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Topic: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)

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847badgerfan

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Re: Sporty Cars
« Reply #1092 on: February 07, 2023, 01:52:08 PM »
I hear ya.

I took that Southern road to Hana (on Maui) because the google bitch sent me that way.

It was terrifying. Dirt mostly. 8 feet wide. Look right - cliff. F that.

Needless to say we took the Northern road back.
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Re: Sporty Cars
« Reply #1093 on: February 08, 2023, 07:16:29 AM »
US 64 from Franklin to Highlands is "entertaining".  To be in use today as a US highway, it's perhaps the worst I've been on in terms of being narrow, crooked, and high.  The US 129 "Dragon" road is very crooked but never gets high or has cliffs.  Deal's Gap is something like 1700 feet.  I recall driving that back in the day when there would not be many cars and no bikes on it.  You get a bit queasy with the switchbacks.

There is a road coming into Yellowstone from the north that is entertaining, but it's wide and modern.  

Dramatic Scenic Drive on Beartooth Highway to Yellowstone (yellowstonepark.com)

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Re: Sporty Cars
« Reply #1094 on: February 08, 2023, 07:19:58 AM »


US 64 I mentioned above.

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Re: Sporty Cars
« Reply #1095 on: February 08, 2023, 08:33:28 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on February 07, 2023, 10:48:07 AM
2023 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 at Lightning Lap 2023 (caranddriver.com)

The Z06's 2:38.6 time is the fifth fastest in Lightning Lap history, and it's also the best lap time for a car with a naturally aspirated engine. Everything quicker is considerably faster down the straights and costs more than twice as much. Please don't think the engine is a weak point—far from it. Out on the street, this Z06 is all motor, screaming at 8500 rpm, startling pedestrians with its wail. But on the street, there is no safe way to exploit the lofty limits of this chassis. It's capable of 1.22 g's in Turn 1 and averages 133.4 mph when ascending the Climbing Esses. The longer we lapped it, the more we concluded that this Corvette is really meant for the track.
I'd save a few bucks and have the regular C8, no need to pull 1.22 G's

but, I'd love to have that ZO6 engine!
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Re: Sporty Cars
« Reply #1096 on: February 08, 2023, 08:35:44 AM »
Yeah, I'd go with a C8 convertible myself, it's more than fast enough, and I agree about the flat plane soundtrack.

This is one thing I dislike about 4 cylinders.  The BMW in line 6 sounds pretty good also.

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Re: Sporty Cars
« Reply #1097 on: February 08, 2023, 11:15:37 AM »
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« Reply #1098 on: February 08, 2023, 09:23:40 PM »
I hated those when I was a kid.  It was so un-Porsche.  But they're perfectly good, objectively.  
I liked this car or that car as a kid, but once the Ferrari F-40 came out, that was it.  First road card over 200 mph.  
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They're obviously janky compared to anything this century, but their value has jumped into multi-million dollar range.
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« Reply #1099 on: February 08, 2023, 09:37:42 PM »
It's the Lamborghini Countach for me.  Absolute dream car then and still is.

But yeah, modern Hondas and Subarus can probably blow that thing off the track these days.
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Re: Sporty Cars
« Reply #1100 on: February 08, 2023, 09:42:21 PM »
Specifically, this one:






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Re: Sporty Cars
« Reply #1101 on: February 09, 2023, 08:42:48 AM »
I can't drive my GTI at 90%, so anything more capable is wasted on me.

I'm sorta warming up to the miniute concept.
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Re: Sporty Cars
« Reply #1102 on: February 09, 2023, 05:56:49 PM »
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« Reply #1103 on: February 10, 2023, 10:38:41 AM »
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« Reply #1104 on: February 10, 2023, 11:27:28 AM »
Caddy really screwed up back in those days. The Cimmeron was a Chevy Cavalier. 

Then they did the Catera. Ouch...
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« Reply #1105 on: February 10, 2023, 04:30:27 PM »
weren't too many automakers back in 82 that weren't screwing up

maybe honda and Mercedes
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