we all know no car by its piece parts is ever worth more than $10K; any car ‘valued’ at 100-fold that amount is sheer folly, even for a museum piece or trailer queen; this sort of thing is what has destroyed the used car market the same way money moguls ruined horse racing and auto racing; the sooner EV take over the industry and put this kind of madness in art museums next to suits of armour and steam locomotives, the better; ... View more

my every annual sojourn to the international auto show confirms Mercedes are as plastic inside as the Honda to one side and Cadillac display the other; even now it is virtually impossible to take a Mercedes to a non-factory shop; like BMW, 90% of the parts are esoteric as the early IBM desktops, cost a small fortune and do nothing to improve the reliability of Mercedes, which is nudging ever so close to British Leyland levels; why should their EVs be any different? Mercedes have a Barnum and Bailey, sucker born every minute clientele who swear by their Panzermobiles with an almost comical fervor; i’d like nothing better than to park my authentic—i.e., front engine RWD—Corvette and build up an EV kit like a Lotus 7, but automakers and their stooges in Congress have to much money invested into each other to allow me that kind of freedom; i can just see the regulations now Congress pass into law much like the dune buggy restrictions in California; suppose i’ll just go on rowing gears (sports cars have manual transmissions, dear) and see what comes; ... View more

more a competitor for the T-Bird; too long, too much unsprung weight over the wheels; ... View more

only 10? Ford have not made even one decent vehicle since they went from a crest to a button, with the possible exception of the 150, which for most owners is killing flies with a hammer; there is not one single Ford product designed from the ground up (i.e., not copied or cut down from an existing chassis or outright glommed onto) that is worth a d**n since oh, about 1957; ... View more

as it should be; turbocharging a mistake only compounds it; ... View more

you had it right when you asked when is a Ferrari not a Ferrari and gave the Dino as an answer; the best that can be said for this thing is it’s slightly more a Ferrari than a 914 is a Porsche; ... View more

ah, when Corvettes were Corvettes before they were turned into 2020 Buicks about to get two more doors; ... View more

the concept looks interesting, but have to wonder about the chassis; if it’s the same as the regular Cobras, thank you, but no dice; ... View more

why is this such a surprise? Renault, who like nearly all French carmakers historically have been as adept at building sports cars as the Porsche have been at building an imitation Corvette (928, 944 Turbo), once again chose to imitate their Teutonic idols and build a part Mini part 930; what could go wrong? ... View more

to help repair it when it broke down; it were a Ford in CanAm, the start of a bad C6 bar joke which pretty much summed up its racing history; ... View more

how you started out with the truth and twisted it into a fairytale at the end is most interesting; a Lola is a Lola is a Lola, friend, no matter how many times Shelby pounded it with a hammer, and the Mk. IV was merely a copy of the Lola right down to the tub with slab-sided fuel tanks and trailing arm rear suspension; ... View more

Eric Broadley; yes, that Eric Broadley; remember, this was back in the era when William Ford was willing to buy anything he could slap his name on (i.e., Cosworth) to beat Ferrari; ... View more

not surprisingly; it, like the snack cookies, was built by elves and lasted the same amount of time; ... View more

nothing could perfect the majority of these British chassis, least of all dropping a heavy 400-500bhp lump into what we’re essentially 1930s chassis technology; most if not all of these would bite even the slightly inattentive faster than a 911 with all the computers switched off; ... View more

wrong again, it was a Lola commissioned by Ford; ... View more

you left out Hendrix… ... View more

always thought the Saab 900 Turbo ad with the Saab Viggen jet was far more superior to anything here; so was the ‘Accept No Substitutes’ series; the MG ads were lame as the Citroen ads because everybody knew French and British Leyland cars (yes, Jaguar, too) flat plain didn’t run well at all even when they did; you completely ignored the brilliant series of Mercedes ads that featured their safety, a far more impressive ad series featuring real human families, not a Panda or walrus; ... View more

forgive me, but dropping a battery in what all but one of these (the Dodge) cases is a poor design from the ground up certainly does not qualify it for resurrection; ... View more

pick between a flowerpot Ford and a faux (Volkswagen) Porsche; could i borrow an Abrahms for just a minute? should only take one run forward and back; ... View more

none of them have the pizazz; ... View more

no less than BMW made one of the best sports sedans ever in the 1980s, so good it was called a four door sports car; though it only two doors, the early Saab 900 turbos were flat plain magical, one of the best FWD platforms ever built; the Maserati Quattroportes were another outstanding design; all can be had for far less than this trio, perhaps by half, which would make it very difficult to choose any one of them; ... View more

among other things, like completely illegally modifying his racer and an identical modified ‘street’ car he lured inspectors off the track to check with their template; he completely missed his calling..Yunick would’ve been a perfect ‘Q’ for the American CIA; ... View more

