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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #4004 on: March 25, 2026, 07:32:25 PM »
If the caddy wasn't as long as badgerfans yacht,.... it was sporty
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #4005 on: March 25, 2026, 10:46:02 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on March 25, 2026, 08:55:48 AM
For it's day, yes it did.  They were "fun to drive" for that period, which really not much else was.

Interestingly, the notion back then was basically 911 or nothing, anything else was a VW, or Audi, or worse.  Today I don't sense many feel that way as much when they see a Panamera or Macan or 718 "Boxster".  I suspect the 718 is more fun than a 911 these days. 

Porsche NA is located here near the airport and one can rent one to drive on their track, my step son did this.  I haven't done it yet.  It looked like a lot of fun.  I have driven a Scuderia in Vegas, it was a present, and that experience was pretty lame.  Driving the CTS-V at COTA was awesome though, it lasted all day.
Ron Fellows Driving School WILL Offer a Dedicated Corvette ZR1X Class (CORRECTED) https://www.corvetteforum.com/.../ron-fellows-driving.../
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #4006 on: March 26, 2026, 10:07:56 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on March 25, 2026, 06:36:04 PM
Absolutely not
Although , Ellie May was always sporty

Donna Douglas, who portrayed Ellie May, was a Baton Rouge girl who must've either come back to live near there or at least kept a residence there.  When I was a kid she was frequently at the same Walmart I biked to down the road.  I thought she was really old when I would see her back then, though she was probably still in her 50's, or maybe early 60's at most.  I never met her but I saw her there a bunch of times.  She was hard to miss....not in the sense that she was immediately recognizable as Ellie May, but in the sense that she didn't mind yelling an aisle or two over to whoever she was there with as they loudly conversed.  
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #4007 on: March 26, 2026, 10:13:18 AM »
The sporty girls thread is over there ------------>






(Just kidding.  Any thread can be a sporty girls thread)
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #4008 on: March 26, 2026, 03:16:12 PM »
Quote from: SFBadger96 on March 25, 2026, 06:45:40 PM
I think of those Caddys as luxury, not sporty. Removing the top doesn't turn them into sports cars. That said, and as I've noted, my view of Caddys may be insufficiently informed.
They were pretty sporty for the time but with an emphasis on luxury.  One was an Indy Pace Car.  295 hp and 0-60 in 6.1 seconds in 1993.  The production line was ... lengthy.
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #4009 on: March 26, 2026, 03:37:03 PM »
6.1 is way sportier than I ever knew. 
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #4010 on: March 26, 2026, 03:40:37 PM »
The Allanté incorporated an international production arrangement similar to the early 1950s Nash-Healey two-passenger sports car.[9] The Allanté bodies were designed and manufactured in Italy by Pininfarina[10] and were shipped to the U.S. for final assembly with domestically manufactured chassis and engine, eventually leading it to be referred to as "the world's longest assembly line."[10] Specially equipped Boeing 747s departed from Turin International Airport with 56 bodies at a time,[10] arriving at Detroit City Airport about 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of Cadillac's new Hamtramck Assembly plant. This undertaking was known as the "Allanté Air Bridge".[11][12] The expensive shipping process stemmed from GM's recent closing of Fisher Body Plant #18, which had supplied Cadillac bodies since 1921.
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #4011 on: March 26, 2026, 03:59:08 PM »
GM wanted that PoS to compete with M-B SL class.

Not so much...

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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #4012 on: March 26, 2026, 04:28:14 PM »
Quote from: SFBadger96 on March 26, 2026, 03:37:03 PM
6.1 is way sportier than I ever knew.
6.1 is still quicker than anything I've ever owned that had 4 wheels. 
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #4013 on: March 26, 2026, 04:32:48 PM »
Geez

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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #4014 on: March 26, 2026, 04:37:09 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on March 26, 2026, 03:59:08 PM
GM wanted that PoS to compete with M-B SL class.

Not so much...


My favorite is the 1st gen gullwing, but 4th, 6th, and 7th gen SLs are all pretty great. Just couldn't ever stomach writing the check for one. The 90s version (4th Gen) doesn't look like a lot by today's standards, but by the styling standards of the 90s, it was way ahead of most cars.
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #4015 on: March 26, 2026, 05:50:38 PM »
https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a33984144/tested-1989-cadillac-allante-vs-1989-mercedes-benz-560sl/

It was reasonably competitive.  Resale horrible of course.  There is one in our garage.
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #4016 on: March 26, 2026, 06:32:33 PM »
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #4017 on: March 27, 2026, 09:32:59 AM »
haven't had time to check out the GS reveal - not sure why they had to label the new engine "LS6" - the 1970 LS6 was legendary
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