A Horse With No Name

Why not have both? I've owned 7 RWD Muscle type cars, and 7 Sport Compact type cars that I've loved....why can't I have both...these guys do! Build thread... http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/2012-challenge-build-thread-dirty-escort-ii-the-li/48581/page1/

Let's go for it....it beats being twelve old men posting here in ten years....with 45,000 posts apiece... I like the way you think!

I have nothing against someone owning one. Honestly, they need to make it so kit cars, be they a factory five roadster, a steel bodied thirty 32 Ford, or this, can be built.

Agree with you there, sir! Hopefully, they do so now....

To get crushed. My pic...

Road America, Mid Ohio, Laguna Seca, Virginia International, et al.... go out and enjoy, sir!

Wish I could own one.... Seriously, I do want to own one more pick up truck before I die, and I would even be happy with a 350/350 El Camino of the 64-72 Era if it was clean.

Glad to know you like the old stuff too... something magical about 1950's American cars, if you know what I mean.

Yeah, modern GM suspension tuning is just fantastic. We loved the Verano we test drove, and if I could force myself to buy a "normal" car, that would be it. Suspension tuning and handling is one of the things that got me out of the old stuff and into the new stuff.

Good to see you get excited about the Buick again.

My comments in red on the original list. My approach is the opposite, I want to own only a few and pick them carefully. I'd also like an early 70's 240 Z car, but keeping modern iron around is more important to me, so I don't know what finances will allow.

Just sayin...glad things are good, you are always welcome here!

Hang on to the 79....wish I'd held on to my 70 Chevelle. That first gen Monte is beautiful!

Glad your still enjoying the HHR SS. Neat car, and we live in wonderful times to be able to enoy rides like these.

I dan picture him now, a man as old as his previous avatar pic...rolling out the Buick for it's 100th birthday. All sarcasm and joking aside, I love this car and want to see it on the road like I want Oxygen. Good luck to you sir, and maybe some day I can find my way to New Jersey and find a way to bribe my way into a ride.

Disagree...let him run the comoany into the ground, one less competitor for GM. Sadly, the American masses will buy this thing in droves like they do the Altima and the Sentra.

Wow...kind of cool in its own way.

Impressive, I love mequires products!

They might be out selling the Escalade now, but I do NOT consider the GL full size. At 6'6" tall, I find the GL to not as comfortable as my Escalade ESV. The GL is between mid and full size. The interior while nice has seats that remind me of airplanes due to the shortness of the bottom cushion, poor leg support and then over all mid and upper body support. I think they went to the asian rim to get people to test their seats rather than use some big people. They might be out selling the Escalade now, but I do NOT consider the GL full size. At 6'6" tall, I find the GL to not as comfortable as my Escalade ESV. The GL is between mid and full size. The interior while nice has seats that remind me of airplanes due to the shortness of the bottom cushion, poor leg support and then over all mid and upper body support. I think they went to the asian rim to get people to test their seats rather than use some big people. And this is an important point...I have teenage sons and we are always doing stuff with the Boy Scouts and moving musical gear and such.... A full size vehicle should be full size, dammit!

We had a solstice that was supercharged rather than Turbocharged when I raced with the Dayton Corvette Club a couple of weeks ago. Very impressive... I had him 6 of ten runs, and on the final run he had me by two tenths of a second....but a very fast car indeed.

It is one thing to offer a tuner kit to enthusiasts and quite another to adopt such a tune across the board. Enthusiasts probably won't mind a split IC cap in 5% of the vehicles, and they will probably tolerate or even love an engine that does not reach full boost until 3000 rpm instead of 2000 rpm and is peakier in the sense that max power arrives sooner at 4800 rpm rather than 5500 rpm, or an engine that feels stronger at 5000 rpm than at 6300 (not as linear as stock). The general public wants the engine to feel like a very linear V6 like the 3.6 and cry bloody murder to consumer reports when a hose clamp leaks even though it is a $5 fix. I never claim that GM cannot tune the 2.0T to 300hp or even 340hp. I am saying that they probably don't want to considering that 270 already at the top of the class, is extremely linear with 234 lb-ft available from 1500 rpm to 5500 rpm (260 lb-ft @ peak) and is as reliable as they want it to be. And very, very few people on test drives push cars to 90 miles per hour on an on ramp. Not that the salesman hasn't turned white a few times when I've driven a car...but then I'm not an average car buyer. Vehicles like the Regal Turbo are already at the top of the class in terms of build quality and powertrain, GM mostly needs to work on marketing IMHO.