Pointless safety regulations ensure that these cars fail to be all that they can be. With a 9 pound drive shaft and all sorts of carbon fiber structural elements, this thing should weigh 2,500 LBS instead of 3,500. Where's the extra 1,000 LBS? I don't know - but I do know that it's too much.
Sports cars should be light. Not Collin Chapman-light (they should be sturdy in my opinion), but light. L I G H T.
3,500 pounds is heavy.
I really like this car, even if the retro trend is absurd - I'm a modernist - but not at nearly 2 tons.
What would really make me happy is to see this thing inspire a Funny Car body for an NHRA team. Th proportions are almost there. Though, the old SLR was even more so.
@lilwillie hides autos in the attic: I'm surprised that wasn't the first comment.
And all out in the open too. Europeans really do have a much more relaxed view of sex.
What's happening now is because of horribly wrong decisions made by the worst president ever, R. Reagan. His idea of "freedom" of the market only encouraged greed and thru this greed we got missmanagement and the disastrous economic situation we're in now.
This should not be rewarded, never. nor bailed out, never. But unfortunately the financial market is too important for the rest of the economy. If that fails, everything will fail. So we have no choice in giving them money.
But companies, like car companies, that were missmanaged since years and years, should not be bailed out. Why? because it wont work, you can throw as much money into a company, but it will still go bankrupt because other companies are more competent.
That's why GM and Chrysler will go bankrupt, absolutely no doubt about it.
@sos10: A robust manufacturing sector has to be considered a critical component of our national defence. Lose it and you are in deep doodoo in the event of large scale military conflict.
@five_on_ninetyeight: That used to be the case but is not any more. Actually the opposite can be tru. Just look at the result of recent events. The smarter ones win, not the heaviest one.
Check Harbour's numbers of who has the most efficient plants out there. Here's a hint, since you clearly don't know anything about this. GM has the most efficient plants in the country.
Again, reducing this to the essential argument: It doesn't matter if you are the most efficient, if you don't produce vehicles that the public wants to buy. Efficiency is only a multiplier of profit, not what generates it. Look at Ferrari for Pete's sake.
Hey Dr. Z you like all the money your company took from owning Chrysler don't you? Why in the hell was the reasoning for that "partnership" in the first place. They came over took over a company, raped it and then left.
@Foozy Ploosh Room: I nominate this comment for COTD, for its simplicity and disarming insight into why there is so much FAIL in Detroit. Just think about it.
Is it possible that Europeans are moving right while we move left and that the point at which we meet will either be incredible awesomeness or total hell?
The only thing scarier than a Libertarian German is that mustache, but clearing out the dead weight of industry really excites me for the future.
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Sports cars should be light. Not Collin Chapman-light (they should be sturdy in my opinion), but light. L I G H T.
3,500 pounds is heavy.
I really like this car, even if the retro trend is absurd - I'm a modernist - but not at nearly 2 tons.
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And all out in the open too. Europeans really do have a much more relaxed view of sex.
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It is all about management and missmanagement.
What's happening now is because of horribly wrong decisions made by the worst president ever, R. Reagan. His idea of "freedom" of the market only encouraged greed and thru this greed we got missmanagement and the disastrous economic situation we're in now.
This should not be rewarded, never. nor bailed out, never. But unfortunately the financial market is too important for the rest of the economy. If that fails, everything will fail. So we have no choice in giving them money.
But companies, like car companies, that were missmanaged since years and years, should not be bailed out. Why? because it wont work, you can throw as much money into a company, but it will still go bankrupt because other companies are more competent.
That's why GM and Chrysler will go bankrupt, absolutely no doubt about it.
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A robust manufacturing sector has to be considered a critical component of our national defence. Lose it and you are in deep doodoo in the event of large scale military conflict.
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That is a rediculously ignorant statement.
Check Harbour's numbers of who has the most efficient plants out there. Here's a hint, since you clearly don't know anything about this. GM has the most efficient plants in the country.
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Again, reducing this to the essential argument: It doesn't matter if you are the most efficient, if you don't produce vehicles that the public wants to buy. Efficiency is only a multiplier of profit, not what generates it. Look at Ferrari for Pete's sake.
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Dr Z doesn't care
His only concerns
are Mercedes and hair
As Benz models grow
So his hair does recede
And puts him in a state
of vexation indeed
Now, Opel is not Chrysler
That much it is true
But it seems that Herr Doktor
Is willing to bid them adieu
Now someday Mercedes
May be near a fall
And Z's hair will be gone
A mustache alone on a cue ball
There will be no one around
To ask for fiscal console
Because no friends has he made
This bald kraut asshole
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(Chevy has ruined the word "cavalier" for me. Forever.)
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Would you be more comfortable replacing it with "Cobalt" (SS)? OK, how about "Cruze"?
They are acting pretty damn cobalt?
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Is it possible that Europeans are moving right while we move left and that the point at which we meet will either be incredible awesomeness or total hell?
The only thing scarier than a Libertarian German is that mustache, but clearing out the dead weight of industry really excites me for the future.