It's becoming increasingly difficult for me to distinguish between scale models and actual cars on the web, especially with some of these 80s cars.
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Pick your favorite iconic car from any decade....
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It's becoming increasingly difficult for me to distinguish between scale models and actual cars on the web, especially with some of these 80s cars.
My '69 Hemi Road Runner was the most solid and reliable of my muscle-era cars. The 383 cars always seemed to squeak and rattle. Not the Hemi.
May as well get started on the current decade.
So European looking, saw one the other night and thought it was a lambo or similar till I saw the badge.
I still remember the day my friend's dad brought a new one home.
60K ? I'd have thought closer to 80 or 90, I suppose if you option it up the price will end up about that anyway.
Prices start for an LT1 with 495 hp and 8 speed tranny at $59,995. The LT1 comes quite well equipped. That said, the LT 2 models which is super well equipped start at just below 70K. I have a 2016 C-7 LT 2 and it has more options than I actually use.
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not so European price tag anyway, thats a lot bang for the buck there
Not so European technology, either. While everyone else seems to trip over themselves with overhead camshafts, multiple valves per cylinder and a mile of timing chains and tensioners, GM still gets it done with a single cam and pushrods
Hooray for simplicity!!!
Gotta love Detroit iron.....or aluminum ( not alo min ium) probably in this case
...and back across the decades we rumble, all the while carrying Mike's "Hooray for simplicity" with us!
Look what we found while camping up in the North GA mountains!
Look what we found while camping up in the North GA mountains!
Something with ridiculous amounts of horsepower and torque in a street legal car is really overkill, cool but overkill. Seems like a lot of R&D for a very small market. Though I'm guessing it is done primarily to carry over to the motorsports arena , Factory stock in drag racing , GT class in IMSA etc. Or for those that are absolutly made of money that will shell out out for these things. Do you really need 800 HP to drive to work, I dont know about you but I would probably just get in all sort of trouble with something like that.