EVERYBODY knows Yunick was like the iceberg that garroted RMS Titanic; he was penalized for only the 1/10 of what he did even scrutinisers could only detect; the same was true for Jim Hall, Colin Chapman, Enzo Ferrari and Roger Penske; ... View more

you forgot about Enzo Ferrari and some of the other postwar cheats; ... View more

what the C8 SHOULD’VE been; a daily driver supercar with a MANUAL transmission you can actually maintain without putting a dealership mechanic’s daughter through Vassar; just try to find a current supercar that can do that without having a Brinks truck on a trailer hitch behind it; ... View more

nice, but the chassis engineering of the period of most of these cars pretty much negates their daily and even infrequent use; ... View more

first, there was only one American sports car in the 90s til the advent of the Viper; calling the Mustang a sports car is like calling Goldie Hawn voluptuous on the same stage as Sofia Vergara; for true, both are women, but that is where all comparisons end; that fact alone may be why 90s American sports cars are so attainable, because choices were limited to what many consider the red headed **bleep** stepchild of the marque, the C4 models (with notable if pricey exceptions like the first modern ZR1); of course, there were sewing machines available from the East and gussied up Volkswagens (924-944-964, etc.) from the West, but even Porsche recognised the Corvette with its corporate lawyer-mobile 928 imitation; all the rest were pony cars like the Mustang and Camaro or re-badged Asian models; Saab had almost totally neutered it’s 900 Turbo by then and England outside of the occasional Lotus or TVR (the best models of whom were often unavailable here) was still better at making two-wheeled vehicles than four; there was nothing coming from France save turbo shoeboxes (Renault) and Italy was happily ensconced in its supercar phase unless one could swallow bitter jokes from Alfa Romeo (GTV, Graduate); basically, unless you inherited deep pockets, got drafted in the first or second round or won the lotto, the performance car world at that time—like real jazz and authentic rock’n roll—was pretty much a wasteland til the Viper and C5; few people wanted what was available then, which is why so much from then is readily available now; ... View more

slot cars; i can remember when Corvettes were sports cars; that was way back in 2019, when you actually had to drive them; ... View more

this stuff is addictive, to be sure, but mind the old axiom... the way to build a small fortune is to go racing with a big one; ... View more

this sedan was faster than the 5-series Bimmers of the era and the Saab Turbo? ... View more

be interesting to see the stories of the various motors adapted overtly—or in the case of the General, surreptitiously through Texas—for worldwide racing; ... View more

fairwell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies... the 1930s-tech AC ladder chassis was never meant for a 500-1000bhp truck motor; the only worse widowmaker of the era ( not counting Lotus GP and other kit cars like the Europa) was the Cheetah, another American kamikaze this one designed out the back door of the General; ... View more

wasn’t worth 42 cents; one of the worst GM designs ever, right there with the Cosworth Vega, Corvair, Diesel Cadillacs, El Caminos and Aztecs; ... View more

got news for you, friend..the build quality of Ferraris (from the 166 Barchetta to the F40) was not much better, nor was it on Alfas, Lambourghinis, Porsches (particularly 911s), and certainly anything French or British, including E-types;   you need to get away from the implied myth of European superiority, particularly if that time;   even today one can go to most any car show and see $100K Mercedes and $80K BMWs and Audis have every bit as much plastic inside and under the hood and in the boot as a lowly $60K Cadillac or $40K Honda or Lexus;  ... View more

you don’t improve on an XKE.. you only improvise; ... View more

i shall be glad to recommend you my occulist, you blind m... ... View more

NEVER... they’ll burn me first; ... View more

Sgt. Preston liked it; ... View more

we’re stuck irretrievably in a snow back and couldn’t reach Sgt. Preston to bring his dogsled team, a CTS would be my first choice... ... View more

i’m going to throw up; looks as bad as the C8; ... View more

ah, back when Corvettes were rolling sculpture (save for the 63 coupe abomination the butt-clown Bill Mitchell forced upon us..a recurrent theme—i.e., 1975, 1982, 2020); ... View more

can’t say any of them will be missed; ... View more

The Beach Boys were champions of only plagiarism... ... View more

it was supposed to be do-wop... ... View more

boy, if that doesn’t take you back to when doing-woo was done on every corner for the dollies and it lucky, recorded in a church to the organ accompaniment... ... View more

believe there is an old Spanish proverb that says take what from this life, but pay for it; ... View more

now the 924 we all know is a Porsche in name only, what with it being a Volkswagen and all like its 914 predecessor;   the 356 was merely a larger VW bug;   the true Porsches of the time were the spiders like Dean perished in;   Porsche in fact, was an afterthought in auto racing until the FIA outlawed the 7-litre beasts because Enzo couldn’t compete with them even with the marvelous 330 P4s;   Enzo pulled the same stunt with the big block Cobras one year; ... View more

only the GN looks sufficiently sinister;   the rest just look like pre-coats waiting outside the factory paint line; ... View more

nice, but i’m afraid it’s the same old shoot-em-up in the same old rodeo;   we’re talking about a mid-1960s design that descended from the 356 bathtub Porsche which itself descended—postwar—from Hitler’s people car..plus or minus a Tiger tank or two;   all that seems innovative is the over-engineering rationalisation to justify the continually stratospheric price;   rather buy a TVR and pocket the difference in cost after picking up a good used 993 Ducati and a vintage Spitfire watch; ... View more

a solid axle ox cart suspension carb per cylinder twin ignition system dog that was outdated even in its day and never won so much as a pit stop and this is what the idle rich sink their money into just because it’s red; ... View more