Comments on: Daily Podcast: Muscle Car Writing Contest Tomorrow

By: DearS

DearS — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:49:52 +0000

When I think about muscle cars the older Skylines and Supras and the Viper come to mind. Power with control. Muscle is implemented in a racy, technical, smart and sporty way.

About loans for only those that can afford it, consider that a lot of positives have developed, like peoples standard of living has gone up and jobs have been kept and economy grown. It may go down now, still a lot of stuff got started. With some better balancing this may have been avoided perhaps.

By: Redbarchetta

Redbarchetta — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:11:42 +0000

What is with Justin hating inline 5’s. I really thing the idea isn’t bad when it isn’t designed by bone headed auto companies, yes I’m talking about you GM and VW. Volvo makes some really great inline 5’s especially that 2.3L turbo. I really enjoyed that S70 I test drove with it. As well as my Mercedes 300D, great engine. I really miss that car. Audi as you mentioned had some good ones and even Honda made one for a while.

Sure they can be a little uneven at the low end of the rev range, but who likes driving there, keep it in the meat where the torque is and they are pretty smooth. I guess I am a sucker for unusual engineering that breaks from the norm. But it’s a practical design with merits, if it wasn’t it would have gone the way of the straight-8.

I do agree thought the VW 5 is one of the worst engines I have ever tried to plow a field with. My diesel 5 was smoother and less noisy than that VW tractor motor.

By: 86er

86er — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:20:35 +0000

Robert, I had 400-odd words drafted for that contest, and just ran out of time and steam.

So with that in mind, I look forward to reading the 3 finalists.