[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
Where’s here? MI?[/quote]
Yes
[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
(Studebaker) Avanti II
These always had a spot in my heart because I had a neighbor who owned 2 of them while I was growing up. Long, convoluted history that I won’t go into here, but they’ve caught a wind in the collector’s market and are starting to appreciate.
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I wonder if anybody will ever restart Studebaker. They were no small marque back in the day.
I am just glad America makes cool cars again. It’s been a long time since I considered buying American and I am glad I did. I love my American car that was, yes in fact made in America. In Ohio to be specific. Never subject to the salt spray of container ship travel.
Venom GT Vid:
[quote]pat wrote:
Never subject to the salt spray of container ship travel.
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If the only salt my car ever saw was from the container ship i’d be a happy man. And fuck you and your perfectly clean roads in the south.
[quote]Aggv wrote:
[quote]pat wrote:
Never subject to the salt spray of container ship travel.
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If the only salt my car ever saw was from the container ship i’d be a happy man. And fuck you and your perfectly clean roads in the south. [/quote]
lol, after our ‘blizzard’ of 2 inches ground the entire city to skreeching halt our roads weren’t so clean… But they are back to normal now. Tires gripping nicely in this weather.
So I already showed what my next car was gonna be (the blacked out irritatingly loud challenger). This is the next step. 2015 Viper. Honestly, I’d be ok with any 90s to current Viper. I love a late 90 GTS-R…
^ That’s a cute little Fiat you posted there.
I thought this thread was for American cars???
/jackass
[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
^ That’s a cute little Fiat you posted there.
I thought this thread was for American cars???
/jackass[/quote]
I like that fiat…
You can get his and hers, although I’d drive the shit out of this one too. I’d love it on an auto-x course.
[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
You can get his and hers, although I’d drive the shit out of this one too. I’d love it on an auto-x course.
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A good friend of mine’s sister has one of these. It’s such a great little car, I’d really consider getting one if I lived in the city.
Mosler MT900, manufactured in FL until they went belly up a little under a year ago. Supercharged V8, 0 - 60 in something stupid like 3.1.
[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
starts at $189,000.[/quote]
cool car, but yeah about that price…
I saw a new vette on the road over the weekend. At first i thought it was a Ferrari due the front end design, then realized it was a vette and was disappointed. The headlight design is horrible, and they essential did what hi-un-day and kia do with their cars, which is make it look like something it is not. A vette is a vette, do not try to make it look european. GM tried to make it look european. Or maybe i just hate the direction of car design. Either way, i did not care for it.
flame away.
I don’t know what the designers thought process was when they came up with the new Vette. Whatever it was they were trying to accomplished worked, because the new Vette looks fucking badass while being driven, or parked. It has taken the spot as my favorite Vette away from the '56
[quote]mbdix wrote:
It has taken the spot as my favorite Vette away from the '56[/quote]
metaphorical speaking, you believe bieber is better than Elvis?
I wouldn’t go as far as mbdix, but I understand where he’s coming from.
This is the first 'Vette I really, really like since 1982. I thought the C4 was ugly from the very beginning and the C5 and C6 only a hair better than the C4.
The taut lines of the C7 are much more attractive than the door-wedge-with-headlights look of it’s predecessors.
The C6 and the new C7 all seemed to jump more to Ferrari styling than previously before and they are the only Vettes I would consider owning at this point.
Pangloss- was your comment about the Viper in regards to the color scheme? Or is there a Fiat designer on staff for Dodge now or something? Admittedly I haven’t paid much attention other than blowing my load whenever a Viper drives by…
From 1998 until 2007, Chrysler was owner by Daimler-Benz so they were a German car company. In 2007, they were sold to a private equity firm and then declared bankruptcy in 2009. The “New” Chrysler was owned by the US Gov’t until 2011 when they sold it to Fiat.
So, really I was just busting your balls about the Viper being an “American” car.
I think an interesting question is what actually is an American car? Hondas are made in Maryville, OH, BMWs are made in SC, Toyotas are made in KY…Americans can and do own stock in these companies as well. Are they not American cars? Is a Cadillac CTS an American car is it’s merely assembled in the US from parts made in Mexico and France?