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Jan 10, 2012 8:29PM
You cannot drive this down the road any faster than I can drive my old Integra. All you are doing is wasting your money on depreciation and gas for the sake of a few minutes of wow when you first get it. I can take my Integra on long cross country trips and not break the bank and have fun driving it.
You are being conned by the car companies into buying their idea of a dream - you get to pay them thousands.
You are being conned by the car companies into buying their idea of a dream - you get to pay them thousands.
Jan 10, 2012 7:45PM
Jan 10, 2012 7:40PM
Well obviously someone failed to do their homework. Mustangs are NOT muscles cars. No those are the cars that looks like they came right out of the 40s-50s whatver and have monstrous amounts of power. Mustangs are PONY cars. A car that debuted in '64 that was so good it created its own class and forced chevy and other brands to create something to try and compete. They fail year after year to beat the stang. The only reason the sales of the camara beat the stang for the previous year was due to the 4 year vacation the camaro took. Chevy had to do this because of poor sales and to make people freak out over camaros so when they released the camaro again the public ate them up because they figured chevy might pull their shennanigans again. And just to add a little slap to chevy camaro fans of their current generation; that body style is the REJECTED body style that a company wanted ford to use. =p now I may not be 100% accurate but I'm pretty darn close.
Jan 10, 2012 6:27PM
Can anyone will tell why we must got to shop a American car or someone must learn some info about the cars made here in US and the US cars is made from parts from over the world.
*-Why the American cars is a bad qualities versus foreign cars ( except the luxury and sporty ones)
* Some made a comment to shop American cars , but all this creature forget the elementary thinks about the qualities of those car that is made for general mass .
*And those who made this comments must remember : the must foreign cars IS made on the ground of US and the price is lower and the qualities also is better versus American cars that inflate the price plus the qualities is really bad , so we judge what is the best not another way like ''must shop a American car'' ,because we don't need a junk in the drive-way like some jerks who the the lunch at Mc-Donald's or use to eat any junk Food ,so the mind got altered
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*-Why the American cars is a bad qualities versus foreign cars ( except the luxury and sporty ones)
* Some made a comment to shop American cars , but all this creature forget the elementary thinks about the qualities of those car that is made for general mass .
*And those who made this comments must remember : the must foreign cars IS made on the ground of US and the price is lower and the qualities also is better versus American cars that inflate the price plus the qualities is really bad , so we judge what is the best not another way like ''must shop a American car'' ,because we don't need a junk in the drive-way like some jerks who the the lunch at Mc-Donald's or use to eat any junk Food ,so the mind got altered
.Jan 10, 2012 6:01PM
I love a lot more Horse Power in the car , ( special the Old American cars ,muscle car ) but we all must understand in US we can't used because someone from the Government like ''Cops'' will got extra more income , so my dear friends remember this is not Germany with the unlimited speed on the Freeways even not Montana where in the past we drive like in Germany ,so in final the 40 HP is perfect normal plus save on gas , so must be perfect stupid or idiot to shop a car with much power unless you are not so well financially to keep the car just garaged and visit sometime like some obsessed ones .So think twice when you go to spend you money on powerful cars.
Jan 10, 2012 5:12PM
I just read "someone's" post....So you're not a car lover. That's okay, why read the car articles? Furthermore GM and Chrysler both were part of the Obama bail-out, but Ford did not take any bail-out funds.
Larry T.: We have lot's of oil...lots. We have right now, without anymore exploration, more than 30 years of recoverable oil. Beneath that is more oil that with new recovery methods will be able to increase that number without new exploration. If you are going to start seeing electric cars everywhere, they are going to be, for the most part, powered by a fossil fuel powered power plant, so the idea that we are going to all go electric is ridiculous. Anytime you transfer energy from one source to another you lose some of it, so why would we do that?
As for the cars...the HP...the torque... "Mech Eng": it is true that there is so much more involved with the final "rubber to the road" power and transfer of power, but you need somewhere to start. Looking at the HP and/ or torque gives you the base to build around. If you want more mileage, or more top speed, or more off the line, you change your transmission, you change your gear ratio's, but you need to have the base to start with.
Let's face it, cars are fun, trucks are fun. If you are in to motor sports then this is fun stuff you want to read. If you are not in to motor sports.....well....don't waste your time reading articles like these. I like internal combustion and I work for big oil. (just thought I would throw that out there for anyone who wishes to hate on me for it)
R.Cox: I whole heatedly agree with you. We as a country (on the individual level and higher) sell our country down the pipes with all of the foreign things we purchase. We will be bit by it bad sooner or later. We are losing our economic power over this world and when that happens we will be the ones under economic sanctions being forced to comply with other countries demands (like getting rid of all of our nukes and such). Because a desperate country is a country to be scared of and when our nations economy comes crashing down, we will be a desperate country with a lot of nukes.
Jan 10, 2012 5:01PM
Ya know "Someone," you have a perfect right to be a woose or a whimp. If we didn't have those kind of people in the world, well we would have to take those words out of the English language, because those names would apply to no one!
It's apparent that you don't like speed or taking chances. Good! Stay home or just don't be stupid and pull out in front of me and then drive like grandma. Otherwise expect me to pass you and your slow asset!
Me? I don't take reckless chances when driving in traffic. I've been driving since 1974 and have driven maybe a couple of million miles since then. What I do take are calculated risks when driving, just like anyone else. Face it. Every time you go out on the road you are taking a risk. How much HP your vehicle has, makes no difference. I can take the same risks with a car with a 3 cyl. engine as with a V8. If I drive like a moron, there is no hope for me either way.
I like having a powerful or fast vehicle for those long, lonely stretches of highway in rural areas. To me it's exciting to go fast in that situation once in a while, as long as I am not endangering someone else. That's still my choice in this country and yours too.
Jan 10, 2012 4:57PM
CalmandCents - You are absolutely right. This article was strictly about horsepower per dollar and in that context the sport bike definitely gives you more HP than the Harley. You just made me realize though that, not only is the article not accounting for weight, as I previously mentioned, but it is also not accounting for torque. A 125HP engine, with enough torque, could actually be faster than a 200HP bike with not much torque. So although you might still be right the only way to know for sure is to know both the torque AND HP of these bikes. Of course the truth is facts are irellevant here anyway. Most of the "car guys" that post here have very strong preconceived notions and no amount of facts will ever change thier opinions about what they think they know (I'm not including you in that catagory by the way). Most of them fall into the "I cant handle the truth" catagory.
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