I'm dropping out to create a company that starts with motorcycles, then cars, and forty years later signs a legendary Brazilian driver who has a public and expensive feud with his French teammate.
"I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting, but it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously." Douglas Adams
Lack of charisma can be fatal.
Visca Catalunya!
Right. For insurance purposes and to get into a better class for NHRA (National Hot Rod Association) drag racing.
It didn't always work, though. The "official" rating for the Mopar 340 was 275 horsepower. The NHRA wasn't fooled and factored them at 320 hp.
And both the Chevy and Ford Hi-Po 302. Rated at 290 hp, but factored by the NHRA at 310.
I have a list of advertised and actual hp which I'll list in a little while.
Some of the claimed hp was ridiculous, like the Ford 428 engine. The 390 was rated at 335 hp (pretty accurate) and the 428 was also rated at 335 when it actually made about 410 hp. These are all gross figures, but I do have specs of their net ratings, too.
'76 Cadillac Fleetwood Seventy-Five Limousine, '95 Lincoln Town Car.
Corvette C6 Z06! A stock $68,000 car competing with, and in some cases beating, $130,000-$300,000+ European cars, is what I call a legend.
C6.R Corvettes winnin many races, including 5 out of the last 6 Le Mans 24 hour races!
The LS7.R engine in those C6.R Corvettes won an international award, for engine of the year, on November 9th. That same engine (though detuned, thus less hp, but more MPG) is found in the C6 Z06 Corvettes!
A C6 Z06 Corvette got a 7:42 laptime on the Nurburgring!
Johnny...Im 16 i dont have personal experience to go on. I admit this, so i go on reviews, specs and professional drivers opinions. Besides, about 90% of the people on the forums dont have a lick of experience either but that doesnt stop them from yelling at others for saying a car is the "best"
1987 Pontiac GTA Trans Am (Parked-Project car)
Orange/Cloth
Future ideas:
LS1/LT1 or Twin Screw S/C L98 TPI
True duels/side pipes
2001 Hyundai Tiburon 2.0 (DD)
Black/Black and Grey Leather
Well, I might take a beating for this one but I`m going to have to go with the 1984 Corvette. With the z-51 suspension system it handled incredibly. It brought corvette from being a glorified dragster to in the same class as the best handling cars in the world. Of course I know that there are many arguments to say that this thing was a piece of junk. Everyone seems to have an oppinion on the 84. But I dont think too many people can deny that it put the vette in a new direction and scared the XXX outta alot of other companies. Just if you were to look at one car that changed the way America was looked at in the car industry, Id say this one...
Welcome to UCP! Not wishing you give you a beating and everyone has their own preferences
But geez, in performance car terms those '84s with the gutless Tuned Port EFI (a pitiful 205hp) were a bit of a lame duck weren't they? I remember an internationally well-regarded journo travelled abroad to the big GM proving ground of Millford or somewhere to review the C4 at the media launch, and his over-riding memory was of GM's 'handling evaluation test track' which apparently in those days consisted of nothing more than a huge and glassy-smooth expanse of concrete - ie a giant dead-flat skidpan! No wonder those era of Vettes feature rock-hard supension tuning and consequently are so stiffly sprung they do poorly on everyday roads because they skip from the top of one bump to the next
Looking back at those days the fastest GM-built car wasn't a Corvette, nor was it made in America ...
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