Sixty8panther

Amen. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

It could stay right where it is... or like others mentioned the possibilities are endless. I like the concept but it has to be for the high end stuff only. Give the masses our basic Pushrod OHV, 2/valve V8s.

I whole-heartedly agree... leave the appliances to Toyota. Pontiac = all RWD & RWD-biased AWD Chevy = muscle, trucks & family sedans Buick = mostly RWD upscale cars between Chevy & Caddy Caddy = Go for Bently's throat wiht the SIXTEEN...

Oh boy... :AH-HA_wink:

BV: Okay... well I see where you're coming from. For waht it's worth the Boxter tail lights are dated and on the Cayman they look horrible, the greenhouse looks like a Korean concept car and the fron is kind of Kia Cheesy. The Boxter you posted is a HUGE improvement over the original gen. and looks very good in black, from the front but still plain & non-exotic from the butt. A center mounted exhaust does not solve the jelly-bean look. In any case the Boxter is a wannabe in the field of sports cars... it's not a high status car. To me and most of my buddies we make fun of Boxters because they're pretty much for people who know nothing about cars and just want a Porsche emblem on their bonnet but can't afford a 911. It's like a Valley girl car... I blew off a yellow one in my Camaro one summer and scarred the $hit out of a couple ditzy-brunettes with Jay-Lo sunglasses when I dropped down the car into 2nd & drove past at 7000RPM. That's trhe demographic for the Boxter/Cayman but the Vette is a true enthusiast's car... no excuses no B.S. Just hard core #s and a killer stance.

They're not my cup of tea either but I'd take one over a Mustang II or Honda CCVC. BUt I guess that's not saying much.

I disagree buddy... I think the "economical commuter car" approach like the Insight is the way to go. Who here has seen a Prius with more than two passangers? I've never seen it other than in that silly Just Friends movie. You almost always see one or two passangers. The Prius is IMHO stupid and boring... the Insight is something that I'd actaully buy for a commuter car if I lived like 70 miles away from work & had a 500cu.in. powered 1971 Cadillac Fleetwood for a weekend toy. To each his own I suppose.

A Bedbug with a body kit is more like it!

Yes.... true a 5.0 liter V8 from 1979 is about as exciting as a MODERN 2.0 liter Four cylinder... but conversely a 1979 Four cylinder is about as useless as a $hit flavored popsicle. I mean if you go drive a 4100 powered 1983 Bustleback Seville you'll say "woah that's sloooww" but then again a 1983 Four banger Cavalier is nothing to get excited about and it lacks the smoothness & torque of even the worst V8, yes even the 4.3 smallblock! The typical four banger from that era is about as craptastic as a Geo Metro hatchback with 90% water in the gas tank. Hate the era not the V8... it's a product of fu$%sticks like Nader, the EPA & Greenpeace. Yes and yes. BV: I'd be happy with 40%.... and yes I think it's realistic in a few years... if only the country was not full of soft in the brain, wussy, communist meatheads that think they're somehow doing the planet a favor by driving a sucky car. Hey Mr. Prius driver... I like how you're justyfing saving 120 gallons of fuel this year but your car has 1200% more lead battery content than my V8 powered Q45. I'm sure the Spotted Owl and Amazon Tree Frog thanks you!

Happy Anniversary of Birth! Do a bitchin 32 valve WOT burnout in your Beee-Mer! :wink:

No, no, no, no, no! Thank God that is NOT the case. You've got the right idea for the most part.

Agreed! Just when you think GM "gets it" they go dumb again.

The 91-94 Accord is the best looking one IMHO and it is from the years when Honda was at the top of their game before they started watering down everythinng & making bloated blobs & going backwards with the Accord & Civic in terms of value-for-$. The Taurus is a $hitbox for my opinion. It's the ONLY car that screams "fleet" to me new or used. The 2000-5 Impala is a great bargain right now... even with the 3.4 it's got enough balls to haul you around in comfort. One of the safest cars ever made in a T-bone... the unibody structure is made from three single piece "rings" that form the passanger compartment. That's your best bet.

MOst Ricers don;t know much abotu cars... they think bore & stroke are some kind of tactic to get someone between the sheets. :wink: Balthazar: As I said in one of my long winded posts, DOD V8s would be in 90% of modern cars if logic and car enthusiams ruled.

You have a special way with words. This is priceless and dead accurate! BV: I love many modern designs. The MB CLK500, Infiniti FX45 & G35 Coupe', Cadillac CTS-V/STS-V C6 Corvette, Saturn Sky & POntiac Solstice all look absolutely awesome. They have style, originality and to at least some degree are timeless. I also agree with Camino about his other comment... other than the 928 & 959 the 911 is the only Porsche that matters.

Someone give this kid a Tight Whips Car Club Trophy!!! And for what it's worth some Ghetto-Fabulous Drug Dealer's girlfriend will FIT 22s under one of these mini-micro-shrunken Hondas. Even if it requires a zip cutter and off road suspension they'll jimmy rig that $h! up.

The 2006 Camaro concept has incredikble styling, almost all of us agree about that. But now see how well you've really looked at it. Other than the b-pillar delete, hardtop bodystyle the Camaro has an interesting styling element that is virtually non-existant on today's cars. One of the last cars to have it was a FWD Oldsmobile. If you skew the definition of this component you might say there was also an Acura which was made in both 2dr & 4dr body styles that had this too. What feature am I talking bout? ------ ONE LAST HINT: This feature was most prevailant from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s.

VW Thing has a pancake four. Flybrian got it! Insight, two passanger, three cylinder, super light weight & it has wheel skirts which were in their prime from like 1958 - 1964. I was careful to not reveal the hybrid part of it since that would make it obvious.

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Except the Hoover sucks a lot less!

Very cool. Zero rice, very nice. It is a big cosmetic improvement.

I've read several times about a Cougar in the pipes... that's an obvious move, esp. if FoMoCo wants to keep Mercury around for another decade. I love the idea of a hardtop Cougar XR7 but that sketch is not all that flattering, not the front and not the back, looks like a bad chop at best. The ugliest part of the current gen. Mustang is the damn 9" thick B-pillar... gross. I hope the redesign makes the Mustang a Hardtop too since I'm 99% sure the Challenger & Camaro will be hardtops unless GM or DMX fu%k up royally.

That will be a sad, SAD day. If I had to boil down my love for GM to one sentence and not include the RWD acronym, I'd say: "Affordable V8s for the masses." This was true in the '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s & '90s... but now in 2006 we don't have much but there's promise of good times ahead... last thing we need is this negativity. Eventually the sun will burn out too but no sense talking about it. Dude, that's an apples to apples comparison like I could compare the LS7 to that LQ1 and make it seem like a pathetic four cylinder from 2006. In 1983 a 3.4 liter V6 made about as much power as a 2003 Kia Spectra and in 1995 Chevy had moved on to the LT1 and the LS1 was just around the corner...

I'm with him. The new Malibu is not my cup of tea but the SS I saw last looked kind of cool, either way congrats.

No disrespect to Bobo but that's some funny $hit.