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Awsome! I love the silo right next to a hairpin turn.

There's a handfull of cars that do not automatically suck even though they're FWD. The list is short and the only one with a transverse mounted motor is the original Austin MINI. Other cars, with longitudinally mounted motors include the Cord L29 & 810, 67 Razorback Eldorado, 66 Toronado & Bustleback 80-84 Seville. I guess there's a few semi-cool FWD cars by my deffinition. like just off the top of my head: 79 VW Rabbit, 91 CRX a few Citroens... ---- What Mafia are you referring to? What is it a Playstation game or something?

I learned to drive on a 1994 Pontiac Sunbird SE wiht the 2.0L. It was my "first car" in the sense that I did not own it since it was registered to my mother but I drove it for the first two years I had my license. It would have been much more fun if it had been a 5-speed and if it had a tape deck. It had an AM-FM 4-speaker radio & that's it. Like any other first car I loved it but I always knew it was just a temporary stepping stone to a RWD, V8 car. So long as the car makes you happy go for it.

Wow... that sucks. Thieves get their bad karma eventually though. Esp. scumbags who steal something like that.

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The Mako Shark II is one of the best looking concepts EVER. I'd give my left nut just to sit inside that awsome machine.

In order to prevent a suspension becaused of my foul launguage & violent reaction to post that I've quoted here, I've decided to answer Matt276's questions using mostly photos. The Honda Accord is not a great example of a good Automobile... Hate to be the one to tell you it's an appliance for people who either can't check their own oil or tire pressure or for morons who like to use 2 buckets of bondo & a 7-piece faux-carbon-fibre body kit & 19" rims to customize a 4-cylinder sedan. Oh... and GM already did build a car like the Accord... they built a 2002 Accord in 1992 but they called it a Buick Skylark. I think that's enough discussion of Honda interiors. Always the pushrod cheap-shot. Hey Honda... how about we duke it out on the track at LeMans... oh that's right the only real "street-cred" your V-tech motors have is with the Fast&Furious crowd and you don't race production based cars because they suck on & off the track. Honda's DOCH 4/6/10 cylinder motor vs. GM's pushrod V8... anytime anywhere! Also let's see a true "competitor" to these vehicles from Honda: I mean price being the same... economics matter in the real world. CTS-V GTO C6 / Z06 Making fun of GM's Pushrod V8s in 2006 makes you look like an ass-clown. Maybe in 1982 you could poke fun at production GM V8s but in 2006 it's just evidence of how ignorant you are. If by "car passionates" you mean people who think that Honda Accords are good vehicles $/$ then I say NO THANKS! On the other hand if you mean true acr enthusiasts who have gasoline running through their veins then I say:

Now you've gone and done it... opend up a pandora's box here on C&G. Europe's "The Final Countdown" is this long running inside joke of the T!G#+ W#1P$ Car Club. Both the Album cover & song. Don't get me or XP started on Europe... it's pretty ridiculous.

"IROC-Vee" Ugly.... I want to see at least one "VW's are driven by Mullett Heads" comment by SAtty a week now!

What? Like how to kick sand into Toyota's eyes, punch them their kidneys, take their wallet and then run away with their car keys& jewlery like they have done thanks to Consumer Reports & the rest of the Media on thier payroll, unfair business practices all across the board & quality control problem/warranty claim coverups?

Notice I said MEXICAN Beetle. On July 30, 2003, the last Type 1 rolled off the production line in Puebla, Puebla, Mexico. It was car number 21,529,464, and was immediately shipped off to the company's museum in Wolfsburg, Germany. In true Mexican fashion, a mariachi band serenaded the last car in the 68-year-old history. The last car was nicknamed El Rey, which is Spanish for "The King". The last 3000 type 1's were called the "Ultima Edicion" or the last edition.

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Oldsmoboi: I'm not contesting that Corolla is not the right answer but I'm saying it looses a lot of magic when the Corolla's continuous production is compared to the decades of air-cooled pancake powered VW Bugs that were made all over the world. There was not, is not and never will be a "world car" like the original Beetle. --------- Hudson: Mexican made Beetles, not the FE/FWD/H20-cooled Golf 2dr with a rounder "NEW BEETLE" body. Up until a couple years ago they still made RE/RWD/air-cooled VW Beetles in Mexico. Obviously I'd never say ANYTHING interchanged from a 1938 KdF to a 2002 Beetle with a DOHC Inline-4 motor, aircraft carrier size dashboard, front mounted transverse powertrain & plastic fenders. The rest is exageration for effect...

The Porsche Cayenne & Subaru Impreza Outback had an affair.

That is a gorgeous Packard.

These trucks are a 21st century equivelant of the 19th century Conestoga Wagons ...so the wheels are a reflection of that.

A Camry by any other name is STILL a Camry. Adding a "Camry Solara" emblem will not make it somehow NOT a Camry wiht rear door delete. NASCAR is already not my cup of tea but now that Toyota will be participating it will be extra lame. Actually one thing that may be fun will be to see a Camry (Solara) get wrecked by a Chevy & Dodge tag-team.

Lamborghini LM "Cheetah" trucks come to mind. What ever it is that ugly as sin Studebaker is going to sell a lot less...

Simplified, very basic answer. Daimler & Benz were the two founders "Mercedes" was the daughter of their best customer.

Yup... Balthazar's good people, he even let me see his Steel Harem when I saw him. I'd love to see that 1959 Buick once it's on the road and finished. Perhaps after that he'll dust off that Grand Prix and get to work on that car. Next time I'm down there in NJ/PA I'd love to meet up with all of you guys again. If I feel really sassy after the brakes, valvejob & carb rebuild are done on the Super 88 maybe I'll drive it all the way to Hershey, PA someday. I already did it in a '84 Datsun with 150,000 miles... why not in a '64 Olds with 25,000 miles?

SAAB & MB (as well as other Imports) are not the ground breaking innovators/manufacturers that popular culture would have you beleive...

I have always wondered how high the spedometer read and how much of that was obtainable with a double leaf spring suspension & the tiller steering. Imagine putting a smallblock Chevy into an otherwise stock Olds Curved Dash and doing the Slalom with the tiller steering... that'd be fun!

We have a WINNER! Score 2 for Y.D. now on to the next question. http://www.cheersandgears.com/forums/index...showtopic=11385