This isn't political, but it was

An AC Cobra for me when I make my millions! I actually found one the other day I could almost afford, not including insurance, tax and wheels!

 

I saw someone driving one of these in the Mopac area of Austin on Saturday afternoon. These simply are-badasssssssss.

 

One of the best things that can happen when Britain and America work together, and boy is it worth it!

 

You can say that again. Now if the Ami Auto Industry would take a lesson from that-and actually build better cars.......... Of late, all they seem to be able to do is to re-release a make of car that they had sold in the 60s and 70s-which is OK, but we still need some new name cars too.

 

Actually it seem the American auto industry is building better cars, at least in terms of quality. And since the need for low aerodynamic drag is going to dictate the overall "form" of the vehicles, with the exception of minor "styling cues", they are probably going to get more "jelly-bean" shaped rather than less.

Domestic passenger cars are now equal in quality to foreign brand cars, and domestic trucks are slightly better, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Initial Quality Survey. Among crossovers, foreign brands retain a substantial lead. Overall, domestic brands closed the quality gap with foreign brands to just 5%, the survey found.

See:

Study: U.S. And Foreign Cars Now Equal In Quality - Forbes.com

The "old shapes" may sell in the specialty areas, but the retro look really has trouble making the grade in drag coefficient. Unfortunately for Chrysler, their only non-van seller of any note (Jeep) ranks at the absolute bottom for quality.

 

Hi Clint, as much as I hate to admit it but, i'll still take a Honda Civic over anything American these days-untill proven to me differently. Now ask me whay I would have preferred to buy five years ago-and it would have been strictly American-such as Saturns, PT Cruisers, and others in their class.

I miss my T-Bird ;-(

 

I thought rightly,i knew the car was a British jagur,but where's the American side of this to it?

 

It isn't a Jaguar, it is an AC Cobra, the bodywork etc was designed and built in Britain whilst the enormous engine (which makes it totally uncontrollable at speed by all accounts) was built by Ford. The early, smaller engined versions were simply a case of sticking a new Ford V8 in a British vehicle but the later 427 Cobras were modified working together with Ford in Detroit.

I think you might be getting it confused with this feller:


A Jaguar D-Type, a totally different beast!

 

Hmm.. I like the Cobra. My other choices were the 62/63 Corvette, Jaguar or Bentley for sedan's with power.

Just bought a new to me car, and the hardest thing was looking at all the cars that have nothing distinctive about them in style. IMO, that is where the auto industry went wrong - they homogenized all the vehicles. All the cars you and even I lust after were cars with distinctive styling that you could recognize instantly and that for which changes of a side grill were enough to spark debate from purists and by which we could tell the year of the car.

I got a 2007 Pontiac G6 - sedan - so it can do the dog and family; but a little sporty with low profile tires, and seems to have a natural speed of 100kph (in 70 - 80 klick zones) ...which I have to watch or I'm going to start getting tickets again....

 

If I was king, this is what I would drive....

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The Bugatti Veyron! Anyone seen TopGear??

 

I like the Bugatti, too.

My brother usually makes me jealous with his cars...in the last 10 or 12 years two that come to mind are the Acura NSX and most recently (or at least since we last talked cars) the Aston Martin DBS. Growing up it was the Corvette Stingray, the Charger RT, Mercedes 450 SL...... I've never got to drive any of them although they introduced me to sports cars!!

 

That is quite the list Michelle! Your brother is a lucky man. Corvette Stingray hands down.... not that the others aren't, but again,,,, If I was King