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Title: Muscle is comming back (To kick ass once again) Post by: games keeper on 2006-01-15, 20:43 good news for everynoe, the good old muscle cars are making a return to kick al the ricers there tiny little enignes once more.
(http://www.mustangsmustangs.net/ford/stangpics/05/05_fb_grey_7.jpg) the first car to make a comeback was the mustang ok, he never went away , but atleast its back a horsie instead of a pony. with is 300+ horsies with ofcours a little bit of shelby in it you get (http://www.carbuyersnotebook.com/Shelby_up.jpg) the shelby gt500 with 450 of supercharged horsies then you got the dodge charger (http://www.pistonheads.com/pics/news/10134/Dodge_Charger_SRT8-L.jpg) ok , the looks of the car are very dissapointing , and for some odd reason it has 4 doors :s atleast it got 400 horsies to back it up next in line came the GTO (http://www.motordesktop.com/wallpaper/sportscars/Pontiac%20GTO%20ASC%20Stinger%20-%201024x768.jpg) ok ,it aint a pretty one either , but its LS2 vette engine. does it a wee bit justice. but NOW come the beautys. first in line. 2008 chevrolet camaro. http://www.autobytel.com/content/research/...ODEL_VCH/Camaro (http://www.autobytel.com/content/research/channels/index.cfm/channel/cartv_video/action/showvideo/vid/e_0219/vscat/NULL/vcat/Event/pagenum/1/MAKE_VCH/Chevrolet/MODEL_VCH/Camaro) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4...899936&q=camaro (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4734093471350899936&q=camaro) http://automobilemag.com/auto_shows/naias_...camaro_concept/ (http://automobilemag.com/auto_shows/naias_2006/0601_chevrolet_camaro_concept/) the other beautiful model. is the Challenger. http://www.autobytel.com/content/research/..._VCH/Challenger (http://www.autobytel.com/content/research/channels/index.cfm/channel/cartv_video/action/showvideo/vid/e_0221/vscat/NULL/vcat/Event/pagenum/1/MAKE_VCH/Dodge/MODEL_VCH/Challenger) http://www.allpar.com/cars/dodge/challenger.html (http://www.allpar.com/cars/dodge/challenger.html) with other words , muscle is making a comeback Title: Re: Muscle is comming back Post by: Phoenix on 2006-01-15, 23:39 Well Pontiac kept its Firebird and TransAm line up until 2002, which was a very sad departure when they cancelled it (and watched Pontiac's sales fall and fall and fall as a result...). Dodge saw a niche market when it decided to bring the Charger back, as well as putting its HEMI in the Magnum, which is kind of a hybrid muscle car/station wagon. Like you said, the Mustang has always been around, and up until Pontiac pulled the plug on the 'birds it was Mustang/Firebird for some time. Now everyone's trying to follow up after Dodge. What I find interesting is the "muscle" return at the time when gas prices are going up and up. It will be interesting to see what effect that will have on high performance, gas thirsty vehicle sales.
I do agree, muscle always > rice. Rice gets fast acceleration because the vehicles have almost no mass, but the engines actually have very little displacement, torque, or horsepower. Muscle is just that, raw power from a high displacement, high torque, high horsepower engine. Good to see things changing. The Challenger looks very nice. :thumb: Title: Re: Muscle is comming back Post by: shambler on 2006-01-18, 19:27 I'm not a car man, I choose my transport for cost, and boot space, (last car was 17 years old) but I like the shiney red one.
How many gallons per mile? Title: Re: Muscle is comming back Post by: Lopson on 2006-01-18, 23:03 It depens. If you input coca-cola in the gas tank, maybye something like 2, maybye 3.
Title: Re: Muscle is comming back Post by: games keeper on 2006-01-20, 16:07 @shambler, the new camaro should get somethnig from 30MPG
when your cruising at a same speed it will disable the injection + ignition on 4 of the cilinders. so mpg are quite good actually. Title: Re: Muscle is comming back Post by: Phoenix on 2006-01-20, 19:34 That's probably based on the current mileage estimate formula used to sell cars. Mileage estimates on new cars are extremely misleading. I'd wager it would more realistically get around 22-25 highway.
Title: Re: Muscle is comming back Post by: games keeper on 2006-01-21, 09:07 I know , what you mean.
those numbers are never right. they say a new VW golf only uses 4L/100km I can say out of my hart that its more something of 7.8L/100km due to braking, accelerate , stop , brake , accelerate ,...... so against the 4 banger of the Golf i think the 8 cilinder camaro aint doing that bad. |