about Rolls Royce bringing out a plug in Hybrid in 2014....

It's also roomier than the Focus, which is a little tight inside. Golf/GTI, Kizashi, Dart...all roomier than the Focus inside.

blu, the difference is that you and I prefer to let someone else do the wrenching, Camino has more than one vehicle and isn't afriad to wrench himself. I say go for it....my friend Mark, one of the guys I race with, just paid almost 5K for an ultra-clean reg cab GMC stepside with 189K on it, similar age to the truck your looking at. Mark's last truck had 558,000 on it when he sold it. Neighbors of mine got almost 800K out of an F-150 4WD....

Awesome, any more info on this replica would be welcome!

Can't blame you, it's a sweet little car!

We still haven't answered why carmakers go the OHC in the first place...there must be reasons, or they wouldn't do it.

Thanks! The Andria Doria was a cool looking ship when it was afloat, and the sinking was kind of wild. When the Andria Doria was T-boned, a teenage girl was killed sleeping in her bunk, while her teenage sister sleeping right above her was unharmed. Wild how things work out in accidents....

I agree....

Wow, thanks....I knew the last set of images from the Titanic was fascinating...but...wow...!

A piece o da action....

Without veering too far off into politics, peak oil for one....we are not going to run out of fuel tomorrow, but fuel prices will rise. And if where you live is anything like Ohio, people ain't getting any smaller. there is a reason the local Wal-Mart parking lot is full of Tahoes, Impalas, and Suburbans and not Cruze, Fiesta, and MINI.... Modern people are fat...and they have also started growing taller than people used to. People will be wanting and needing larger cars, and will need to fuel them. Another demographic issue-I was born in '65, when I was a junior in high school in 1983, V8 cars were king, and people wanted V8's. The younger generation, not so much so. Our local track, Columbus Motor speedway (often called Columbus Monkey Speedway) has a class called crazy compacts, all litle GM J bodies going at each other on a little third mile track. Talking to the younger drivers (late teens to early thirties) they often would RATHER race a smaller motored car because its what are used to and like.