wojo's gonna have a heart attack if he sees another commercial that refers to a FWD 4-door car as a sports sedan .
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I'm actually actively searching for a '60s convertible and I've fallen in love with the '61-'62 Cadillacs (still open to other makes & models, though). But being a college student, it's on the back burner at the moment. In my budget ($5-6k) it's a challenge trying something decent (solid, complete, and running) but I'll just have to keep scoping craigslist. I hope to have something before the summer, though. I don't know if you've heard of it, but in my area, the Woodward Dream Cruise is kind of an institution.
You think that's bad? The $115,000 Corvette ZR1 and the $15,000 Cobalt shared a steering wheel for a few years. The parts bin is a bit of a double edged sword. I wonder why they got rid of the Camaro-specific till; some reviewers didn't like it but It didn't seem that bad to me.
Okay, the "I kould get a Bosz 302 for this moneys" shtick is getting a bit old (This isn't so much aimed at you as it is a general rebuttal- don't flatter yourself).
RE #1) The Boss is safer to drive? This is a Mustang race car, not a Volvo station wagon. Faster? The R is roughly 700 lbs lighter than the Boss and has a very similar (actual) power rating. Creature comforts? Buy a new BMW or Porsche like every other middle-aged Orthodontist in the world.
RE #2) I'd be willing to bet you still wouldn't be eager to try and reenact any Dukes of Hazzard scenes in what is also a $45k car. Although this is purely hypothetical, since I presume that like most of the other bottom feeders on this site, the Ford Aspire is an aspirational car to you.
RE #3) Again, this is a purpose built race car and not some Camry with a bunch of bright red "S" logos glued to it. Something tells me you have a Consumers Reports subscription that you religiously renew every year. Totally different set of priorities in this segment. You also forgot to criticize it's lack of cup holders compared to the 2012 Honda Odyssey.
Bottom line- they both have their own interpretations of Mustang performance philosophy and neither one is totally right or wrong. I wouldn't mind either one in my garage, but I must admit I do have a soft spot for the 2000 (IRS FTW). I personally find the retro theme a bit played out; it's been going on for so long they're probably going to come out with a new retro-retro version of the 2005 Mustang soon. For that matter, which is more subtle; a two foot tall spoiler or huge side graphics? I digress...
FYI; the price is indeed fair for a 2000 Cobra R in mint condition.
6th- Matty Moroun truly is Detroit's C. Montgomery Burns (I love that illustration BTW). If only he'd put as much money into restoring the Michigan Central train station as he did buying off senators and airing commercials for his anti-bridge campaign, we'd have one less thing to be ashamed of about Detroit.
It's classy in a Tuxedo T-shirt kind of way.
@BrtStlnd: "All those years of early bird specials and senior discount savings are finally paying off!"
Ford finally receives it's karmic comeuppance for killing off the Panther platform.
Newsflash Ford! Not everybody wants a FWD 6-banger based on 13 year old Volvo architecture!
Newsflash Ford! Not everybody wants a FWD 6-banger based on 13 year old Volvo architecture!
Someone please tell GM to stop outsourcing the Chevy exterior design work to Korea! As if it wasn't bad enough already with that downs-syndrome-y smile on the Equinox!
@pauljones: Being a resident of the metro-Detroit area, I can assure you that although the cost of living may not be as high as that in California, it still isn't free to live here. We may not have to pay The Nancy Pelosi Green Initiative Gas Tax when we fill up, but last I checked gas was still $3.69 at the Sunoco down the street. You can get a house in the area for for less than $100k; a small run-down foreclosed house in a seedy neighborhood. I know people living on roughly $30k a year and trust me, they're hardly wealthy.
One other thing I've wondered, and this may concern you, is what the devaluing this country's manual labor force does to those who went to (or are still in, like myself) college in white collar jobs. It seems that Bachelor's degrees are so commonplace today that it's expected to have one to get even the most menial job. A high school diploma means next to nothing today, and I ofter wonder if that's a result of the mass outsourcing of blue collar jobs. If nobody values physical labor, will those with lower-level degrees still be so esteemed? The working class is being dragged down into oblivion, and I'm beginning to think that we're going down with them.
One other thing I've wondered, and this may concern you, is what the devaluing this country's manual labor force does to those who went to (or are still in, like myself) college in white collar jobs. It seems that Bachelor's degrees are so commonplace today that it's expected to have one to get even the most menial job. A high school diploma means next to nothing today, and I ofter wonder if that's a result of the mass outsourcing of blue collar jobs. If nobody values physical labor, will those with lower-level degrees still be so esteemed? The working class is being dragged down into oblivion, and I'm beginning to think that we're going down with them.
If you think about it, it's like we've been sending them aid money in advance for the last 30 years!
In the good ol' U. S. of A. we donate only to the trendy and current disasters. Even if it's in a country that's just as wealthy as ours and frequently looks down their nose at us, being highly critical of how we handle our own disasters (cough..Katrina...cough) but I digress... we as Americans prefer only first-rate name-brand disasters. They're just more marketable.
"take a look out in your driveway, in your neighbor's driveway, and in the parking lot of work. See all of those Hondas, Toyotas, Mazdas, Nissans, etc.?"
Dude, I think they've already got enough of our money.
Just kidding! Way to go, PaulJones!
Dude, I think they've already got enough of our money.
Just kidding! Way to go, PaulJones!
If I were an Equus or a Genesis owner I'd be more concerned about the tons of consumer spec Elantras and Sonatas they're selling as rent-a-wreckers. At least Chevrolet doesn't have delusions of grandeur.
I wouldn't put it past them.
My great-grandmother took out a $1000 life insurance policy with Prudential on my grandmother when she was born in 1921. We contacted them a few years ago to see what it was worth, and after eighty eight years it was still only worth the original amount- no interest, no nothing. The moral of the story here is that they won't give you one more cent then you're contractually entitled to, and you even have to fight to get that.
(Don't worry, she's still very much alive though!)
My great-grandmother took out a $1000 life insurance policy with Prudential on my grandmother when she was born in 1921. We contacted them a few years ago to see what it was worth, and after eighty eight years it was still only worth the original amount- no interest, no nothing. The moral of the story here is that they won't give you one more cent then you're contractually entitled to, and you even have to fight to get that.
(Don't worry, she's still very much alive though!)
Boy, have I got the perfect shredder for her!
Anybody else think this looks like a Lincoln concept car from the late '90s or early '00s (when retro-futurism was still big and the geniuses in the Lincoln design studio realized that they couldn't come up with anything better than an Elwood Engel knock-off)? Or maybe it's just the suicide doors...
Not that that's a bad thing.
Not that that's a bad thing.
@pauljones: Well said.
In case you haven't noticed, snarky cynicism and pseudo-intellectualism is what this website does best.
In case you haven't noticed, snarky cynicism and pseudo-intellectualism is what this website does best.
Not to rain on your smug parade, but the REAL reason the Toyota story was such a shocker was that Toyota brass were aware of the fatal defect, ignored it, and went about acting as a holier-than-thou company until the truth came out, and only offered a B.S. fix right up until they were the butt of every late-night comedian's jokes.
AHA! I knew it!
Europeans secretly do crave V8s and Mustangs!
Europeans secretly do crave V8s and Mustangs!
Anybody care to explain to me exactly why this is so surprising/terrible/noteworthy? Maybe I'm missing something.
Should he be driving a Rolls-Royce stretch limo with a chrome sculpture of his hand giving the middle finger for a hood ornament?
Should he be driving a Rolls-Royce stretch limo with a chrome sculpture of his hand giving the middle finger for a hood ornament?
